Oasis Frontman Liam Gallagher Gives Seal Of Approval To Scots Chart Stars Glasvegas

Scots rockers Glasvegas have added Oasis to their ever-growing list of celebrity followers.

The band, whose high-profile fans include Lisa Marie Presley, Fran Healy and Michael Stipe, played alongside the Manchester legends at the BBC's Electric Proms on Sunday night.

And singer James Allan excitedly told how his hero Liam Gallagher turned up early to watch their soundcheck earlier in the day.

James said: "We were on stage in the afternoon going through our songs and Liam was watching it all.

"It was a strange feeling. I learned music through Oasis.

"When I was younger, seeing Oasis made me think I could do that. The first song I learned to play on guitar was Talk Tonight.

"And maybe without that we wouldn't be here."

The televised concert at London's Roundhouse was the hottest ticket in town with more than 1000 people trying to get in long after the gig had sold out.

And as Glasvegas opened the show, James Bond actor Daniel Craig and comedian Russell Brand were also spotted in the crowd.

It's been a huge year for the Glaswegian band. Their self-titled debut album shot straight to No.2 and they are preparing to re-release it with a new Christmas special CD, which includes carol Silent Night and their own song A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss).

Last year, they scooped the Philip Hall Radar Award at the prestigious NME Awards, and, earlier this month, they took over a church in Transylvania and teamed up with a choir for their Christmas epics.

James said: "It was a great experience. It's a beautiful place, quite gothic and working with the choir was a new experience.

"Recording Silent Night was my idea, too. I just told the others I wanted to do it and we did."

And despite rumours that James is to quit the band, he confirmed they had a string of live dates in the diary following on from Sunday's sensational set with Oasis.

Glasvegas had prime position watching Oasis perform. They had a private area in the balcony a few feet above their heroes and saw them deliver a 90-minute set backed up by a London choir.

The 50 extra singers added power behind Liam and Noel Gallagher's voices and the finale, a cover of the Beatles' I Am The Walrus, was a the perfect conclusion to the five-night BBC music extravaganza.

Even jokes at the expense of Daniel Craig added warmth to the event. From the stage, Noel called up to the actor: "Get me the next Bond theme tune instead of dozy Americans." At the end of the night, an ecstatic James said: "The whole day has been brilliant. Watching Oasis was great and I still have to think how much everything has changed for us this year."

But he hasn't lost his sense of humour, adding: "Our rider is 10 times bigger than it was when we played a room at the Roundhouse earlier this year.

"But I know we don't get the amount Oasis have. We're Glaswegian so we plan to steal some of theirs if we run out."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Oasis Play A Blinder

Oasis played a belting gig at the BBC Electric Proms.

Noel and Liam Gallagher, Andy Bell, Gem Archer and Chris Sharrock, backed by the Crouch End Festival Chorus, were class.

Cheeky Noel even had time between songs to negotiate a deal with 007 star Daniel Craig to play him in a biopic of his life.

Sadly though, I couldn’t see too much of the gig at Camden’s Roundhouse – the reflection from the stage lights off Chelsea star Joe Cole's fancy watch obstructed my view.

He’s a top lad, Joe, and he knew every word to the Oasis tunes, including the new stuff.

I wasn’t close enough to hear if he was singing in key.

Always professional, Joe slipped home early to be fresh for training yesterday, missing an epic post-gig Sunday night tear-up.

Held at Camden’s Proud Galleries, the party was a star-studded affair – Russell Rrand, Ed Simons of The Chemical Brothers, radio’s Chris Moyles and actor Ralf Little all soaked up the atmosphere with Noel.

I’m betting that they all spent most of yesterday soaking up headache tablets.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel Gallagher On Italian Radio

Noel Gallagher on RTL 102.5 - they speak to Noel before the gig at the Roundhouse, London.

Source: Via YouTube

Oasis Feeling Thematic, Kinks-y On New Songs

Oasis' latest album, "Dig Out Your Soul," has only been out three weeks, but Noel Gallagher says he's "already written" and demoed the group's follow-up.

Gallagher tells Billboard.com that he started writing the songs while mixing "Dig Out Your Soul" in Los Angeles. The "psychedelic epics" "I Want to Live in a Dream in My Record Machine" and "Come On It's Alright," on which he hopes to use a choir -- were in place for the current album but put aside when Gallagher's brother, Oasis frontman Liam, "ran out of time" to record them.

