Watch Part Two Of Noel Gallagher's Interview With Talksport Now

Mr Gallagher is back ....and yet again he's talking a whole lot of sense as usual !

To watch Noel's complete interview visit Here

Source: www.talksport.net

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available to download on March 8th and in stores March 9th, click here to pre-order the single.

Oasis To Play River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires

Oasis have just announced they will be performing at the River Plate Stadium, Argentina's national football stadium and venue for the 1978 World Cup final on Sunday the 3rd of May. Also known as 'El Monumental de Nuñez', the iconic stadium is the biggest stadium in Argentina for concerts.

Oasis return to Argentina for the first time since playing a sold out show to 40,000 fans at the Buenos Aires Polo Fields in March of 2006. The date is part of their South American tour which also includes the previously confirmed gigs in Peru and Brazil.

Tickets for the River Plate Stadium date go on sale to owners of CITI Bank cards from Friday 13th March. Tickets go on General Sale on the 28th March. All tickets are available through Ticketek or +(54-11) 5-237-7200

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Grab Yet Another Free Noel Gallagher Track On iTunes Now

UK ONLY

The Times and Times Online are offering you five free Noel Gallagher tracks to download from Tuesday, March 10 to Saturday, March 14.Each day from you’ll find a new song from the Oasis musician’s live, acoustic performance at the Royal Albert Hall with special guests in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The Times will print a link in the paper each day (for five days) which takes readers to a specific page on iTunes (www.itunes.co.uk) where they can download a different song each day for free.

Click here to get todays track 'Cast No Shadow' buy The Sunday Times this weekend and complete the concert with a free, 11-track CD of the performance, featuring tracks that are not available to download and an exclusive interview with Noel.

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Tip from site visitor Nathan: For those of you having trouble with The Times link, Just go straight to iTunes and search for Noel Gallagher, then click on his name under Artists. The track will be right there to get for free!

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available to download on March 8th and in stores March 9th, click here to pre-order the single.

Upcoming Interests

The Jo Whiley Show

BBC Radio 1 at 10:00AM - 12:45PM, 13th March 2009.

Jo Whiley will be joined by Noel Gallagher for a special Live Lounge on BBC Radio 1.

Listen here.

Comic Relief Does Top of the Pops

BBC Two at 10:00 PM - 10:35PM, 13th March 2009.

Oasis will be performing 'Falling Down' on a live edition of Top of the Pops for Comic Relief. The programme will be broadcast live as part of the Comic Relief evening on Friday 13th March. Others set to perform include Franz Ferdinand and U2.

UK Visitors can watch the show after it has been broadcast by clicking here.

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available to download on March 8th and in stores March 9th, click here to pre-order the single.

Oasis Announce Their Largest-Ever Tour Of Brazil

Oasis announced today that they will be performing four dates in what will be their largest-ever tour of Brazil.

It will also mark the first time the band have played in Curitiba and Porto Alegre.The gigs are part of the forthcoming South American leg of their world tour and are the band's first gigs in the country since March 2006 when they played Sao Paulo.

Oasis previously also played the legendary 'Rock In Rio' festival in 2001 where they played to over 200,000 fans.

The band will play:
RIO DE JANEIRO - Citibank Hall – 7th May
SÃO PAULO - Arena Anhembi – 9th May
CURITIBA - Pedreira Paulo Leminski – 10th May
PORTO ALEGRE - Gigantinho – 12th May

Tickets go on sale from March 20th for Citibank clients then go on general sale from March 27th.

All tickets are available through Ticketmaster or by phone: (11) 2846-6000 (São Paulo) and 0300 789 6846 (other states)

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Liam Gallagher Interview

A few weeks before the formal announcement that Oasis is bypassing China on the Asian leg of their tour, CW chatted with Liam about everything from Mao to song writing.

Getting to Know Each Other

CW: Hi Liam, this is Blake from City Weekend Magazine.

Liam: Cool.

A Man of Many Hats

CW: Hey man, alright, well I’ve got some questions for you, I’ll probably just go right into them as time’s short. Mmm, first of all, as you’ve done more the writing on each successive album, how do you separate the roles of vocalist and song writer and which means more to you these days?

Liam: Well, the singing is the most important thing ever, being a singer for Oasis is the most important thing. Song writing is summit' I do in the house just as a hobby, just to clear the head and you know, if people like it then it goes on an Oasis record and if it doesn’t then it stays as a hobby, you know what I mean? And I certainly don’t force people to put my music on, I’m not, I’m not interested, I’m not mythered [read: bothered] either way, whether it’s Oasis or not, but people like the songs, i.e. Noel, some of the band members and away it goes, it goes onto the record, we work at it, we try to make it cool but if I never wrote another song I wouldn’t mind it.
CW: Hehe, right on.

Liam: My, my, my main thing is singing, it’s, I’m more worried about losing my voice than writing another song.

Role Models

CW: Mmm, let me ask you, Oasis formed about, more than 15 years ago now, are there any bands you look to as examples of how you’d want to develop in your second and perhaps third decade as a band?

Liam: Not really, I mean I respect Neil Young 'cause he keeps putting music out, and The Rolling Stones keep going and stuff, but they don’t really put any music out. I suppose U2, they’re the nearest ones that, have been going long and they keep putting music out and they seem to be active all the time, you know ever couple of years they’re doing things where as The Rolling Stones sort of just go on tours, and you know, don’t try and make any new music, so, not them.

