The Enemy On The New Album And Touring With Oasis

Coventry boys The Enemy on the release of their new album next spring and the fourthcoming stadium tour supporting Oasis.

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Noel Gallagher Interview

Before he even gets on the phone backstage at an arena in Oakland you can hear Noel Gallagher swearing up a storm. Oasis is big enough and powerful enough that neither Noel nor brother Liam has had to censor themselves while speaking.

But he wants to speak, as he's proud of the new album, Dig Out Your Soul, a focused, hard-rock album unlike anything Oasis has done in the past.

It's not all smooth. Gallagher was injured in Toronto earlier this year when a fan got onstage and violently knocked him off of it, sending him to the hospital and causing a YouTube sensation.

You're backstage a few minutes before the first night of your tour kicks off. Do you ever get nerves anymore?
"No. I feel sorry for the people who buy tickets for the first couple of nights because you're always a bit rusty. We haven't played now ...we've only played three times in the past month. The first couple of gigs will be rough. But what's the worst thing that can go wrong?"

You found that out in Toronto, didn't you?
"Well, yeah, all right. Other than being violently attacked, right? It's probably a million-to-one that'll happen again. Apart from that what can go wrong? People start slow hand-clapping and walk out. (Expletive) that. I don't give a (expletive).

You had to change drummers from Zak Starkey to Chris Sharrock. Was that a problem?
"Major (expletive) pain in the ass. It's a major pain in the ass. But every time we've gotten a drummer they've been slightly better than the last one. Chris, I hope he just sticks around. I think he will, to be honest. He's from the same part of the world as I am, from the northwest of England, so there's already that. He hasn't got that much of an ego. He just feels like he's right for the band. As for drumming skills they've each got their strong points. Zak was on the (expletive) money every night. Chris is a little bit looser but he plays in a bit more Oasis style. Chris is great to watch, believe you me. There's no point in comparing the two."

Dig Out Your Soul seemed very focused. Was that the intent going in?
"The big difference was I gave up the control of co-producing. I always co-produce the records. I don't' trust anyone else. I trust Dave (Sardy) now. Here you are. You (expletive) tell me what to do. I can't be bothered with it anymore. Instead of sitting by the mixing desk.... I could focus on what I was going to drink that night. It's a big deal for me because usually I'm (expletive) twiddling knobs till 6 in the morning."
The other guys in the band are writing more songs. How did that come about?
"I'm more comfortable with the band having everybody contributing songs. That's what bands should be about. I was sick of all the writing, all the recording, all the (expletive) producing, coming up with ideas for the artwork, all that (expletive). My name's not on the front of it, so (expletive) that, know what I mean? I said to Gem (Archer) and Andy (Bell) when they joined they'd better be prepared to write songs. If you're going to be a (expletive) session musician then I'm going to pay you like one. If you wanna be in the band you'd better start contributing. The first year was a bit difficult because they were kind of writing songs like what I write. I remember having to say 'Look, you have to write how you write, don't worry about me. You can't write songs like I write. That's what I do. Don't do my thing, do your own thing.'"

You've done rich, famous, stadiums, honors, awards. What gives you satisfaction in music these days?
"(Long pause). Eh...it's quite diminishing returns once you've done it all, I have to be honest with you. Um...I don't know. I just don't know what else to do. Don't get me wrong, I love (expletive) getting up onstage and playing the guitar in front of (expletive) thousands of people. Who wouldn't like that? It's glorified showing off, do you know what I mean? This record has given me a great deal of satisfaction. I don't really analyze it that much. I get up in the morning and I'm having a shave, am I happy with what I'm doing? I absolutely am. If I'm not happy I'll go and (expletive) do something else. That day's not come yet."

Do you need a record label anymore?
"We don't' have a record label in England. We do it ourselves. In America we're on Warner Brothers or reprise simply because we don't live here. What are we going to do, mail-order records all over the (expletive) world? That'd be insane. In England we look after ourselves. Around the rest of the world we picked whatever labels gave us the best deal. We're on various record labels now. It's insane."

