Oasis 'The Shock Of The Lightning' Premiere Monday

Exclusive first showing of Oasis's new video The Shock of the Lightning.

Taken from their forthcoming album Dig Out Your Soul.

Monday 25th August: Channel 4 (UK Only) 23:40

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Recent Pictures Of Liam Gallagher

Liam Gallagher, leaving Scotts seafood restaurant London, on Thursday.

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Noel Gallagher Of Oasis Speaks Out On Piracy

Noel Gallagher from the 50 million-selling band Oasis has been chatting about piracy on the UK’s Radio 1. He jokes about mainstream journalists asking him about non-existent leaks from the new album and encourages everyone to download the music of rival bands. Overall, he’s pragmatic and upbeat, looking forward to filling his swimming pool with mineral water.

Sooner or later, this type of article will cease to be news. In fact, so many artists are speaking out about file-sharing in a positive or at least pragmatic way that by this time next year, we’ll probably be writing about artists who don’t have something to good to say, such is the shift in attitudes towards P2P.

Big names like Nine Inch Nails, 50 Cent, Joss Stone, Duffy and Travis have all had positive things to say recently.

But before supporting file-sharing becomes mainstream and we don’t have to report it anymore, Noel Gallagher from the 50 million album-selling band Oasis has been chatting with Zane Lowe from the UK’s Radio 1 about many things, including (of course) file-sharing.

Whilst discussing the forthcoming Oasis album, Gallagher notes that a reporter from a UK national newspaper called him, explaining that the tracks had already been leaked onto the Internet:

“I had a guy from a national newspaper track me down and say ‘Have you got any comment to make? All of your new album has come up on the Internet!’ and I was going, ‘It’s impossible, it’s ludicrous’, because only four or five people had copies. So I said ‘Read out the song titles that are up on the Internet’ and he read out the track-listing from the last album! So I was like, ‘That’s on the Internet is it? It’s also in HMV - in the ‘O’ section…..you idiot.”

So, how would Noel have felt if the tracks from the new album had really leaked onto the Internet? Would he get angry?

“No, it’s one of those things,” he told Zane. “If it’s out there and you can get it, you know, go ahead. I’m certainly not going to get into Lars Ulrich mode about this.”

Unlike singer Duffy, who has been enjoying downloading for some time now, Noel doesn’t partake himself: “It’s well documented, I don’t even have a computer and I don’t get involved in that type of gear,” he told the Radio 1 host.

But what does Noel think of other people sharing music via P2P?

“If people are willing to have faceless CDs like that in their collection, good for them. It would be absolutely ludicrous for a rock-star to demand that people pay money for albums because the kids haven’t got that much money to pay for an album, so if they can find it for free, go ahead! But don’t do it on Oasis records though - because that’s against the law.”

Not missing a chance to have a little rivalry with other UK bands, he encourages file-sharers to look at some other bands instead: “Pinch as many Kaiser Chiefs as you like - and the Pigeon Detectives - but don’t nick any Oasis!”

The new album, Dig Out Your Soul, is out on October 6th 2008. Noel would like everyone to buy it since he says he is “down to my last £4 million”. If that wasn’t bad enough, he says he needs to “keep the Evian water topped up in my swimming pool.”

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Oasis Widget

With the new album just weeks away the band are getting busier and busier. To help you keep up to date with all that they're doing, Oasisinet have created a widget that you can keep on your desktop, embed on your Social Networking site of choice and email to a friend.

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More Fun With Stevie Riks

Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher & Friends join for a All Star redition of The Sound Of Music.

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Z-ip It Jay-Z

I Wish Jay-Z would stop banging on about his war of words with Noel Gallagher.

It is two months since Glastonbury but he’s still so riled with the Oasis frontman that he has dedicated a large slice of his comeback single to putting the boot in again.

The Jiggaman is clearly intent on fanning the flames of ill feeling.

And with the lyrics on Jockin’ Jay-Z, he certainly pours petrol on the feud.

He mocks the lads’ mega-hit Wonderwall and spits: “That bloke from Oasis said I couldn’t play guitar/ Someone shoulda told him I’m a mutha******* rock star/ Today is gonna be the day that I’m gonna throw it back to you/ I’m living life as a rocker . . . ”

After Noel questioned the wisdom of having a hip hopper top the bill at Glasto, former drug dealer Jay-Z started his controversial headline show with a poorly sung cover of the Manc titans’ 1995 anthem.

