Hatton To Be Xmas Hit With Noel Gallagher

Boxing sensation Ricky Hatton is turning his hand to hits of a different kind – and releasing a pop single.

The Manchester fighter hopes to land a knock-out blow on the Christmas charts with Hi Ho Ricky Hatton — based on the 1967 UK smash Hi Ho Silver Lining.

The Hitman and his comedian pal Joey Blower have rewritten the lyrics of Jeff Beck's song and it has been played at arenas in the build-up to Ricky’s clashes.

But now Ricky and Joey are heading into the studio to record the track properly and release it in December.

And they want to rope in a host of Ricky’s celeb mates, including Noel Gallagher, to work on it.

A Hitman pal revealed: “Ricky wants to get all his famous pals on board, like Noel and some of the Manchester City players. It might be tricky to get Noel to sing but he thinks he’ll happily be on the video.

Nutter

“It will be a great laugh. A bit like the Tony Christie Amarillo thing. It should do really well, especially in Manchester.”

Ricky doesn’t mind sending himself up for the way he piles on the pounds between fights.

The current lyrics to Hi Ho Ricky Hatton — which may be altered slightly for the Crimbo market — see him at his self-deprecating best. The track goes:

They say he’s never seen a salad, that’s why he’s fat.

He’s never been on a diet, and he’ll drink to that.

He likes his pies and pasties, a pint of Guinness or two.

He’s the one they call Ricky Fatton, tonight he’s here for you.

All together now, readers:

And it’s hi ho Ricky Hatton, he ate all the pies.

He’s never seen a salad, he ate all the pies.

Meanwhile, Noel, who broke three ribs when a nutter attacked him on stage in Canada last month, has made sure nothing similar can happen when Oasis kick off their UK tour in Liverpool next Tuesday.

He has invited light welterweight champ Ricky to join his backstage entourage for the gig — and possibly even to introduce the band on stage.

Ricky’s sure to do a better job than the Canadian security guys — just the thought of him would put me off getting on stage.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Oasis Line Up Two Hour Live Set, Listen To The Interview Here

Noel Gallagher has told Xfm that the band’s forthcoming tour will feature a set lasting almost two hours and encompassing all of the band’s biggest hits.

In an interview with Dave Berry this afternoon (October 1), Oasis’s Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer spilled the beans on the band’s forthcoming tour. Turns out that fans wanting to hear the hits won’t be too disappointed.

“We’re doing a long set this time because we’ve got so many brilliant songs”, said the ever-modest Noel Gallagher. “We’re playing six off the new album and then we’re going to play the stuff that people want to hear. That takes up about two hours. Our manager’s freaking out saying, ‘It’s too long!’. He shouldn’t worry, he doesn’t have to come!”.

Gem Archer also said that new songs from ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ have already earnt their place next to the band’s favourites.

“These songs are the bollocks. They feel like they’ve been there a long time for me already”.

Click here to listen to the interview.

Source: www.xfm.co.uk

Noel Gallagher: 'We Didn't Know New Album Was Streaming On MySpace'

Oasis' Noel Gallagher says he wasn't aware the band were streaming their new album via MySpace ahead of its release.

'Dig Out Your Soul' was made available as a stream for fans from 12pm today but won't be available to buy until October 6th.

Speaking to BBC 6Music, Gallagher said he only found out about the move when he read the newspaper this morning.

“I don’t have any opinion on that sort of thing. I don’t get involved. I’ve done a little bit for the website in the past. Are people streaming it on Myspace? Good luck to them,” he said.

"Somebody texted me today with it all and a load of jargon that I don’t understand and I was going, ‘Yes, I don’t know what that means...but yes.’”

Oasis will begin a UK arena tour in support of the album later this month.

Source: www.gigwise.com

The Verdict On Oasis's New Album Dig Out Your Soul

4 stars out of 5

As Oasis unveil their seventh studio album on MySpace, The Times' chief rock critic Pete Paphides goes through Dig Out Your Soul, track-by-track, and comes to the conclusion that this could be their best album since the siblings’ Britpop glory days

A sensational opening volley of new Noel Gallagher songs establishes a standard it can’t quite sustain. But for the main part, Oasis’s first album in over three years comes close.

BAG IT UP

Four-to-the-floor opening shot features a multi-tracked Liam Gallagher declaring, “I’m gonna take a walk with the monkey man.” Monster chorus can’t even be derailed by the questionable claim, “I’ve got my heebeegeebees in a little bag.” Should distinguish itself as an instant live favourite when the UK tour begins on Tuesday.

THE TURNING

One of Oasis’s most atmospheric recordings. Moody electric piano gives way to affirmative come-ons on a series of increasingly rock-tastic choruses. Cheeky Dear Prudence-style coda heralds the beginning of a series of Beatles borrowings, thankfully more artfully deployed than on previous occasions.

WAITING FOR THE RAPTURE

Intro reminiscent of The Doors Five To One gives way to a Noel third-person account of being ensnared by a predatory woman. Dave Sardy’s production cleverly allows the needle to stay firmly in the red – although any sonic bombast is once again trumped by an excellent chorus.

THE SHOCK OF THE LIGHTNING

The first single from the album. Pacey, energized delivery from Liam, coupled with a performance that recalls 1995’s Morning Glory. As a result, probably the song most likely to find favour with fans of “vintage” Oasis.

