Oasis Announce Italian Leg Of European Tour

Oasisinet is pleased to announce that Oasis will be playing their biggest ever Italian tour as part of their extensive Western European tour.

The Italian tour dates are:

2nd February 2009: MILAN Datchforum
20th February 2009: ROME Palalottomatica
21st February 2009: TREVISO Palaverde
23rd February 2009: BOLZANO Palaonda
24th February 2009: FLORENCE Mandela Forum

All tickets go on sale on Tuesday 21st October at 11am through www.ticketone.it. For more info about the gigs, click here.

'Dig Out Your Soul', the first album to be released internationally on the band's own Big Brother Recordings label, entered the Italian charts this week at number 1.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Not Looking Back In Anger As They Announce Vienna Return

British rock heroes Oasis will return to Austria next year despite having pledged never again to perform in the country after an incident during their most recent visit to Vienna.

A plucky thief stole singer Liam Gallagher's earpiece, a highly-complex technical device worth several thousand Euros, presumably after their two hour long show at Vienna’s Gasometer concert hall on 1 February 2006.

The band’s management announced that Oasis would never again perform in Austria if the stolen item was not returned. The device, however, remains missing.

The band’s fans will cheer up upon hearing the news that the rock format fronted by infamous brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher will return to the city on 26 February 2009 to perform at the Stadthalle, Vienna’s largest venue.

Oasis recently released their acclaimed seventh album "Dig Out Your Soul," which sees the four-piece group returning to the rough sound of their 1994 debut album "Definitely Maybe" but with strong psychedelic influences.

"I’m Outta Time", a ballad penned by Liam Gallagher, features a voice sample of Beatles' mastermind John Lennon, taken from an interview shortly before he was shot on 8 December 1980.

Source: www.austriantimes.at

Slane Castle Interviews With Noel & Gem

Also watch a short interview with Noel Gallagher & Gem Archer talking about a number of subjects, watch the video here.

Oasis Live In Your Living Room Tonight

Oasis' performance at Wembley on todat 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, for a list of countries click here.

Noel Gallagher: Fabio's Like My Granio

Gobby Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher claims England football boss Fabio Capello “looks like my grandma”.

The insult to the wrinkly Italian came as the 41-year-old singer launched a blistering attack on his team.

The outspoken Mancunian stuck two fingers up to the Three Lions ahead of last night’s crunch World Cup qualifier against Belarus.

He blasted that he is “not interested” in England as they have “no chance” of winning the tournament in South Africa, despite their good start.

The Manchester City nut also slagged off the fans for “moaning about every wrong pass” after defender Ashley Cole, 27, was booed on Saturday for a mistake he made during the Kazakhstan clash.

He declared: “F**k England, no chance, I’m not a*sed about England.

“Obviously if they get to the World Cup final I’d like them to win it, though.”

Football-mad Noel said he had been “let down so often by England that City are my team – I’m not interested.”

Noel, who’s new Oasis album Dig Out Your Soul tops the charts, said: “I can understand why some footballers retire from internationals early. Every wrong pass is booed.”

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

Lounge Is Bonehead's Oasis

Former Oasis guitarist Bonehead is reliving his glory days — sort of.

The axeman, real name Paul Athurs, has recreated the living room from the artwork of the band’s 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe in his new front room.

Not that I blame him, it’s a classic.

Bonehead, a founder Oasis member who left in 1999, said: “I’ve still got the stained glass from the sleeve shot.

“The fireplace is the same. It means you can never forget.”

Bonehead has also said after Noel GallagherR quit the band briefly in 1994, he and and bandmate Paul McGuigan were thinking of leaving to plaster ceilings.

They could have had a nice little earner...

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Oasis Score First US Top 10 Album Since Be Here Now

USA Billboard 200 News

Despite a 69% drop-off in sales, T.I. starts a second week at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 with "Paper Trail." The Grand Hustle/Atlantic set sold 177,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, after debuting last week with 568,000.

Metallica's Warner Bros. album "Death Magnetic" climbs back up 5-2 despite a 24% sales slide to 66,000. With a career-high for charting and sales, Rise Against's "Appeal to Reason" debuts at No. 3 with 65,000. The rock act's last set, 2006's "The Sufferer and the Witness," bowed at No. 10 with 48,000. Current single "Re-Education (Through Labor)" is No. 4 on the Modern Rock chart this week, the act's highest charting single yet.

With 63,000 copies, Jennifer Hudson's self-titled Arista debut falls 2-4 on a 71% sales decrease to 63,000. Veteran British rock act Oasis scores its first top 10 set since 1997, as "Dig Out Your Soul" (Big Brother/Warner Bros) debuts at No. 5, moving 53,000. The band's last studio set, 2005's "Don't Believe the Truth," began at No. 12 but with a larger opening sales week of 65,000. Oasis last reached the top tier when 1997's "Be Here Now" debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 152,000.