Insult

Threading its opening line into his new offering makes it clear he’s still in no mood to let bygones be bygones.

Jockin’ Jay-Z is the first single to be lifted off the rapper’s forthcoming album The Blueprint 3.

“Jockin” means to insult.

The track, produced by Kanye West, is about as aggressive as Jay-Z has ever sounded.

The collection hits shops this autumn, around the time Noel and co return with the album Dig Out Your Soul.

Jay’s last CD, American Gangster, hardly set the charts alight.

I wonder which of the new ones will be better received by UK fans?

Well, phonelines were jammed when tickets for Oasis’s UK tour went on sale this week.

But make up your own mind.

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Feuding Gallaghers Keep Their Distance In Advance Of Oasis Tour In Canada

The album is ready, the Canadian tour is imminent and the insults have been flying for weeks.

Brit loudmouths Oasis are kicking off their Canadian tour Wednesday with the requisite boasts about their upcoming disc and potshots at acts like Coldplay, Radiohead and Amy Winehouse.

Such outbursts are par for the course with the outspoken Gallagher brothers, whose reputation for shock and awe dates back to their earliest days.

But frontman Liam Gallagher says from his London home that despite all the ballyhoo, he's been tamed by age and family life, having married his longtime Canadian girlfriend Nicole Appleton, the former All Saints singer, in a private ceremony earlier this year.

"I'm sick of drinking and smoking . . . you know what I mean," Gallagher says in an expletive-riddled phone interview.

"I've calmed down drinking," he says in his thick Manchester accent. "I don't really smoke as much as I used to and I'm just looking after myself a bit better. For me and my children. I just want to live forever, man, I don't want to be not well."

Still, avowals of a more balanced outlook come amid a slew of heavyhanded insults he and his brother have reportedly levied in recent days. Last week, the Guardian quoted Gallagher as calling Coldplay and Radiohead fans "boring and ugly," while older brother Noel made headlines after a BBC Radio 1 interview in which he compared the troubled Winehouse to a "destitute horse."

But as often as they tear a strip off others, the Gallaghers are notorious for feuding among themselves. That's something that will likely never change, says 35-year old Liam, noting the wild pair have settled into a truce of sorts that centres on as little contact as possible.

"We don't really speak that much, there's nothing to say," Gallagher says of 41-year-old Noel, the band's principal songwriter behind such monster '90s hits as "Wonderwall," "Don't Look Back in Anger" and "Supersonic."

"We speak if the music ain't right, we sort of pull each other aside and go, 'Look, you're doing that wrong or you're doing that right'and that's it really. ... We see enough of each other on the stage."

"I'm cool with it, there's things he don't like about me, there's things I don't like about him. I refuse to be like him and he refuses to be like me."

In the past, spectacular Gallagher blowups derailed several public appearances and tours, with Noel quitting the band following an onstage row in 1994, Liam backing out of a U.S. tour in '96, and Noel walking out on a European tour in 2000.

Things have calmed considerably since then, with recent tours passing without incident.

Tensions obviously remain, though. The elder Gallagher wasn't even at Liam's wedding - but then again, neither was anyone else. Gallagher says he kept the ceremony secret from everyone in an attempt to keep paparazzi at bay.

"I'm a pretty private person," says Gallagher, who wed the Toronto-raised Appleton on Valentine's Day.

"The minute you tell someone, someone tells that, and then you end up ... paranoid and blaming people. So I thought the best way to do it was to tell no one."

Meanwhile, it seems that he, Noel, bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer have found a bit of spirituality. Most of the songs on their new disc, "Dig Out Your Soul," deal with religion in one way or another, but none of that was planned beforehand, says Gallagher, who wrote three songs. Bell and Archer each contributed one.

"We're not God-heads, and we don't go to church or anything," Gallagher says of the coincidence.

"It's just, we're talking about love, life, religion, death, but not in a morbid way. Angels and shit like that; it is what it is."

Gallagher's track "I'm Outta Time" includes a radio clip of John Lennon speaking shortly before his death in 1980. But he says it's not meant to be an ode to his musical hero, as some British press have suggested.

"People are sort of going on about this tribute to John Lennon - it's not a tribute to John," Gallagher says.

"If I tried to write a song about John Lennon it'd . . . sound ridiculous. So it's just a song, man. You know, people will have to get what they get from it, you know what I mean. I hate when people say 'it's about this, it's about that' because instantly people stop using their imagination and you just look for that."

