Win A Chance To See Oasis In New York

US FANS: MAKE A PLAYLIST FOR OASIS AND WIN A TRIP TO SEE THEM IN NEW YORK

Oasis will be playing in New York at Madison Square Garden on December 17th, and you can enter to win a trip for two to fly out and see the show and get a hotel room for the night! All you have to do is create a MySpace Music profile playlist with all Oasis songs picked from their entire discography on MySpace Music . Then post a comment on Oasis' MySpace page about your playlist. One winner will be chosen at random for the two tickets to the show, the hotel accomodations, and the flights!

The contest is over on December 7th, and the winner will be notified soon after. This contest is only open to MySpace members in the US as they are currently the only territory with the music player.

For details check out the band's myspace page here.

The View: We Took Inspiration From Oasis Debut Definiely Maybe For New Album

The View used Oasis album Definitely Maybe for their inspiration while recording new material.

The Same Jeans hit-makers made their latest album with Owen Morris, who has famously produced for The Verve, Ash and The Paddingtons among others.

And he played the Oasis classic to the Dundee upstarts to remind them of the high standards they need to achieve to make sure they repeat their early success.

The four-piece made pop history when they became the first Scottish act to go straight to No.1 with debut Hats Off to the Buskers in 2007.

And the rockers are hoping to make it a double when they release their follow-up Which Bitch in January.

Kyle said: "We had a copy of Definitely Maybe in the studio and Owen would line it up for comparison.

"He threatened to sack the guy who was mastering it because he couldn't get it seven per cent louder."

But extra volume was the least of The View's concerns while laying down tracks in Welsh studioMonnow Valley.

The band had to contend with midnight river rafts and thrones made from speakers.

In his quest to take musicians - frontman Kyle Falconer, guitarist Pete Reilly, bassist Kieren Webster and drummer Steven Morrison - back to the top spot, Owen brought in crazy measures in his quest for perfection.

Paying tribute to the band's chosen album title, Owen superglued a witch's hat to his head for six days during the recording process.

The producer, who worked on Oasis hit albums Definitely Maybe, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) and Be Here Now, eventually removed the plastic hat with scissors.

Owen also has custom-made thrones made for singers Kyle and Kieren to sit on while singing their new tracks.

The band avoided a latenight dip when Owen lashed together a raft for the boys to venture down river on, before it came to a sticky end.

The rockers survived though and guitarist Pete told NME: "I'm an only child and, to me, the experience of being together with these people, this family, is worth more than the music."

The View are currently at the tail end of a mammoth 37-date UK tour and fans have been lucky enough to hear new tracks such as One-Off Pretender, 5 Rebbeccas, Glass Smash and Shock Horror.

Kieren said: "We put a lot more thought into the music. It's much more melodic.

"This time, we only had a couple of tracks completed and did a lot morewriting in the studio. It was a new experience for us and we came out with a few absolute crackers."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

New Interviews And Acoustic Performance With Oasis From US Radio

Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer and Andy Bell stopped by 98-7FM in LA and you can listen to the interview and live acoustic performance of 'I'm Outta Time' again by clicking here.

Indie 103.1 Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols had a relaxed chat with the boys on a number of various topics you can listen again by clicking here.

Oasis In Mexico City Setlist And More

Last nights setlist from the Sports Palace , Mexico City, Mexico.

Fuckin' In The Bushes
Rock 'n' Roll Star
Lyla
The Shock Of The Lightning
Cigarettes & 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 Nothin'
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

Watch a video of Wonderwall from last nights show here.

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.

Photo Credit: ramiroasis

Vote For Oasis At The Shockwaves NME Awards 2009

The Shockwaves NME Awards are back and only your votes can decide the winners.

Vote now to decide the nomination shortlists to be unveiled in January.

You'll also be entered to win tickets to the Awards ceremony in London and the NME Big Gig, headlined by The Cure.

Click here to cast your vote for Oasis.

