Sony/ATV Rolls With Rest Of Oasis

Sony/ATV has confirmed a worldwide publishing deal with Oasis members Liam Gallagher, Glem Archer and Andy Bell.

The deal means all members of the band’s publishing is now through Sony/ATV as Noel Gallagher was already with the publisher.

All four of the band are among the writing credits for the group’s seventh studio album Dig Out Your Soul, which debuted at number one in the UK in October with a first-week sale of 200,000 units. It also entered the top five of the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Liam Gallagher’s contributions to the album comprise the group’s new single I’m Outta Time, which is expected to chart in the Top 20 this Sunday, Ain’t Got Nothin’, Soldier On and the Japanese version of the album's bonus track I Believe In All, while Gem Archer wrote To Be Where There’s Life and Andy Bell The Nature Of Reality. The remainder of the album is penned by Noel Gallagher.

Source: www.musicweek.com

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for Oasisinet.com

We were up in northern California yesterday. Oakland. The scenery from the airplane window on the way up was stunning - stunning, I tells ya!

Back on the road with Ryan Adams. Good to see him again.

Gig weren't all that. Had a few "technical problems" which pretty much amounts to cunts not doing their cunting jobs properly. I won't go into detail - I'll be here all morning. Mind you, someone in the front row fainted half way through. It's a strange sight when someone gets oxygen and then stretchered out while the band plays on!

Back in LA (AGAIN!!) today. Actually gonna get to do a gig here tonight. Seems like we've been here for weeks without doing anything.

They reckon Morrissey's on the guest list tonight! Really? I'll believe it when I see him. An Oasis concert doesn't sound like the natural environment where one would see a Morrissey.

Beautiful day though. I'm off for a walk with my girl and my boy.

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis In Los Angeles Setlist

Last nights setlist from the Staples Center, Los Angeles, USA.

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

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Oasis and Ryan Adams Photo Gallery In Oakland

Manchester, England’s Oasis and New York’s Ryan Adams & the Cardinals both focused on workmanlike songcraft as they opened the United States stretch of their joint world tour last night in Oakland, California. Although both bands are known for the verbal swagger of their respective leaders, Oasis and the Cardinals both kept the emphasis firmly on their music: Adams barely spoke a word, while guitarist Noel Gallagher’s most pointed comment came when a nearby fan passed out during through a grinding “Slide Away.” “Did somebody get overwhelmed?” he quipped. “I’m sorry about that. Buy a T-shirt on the way out, please

Photo Gallery: Oasis and Ryan Adams Kick Off Their Tour in Oakland

The Britpop icons remained typically immobile bellow four massive video panels that mixed live projections with canned Pop Art imagery. Liam Gallagher clenched a tambourine in his teeth as the band opened with “Rock N Roll Star,” then held it behind his back in a defiant stance maintained throughout the night. Although his contemplative “I’m Outta Time” proved Oasis hasn’t run out of ways to effectively raid the Beatles’ songbook, it was mid-90s hits like “Wonderwall” that generated the most sing-along enthusiasm from an otherwise strangely sedate audience. Perhaps a newly mellow Adams had chilled the crowd: The former bad boy proved himself ready to inherit Tom Petty’s mantle with a set of countrified mid-tempo rock. While bassist Chris Feinstein roamed center stage, Adams humbly stood off to the side and plied ballad after ballad until his Cardinals finally let loose an anxious and succinct “Magick.” And then they flew away.

Set List: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
“Cobwebs”
“Crossed Out Name”
“Everybody Knows”
“Fix It”
“When the Stars Go Blue”
“Let It Ride”
“Go Easy”
“Come Pick Me Up”
“Two”
“Sink Ships”
“I Taught Myself How to Grow Old”
“Magick”

Set List: Oasis
“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”

Encore:
“Don’t Look Back In Anger”
“Falling Down”
“Champagne Supernova”
“I Am The Walrus”

Source: www.oasisinet.com

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.

Vote For Live4ever

Congratulations to Live4ever who have been chosen by the judging panel to go through to the on-air rounds of the Absolute Rock-Off!

Click here to cast your vote for the Forum NOW!!!

They are going up against the 'We Are James Forum' in Round 1.

The forum will now go into a playoff against another. The matches will open on Ben Jones’s show over the next week or so, and then Absolute Radio listeners will have a day to vote on their favourite playlist.

