Ryan Adams: "Tonight, i'll Be Liam Gallagher

Ryan Adams reveals his Stars In Their Eyes moment with Oasis and Liam's Yoda-like Advice

Ryan Adams has been getting advice from Liam Gallagher after filling in for him on Oasis' US tour.

Speaking to NME, the alt.country man revealed he got to live out every Oasis fan's - and his own - dreams of by fronting the band during a soundcheck.

Adams sang one song when he supported Oasis on their North American tour in August and September, just before Noel Gallagher was pushed over at the Canadian V Festival forcing the band to postpone several dates.

"There's only one kiss I can ever remember having that could outdo that moment," gushed Adams. "[It was] unbelievable like, 'Oh my God!' It was really something else!"

Adams explained that after his "work experience", Liam even had a few words of advice for him.

"Liam's very confident onstage and he noticed I can be shy, so we talked about it one day," recalled Adams. 'I said to Liam that sometimes he just stands there like he's holding his guard. He was like, "I'm embracing it, I'm letting it happen to me and I'm letting it in; I'm holding a moment'. In that very moment Liam gave me a gift he'll never know. I tried it in my own show and I had the best show I've ever had, simply because of what he told me. It's wonderfull to be learning from them, to see them keep evolving."

Source: NME Magazine

Pictures Of The 1st Night Of The Oasis UK Arena Tour

A few of my own pictures from the gig in Liverpool last night, I will add all the others later today to the Dig Out Your Soul Tour Fan Archive.

If you went to this show or any of the other upcoming shows email in your pictures to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will add them to the archive.

Oasis Star Returns After Attack

Oasis star Noel Gallagher, who was attacked on stage a month ago, has shaken off his injuries to launch the band's UK tour in Liverpool.

Gallagher suffered three broken and dislodged ribs when a fan pushed him over at a festival in Canada.

A string of gigs had to be cancelled, but he showed no obvious signs of his injuries at the Liverpool Echo Arena.

The gig came as the band found out that their new album Dig Out Your Soul sold 90,000 copies in the UK in one day.

That makes it the fastest-selling album of the year so far, according to Music Week magazine.

At the Liverpool gig, Noel did not mention the incident in September when a fan ran across the stage and pushed him onto his monitor speakers.

He did not appear to be having any trouble, but he did stay on the sidelines for much of the show, leaving brother Liam to swagger and showboat to the raucous crowd, and to sing all but four of the 21 songs.

"I thought he was a bit quiet tonight," said one fan, Dave Booth, of Noel. "I didn't think he sung as much as I thought he would, but he was top class. Can't have no complaints."

The attack was mentioned by boxer Ricky Hatton, who introduced the band.

"Anyone jumps up tonight, they'll have me to deal with," he told the crowd.

'The people's favourites'

The show mixed classic anthems like Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova and Cigarettes and Alcohol with material from the new album.

Judging by the reaction of the 10,000-strong audience, Oasis still have a strong claim to the title of the biggest band in Britain.

"Oasis are back," said Craig Coats, 25, from Durham.

"Oasis have always been the best band and they always will be, they've come up with some new material, they've done a concert and they've pulled it off.

"Oasis will always be our favourites - the people's favourites."

"No matter what anyone says, the new album rocks," said David Jones from Liverpool. "The place was bouncing."

Another fan, Steve Woosey, 40, from Runcorn, described the show as "absolutely fantastic."

"Oasis are just the best - other than Pink Floyd, they're best in the world. It was murder to get tickets, but we got them. Brilliant," he said.

Tickets for their 18 UK dates - their first British shows for 18 months - sold out in less than an hour when they went on sale in August.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Oasis's Liam Gallagher Wants To Make Noel's Attacker "Eat His Own Dick"

While the world waits to see what happens to Pickering, ON's Daniel Sullivan, the man who physically assaulted and broke the ribs of Noel Gallagher onstage at last month's Virgin Festival in Toronto, Oasis front-man Liam Gallagher has said what he would do to the man if it were up to him.

Speaking with Sky News, Liam confessed: "It's not nice when you look down and see your brother on the deck. If it was up to me, I'd have cut his [the attacker's] dick off and made him eat it."