The Outs! Win A VIP Trip To Any Oasis Gig In The World

It has been posted on several South American Oasis forums that 'The Outs!' cover of 'Bag It Up' that the boys did for the NME Songbook Competition, has won first prize competition and was picked out by Noel Gallagher.

The prize is a VIP trip to any Oasis gig in the world.

See more of 'The Outs!' oasis covers here.

Noel Gallagher: "You Have To See Us In A League With The Rolling Stones"

On the eve of Oasis' tour with Ryan Adams, the songwriter talks drugs, violence and the secret to his success.

Oasis are celebrating the holidays by hitting the road for a North American tour, which kicks off December 3rd in Oakland, California. There's much to be festive about: the band put out their finest album in a decade in Dig Out Your Soul and guitarist/songwriter Noel Gallagher has fully recovered from being attacked on stage in Toronto in September.

You've said yourself that you don't really need hits in America. Why do you still tour here?
I like the vastness of this country. In between each city when you're on that tour bus some of the stuff you see is stunning. It just took me awhile to understand the corporate nature of the music business over here. I never really understood why I would have to get up at nine o'clock in the morning, go down and see the guy who owned the local record shop and meet his fucking wife and fat kids.

What do you think the band has offer to an American teenager who is seeing you for the first time?
Nothing. Don't come and see us if you're expecting anything. I can't offer anybody anything apart from the music that's coming out of the speakers. And if they listen to that and they find some meaning in the songs, good for them.

OK, so you're not a spokesperson. What does the band have to offer?
Power. Musical power. Volume. Impeccable shoes. I speak for myself, by the way.

You and your touring partner Ryan Adams are both pretty opinionated guys with healthy egos. Do you get along?
Well, I'm pretty and he's opinionated. I got a lot of respect for the man. He's a great guitar player. He's a little eccentric. He wears stripy socks and platform shoes, but not everybody's perfect. I wouldn't be on tour with him if I didn't like him.

What did you find out about that guy who attacked you in Toronto?
Nobody knows why he did what he did. There's a legal case going on so they tell me I'm not supposed to talk about it. I'm sure the footage on YouTube says enough.

Has that kind of thing happened to you before?
No. I've never been violently attacked. Maybe by my girlfriend a couple of times when I stayed out later than I should've.

How did it affect you, other than...
Other than the fact that I got three broken ribs and I had five weeks off? Do you mean I wake up sweating in the middle of the night and think the guy stood over me? That kind of shit? Oh, no, not in the fucking slightest. It's a meaningless act. Something always happens to me on Oasis tours. I was in a car crash. If it's not that, it's getting fucking busted. If it's not that, it's coming down with some ancient fucking disease that's not been got by anybody for the last 600 years.

Is there something in particular that you'd like to achieve with this tour?
Five million dollars. Besides that, not really.

Have you pulled out any songs that you haven't played in awhile?
Yeah. "Slide Away," "The Masterplan," "Supersonic." We're not going to turn any new people on to Oasis. Oasis is a band that you either get it or you don't. Everybody knows who we are. You have to see us in league with the Rolling Stones now. Everybody's heard of the Stones, everybody knows what they sound like, everybody knows what they do. You either go because you like it or you don't. It's easy.

There was a time when the band didn't seem to be enjoying themselves in concert that much.
Well, I'm not sure about that. There was a few years where I really should've traveled the world with my girlfriend and shit like that but we decided to carry on putting out records. But I love being on stage. It's the one place where there's no bullshit. Don't get me wrong: It looks like I'm having a bad time. But that's because I'm not a fucking asshole that feels like I have to talk to the crowd every two minutes or put on a big smile or run up and down the stage like an idiot. I like to play that guitar. I have to stare at it while I?m playing it because I'm not very good at playing it.

What gets you off at a show?
If I'm singing well and I'm playing well, then that's enough for me. Obviously there are nights where you go off stage and think, "Well, that was a bit fucking shit" because there were technical problems. But I can assure you this: I am fucking brilliant every night I go out there. I could give a fuck about anybody else in the band. They look after themselves. But I am always cooking on a solid eight-and-a-half out of 10.

