Watch The Video For The New Oasis Single 'The Shock Of The Lightning' Here
The video was directed by Julian House & Julian Gibbs, Oasis release the single 'The Shock Of The Lightning' on September 29th.
It will also broadcast at 23:40 on Channel 4 (UK) and around the globe at the same time.
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Noel Gallagher Rare Live World Exclusive!
Australia only.
In preparation for the release of the brand new Oasis album "Dig Out Your Soul" we're delving into the Planet Rock archives to bring you an incredible treat.
In December 2006 Oasis band leader Noel Gallagher took some time out to play an intimate live show in Melbourne, Australia. This show has since been one of the rarest, most sought after and talked about live recordings of Noel's best songs.
Only six tracks were ever broadcast but now we have the concert in full for your watching and listening pleasure.
01. (It's Good) To Be Free
02. Talk Tonight
03. Fade Away
04. Cast No Shadow
05. The Importance Of Being Idle
06. Listen Up
07. Half The World Away
08. Wonderwall
09. Whatever
10. Slide Away
11. Strawberry Fields Forever
12. Don't Look Back In Anger
13. Married With Children
Ladies and gentlemen click here and enjoy the full show!
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Oasis Gets Subliminal
Is there some sort of subliminal message in the new Oasis single, “Shock of the Lightning”?
A muddled, apparently backward phrase is heard toward the end of the radio hit, which dropped last week as the lead offering from Oasis’ seventh studio album, “Dig Out Your Soul,” which drops Oct. 7.
Is the Mancunian quartet trying to tell us something? Are they echoing the “Revolution 9” brouhaha that shrouded John Lennon and the Beatles in the ’60s?
No, Oasis being Oasis, it just wants to remind folks of its glorious past.
According to Paul Driscoll’s Alter Ego blog on fnxradio.com, if played in reverse, frontman Liam Gallagher clearly and calmly howls “Champagne Supernova,” the name of the seven-minute single off 1996’s “What’s the Story (Morning Glory)” album, which sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
And some folks think Oasis has nothing new to say.
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Win Tickets To See Oasis In London
Win tickets to see Oasis at Wembley Arena
We've got a pair of tickets to give away to the Oasis gig of the decade.
It was sold out in just three minutes, but we have managed to secure a pair of tickets from Live Nation to the Wembley Arena gig on October 16.
Following the exclusive preview of the new Oasis single, The Shock of The lightning on Radio 1, the Mancunian four-piece announce their return to Wembley Arena for two autumn shows.
The Shock of The Lightning, released on September 29, is taken from their eagerly awaited seventh studio album Dig Out Your Soul which is set for release on October 6. Noel Gallagher describes the single as one of the band's most instant songs "because it was written dead fast and recorded dead fast. It's basically the demo and it has retained its energy. And there's a lot to be said for that, I think. The first time you record something is always the best."
If you want to be in the audience at Wembley Arena on October 16, when Oasis play their sell-out gig, then all you have to do is answer this simple question:
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Going To Any Of These Oasis Shows? Or Future Ones?
Are you going to be going to any of the following Oasis shows?
WaMu Theater - Seattle (USA) - 26th August
GM Place - Vancouver (Canada) - 27th August
Rexall Palace - Edmunton (Canada) - 29th August
Pengrowth Saddledome - Calgary (Canada) - 30th August
MTS Centre - Winnipeg (Canada) - 1st September
Scotiabank Place - Ottawa (Canada) - 4th September
Bell Center - Québec (Canada) - 5th September
Toronto Island Park - Toronto (Canada) - 7th September
The John Labatt Centre - Ontario (Canada) - 9th September
And taking your camera along with you?
I have two Collectors Edition boxes for 'The Shock Of The Lightning' single to give away in exchange for your photos from the gigs.
Just send your photos from the gigs to scyhodotcom@gmail.com to be entered into the draw, that will take place on September 12th.
You can include pictures of the band onstage, meeting the band, the venue or even you and your friends at the gigs.
Please include your name in the email, and what gig the pictures are from.
Planning on going to any of the bands future gigs on the tour? Feel free to send in your pictures also to the site.
I have opened a Photobucket account, so that we can try and have a complete 'Dig Out Your Soul' fan's photo archive of the tour.
I Will add a button to the blog in the coming days, click here to view the album.
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Liam Gallagher Sings To Passers-By
Hands up if you've had a few drinks! Liam Gallagher looked hugely refreshed after a night out with wife Nicole Appleton at London's Scott's restaurant.
Having just finished work on Oasis's new album, Liam was clearly ready to let off some steam as he sang to passers-by before being bundled into a taxi by his missus.
Let's hope he gave the driver a big juicy tip...
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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.
To get the widget, click HERE!
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
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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.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
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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.
Click here for the music video, or here for a live performance.
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Vote For Us At The BT Digital Music Awards 2008
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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"
Source: www.musicradar.com
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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
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