Oasis released their seventh album, Dig Out Your Soul, yesterday (October 7), the same day they began their UK tour in Liverpool. The band are set to make up their postponed London, ON date at the John Labatt Centre on December 15.

Meanwhile, the 47-year-old Daniel Sullivan is due to appear in court on October 24.

Source: www.exclaim.ca

Oasis Kick Off World Tour In Liverpool

Keep checking back into this post for the setlist as it's played:

Ricky Hatton introduces the band on stage

F**king In The Bushes

Rock N Roll Star

Lyla

The Shock Of The Lightning

Cigarettes And Alcohol

Meaning Of Soul

To Be Where There's Life

Waiting For The Rapture

The Masterplan (Full Band, not Acoustic)

Songbird

Slide Away

Morning Glory

Ain't Got Nothing

The Importance Of Being Idle

i'm outta time

My Big Mouth

Wonderwall

Supersonic

Don't Look Back In Anger (Acoustic)

Falling Down

Champagne Supernova

I Am The Walrus

"Goodnight Liverpool"

Club NME To Give Away Rare Oasis Records

Oasis are set to give away a slew of prizes through upcoming Club NME club nights, where their new album 'Dig Out Your Soul' is set to be aired in full.

At each club night fans will be able to win an Oasis mini amp plus rare 12-inch vinyl promos of the band's songs 'The Shock Of The Lightning' and 'Falling Down'.

At the start of each night 'Dig Out Your Soul' will be played in full.

The Oasis playbacks and giveaways will take place at:

Bristol Croft (October 7)
Brighton Coalition (8)
Hitchin Remix (9)
Doncaster Priory (10)
Swansea Sin City (10)
Hull Welly (11)

Source: www.nme.com

Oasis Dig Out Huge First-Day Sales For New Album

Oasis have claimed one of the fastest first-day sales of the year, with their new album Dig Out Your Soul selling nearly 90,000 units during its first day of business.

The Big Brother-issued album up to yesterday was outselling the present number one, Hand Me Down/Columbia act Kings of Leon’s Only By The Night, by nearly five units to one. The Kings of Leon album itself only three weeks ago achieved one of 2008’s best first days when it opened with just under 80,000 sales.

The Oasis retrospective Stop The Clocks, also released by Big Brother through Sony BMG, should make a return to the Top 40 this weekend, moving up from its present chart position of 34.

The new Oasis album is expected to be joined in the Top 10 this coming Sunday by Columbia’s new Bob Dylan set Tell Tell Signs – Bootleg Series Vol 8. The last Bootleg album reached 21 in September 2005, the highest chart placing to date for the series.

Around new entries from Oasis and Dylan, the current chart is set to shuffle around with last Sunday’s big new entries at two and three, 19/RCA act Will Young’s Let It Go and Polydor act James Morrison’s Songs For You Truths For Me, both likely to move down a place when the new chart is unveiled.


Slam Dunk Records signings You Me At Six are challenging for a Top 20 debut, while the chart will also welcome in a new entry from The Clash, The Sony BMG-issued Live At Shea Stadium, and a Chicane retrospective, which is released through independent Modena.

While they are almost certainties to top the albums chart, Oasis on singles can probably say goodbye to their attempt to head the chart with The Shock Of The Lightning, which debuted at three on Sunday but is now slipping down. It continues to be outsold by the current number one, LaFace/RCA act Pink’s So What, which still leads the market this week, and the Kings of Leon hit Six On Fire, but Oasis have now been overtaken by Island act Sugababes’ Girls.

A&M/Polydor signings The Courteeners are in a two-way battle with B Unique/Polydor’s Kaiser Chiefs for highest new entry honours, although both their new tracks – That Kiss and Never Miss A Beat – are almost certainties for Top 10 placings.

Hard2Beat’s Platnum’s latest single Love Shy (Thinking About You) has so far gained around 70% in sales from last week following its physical debut on Monday. Meanwhile, new entry activity within the Top 40 this coming weekend should include Relentless/Virgin’s Cage The Elephant and Fiction/Polydor’s Snow Patrol.