CW: You, you just mentioned Neil Young, mmm, I think a few months back Noel in an interview with the Guardian mentioned that he had already began work on a follow-up to Dig Out Your Soul, which he had likened to Neil Young’s Greendale and The Kinks. Is that for real and if so could you tell me a little bit more about it?
Liam: I mean, we recorded quite a few songs, for Dig Out Your Soul, a couple didn’t make it on to the album just cause, you know, we didn’t finish them in time and stuff, and they were sounding good. And then we’re always writing, so Noel’s always sort of in the studios, whether it’s for his solo record or whether he’s doing it for Oasis, who knows, you’d have to ask him man. I mean, me personally, once we’ve finished this tour I’d like to have a couple of months off just to relax ,and then, I’d like to get back into Abbey Road man, I mean, we’re not getting any younger, and if we’ve got the music, let’s make Oasis music…

CW: Right on…

Liam: Me personally, I haven’t got any time to be making solo records, you know, life’s too short to be fucking about trying to be Robbie Williams or Rod Steward or anything like that.

Thoughts on "The Business

"CW: [Laughs] I’m curious, what producers would you like to work with in the future, and why?

Liam: Eh, I really don’t know much, any producers really, I’m not really mythered. People keep always going on about Rick Ruben and stuff, but, you know, I don’t know what Dave Sardy, I don’t know what Rick Ruben would do that Dave Sardy doesn’t do, and plus I don’t like working with big time producers. I don’t mean that in a bad way to Dave Sardy, Dave’s a great producer but, he knows that we have the final say, so all these big time producers like Eno and all these fucking idiots that people work with today, it’s like, they wouldn’t last five minutes in the studio with Oasis. So, you know, Dave Sardy, I like to keep working with him. Or maybe, I’d like to do one ourselves, do you know what I mean? Get someone in to help but, but I mean, we sort of produce our records anyway, you know what I mean, we sort of, Dave does the twiddling of the knobs but we sort of try and tell him how it sounds.

Looking to the Future

CW: Have you ever thought of, I mean, do you think you guys might do that in the future? Just, eh, take the studio over.

Liam: Maybe, yeah, maybe do, maybe do like a really downtown record, not so over produced or anything. I think we’re getting to that stage at some point. I think Gem could produce Oasis, but it’s big band, it’s a big album but I think Gem could piss it, you know what I mean?

CW: No, that would be amazing.

Liam: Well I thinks so, save paying some other fucking clown to make you sound how you want to sound, I don’t understand it? So, I think Gem could produce it, Gem and Noel but it depends whether they want to do it or not, I’m not, I’m easy.

Oasis In China: Mao Who?

CW: Thinking about the live show here in China, mmm, Oasis is bigger than almost anything in China, and has defined so much of the music that’s come out of here for the past decade and a half, I’m curious, what do you think of the idea of 1.3 billion people learning English to the lyrics of "Love Like A Bomb"?

Liam: What, who’s done that?

CW: Hahaha, The Chinese nation

Liam: What they like that, they like that song, do they?

CW: It’s, well all Oasis songs are pretty popular here and you know, people quote Oasis to me and always try to impress me with …

Liam: Of course man, well, that’s beautiful, that’s what I’m in a band for. To touch people on the other side of the world, you know what I mean, and also touch people who are stood right in front of you, but, yeah it’s cool man, I down with it mate.

CW: Is anything pulling you to China right now, is there any special attraction?

Liam: Any special attraction? Just the kids man, they’re into our music really, I mean, I don’t know much about the country and that so, I’ll just have to wait and see, but, if people want to come and see us, then I’m all over it man. We’ll get down there and do what we can to make them have a good time.

CW: Eh, you’ve said, “Oasis is bigger than the Beatles” and eh that’s maybe...

Liam: Nah, nah, nah, nah, I’ve never said that mate, I never, I'm not that daft, I reckon that’s sounds like our kid.

CW: Ha, is Oasis bigger than Mao Ze Dong?

Liam: Than who?

CW: Than Mao Ze Dong the Chinese leader for, eh, the forty years of their history.

Liam: I’ve never heard of him. Who is he?

CW: Er, I’ve never heard of him either ... mmm ... moving on, I’m curious about…

Liam: We’ve probably made more records than him, right?

CW: At least five, mmm...

Liam: Well, there you go.

CW: What is the average day like of a rock star like Liam Gallagher, when you’re not touring or recording?

Liam: Well, get up about 7 o’clock with the kids, bath 'em, take to school, maybe go for a run or summit these days, I’m into running. Then eh, just chill, maybe go to the shops, go out for a bit of lunch with the missus. I don’t really do that much, you know what I mean.

CW: Sounds beautiful, is there any down side to being a rock star?

Liam: Any down side to it? Being in a band with your brother, who thinks he’s Robbie Williams.

Musical Influences

CW: Hahaha. Mmm, I’m curious about how your roots, how coming from the home of the Madchester movement has influenced you musically or otherwise. Do you think there are any movements as significant as it now in England or elsewhere?