'Dig Out Your Soul' faired even better on the Billboard Digital Sales chart, debuting at Number Two with 20,000 downloads sold

Bob Dylan notches his 17th top 10 album -- and 50th charting set overall -- on The Billboard 200 as the triple-disc Columbia collection "The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 -- Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased, 1989-2006" debuts at No. 6 with 50,000. This is the best chart position for any album in the "Bootleg" series.

Staying put at No. 7 for a third week straight, Kid Rock's "Rock N Roll Jesus" (Top Dog/Atlantic) moves 48,000 (-15%) in its 53rd week on the chart. Ne-Yo's "Year of the Gentleman" (Def Jam) continues its decline, falling 6-8 with 47,000 (-33%).

Source: Billboard

Oasis Tour Fan Archive

Some photos from a visitor to the site from last night's Oasis gig in Birmingham.

Have you been to any of the Oasis gigs so far on the tour? or future gigs?

Send in your pictures to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will add them to Tour Archive.

Thanks to Matt

Oasis Hit Top Form In Brum

Oasis, National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, Tuesday October 14

Having your breath sucked away as you are gently consumed by the hot, sweaty mass of the mosh pit is often not the best position from which to review a gig.

But then this is Oasis - where having your clothes soaked by pint glass aeroplanes carrying leftover lager is all part of the fun.

Few bands create the kind of debate among music lovers as the Manchester four piece. While legions of fans hail each album a masterpiece there as just as many who sneeringly dismiss the Gallagher brothers as an ageing irrelevance, rapidly becoming Status Quo for the 90s generation.

I didn’t hear many voicing the latter opinion after the band treated a sold-out NIA crowd to a consistently frenetic and often brilliant 1 hour 45 minute set.

Liam Gallagher swaggers on stage oozing arrogance as the band launch into Rock n’ Roll Star - the opening track from 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe - still sounding as fresh and as relevant as it did then.

More classics follow as Cigarettes and Alcohol, Wonderwall, Slide Away and The Masterplan draw ever greater cheers from the masses.

True, material from latest album Dig Out Your Soul receives a far more muted response - guitarist Gem Archer’s sluggish To Be Where There’s Life a prime example - but this is a problem for all major bands when debuting new material on tour, be it Oasis, R.E.M, Radiohead or U2.

For whether you like them or not, this is the status Oasis have attained. The fact they still sell out tour’s within minutes and can thrill a crowd more than 15 years into their career is precisely why they cannot be simply dismissed.

Noel takes over vocals at the beginning of the encore for Don’t Look Back in Anger, with thousands crooning the chorus back to him, before the band finish off with the epic Champagne Supernova and Beatles classic I Am The Walrus.

Show over, a smiling and contented 13,000-strong crowd head for the exits - satisfied they have witnessed a band on top form.

Ultimately, little else matters.

Source: www.halesowennews.co.uk

Noel Gallagher On Playing Slane Castle And Irish Crowds

Oasis have officially confirmed that they are to play Slane Castle on Saturday, June 20th.

Guitarist and principal songwriter Noel Gallagher and fellow guitarist Gem Archer flew in by helicopter to Slane this afternoon as part of the launch for the gig which will be one of the biggest of the band's career with a potential audience of around 80,000.

The band are currently on tour promoting their new studio album Dig Out Your Soul.

Gallagher looked none the worse for the recent incident on stage in Toronto when he was pushed off the stage by a demented fan cracking several ribs in the process.

Oasis played Slane before in 1995, but only as support to REM and at a time before the launch of their second album What's the Story, Morning Glory which turned them, for a time, into superstars.

Gallagher was vague on the details of their last performance. “I thought we played here on our own,” he said.

However, Gallagher, whose mother and father are both Irish, said the previous concert had been attended by 80 relatives. “They've all grown up and had kids of their own so we are expecting 97 relatives this time around.

“Ireland is a massive part of my youth. It was six weeks of my summer holidays until I was 15. Every time I come here, it brings it back to me.”

Gallagher said he would not be joining the 90 per cent of bands who tell audiences that the place they are playing in is their favourite, but he said there was “something about Celtic crowds. I just think they get more drunk”.

Oasis, who have had several changes of band personnel since their last appearance at Slane, will be playing the venue to promote Dig Your Soul Out.

The band said their set for the Slane concert will compromise half the album and many of the anthems which has made their name. “Put it to you this way, we will be playing Wonderwall,” he said.

Tickets for the gig go on sale on October 24th and will be limited to eight per person. Prices have not yet been announced, nor have the support acts though an Irish act will be among them.

Source: www.irishtimes.com

Oasis To Play Slane

Oasisinet are delighted to announce that Oasis will be playing the legendary Slane Castle on Saturday June 20th 2009.