Source: www.musicweek.com

Gallagher Brothers Wade Into Downloads Row

Rocker Liam Gallagher has hit out at music-lovers who download albums for free, insisting he does not want them as fans.

The Oasis frontman says the idea of giving away records on the internet "doesn't sit right with me" because it costs bands money to record.

And his brother Noel also waded into the row by comparing music company executives to "Wall Street idiots" who drive sports cars in the middle of the credit crunch.
Singer Liam tells USA Today newspaper, "This is my living. It costs me to make it, and it's going to cost you to buy it. If they won't buy it, I don't want them as our fans." Record company bosses estimate that illegal downloads cost the industry 25 per cent of profits.

But guitarist Noel insists executives are wrong to complain, because the lost money would only have been frittered away.
He adds: "That's what was spent on champagne and limos. It's good when record companies panic. They need to streamline. Just like these big banks going under, and those Wall Street idiots driving Ferraris. What about people who had a hurricane rip apart their community? That's real pressure, my friend."

Source: www.pr-inside.com

Oasis Reveal Proms Show Secrets

Oasis have explained why they are drafting in a choir for their forthcoming BBC Electric Proms show.

Noel Gallagher said the band decided to join forces with the Crouch End Festival Chorus because the "BBC like to do something special" for the event.

The band had the option to team up with Kasabian, but decided to work with a choir instead.

The Manchester quintet are due to close the five day festival at the London Roundhouse on 26 October.

Explaining his reasons for picking the choir Noel said: "Instead of wheeling Tom (Meighan) and Serge (Pizzorno) onstage and going through some Rolling Stones tunes, I said, 'When the crowd sing when I'm singing the big songs, you can never hear yourself sing anyway so why not take that and put that onstage?'.

"We thought let's not have a gospel choir dressed in black doing that dance that they do. Just have an everyman choir of normal everyday people in their own clothes that back us."

He also revealed that the band have axed Live Forever from the set of their UK tour, which kicks off at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Tuesday.

Noel Gallagher said: "Of course there's going to be a massive backlash. But if we were to play every song the fans demanded we'd be like Bruce Springsteen playing over three and a half hours."

He went on: "When I put the set together it was only our new drummer Chris (Sharrock) that noticed it.

"He said, 'Are we not going to do Live Forever?'. I was like, 'Do you know what? I hadn't even noticed'.

"I was like, 'Shall we do Live Forever?' and everyone was like 'I don't know. Do you miss it? I don't miss it'.

"One thing that annoys me about the live version of that is Liam refuses to sing the falsetto so it's quite ludicrous that we've got away with that for 10 years. Anyway all the fans can go and play it afterwards."

Despite leaving the famous track off, which is widely regarded as one of the 'greatest indie anthems' ever, Noel did confirm that the band would be playing a song from Be Here Now for the first time since the album's tour in 1997.

The guitarist also said that he was recovering well after he was injured by a fan at the V Festival in Canada last month.

He said: "I'm totally on the mend. I've been shown by my doctor how to do these funny little wiggles.

"It's called the camel and the cat where you get on all fours and you arch your back up.

"It's funny the osteopath was going, 'This one is called the camel and this one is called the cat'. I thought, 'I might sample that'.

"Seriously though, I can't wait. Liverpool will be the first night of the British tour and it'll be quite exciting."

Noel Gallagher was speaking to Radio 1's Zane Lowe.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Oasis UK Arena Tour Starts Today In Liverpool

Oasis' UK Arena tour kicks off at the Echo Arena in Liverpool tonight for the first two nights of the anticipated UK tour.

The tour then moves on to Sheffield, Birmingham, London, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Belfast, Aberdeen & Glasgow.

I'm going to the show tonight so I have scheduled in a post for 9PM (UK) tonight, I will edit the post and add the set list live from the show via my phone.

Noel told Zane Lowe last night that there will be one song from Be Here Now but no Live Forever, and it will be their longest ever set list.

We’re Still Better Than Oasis

Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson is unrepentant about kicking off a row with Oasis by saying his band were better.

He told me: “I really opened a can of worms when I started talking about Oasis.