I’M OUTTA TIME

Liam’s first and best contribution to the album. Featuring a sample of John Lennon’s final interview at the end, the song itself is a tender love song which deploys several key Lennonisms in its instrumentation. Hard to equate such open-hearted sensitivity with the man who, in a recent interview, declared, “SpongeBob SquarePants is a mental, full-of-beans sponge. He’s mad for it.”

(GET OFF YOUR) HIGH HORSE LADY

Instantly memorable, thanks to Liam’s stoned vocoder delivery and the hypnotic boom-thump of its rhythm. Having spent so much of their time talking up the Sixties, this may be the first Oasis song that could pass muster on a compilation of treasured obscurities from the end of that decade.

FALLING DOWN

Noel sings this one. Deploys an identical rhythm to the one invented by Ringo Starr on Rain – but there are mitigating factors at play. First of all, it’s being played by Ringo’s son Zak Starkey; more importantly, it sits at the centre of another Oasis song that corresponds to little else in their canon – a rain-lashed, nocturnal hymn to uncertainty that makes good use of the vulnerability that seems ingrained in the guitarist’s vocal style.

TO BE WHERE THERE’S LIFE

Written by Gem Archer. Charges along on a bassline that should Paul McCartney hear it, may push Paul McCartney’s eyebrows up into the realms of physical implausibility. Modestly diverting piece of raga-rock, but by no means one of the better songs on the album.

AIN’T GOT NOTHING

A combustible Who-style studio freakout. Probably fun to play; should be exciting live – but once removed from the circumstances in which it was created, it slightly palls.

THE NATURE OF REALITY

Andy Bell’s sole writing contribution to the album – apparently prompted by the demise of his marriage. The final part in a relative slough of three songs. “The nature of reality is only in your mind,” sings Liam, with a peculiar lack of conviction.

SOLDIER ON

Reflective paean to perseverance oscillates soberly between a single titular mantra and bursts of keening melodica from Noel, until both dissipate, as if to leave room for closing credits. Again, further evidence of Oasis’s new-found ability to create sympathetic settings for the their older more thoughtful selves. As such, a fitting conclusion.

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Noel Gallagher on Oasis, Amy Winehouse, James Blunt & More

On the eve of the release of Oasis' new album, Noel Gallager dishes up his singular take on all matters from James Blond to James Blunt. And he still thinks Liam's a...

Noel Gallagher is back on drugs.

Luckily these ones, unlike the mountains of chemicals he hoovered during the ‘90s, come from a doctor. And not a dodgy rock and roll physician, an actual one.

A legally numbed Gallagher is nursing three broken ribs after a Canadian man pushed the Oasis guitarist off stage during a gig in Toronto last month.

The downside: all Oasis gigs since have been cancelled while Gallagher recovers. The upshot: camera phone footage from multiple fans have clocked up millions of You Tube hits.

“It’s quite exciting being a genuine You Tube superstar,” Gallagher says from his London home where he’s dosed up on “pretty heavy painkillers.”

“I’m a bit brain dead,” Gallagher notes of his prescription high. “Sometimes I drift off and I don’t know what I’m talking about.”

While he hasn’t watched the incident on You Tube, he’s heard that depending on what angle the footage you watch was taken you can clearly see brother Liam Gallagher initially running away from the stage invader, then trying to punch him once he’s being led away.

“He got all brave once the security guards turned up,”

Noel, Liam’s older brother notes. “That’s what he does.”

Gallagher insists he has only vague memories of his You Tube moment.

“I remember being hit really hard. I didn’t see him come on stage or get led off, I just got hit.”

The guitarist initially thought he’d been stabbed – the intruder had run from being in the rain to the backstage area then on stage – leaving puddles of water on the stage where Gallagher wound up.
After he realised no knives were involved, Gallagher ignored medics' advice and continued playing for another 40 minutes.

“I had an almighty pain in my side. I was being silly, it got to the point where I went ‘F--- it, I can’t do this’ and got taken straight to hospital.”

Gallagher can’t discuss the intruder in detail for legal reasons, but is happy to do some mild character assassination.

“He’s 47 and got three children, if you can believe that,” Gallagher says.

“He’s obviously gone through a midlife crisis. I wouldn’t get in and analyse it too deeply, that’s for a lawyer to do. I don’t know why people do things like that.”

However, don’t expect to see Oasis surrounded by men-mountains next time you see them live.

“We’re not going to become one of these American bands with more security guards than musicians on stage, we don’t go in for that Madonna sh--. We’ve got enough security guards as it is. If they’d been doing their f---ing job properly instead of playing air guitar I’d be alright.”

Broken ribs aren’t stopping Gallagher talking up Oasis’ seventh album, Dig Out Your Soul.

Or not talking it up as the case may be. He’s already labelled lead single The Shock of the Lightning the album’s only obvious hit.

There’s ragged rock tracks (Ain’t Got Nothin’) recycled psychedelia (the acid-soaked Bag It Up), some swamp blues (Get Off Your High Horse Lady), an organic Chemical Brothers-style trancefest (Falling Down) and even a track minus any guitars at all – To Be Where There’s Life. It’s as experimental and loose as Oasis get, without losing the plot.

“When we were making it I thought there didn’t seem to be that many hit singles on there, or even songs that sound like singles, but that’s a good thing,” Gallagher says.

“I wouldn’t plan to make an album like this every time, it’s happily fallen in our laps by accident. In the grand scheme of things it’s a pretty special Oasis record.”

As with the last few Oasis albums Gallagher’s songwriting dictatorship has given way to a musical democracy – each member gets to write at least one track.