Liam: I’m not into movements; I’m not into all that stuff. I mean Manchester when I was growing up was just a load of lads in bands and everyone down south sort of made it this Madchester thing but that had been going on for years, like with Joy Division and all these bands, you know what I mean? There’s always been bands in Manchester. So, and then we come along and it was the Brit pop thing but, I’m not into, if there is a movement I’ve got nothing to do with it, I’m not, I’m not into that, I’m just into good music by cool looking people who don’t suck cock who are honest and sincere. You know I’m not in it to be famous, you know I’m in it to make some good music and you know, if there is a movement I don’t want to anything, I’ve got nothing to do with it.

CW: When you’re writing songs, what do you look to for inspiration, what do you think about?

Liam: Just, just life mate, I don’t, I don’t need to be inspired, I’m already inspired, just by people and myself and my kids and my wife and you know, you and them, and him and her, just people. People are inspiring enough.

Who Would You Play With?

CW: If you could tour with any band playing out there now, who would you like to tour with?

Liam: Kasabian. But we are touring with them, they’re touring with us. Any band at the moment, let me see, oh, any band, I’d fucking play with any band, I’d love to blow them all over the fucking stage and put them right in their place.

CW: Excellent

Liam: Any band, I’ll play with anyone, I’m not, I’m not shy man. You know, I’d destroy them all.
The Tour

CW: When you’re preparing for a tour, do you try and rearrange your past hits to fit in with your current style or do you just play them like you’ve always played them?

Liam: We just play them the way we play them man, you know, and that’s it you know, you know, we just sort of dropped a lot of hits from our set because, we want to concentrate on the new album. But you’ve got to play the obvious ones I suppose, otherwise people start crying, you know what I mean? We don’t want any of that. We don’t think that much about it, we just play it straightforward man, and you know, if it doesn’t sound right then we bin it. But, you know, we don’t think that hard about it, Rock ‘n’ roll shouldn’t really be thought of, you know, it’s not an encyclopedia, it’s just simple, straight forward rock ‘n’ roll music. If you start thinking abut it too hard about it you end up like Radiohead or Muse, you know what I mean? So we keep it real man, we keep it simple.

CW: Can you tell us something a little bit about the visuals, that eh, that you come up with for your album covers and videos? What’s the process there?

Liam: Eh, I don’t, I don’t know man about any of that. The guy, I’m not sure of his name so I won’t say it in case I, but he’s great anyway, he’s really cool. We just sort of give him the thing and said look, let’s go for it, let’s make it a bit psychedelic. You know, we don’t do, we don’t do much on stage so it’s good for the kids to have a look a summit, you know what I mean, while we’re stood there just, belting it out.

CW: This is going to be your first tour in China, is there anything special you want to see out here?

Liam: Just the people man, I wanna see the people, that’s all I care about man.

CW: Are you going to have time?

Liam: If, If, I hope so, if I get the day off I’ll have a walk around and see the people and see the city or wherever we are and, hopefully man, but I just want to see the people. That’s, a building’s a building, isn’t it?

CW: It sure is. And a wall’s a wall

Liam: Do you know what I mean so, and a park’s a park but, people, I just want to see the people.

CW: Mmm, you guys tour rather extensively still. Do you ever feel the grind on the tours? Does it get to you?

Liam: No, I like it mate, I mean, that’s why I’m in it for. I love playing music man, I love playing, I love playing, I love playing to the people who like the band, you know what I mean? And I ike going around seeing each city and stuff, I like it man. I mean, I miss the kids and the wife and all that but, you know, I was doing this before I met them and this is what pays the bills, and this is what’s, this is what I love, you know what I mean, so, it’s got to be done.

G-d-Like Liam

CW: Well fantastic, mmm, Liam, what’s the one question I should ask you that you’ve always wanted to be asked that you’ve never been asked.

Liam: Mmm, what’s it like being god-like?

CW: What’s it like being god-like Liam?

Liam: If I told you I’d have to kill you mate.

CW: Haha. Liam, thank you so much, I really appreciate your taking the time, this is a real eh, a real gift.

Liam: Alright mate, take care.

CW: Cheers bro.

Liam: Bye bye.

Source: www.cityweekend.com.cn

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Grab Another Free Noel Gallagher Track On iTunes Now

UK ONLY

The Times and Times Online are offering you five free Noel Gallagher tracks to download from Tuesday, March 10 to Saturday, March 14.Each day from you’ll find a new song from the Oasis musician’s live, acoustic performance at the Royal Albert Hall with special guests in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The Times will print a link in the paper each day (for five days) which takes readers to a specific page on iTunes (www.itunes.co.uk) where they can download a different song each day for free.

Click here to get todays track 'Talk Tonight' buy The Sunday Times this weekend and complete the concert with a free, 11-track CD of the performance, featuring tracks that are not available to download and an exclusive interview with Noel.

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Tip from site visitor Nathan: For those of you having trouble with The Times link, Just go straight to iTunes and search for Noel Gallagher, then click on his name under Artists. The track will be right there to get for free!

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Liam Gallagher: 'Noel Is A Proper C**k'

Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has claimed that he does not have a relationship with his brother Noel.

The frontman said that he rarely speaks to his bandmate and sibling apart from when they are on stage.

Speaking to That's Shanghai, the 36-year-old said: "Me and our kid haven't got a relationship, to be quite honest with you.

"He does his thing, and I do my thing. The only time we sort of bump into each other, and that's rarely, is on stage... There's things he don't like about me and there's things I don't like about him. He can't change me, I wouldn't wanna change him."

He added: "The main thing is that we both love Oasis, so that’s about it. We just do Oasis things."

