Oasis At Murrayfield & Slane Stage Times

Stage times for Oasis and support at Murrayfield and Slane later this week

Murrayfield

Gates 16.00
17-17.40 Rev and The Makers
18-18.40 The Enemy
19-20.00 Kasabian
20.30 - Oasis

Slane Castle

12.00 Gates
15-15.30 The Blizzards
16-17.00 Glasvegas
17.30-18.30 Kasabian
19.00-20.00 The Prodigy
20.30 Oasis

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Oasis: From King Tut's To Global Domination

HANDCLAPS are easy, right? Two palms, slap 'em together, simple.

Apparently not.

"That's f***ing rubbish," declares Owen Morris. "Do it again."

Along with Noel Gallagher and half a dozen others, I'm gathered around a microphone in the aptly-named Loco Studios in South Wales putting the finishing touches - in the form of handclaps - to Some Might Say, the song that will become Oasis' first No1 single.

It's the wee small hours of the morning and the patent inability of anyone except Noel to grasp the basic concept of keeping time are driving even the usually upbeat producer to roars of frustration.

We try again. And again. And, oh yes, again.

By the time of the finished mix the hapless clatter of our contribution is buried discreetly in proceedings, but still there - just - an everlasting reminder of a while spent at the heart of a freshly forming hurricane, a band on their way to changing the face of British music.

Noel had first played me the demo of Some Might Say a couple of weeks earlier, at the house in Fulham, London, he was renting from ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.

Even in its basic state it was obviously a great song and I jokingly asked him what he'd ripped off.

Without pausing, he immediately admitted, "Ooh, La, La by The Faces. Top tune!"

That night he also confided that he'd got a song called All Around The World that would "f***ing walk the Eurovision Song Contest", a competition he'd always had a quiet hankering to enter.

Years later it was to be released as an Oasis single instead, becoming an immediate highlight of their set. And Eurovision's loss.

"I've got hundreds of songs," Noel told me that weekend in Wales. "And they're all classics."

True to his word, what he'd written by then formed the basis of their first two albums. Plenty more, some of which were recorded in impromptu sessions, have yet to see the light of day. There's one heck of an archive filed away for the future.

All this was back in 1995, but even then it was obvious Oasis had no intention of being a flash in the pan.

"We're going to be huge," Noel told me, even mapping out the dates of chart-topping singles for the year ahead. To this day I've never met anyone with such extraordinary self- confidence - and just about all of his masterplan seems to have come true.

On Wednesday, Oasis play Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium in front of 55,000 fans, many with a passion for the band stretching back 15 years.

And they'll be celebrating the fact that Scotland has played an essential part in their journey from Mancunian chancers with an extensive knowledge of The Beatles' back catalogue to global superstars.

It was way back in May, 1993 when Oasis turned up at King Tut's in Glasgow, muscling their way into a support slot with 18 Wheeler.

In the audience that night was Alan McGee, head honcho of Creation Records, who immediately sensed that the combination of Fab Four and Sex Pistols might just be capable of changing everyone else's world as thrillingly as his.

Urging me to investigate, he directed me towards The Boardwalk in Manchester, a dingy venue under which Oasis had commandeered a rehearsal room, complete with Union Jack flag and a heap of amplifiers.

And so, with just a couple of other people, I was treated to the wonder of a full set including Rock'N'Roll Star, Supersonic and even their extended cover of The Beatles' I Am The Walrus.

Liam, dressed immaculately in white, fixed me with the stare he's used to captivate crowds a million times since, while Noel hunched in the background at the core of songs that managed to sound like both everything from rock history and nothing else on earth.

Sonically it may have been pretty raw, but the tunes were startling and the almost casual cockiness with which they delivered getting on for a dozen songs that would later be captured on record was breathtaking.

A demo of Oasis during that period was rejected by several local labels before McGee put his faith in them. Even now, it still sends tingles down the spine.