Liam Gallagher’s I’m Outta Time is an album highlight. It is – who’d have thought – a ridiculously familiar (and surprisingly beautiful) Beatles throwback.

This dose of pre-Fab four one comes with a surprise addition - instead of just channelling John Lennon, they’ve actually sampled him, via a grab from a vintage interview.

“Not that you’d notice it was him,” Noel Gallagher says. “It sounds like Winston Churchill. If you’re going to put John Lennon on a f---ing track turn it up I say. It’s kind of a bit neither here nor there for me. You can’t really hear what he says.”

Noel gets his time to shine on Waiting for the Rapture, one of his vocal moments on the album.

“The reason Liam doesn’t sing the songs I sing is that he can’t sing the falsetto bits,” Noel says.

“He doesn’t have the will or the capacity to get up to those notes. I like my singing. I used to sing out of necessity a few years ago because Liam wouldn’t or couldn’t. But now when I write batches of songs I think ‘Ah, I’d like to sing that’. My voice has developed at a very late stage, which is good because it means I haven’t spent 20 years f---ing it up.”

Waiting for the Rapture is about his girlfriend Sara McDonald, not that Noel admits it. “You can’t really write a full album about your missus. She’ll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.”

There are, however, no songs about their newborn son Donovan.

“Songs for children are utterly banned,” he says. “I’m not into that sh--.”

Liam Gallagher’s 2000 song Little James remains one of Oasis’ creative lowpoints.

“Well, I can’t speak for my brother,” Gallagher says. “But for the other three of us they’re banned.”

Gallagher’s enjoying singing more than ever before; even single-handedly promoting Oasis’ best-of Stop the Clocks with a global solo tour last year.

If the eldest Gallagher has his way, Dig Out Your Soul will be the last Oasis album before they embark on the obligatory solo diversions.

“After this record I’m not sure what we do next as a band,” he says. “Since Gem (Archer, guitar) and Andy (Bell, bass) joined we’ve been leading up to this particular point, this record. If I had my way I’d like us all to do solo projects next time around. It’d be interesting for people who like Oasis to see how the four parts make up the whole.”

Dig Out Your Soul arrives as all Oasis albums have – the good old fashioned way. The only real concession to anything approaching technology is a Chemical Brothers remix of The Shock of the Lightning for the, er, clubs.

Those expecting online leaks or Radiohead style free downloads should look elsewhere.

“No one’s getting anything free from me,” Gallagher says. “If they can find it out there on the internet and steal it good luck to them. But we’re not going to put it anybody’s f---ing pocket for free, f--- that.”

Nor will you see Oasis measuring their carbon footprint, ala Radiohead, any time soon.

“Global problems are very easily solved by rockstars, aren’t they,” Gallagher mocks.

“Starving people in Africa, let’s do a gig, that’ll sort it out. There’s war on the streets of Baghdad, let’s do a gig. Global warming and carbon emissions – let’s have a concert. It’s f---ing bullsh--.

"The only way it’s going to be solved is if the world powers get together and are serious about it. I really think it’ll take an absolute global catastrophe for anyone to take it seriously, not just saving a few polar bears from dying. In the meantime Radiohead can get on their battery operated pushbikes as long as they like but they’re pissing in the wind

“You can’t blame rock stars for global warming when the Chinese, the Indian and the Americans have been pumping out sh-- into the atmosphere for the last 100 years,” Gallagher continues.

“That’s just f---ing nonsense. You can’t put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That’s ludicrous. Somebody’s doing a load of acid if they think that’s going to happen.”

Also still in place is the internal feuding between the brothers Gallagher.

Liam has gone on record saying he “can’t stand” Wonderwall, still the band’s biggest hit. “Every time I sing it I want to gag,” Liam told Q Magazine.

“See, this is one of the reasons I really f----ing dislike him, he’s full of f---ing sh--,’ Noel says.

“He tells the journalists of the world ‘I hate singing Wonderwall’. Yet we were rehearsing and I was saying ‘I can’t be ars-ed, I’m gonna drop it (Wonderwall) from the set’. He’s the one saying ‘No no, we’ve got to play it, we’ve got to play it’.

“I read these interviews with him and I don’t know who the guy is who’s in these interviews, he seems really cool, because the guy I’ve been in a band with for the last 18 years is a f----ing knobhead.

"I don’t know where this schizophrenia comes from. Then he wonders why I’ve f----ing got no time for him.”

Still, things could be worse – it could be James Blunt.

Between albums Gallagher reportedly insisted he was selling his house in Ibiza after finding out Blunt had moved there. The story isn’t exactly true, but Gallagher knows it sounds good.

“I’m sure he’s just saying he lives in Ibiza for effect, I’ve had a house there for 10 years and I didn’t see him once,” Gallagher says.

“I heard he’s got a nightclub in his house, which is strange, because he doesn’t look like he could take a stiff cocktail. But I must say it did make me quite uncomfortable knowing I was there and he was up the road somewhere being sh--t.”

NOEL ON ...

Amy Winehouse
“She’s got an undeniably great voice but there’s plenty of great singers in the world. It astonishes me, fame seems to hit those kind of people hard. They kind of pull down the shutters and become drug addicts because they can’t deal with it. But it’s what they’ve been waiting for all their lives.

This should be her time. She should be ruling the world but she’s a slave to the gear. F--- her. There’s no point wasting words on people like that. They have no respect for themselves so why should people have respect for them?”