Gallagher also described his brother as "a proper c**k", arguing that the worst thing about the guitarist is his "funny little head".

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Greatest Songs Of All Time: Wonderwall

You can't have a list of great songs without Oasis popping up in some way or another, and it's about time we honoured the lads from Manchester for their epic work on hit single Wonderwall.

I mean crikey, what would our music boxes be like without "I said maybeeeeeee, you're gonna be the one that saves meeeee" when we're having a bit of a rubbish day; come on, it's the only miserable song that can actually cheer you up no matter what your problem is.

Written by Noel Gallagher and belted out by his brother Liam, the song was the third single to be released from (What's the Story) Morning Glory? in October 1995, and it peaked at number two in the British charts as well as being their US breakthrough hit.

The song was debuted to the public backstage at Glastonbury in 1995, where it was broadcast on Channel 4, it was never performed by the band during their headline performance the night before. I doubt when they were gamming away in their wellies, the guys had no idea that the song would go down in history like it has, being voted the best British song of all time, in a poll of over 8,500 listeners conducted by Virgin Radio, being named the second-greatest song of all time in a poll conducted by Q Magazine, finishing behind another Oasis song, "Live Forever. And fellow musicians seem to agree as, in 2006, U2's guitarist The Edge named "Wonderwall" one of the songs he most wishes he'd written.

But what's the point in mentioning the song if i don't give you a little bit of background info right? Well, the song actually nicked the name from the 1968 album Wonderwall Music by George Harrison, who was at the time still a member of the Beatles. What's more, Harrison's album was in fact a soundtrack to the film Wonderwall, but the film has remained unknown by the general public.

Adding even more juicy morsels to the tale of this tasty tune is the rumour that the song was actually written for Gallagher's then-girlfriend, Meg Mathews, whom he married in 1997, only to divorce a year later - i bet the wedding photo's hadn't even been stuck up by then!

Gallagher now claims that the song was not about Mathews at all, but he felt he had to go along with the rumour, saying "The meaning of that song was taken away from me by the media who jumped on it. How do you tell your Mrs it's not about her once she's read it is? It's a song about an imaginary friend who's gonna come and save you from yourself."

One person who might not be overly thrilled with the song is actually the bloke who has to sing it over and over again, and in 2008 he was quoted as saying: "I can't fucking stand that fucking song! Every time I have to sing it I want to gag." Well, now every time i watch them singing Wonderwall I'll know how much Liam hates it and not be able to enjoy it to the full. thanks for that Liam!

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Oasis To Show Off Its Spiritual Side

“The fans were crazy,” answered Noel Gallagher, the star guitarist with Oasis, when asked about the group’s impression of their 2006 Seoul concert.

That and no more.

The blunt, terse and devil-may-care style answers in our recent e-mail interview with the British rock band seem to embody the perfect, hot bad boy image many of us have associated with popular rock stars for years.

After all, Oasis is part of British pop royalty, following in the footsteps of legendary groups like the Beatles and Queen. And that take-it-or-leave-it attitude has become the band’s trademark. In fact, Oasis has previously claimed that they are better than the Beatles, triggering quite a stir among fans of the Fab Four.

But it’s an indisputable fact that Oasis has raised the bar in the industry, renewing numerous sales records. Songs like “Some Might Say,” “Don’t Look Back In Anger,” “Whatever,” “Roll With It,” “Wonderwall,” “Stand By Me” and “Lyla” have become tantamount to national anthems.

In the latest headline about this reasonably proud quintet, the band’s promoter said last week that Oasis’ planned China debut had been canceled. The band was supposed to perform in Beijing on April 3 and in Shanghai on April 5.

The promoter says that officials within the Chinese Ministry of Culture have decided that the band is “unsuitable to perform for fans in China” after recently discovering that Gallagher appeared at a Free Tibet Benefit Concert in New York in 1997.

But luckily for Korean fans, Oasis will be performing as planned in Korea on April Fool’s Day. It will be their second visit to Korea in three years.

“Rock ’n’ roll is spiritual and pop music is all about money,” Gallagher said, when asked about the distinction between the two genres.

For those who would like to see the spiritual side of these stars who are rock ’n’ roll to the core, it’s a chance to be seized.

Here are some excerpts from the e-mail interview with Gallagher.

Q. The band has enjoyed great success in a career that has spanned 17 years. What grinds your gears about the music industry?

A. Everyone and everything.

Does huge success limit your ability to experiment on each new album, or does it bolster your confidence?

No. I just try to do what comes naturally.

Of all the gifts you’ve received from your fans, which one was your favorite?

An album called “There’s Gonna Be a Storm” by The Left Banke.

How do you feel about the persistent rumors about Oasis splitting up and rifts between the brothers? How does this affect the group?

It doesn’t affect it at all.

Where do you see Oasis 10 years from now? Do you still think you’ll be doing albums and touring?

Yes.

“Oasis Live in Seoul” takes place at 8:30 p.m. on April 1 at the Olympic Park Gymnasium in southern Seoul. Tickets cost between 55,000 won ($36.41) and 88,000 won. For reservations, call 1544-1555 or visit ticket.interpark.com. For inquiries in Korean as well as in English, call the organizer at (02) 3444-9969.