I was hooked in seconds. And unsurprisingly a few months later they signed a record contract with McGee. The adventure had begun.

"Right from the beginning I never had any doubt about the quality of our songs," says Noel. "You look at the bands around then and even their best stuff we wouldn't have put out as B-sides."

This total self-belief has marked out Noel throughout the years, even leading him to say: "With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The only thing is, they got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there."

Equally, he was down to earth about the reasons for his success, telling me: "You pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them around a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and then, and it sells.

"I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician."

That said, the vision was always there. "I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth," he confided. "I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs. We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter." The King Tut's gig was only the 15th they'd ever played, but it marked the beginning of an enduring relationship with fans north of the border. "Scottish audiences have always been great," Noel revealed. "Right from the beginning they were always up for it."

A hint of what was to come took place at their appearance at T In The Park in 1994 when they blew away most of the better-known acts with a performance that saw them taking shape as an outfit that could both boss the stage and also be a band that fans could identify with.

As Noel told me: "Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope."

In 1995 they played two nights at Irvine Beach in Ayrshire - a couple of shows that remain up there with the finest they've ever played.

A gig at Loch Lomond in 1996 even saw one of their old heroes John Squire from the Stone Roses join them for Champagne Supernova, a symbolic passing of the baton to a group who continue to fill stadiums all over the world.

Oasis' original guitarist, Bonehead, recently commented that he thinks Oasis ought to have packed it in after their biggest outdoor gig of all at Knebworth in 1996, remembering: "It was all just people. People as far as you could see."

Knebworth was certainly undeniably massive and you could sense that the band themselves were gobsmacked by its enormity.

As they went through rehearsals in a London studio for the two nights that were to get into the record books as the largest gigs ever undertaken in the UK, even Liam was questioning their worth.

"It's mad," he told me. "Where are we going to play next? The moon?"

The backstage area at Knebworth was larger than some festivals, with Oasis transported around on buggies and a VIP tent that found Kate Moss rubbing shoulders with Jarvis Cocker, Stuart Pearce and a host of other celebs flown in by helicopter.

That night, the best-ever Oasis tribute band, No Way Sis, slept on my hotel room floor and, for that weekend, they actually seemed closer in spirit to the band that they were impersonating.

Knebworth was so overblown that it could have finished Oasis and, indeed you sense that the potential for falling apart is never that far from the surface. So what keeps them going after all these years?

The Gallagher brothers' relationship is certainly as volatile as ever with Noel's latest jibe about Liam being that "he's like a man with just forks in a world of soup", yet the recent Dig Out Your Soul album has been critically acclaimed as their best in a decade.

And Noel's ability to write great songs seems to have been reinvigorated with him admitting to have penned half a dozen new songs in recent weeks and one splendid new number called If I Had A Gun already doing the rounds on the internet.

A world tour that's going to take another huge chunk out of their nights on the sofa means that some of the important things are easy to lose track of - but Noel has taken advantage of a rare few days off to "avoid Britain's Got Talent and catch up on what's going on in Coronation Street and the football".

Unsurprisingly Barcelona's victory over Manchester United in the Champions League final warmed the heart of a lifelong City fan.

Indeed, Barca's semi-final victory over Chelsea prompted him to proclaim: "Is there a greater sight in world football than a p****d-off Didier Drogba? Hmm . . . a snivelling John Terry, maybe?"

He's also enthusiastically embracing the internet, with a regularly updated blog called Tales From the Middle of Nowhere available on the band's MySpace site.

Before last week's hometown show in Manchester's Heaton Park he was eager to put to bed any rumours about conflict between Oasis - which also features bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer - and support band The Enemy. It was a reminder that he's as unwilling as ever to stand for idle troublemaking.

"There's been an attempt to try and start some juvenile, pathetic feud between the bands in the run up to these gigs," he wrote.

"Can I assure everyone that there is not and never will be anything between the working classes and its heroes."