The new James Bond theme
“We wrote a song, which will be on our next album now, that when I finished I thought ‘It sounds like a James Bond theme tune’. Not one of those ridiculous ballads, the actual theme tune. At the time they hadn’t decided who was going to sing the theme. So I sent it to Sony, the people who look after that kind of thing, and never heard anything back. And they got Alicia Keys to do it. I haven’t heard it but I’m sure it’ll be f---ing dreadful. Jack White’s bits will be amazing, because he is, but it’s an odd coupling.”

Lars Ulrich using Noel as a role model to kick cocaine
“I f---ing love that guy. All these heavy metal characters you meet, like him and (Marilyn) Manson they are, with the best will in the world, ludicrous people. I like that Enter Sandman tune and Nothing Really Matters, but I don’t own any of the records. That doesn’t dilute what I think of them as fellas. I like a few of Manson’s tunes but it’s not my bag. Hip hop’s not my bag but I don’t deny its right to exist.”

Coldplay
“I like Coldplay. I’m not in a band full of Coldplay fans, there’s only me. I don’t speak about it with the other boys. I like Coldplay and U2, everyone in Oasis f---ing hates them. I think they’re a bit insecure Coldplay and U2 sell more records than we do. I love Violet Hill. I like them, I won’t f---ing deny it. I struggle a bit with Coldplay. You play someone a song and go ‘listen man it sounds like the Beatles, it’s f---ng great’ and then the next one sounds like Annie Lennox, so it’s like ‘OK, well that one’s a bit sh--’. I like Chris Martin. I think he’s a really great songwriter. He fascinates me, he’s f---ing proper posh. I haven’t met his wife. I somehow don’t think I’d be her cup of tea. I’d like to meet her, it’s Gwyneth Paltrow for f---’s sake, but I guess she wouldn’t like my profanities. I have a habit of swearing a lot.”

Kaiser Chiefs
“There’s been a feud between us and them, but in the case of the Kaiser Chiefs the little fat singer, he started it. It’s not important what he said, and it’s a shame one has to get involved in this kind of thing but you can’t let these fat idiots get away with it.”

Bloc Party
“They’re a bunch of middle class kids trying to rebel about against mum and dad. They sit on top of an apex of sh--.”

Keane
“I feel sorry for Keane. No matter how hard they try they’ll always be squares. Even if one of them started injecting heroin into onto his (Noel uses potentially offensive euphemism for the male member) people would go ‘Yeah but your dad was a vicar, good night’.

Turning 40
“It doesn’t bother me. I’ve always felt older than I am. When I was 30 I felt 40. I feel f---ing 65 with three broken ribs. You’ll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn’t bother me. I guess because I’ve never traded on my good looks like Liam.

To me it’s not about the haircut or jawline or belly. I’m known for my songs, I can do that at any age. If I’m being honest everyone would like to be 20 years younger but you’ve got to be comfortable with it. Liam’s been dying his hair for a while. And he wears make up. Seriously. I’ve seen him in eyeliner at parties, the Clockwork orange. And he knows about his moisturizer. I think he’s trying to head off old age but it’ll catch him.”

Dig Out Your Soul (Sony BMG) out Saturday

Source: www.news.com.au

Rare Oasis Footage To Be Shown At Manchester's In The City

Dirty Pretty Things' Carl Barat and Reverend And The Makers' Jon McClure lead the latest additions to this weekend's In The City conference.

The pair will appear at the Manchester music event at a panel discussion dubbed 'The Importance Of Being Idols'.

Joining them will be New Order bassist Peter Hook and musician Steve White for a session aiming to "address the dumbing down of the use of the word celebrity while discussing how to stay creative at the same time".

The session takes place on Monday (October 6) at the Midland Hotel.

Also joining the line-up of guests is acclaimed film-maker Dick Carruthers, showing never-before-seen footage from a private Oasis gig shot in front of 100 people at Black Island Studios.

Source: www.nme.com

Listen To The New Oasis Album NOW!!!

Oasis fans are now able to hear the whole of 'Dig Out Your Soul' at the band's MySpace page.

Community members of Oasisinet will also be hear the album on 'Radio Supernova'.

To register for the Oasisinet community, click here!

Oasis Best Album Since Morning Glory. Honest!

Stage attacks, snide comments directed at contemporaries and wild comparisons to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Yes, it can mean only one thing: Oasis are releasing a new studio album.

Entitled Dig Out Your Soul, the Brit pop survivors’ eagerly anticipated seventh album sees band leader Noel Gallagher sharing songwriting duties with three of the eleven tracks penned by his cocksure brother Liam and one each by guitarist Gem Archer and bassist Andy Bell.

Noel revealed to BBC 6 Music: “Funnily enough, we all write separately, but for some reason all the songs sound like they’ve got a common thread. We’ve been focusing round the grooves more this time, the last album was quite ‘songy’, if that makes any sense, I don’t know. But it was quite ‘songy’: ‘The Importance of Being Idle’, ‘Let There Be Love’ – it was quite a British, retro, 60s sounding album. This is kinda focusing round the grooves more.”

They say:

Antiquiet: “The album title's an ironic suggestion, as we wonder how much digging it would take Oasis to get back to 1997, where they seem to have left theirs.”

Gigwise: “This is an album that truly takes hold of all expectations and desires and delivers a punch that will not only shake your bones – but any one who manages to stand in a near radius of you.”

The Quietus: “By and large, Dig Out Your Soul is a refreshing listen, both the sound of Oasis rediscovering some of the spirit that made them great, and attempting – finally – something different.”