Source: joongangdaily.joins.com

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Grab Your Free Noel Gallagher Track On iTunes Now

UK ONLY

The Times and Times Online are offering you five free Noel Gallagher tracks to download from Tuesday, March 10 (today) to Saturday, March 14.

Each day from you’ll find a new song from the Oasis musician’s live, acoustic performance at the Royal Albert Hall with special guests in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The Times will print a link in the paper each day (for five days) which takes readers to a specific page on iTunes (www.itunes.co.uk) where they can download a different song each day for free.

Click here to get todays track '(It's Good) To Be Free' buy The Sunday Times this weekend and complete the concert with a free, 11-track CD of the performance, featuring tracks that are not available to download and an exclusive interview with Noel.

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Bid For A Oasis Goody Bag For Comic Relief

To celebrate their appearance on the Top of the Pops Comic Relief special, up for auction is an absolutely amazing goody bag jam packed full of Oasis items. This is a must for any Oasis fan, collector or music enthusiast!

Included in the bag are 'Dig out Your Soul' box set signed by the band, a black amplifier tee-shirt only available in the USA, promo CDs of the new single, 'Falling Down', "I'm Outta Time', 'The Shock Of The Lightning' and Chemical Brothers Remix of 'Falling Down', a 7" Collectors Box complete with I'm Outta Time (1 x 7" of single and 1 x 7" of remixes) and 'The Shock Of The Lightning', as well as some great pieces of Oasis merchandise a set of bearbricks, enamel pin badge, deck of cards and cigarette amplifier).

So calling all Oasis fans.... get bidding!

Click here to cast your bid....

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Noel Gallagher Sunday Times Magazine & CD Preview

On Sunday 15th March, The Sunday Times will be giving away an 11 track CD with the newspaper which, alongside the downloads, gives readers the full tracklisting for ‘The Dreams We Have As Children (Live for Teenage Cancer Trust).

TRACKLISTING CD

Fade Away
Listen Up
Half The World Away
The Butterfly Collector (Duet with Paul Weller)
All You Need Is Love (Duet with Paul Weller)
Don't Go Away
Sad Song
Wonderwall
Slide Away
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Married With Children

From Tuesday 10th March, The Times will print a link in the paper each day (for five days) which takes readers to a specific page on iTunes (www.itunes.co.uk) where they can download a different song each day for free.

The additional songs will be made available from iTunes (www.itunes.co.uk) - via The Times on the following dates:

March 10th - (It's Good) To Be Free
March 11th - Talk Tonight
March 12th - Cast No Shadow
March 13th - The Importance Of Being Idle
March 14th - Don't Look Back In Anger

On 16th March the full album will be available to buy digitally (only) from a selection of online retailers.

Tracklisting:

01. (It’s Good) To Be Free
02. Talk Tonight
03. Fade Away
04. Cast No Shadow
05. Half The World Away
06. The Importance of Being Idle
07. The Butterfly Collector
08. All You Need Is Love
09. Don’t Go Away
10. Listen Up
11. Sad Song
12. Wonderwall
13. Slide Away
14. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
15. Don’t Look Back In Anger
16. Married With Children

Get hold of your free CD and magazine inside The Sunday Times on Sunday 15th March

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Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available in stores now, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Noel Gallagher "Addicted" To Fame

Noel Gallagher became "addicted" to fame. The Oasis guitarist believes the band should have taken a break at the height of their mid-90s success, but he was enjoying the trappings of celebrity too much to stop.

Noel - who along with his bandmates played two historic nights at legendary concert venue Knebworth House - said: "From the defining moment, which was the lights coming on at Knebworth in 1996, at the end of that second show, to (original members) Bonehead and Guigsy leaving, during that period I was kind of just doing it for the sake of it. I didn't know what else to do. What we should have done after Knebworth was let the whole thing settle and taken two years off. But with the drugs and all that, you get so addicted to the attention, you also become institutionalized to the band."

Although he concedes he should have taken some time out, Noel - whose third album with Oasis, 1997's 'Be Here Now', was panned by critics, despite being the fastest-selling album in U.K. chart history - has no regrets about his hedonistic days.

The "Falling Down" rocker - who quit drugs in 1999 without going to rehab - told Culture magazine: "You start off being a kid in an Adidas top and you end being this guy in a fur jacket and two pairs of f***ing sunglasses. Which, let me tell you, is amazing! Those times were incredible. I wouldn't want to go back to them for all the tea in China. That would be a joke. But I'm glad I lived through all that madness, all the fur coats and the crocodile-skin shoes and the drugs and the women. We made it look like what it is, the best job in the world."

Source: www.allheadlinenews.com

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available to download now and in stores March 9th, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

The British Music Experience Exhibition Opens To The Public Today

The British Music Experience exhibition at London’s O2 Arena opens to the public today.

It features memorabilia from some of British rock’s most famous names.

Items on show include Noel Gallagher's Union Jack Epiphone guitar, David Bowie's handwritten lyrics and Mick Jagger's 70s white jumpsuit.

For more information on The British Music Experience and to book tickets please visit www.britishmusicexperience.com

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is in stores now and is also available to download, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

The Reason Oasis Never Change Their Set List

"We've been rehearsing: 'My Big Mouth', 'Half The World Away', 'Bag It Up', and the alternative version of 'The Turning' (the one on the bonus CD from that box-set thing). Unfortunately, as Romeo doesn't do sound-checks, it's almost impossible to change anything. I'm guessing it'll probably fall to me to try some acoustic numbers. We'll have to wait and see".