Likewise, Gallagher isn't one for over-thinking a straight-ahead rock show. He's not fond of stage "gimmicks," he notes, preferring his signature pose in which he sings with his head angled upwards toward a mike on a stand, hands clasped behind his back.

"I'm the only who's doing that - everyone's throwing moves and throwing their arms about," says Gallagher, slipping into another rant.

"I'm sick of all these. Everyone that's in a . . . band these days, as soon as they open their mouth their hands go up in the air. . . . They all think they're Jumping Jack Flash, man."

"When it's got to rock, it's got to rock and when it's got to chill, it's got to chill, man. And I'm pretty good at both, I think."

Oasis kicks off an eight-concert Canadian tour Wednesday with stops in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, London, Ont., Ottawa and Montreal.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

"The Importance of Being Idle" is a song on the British rock band Oasis' sixth album, Don't Believe the Truth, written and sung by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It was the second single released from the album in the UK, on August 22, 2005, where it debuted at #1 (see 2005 in music). It was also the first time that Oasis earned two successive #1's in the same calendar year. It was written by Gallagher sometime during the summer of 2004, before the band made their final attempt at recording what would become Don't Believe the Truth. He got the title from the Mark Twain book of the same name which he found whilst cleaning out his garage (it belonged not to him but to girlfriend Sara McDonald.)

Musically, as Noel has commented, the song sounds like tunes from two British bands, The Kinks and The La's. In particular, the sentiment expressed is noticeably similar to The Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" and "Dead End Street", and the use of falsetto for every other verse line recalls The La's "Feelin'". The guitar sound is similar also to The La's b-sides; "Clean Prophet" and "Over". It also is a breakaway from the sound of Oasis's latter albums, especially the straight ahead rock 'n' roll anthems of Heathen Chemistry. The keyboard used on the pre-chorus sections was bought by bassist Andy Bell from the auction website eBay.

Noel has said that the lyrics of "The Importance of Being Idle" are inspired by his own laziness. Some of the second verse, with the reference to begging his doctor for "one more line", seems to be referring to an actual event as this resembles Noel's account of how he gave up cocaine in 1998.

Most reviewers acclaimed the track as one of the highlights of Don't Believe the Truth, which itself was widely praised as a marked return to form. The band mentioned in interviews in June that it would become the second single, after the UK Number One "Lyla". The b-sides are Liam Gallagher's "Pass Me Down the Wine" and Gem Archer's "The Quiet Ones."

The promo film was directed by Dawn Shadforth, (whose previous videos include Kylie Minogue's award-winning "Can't Get You Out Of My Head"). Shadforth's film for "The Importance of Being Idle' starred Welsh actor Rhys Ifans and homages the style of early 1960s kitchen sink drama British films, and is set during the build up to a funeral procession in a northern town, with the extravagant undertakers parading the coffin at the video's climax and Ifans playing the part of a high-kicking funeral director. The video is based on the film and play Billy Liar with Ifans playing the role of Billy. Noel and Liam therefore play Shadrack & Duxbury, the owners of the funeral parlour where Billy works. The rest band (Gem,Andy and Zak) make a brief appearance as lazy workers playing cards in an undertaker's office. It was widely acclaimed at the time as being probably the best video Oasis had ever made, not least by the band themselves, who were said to be very happy with the finished product. The video is very similar in style and concept to the music video for "Dead End Street" by The Kinks.

Q Magazine readers placed the song at #1 in a list of 2005's greatest tracks.

The video for the song was voted the video of the year at the NME Awards.

The song is included on Oasis' 'best-of' album Stop the Clocks.

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The Fratellis: Our Joy At Oasis Return

We loved the last Oasis album and can’t wait to hear the new one.

Barry’s gonna call in a few favours to get hold of a copy early.

There’s a really nice buzz in the industry with them around again.

I think it’s kinda true that guitars are on the way out and pop is making a comeback,but we don’t care – we just
wanted to rock even harder on our second album.

Guitars are only as boring as the people that play them. The problem is that for every good band there are five bad copies.

It’s overkill. People might think that about us but we came out a couple of years ago – just at the right time.

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Oasis' Wonderwall Lyric Among Most Misheard Of All Time

"You're gonna be the one at Sainsbury's"

Oasis' belting one-liner "You're gonna be the one that saves me" has been voted as one of the most common misheard lyrics of all time. The Police top the chart for When The World Is Running Down with Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive and The Beatles' Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds at second and third respectively.