We say:

You know the routine by now: Oasis release a new album, early reviews hype it to the heavens and call it the Gallagher brothers’ “best album since Definitely Maybe” and then a backlash ensues when said reviewers are proven to have been blowing hot air out of their free ticket and promo bribed backsides.

So let’s cut to the chase: is Dig Out Your Soul really the best thing the band have done since their swaggering, era defining debut long player? Of course not. But how about since their polished anthemic pop opus (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? Definitely – and there’s no maybe about it.

This a real return to form (there’s another Oasis cliché for you to chew on) in which the band seem to have hit a rich songwriting vein.

Opener ‘Bag it Up’, a driving rocker complete with Pink Floyd acid paranoia (“Someone tell me I’m dreaming/ The freaks are rising up through the floor”), could be the new ‘Columbia’.

‘The Turning’, meanwhile, pays homage to the Beatles’ ‘Dear Prudence’ and finds Liam in fine sneering form, while ‘Waiting for the Rapture’, which is the first of three Noel sung tracks, is a bluesy foot stomper borrowing heavily from the Doors’ ‘Five to One’ and dripping with effortless cool.

Even first single ‘The Shock of the Lightning’ impresses here, no longer weighed down by first out of the gate expectations.

However, it is the second half of Dig Out Your Soul that proves the most interesting and rewarding. Oasis open themselves up to a wider range of influences and where rhythm is favoured over melody, most notably on the intricately woven and emotionally dark ‘Falling Down’, which has shades of Noel’s drone rock output with the Chemical Brothers. So much so, in fact, that Chemical Tom and Chemical Ed have even remixed the track and Gem’s hypnotic, sitar soaked ‘To Be Where There’s Life’ which sounds like the Stone Roses traversing the Indian subcontinent on some kind of spiritual quest.

Only Liam’s soppy John Lennon tribute ballad ‘I’m Outta Time’ drops the ball on an album sure to delight their army of fans and perhaps even attract a few new ones.

Like this? Try these:

The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album)
The Stone Roses – Second Coming
The White Stripes – Elephant

RELEASED
6th Oct ‘08

LABEL
Big Brother

Source: www.mansized.co.uk

Pink Beating Oasis To Number One

US pop star Pink is beating Britpop icons Oasis to the number one slot in the UK singles chart, according to midweek sales figures.

Physical sales of the singer's new track So What are set to propel it from 38 to the top spot, according to trade magazine Music Week.

Oasis' The Shock Of The Lightning is currently trailing in second place.

The band are showcasing their new album Dig Out Your Soul on MySpace ahead of its release next week.

Earlier this year, Coldplay allowed their fans to listen to their album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends on the site before its release.

Pink is on course to claim her third UK number one single, her first since Just Like A Pill in 2002.

Boyzone's comeback single I Love You Anyway, is at number five in the midweek table.

The track is taken from the Irish group's forthcoming studio album, which is due out at Christmas.

The final chart positions, which are compiled by the Official Charts Company, will be announced on Sunday.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Oasis UK Fans - Win A VIP Trip To Your Show Of Choice!

So all 180,000 tickets have sold out for the forthcoming Oasis tour but Oasisinet has managed to secure four tickets for one fan (and three of their friends) to see the band at the gig of their choice.

The band's record label Big Brother Recordings will even cover your accommodation!

The Competition ends at mid-day on Monday 6th Ocotber.

All you have to do to win this is answer the question on the competition page.You need to be logged in to enter the competition. If you're already a community member, click here. If not, you can register here!

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul [CD + DVD] Artwork

Source: www.zavvi.co.uk

That's A Bit Ruff On Your Dog, Liam

I wonder if Liam Gallagher stuck his poor pooch’s head inside wife Nicole's bag when he spotted the photographer?

I almost missed the little fella when I saw this picture.

Their puppy is hardly your normal handbag-sized canine – nor is it in keeping with the snarling Oasis frontman’s image.

And he might start foaming at the mouth when he hears Oasis’ singles comeback could be derailed.

Pink’s So What is outselling their The Shock Of The Lightning so far.

Their new album Dig Out Your Soul is out on Monday and will be streamed on MySpace today.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Photo Credit Pacificnews.com

Oasis Will Play A Second Date In Mexico City

Oasisinet is pleased to announce the band will play a second date at Mexico's Sports Palace (Palacio de los Deportes) on 25th November. It will be the band's fourth date on their first ever tour of Mexico.

Oasisinet have secured a Pre-Sale for the fans. The Pre-Sale starts at 11:00am (MCT) on Tuesday 7th October until 8:00pm (MCT) on Wednesday 8th October.

The Pre-Sale password is: OASISINET

Following the fan Pre-Sale, there is a Pre-Sale available for Banamex card owners from 11:00am (MCT) Thursday 9th October until 8:00pm (MCT) on Friday 10th October.

Tickets go on general sale at 11:00am (MCT) on Saturday 11th October.

The full details of the Mexican tour are:

25th November 2008: Mexico City, Sports Palace
26th November 2008: Mexico City, Sports Palace
28th November 2008: Guadalajara, VFG Arena
29th November 2008: Monterrey, Arena Monterrey

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Dig Out Your Soul - Launch Events

Big Brother Recordings have organised a number of album launches where UK fans can hear the new album. There will be exclusive Oasis merchandise available at all of these playbacks so why not go along to your local night and check it out.