Still ready to kick up a wonderfully righteous commotion then.

In fact, the first night of the Manchester show saw rather more drama than anyone could have predicted, with a power cut leaving them to have to exit the stage TWICE before even getting going.

When they finally got under way Liam announced that "it's a free gig from now on" and promised everyone they could get their money back.

It was a typically impulsive gesture and one that sets them apart from most of their peers. Would Bono have done the same? Perhaps the generator failure was a message from above, with Liam announcing onstage that the last time he'd been in Heaton Park was to see the Pope's visit, dedicating a song to him, but noting that Oasis had "more tunes".

Barring another electrical act of God, handclaps are going to come mighty easy at Murrayfield.

And there'll be 67,000 of them, gloriously, enthusiastically, inimitably heartfelt.

No matter what the producer thinks . . .

Source: www.newsoftheworld.co.uk

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Liam Gallagher's Latest Twitter

Pretty Green interview with Louise from stopcryingyourheartout - http://bit.ly/X4cX4

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Source: www.prettygreen.com

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Oasis In Vienne Setlist And Videos

Last nights set list from the Théâtre Antique de Vienne in France.

Fucking In The Bushes
Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
Lyla
Shock Of The Lightning
Roll With It
Cigarettes And Alcohol
To Be Where There’s Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
My Big Mouth
The Importance Of Being Idle
Half The World Away
I’m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Live Forever
Supersonic
Don’t Look Back in Anger
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus

For more videos from last night's Oasis show click here.

Oasis' next stop is Murrayfield, Edinburgh in Scotland on Wednesday.

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Liam Gallagher 'Overawed' When He Met Yoko Ono

Liam Gallagher and Yoko Ono did not speak much when they met recently.

The Oasis rocker visited the widow of his hero John Lennon at her New York home, but Yoko admits they were so overawed they didn't engage in much conversation.

She said: "Our meeting was really very interesting. We didn't chat so much though. Instead we were just looking out of the window, because my apartment has beautiful views of the park."

Yoko, 76, also revealed she never leaves the house without wearing a badge carrying the slogan 'Imagine Peace'.

She said; "My badge today says 'Imagine Peace' in Arabic. I have 'Imagine Peace' on badges in 24 different languages and I just draw one out. It is very interesting because every region has a need for peace."

It was previously claimed that Liam - who is married to former All Saints star Nicole Appleton - was planning to set up home in the Dakota building where Lennon was shot dead outside of in 1980 and where Yoko still lives.

A source said: "Liam has always been fascinated with everything about John Lennon and has long fantasised about having an apartment in the Dakota building like he did.

"He loves that part of New York and feels he'd be very much at home there - he would feel close to Lennon's spirit."

Previously speaking about his meeting with Yoko, Liam insisted he felt inspired and "couldn't stop writing songs" afterwards.

Oasis' latest album, 'Dig Out Your Soul', features the Liam-penned track 'I'm Outta Time' which is a tribute to Lennon and features a snippet of him talking at the end.

Source: breakingnews.iol.ie

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Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

Good afternoon.

Last night was our 99th gig of this tour. NINETY-FUCKIN'-NINE!!

I have to say the people of Wales were right up there with the best. What a choir!!! You could hear them in the valleys.

Kasabian again were fuckin' outrageous. If they're not selling out stadiums within 2 years I'll eat Joanna Lumley's shit!!

Can't remember great swathes of the night. Ricky "The Hitman" and Rhys "The (S)hit(faced)man" were on board for the evening. Apart from some woeful dj'ing by Romeo the night was a good 'un, I think.

Off to the South of France tonight. Someone's booked a random gig for us in Lyon (is that in the South of France?). Weather's nice, apparently.

Tous-tous le monde 'n' all that.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

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Kasabian At Heaton Park

A short video of Kasabian who supported Oasis at Heaton Park and are on tour with Oasis as part of the band's UK Stadium tour.