Noel is one smooth so-and-so. Blame it all on Liam. No one will ever ask him.

See more of Noel's interview by clicking here.

Source: www.informationleafblower.com

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available to download now and in stores March 9th, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Oasis' 'Falling Down Is Out Now

Oasis have today released their new single ‘Falling Down’.

The single also includes a brand new Noel Gallagher-penned song 'Those Swollen Hand Blues' features in addition to various remixes of the single.

The Prodigy have twisted the track into new sonic forms whilst Marilyn Manson bassist Twiggy and Dave Sardy, who previously collaborated on a remix of 'I'm Outta Time', have created a new dance-floor filler!

Readers of Noel's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' will also be aware of the remix by Amorphous Androgynous who have delivered a 22 minute epic version of ‘Falling Down’. In a recent entry, Noel described it as, ‘A staggering piece of music. Monumental even. All superlatives will apply”.

The full formats details are:

OASISINET EXCLUSIVE BUNDLE
CD Single
7" Vinyl
12" Vinyl
A set of 3 Exclusive Oasis Badges

CD SINGLE:
Falling Down - Album Version
Those Swollen Hand Blues
Falling Down - "It's the Gibb Mix" by Twiggy / Sardy
Falling Down - The Prodigy Version

7" SINGLE:
Falling Down - Album Version
Those Swollen Hand Blues

12" SINGLE:
Falling Down - "A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix" by Amorphous Androgynous

DIGITAL BUNDLE 1:
Falling Down - Album Version
Those Swollen Hand Blues
Falling Down - Demo

DIGITAL BUNDLE 2:
Falling Down - "It's the Gibb Mix" by Twiggy / Sardy Remix
Falling Down - The Prodigy Version
Falling Down - "A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix" by Amorphous Androgynous (Bundle Only)

DIGITAL BUNDLE 3 (iTunes exclusive):
Falling Down - Album Version
Those Swollen Hand Blues
Falling Down - Demo
Falling Down - Video

To check out the much talked about video for 'Falling Down', click here!

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available to download now and in stores March 9th, click here to order the single or one of the exclusive bundles.

Oasis' Falling Down Is Number One On The Myspace Chart For MTV Two

Oasis are number one on the The Myspace Chart For MTV Two .

Click here to cast your vote for Oasis' 'Falling Down' on The Myspace Chart on MTV Two.

The chart is broadcast daily: Monday - Friday (8am & 8PM) & Saturday - Sunday (Noon & 8pm) UK Only.

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available to download now and in stores March 9th, click here to order the single and exclusive digital bundles.

Noel Gallagher On How Oasis Got Their Groove Back

On the eve of Falling Down release, the singer on Jack Straw, Jade Goody, depression, drugs, Coldplay, U2 - and jibes from Liam

Download exclusive Oasis tracks and read much more about the band here

Backstage at a concert arena in Treviso, near Venice, Noel Gallagher’s younger brother is characteristically blunt about the interview that is about to take place with his sibling. “I hope you’ve got your glass eye in,” he warns, “because he’ll talk you to f***ing sleep.” It takes one to know one, of course, but he’s right in one sense: the elder Gallagher, as newspaper and magazine readers have discovered to their delight over the years, is no shrinking violet when faced with a tape machine. On the contrary, he’s known for giving good copy. Sometimes — as with last year’s controversy over his apparent objections to Jay-Z headlining Glastonbury — this can get him into trouble. When we meet, he is reeling about the coverage Jade Goody’s losing battle with cancer is receiving in the British press.

“I was watching the TV today and they’re all outside her house,” he says. “There’s a global crisis apparently going on, and it’s ‘Jack Straw, could you have a look at this?’ Max Clifford somehow manages to shape the mood of the nation.

I mean, I’ve got f*** all against Jade Goody, that’s nothing to do with me. But it bends my head. That, to me, sums up, in one tiny five-minute thing on the news, what an embarrassing place Britain is right now. You might as well shut No 10 Downing Street down and get Max Clifford to run the country.”

More often, though, Gallagher’s gabbiness serves as confirmation of what the recent, less turbulent years in the Oasis story have brought out in him. Talking about the live CD of songs he performed — with Paul Weller at his side and a string section behind them — at the Albert Hall in London in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, he comes across as someone finally at ease with the weight of what he has achieved. The CD, which is given away with next week’s Sunday Times, features Oasis rarities and cover versions (including All You Need Is Love and the Smiths’ There Is a Light That Never Goes Out). “I came on to the theme from This Is Your Life,” Gallagher recalls. “And that’s what it was, it was all these diehard Oasis fans, and they all knew all these B-sides and album tracks. That TV show, it was about all these friends turning up and saying: ‘I knew him when was nothing.’ It was like, ‘This is our life’. There was magic in the air that night.”

As he is only too happy admit, Noel’s early years were rocket-fuelled, and the middle ones mired in depression, addiction and creative inertia. It took the collapse of his marriage, his record label, his health and his band to shake him from the stupor. The 2009 version, a 41-year-old father of two who has weathered surprisingly well, gives every appearance of having emerged not just blinking, but with a sigh of relief, from the wreckage of the past; able, finally, to comprehend exactly how and why every section of the Oasis saga occurred and led, inevitably, to the next. Only, being Noel, he puts it a little more pithily than that.