The playback events are as per below:

OCTOBER 2008

THURS 2ND:

CHELTENHAM - PROPAGANDA @ Blush

SWINDON - PROPAGANDA @ Envy

FRI 3RD:

LONDON - XFM 1ST FRIDAY @ Islington Academy

BRISTOL - RAMSHACKLE @ Academy

BIRMINGHAM - PROPAGANDA @ Gatecrasher

MANCHESTER - PROPAGANDA @ Moho Live

EDINBURGH - EVOL @ Liquid Rooms

EXETER - COLLISION @ Timepiece

PRESTON - WIRED @ Roper Hall

SAT 4TH:

SHEFFIELD - SONIC BOOM @ The Leadmill

LIVERPOOL - LOADED @ Krazyhouse K3

NORWICH - MELTDOWN @ The Waterfront

MON 6TH:

PORTSMOUTH - DELIGHT @ Route 66

CLUB NME NIGHTS:

TUES 7TH:

DONCASTER - CLUB NME @ Croft

WEDS 8TH:

BRIGHTON - CLUB NME @ Coalition

THURS 9TH:

HITCHIN - CLUB NME @ Remix

FRI 10TH:

SWANSEA - CLUB NME @ Sin City

FRI 10TH:

DONCASTER - CLUB NME @ Priory

SAT 11TH:

HULL - CLUB NME @ Welly Club

Source: www.oasisinet.com

MTV To Show Oasis Gig Live

MTV is set to broadcast Oasis’s Wembley Arena gig live into your living room on October 16.

The Manchester band play the show as part of their UK arena tour and fans will certainly not want to miss the classic hits, new tracks and controversial moments.

Oasis’s gig will be shown as it happens on MTV One on Thursday October 16 from 9pm. It will then get it’s MTV Two premiere on Friday October 17 at 8pm.

The group release their new album Dig Out Your Soul this Monday (October 6). You can hear the record from tomorrow at Myspace.

Last week the group spoke exclusively to Zane Lowe about the fan who attacked Noel in Canada.

You can watch the full Oasis interview with Zane Lowe when Oasis Week kick's off, Monday Oct 6th at 21.00 on MTV TWO

Source: www.mtv.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Contributes To Paul Weller's 74 Song Box Set

Paul Weller is to release a four-CD set of rare and live tracks spanning the length of his solo career.

Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and Tim Burgess have contributed to the set

The 74 songs on 'Weller At The BBC' were recorded by the former Jam man during exclusive sessions and live shows for the corporation between 1990 and 2008.

The release features covers of Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' and Rose Royce's 'Wishing On A Star'.

Oasis' Noel Gallagher appears on a live version of Weller's adaptation of Dr John's 'I Walk On Gilded Splinters', as he does on the 1995 recorded version.

Other highlights include a previously-unreleased cover of Ronnie Lane's 'The Poacher', recorded for BBC Radio 1's Evening Session in 1997, and recordings from Weller's 1995 headline appearance at the Phoenix Festival.

Musicians including Gallagher, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and The Charlatans' Tim Burgess have been interviewed for a 64-page booklet that will accompanying the album.

Source: www.nme.com

Brotherly Love

With a new album looming, Oasis's battling brothers show a rare moment of compassion after onstage attack.

Noel Gallagher had been looking forward to Toronto all week.

That's what the fellow managing his affairs -- and his security -- told me backstage at the Pengrowth Saddledome as we sat in a drab, dimly lit room waiting to interview the leader of the British band Oasis.

Gallagher, 41, seemed relaxed, in good spirits and as cocky as ever Aug. 30 at the 'Dome. He had just run through a satisfactory soundcheck hours before the band's impressive show that evening and he was keen to talk up the group's latest disc Dig Out Your Soul, set to hit stores on Oct. 6.

But, according to his burly and quite jovial handler, the guitarist was most excited about playing Toronto's Virgin Festival on Sept. 7. Also on the bill that day was Welsh group Stereophonics and singer-songwriter Paul Weller, one of Noel's best friends, and it was indicated that when Oasis reunited with their mates they planned to "go a bit mad," as we might expect from the royal bad lads of British rock.

Those plans changed on the day of the gig when a fan tackled Noel onstage during Oasis's set, slamming him into a monitor speaker and breaking three of his ribs. Subsequently, the band wound up cancelling several weeks worth of shows through the end of September.

If there was a plus side to the incident, perhaps it was in forcing Noel and his younger sibling Liam, the thuggish 36-year-old singer in Oasis, to actually show each other a scrap of brotherly affection.

"I thought (Noel) had been stabbed," admitted Liam in an interview with MTV2. "It was f--king dark . . . but it could have been a lot worse. That's the way I look at it."

Liam, who had to be restrained from attacking Noel's assailant, added he vowed to protect his brother in the future. "It won't be happening again, I can assure you of that."

It was a different story in Calgary -- or, rather, the same old story between the eternally embattled brothers -- when Noel was interviewed backstage.

When it was noted, for example, that Liam's songwriting seemed to be improving with each record -- the singer wrote three of the 11 tracks on Dig Out Your Soul -- Noel was dismissive. "It's about time he got his thing down," he said. "I've been writing songs for this band since Day 1. He's been writing for three years. (Actually, it's more like eight. Liam's first song on an Oasis record was on 2000's Standing On The Shoulder of Giants)."

"He wants a pat on the back for that," Noel added with a smirk.

But when Oasis was formed in rough, working-class Manchester back in 1991, didn't Noel join his little brother's band on the condition that he would be the leader and the sole songwriter?