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Exclusive! Liam Gallagher Interview

stopcryingyourheartout.com were invited by Liam Gallagher to have a chat and a look at the Pretty Green Clothing Range at Cardiff's Millenium Stadium on Friday.

We were rushed backstage to Liam's dressing room and we spent around 40 minutes with Liam talking about the Pretty Green range, plans for the future and more.

We were given unrestricted access to inspect the clothes and to ask Liam questions face to face on the range, we were also given a chance to get a sneak peak at some of the items in the range that have yet to be shown to the public.

The items we seen that are currently on sale at www.prettygreen.com were of a very high standard and were not what I was expecting if I'm honest with you.

The tshirts were made of some of the finest quality cotton I have ever seen. When I commented on how nice the material was Liam told me "I was adamant that it was made of Egyptian cotton and that fans don't pay the normal £90-100 that other companies charge on the high street for something similar."

The print on the tshirt is also of high standard, I thought it would just be printed with some cheap printer and turned out in the thousands like band tshirts but I was pleasently surprised.

I asked Liam about the printing and he told us why he wanted it to be printed to a superior standard he said 'If you buy a designer tshirt you don't want the logo to wash off after after a few washes, I went through 19 different tshirts before I found one that I liked".

Liam also let me have a closer look at the Parka that will be on sale soon, and that is my favorate item in the collection now. It is one of the best feeling jackets I have ever felt. Liam told me he was adamant that it was made with the best materials and to be around half the price of other leading jackets on the market.

We spoke about the concerns from fans on the price of delivery worldwide within two to three working days and we were told they are in negotiations with a number of couriers at the moment.

Liam gave me a tshirt and two hats from the collection a red and a blue one, one for Cardiff City games and one for Wales games.

They are also made with great materials and fit well. I was questioned where I had got it from by Oasis fans attending the concert in Cardiff on Friday. I don't think they believed me when I told them Liam had given it to me.

The packaging of the items is also very impressive, great detail has gone into everything.

I felt in an elite group of people who have worn items from the range inluding Paul Weller, Ricky Hatton, Kasabian, Steve Cradock and Mani from the Stone Roses all have Pretty Green clothing, the tshirt Liam had given me earlier was in the same range worn by Gem and Liam in Cardiff that night.

I was wary of ordering the collection before I had seen it, and from what I seen on Friday I'm definitely not maybe going to order a few more things.

It is just the tip of the iceberg and the next range is shaping up to be a fine collection indeed.

Here is the Exclusive interview with Liam from Friday....

Myself: Hi Liam, How are you?

Liam: Good man, I've had a bit of the flu since them Manchester gigs, it was just like in a field and that. I was a bit run down, better now man.

Myself: How did you get the idea to start up Pretty Green?

Liam: In the 90's people were asking me like to do clothes and put my name to clothes, but I think putting your name to it, with your name on clothes is a bit shit and that. So sitting down by the pool one day.... having a couple of beers, Steve said do you fancy doing a clothing line I said well you know I will see man. And he sort of knew a few people and that was it, over a couple of beers really, and I thought let's go for it...

Myself: So how long did it take from when you first decided to do it?

Liam: November wasn't it Steve?

Steve (PRETTY GREEN): End of November we sat down, agreed it and started to get the ball rolling, sat by a pool:

Liam: Obviously we got the name, it's a Jam thing and that. It's not mainly a Jam thing, but it is yeah, people will go its a Jam thing a mod thing. We started sitting down and designing the logo based on the shape of this pendant I got here like. I wanted it to be round, and I wanted it sort of like Pretty Green put into that and we did, and we messed around with it a bit and away we went.

Steve: There are some powerful lyrics in the song Pretty Green " and they didn't teach me that in school, its something that I've learnt on my own" which are poignant and also had influence on the name...

Myself: How big was your involvement with the designing of the clothes and all the materials used?