The survey, carried out by hearing aid retailer Amplifon, discovered that deaf or hard of hearing Wonderwall listeners actually hear "You're gonna be the one at Sainsbury's".

We've touched on this subject before, citing Bruce Springsteen and Led Zeppelin among our top listening errors. And, although the 'hard of hearing' are no laughing matter, would anyone mind if Kate Bush actually did wail "Heathcliff, It's me, I'm a tree, I'm a wombat"?

Top 10 misheard song lyrics

1. The Police – When The World Is Running Down
Lyric: "You make the best of what's still around"
Misheard as: "You make the best homemade stew around"

2. Bee Gees – Stayin' Alive
Lyric: "It's alright, it's okay. You may look the other way"
Misheard as: "It's alright, it's okay. You make love the other way"

3. The Beatles – Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Lyric: "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes"
Misheard as: "The girl with colitis goes by"

4. U2 – Mysterious Ways
Lyric: "She moves in mysterious ways"
Misheard as: "Shamu the mysterious whale"

5. The Beatles – Michelle
Lyric: "Michelle ma belle, sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble"
Misheard as: "Michelle ma belle, some say monkeys play piano well, play piano well"

6. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Lyric: "Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango"
Misheard as: "Scallaboosh, Scallaboosh, will you do the banned tango"

7. The Police – Message In A Bottle
Lyric: "A year has passed since I wrote my note"
Misheard as: "A year has passed since I broke my nose"

8. David Bowie – Changes
Lyric: "Strange fascination fascinating me"
Misheard as: "Strange vaccinations are killing me"

9. Oasis – Wonderwall
Lyric: "You're gonna be the one that saves me"
Misheard as: "You're gonna be the one at Sainsbury's"

10. Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
Lyric: "Heathcliff, It's me, Cathy and I've come home oh, so cold, let me in-a your window"
Misheard as: "Heathcliff, It's me, I'm a tree, I'm a wombat. Oh, so cold at the end of your winter"

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Oasis Tour Tickets Souled Out

Tickets for Oasis' Scottish concerts sold out in record time yesterday.

Thousands of fans were left very disappointed as websites and phone lines crashed under the weight of demand.

Hundreds more were gutted after queueing up at the venues in the vain hope of bagging a ticket.

Liam and Noel will play Aberdeen and Glasgow in November, having just played on Scots soil over three years ago.

The last time they performed in December 2005, tickets were like gold dust and had sold out within two hours.

Yesterday, fans who had camped out from the night before tried to get a ticket, alongside those who were applying electronically.

Glasgow's SECC was the first to sell out 10,000 tickets for November 4 and 5 in less than five minutes.

A spokeswoman for the SECC said: "Tickets sold out in minutes - at 9am on the dot there were 6000 people on our website while the rest were sold just minutes later."

The SECC say demand for Oasis briefs was one of the highest volume of inquiries they have had for some time. And the spokeswoman added: "It was crazy as our phones were jampacked.

"Oasis is one of the hottest tickets we've had for a while and everyone wanted one. We had 50 per cent of the allocation with their official website having the other half.

"We are delighted Oasis are making a return to the SECC. This highlights we are one of the premiere venues for live music in Scotland and we are delighted they're back."

In Aberdeen's Exhibition and Conference Centre, Oasis play nightly to 8500 fans on November 1 and 2, and sales also exceeded previous expectations and records for that venue.

Brian Horsburgh, acting managing director of AECC, said: "Oasis were previously the fastest selling act to visit the AECC and this time they've sold out faster.

"It is amazing when you consider it's for two nights and other shows are just one. Some 17,000 tickets sold in seven minutes which is as fast as the box office could process the sales."

The briefs were on sale at £32.50 and £38.50, but on eBay many are going for more than triple that.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

On This Day In Oasis History...

Be Here Now is the third studio album by the English rock band Oasis. Released on August 21 1997, the album was highly anticipated by both music critics and fans as a result of the band's previous worldwide successes with their 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, and its 1995 follow up (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. The album's pre-release build up led to considerable hype within both the music and mainstream press. At that point, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and Be Here Now became the UK's fastest selling album to date, selling over 420,000 units on the first day of release alone, and over one million within two weeks. As of 2007, the album has sold eight million copies worldwide.