That's a myth, insists Noel. "In the beginning, we were all writing songs," he says. "It's just that I was writing more and mine were better than anybody else's, so everybody kind of took a back seat, which suited me. . . . It just so happens I've got this outrageous cross to bear. I'm extremely talented."

It isn't only Liam who's now contributing songs to Oasis albums either. On recent releases, including the new disc, guitarist Gem Archer and bassist Andy Bell have also notched up a few songwriting credits. It's been suggested that this has been to the detriment of the band -- that Noel is, and has always been, the brains and the driving force behind Oasis creatively -- and as such he should keep hold of the reins.

As far as being the dominant talent in the band, Noel couldn't agree more. "That's just a fact," were his exact words. But he's emphatic that he never wanted the responsibility of being the band's one guiding light.

"Everybody's got to make a contribution or I may as well go solo," Noel says. "I never wanted that. I always wanted to be in a real band. . . . (I was) f--kin' sick and tired of driving this car. I needed to live a little. From 1991 to 1999 . . . everybody else was getting drug habits and shagging supermodels and what was I doing? Writing f--king lyrics. . . . It was just too much."

Still, Noel continues to be the band's chief songwriter, writing more than half of Dig Out Your Soul, which takes Oasis in a heavier, more groove-laden direction than on their more recent efforts. As well, Noel's songs are almost always given a higher profile than those of his bandmates, being chosen as singles and dominating the Oasis live show.

Does Liam in particular, ever at odds with his brother, occasionally bristle at this? Should we expect him to one day break out on his own and release a solo record?

"He should do it, because he's got enough songs and they're good enough," Noel says. "But I don't think he ever will."

And why is that?

Noel's reply was delivered with a sneer. "Because he's a coward. You've got to have the balls and put 'em on the line . . . I think he likes the shield of Oasis."

If the Gallagher brothers' antagonistic attitude toward one another is an act, they deserve an Oscar. They truly do seem to dislike one another, with Liam giving as good as he gets. In recent interviews Liam has been quoted slagging his brother's singing voice (Noel takes lead vocals occasionally) and he bitterly told one journalist: "(Noel) wants to be me. I don't want to be him."

When I asked Noel if he'd ever consider writing a song with his brother, he scoffed: "We barely speak to each other let alone write f--king songs together."

It makes one wonder how they possibly function as a band, or otherwise. But then, their relationship has always been such, Noel says, going back to -- well, to Liam's birth apparently.

"I had my own room before he came along," says Noel, with a trace of sarcasm. "I had to share my room with him . . . and I've always resented him for that."

If there's one area where the Gallagher brothers have showed somewhat of a united front it's in their shared derision for the sort of art-school indie rock acts that are so embraced by critics -- the same critics who have frequently written Oasis off as a Beatles-obsessed retro band whose tunes are filled with vague, nonsensical lyrics.

"I don't consider myself to be a great lyricist," Noel admits. "But I often find the great lyricists are s--t songwriters. Pete Doherty is a great lyricist. Hum me one of his tunes right now. . . . There's (great songwriters who were also great lyricists) like John Lennon and Bob Dylan, but they're few and far between."

According to Noel, the press has never been overly fond of Oasis, even in the mid-'90s when they were hyped as the band that saved rock and roll (a claim the Gallaghers themselves made frequently, and with much amusing arrogance). "We were the best band in the world," Noel maintains. "You couldn't touch us between '94 and '96. No one could."

But Noel is quick to add that a huge part of the massive success Oasis enjoyed was timing, with the band coming along at the tail end of the grunge heyday, an era that largely took the fun out of rock, the guitarist believes. "It was just that nihilistic attitude towards life," Noel says with a look of distaste. "(Nirvana's) Kurt Cobain blowing his head off, for instance. Just divorce the b---h, man, don't kill yourself. . . . But we came along with a great album and our attitude was completely the opposite of where popular culture was at that time. . . . Things ebb and flow and it all goes in circles.

"Now, for instance, all that optimism of what the press then termed as 'Britpop' has been replaced with cynicism and all this art-school nothingness. But that was a reaction to what was going on in the '90s and it will change again."

While it was clear that Noel's ego remained mighty the week leading up to his injury in Toronto, he also seemed more grounded than when the band first stormed through North America in their younger days. "I know my limitations as a musician and a songwriter," he said, uncharacteristically humble. "(Oasis), we're not the best band in the world and we're not the worst. But regular people get us. . . . I assume it's because they can relate to us in some way, which still amazes me.

"More people get us in England than any other group, and the press -- because it's inhabited by middle-class art students -- finds that offensive in a way. Which I kind of like."

Heath McCoy

Source: The Calgary Herald

Why The Music World Needs Oasis

Posted by: Alan McGee

Turning 48 yesterday, I realised the only Creation band that I still get excited about is Oasis. And who wouldn't? The band contains two world-class songwriters, and two great ones, and their new release Dig Out Your Soul is truly tremendous. It's as if they have re-imagined their discography and made their true follow-up to What's the Story Morning Glory, completing the elusive and perfect rock'n'roll trilogy that began with Definitely Maybe.

The music world needs Oasis at this moment, a band with more personality and more amusing quips than any British band for at least 10 years. Throughout their history Oasis have captured the pop zeitgeist (and my personal zeitgeist) as a band that combine the best elements of the Beatles and Sex Pistols to emerge as this generation's Rolling Stones.

