Oasis To Play Slane Castle Next Summer

Oasis are to play Slane Castle next summer. The official announcement will be made today but thanks to leaks on online bulletin boards and blogs, the vast majority of Irish music fans already know.

Promoters MCD will make the announcement at a press conference at the Co Meath venue today, to be attended by the band's Noel Gallagher.

Slane was the country's most illustrious live music venue during the 1980s and early 1990s when it attracted sell-out crowds for such megastars as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Guns 'N' Roses.

But the rise in popularity of festivals like the Electric Picnic and Oxegen due to the changing tastes of music fans have meant that Lord Henry Mountcharles's big field has seen less and less rock'n'roll action this decade.

Recent visitors included the Rolling Stones, who appeared there in 2007, and Madonna who played on the banks of the Boyne three years before that.

However, quiet summers chez Mountcharles have not prevented an annual spate of speculation about just who might play there.

One of the acts long mooted to be Slane-bound were Australian metal veterans AC/DC, who have just announced a show at Dublin's 02 for April 18th next.

Oasis previously appeared at Slane in 1995 when they supported REM. That was when the band were relative newcomers plugging their second album (What's the Story) Morning Glory ? They've just released their seventh album Dig out your Soul which many critics have hailed as a return to form after a string of poorly received, patchy records.

The band have been ubiquitous in recent weeks, with the Gallagher brothers Noel and Liam speaking to seemingly every media outlet who will take their call.

Speaking to The Irish Times earlier this month, Noel Gallagher talked about his Irish background.

"I clearly remember my mam saying to me and my two brothers when we were growing up: 'You're only English because you were born here'. And with a mother from Mayo and a father from Co Meath, there's not a drop of English blood in me. I feel as Irish as the next person."

Source: www.irishtimes.com

Paul Weller: I Saw Noel Gallagher Attacked

Paul is a man who's been in the right place at the right time throughout his career.

And that was true when he saw Oasis on the night Noel Gallagher was shoved over by a stage invader.

He said: "I was standing right by the side of the stage and it was so quick I didn't even see it happen - but I saw the commotion afterwards."

Noel was assaulted and pushed into a monitor by a crazed Canadian at the gig at V Festival in Toronto on September 7.

But such was the speed of events that the full scale of what went on only became apparent afterwards.

A shocked Paul confessed: "I didn't see the geezer come out - it was that quick! I didn't know what had happened until straight after."

But despite the assault, Weller reckons that Oasis played one of the best shows of their lives that evening.

He said: "They still played an incredible gig that night. That was one of the best times I've ever seen them. They were on fire. They were f***ing great."

People have been agreeing that Oasis are back on form after a few years of treading water - and the same could be said about Weller.

With latest album 22 Dreams, he's got the stamp of critical approval and a new audience of fans eager to hear his more experimental material.

Paul said: "I worked with Noel Gallagher on this record but that wasn't what was planned - it just happened. I do like the new Oasis album. I like bits of it an awful lot. They've tried to take it on a bit. "

On his own new songs, Paul said: "I wanted to make something different, just for my own sake. I wanted to play with the sound and try and take the music somewhere else. Just to make it interesting for myself, to see what's out there."

Read the rest of the interview here.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Oasis Tipped To Play Slane Castle

Brit superstars Oasis are being lined up to perform a monster gig in Slane Castle next summer.

It's expected that one of the UK's hottest acts will shortly confirm they'll be rocking the famous venue owned by Lord Henry Mount Charles with a one-off performance.

The acclaimed Manchester brothers, Noel and Liam Gallagher, are rumoured to have a 'masterplan' to play the Meath venue in the middle of 2009 as part of their 18-month long tour.

The part-Irish Wonderwall stars are currently performing a sell-out tour of the UK and will perform in Belfast at the end of the month.

Yet it's widely rumoured in showbiz circles that they'll be coming back to Ireland to perform a massive gig in the venue, which can cater to up to 100,000 music fans.

Given that lead guitarist Noel has indicated that the lads will pursue their own solo projects at the end of their present tour, tickets for their Irish concert are expected to sell like hot cakes.

Irish concert promoters MCD are hosting a press conference at the Meath venue tomorrow at which they will announce details of Slane 2009.

Source: www.herald.ie

New Noel Gallagher interview

Oasis star Noel Gallagher speaks about music and touring ahead of a series of gigs at the NIA in Birmingham.

Watch a short video here, watch the extended interview with Oasis star, Noel Gallagher ahead of a gig in Birmingham here.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

More On Alberta Cross

Alberta Cross are re-releasing their EP 'The Thief And The Heartbreaker' on 20th October, the very day they kick off support dates with Oasis.