Liam: Designing of the clothes, I'm still on it man, I'm still doing it now. T-shirts I've got T-shirts at home, I don't like thick tshirts these are super fine. So I was involved with that, manufacturers were bringing tshirts that were like tour tshirts, I'm thinking I'm not having that shit... big thick tshirts, nah... So I'm into it, the clothes man, If it don't fit right, or feel right on me, it's going back.

Myself: So the Quality is really important to you then?

Liam: Without a doubt, Without a doubt. I mean it all started with the shoes you know. I mean the desert boots, and I hate pointy shoes, I wanted to bring back the square toes ones, but a bit more not so pointy like the Clark's ones. Definitely I'm mad on it....

Myself: So the packaging is obviously really important to you as well?

Liam: Without a doubt man, I mean Nick Holland came up with that idea, the guy I'm doing the clothes with, and it's important, I would not want to put it out any other way. I got to give him the dues on that.

Myself: Is it true that each colour for the the collection will only be available for a limited time?

Liam: What is the scoop with that Steve?

Steve: This is an online launch capsule collection, these colours are only going to be available up until September. Come October it's a new colour wave, this is purely for the launch...

Myself: And then they will be gone, and then there will be new ones.

Liam: There will be a best sellers area, so If a certain colour proves very popular, the one that people really like all the time, that will stay...

Myself: Like A Manchester City blue?

Liam: We haven't done that yet we got some more ideas for jumpers and that I think coming out in Manchester in October. I don't want to alienate anyone either, i just don't want city fans to buy them, I want everyone to buy them and get involved too... know what I mean? ..

Myself: Do you plan to sell the clothes on the high street, or are you going to leave it to being online?

Liam: Doing the online thing at the moment, I think in October, end of October it's going into Selfridges in the UK. Is that right?

Steve: We go into Selfridges in the UK mid October, we are currently looking at countries in South America, United States, Canada, Japan, Italy, Germany, Sweden, France, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Korea, China, Russia and Denmark. Liam will also visit countries for in-store appearances to promote the brand...

Myself: Will the ones in the stores be different to the ones online or will it just be sort of the same collection?

Steve: Different, it's what we are calling the premier collection. The reason we started with online was so everyone can access it because Liam's popularity is worldwide. We didn't want to open a store in England and alienate every one else around the planet, this way everyone gets a opportunity to wear Pretty Green. The strategy for stores has always been in place as the demand is there.

Liam: We have already got other stuff for the stores already, and we have been working on that for the last like 4 month's, and it's good!

Myself: Are you thinking of bringing anything out with your picture on?

Liam: Maybe man, I don't mind if that would happen, we will have to see what the pictures like. I wanna steer clear of my boat race it's been around to much.

Myself: Are you thinking of bringing out any accessories like sunglasses, belts?
Liam: Yeah we are doing everything man, we are going to cane it. We will see how it goes with the clothes first. We have got this leather, round sofa, that opens up, made the other day A Pretty Green one, From Italy shaped like a target with the Pretty Green logo in the middle, and it's the fucking nuts man.

Myself: Would you think about doing a woman's range, I don't know maybe ask Nicole for some input?

Liam: Yeah We'll see man, we'll see, I don't want to start getting into any of that just yet.... she can design a Parker or something, I don't know about girls clothes man, I like it when girls dress pretty fucking scally anyway know what I mean? I don't do stiletto's and shit. We will see, well see man...

Myself: Whats your favourite item from the range and why?

Liam: Mine is the Parka because you can't get them anymore, because everyone makes fancy Parker's that cost about £900 quid and just look like fucking, there shit. This one is like old vintage stuff, so it's my favourite, the tshirts and the scarfs are good and the polo necks we got coming out soon are amazing. The desert boots obviously as you cant fucking get them like that.

Myself: So What do the other members of the band think about the clothing range?

Liam: Everybody buzzing off it, I've just given Noel his free bit now, whether he wears it or not, or he throws it in the bin, we'll wait see won't we.