The winner will then go through to the next round.

Ding Dong Merrily I'm High

At this time of year you can't get away from those catchy Christmas songs.

Liam & Noel Gallagher, Snoop Dogg, Jonnny Rotten and more join forces for 'Ding Dong Merrily I'm High'.

Source: YouTube

Adams Is An Oasis In A Musical Desert

But he may still be overshadowed by the more ballyhooed act for which he opens

Based on musical accomplishment alone, Ryan Adams should be headlining a bill with Oasis on Saturday night at the Pearl. But alas, the bigger egos — and bigger record companies — appear to have won out.

Undertaking its first U.S. tour in three years, Oasis, anchored by the cantankerous Gallagher brothers (Noel and Liam), comes to Las Vegas to support the band’s seventh studio effort, “Stop the Clocks.” Apparently, the British band, according to a news release promoting the show, has reinvented itself as a bunch of “indie rockers,” with a set of “hauntingly familiar” songs.

Oasis, it must be noted, is as indie as Britney Spears, but promoters deliver on the second count, and it’s because the band’s new record fits nicely among its aggressively mediocre output.

Don’t get us wrong. Oasis was great in 1994, when “Definitely Maybe” became the fastest-selling debut album in British history. Serious nods to hits “Supersonic” and “Live Forever.”

A year later Oasis was even better, releasing the classic “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” The Gallagher brothers, fueled by drink and drug, were inescapable. MTV even needed subtitles to keep up. “Wonderwall” and “Champagne Supernova” were everywhere.

With Axl Rose off working on something called “Chinese Democracy,” the brash, snobbish embrace of rock ’n’ roll decadence was just the right medicine to get us over a bad grunge hangover.

But then came the talk about being bigger than the Beatles. And for all the talk, what did we get? — the wholly forgettable “Be Here Now,” in itself a reference to John Lennon’s quip about the philosophy of rock ’n’ roll. The Gallaghers spent the subsequent years churning out three generic albums and a live record.

Nevertheless, it’s hard to beat Oasis when it comes to solid British rock. Here’s to hoping for the classics.

Around the time Oasis’ star was fading, Ryan Adams, leading the alt-country outfit Whiskeytown, was taking off. When his band called it quits, the prolific Adams embarked on a solo career, releasing an album a year since his 2000 debut, “Heartbreaker,” including three in 2005.

To be sure, it wasn’t all good — far from it. But Adams just couldn’t stop himself. Take, for instance, last year’s “Easy Tiger,” among the better efforts. Adams, with some assistance, whittled more than 100 songs down to the 13 that made the final cut. The praise was steady and it clearly went to the songwriter’s head. While recovering from oral surgery and a broken heart, Adams (living in the Chelsea Hotel, of course) covered the Strokes’ debut, “Is This It,” on mandolin and banjo. Come on.

Stunts like that prompted former Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg to suggest in a 2003 interview that it might do Adams some good to get his teeth kicked in. Bruised, Adams told Rolling Stone recently that he “can’t listen to (Westerberg’s) music again, ever.” Come on.

Later, Adams reportedly went through therapy to get over antagonistic fans who would come to his shows and shout Bryan Adams song requests. “Summer of ’69!” The shows were notoriously erratic. Consider a 2003 gig in Minneapolis (Westerberg’s hometown, by the way), where a drunk and rambling Adams played several songs twice, allegedly excused himself from the stage to puke and continuously complained about the bad sound system. (A Google search for “Ryan Adams” and “tantrums” gets 16,900 hits.)

Last year Adams, on a steady diet of alcohol and speedballs, hit rock bottom. He quit cold turkey and sobriety seems to have served him well. “Cardinology,” Adams’ new record with his band the Cardinals, is truly a great album, a testament to the power of picking your spots instead of releasing the floodgates.

With just one real rocker on the roster, “Magick,” the record is a low-key, largely acoustic, country-rock affair, chock full of Grateful Dead and pedal steel. It’s just the type of music that pops in a small venue such as the Pearl.

Adams has summed up his influences like this: “Growing up, I had a Grateful Dead Steal Your Face sticker on my skateboard next to a pentagram logo and a Danzig sticker. I couldn’t differentiate.”

Here’s to hoping the therapy holds and that all of that shines through Saturday.

If you’re lucky, Adams might even play his acoustic cover of Oasis’ “Wonderwall.” That one earned him a Grammy nomination.