This is the first time the band have headlined this famous outdoor venue, although they played there as special guests to REM in 1995.

Located in the Boyne Valley near Dublin, Slane Castle has over the past thirty years hosted concerts by the some of the world's greatest bands, including U2, the Rolling Stones, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen.

Tickets go on sale on Friday the 24th October at 8AM through http://www.ticketmaster.ie/Oasis-tickets/artist/766720 and 0818 719 300 (R.O.I.) & 0870 243 4455 (N.I.)

Oasis' new album, 'Dig Out Your Soul', the first to be released in Ireland on their Big Brother Recordings label, entered the charts last week at number two and has already been certified platinum.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Belfast Aftershow Parties

The Official UK Tour DJ Phil Smith will be doing his Oasis Tour DJ set in Belfast following the Oasis gigs at:-

Spring and Airbrake, 29th October
The Limelight, 30th October

Tickets are priced at £5 both nights

More details will be released very soon on when and where to buy tickets, so keep checking back for details.

Oasis To Play In Front Of 80,000 Irish Fans Next Summer

After taking an enforced year out due to the lack of a suitable headliner, Slane returns on June 20 with current Hot Press cover stars Oasis headlining.

The news, which broke earlier this week, was officially confirmed a few minutes ago at a Slane Castle press conference hosted by Lord Henry Mountcharles and attended by Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer who, rock stars that they are, arrived by helicopter.

Noel and Liam will be no strangers to Slane having previously played there in 1995 as support to REM – an event that’s comprehensively documented on hotpress.com.

The prospect of performing in front of 80,000 people is unlikely to phase the younger of the two Gallaghers who tells Hot Press: “It’s like a holiday for me playing in Ireland. It’s not like a ‘gig’ – you just go there and get fucking slaughtered with the fans, and then you wake up the next day and get slaughtered again. As soon as you get off the plane, it’s ‘Do you want a Guinness?’ and before you know it you’re having to belt out a couple of songs that they like. There’s no fucking graft in that.”

Nicely put. Headlining Slane is yet more good news for Oasis whose Dig Out Your Soul album is currently number two in Ireland, and top of the pile in the UK.

Source: www.hotpress.com

More information on tickets, when I find them.

Bonehead On The New Oasis Album

Ex-Oasis guitarist Bonehead loves the Gallaghers' new No1 album, even if it's more of the same.

The 43-year-old told NME: "I think it's brilliant. They've hit the spot again.

Source: Daily Star

Bonehead is set to go out on tour with Pete Macleod around the UK and Ireland, with the first date of the tour kicking off at the The Mill, Mansfield later this month.

Click here for more information on the tour dates and tickets on Bonehead's MySpace page.

Oasis Western European Tour

Oasis have announced their most extensive Western European tour yet from January to March 2009 in support of their new album 'Dig Out Your Soul'.

The tour, which starts January 12 and continues until the 3rd of March, is the next phase of their massive 14 month 2008/9 World tour and follows on from tour dates in Canada, the UK, Mexico and the USA.

Shows in France, Germany, Austria and Portugal have been confirmed with a number of other countries still to be announced. The confirmed dates are:

MONDAY 12-JAN-09: NANTES Zenith, France.

THURSDAY 15-JAN-09: DRESDEN Messehalle, Germany.

FRIDAY 16-JAN-09: HAMBURG Sporthalle, Germany.

SUNDAY 18-JAN-09: BERLIN Arena, Germany.

MONDAY 19-JAN-09: DUSSELDORF Phillipshalle, Germany.

FRIDAY 30-JAN-09: LILLE Zenith, France.

SATURDAY 31-JAN-09: BORDEAUX Medoquine, France.

SUNDAY 15-FEB-09: LISBON Atlantico Pavillion, Portugal.

TUESDAY 17-FEB-09: TOULOUSE Zenith, France.

WEDNESDAY 18-FEB-09: MARSEILLE Dome, France.

THURSDAY 26-FEB-09: VIENNA Stadthalle, Austria.

FRIDAY 27-FEB-09: MUNICH Zenith, Germany.

TUESDAY 03-MAR-09: PARIS Bercy, France.

ON SALE DATES:

Austria: Wednesday 15th October

France: Tuesday 21st October from

Germany: Friday 17th October +49 (0)69 94 43 660

Portugal: Thursday 16th October

Click here for ticket purchase information

'Dig Out Your Soul', the first album to be released internationally on the band's own Big Brother Recordings label, is out now.

For more information and announcements on further dates to be added to the tour please keep checking back to Oasisinet

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Second Night In Birmingham 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

Did you go to last nights gig or future gigs or even past gigs?

Send in your pictures to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will add them to tour archive.

Some pictures from the 1st night can be found here.

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