“There’s a magic period when you’re in a band,” he says, “and you don’t even f***ing notice it till it’s gone, and that’s when you are the same age as your audience, and in the same circumstances, ie, they’ve got no money, you’ve got no money. Two years down the line, you’re rich. You’re still roughly the same age, but they’re still normal, everyday people, coming to the gigs, and you’re a superstar who flies on private jets, hangs out with supermodels, you’ve got a big bag of drugs with you.”

Gallagher refuses to indulge in regret — or to deny that the party, while it lasted, was a blast. “You start off being a kid in an Adidas top,” he continues, “and you end being this guy in a fur jacket and two pairs of f***ing sunglasses. Which, let me tell you, is amazing. Those times were incredible. I wouldn’t want to go back to them for all the tea in China. That would be a joke. But I’m glad I lived through all that madness, all the fur coats and the crocodile-skin shoes and the drugs and the women. We made it look like what it is: the best job in the world.”

He is similarly candid about the “lost years”, a period that began with the release, in 1997, of the band’s disastrous third album, Be Here Now, and arguably ended only in 2005, when Don’t Believe the Truth found the brothers, in the post-1999 line-up alongside the guitarist Gem Archer and the bassist Andy Bell, convincingly relighting the sonic fires of old. He makes no apologies for it; nor does he try to hide from just how bad things got. “From the defining moment, which was the lights coming on at Knebworth in 1996, at the end of that second show, to (original members) Bonehead and Guigsy leaving halfway through the recording of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, during that period, for my own part, I was kind of just doing it for the sake of it. I didn’t know what else to do. What we should have done, after Knebworth, was let that whole thing just land, settle, and taken two years off. But with the drugs and all that, you get so addicted to the attention, and you get institutionalised by the band. ”

Standing on the Shoulder. . . was, he says, the absolute low point: “I’d kind of swapped one drug addiction for another. I’d stopped doing cocaine, but instead of stopping it dead, and not taking any drugs at all, I decided to do the Elvis thing. You know, ‘Well, if I get them off the doctor, I’ll be all right.’ So, instead of walking around with a bag of charlie, you’re walking around with a pocket full of pills. ”

The announcement that Oasis had won the award for best British band at last month’s NME awards was greeted by boos from some sections of the crowd. The incident encapsulated the unique status Oasis enjoy, the price they paid for their huge early success and the scale of what they have achieved by getting their groove back and becoming one of the biggest live acts in the world. (They sold out three nights at Wembley Stadium this June in a matter of hours.) The contempt of lapsed fans can seem ostentatious, as if they wince at the memory of the unquestioning ardour they once demonstrated — the way they hollered along to the early hits in a way they now dismiss as kneejerk. In this analysis, Oasis’s music is fundamentally conservative — though the deeply weird 22-minute remix of their new single, Falling Down, by Amorphous Androgynous militates against this view — and the polar opposite of the sounds made by such sophisticates as Blur. (Yes, that old debate is still hanging around, like rotten meat.)

Some of Gallagher’s utterances haven’t helped to shift this perception; but neither, surely, has the success his band (dare to) continue to have. They defined an era, selling 20m copies of their second album, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, hit a rough patch, then retook the summit, and that, to many people, is unacceptable. What’s more, this version goes, they’re irrelevant, the unthinking music fan’s meat and two veg. Not surprisingly, Gallagher isn’t having any of this.

That whole thing of bringing in Brian Eno,” he says, without naming names, but clearly thinking of U2 and Coldplay, “or hitching a ride to a good cause — it was people stopping being able to just feel, and starting to think. Which is brilliant if your music is directed at the small percentage of people that listens to music and likes to have a good think about it. Ultimately, though, what’s great about great music is that you don’t have to think about it. It just hits you, wham, and that’s it. You don’t have to go, ‘Yeah, well, you know Brian Eno, he made them all do their horoscopes before going in the studio.’ (Coldplay, again) Who gives a f***? What’s coming out of the speakers? That’s all I’m interested in.”

He’s on a roll now. “If it doesn’t hit you in the face, doesn’t speak of love, hate, friendship, sorrow, life and death, it doesn’t mean anything to me. The afterthought of any music should be, ‘Oh, wow.’ That’s the payoff. It’s like the Sex Pistols, the songs are so instant, but then you listen to the lyrics of Anarchy in the UK and you go, ‘F***ing hell, that guy was frightening.’ Even now, you listen to the Pistols and think, ‘He was 17 when he wrote that.’ Seventeen! What are 17-year-olds writing about now? Going to a chip shop and a bird’s just split up with him. So what? Get over it.”