Source: www.lasvegassun.com

Oasis In Oakland Concert Review

Many have wondered why Oasis, one of the most popular live acts in its native U.K., isn’t a bigger draw on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.

It’s a good question, given how consistently great the Britpop band’s albums have been over the last 15 years, and one that will probably be debated as long as the highly volatile group sticks together.

The basis for a solid hypothesis, however, could be readily found during the Manchester troupe’s gig on Wednesday night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland. The 100-minute set was low on energy, personality, theatrics and razzle-dazzle, all of which usually goes over like gangbusters with American audiences.

As with past Bay Area outings, Oasis just showed up, plugged in and performed the songs in a straight-forward, straight-ahead manner. That’s just how the band does it – or, maybe, that’s just how the musicians do it on this side of the pond.

Rick Allen, a longtime Oasis fan from the U.K. that is now living in San Francisco, was at the Oakland show and was shocked at what he saw.

“If they’d come out onstage like this in England, with this lack of energy, they’d get booed off the stage after two songs,” he said.

To that point, the 6,000-or-so fans in attendance – a less than half-full house - should feel grateful that they weren’t watching the concert in England. For if the band had been booed off the stage after two songs, listeners would have missed 19 other tunes, many of which rank among the best pop-rock numbers in recent history.

The set list was terrific, a proper sampling of the many wonders found on the band’s seven studio albums. The group – led by the brothers Gallagher, vocalist Liam and guitarist-vocalist Noel – paid particular attention to its most recent offering, “Dig Out Your Soul,” but also played most of the old hits.

The songs are so well-written, full of anthemic sing-along choruses, and feature so many wickedly slick guitar parts that they more than compensate for any performance issues. Indeed, it was hard to worry about a lack of energy from the band when one was singing along, at top volume, to such smashes as “Rock ‘N’ Roll Star,” “The Importance of Being Idle” and “Slide Away.”

The players did seem a bit more motivated toward the end of the night, closing up the main set with a fiery run through “Wonderwall” and “Supersonic” then returning for a four-tune encore that included a psychedelic cover of the Beatles’ “I am the Walrus.”

In all, it was a much better offering than what the fans saw immediately prior with Ryan Adams and the Cardinals. The hipster alt-country band leader, a true critics’ favorite, set the table for Oasis and did even less than the headliner to connect with the crowd.

Each person has his or her own list of the most-overrated performers in the business, and Adams most definitely belongs on mine.

Source: www.insidebayarea.com

Oasis On Twitter

Oasis now have a page on Twitter. The page will be updated with their comings and goings and all the latest news. To check out the page, click here.

Twitter is one of the many ways of keeping up to date on the band's activities. If Twitter's not your thing, you can also check them out at the below pages:

Bebo
Facebook
iLike
MySpace
Oasisinet widget
YouTube

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Mouthpiece Talks Fitness, French Fries And Free Music

Even his combative brother Liam knows you don't start a scrap that you can't finish with the pugnacious Noel Gallagher.

Especially now, when the Oasis leader — thanks to a strict workout regimen that incorporates boxing — is in his slimmest, trimmest fighting form in years. He's so fit at 41, in fact, that he just foiled a crime in his native London by confronting two hoods attempting to steal a former Bond girl's purebred dog. Even when he was tackled by a crazed fan onstage in Toronto recently, breaking three ribs and bruising another five in the process, he picked himself up, grabbed his guitar and plowed painfully on with the set anyway.

So Noel figures his body can still handle the occasional Bacchanalian road-trip party during the band's tour on behalf of its latest album, Dig Out Your Soul.

"Even though things start to not repair themselves as quick as they once did at my age, I think being in a band keeps you young, at least mentally, and I have a lot of nervous energy, which helps," he explains. "Plus, I'm lucky enough to be able to have home gym equipment. I've always shied away from exercise because of the clothes, the gear you have to wear when you do it. But I'm not a fitness freak, and when I'm on the road, I've gotta say it's just fucking club sandwiches and french fries, and I kinda like that. Because on the road, it's not supposed to be a health farm, now is it?"

And while much of Gallagher's Dig material is lyrically — even musically — zenlike, à la "The Turning," "Waiting for the Rapture" and the mantra-ish single "The Shock of the Lightning," he's not above taking a few swipes at any dastardly downloader who wants it, gratis.