“It’s like a game of tennis now and it’s showing no signs of stopping. But at least we’re selling some records.”

Ricky reckons the first two Oasis albums were top-notch but things have gone a bit downhill for Noel and the lads.

I can’t agree but hats off to him for his honesty.

Sorce: www.thesun.co.uk

Is Oasis about to 'Dig Out' another breakthrough?

A dozen years ago, a Rolling Stone cover trumpeted "Oasis have conquered America, and they won't shut up about it."

The British band has lost some U.S. ground since 1995's (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, but they're still mouthing off.

REVIEW: 'Dig Out Your Soul' is a delight

That breakthrough album sold 3.9 million copies, seven times the combined U.S. sales of the group's last three studio albums. The dip is surprising because Oasis is the best rock band on the planet, its singer says.

"I don't say that for the sake of saying it," Liam Gallagher says. "There are other good bands. They're not as good as Oasis."

If seventh effort Dig Out Your Soul, released today, doesn't light up the charts, Oasis will compensate with receipts from a U.S. tour starting Dec. 3 in Oakland.

"It's funny that it seems Oasis is under the radar in the U.S., since they're one of the very few British rock bands able to fill arenas here," says Spin editor Doug Brod. "Oasis will never sell millions of records like they once did, but then very few artists will."

Slumping CD sales inspire artists to test unconventional distribution, yet Oasis, proudly old-school in its artistic approach, is leery. The band did stream Dig on its MySpace page last week, and Liam says he'd consider marketing innovations "as long as it's not selling out, and we don't look like a bunch of desperados."

But the notion of giving away music "doesn't sit right with me," he says, branding Radiohead's tip-jar sale of its In Rainbows download a publicity stunt. "This is my living. It costs me to make it, and it's going to cost you to buy it. If they won't buy it, I don't want them as our fans."

His guitarist brother, Noel, isn't distressed by piracy losses, which he figures siphon 25% off industry profits.

"That's what was spent on Champagne and limos," he says. "It's good when record companies panic. They need to streamline. Just like these big banks going under, and those Wall Street idiots driving Ferraris. What about people who had a hurricane rip apart their community? That's real pressure, my friend."

He prefers to leave business decisions to his manager.

"If he told me to sign with Timbuktu, I'd do it," says Noel, recalling recent business meetings "so mind-numbingly boring that you'd want to kill yourself. I look after choruses. That's my job."

A month ago, Oasis began whipping up excitement with single The Shock of the Lightning and a string of Canadian dates. And suddenly, a different bolt.

"I remember singing the chorus of Morning Glory and then I was in a heap on the floor," says Noel, who'd been assaulted onstage during a Sept. 7 concert in Toronto. "I can't remember seeing the guy. I had a bad pain on the left side of my chest. I couldn't stand up. I thought I'd been stabbed."

Initially treated locally for severely bruised ribs, Noel was diagnosed in London with broken ribs. The tour was halted, and it resumes tonight in Liverpool.

"I'm a bit down in the dumps and pretty spaced out on painkillers," he says. "Two ribs broke at the spine, so it's almost like a broken back. They can't manipulate them into place until they've healed. Another four weeks. It's taken the wind out of my sails."

The attack "freaked me out," says Liam, who attempted to tackle the assailant. He's less sympathetic now. "It could have been a lot worse. He'll live. It's mostly in his head now."

The Gallagher brothers' onstage harmony and offstage bickering have filled England's music press since Definitely Maybe arrived in 1994.

"Liam still takes the rivalry thing a bit seriously," says Noel, 41. "It's real with him. I do tend to annoy him a great deal. I don't mind that. When we get off tour, the last thing I want is to have dinner with Liam, after having dinner with him 365 nights. I've got another life outside Oasis. We're not 21 anymore. We're not The Monkees."

They're in rare accord on this.

"We haven't got a relationship, only musically," says Liam, 36. "I think he's a great musician. He thinks I'm a great singer. Do people want us to hold hands and walk in the park and have little coffees?"