The duo will join Oasis on four of their arena shows, in Bournemouth and Cardiff, with a headline show in London squeezed in the middle, 22nd October, at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen.

Source: www.clickmusic.com

Paul Weller: 'Oasis Played Best Show Ever Despite On Stage Attack'

Paul Weller has said he believes Oasis' recent performance at a festival in Canada, which was marred by an on stage attack, was one of the best he has ever seen.

Guitarist Noel Gallagher sustained three broken ribs after a fan pushed him from behind during the band's performance at the Virgin Festival.

Weller, who was also performing at the event, said he was at the side of the stage when the attack took place but didn't see it happen.

"I didn't see the geezer come out - it was that quick! I didn't know what had happened until straight after,” he told the Sun newspaper.

Weller added that, despite the attack, he still felt the band played “an incredible gig”.

“That was one of the best times I've ever seen them. They were on fire. They were fucking great,” he added.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Oasis Live At Wembley

Oasis' performance at Wembley on Thursday 16th October will be broadcast live in the UK on MTV One from 21:00. The gig will be repeated on TMF on Saturday 18th October @ 21:00.

Highlights from the gig will be available to watch online from Friday at MTV

The gig will also be available to view internationally:

MTV Brazil: Friday 21st November
MTV Denmark: Sunday 19th October @ 23:00
MTV European: Thursday 16th October @ 21:00
MTV Finland: Sunday 19th October @ 23:00
MTV France: Thursday 16th October @ 21:00
MTV Germany: Saturday 18th October @ 20:00
MTV Holland: Friday 17th October @ 23:55
MTV Italy: Friday 17th October
MTV Japan: Wednesday 22nd November @ Midnight
MTV Spain: Saturday 18th October @ 21:00
MTV Sweden: Sunday 19th October @ 23:00

Keep checking your local TV listings as more broadcasts and countries are to be announced...

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Review: Oasis At Birmingham NIA - Setlist!

Tonight, I’m a rock’n’roll star. Never was a truer word said.

The brothers Gallagher returned to Birmingham’s NIA on Monday night for an unashamedly old-fashioned rock and roll show. There were no gimmicks, no special effects, just atmosphere and adrenaline.

When was the last time you saw a band bathed in simple white light between songs, the last time you heard an excruciating bum note in a guitar solo? This was Oasis, warts and all.

See our picture gallery at http://www.sundaymercury.net/video-pics/midlands-birmingham-pictures/

And being Oasis, it meant a mixed bag of a setlist. For the first time there was no Live Forever.

But you can’t live on past glories forever, even if most of your subsequent songs have been lacklustre. And no fewer than six from the new album made it onto the NIA stage.

Bookended by the opening double-whammy of Rock N’ Roll Star and Lyla, and electric encores including Champagne Supernova and Beatles classic I Am The Walrus, this was a night to remember.

But not quite the great gig it might have been.

Lyla remains a great singalong song. Ditto Cigarettes & Alcohol, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory, Wonderwall and Supersonic, all of which had the capacity crowd in full voice.

But The Importance Of Being Idle is lightweight. Slide Away remains predictable, and The Masterplan is a song you either love or loathe.

Of the new tracks, The Shock Of The Lightning is a throwback to the glory days, and To Be Where There’s Life is hypnotic and addictive. Falling Down may be one of the band’s best yet.

But Ain’t Got Nothin’, Waiting For The Rapture and I’m Outta Time are fillers, the latter leaving the faithful bemused.

Thank God, then for the show-stealing Don’t Look Back In Anger, performed as a semi-plugged duet by Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer. This was a reminder of what Oasis should be all about.

Sublime song, peerless performance and feelgood factor.

Throughout the gig the brothers offered stark contrast. Liam was Liam, rarely speaking to the crowd and introducing the odd song in brusque, almost dismissive, fashion. Noel, on the other hand, couldn’t stop saying ‘Thank You’.

Will they change the setlist tonight? I doubt it.

But a little more spontaneity would go a long way to making this that great gig.

THE SETLIST

Rock N Roll Star
Lyla
The Shock Of The Lightning
Cigarettes And Alcohol
The Meaning Of Soul
To Be Where There’s Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
Ain’t Got Nothing
The Importance Of Being Idle
I`m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Don’t Look Back In Anger
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus

Source: www.sundaymercury.net

Oasis Set For Live Date In Vienna

26th Febuary 2009 / Vienna, Stadhalle Tickets priced at 38 Euros.