Myself: So they had them free they didn't have to pay?

Liam: Yes, I said he wasn't getting any but, you got to give him something, everyone is loving it though...

Myself: In the video you did in Brighton for the Pretty Green launch, did you get to ride the bike that was used in Quadrophenia or did you only get to pose on it?

Liam: I did, I rode the Jimmy one not the Sting one didn't ride that one but the Jimmy one yeah...

Myself: So the song Man Of Misery, was that written especially for the launch of Pretty Green?

Liam: No I wrote it a couple of years ago, then we used that Pop Levi song, then we needed a different song to use on the new film, I thought I'm not giving him any more fucking credit cause he got a bit fresh and whatever with the money so i thought fuck that, I've got this song lying around, you know, I don't think it will go on Oasis stuff and fuck it why not, it's only a demo but it seemed to fit the mood.

Myself: Will you plan to release it as a promotional thing?

Liam: I doubt it man, I reckon it will stay where it is until maybe our kid hears it, and likes it, and thinks he can tart it up and it could go on a Oasis record, I suppose then, but I no I doubt it man...

Myself: Your passion is for music and clothes, haircuts must come into it. What's your favourite hair cut you have had over the years?

Liam: That I've had... I don't know I've liked them all or I wouldn't have fucking had them but just the normal one, the normal fucking one, the feathery normal one, I don't know if there is a name for it but I like them all. I like to change it every now and again. I like the bowl cut man, that was a couple of months ago it was a bit ahead of it's time. I like them all otherwise I wouldn't have got them done.

Myself: So how is the tour going now so far after what happened in Manchester?

Liam: Excellent, but I thought about Manchester, after the three gigs when you look back at it on the first night it was fucking rubbish. Everyone was fucking flapping and stuff. I don't think anyone should be waiting about for 40 minutes in the fucking cold for a band this size... If it happens in a fucking club then shit happens. Where we are at it shouldn't be happening. So someone needed to be fucking told the gigs fucking free now. I don't know who's pocket it is coming out of but it ain't mine. Anyway after that and the next two gigs they went off alright and were good, I enjoyed them. I actually preferred the fucking first one to be honest, I like it when shit happens at Oasis gigs otherwise it's the same gig really.
Myself: We went to Manchester when the barrier cracked
Liam: Yes I like shit like that, as long as noone dies or gets hurt or gets the fucking fever cause there to,cold. I like it when shit happens like that because I think once you have seen Oasis once, you have sort of seen we don't really do that much know what I mean.

Myself: So if Noel decides now to take five years off are you going to release music on your own or focus on fashion?

Liam: I'm going to get my fucking tshirts from back off him. I wouldn't call it fashion man, I hate every one going on about fashion. I fucking hate fashion. Im not doing fashion, Im just doing the clothes that I dig and that I want to wear, but I'm not going to take five years off I'll probably do this or do music, cause I'm in Oasis and that's the way it goes. I don't want to do anything else but I suppose I will do a bit of this and chill at home know what I mean?.

Myself: Do you enjoy coming to Wales and playing in Cardiff?
Liam: I do when you get in for nowt Yeah, I don't know about that fucking paying to get in, but we got in tonight for nowt...
Myself: Was that over the bridge?
Liam: Yes, we were stuck in traffic and the police came and helped us in so it was nice, we had our money ready and everything but they just went your alright so Miracles do happen.

Myself: What do you think of the Welsh Music Scene?

Liam: Is there One?
Myself: We got Duffy, Tom Jones, The Peth..
Liam: Not heard the fucking Peth man I got here late, I like Rhys, I like The Super Furry Animals and all that stuff, Stereophonics are cool, Manic Street Preachers. Duffy she was alright till she opened her mouth, the musics alright....know what I mean till she done that fucking stupid advert and things like that.
Myself: I don't like that advert
Liam: It's fucking ridiculous.