The pair also share a high regard for their seventh studio album, which is earning critical raves, including "the most begrudging positive review I've seen in my life, from a magazine (The Observer) that notoriously despises Oasis," Noel points out.

Though U.S. sales have eroded, the band has maintained a solid reputation for Beatlesque guitar pop and Who-sized hooks and defiance, newly cemented by Dig's melodicism and dense psychedelia.

Oasis "may not have the current artistic cred of, say, Radiohead, but you can't underestimate their appeal as a classic-rock act," Brod says. "Their first two albums are masterpieces and they've recorded songs, such as Live Forever and Wonderwall, that are now part of the rock canon. What shocked me the last time I saw them — headlining Madison Square Garden a couple of years ago — was that the crowd was full of college students who were (kids) during the band's heyday."

An atheist, Noel is at a loss to explain Dig's multiple religious references.

"I don't believe any of the stories in the Bible, but I do like the imagery," he says. "I wish there were people with wings living in the clouds. But I don't see the hand of God anywhere."

Noel, who wrote six of Dig's 11 songs and is sitting on another 30 demos and finished tracks, says he's eager to release a solo album, provided Liam and guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell also pursue outside projects. (The band's fifth member, drummer Chris Sharrock, replaced Zak Starkey in May.)

"The others would have to agree, and that's not going to happen," he says. "They cry, you see."

Liam counters: "Let him do one. He's a big boy. It's not in my blood. I want to be in a band. I don't aspire to be a Robbie Williams."

Nor does he compete with Noel's songwriting output. "I write if nothing's on TV," says Liam, who contributed I'm Outta Time, Ain't Got Nothin' and Soldier On to Dig. "I get my kicks singing."

Besides, free time has grown scarce in both households now that parental duties encroach on their rock 'n' roll lifestyles. Liam rises at 6 a.m. for a run before taking his kids to school.

"There are other things in my life besides Oasis, like that big pile of ironing," he says. "But once I'm on that stage, let's go, man. Let's ram that music down people's throats. I haven't changed a bit."

Being a dad "has changed my life outside of the band profoundly," Noel says. "It hasn't changed my work in any way. But when I'm bored in a hotel, I get my videophone out and look at my children and wish I was playing cops and robbers with them.

"I used to listen to music all day every day in my formative years. That time goes out the window. Show me someone who listens to Pink Floyd, I'll show you someone who doesn't have kids."

Though hardly homebody teetotalers, the Gallaghers have calmed down since their feral '90s, when Noel wrote the band's early albums under the influence of cocaine.

"Our lives were very boring," Liam says. "Obviously, if you take drugs to make music, you're an idiot."

These days, the two make more headlines spewing toxins than ingesting them. Noel in particular infamously blasts peers, most recently James Blunt, Mark Ronson, Keane, Bloc Party and Kaiser Chiefs, whom he dubbed "fat idiots."

"I've said worse and lived to tell the tale," he says.

He has been especially vocal lately about troubled Rehab singer Amy Winehouse.

"She's probably dying as we speak," he says. "That girl is a mess, and the people around her are vampires. Solo artists are easy prey. When we were at the height of our drug problem, we had each other to say 'It's gone too far.' She has no one."

Before anyone can accuse him of sympathy, he cracks, "I was never a fan, to be honest."

Source: www.usatoday.com

Noel Gallagher Interview With Zane Lowe

Noel Gallagher was interviewed by Zane Lowe tonight show on BBC Radio 1.

Click here to listen to the interview, it starts a hour into the show.

Tune in tommorow between 7-9PM (UK) for a exclusive interview with Liam Gallagher.

Oasis' Liam Gallagher On New Album: 'It Could Be Our Best

It should come as no surprise to Oasis fans that the British band's latest album - out Oct. 7 - sounds a whole lot like their past albums.

Liam Gallagher's nasally whine is there, as are the band's signature rock 'n' roll melodies and their not-so-subtle nods to the Beatles. As a result, Dig Out Your Soul is sure to be a welcome addition to the collection of any die-hard Oasis fan - of which there are plenty here in Canada, as evidenced by the thousands who turned up for the band's recent Canadian dates.

