Noel Gallagher popped into Absolute Radio with Christian O'Connell live in the world famous Abbey Road Studios today!
Click here to listen to the interview.
Source: Absolute Radio
Noel Gallagher Interview From Absolute Radio
Noel Gallagher popped into Absolute Radio with Christian O'Connell live in the world famous Abbey Road Studios today!
Click here to listen to the interview.
Source: Absolute Radio
Oasis: "We Used Toy Instruments To Record 'Dig Out Your Soul''
It looked hilarious' says Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher has revealed that the sitar used on 'Dig Out Your Soul' album track 'To Be Where There's Life' cost just £12.50.
The Oasis guitarist joked that the instrument wasn't even a genuine sitar - it was a child's toy.
Speaking on Oasis' new 'Gold & Silver & Sunshine - The Making of 'Dig Out Your Soul'' documentary, Gallagher said of the sitar: "You know it's not a real one? It's a toy electric one, a plastic one.
"They're shaped like a sitar, and they've got a speaker on the front. You switch it on and you pick the key, and you leave it there!"
Speaking about the techniques used to record the instrument during Oasis' time in the famous Abbey Road studios in north London, Gallagher explained: "We had it in The Beatles' echo chamber, which is like this tiled room where they’ve got all the reverbs.
"It looked hilarious. In this really famous room is this little tiny plastic sitar with this massive mic that's worth about £50,000. And the sitar's worth about £12.50..."
Source: www.nme.com
Upcoming Bonehead Shows And New Pictures
Upcoming Shows
Oct 31 2008: The Mill, Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Mansfield
Nov 01 2008: Brixton Jamm, Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. DJ set after show. London
Nov 03 2008: Crawdaddy, Dublin
Nov 04 2008: Cleeres Kilkenny
Nov 05 2008: Forum Ireland, Waterford
Nov 06 2008: The Crane Galway, Galway
Nov 07 2008: The Thatch Tullamore
Nov 08 2008: Spirit: Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Carlisle, Northwest
Nov 12 2008: TBC Liverpool, Northwest
Nov 14 2008: The Attic. Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Accrington, Northwest
Nov 15 2008: The Ironworks. Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Oswestry.
Nov 21 2008: Carling Academy 2. Newcastle, Northeast
Nov 22 2008: Pivo Pivo. Live Acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Glasgow.
Dec 05 2008: The Studio @ The Roundhouse. D.j. Set. Plus The Vortex, Big Arm and Domino Bones playing live London, South
For more information on Bonehead and what he's up to visit his official myspace page here.
Photos taken at Kro Bar in Heaton Moor, Stockport by Damian Morgan for more information visit www.brave-music-agency.co.uk
Thanks to Damian Morgan
Oasis Returns To Denmark
Oasisinet is pleased to announce Oasis' return to Denmark. The band will be performing at Copenhagen's Falkoner Theatre on Saturday 8th November. It will mark the first time the band have performed in the country since their gig at Valby Hallen on 21st October 2005.
Tickets for the show go on sale at 10am on October 6th through http://www.billetlugen.dk, (+45) 70 263 267 and at Fona Shops nationwide.
Source: www.oasisinet.com
Oasis Offer Stage To Local Band At Echo Arena
An unknown Liverpool band was invited by Oasis superstar Noel Gallagher to play in front of sell-out crowds at the ECHO arena.
The Sixteen Tonnes, who have never played for an audience bigger than a few hundred people, were handpicked by Gallagher to appear when the UK tour starts in Liverpool on Tuesday.
The guitarist and songwriter phoned singer Danny Roberts, who also plays guitar and harmonica for his band, and asked what the three-piece had planned for October.
The Sixteen Tonnes, also made up of bassist Anthony Foley, 25, of Hoylake, and drummer Danny Rogers, 22, of Aigburth, will now play at the 10,600-seater arena on October 7 and 8.
Roberts, 28, of Liverpool city centre, said: “I got a phone call from Noel about two months ago. He asked what we were up to and if we would be up for doing the shows in Liverpool.