Oasis' management company Ignition were aware of the danger of overexposure, and before its release they sought to control the media's access to the album. Ignition's campaign included limiting pre-release radio airplay, and requesting that journalists sign gag agreements. These tactics resulted in the alienation of members of both the music and mainstream media, as well as many industry members connected with the band. Ignition's attempts to limit pre-release access to the album only served to fuel large scale speculation and publicity within the British music scene.

Artistically Be Here Now failed to live up to the expectations that preceded its release. Although initial reviews were positive, retrospectively the album is viewed by much of the music press and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated. In 2007, Q magazine described Be Here Now as "a disastrous, overblown folly—the moment when Oasis, their judgement clouded by drugs and blanket adulation, ran aground on their own sky-high self-belief." The album's producer Owen Morris said of the recording sessions: "The only reason anyone was there was the money. Noel had decided Liam was a shit singer. Liam had decided he hated Noel's songs [...] Massive amounts of drugs. Big fights. Bad vibes. Shit recordings." None of its songs were included on the band's 2006 "best of" compilation album Stop the Clocks.

Album cover

The cover image to Be Here Now was shot at the Stock Hotel in Hertfordshire in April 1997. It features the band standing outside the hotel surrounded by assorted props. At the centre of the image is a Rolls Royce floating in a swimming pool. The photographer Michael Spencer Johns said the original concept involved shooting each band member in various locations around the world, but when the cost proved prohibitive, the shoot was relocated to the Stock Hotel. Spencer remarked that the shoot "degenerated into chaos", adding that "by 8pm, everyone was in the bar, there were schoolkids all over the set, and the lighting crew couldn't start the generator.

It was Alice in Wonderland meets Apocalypse Now." Despite various meanings people have tried to read into the selection of the cover props, Johns said Gallagher simply selected items from the BBC props store he thought would look good in the picture. Two of the props that had considered thought in their inclusion were the inflatable globe (intended as a homage to the sleeve of Definitely Maybe) and the Rolls Royce, which was suggested by Arthurs. The release date in each region was commemorated on the calendar pictured on the sleeve; Harris said the dating "[encouraged] fans to believe that to buy a copy on the day it appeared was to participate in some kind of historical event."

Tracklisting

D'You Know What I Mean? – 7:42
My Big Mouth – 5:02
Magic Pie – 7:19
Stand by Me – 5:56
I Hope, I Think, I Know – 4:22
The Girl in the Dirty Shirt – 5:49
Fade In-Out – 6:52
Don't Go Away – 4:48
Be Here Now – 5:13
All Around the World – 9:20
It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) – 7:00
All Around the World (Reprise) – 2:08

Singles



D'You Know What I Mean?"
Released: 7 July 1997
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (FIN), #1 (IRE), #3 (CAN), #4 (US)



Stand By Me
Released: 22 September 1997
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
Chart positions: #2 (UK), #5 (US), #2 (IRE)



All Around The World
Released: 12 January 1998
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (IRE)



Don't Go Away" (Japan Only)
Released: 13 May 1998
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher

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Big Brother Are Proud To Announce Oasis In The Largest Ever Live Radio Broadcast In Germany

Oasis will play their first show in mainland Europe to accompany their brand new album 'Dig Out Your Soul' in the intimate surroundings of the Gloria Theater in Cologne on September 29th in a performance recorded exclusively for Eins Live.

The concert will be broadcast live across Germany from 9.00pm CET on the following radio stations: Bremen Vier, Das Ding, MDR Jump, N-Joy, Radio Eins, Unser Ding, and You FM as well as stations throughout Europe via satellite.

This will be the largest ever live radio broadcast of a single artist concert in Germany due to the collaboration of the eight participating stations. Stay tuned to your local participating station for a chance to win tickets to the show.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis' UK Tour Sells Out Within An Hour Of Going On Sale

Fans snap up 180,000 tickets for the dates

Oasis' first UK tour since 2006 sold out within an hour of going on sale this morning (August 20).

All 180,000 tickets for the 18-date tour were snapped up by fans over the phone and internet - with no reported network problems.

NME.COM also understands that several thousand fans queued for tickets outside London's Wembley Arena, Bournemouth and Sheffield.

A spokesperson for Oasis said: "The demand for tickets this morning was just immense. All the ticket sites slowed down severely but nothing crashed and the system worked very smoothly. We want to thank the fans for their patience and look forward to seeing you all at the shows."

Oasis' new album, 'Dig Out Your Soul', is released on October 6.