Oasis songs at their best always were about communication. The world tour they are on — the Beijing and Shanghai legs of which were abruptly cancelled by the Chinese government last week — has allowed them to tighten up a set that seemed slapdash last autumn in north London. The songs from their new album, Dig out Your Soul, fit neatly in among the early singles. Go to one of their current gigs and you will see an audience packed with people in their teens and early twenties, word-perfect in songs old and new. Critics are habitually sniffy about Gallagher’s lyrics, citing examples of lame, exercise-book rhymes and, in some cases, their sheer incomprehensibility. “This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to Champagne Supernova,” Gallagher recalls, “and he actually said to me: ‘You know, the one thing that’s stopping it being a classic is the ridiculous lyrics.’ And I went: ‘What do you mean by that?’ And he said: ‘Well, ‘Slowly walking down the hall / Faster than a cannonball’ — what’s that mean?’ And I went: ‘I don’t f***ing know. But are you telling me, when you’ve got 60,000 people singing it, they don’t know what it means? It means something different to every one of them.’ ”

His suspicion of chin-strokers, of po-faced intellectual types, has not diminished over the years. He holds fast to the line that his band made it because they wrote songs that lodged in people’s hearts, rather than in their heads; and that their capture of a new generation of fans occurred for the same reason. It was, he insists, always about the moment; there was never a strategy. “If anyone had thought for an instant that I had conceived this huge master plan,” he argues, “it wouldn’t have worked. Because you’d just see through it. That’s the Duffy thing: good luck to her, nice girl, but you just feel that that’s been invented. It’s like they’ve gone, ‘Amy Winehouse, she’s got a black beehive, we’ll do a blonde one.’ That’s the problem with the musical landscape: everyone’s got clipboards. We were the first band to come along in years that made it look like a proper gig, like a laugh. We took indie music out of the Rough Trade shop and into the public domain. People would read The Sun and go: ‘Look at these mad idiots, look what they’re up to now.’

“All those songs, if you listen to them, the feeling in all of them is of yearning — to be somewhere else, not to be here. I didn’t know that, three years after I wrote Live Forever, it would become this anthem. I just knew, in my heart of hearts, that my place wasn’t in Manchester, I was meant to be somewhere else.” What got him out was the songs, but he wasn’t to know that when he wrote them. “Those songs on those first two albums, I wrote them before you’d even heard my name. I was doing part-time jobs. I was writing for me. I didn’t know what would happen.”

Acclaim and disdain are, he says, both overrated. “Nobody’s ever said anything about what I do that I didn’t think anyway. I came at it from a position of awareness. When they told me I was the greatest songwriter since both Lennon and McCartney, I never got home and went, ‘That’s exactly what I am.’ I thought, ‘I’m just me.’ I write songs that are derivative of an era I’m obsessed with. I don’t think I’m brilliant. I think I’m good at being me.”

Interview and show concluded, and with a heroically bibulous post-gig warm-down, a decision is made to hire a boat and cross the lagoon into Venice. As we weave past the Doge’s Palace, necking cans of lager, the talk is all of continuing the party at a nearby rooftop bar. Yet the minute the lift doors open and Noel spots his brother, far gone by now and loudly holding court, he slips off.

Liam, lurching towards me, says: “I’m John Lennon, I am.” Well, no, you’re not, I say; you’re Liam Gallagher, and surely that will suffice. “Come on, outside,” he replies, and for a moment things look as if they’re about to kick off. Instead, wearing the Lennon shades he has suddenly placed on my head, I find myself chain-smoking with the singer as he jabs me in the chest and says: “You shouldn’t have talked to him. You should’ve talked to me. I bet he just went on and on, didn’t he?” Well, yes, he did. And long may he do so.

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Oasis' new single 'Falling Down' is available to download on March 8th and in stores March 9th, click here to pre-order the single.

Oasis' New Single 'Falling Down' Is Out Next Week

The single features a brand new Noel Gallagher-penned song "Those Swollen Hand Blues" in addition to various remixes of the single. Alongside a resurgent Prodigy, twisting the track into new forms, current Noel favourites Amorphous Androgynous deliver a monumental 22 minute version of 'Falling Down' that he regards as "A staggering piece of music." A third mix sees Marilyn Manson bassist Twiggy and Dave Sardy in collaboration.

The single is released next Monday 9th March (8th March digitally) and can be ordered here! 'Falling Down' is taken from Oasis' number one album 'Dig Out Your Soul'.

'Falling Down' formats are as follows...
CD Single
Falling Down / Those Swollen Hand Blues / Falling Down - "The Gibb Mix" by Twiggy/Sardy / Falling Down - The Prodigy Version

7" SingleFalling Down / Those Swollen Hand Blues

12" SingleFalling Down - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix by Amorphous Androgynous (Parts 1 - 5)

Digital Bundle 1Falling Down / Those Swollen Hand Blues / Falling Down (Demo)

Digital Bundle 2 (Remix bundle)Falling Down - "The Gibb Mix" by Twiggy/Sardy / Falling Down - The Prodigy Version / Falling Down - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix by Amorphous Androgynous (Parts 1 - 5) (Bundle only)

Digital Bundle 3 (iTunes Exclusive)Falling Down / Those Swollen Hand Blues / Falling Down (Demo) / Falling Down (Video)

Oasis return to play the UK stadium supergigs in the summer which saw phenomenal demand for tickets when they went on sale last year with over half a million being sold in a few hours.

A limited amount of tickets remain for the shows.

Click below to check availability:

Manchester Heaton Park - 4 June 2009
Manchester Heaton Park - 6 June 2009
Manchester Heaton Park - 7 June 2009
Sunderland Stadium Of Light - 10 June 2009
Cardiff Millennium Stadium - 12 June 2009
Edinburgh Murrayfield - 17 June 2009
Slane Castle - 20 June 2009
Ricoh Arena, Coventry - 7 July 2009
London Wembley Stadium - 9 July 2009
London Wembley Stadium - 11 Jul 2009
London Wembley Stadium - 12 Jul 2009

Source: e-mail from oasisinet.com