“He was not sure of the date at first, but asked if we would be ready for October. I found out the first night would be my birthday.
“I probably would have gone to watch the gig, but now we are supporting them. It is mad – Noel is the guy who inspired me to pick up a guitar.”
Oasis will play in Liverpool to promote their new album, Dig Out Your Soul.
The rockers have always had close links with the city, the home of their heroes, The Beatles.
Roberts, a former Alsop high pupil, got to know Gallagher through his previous band, blues guitar duo The Hokum Clones.
He said: “I know what he is like about Liverpool. He loves The Beatles and comes to town a lot to see local bands.
“Noel is a proper down-to-earth guy.
Source: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
What's The Story Morning... Jogging?
Because it's Pop Montreal, and because I feel like it, and because it's not every day that you get to sit down face to face with, as a friend so succinctly said, one of "The World's Greatest Living Englishmen," this week's instalment will skew towards topics musical. Namely, Liam Gallagher of Oasis, once (self) described as the greatest rock band on the planet. And for a time they probably weren't wrong.
Their Bell Centre performance Sept. 5 certainly supported that contention, awe-inspiring clinic in classic rock songwriting that it was, and only the third time the Mancunians had set foot in Montreal since their formation in 1991. It followed a phenomenal 1995 private showcase for about 300 folks at the old Club Soda (during which Gallagher never took his eyes off the ceiling or his hands out of his pockets) and an uneven 2002 Molson Centre show that typified the group's malaise at the time.
Oasis could be poised for resurgence - as much as any formerly 50-million-album selling artists are poised for resurgence in the new reality of the music industry - on the strength of their seventh album, Dig Out Your Soul. But has the band embraced the new business?
"Well you'd have to ask my money, I don't do business," says Gallagher unapologetically. "I just go up and do the thing. I sing, man. The minute I start getting involved in business is a damn sad day for rock'n'roll... I don't get involved in none o' that shit."
Gallagher is similarly unperturbed when it comes to illegal file sharing
of their music.
"It doesn't really piss me off. I'd prefer it if they paid for it and all that, but I'm not in it to make money to be quite honest - I'm in it to not be fucking working in a fucking McDonald's, y'know what I mean? ...If people fuckin' sting you for a bit, who gives a fuck? I've got enough money."
Which for some reason reminds me that on the way to the Bell Centre, I was figuring I had a moral obligation to scrap him. Two battle-tested vets from opposing sides of the music tracks in an interview room cage match. And then I got a close-up look at him whilst sitting down, both of us leaning forward on our knees, his face about 12 inches away from mine. Oddly, it was right around then I had an abrupt change of heart. The guy is a monster. And by that I mean in frighteningly top shape, cannons for arms and broad across the back. In short, not the vaporous, coke-eroded beer fart I'd misled myself to believe. And there is a reason for that.
"I've gotten into running, which I never used to do," Gallagher says with something shockingly akin to enthusiasm. "If I've not been drinking, I'll get up at about 6 in the morning and I'll run about fuckin' 10 miles, come back, take the kids to school. That's what I do, man."
Indeed he does. Park-goers on the mountain a few weeks ago would have been treated to an uncommon sight. "I went for a run up to the top of Mont Royal," he says.
While the fitness fanaticism certainly runs counter to popular preconception, so does his assertion that he - who at one time seemed genetically predisposed to bailing on shows - actually loves performing live.
"What? Because I don't walk around with a big sticker on my head sayin', 'I'm having a great night, and are you all having a great night? Woo-hoo! Can I have some fuckin' crowd activities?'" he snaps back.
"There's enough fucking bands going on stage and yapping at the crowd. I wouldn't be there if I weren't having a good time, believe you me. But it's just the way I am, man - I'm not fucking Cliff Richard, and I'm not fucking Dave Grohl. I'm Liam Gallagher and I just want to sing my songs."
And speaking of songs, the new single, The Shock of the Lightning, shows Oasis back in fighting form. "To me it's the Sex Beatles. People used to compare us to The Beatles and The Sex Pistols and I think that song's about as close as you're going to get to that."