What do you do to do that?
I'm afraid I was born with it. It's not something you go out to Wal-Mart and buy. "Can I buy some brilliance please?" They don't sell that shit over the counter. You either got it or you don't.

How do you get back the high that drugs gave you?
Drugs brainwash you into thinking you can't survive without them. I was never in a mess mentally or physically. I have the constitution of a large ox. If anything, it was the people that I had surrounding me that were very uncool. I never needed to be on drugs. I just wanted to be on drugs because it was fucking brilliant. But then there came a point where I didn't want this anymore. So I wanted to be straight. And then there comes a point where you maybe want to be somewhere in between, which is where we're at now I think.

That you're able to take them occasionally and it's fine?
Well, I wouldn't say I take them at any point. But when I gave them up I gave up drinking and everything. But now I drink like a fucking fish and I smoke like a chimney. I've always been a magnificent drunk. I've been told by hundreds of people I'm actually a better person when I'm drunk.

Source: www.rollingstone.com

Catch Oasis On 98-7fm LA

EDIT just found out it's US ONLY

The band are currently out in North America for their dates in Mexico, USA and the re-scheduled Canadian gig.

The band have stopped by 98-7FM in LA and you can listen to the interview at midday Wednesday(PST) (8PM UK) or online at their website along with Liam co-hosting the show 'The Rewind at Noon'.

Check it out HERE!

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis - Book Launch Invitation – "A Year On The Road" by photographer Paul Slattery

Please find an invitation to a special Oasis book launch of "A Year On The Road" by photographer Paul Slattery.

This book of rare Oasis photographs follows the band in their early years prior to and following the launch of Definitely Maybe.

Wednesday 26th November 2008 at the Gibson Guitar Studio

29-35 Rathbone Street, London. W1T 1NJ – www.gibson.com

Source: Email from www.gibson.com

For more information about the book click here.

Oasis T-Shirt For For £5 With Free Delivery

Oasis - Logo - Play Exclusive (Black - T-Shirt)

Play.com have a Oasis T-shirt for £5.00 with free delivery to the UK.

Click here for more details.

Oasis World Tour Continues In Mexico Today

After a short break the Oasis world tour continues in Mexico later today.

26.11.2008: Mexico City - Sports Palace (Palacio de los Deportes)
28.11.2008: Guadalajara - VFG Arena Mexico
29.11.2008: Monterrey - Arena Monterrey (SOLD OUT)

The band then head to the USA and Canada for the following dates.

03.12.2008: Oakland (USA) - Oracle Arena
04.12.2008: Los Angeles (USA)- Staples Center
06.12.2008: Las Vegas (USA) - The Pearl
08.12.2008: Denver (USA) - Broomfield Events Cener
10.12.2008: Minneapolis (USA) - Target Center
12.12.2008: Chicago (USA) - Allstate Arena
13.12.2008: Detroit (USA) - Palace Of Auburn Hills
15.12.2008: London (Canada) - The John Labatt Centre
17.12.2008: New York (USA) - Madison Square Gardens
19.12.2008: Camden (USA) - Susquehanna Center
20.12.2008: Washington (USA) - GMU Patriot Center

Tickets are still available for all US tour dates visit the official site here for more details.

Are you going to any of the above gigs send in your pictures to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will add them to tour archive and use them on the site.

Inside This Months Guitar World Magazine

In the new issue of Guitar World magazine, there is a three page interview with Noel Gallagher.

Noel Gallagher Interview For Norwegian TV

Interview with Noel Gallagher for Norwegian TV.

Dizzee Rascal Wants To Work With Oasis Despite Jay-Z Comments

Rapper wants Noel Gallagher for new project

Dizzee Rascal has said he wants to work with Noel Gallagher – despite the Oasis guitarist's opposition to Jay-Z playing Glastonbury this year

Speaking to BBC Radio 1, the British rapper said he did not believe Gallagher was against hip-hop.