"All that stuff about giving music away for free on the Internet?" he says, sniffing disdainfully. "We're not giving ours away, because it costs too much fucking money to make. But if some kid out there who can't afford to buy our record can find it for free, more power to 'em. But putting it out for free like some bands are doing? Get the fuck out — no fucking way."

Oasis still sounds thuggishly old-school when it comes to modern technology — with one major personal concession, Gallagher acknowledges. He sees the iPod as "the greatest invention, ever. And me, personally? I carry my entire record collection around in my pocket. Fuck me, man — it doesn't get any better than that!"

And besides, he adds, a brief Oasis summer tour of Britain just went on sale.

"We just sold nearly a million tickets in two days. And you cannot download that shared experience. You cannot download 50,000 people in a stadium, and even if you could, it wouldn't be the same. And that's the greatest thing.

"With all this stuff about music being given away for free and all that bollocks, if you can play your instruments, if you can get up onstage and inspire people, then you've got it made. D'ya know what I mean?"

Source: www.csindy.com

Noel Gallagher Wants To Be A Priest

Noel Gallagher says he wants to be a priest.

The Oasis guitarist - famed for his hard partying - believes he would be well-suited to a career in the Catholic Church if he wasn't a rock star.

He said: "I'd be a priest. I would bring a healthy dose of reality. Put your money in the basket and let's drink some wine.

"When the wine is gone down we'll sit around and try and work out what the deal is with life and the universe. I would be a different kind of priest, see."

Noel also claimed he should be the band's frontman because he gets more attention from women than his brother, singer Liam.

He added to Britain's Elle magazine: "Liam used to be a sex symbol until he got his hair cut like a woman.

"I ooze sex appeal. I should be the frontman. It's a curse - women won't leave me alone."

Source: BANG Media International

It's Supermarket Treat For Noel Gallagher

Most blokes see the weekly food shop as a chore. But Oasis lord Noel Gallagher loves it.

He stepped out for groceries with missus Sara MacDonald and son Donovan in Hollywood.

Noel reckons supermarkets keep him grounded.

He said: “I can be doing I Am The Walrus at rehearsal then, ten minutes later, I’m in Waitrose and I feel normal.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Photo Credit: Rex Features

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 (see below on how to create a playlist). 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.

If you haven't made a playlist for your profile yet, it's easy! Here are step by step instructions:

• View the Oasis albums in the left of the band's music player to hear all the albums.
• Click the 'Add' Button on the right hand side of the player
• Make sure the box 'My Profile Playlist' is checked and click 'Ok'
• Add 10 Oasis songs to your playlist and post a comment letting us know it?s live.

Or, you can create a playlist using My Music:

• Go to My Music. Click here.
• Click on 'My Profile Playlists' under 'My Public Playlists' to view your profile playlist.
• You can search for songs to add to your playlist by artist name, song title, or album title. Results will appear in center panel.
• Pick the tracks you like and drag and drop them into your profile playlist! Make sure the box in the center panel that says 'display on my profile' is checked.
• Playlist will now appear on your profile.

Good luck!

Source: www.myspace.com/oasis

Oasis In Oakland Setlist And Videos

Wonderwall



Champagne Supernova

Last nights setlist from the Oracle Arena, Oakland, USA.

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

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.

Dig Out The Soul Of Oasis

When Noel Gallagher turned over production duties, it gave him a chance to dig out the soul of Oasis - and to spend more time drinking

Noel Gallagher has returned to his roots. For the Oasis helmsman, the homecoming has not involved laborious genealogical research or reuniting with childhood friends. Instead, it's meant ceding control of production duties on the band's latest album, Dig Out Your Soul, setting out on a worldwide tour and getting drunk. Really drunk.

"I felt like I'd gone as far as I could with my own thing," Gallagher explains. "I'm not really technically proficient in the studio. I know how to get one sound, and it's fucking great, but I've kind of gotten a bit bored of it now."

In passing the responsibilities of production entirely to Dave Sardi, Gallagher said he had more space to focus on priorities.

"It allowed me to focus more on drinking and kind of just being in the band as opposed to being one foot in the band and one foot in the production team," he says. "But the main thing was the drinking."

The newfound creative freedom and access to alcohol wasn't the only shift for Gallagher or his brother Liam or the band as a whole on Soul. From the dynamic of the songwriting process to the recording method, Gallagher says the new disc represents a departure.