For more information click here.

source www.britishrock.cc

Oasis In Birmingham NIA Setlist

Fuckin' 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
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
Ain't Got Nothing
The Importance Of Being Idle
I`m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Don't Look Back In Anger
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus

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Oasis Set For Slane Castle?

Anyway, Noel, Liam and the other members of the world’s favourite meat-and-two-veg rock band will be playing in Co Meath, Ireland next summer.

Remember where you read it first etc when it is announced on Wednesday.

Source: Irish Times

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel Gallagher's Tour Diary on www.oasisinet.com

Now then. 3 days in Manchester and 2 nights in Sheffield have done us the world of good. Was great being back home where it's at. Makes me wonder what on earth we were thinking about when we left for London all those years ago. The city seems to have gone from strength to strength. A wondrous place indeed. The 2 nights up in Sheffield were colossal. Played like a c*** on the 2nd night, mind. Sorry 'bout that. The 1st night though..phew! It was the gig of the year so far and a pleasure to be there.

Currently on the bus. The boys are trawling through the 2nd series of 'Rising Damp'. Very funny. We're en route to Birmingham. See you there if you're going.

In a bit.

GD

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Return To Scene Of 'Don't Look Back In Anger' Debut

Plus Liam Gallagher expresses his hatred of glowsticks

Oasis returned to the scene of 'Don't Look Back In Anger''s debut at the weekend (October 11) play the Sheffield Arena on their UK tour.

The band not only debuted the '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' song at the venue on April 22, 1995, but as Noel Gallagher revealed during the recent gig, he finished writing the track there.

"When we first played here I'd written a song the night before and I finished it off in the dressing room then played here for the first time ever," Noel Gallagher told the crowd, which included The Reverend and Arctic Monkeys' Matt Helders, ahead of an acoustic-driven version of the song. "That was (nearly) 14 years ago. I'm going to play it again now I expect it to get a better reception to 14 years ago."

The sold-out show, the band's second in the city, also saw frontman Liam Gallagher expressing his dislike of last year's favourite gigging accessory, the glowstick.

"This ain't the Klaxons," the singer told the crowd as he spied a few glowsticks early on, "this is fucking Oasis gig!"

The band played a set similar to most of their UK dates so far, though were forced to restart show closer, The Beatles' 'I Am The Walrus', after getting the intro wrong.

"I ain't fucking going out like that," declared Liam as the band kicked off their final song for a second time.

Oasis tour reaches Birmingham today, before heading to London, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Belfast, Aberdeen and Glasgow.

The band will also play a one-off gig at The Roundhouse in London on October 26. The show, part if the BBC Electric Proms, will see the band backed by the Crouch End Festival Chorus.

All of Oasis' UK gigs are sold out.

Source: www.nme.com

Noel Gallagher Hits Out At X Factor

Noel Gallagher has hit out at The X Factor for having "absolutely nothing to do with music".

The Oasis star accused Dannii Minogue, last year's winning judge, of being unable to recognise talent.

Gallagher, 41, told the Radio Times: "If somebody is dangling this carrot of 'fame and fortune' in front of a check-out girl from Barnsley who can sing like Britney Spears then they're going to go for it."

He continued: "But it seems to bring on instant mental illness. You're going in at the top, with a number one that sells 750,000 or whatever and you've got someone like Dannii Minogue telling you you're really talented - and if there's one person in the room who wouldn't know talent if it kicked them in the a*** it's Dannii Minogue.

"You spend a year slogging around the country and then what? You can't go back to Barnsley and be a check-out girl 'cos that would look bad.

"So you end up either trying to be an actress or trying to sustain your profile by going on celebrity shows."

He added: "Instead of instant fame and celebrity and all your ex-boyfriends and girlfriends coming out of the cupboard and your family being ripped apart, the prize ought to be, 'I'll introduce you to someone who might introduce you to someone who might, if you're very lucky, know a producer who'd record one of your songs'. That's the only way to make any money. Otherwise you sell five million records and earn 50 grand."

The X Factor "has absolutely nothing to do with music and everything to do with television", he said.

Gallagher also criticised Madonna, saying the star "has all the money in the world and yet she still works out six hours a day.

"Six hours! In a gym! You sleep for eight, right - so that's 14 gone already. What do you do with your one hour off?"

Source: www.wirralglobe.co.uk

Music Retail Makes A Stand Against Economic ills

Music retail is making a defiant stand against the economic turmoil with first-week sales of the new Oasis album continuing the momentum of a hugely-encouraging start to quarter four.

The band’s Big Brother/Sony BMG album Dig Out Your Soul opened with one of the biggest first-day sales of the year, shifting nearly 90,000 units, and finished with a total of 200,866 units to debut yesterday (Sunday) at number one.