"I don't think he hates hip-hop. Maybe he just felt a way about Jay-Z being at Glastonbury or hip-hop being at Glastonbury. He's into music," said Dizzee Rascal. "There must be some hip-hop over the years that he must've liked, or Liam. They're party animals, so somewhere they must've enjoyed some hip-hop track."

Dizzee, who collaborated with Arctic Monkeys on the track 'Temptation Greets You Like A Naughty Friend' in 2007, added that he was now keen to combine his and the main Oasis songwriter's talents.

"Yeah [I'd still like to work with Noel]. That's another thing to me like working with the Arctic Monkeys," he said. "Obviously they're [Oasis] older and they set their bar from earlier."

Source: www.nme.com

Oasis’ Fallen Empire

Earlier this month, Noel Gallagher opined that he abhors comparisons to a certain outfit from Oxford. "The biggest criticism that the music press has against us is that we're not Radiohead," the Oasis guitarist told Plavi Radio in Zagreb, Croatia. "Correct me if I'm wrong, they've been making the same record since Kid A, have they not?"

Aside from his rather surly disposition, Noel's chief character flaw has always been a dearth of self-awareness. It's essentially why Oasis' aesthetic has evolved very little since those budding early days of bar chords, root notes on bass, and 4/4 drumbeats. It's why, somewhere right now, Noel is talking glowingly about the Beatles. And it's why the group hitched its wagon to Britpop — a cultural movement that centered on the dizzying rebranding of England — despite the noted lack of an Anglocentric tinge to Oasis' canon. While Britpop contemporaries were achingly provincial (hear the social and generational malaise captured on Blur's Parklife, or the claustrophobic, smutty elements of urban life portrayed in Suede's self-titled debut), Oasis was relatively unconscious during an extraordinary stirring of national consciousness.

Sure, the band had the necessary gestures down pat: singer Liam Gallagher famously spouting, "It's the greatest flag in the world — we're here to do something about it!" during his first visit to the Creation Records offices; Noel Gallagher playing a guitar emblazoned with the Union Jack at a 1996 show at Manchester's Maine Road stadium. However, penetrate that slick production work, pare away those fat melodies and overlapping guitars, and, well, you get some truth: The Biggest Band Since the Beatles was all style and — short of those legendary mountains of cocaine — no substance.

Post-Britpop, the vacuousness only deepened. Releases like 2000's Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and 2002's Heathen Chemistry further proved that the depth of Oasis' genre-mining related to its lack of focus. Nicking from countless English predecessors (T-Rex, the Kinks, the Stone Roses, etc.) wasn't enough of a sin; now Oasis was keen on making it all sound lumbering and banal.

Which brings us to Dig Out Your Soul, the group's eighth studio album and possibly the final nail in Oasis' pine box. Aside from "The Shock of the Lightning," where Liam cements his status as the most skillful vocalist ever at pronouncing long vowel sounds ("Love is a time macheeeeen/Up on the silver screeeeen"), and the poignant "I'm Outta Time" (Britpop's end theme if there ever was one), Dig Out Your Soul lacks any of the melodic verve and scuffed menace typical of the band's early efforts.

"Waiting for the Rapture" and "(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady" plod along underneath Noel's stock chord progressions and flat vocals. "Bag It Up" is a blues-bar stomp that's largely forgettable; it's then poorly rehashed later as "The Nature of Reality." And of course, no Oasis record would be complete without the Gallaghers' aimless nostalgia for You Know Who. Some instances are subtle: The opening drums to "Falling Down" are a nod to "Tomorrow Never Knows," while the coda to "The Turning" cribs from "Dear Prudence." Others border on idolatry, like the insertion of a John Lennon soundbite into "I'm Outta Time."