It's all Christmas tree and no ornaments.
"It's the meat and veg isn't it? I mean, that's the kind of music we like to make. It's nothing new, it's all been done before, it's simple rock'n'roll music. You either like it or you fuckin' hate it, and I hope it's one or the other and nowhere in between."
While the writing has evolved, Gallagher's distant singing style hasn't changed even minutely from the days when I first saw him at Club Soda. And, to hear him tell it, there's more craft than contempt in his posturing.
"I get a bit more power from my voice [standing that way]. Holding microphones is like fucking bingo calling: 'Hey fuckin' N 60.' It's like, fuck that. That's just the way it is. Plus I'm not a dancer, man - I just don't dance."
At the end of the day, Gallagher comes off as a man at peace, self-satisfied even.
"I am pretty self-satisfied,' he concurs. "I've done okay, I'm cool. I just want to be the biggest band in the world. It's not all about selling records, that's kind of old. I just want people to come and see us and enjoy it and get what we are. And what we are is no-frills. I'm sick of guys jumpin' around with fuckin' makeup on acting like women. It's like, fuck off, just fuckin' nail it."
Source: www.hour.ca
Older But Still Mad For It – And Back On Form
4 Stars Out Of 5
Being an Oasis fan has always drawn parallels with supporting a football team: the laddish chant-along anthems, the Gallagher brothers' Man City affiliation, the ups, downs and serious tensions ever since they became major players in the mid-1990s.
Certainly, the fighting spirit that sealed their status as Britpop's bad boys has long since softened, yet there's enough bracing, melodic energy on their latest single, The Shock Of The Lightning – and this seventh studio album as a whole – to make this album sound like a triumph.
Liam Gallagher apparently claimed that Dig Out Your Soul was 'the easiest album we've ever made' - typical Gallagher swagger, but it is true that this is the most easily enjoyable Oasis record for ages, simply because it doesn't strain to rival anything else.
It's just heavily groove-based, chock-full of fuzz guitars and stomping drums on Bag It Up, and surprisingly plaintive on I'm Outta Time.
Oasis have mellowed with age, in the sense that they've become hippies who are still up for a scrap. They'll never be the hippest bucks on the scene again, but they've reached the stage where they're in a league of their own.
Source: www.metro.co.uk
On This Day In Oasis History...
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(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis, released on October 2 1995. The album went straight to #1 in the UK, selling 347,000 copies in its first week. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? spawned four hit singles in the UK, two of which were #1s. It sold over 19 million copies worldwide, including over 4.3 million copies in the UK, 14x platinum, and is currently the third biggest-selling album in UK chart history. Morning Glory has gone 4x platinum in the United States In addition, the singles "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova" went Gold in the United States.
The album, which was recorded in less than two weeks, contains arguably the band's two most famous songs, "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back in Anger", along with "Champagne Supernova" and their first UK #1 single, "Some Might Say".
In 1997 Morning Glory was named the 5th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q magazine readers placed it at number 8, and in 2000 it achieved the same position in Q's list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. The editors of Q magazine declared it the "album of the decade" in 1999. The readers of Q placed it seventh on the 2006 top 100 greatest albums of all time list. In 2003, the album was ranked number 376 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
History
The success of Morning Glory catapulted Oasis from being a successful Britpop band to being one of the biggest bands in Britain, with substantial international fame, and considerable press coverage in the mainstream and music press. The band played several massive open air concerts in the UK during 1996, which included two nights at Knebworth in front of a combined audience of 250,000 people (125,000 each night), with over 2.5 million applying to buy tickets.
Tracklisting
01: "Hello" (Gallagher/Glitter/Leander) – 3:21
02: "Roll with It" – 4:00
03: "Wonderwall" – 4:19
04: "Don't Look Back in Anger" – 4:48
05: "Hey Now!" – 5:41
06: Untitled (aka "The Swamp Song - Excerpt 1") – 0:43
07: "Some Might Say" – 5:31
08: "Cast No Shadow" – 4:52
09: "She's Electric" – 3:40
10: "Morning Glory" – 5:03
11: Untitled (aka "The Swamp Song - Excerpt 2") – 0:41
12: "Champagne Supernova" – 7:27
Notes:
* Tracks 6 and 11 are officially untitled. In fact, the track listing bears no title whatsoever for these songs, merely a blank space.