"Better than Morning Glory", has become many a critic's meme when reviewing post-Morning Glory Oasis albums, thrown into reviews in a random fashion as a desperate bid to return the band to the halcyon days of old. You know what? Dig Out Your Soul is the best Oasis album since What's the Story Morning Glory. Easy.

The signs were good when I met up with the Gallagher brothers last year in Los Angeles. We discussed music and, curiously, Noel told me how much he liked Glasvegas. I was surprised that he had heard of them at that point. The evening fell into typical Oasis debauchery: hanging out with Brody Dalle and Biffy Clyro and ending up in a dub club in east LA with Oasis participating in a stage invasion. The surreal nature of being Noel Gallagher must be bizarre. Noel, at his best, writes songs about pure escapism, northern ambition and transcending class culture, all in rock'n'roll Technicolor. The question is: "What do you do when you've achieved all your dreams?" You return to your youth and get back to who you were.

Dig Out Your Soul works because Noel has returned to the original inspiration of his youth for his songwriting. Definitely Maybe was about their dreams of rock'n'roll stardom, Morning Glory was about achieving the dream, Be Here Now was the coked-up aftermath, now Dig Out Your Soul is a glance to a psychedelic yesterday, again. For me, the past five post-Morning Glory albums never captured the magic of the first two. Songs from the past five albums had moments of pop reverberations and incredible songwriting, but were never complete statements. With Dig Out Your Soul, the notorious Oasis brothers have found their mojo. It's back, without a doubt.

Musically, it's a return to the grander ambitions and excess of before, with Noel stating: "But I kind of like fancy! I'd like to make an absolutely fucking colossal album. You know? Like literally two orchestras, stuff like that." Dig Out Your Soul is Oasis at their most baroque and Noel's pure pop ambition sits easily with his experimental side. The album oozes with confidence, and great songs.

Maybe it is their the lucky seventh album? The Beatles and the Stones released Revolver and Beggar's Banquet respectively, both were album number seven, and Dig Out Your Soul is on a par of with both in terms of classic songwriting. Or maybe it was his musical peer Paul Weller who inspired Noel to turn his back on Britpop and take a more eclectic direction after Weller's own opus of 22 Dreams? Noel Gallagher has said that Shock of the Lightning was the only song that had "Oasis single status" as the rest is far removed from the sound of Oasis.

I love the decision not to make the album freely available to download, as the Charlatans and Radiohead have. Noel's decision to release the sheet music and lyrics is very Noel; not encouraging free music, but encouraging kids to pick up guitars, learn songs and YouTube them. Or forming a personal army of New York City buskers to perform Dig Out Your Soul - and why not?

These songs are fantastic. From the opening Bag It Up, with the "freaks coming out through the floor", capturing the sound of drug psychosis; the Buffalo Springfield raga glam-stomp of Get Off Your High Horse Lady; the street-fighting vibe of Waiting for the Rapture, the Left Bank psychedelic baroqueness of To Be Where There's Life; the Dear Prudence lift on The Turning - Dig Out Your Soul is the sound of one of Britain's greatest bands at play.

Liam's soulful vocals are utter gems, no longer the one-take hooligan of before, he plays it like a psychedelic Elvis, underpinning the tracks with a commanding presence. Noel's vocal turn on Falling Down is one of the best tracks he has ever sang on. It is subtle, haunting, and full of pure Noel Gallagher magic.

I understand that openly admitting to liking Oasis is inviting confrontation, but you know what? Being an Oasis fan is never having to say I'm sorry. And I'm not. Leave saying sorry to the Coldplay imitators as their era of bedwetter music is over. It's only Glasvegas and Oasis for competition in this country. If you are in a band and are not artistically competing with the creative rock'n'roll genius of Oasis or Glasvegas, it's time to just stop and get off the treadmill. This is how rock'n'roll should be done in the United Kingdom today.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Oasis To Preview 'Dig Out Your Soul' On MySpace

Oasis will preview their forthcoming new album 'Dig Out Your Soul' online in its entirety tomorrow (October 1).

The album is not released in the UK until next Monday, but will be streamed in full on MySpace.

Fans will be able to listen to the album from midday tomorrow (BST) at the MySpace Music Page, where it will remain for the rest of the week.

Check out this week's NME for our verdict on 'Dig Out Your Soul', the band's seventh album.

The tracklisting is:

'Bag It Up'
'The Turning'
'Waiting For The Rapture'
'The Shock Of The Lightning'
'I'm Outta Time'
'(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady'
'Falling Down'
'To Be Where There's Life'
'Ain't Got Nothin''
'The Nature Of Reality'
'Soldier On'

Source: www.nme.com

Noel Gallagher At Xfm!

The Oasis guitarist and all-round rock legend will be chatting with Xfm London's Dave Berry live on Wednesday October 1. Find out how those ribs are...

With the new Oasis album due next week, Xfm are definitely mad fer it. And, to mark the occasion, Noel Gallagher will be dropping by Xfm London to sit in on Dave Berry's Drivetime Show from 4pm for a good old bit of banter. Expect some revelations about 'Dig Out Your Soul', those cancelled shows, and possibly a few digs at the rest of the musical universe.

And if you're not in London, or miss out, don't forget you can Listen Again to every Xfm show here.

What's more, Steve Harris will be playing some of those brand new Oasis tracks from 7pm throughout his Evening Show.

And while we're in the midst of total Oasis hysteria, get your Gallagher bros hat on and play our 'Beat The Intro' game right here.

Source: www.xfm.co.uk