We sat down with Liam Gallagher at the end of August, a few hours before the band's show at GM Place, to talk about the new album and Oasis's place in the rock world.

Here are some excerpts from that conversation:

Q. How did it feel last night to play your first North American concert in years?

A. The crowds were great. You know what the first gig is like. You're jet-lagged and all that nonsense and it was a'right. It wasn't our best but we'll get there. People seemed to like it. I'll say it, we were a bit nervous with the new songs and stuff, to be quite honest. I was anyway. But there were bits of genius in there.

Q. Such as?

A. I don't know. We've done some good versions of songs.

Q. And the new album?

A. It's a'right.

Q. How does it rank for you among other Oasis albums?

A. It's the freshest one to date. So there are some good songs on there. Oasis is a different band from what it was 10 years ago and people got to realize that and I've got to realize that, and we're writing a different kind of music, but we're still writing good songs, I think. . . . It's good, man. I think it's a great record. It could be our best.

Q. You say Oasis is a different band. How so?

A. We're different people in the band, you know what I mean? We're getting older, you know what I mean? Musically, we're different. I think we're better.

Q. How?

A. Better technically, better at everything. I think we're a better band, man. Personally, we're better. Everything. Yeah man.

Q. You had a reputation for being very hot-headed. Have you cooled off?

A. It depends on the situation. If there's someone taking the f**king piss then I can go off, man. But if people are being cool, then I'm one of the sweetest guys in the world. Like I say, it depends on the situation. But I've chilled out a bit. I don't stay out drinking and doing all that nonsense any more because you can't and I don't want to. I don't have the energy for it.

Q. The Verve has a new album out. Between you and them, do you foresee a bit of a Britpop revival?

A. I hope not. I hated it the first time. It was rubbish. I don't like Britpop. That was the press getting smart and labelling ya. But I don't think the Verve are Britpop. I think Blur were Britpop and Supergrass were Britpop and all them, Menswear and bands like that . . . I think we were writing more deeper and special music than 'Girls who dig boys who dig girls.' You know what I mean? That kind of thing. No. I don't think we were Britpop.

Q. The title of the new album is Dig Out Your Soul. Where does that come from?

A. It comes from a lyric on [guitarist] Gem [Archer]'s song. And Noel was messing with a couple of titles - you'll have to ask him about 'em - but nothing seemed to stick. This one is sort of, you know, psychedlic and all that, you know, and you got to try hard man, to dig out your soul. Come on man, let's get in there, see what's there.

Q. How's the state of your soul?

A. My soul is just, absolutely, words can't describe it, man. And I'd hate to say the wrong words, but my soul is always magical, beautiful, challenging.

Q. How do you fuel it?

A. How do I feel it? My soul?

Q. No. How do you fuel it? Keep it going?

A. By not being a dick, man. And being cool, man. And being nice to people around you that you love and stuff like that. And by being a good person. Trying to be a good person. I am a good person.

Q. What are you hoping from this new album?

A. It's a magical album in my head and nobody can take that away from me regardless of whether it sells two copies, or two million copies or 20 million copies. It's already got its own life in my head. I'm very proud of it. I'm proud to be in a band with these guys and I hope they feel the same way. I'ts amazing, as far as I'm concerned. It'd be nice if people like it. I like it. But if you don't like it you don't like it. You can't force people to like your music.

Q. Do you have a favourite song on the album?

A. I like it all, man. I really like it all. Like it all. I mean [the songs I wrote] are pretty special and that, it's a personal thing. But I like 'em all man."

Source: www.vancouversun.com

Oasis Called Police To Remove Studio Lunatic

Rockers Oasis were forced to call in the police while recording new album Dig Out Your Soul - because a "lunatic" gained access to their studio and threatened to kill them.

The band locked themselves away in London's Abbey Road studios, made famous by the Beatles, to work on their seventh album.

But security was breached when a man arrived and made threats against their lives.
Singer/guitarist Noel Gallagher says, "There was an incident when some f**king lunatic turned up at the studio saying he'd written all the songs that we hadn't yet recorded.

The police had to be called - he threatened to kill us, although not (my brother) Liam, funnily enough."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Russell Brand: 'I'll Boost Oasis' New Album Sales By 50 Percent'

He is confident...