Source: www.nme.com

Oasis Rocks Loudly, Proudly On New Album

Oasis gets back to its stripped-down rock roots on "Dig Out Your Soul," due Oct. 7 via Big Brother/Warner Bros. in the United States. The 11-track set is led by the strident rocker "The Shock of the Lightning," which is already racking up airplay on stations like KVGS Las Vegas and WFNX Boston well ahead of its late September release date.

The album begins with the two-chord dirge "Bag It Up", harking back to "Columbia," from the band's 1994 debut, "Definitely Maybe." It is followed by the insistent "The Turning," which winds its way down to "Blackbird"-style finger-picking and an outtro of passing traffic and car alarms.

The sludgy, Noel Gallagher sung-"Waiting for the Rapture" nods to the Beatles' "Come Together," while the clap-and-stomp blues rock of "(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady" and the boogie vibe of "The Nature of Reality" extend the back-to-basics feel of the album.

Elsewhere, the Liam Gallagher-penned "I'm Outta Time" incorporates an audio excerpt of a John Lennon BBC Radio interview just days before his 1980 death, and the Noel-sung "Falling Down" nods to the beats from his prior collaboration with the Chemical Brothers, "Setting Sun." Fans who pre-order the new album on iTunes will receive this track as an immediate download.

Noel penned six of the first seven songs on "Dig Out Your Soul," with Liam responsible for three others and bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer handling one each.

Oasis begins a short North American tour with Ryan Adams Aug. 26 in Seattle. This morning, tickets for the band's 18-date October U.K. run sold out completely, according to a spokesperson.

Source: www.billboard.com

Scouting For Compliments

Noel Gallagher may have slagged off the happiest band in rock - but Scouting For Girls are flattered by his attention.

The Oasis star let rip during a drunken rant on Radio 1 earlier this week, calling the trio 'Scouting For Idiots'.

But it seems frontman Roy Stride was pleasantly surprised by his acid-tongued insult.

“I can’t believe Noel Gallagher’s even talking about us”, said Roy.

“Oasis were one of the first bands we ever really loved and to actually get on his radar is pretty special”.

The London-based boys are also desperate for Sir Roger More to star in their new video.

Roy suggested the former 007 agent would be the ideal choice to cameo in upcoming track James Bond.

He said: "I tell you what would be brilliant - we should have him just singing, mouthing the words in a chair."

James Bond will be the fifth single from Scouting For Girls' self-titled debut album.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Explains Oasis Album Title

Noel Gallagher has revealed why he named the new Oasis album Dig Out Your Soul.

The guitarist said the name was born from the lyrics of a track Gem Archer wrote after the band failed to come up with a suitable title.

"The title is actually referring to DJing when you're putting on some Motown," Gallagher said. "The DJ digging out his soul."

He also admitted Oasis settled on the title because he "ran out of ideas".

Stick duties

"Originally it was going to be called Bag It Up and then it was going to be called Shock Of the Lightning and then it was going to be called Standing On The Edge Of The Noise," he said.

"I couldn't think of any ideas and then somebody had just taken bits of the lyrics out and Dig Out Your Soul was what came up. I was like, 'You know what? Titles become themselves'.

"Definitely Maybe isn't a great title but if the album is good enough it'll become itself. Dig Out Your Soul is not the best one but Dig Out Your Soul was the best one on a day when we had to choose one."

The Oasis guitarist also revealed that the band have experimented a lot more on the new record, with Gallagher even taking up stick duties on three of the songs.

"I was playing some drums on some demos left over from the last record.

"We sent them to (producer) Dave Sardy and he was like, 'Wow have you got any more songs like this? We should make a record like this'.

"And then going back to the stuff we ditched in the past we were like, 'Yeah we could do something with that or do something with this'.

"Slowly but surely it all started to change from a traditional British rock album to this whatever one we would describe it now.

He added: "It's got a drum solo in it, I don't know the last time there was drum solo on one of our records. I'm not really a Keith Moon drummer, I'm a Neanderthal, I'm a basher. I just stick to the backbeat."

Public spat

Despite the public spat which broke out earlier this year between the Oasis guitarist and Jay-Z over the rapper's appearance at Glastonbury, Gallagher said it was blown out of proportion and he had "nothing but respect for the rapper".

Noel: "It's ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous, Coleen McLoughlin musn't have had any scent out that week or something.