Noel compares the new material to "mid-era Kinks," referencing songs such as "Dead End Street" and "Harry Rag." "They all seem to be based around the same four or five chords," Gallagher says. "It's vastly different from what ('Dig Out Your Soul') is."

There's also a thematic unity that he likens to Neil Young's "Greendale." "It's kind of like that, but modern," Gallagher says. "There's stuff about soldiers and religious people and rock stars and travelers. They seem to be all songs about people, but not people I know. And they all seem to have a narrative; it's kind of like a story which follows on from song to song."

With a tour underway -- and a North American leg starting Dec. 3 in Oakland, Calif. -- Gallagher won't predict when we'll ultimately hear this new music, however. "This tour's gonna take us to the end of next year," he says, "and then it depends on what everybody wants to do. I think it'll happen when it's meant to happen. We just work on our own timetable."

Gallagher, who's almost fully recovered from injuries suffered in an onstage assault Sept. 7 in Toronto, is also still planning to make a solo album but isn't sure where that will fit in the timetable, either. "I'm going to do one sooner or later -- hopefully sooner rather than later," he says. "I'm kind of hoping Liam might be arrested soon, and then I'll have time to see it through."

Source: www.billboard.com

Teacher Grabs Two Oasis Tambourines

Lee Thomas is the world’s luckiest Oasis fan having twice caught a tambourine thrown by singer Liam Gallagher at two concerts more than a decade apart.

The Cardiff headteacher could not believe his luck when at Thursday’s Oasis concert in the CIA in Cardiff history repeated itself and he caught the lead singer’s tambourine when Liam tossed into the crowd. The same thing had happened when Lee was among the 8,000-strong crowd at the same venue on December 10, 1997.

Lee said: “I was at the concert with my wife and father-in-law. They wanted to hang around near the back so I went up the front of the crowd for the first song, Rock ‘n’ Roll Star.

“I have always been a big Oasis fan so I thought I would relive my youth and get up close. The song ended and Liam put it in his mouth. It is moon shaped so he was making a smiley face with it and then he threw it into the crowd and before I knew it I had grabbed it.

“I put it up my jumper and made my way back to my wife Jo. I was absolutely delighted but I could not believe my luck and neither could Jo.”

The chances of this happening twice in the CIA are around 64 million to one making Lee one of the luckiest Oasis fans in the world.

Lee returned to work in Meadowlane Primary in St Mellons on Friday with the tambourine to show the pupils.

But the excitement was not as great as it had been in 1997 when he was a teacher at Marlborough Junior School in Penylan and Oasis were still one of Britain’s biggest bands.

“I had to give them a few clues last week.

“They did not know Oasis but they did know songs like Wonderwall.

“Both tambourines are exactly the same size and I will certainly look after them as a piece of Oasis memorabilia.”

Lee has another chance of adding to his collection of “shaker makers” next year when he will be among the 60,000-strong crowd at Oasis’ gig in the Millennium Stadium in June.

Source: www.walesonline.co.uk

Oasis UK Stadium Shows: Limited Additional Tickets Available

A very limited number of additional tickets have become available for Oasis' 2009 stadium shows. These are credit card returns from orders cancelled after credit card processing. A very small number of tickets are available for all shows.

Go to www.seetickets.com/oasisf for full availability listings.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Matt Costa To open For Oasis & Ryan Adams In The USA

Oasisinet is pleased to announce that Matt Costa will once again be opening the show for Oasis & Ryan Adams on their forthcoming tour of the USA.

The tour begins on 3rd December in Oakland. For more info about the tour dates, click here.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Got A Question For Noel Gallagher?

Every fan has a bunch of questions they'd love to ask their favourite band and in a special interview, to be broadcast this Boxing Day, Radio 2 will be giving you the opportunity to submit your questions to Noel.

The deadline for entering your questions is midnight on Sunday 9th November so have a think what you'd most like to ask Noel then click here to submit.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Wrap Up BBC Electric Proms

Oasis attracted a star-studded audience as they closed the BBC Electric Proms in style at the London Roundhouse.

The Manchester five-piece drafted in the Crouch End Festival Chorus for six songs, including their most famous hits Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger.

James Bond star Daniel Craig, Joe Cole and comedians Russell Brand and Ralph Little were among the stars at the gig.

The show rounded off five days of music spread across Liverpool and London.

'Best ever'

Dean Swift, 17, from Wellington said the performance was the best he'd ever seen Oasis play.

He added: "That was blinding. That's the best gig they've done. I saw them at Wembley Arena the other week but the choir added something different to them."