Does that arrangement give you more power?
"I couldn't tell you. I won't pay my manager 20% of everything I earn then do his job for him. You look after this, I'll look after getting (expletive) drunk, writing songs and being cool."

You're close with Russell Brand. Have you considered acting?
(laughs). To be honest he buzzes me on a regular basis about this, let's write a (expletive) sitcom, blah, blah, blah. I think I'd be too embarrassed. I've been on film sets and all that. When I'm in the studio I do it once, maybe twice. If I do a take for a third time it's because somebody (expletive) up and I'm not happy. If I'm doing the same (expletive) thing all day, 98 takes, I'd hang myself. I get in there, bang, get it done, get out."

Back to the attack in Toronto - what was that guy trying to do? What was his motive?
"This court case has been adjourned twice now, till January. Then we'll find out what his (expletive) explanation is for all this."

Does it affect the way you feel onstage now?
"Nope. Nope. Not at all."

What's it like playing stadiums in Europe versus arenas in America?
"In America it's more like a concert. It's all seats. Have you ever seen us in England? There's 60,000 people in the stadium and you all get carried away with it. (Expletive) knows what the gig is like. You're just in there an it's like whish, then it's over and you go 'Wow, what happened there?' In America it's a concert where people are listening. In England people don't listen. I'm not putting that down, it's a great thing, I wouldn't' have it any other way. People just let off stream and (expletive) go for it. In America they study you a bit more, which makes you play better, I think."

Do you run into creative dry spells?
"Oh (expletive) yeah. Just after Be Here Now till Don't Believe the Truth was a real uninspiring time for me. If I'm not inspired by the music around me I write (expletive) songs and I write songs for the sake of it. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants and Heathen Chemistry, there's kind of a few good tunes of my own but the bulk of it is fairly uninspiring. The one lesson I've learned from that is when it's not happening just (expletive) go on vacation. If I was to give anybody advice it's just don't chase it. Wait till it comes back. If your dog runs away don't go looking for the dog. The dog will find you when he's hungry, know what I mean? Who wants to go look for a (expletive) dog? That's mental behavior."

What's different about the new disc?
"It's an album. It's not a collection of (expletive) songs. I'm not putting us in the bracket with these bands, but it's an album the way Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd used to make albums. Every track on a Pink Floyd album is (expletive) great, but they also have context within the album .... When you put it where it's supposed to be listened to it's amazing. Albums are supposed to be journeys. With the advent if iTunes and cherry-picking songs the album is dead. Now it's 'I'll have track one, track three, track seven and track nine.' (Expletive) all that. You wouldn't do that with Dark Side of the Moon. You wouldn't do it with Led Zep IV. You can't do it with Sgt. Pepper. What's the point? We tried to make an album in that respect where it's right. If some kid is gonna cherry-pick three songs, then (expletive) him. Know what I mean? That's his problem. If they don't make sense that's his (expletive) fault."

What's coming up musically?
"I've got a (expletive) of songs. It could be electronic. It could be folk. It could be psychedelic folk. It just depends on what I feel like. The next Oasis record is going to be a difficult one. We've been trying to make the album we've made this time for a long time. I love this album. ... it has a certain direction and certain sound, while some Oasis albums previously have been a collection of songs. This is a proper album. Out of those 30 songs I could make three albums, all vastly different. Or it could be space reggae."

What's the view of America now from England?
"It's almost become really cool again. ... you can't really generalize about American people because there's (expletive) too many of you. When people think of Americans they kinda generalize - fat, loud, driving a big car. If you've been over here it's not like that at all, you know what I mean? I don't mean to be condescending and use the word normal, but the bulk of the people are just like the rest of us. Unfortunately the people who have passports are (expletive) idiots. My own take on it is recently, since George Bush was in town, when the real crunch time came America didn't do the right thing. Whereas this time America has done the right thing. It's not because Barack Obama is black. It's because they elected a Democrat. That's the most important thing. The words he says about the environment are really powerful. If he gets on with what he says he'll do, it benefits America. And if it benefits America they say it benefits the world."