Comedian Russell Brand has joked that he'll help boost sales of Oasis' new album by 50% because he has provided a voiceover for the LP's promotional campaign.

Brand can be heard promoting 'Dig Out Your Soul', which was released today (October 6th), in television adverts.

The comedian was praised by Noel Gallagher when the Oasis guitarist appeared on Brand's BBC 2 Radio show last week.

Gallagher said Brand had done a “very, very good job” at creating some “funny” adverts – but he voiced doubts about how the voiceover might help album sales.

In reply, Brand said: “Well, I would say you can look forward to a 50% increase because a lot of people say this is the voice of a nation you're listening to now.”

Gallagher then said: “I somehow think that however many we sell, you're going to be pretty much taking the credit for it,” to which Brand replied: “I would say so. I'll be looking for some of that credit.”

Previous Oasis album campaigns have received voiceovers from Ricky Gervais and Ricky Tomlinson.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Oasis' Noel Gallagher: 'Marilyn Manson Is A Cool Geezer'

Oasis' Noel Gallagher has described Marilyn Manson as a “cool geezer” - but was less kind about the performer's music.

In an interview with MTV, Gallagher said he liked “everything” about Manson, “except his music”.

“I’ve got to say man, he’s a cool geezer,” Gallagher said.

The Oasis guitarist also gave similar praise to Biffy Clyro, calling them the UK's equivalent to the Foo Fighters. “They’re real top geezers,” he added.

Oasis release their new album 'Dig Out Your Soul' today. (October 6th). Their UK tour will begin tomorrow in Liverpool.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Oasis New Album 'Dig Out Your Soul In Stores Today

I'm popping along to my local record store to pick up the new album today...

‘Dig Out Your Soul’ was produced by Dave Sardy who worked with the band on 2005’s, ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’. It was recorded at Abbey Road and mixed in Los Angeles. All four band members once again contribute tracks.

The tracklisting for ‘Dig Out Your Soul’:

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

Big Brother Recordings also announced a few weeks ago that they will be making the new Oasis album, ‘Dig Out Your Soul’, available in two separate formats for download purchasers.

In addition to the full-length album, the band will be releasing a simple ten-track mp3 version for £5. This will be available from a variety of online stores and Oasisinet.

A spokesperson for the label said, "We want to give the fans more of a choice. If you just want to get the tracks you've heard on the radio and check out a bit more of the band's new music you can for a reasonable price".

The full-length version of the album will also be available at all online stores and for fans that buy it on Oasisinet.com & Itunes it comes with a half hour documentary on the making of the album.

This is the first time a new Oasis album has been made available on mp3 from release.

Finally, fans who pre-order 'Dig Out Your Soul' from iTunes will also receive a bonus track in the form of the Liam written ‘I Believe In All’ on day of release.

The Wit And Wisdom Of Noel Gallagher

She may not be mad for his music, but pop critic Fiona Shepherd reveres the wit and wisdom of Noel Gallagher

A couple of weeks ago Noel Gallagher, in his eternal, blokeish wisdom, produced a highly predictable list of the ten greatest rock bands of all time, noting with deliberately inflammatory prejudice that "no female artists" were "allowed". It wasn't his finest moment, but for sheer ignorance it paled next to his notorious response to the news that Jay-Z was headlining this year's Glastonbury Festival: "I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury," quoth he. "It's wrong."

Shame on you, Noel – you let your fans down, you let your band down, but most of all you let yourself down. Because we have come to expect better of rock's accidental sage.

Ever since the circulation of the Wibbling Rivalry tapes (featuring a hilarious, heated argument between Noel and younger sibling Liam) back in 1994, it has been clear that the Gallaghers give good quote and, now that Liam has decided he prefers jogging to skirmishing, it is Noel to whom we look for an entertaining rant.

He has exhibited a flair for stoking controversy ever since his notorious pronouncement that compared drug-taking to having a morning cup of tea. Often, his comments are just plain noxious – he has called Kylie "a demonic little idiot", proclaimed that The Backstreet Boys should be shot and was more than happy to stoke a bitter rivalry with Blur – in particular, frontman Damon Albarn – at the height of Britpop (yet has all the time in the world for a dullard like Richard Ashcroft).