Natlie Lawrenson, 22, from Barnsley travelled all the way down from Leeds to see her heroes perform.

She said: "I've seen Oasis a few times now but that was out of this world. To see them at such an intimate venue was just breathtaking. The choir added that extra wow factor too."

Kicking off with Rock 'n' Roll Star the band played a host of songs from their back catalogue along with six new tracks from their current album Dig Out Your Soul.

Both frontman Liam Gallagher and his brother Noel dedicated songs to their wives, who were watching in the audience, during their set.

Noel then introduced the band's 50-member backing choir, who were dressed in plain clothes, at the beginning of Wonderwall b-side Masterplan.

"This is the Crouch End Choir, I won't introduce them all by name because there's 50 of them and we'll be here all f*****g night," he joked.

James Bond

The ensemble also teamed up with the band for I'm Outta Time, Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, I Am The Walrus and Number One hit Don't Look Back In Anger, which saw the whole venue singing.

During the show, Noel spotted Daniel Craig in the crowd and said: "James Bond is upstairs, I might see if I can blag it so that he can get me the next James Bond theme tune instead of f****g dopey Americans doing it all the time."

The actor was then greeted with chants of, 'Who are you? Who are you?' from the fans before Noel interjected, 'He's Bond, James Bond'."

He also pulled a similar trick with comedian Russell Brand later in the show when he dedicated Falling Down to the Radio 2 presenter.

"Russell will have been up there tonight trying to wangle some introduction to James Bond so he can become some effeminate James Bond baddie," Noel added.

The band wrapped up the show with their cover of The Beatles classic I Am The Walrus before Noel added: "Thanks for coming. We'll see you at Wembley next year."

Earlier, Glasvegas opened the night by performing a host of tracks from their self-titled debut album including hit singles Geraldine and Daddy's Gone.

Singer James Allan told Newsbeat that Oasis inspired him to form his own band. He said: "Before I saw Oasis I'd never really felt the urge to be in a band. They made me pick up a guitar.

"It's great too because tonight I get to see them for free."

Oasis setlist:

Rock 'n' Roll Star

Lyla

Shock Of The Lightning

Cigarettes And Alcohol

The Meaning Of Soul

To Be Where There's Life

Waiting For The Rapture

Masterplan

Songbird

Slide Away

(What's The Story) 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.bbc.co.uk

Watch Oasis At The Electric Proms Now

You can watch the full show of Oasis at the Electric Proms in London's Roundhouse by clicking here.

Oasis New Single Details

This is the artwork from the Promo CD, of the Oasis new single "I'm Outta Time' that is in stores on December 1st.

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Old Hands Show Young Pretenders There Is Life In The Old Songs Yet

Oasis closed the BBC Electric Proms last night with the most intimate and forceful gig of their tour so far. But the novelty came from support band, Glasvegas, recently No 2 in the album charts with their debut, and pretenders to the Oasis throne. "They're the reason that we're even in a band," Glasvegas's singer James Allan confessed to the crowd. "The reason that I even picked up a guitar is Oasis." And they are, in so many ways, the band Oasis once were.

They adore the echo-drenched pop of Phil Spector and Suicide as the Gallaghers once spliced The Beatles with punk. Both bands draw heavily on their working-class backgrounds. But Oasis reacted with football-chant defiance, rooted in mundane situations rock'n'roll would lead them out of. Allan picks at the pain of his past, and makes it grand. The catch in his throat as he sings "Daddy's Gone", a hymn to his helpless devastation when his father walked out, may be showbiz but Glasvegas otherwise radiate urgent faith.

It isn't the material to provoke the joyous, beery melée Oasis do when they walk on. Watching them earlier on this tour, a gradual improvement in energy was undercut by a feeling of sadness. You could see them searching desparately for their lost greatness.

The intimate Roundhouse, rather than their giant stadium gigs next summer, proves the right place to make their last stand as a relevant band. Their buzzing, thick sound is enclosed here, bouncing claustrophobically off the walls. Liam, looking ready to punch his own shadow, roams the small stage like a caged beast. Holding his tambourine in his teeth during "Cigarettes and Alcohol", he delicately tosses it into the crowd, just to watch the riot.

Noel is hampered by broken ribs still weeks from healing after a Canadian on-stage assault. For "The Masterplan" he is bolstered by the Crouch End Choir. Noel introduces Daniel Craig and Russell Brand up in the rafters, but dedicates "The Importance of Being Idle" to Glasvegas. "Apart from the lyrical content," he can't help adding. "Because that could do with some work."