Its success swiftly follows the Kings of Leon album Only By The Night, released by Hand Me Down/ Columbia, opening with 220,879 sales two weeks ago and needing little more than a fortnight to accelerate into the Top 10 biggest sellers of the year. “What the Kings of Leon and Oasis albums show is that if you make a great record, there’s plenty of people out there who will want to buy music and if there are any casualties in Q4 the records aren’t quite good enough,” says Sony BMG chairman and CEO Ged Doherty.

Big Brother general manager Emma Greengrass says sales of the new Oasis album have so far exceeded expectations with an opening-week figure of 180,000 sales originally projected.

“We’ve had a good build-up in the summer with the remix at clubs and the single has done well at radio,” she says. “We had some disappointment with promo because of Noel’s accident in Canada, but it doesn’t seem to have affected things for us.”

“The Oasis start is phenomenal,” adds Doherty. “Big Brother has done a tremendous job and the sales are up on the last Oasis album.”

Source: www.musicweek.com

A list of the fastest selling albums in the UK, can be found here.

Noel Is Tuned In For The Blues!

Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher has revealed he likes to keep up with the latest City gossip - by watching Channel M.

The Blues fan, who grew up in Burnage, watches the Manchester-based station - part of the Guardian Media Group, which includes the Manchester Evening News - from his London home on satellite TV.

Gallagher, 41, is a regular viewer of the City Debate Show, in which presenter Jimmy Wagg discusses the latest Blues-related stories with journalists and former players.

He also watches the channel's United Debate Show - but likes to have a pop at the former Reds stars who appear on it.

Gallagher revealed his viewing habits during a radio interview with Xfm presenter Clint Boon.

He said that it was through Channel M's music shows that he discovered Oldham band Twisted Wheel, who are currently on tour with Oasis.

Gallagher said: "I like Twisted Wheel. I've seen them on Channel M. I watch the City Debate Show. Then I watch the United Debate Show, and laugh.

"I shout furiously at all the United players on the telly: `What are you talking about?'"

Channel M bosses are delighted that such a high-profile Blues fan watches the show.

A spokesman for the station said: "The City Debate Show has built up a cult following since it was first launched in August last year.

"Plenty of City legends have paid a visit to the URBIS studio - Mike Summerbee, Gary Owen and Andy Hinchcliffe are just some of the big names to appear.

"It's great that Noel has been watching, as well as staying tuned to see what's happening in the red half!"

The City Debate Show goes out on Channel M on Mondays at 7pm with MEN sports editor Peter Spencer and City legend Tony Book on tonight's show. You can also see clips on this website from this evening.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Oasis Stay Healthy For Posterity

Gem Archer from Oasis has said the band watches their health so they can still rock when they're in their nineties.

Talking about Liam's new-found love of eating healthily and getting an early night, guitarist Gem said: "We've got a responsibility to keep it together, and it's not even for the thousands of people coming to see us. "If we're going to put ourselves in line with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and The Kinks and The Who, Led Zeppelin - the pantheon of great British rock n roll - then you can't let the side down."

He added that the band were "not like Sting" and that they still enjoyed night's at Liam's after the pub, listening to their new album - of which the band are all very proud.

"In the past, if you'd been out with Liam [Gallagher] at night and you ended up back at his house after the pub had shut, he'd play you the new album 15 times, but this time around, you might get it 30 times. That says it all," he said.

Source: www.musicnews.virginmedia.com

Sergeant Get Nod For Oasis Support Slot

SERGEANT haven't released their debut album yet, but that hasn't stopped the Glenrothes band from being picked as support for Oasis and The Fratellis.

The four-piece will warm up the crowd for Oasis on their sold-out Scottish dates at Aberdeen's ECC and Glasgow's SECC in November.

They will also lend The Fratellis a hand on their British tour, which kicks off in Preston on November 24.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Pictures Of Oasis From 'Rockin' On' Japanese Magazine

Taken from the November 2008 issue of Rockin' On magazine from Japan.

Arigatou gozaimasu to Chiaki

More Oasis Fan Renditions Of New Songs From YouTube

(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady Youtube user Aristocadama from Brazil.



The Shock of the Lightning by ciarank69 from Ireland.



The Turning by Thomas Allan from Germany



Bag It Up by The Rolex Band from Spain


You, the fans, are encouraged to interpret the new tracks in your own personal style on whichever instruments you please and Big Brother Recordings have put together a very special prize for the best entry. A lucky winner will be personally chosen by the band and will win a unique VIP experience to the Oasis gig of their choice anywhere in the world, including travel and accommodation.

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