I shouldn't be listening, but I am. Like many people, I would rather read an interview with Noel Gallagher than listen to his dreary music. His soundbites at least have the modicum of wit, spice and imagination that is lacking in his songwriting.

Gallagher has no aspirations to be either a Wildean wit or a spokesperson for a generation (and he has harsh words for those who would); instead, he just sounds-off prejudicially, like some guy down the pub – which is part of the appeal.

He can be off-puttingly boastful, once claiming that the only reason he is not the most lionised pop songwriter of them all is that The Beatles got there before him.

Most of the time (Jay-Z slight aside, I would hazard), he knows exactly what he is doing and what effect his remarks will have.

But sometimes he does actually make a judicious observation, such as his response to George Michael's Bush-bashing single Shoot the Dog – "This is the guy who hid who he actually was from the public for 20 years, and now, all of a sudden, he's got something to say about the way of the world? I find it laughable," he scoffed.

Ultimately, Gallagher doesn't take himself too seriously, and neither should we. Describing himself as "equal part genius, equal part buffoon", he at least shows self-awareness, if not grammatical and linguistic skill.

My favourite Noel Gallagher quote is a consummate distillation of his half-baked philosophy, wicked wit and downright irreverence – in sharing it, I can allow Noel to have the last word.

"Do you ever look at the sky and think, 'I'm glad I'm alive?'" he once pontificated. "After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time."

Source: www.thescotsman.co.uk

Oasis 'Dig Out Your Soul' Review

Oasis’s best records should be heard in bars, with lots of people talking and a game on the television. Its giant planes of guitar sound and Liam Gallagher’s slow-motion nasal burr — one of the great British sounds — complement the petty emotions and electronic hum that surround us in public places; the songs’ lyrics, trivial and social, keep time sliding along. Any bar will do, though Oasis albums since “Standing on the Shoulder of Giants,” from 2000, might go better in a wine bar. The songs would fit the clientele: slower, more self-conscious, less invincible.

But “Dig Out Your Soul,” the group’s seventh studio album, should be heard in a really good stereo showroom: an extraordinary one with high-end stuff, and where the salesmen might let you have beer and chips while you listen. Produced by Dave Sardy, the record is an interior trip, rich with guitar and voices and organs and keyboards, some of the sonic layers scuffed and some clear as water. You get the full measure of the sound because the songs stay in single chords for longer. It’s an expensive record valorizing the drone.

It sounds so good; really, it sounds better than it is. Noel Gallagher, the band’s guitarist and principal songwriter, wrote half the album and the best of its droney tracks: “Bag It Up,” “The Shock of the Lightning,” “(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady.” They all go down in the first half, and they’re not fascinating; they don’t particularly show off his skill for the unexpected chord change. As ambitious as it is in the experience of sound and groove, “Dig Out Your Soul” is unambitious in songwriting content.

It’s derivative too — mostly, and unsurprisingly, of the Beatles, the Gallaghers’ favorite band. There are small echoes of many post-“Revolver” Beatles songs: sharp, pinpointed references, specific sounds on specific guitar chords, piano figures, and drum rhythms played by Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr’s son. (A nearly inaudible clip of a John Lennon interview, from shortly before his death, rustles through the background of Liam Gallagher’s ballad “I’m Outta Time.”) But it doesn’t stop at the Beatles: “High Horse Lady” welds together David Essex’s “Rock On” and Tommy Tucker’s “High Heel Sneakers.”

These songs are heavy with thoughts about time. They’re mildly philosophical, but not so spiritual that they would make you put down the beer and chips. “The Nature of Reality” is, offhandedly, about the nonexistence of objective truth. And “Soldier On,” with its endless-march feeling borrowed from the end of “I Am the Walrus,” is pure stiff-upper-lip: “Who’s to say that you were right and I was wrong/Soldier on/Come the day, come the night, I’ll be gone/Soldier on.” BEN RATLIFF

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