He has never let Allan's lacerating self-exposure into his songs; and he may be intimating this isn't the way to stadium success. And yet new album Dig Your Own Soul provides, in "Falling Down", his first moment of middle-aged doubt. And he sings his best song "Don't Look Back in Anger" like a comforting friend.

Oasis end with "Pomp and Circumstance", inserted by the generally redundant choir into The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus".

They are a band that cannot reinvent their sound, only reinforce it. Sensitivity and the future may be Glasvegas's. But the sheer force of Oasis's past takes the night.

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Oasis: Lord Don't Slow Me Down (Blu-ray) In Stores Today

In Stores today 27/10/2008 (UK) Other countries check local stockist.
RRP: £24.99

Special Features
Live Concert
Commentary from the Band



Review

What happens when a film maker follows one of the world's biggest bands on a year long world tour? What happens when the film maker is granted unique access to that band, is present for the ups and downs, the moments of greatness and the periods of the same interview in 10 different languages in as many days? What happens when that band is Oasis, travelling across 26 countries on their biggest world tour to date playing to a total of over 2 million people?

The answer is Lord Don't Slow Me Down, a Blu-Ray set that not only gives you the definitive feature length documentary seen in selected cinemas last year, but also the option of voice over commentaries from the band, a Noel Gallagher Q & A session with fans from New York City and out takes from the film.

Directed by Baillie Walsh who has previously worked with Massive Attack (he made 'Safe From Harm'), Spiritualised, New Order and Kylie's Slow, and is now working on a film with Daniel Craig, this Blu-Ray is a compendium of Oasis entertainment par excellence.

Oasis At The Electric Proms Setlist & Photos

Britain's greatest rock n roll band Oasis are the final headliner on this year's festival bill.

Oasis are set to treat music fans to a very special performance at the festival and will be accompanied by the Crouch End Festival Chorus at the Roundhouse London.

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 (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
Ain't Got Nothing
The Importance Of Being Idle
I'm Outta Time (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Wonderwall (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Supersonic
Don't Look Back In Anger (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
I Am The Walrus (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)

The video for the show should be up in the morning, click here for more information.

Photo Credit: BBC

Top 10 Selling Albums In The UK This Week

01 AC/DC - Black Ice
02: Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
03: Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
04: Leon Jackson - Right Now
05: Katherine Jenkins - Sacred Arias
06: Keane - Perfect Symmetry
07: Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
08: Sugababes - Catfights And Spotlights
09: Boyzone - Back Again - No Matter What
10: Sash - The Best Of

The Shock Of The Lightning has now left The Official UK Singles Chart top 40.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Oasis At The BBC Electric Proms TONIGHT TV And Radio Times

Tonight Sunday 26th October, times are for the UK.

BBC Radio 1, 21:00 to 22:30 'Oasis Live at the BBC Electric Proms'
Radio 1 comes direct from the Camden Roundhouse in London for the finale of this year's BBC Electric Proms, featuring Oasis performing with the Crouch End Festival Chorus.

You can listen online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio1

The Electric Proms 2008: Oasis

BBC HD, BBC 2 Scotland, BBC 2 England and BBC 2 NI are all at 2310
BBC 2 Wales at 2355

Edith Bowman presents the grand finale of the Electric Proms 2008. Oasis front a night of anthems with accompaniment from the 50-strong Crouch End Festival Chorus.

Source: bbc.co.uk/radio1 and Sky EPG.

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

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

Yes people. We're on the bus. Leaving the Wales. Heading back to London. Cardiff, the shows and the people were brilliant. There was quite a bit of violence at both gigs. Not nice. Can't those fuckers take it outside. Or at least sort it out in the car park before the gig? Just a thought.

We did have much fun though. Caught up with Rhys and The Peth. Lovely, lovely lads.

The Roundhouse is up next. For them Electric Proms. With a 50-piece choir. Rehearsals were immense. Celestial in fact. I wish you could all come along and hear it. There's always YouTube though, eh?

By the way, if any of you got involved in any of that ticket buying business yesterday I thank you from the bottom of my guitar case. Can't speak for anyone else but I promise that I'LL be brilliant at those shows. Saying that - who knows where we'll be next year? There's plenty of time for the shit to hit the fan before then, eh?

In a bit.

GD

Source: www.oasisinet.com

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Oasis Happy To Dig It Out In Comfort Zone

Their new album is a very spiritual affair, as befits the band's more mature profile, writes Barry Egan.