"The broadsheets just took it and ran away with it, 'How dare you say hip-hop is not allowed at Glastonbury'.

"Those people that write the newspapers, they demand that rock stars don't have a big ego but when someone makes a flippant comment and it becomes a national issue, what am I to think? "Who cares what I think?

"Well obviously everybody. Bearing that in mind can everyone go out and buy our new record when it comes out please. I'm down to my last £4 million."

Tongue lashing

Last week, Gallagher appeared on Chris Moyles' breakfast show after staying out until 6am in the morning and he took a few digs at the Kaiser Chiefs, Amy Winehouse and Scouting For Girls.

But speaking on Radio 1's Zane Lowe show, he said he had "no recollection" of what he said.

"I don't really remember a great deal about that interview to be honest," he revealed.

"I have no recollection of actually being in the studio. All I know is what I said was printed in the paper the next day.

"I kind of take my own disclaimer on that, that morning. If someone starts firing other people's band names when you've been out all night drinking Jager bombs..."

Despite his tongue lashing he praised The Coral and The Chemical Brothers and revealed that a host of other bands have remixed tracks from their forthcoming album.

He added: "We've remixes done off this album by Primal Scream, Death In Vegas' Richard Fearless and producer Jagz Kooner.

"It's all our mates and I just knew they couldn't mess it up and I knew I was going to like what they've done because I've known those people for so long and I love what they do."

Tickets for the band's arena tour went on sale this morning and sold out within four hours.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Oasis Tickets Expected To Sell Out Within Hours

Fans of rock giants Oasis will be gearing up for a ticket frenzy today as both their Halloween shows at the Odyssey Arena go on sale.

The world-famous rockers will be back in Belfast for two nights at the Odyssey on Wednesday, October 29 and Thursday, October 30, as revealed by the Belfast Telegraph last week.

And tickets are expected to sell out in record time.

The last time Oasis played Belfast, December 18 and 19, 2005, they broke all previous box office records, selling out tickets in 14 minutes.

Queues of fans were expected to form outside ticket retail outlets from the crack of dawn today, while telephone and internet lines were also expected to be kept busy throughout the morning.

Last week Oxegen headliners Kings Of Leon sold out their two Irish shows at the O2 in Dublin on December 19 and the Odyssey on December 20. All 23,000 tickets sold out within minutes of going on sale across Ireland at 9am.

The Oasis tour — expected to sell out across the UK — will coincide with the release of the band’s new album Dig Out Your Soul, on October 6.

Oasis release their new single, The Shock of the Lightning, on September 29, ahead of the album launch.

Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Fans Line Up To Buy Tickets For Oasis In Aberdeen

Mad for it Oasis fans queued through the night to get their hands on tickets for their heroes long awaited return to Aberdeen.

The Gallagher brothers will be making their fourth trip to the North-east this autumn.

Oasis will play two nights at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on November 1 and 2.

The scramble for the 17,000 tickets began this morning at 9am.

No more than 500 tickets for each night were available to buy at the venue.

Thousands of other fans were expected to book via the internet or by phone.

Both gigs were expected to sell out in minutes.

One fan was so desperate to get his hands on tickets that he started queuing 24 hours before they were due to go on sale.

Kevin Munro, 26, from Bridge of Don has been a fan of the group since they first shot to stardom. The Liam Gallagher look-alike, who is unemployed, wasn’t taking any chances on missing out on the big gigs and was first in the queue. He said: “This is the fourth time I’ve been to see Oasis here. I’m 110% mad for it. They’re the only band I’m into. I’d sit out in hailstones rain, thunder for my group. I was even going to come down here on Monday to make sure I got tickets. They’re the best rock and roll band in the world.”

Daniel Eager, 16, from Tillydrone started queuing at 5pm last night. The St Machar Academy sixth year pupil is taking today off school after queuing all night. He said: “I’ve been to see them twice before and I thought they were brilliant. They’re my favourite band as well. It’s well worth coming out overnight. I’ve been to see 50 Cent and the Kaiser Chiefs here, but Oasis top them.”

Kerry Sneddon, 27, drove up from Dundee to see her rock idols play in Aberdeen. The medical student started queuing at 2pm yesterday. She said: “I’ve seen them six times before. This is the only way I was guaranteed to get tickets. There are very few fans who have the longevity of Oasis. There are very few bands that have the X factor. They have it and it’s not manufactured.”

Source: www.eveningexpress.co.uk