Source: www.rockymountainnews.com

Win An Oasis Collage By Photographer Michael Spencer-Jones

Oasis collage

To celebrate the release of Out Of The Blue, a fantastic portfolio of photographs of Oasis by photographer Michael Spencer-Jones, the Observer Music Monthly is offering readers the chance to win a limited edition collage of one of Manchester's greatest bands.

We're giving away three A3-sized (42cm x 30cm) inkjet print collages, created from over 100 different photographs by Spencer-Jones, who shot all of Oasis' iconic single and album sleeves between 1994 and 1997. These are from an exclusive run of just 250, each one signed and numbered on the front by Michael Spencer Jones, and will be supplied unframed and tubed.

For more info on Out Of The Blue, see www.snapgalleries.com

Enter competition here

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Oasis In Los Angeles Review

It took Oasis only four songs Thursday night to start a ruckus at Staples Center, where a squad of security guards dragged a man from his front-row seat after he exchanged some unintelligible words with Liam Gallagher, the veteran English band's dependably cantankerous frontman.

Second (most of the time) to music, troublemaking has long been Oasis' stock in trade: When Gallagher and his guitarist brother Noel founded the group in the early 1990s, their project was pairing punk's spit-in-your-eye spirit with the compositional grandiloquence of classic '60s-era pop.

On huge-selling early records such as "Definitely Maybe" and "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" the Gallaghers used melody to disguise the fact that they were shredding your eardrums with noise; meanwhile, both siblings have taken fame as a welcome opportunity to exercise their loudmouth tendencies. Today the brothers are the only original members left in Oasis -- "Would you like to say hello to our 15th drummer?" Noel asked the crowd at Staples Center -- and it isn't hard to figure out why.

Thursday's show was the second of a current North American tour in support of the band's strong new album, "Dig Out Your Soul," which, after a decade of creeping irrelevance, makes a fairly convincing case that Oasis still knows the shortest distance between a smile and a snarl.

Actually, "smile" might be overstating the case: For most of their 105-minute set, the Gallaghers and their mates played with all the evident enthusiasm of a bunch of old-timers putting away after-work pints at the pub. By the end of the show, Liam had even done away with the customary song introduction and had begun simply naming songs before the band played them. (Of course, that might've been because most of Oasis' best songs, like "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova," aren't about anything.)

Thanks to the miracle of guitar fuzz, that seeming indifference came off less like boredom and more like an appealing act of confrontation: Liam didn't need to beg us to sing along with "Cigarettes & Alcohol" and "Supersonic" because what choice did we really have in the matter?

Examined in close proximity to those indelible hits, new tunes such as "Waiting for the Rapture" and "To Be Where There's Life" lacked the anthemic brio that always distinguished Oasis from artier Britpop peers like Blur and Pulp. And though he's by far the band's most talented songwriter -- indeed, Oasis albums invariably suffer when he passes the pen to his brother or one of his bandmates -- Noel made for a rather ho-hum frontman during the handful of songs he sang.

As much as Liam needs Noel's melodic know-how, Noel needs Liam's front-and-center star power.

Opening the show with his sturdy alt-country backing band the Cardinals, Ryan Adams tried to work a similar mixture of antagonism and affection. Here's another darn sunshiney anthem, he said (in slightly more colorful language) before playing "Go Easy," a typically melancholy cut from this year's fine "Cardinology."

Apparently irritated by the audience's reluctance to receive his music with the hushed reverence it deserves, Adams retreated to sarcasm (not to mention bizarre, possibly booze-fueled ruminations on Jethro Tull and "the tyranny and horrors of math"). As Thursday's headliners demonstrated, though, that's a weapon that requires experience to handle.

--Mikael Wood

Source: LA Times Music Blog

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

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.

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'.

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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