Myself: Have you ever thought about telling your story in a autobiography?

Liam: No
Myself: It'd be a interesting read
Liam: Yeah not for me would it, it would fucking bore the arse of me. I suppose it would be, you never know, who knows man it depends how fucking skint I am.

Myself: So out of all the great songs you have written whats you favourite?

Liam: I've written or the band Oasis you mean?
Myself: You
Liam: Me, I suppose it's gotta be 'Out Of Time' that's pretty up there...or 'Songbird' (as Nicole will kill me).

I've had numerous emails from visitors asking how it was meeting Liam and how the interview went and I just want to say Liam was such a pleasure to meet. He was really nice and down to earth and made me feel at ease during the intervew.

He was nothing like I expected him to be and I wasn't made to feel like I had to rush at all.

Liam is a true Rock'n'Roll star!

For more information on Pretty Green visit www.prettygreen.com

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Limited Oasis One-Off Vinyl Re-Press On Sale Now

Following the release of Dig Out Your Soul on their own Big Brother Recordings label worldwide, Oasis will be re-issuing their studio album catalogue on vinyl later this year on a limited one-off re-press. All seven studio albums – ‘Definitely Maybe’, ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’, ‘Be Here Now’, ‘Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants’, ‘Heathen Chemistry’, ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’ and current album, ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ as well as B sides album ‘The Masterplan’, will now be available through Big Brother Recordings on super heavyweight vinyl and will feature brand new sleeve notes from July 13th. In addition a limited edition box set will also be available. Individually numbered, this exclusive must have collectors’ item will feature all eight vinyl albums and exclusive new artwork.

‘Definitely Maybe’ (RKIDLP006X) – released 30th August 1994, highest chart position # 1

‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’ (RKIDLP007X) – released 2nd October 1995, highest chart position # 1

‘Be Here Now’ (RKIDLP008X) – released 21st August 1997, highest chart position # 1

‘The Masterplan’ (RKIDLP009X) – released 2nd November 1998, highest chart position # 2

‘Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants’ (RKIDLP002X) – released 28th February 2000, highest chart position # 1

‘Heathen Chemistry’ (RKIDLP25X) – released 1st July 2002, highest chart position # 1

‘Don’t Believe The Truth’ (RKIDLP30XX) – released 30th May 2005, highest chart position # 1

‘Dig Out Your Soul’ (RKIDLP51X) – released 6th October 2008, highest chart position # 1

Limited Edition Collectors’ Box Set (RKIDBOX58) - Individually numbered box set, featuring exclusive artwork and each of the eight vinyl albums as above.

Following a phenomenal year in support of their latest album, ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ which saw the band embark on their biggest global tour to date and achieve yet another No.1 in the UK charts and No. 5 in America, Oasis return to the UK this month to embark on their hugely anticipated, sold out stadium tour, which will see the band play to over 700,000 people in the UK. With a line-up of support acts including Kasabian, The Enemy, The Reverend & The Makers, Twisted Wheel and The Peth, these shows are sure to be the highlight of 2009.

Visit www.oasisinet.com for more details.

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Liam Gallagher's Latest Twitter

Kasabian in bed by 9, is this a smash hits tour or what...EMPIRE, are you fucking sure?

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Oasis Go Supersonic Through An Inspired Set

There were pints flying, brollies up, City fans trying to outmosh the moshers and even pink cowboy hats. It was a free for all but you can't deny the music - it was awesome.

From hearing The Enemy with Away From Here along the riverside, to Kasabian holding their own with Club Foot and Processed Beats, the lesser bands worked the crowd with ease - but that's easy when you have such crowd pleasers.

Nothing was more crowd pleasing than the four belted out by Oasis as they came on. Rock n Roll Star, Layla, Cigarettes and Alcohol and Roll With It sent the crowd into, dare I say it, a frenzy.