* The excerpts from "The Swamp Song" are parts of the instrumental B-side to the "Wonderwall" single.
* The vinyl LP edition of the album features a bonus track, "Bonehead's Bank Holiday". This song appears as the 7th track on the album, immediately after the 43-second untitled track.
* "Step Out" had to be removed from the album at the last minute. The song, sung by Noel, was intended to have been the original track 8 (after "Some Might Say" and before "Cast No Shadow"), but was removed as the chorus was similar to the chorus of Stevie Wonder's 1965 track "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". Wonder's publishing company were alleged to have demanded a substantial amount of royalties from the album which Oasis weren't prepared to pay, so the track was removed, although not before the first promotional copies of the album had been released with "Step Out" included. The track was eventually released as a B-side on Oasis' 1996 single "Don't Look Back in Anger", with an amended song writing credit of 'Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/May', and was included on the live album Familiar to Millions.
Singles
"Some Might Say"
Released: 24 April 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #3 (IRE)
"Roll with It"
Released: 14 August 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #2 (UK), #2 (IRE)
"Morning Glory" (AUS only)
Released: 15 September 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #25 AUS, #24 U.S. Modern Rock Chart
"Wonderwall"
Released: 30 October 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #2 (UK), #8 (U.S.), #1 U.S. Modern Rock Chart (10 Weeks)
"Don't Look Back in Anger"
Released: 19 February 1996
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (IRE), #10 U.S. Modern Rock Chart, #21 (U.S.)
"Champagne Supernova" (AUS and US only)
Released: 13 May 1996
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #26 (AUS), #20 (US), #1 U.S. Modern Rock Chart (5 Weeks)
Miscellanea
"Hello" contains elements of Gary Glitter's "Hello Hello I'm Back Again" as Liam jokingly sings part of the song's chorus when the song begins to fade out.
On the cover of the album a man is seen brandishing what looks to be a vinyl record in its sleeve. This is in fact the master tape for the album. The man in question is Owen Morris, the producer. The photo was taken on Berwick Street in Soho, a London street well known for its independent record shops. The other man is BBC London's Sean Rowley.
Source: Wikipedia
Oasis On Gonzo Preview
Another preview of the big interview Oasis done for Gonzo with Zane Lowe for MTV2
The full interview will be broadcast on MTV2 on October 6th at 9pm
Source: Youtube
And The Winner Of The People's Choice Awards For Best Music Blog Is?
We have won The People's Choice Awards for Best Music Blog at the 2008 BT Music Awards.
A huge thanks to every single one of you that visit the blog and has voted for us over the last few weeks.
Thanks to Stevie Riks for the acceptance speech...
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What's Your Most Spinal Tap Moment?
Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Gibbons, Angus Young and more share their most insane rock-and-roll stories ever!
Noel Gallagher of Oasis
People associate us with excess, but the only time I’ve actually been out of it onstage was in Philadelphia. I was plastered that night—truly fuckin’ drunk. During the first song, I made some Kiss-style “look at my giant phallic ax” gestures. The crowd loved it. I thought, Only in America. I continued in this vein, taking the piss, playing guitar solos with my tongue and all, and the fuckers loved it. That’s the only time Oasis were truly Spinal Tap. Well, it’s the only time I admit we were, anyway.
Earlier on, when I was a roadie with Inspiral Carpets, they played a show in Reading [England], where they had, for one reason or another, a replica of a cow onstage. They demanded I sucked one of its udders onstage during one song. I was too young and intimidated at the time, so I didn’t dare refuse. If I remember correctly, my girlfriend broke up with me on the spot because she thought I looked a real cunt.
Read the rest of them here.
Source: www.guitarworld.com
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
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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
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