That spacious guitar-and-drum sound, those big rhymes and anthemic choruses — they're here once more, Oasis still reaching for a pop grandiosity the group will never quite grasp. When Britpop was at its heady peak, the NME's Steven Wells made waves by panning the cultural movement, saying it was posturing typical of a faltering empire folks no longer gave a shit about. Fitting, really, because the same could be written of Oasis and Dig Out Your Soul.

Source: www.sfweekly.com

New Court Date Set In Assault Of Noel Gallagher

Daniel Sullivan, the 47-year-old man from Pickering who was charged with assaulting Noel Gallagher in September, has a new court date.

Scheduled for his first post-bail court appearance today, Sullivan is now scheduled to be back in court for another hearing Dec. 16.

The charges stem from an incident at the Toronto stop of the Virgin Festival at Toronto Island Park, when a man leapt on stage while the headlining British band were performing their hit song "(What's the Story) Morning Glory."

The incident became seen far and wide after footage was uploaded to Youtube.com.

Source: www.thestar.com

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

Now then, it's been a couple of weeks. How's things?

Been in that Las Vegas for the last couple of days. Me and wots'iz'name were carrying Ricky Hatton's belts out for his world title fight against Paulie something-or-other. A great, great night. What a buzz! The atmospherics at Ricky's fights are unbelievable.

Met David Beckham for the very first time and I can tell you he smells magnificent!!

Fuck me, we had a proper drink up afterwards. Felt like a lump of shit yesterday though.

On the way to LA today. Got to do a couple of days of press then fly down to Mexico. Few gigs there. Back to the States for 3 weeks touring.

It's good to be back.

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Xbox 360 Festival Promises Tons Of Downloadable Goodies

Hot on the heels of its brand new interface, Xbox is getting its own festival. Well, an Xtival, actually. It’s a 72 hour marathon of exclusive games, music and movie content delivered straight to the console.

The first bit of downloadable goodness will come in the form of an HD music video from The Prodigy. The Invaders Must Die promo will be available from midday on November 28th, ahead of its official March 2009 release.

Oasis are also getting involved, “headlining” the virtual festival on 29 November. Xbox owners will be able to download three songs from their No 1 album Dig Out Your Soul for Guitar Hero World Tour, available exclusively on Xbox LIVE.

Not enough for you? The last day of the “festival” will see Franz Ferdinand release the video for their new single ahead of its January 2009 release.

On top of all that there’ll be “exclusive content” from forthcoming movie The Watchman with director Zack Snyder offering up seven webisodes for free and in High Definition during Xtival and beyond.

There’ll also be exclusive competitions and more. Check out www.xbox.com/xtival08 for more details, or just flick on your console on the 28th!

Source: www.electricpig.co.uk

On The Road With Ricky Hatton And Oasis' Noel And Liam Gallagher

Right now boxing champ Ricky Hatton and friends Oasis' Noel and Liam Gallagher should be halfway through what's sure to be a riotous road trip from Las Vegas to Mexico.

The Manchester mates planned a four-day jolly after The Hitman's triumphant win on Sunset Strip at the weekend and with all three loving a good knees up, they're sure to be enjoying themselves.

What exactly they're getting up to we don't know but we've tried to imagine how their journey might look if it was being made into a Hollywood movie.

Take a look at The Mirror's efforts and if you have any ideas of your own email ben.rankin@mirror.co.uk

See more by clicking here.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Oasis Rehearsal Studio Footage

A few videos from the secret show that Oasis did earlier this year in London for a handful of fans, as they finished preparations for their World Tour.

The Shock Of The Lightning
To Be Where There's Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Importance Of Being Idle
I'm Outta Time
Don't Look Back In Anger
Falling Down

The songs below have yet to be uploaded to YouTube, when they do I will edit the post and post them here.

Songbird
Slide Away
Ain't Got Nothin'
Supersonic

Standing On The Edge Of The Noise will also be shown on Channel 4 - November 29th at 12:20am and also on Channel 4 HD - November 29th at 12:20am.