The Gallagher brothers are not the cokehead bon vivants that they used to be. (What pop star is, in these recessionary times?) Noel once told me one night in Cork in the mid-Nineties that he spent a small fortune on the Devil's Dandruff each week.

He is now father to a nine-month-old son (with long-time girlfriend Sara MacDonald) and an eight-year-old daughter (with ex-wife Meg Mathews). Liam is a father of two boys -- one with an ex-wife (Patsy Kensit), one with his present wife (Nicole Appleton) -- and a daughter from a brief relationship with Lisa Moorish, Pete Doherty's ex. The various tasks of fatherhood haven't, however, stopped big brother Noel from caning it on occasion.

In August, Noel rolled onto Chris Moyles's BBC breakfast show after staying out until 6am on a bender. Later the monobrowed legend said he had "no recollection of actually being in the studio. All I know is what I said was printed in the paper the next day. I kind of take my own disclaimer on that, that morning. If someone starts firing other people's band names when you've been out all night drinking Jager bombs . . ."

Let me refresh Noel's mind for him then. He said that Block Party are "a bunch of middle class kids trying to rebel about against mum and dad. They sit on top of an apex of shit". Keane "will always be squares. Even if one of them started injecting heroin into his groin people would go 'Yeah but your dad was a vicar, goodnight'.'' How "everyone in Oasis hates Coldplay" and how Amy Winehouse, well . . . the less vicious bits were that she should "learn three chords on the guitar and go write a tune".

Her producer Mark Ronson retaliated on his MySpace blog that "I just wanted him to know that I'm actually taking guitar lessons from Jay-Z right now and he's already taught me both chords to Wonderwall (tune!)".

(Noel famously criticised the organisers of the Glastonbury Festival during the summer for having rapper Jay-Z as a headlining act.)

Ronson went on: "In fact, it's so much fun having Jay teach me all of Noel's songs on the guitar (hooray!) that I'm thinking of doing an Oasis/Jay-Z remix album a la The Grey Album. Potential titles are Champagne Superhova or Definitely Jay-Z. I'll keep you posted."

I might point out, now, that Oasis's new album Dig Out Your Soul will have neither Jay-Z nor Ronson shaking in their Converse runners. It is all very good (Waiting For The Rapture -- echoing The Doors' Five To One; Get Off Your High Horse Lady -- pure Plastic Ono Band weirdo-brilliance; I'm Outta Time -- Liam channelling John Lennon) but nowhere near the masterly genius reached on Definitely Maybe or (What's The Story) Morning Glory?.

In fairness, even the dogs on the street know that Definitely Maybe and (What's The Story) Morning Glory? were two of the greatest albums ever made. Still, the band's seventh studio album, their first in three years, might, as one critic astutely noted, "finally change perceptions of Oasis as being some sort of Beatles rip-off. For the first time, they've put away the guitars -- well, sort of -- and embraced a trippier, Stone Roses-type feel. Lyrically, Noel has also turned inward, with religion and spirituality common themes on the album."

There are, as befits the band's advancing years, quite a few mentions of God and the like; which suggests Noel has possibly traded in cocaine -- whatever about Jager bombs -- for that other, allegedly greater, high of religion.

"The strange thing is, is that the lyrics are all quite similar -- they all mention God, and Jesus, and the f***ing light and the rapture, and angels," Noel said recently. "And that's happened very much by coincidence because none of us write together and none of us discuss what we're writing about. That would make us like Radiohead."

Asked whether this is the first album in a while when Oasis appear to be operating outside their comfort zone, Noel, who plays in Lord Henry Mount Charles's back garden at Slane on June 30 next year, snapped to a journalist from NME: "I can't stand it when bands say, you know, on this album we really stepped out of our comfort zone. What does that mean? This is not a f***ing game. This is soul, man. It's about humanity. It's not a test. People who went to university are always trying to get themselves out of their comfort zone and I always say, 'I'm working class. It's taken me 15 years to build a comfort zone and I'm not getting out of it for no f***er'."

Source: www.independent.ie

Oasis To Add Another Show In Murrayfield Stadium?

Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher have not ruled out adding another Scottish show to their tour after the first sold out in record time.

All 55,000 tickets for their gig at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on June 17 were snapped up in just two hours.

A band insider said: "It's the fastest sell-out in Murrayfield history - a second show could be a possibility."

Source: www.sundaymail.co.uk