"This is the first time we've ever not played an album live in the studio together," Gallagher points out. "This is all virtually hung around a drum loop and a bass line, and then we just start and we build it from there. So we were trying to create it like you would create dance music; we weren't really set on the arrangements. We had the songs, the words and the melodies. The rest of it was all up for grabs."

Coupled with shifts in the band's personnel (Zak Starkey left the band and was replaced by former Robbie Williams drummer Chris Sharrock for the current tour), the new method has made for some uncertain moments in the band's live performances.

"Number one," he says, "we had to break in a new drummer, and number two, we had to play songs off a new album that we'd never played before. It had all been done on the computer. So for the first few weeks, it was a bit — I gotta say, it was a bit shit, it was a bit, fucking, 'Oh, my God, this isn't going to work.' But it clicked in the end."

The band's hard-won coherence has helped Gallagher rediscover the joys of touring that he first discovered doing roadie work as a teenager.

"I like being on the road, you know," Gallagher declares. "There's a lot of bullshit you put up with, just bullshit — but such is life, I guess. It doesn't take me long to get into the lifestyle of, you know, rock and roll and partying. That's what we live for, no?"

Source: www.westword.com

Oasis 'Dig Out Your Soul' World Tour Bootleg Artwork

Dig Out Your Soul World Tour Bootleg Artwork By Marcos

CD Artwork

Black Island Studios, London, England - 14.8.2008 - (Front) (Back)
Wamu Theater, Seattle, USA - 26.8.2008 - (Front) (Back)
GM Place, Vancouver, Canada - 27.8.2008 - (Front) (Back)
Pengrowth Saddledome Arena, Calgary, Canada 30.8.2008 (Front) (Back)

Scotiabank Place, Ottawa, Canada 4.9.2008 (Front) (Back)
Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada 5.9.2008 (Front) (Back)
Island Park, Toronto, Canada 7.9.2008 (Front) (Back)

Echo Arena, Liverpool, England 8.10.2008 (Front) (Back)
Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield, England 11.10.2008 (Front) (Back)
National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, England 13.10.2008 (Front) (Back)
Wembley Arena, London, England 16.10.2008 (Front) (Back) (Back 2)
International Centre, Bournemouth, 20.10.2008 (Front) (Back)
Roundhouse, London, England 26.10.2008 (Front) (Back)
Odyssey Arena, Belfast, N. Ireland 29.10.2008 (Front) (Back)

SECC, Glasgow, Scotland 5.11.2008 (Front) (Back)
Gloria Theatre, Cologne, Germany 7.11.2008 (Front) (Back)
Falkoner Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark 8.11.2008 (Front) (Back)

DVD Artwork

Scotiabank Place, Ottawa, Canada 4.9.2008
Island Park, Toronto, Canada 7.9.2008

Wembley Arena, London, England 16.10.2008
Roundhouse, London, England 26.10.2008

I have been having trouble with updating my site for the past few weeks, I will post all the new artworks that Marcos makes in the blog until the problem is sorted.

Thanks to friend of the site Marcos.

Tales From the Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for Oasisinet.com

There's a fog upon LA (the quiet one said that). I love the fog. We don't get it much in England anymore (not round my manor anyway).

I'm growing to like this town more and more. Is that wrong?

Went to a party the other night. Andy was dj'ing. Speed dj'ing, in fact. Like a crackhead. He must've set some record for the most amount of tunes played in the least amount of time.

Got 2 days off now. Not much fun without the sun though. There's always shopping, I suppose.

Seen the shittest busker of all time yesterday in Santa Monica, but I did purchase a lovely pair of brown cords.

That's pretty much it.

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Mexican Press For Oasis

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Special thanks to whatever-isay.blogspot.com, click into each one to make them bigger.

Exclusive Oasis Live Footage & More

To mark the release of I'm Outta Time this week, today's exclusive Oasis live clip is I Am The Walrus.

We've got Champagne Supernova coming tomorrow but until then, why not check out Rock N' Roll Star and The Meaning Of Soul by clicking here.

Source: www.msn.com

The footage is from a gig which Oasis played for a handful of fans, as they finished preparations for their World Tour earlier this year in London.

FINGERS CROSSED THAT 'MY BIG MOUTH' WILL BE SHOWN SOMETIME SOON.