It sounded like the band were never going to make it to the stadium - apparently they got stuck on the Severn Bridge - but everyone was glad they finally did.

Who knows what would have happened otherwise.

Forget Liam, Masterplan and Half a World Away blows any rock 'n' roll bravado out of the water. They were beautifully amazing. There is nothing to make men sing whilst gazing into each other's eyes like an Oasis ballad.

The Importance of Being Idle is my favourite of the recent hits and it would have benefited from support acts Rhys Ifans from The Peth crashing on to the stage.

I don't care if they are cocky crowd pleasers or have produced the same type of stuff for the last 15 years, you can't deny that Noel Gallagher is one of the top singer songwriters of his generation.

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Setlist:
F*ckin’ In The Bushes
Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
Lyla
Shock Of The Lightning
Roll With It
Cigarettes And Alcohol
The Meaning of Soul (NOT PLAYED)
To Be Where There’s Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
My Big Mouth
The Importance Of Being Idle
Half The World Away
I’m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Live Forever
Supersonic

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

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On This Day In Oasis History

"Shakermaker" is a song by British rock group Oasis, written by their lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. First appearing as a single, released on the 13th June 1994, which peaked at number 11 in the UK charts, it was later released on Oasis' groundbreaking debut album Definitely Maybe. It was also the first song performed by the band on the UK's world famous music program, Top Of The Pops.

Gallagher admits the lyrics are taken from the world around him, for example, a Shaker Maker was a popular toy in the 1970s, the character of "Mr Soft" was taken from a Trebour Soft Mints commercial, which featured Cockney Rebel's song "Mr Soft", "Mr. Clean" is a song by The Jam, one of Gallagher's favourite bands, "Mr Benn" is a British children's cartoon and the entire last verse - Mr Sifter sold me songs/When I was just 16/Now he stops at traffic lights/But only when they're green - was written in a taxi on the way to the recording studio to record the song. Apparently, Liam Gallagher was pestering Noel to finish the song. At this point, the taxi stopped at the traffic lights outside 'Sifter's"' (a record shop in Burnage, Manchester). Noel penned the lyric and it became part of the song. Noel used to frequent the store to buy old records before Oasis started releasing albums and Mr Sifter refers to the owner of the record store.

Track listings

CD CRESCD 182
"Shakermaker" - 5:11
"D'yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?" - 2:41
"Alive (8 Track Demo)" - 3:56
"Bring It On Down" (Live) - 4:17

7" CRE 182
"Shakermaker" - 5:11
"D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?" - 2:41

12" CRE 182T
"Shakermaker" - 5:11
"D'yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?" - 2:41
"Alive (8 Track Demo)" - 3:56

Cassette CRECS 182
"Shakermaker" - 5:11
"D'yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?" - 2:41

Music Video



The Video was Shot in Manchester outside of their house.

The field they are playing football in is Didsbury Toc H rugby field in Ford Lane (Didsbury South Manchester) near Fletcher moss.

The Album Liam shows to the camera is Paul McCartney's Red Rose Speedway from 1973.

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Thanks

A big thanks to all of you that sent in questions for our interview with Liam, I went back stage at yesterdays show and had a chat and a sneak peak at the Pretty Green range with Liam.

Liam was superb and made me feel at ease, I will post the interview in a few days.

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Oasis At The Millenium Stadium Cardiff

Last nights set list from the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.

Fucking In The Bushes
Rock N Roll Star
Lyla
Shock Of The Lightning
Roll With It
Cigarettes And Alcohol
To Be Where There’s Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
My Big Mouth
The Importance Of Being Idle
Half The World Away
I’m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Live Forever
Supersonic
Don't Look Back In Anger
Fallin Down
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus

Oasis' next stop is the Théâtre Antique de Vienne in France on Sunday.

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Dig Out Your Soul Limited Edition Box Set Summer Special

For a very limited time, the Oasis USA & Canada store will be offering the deluxe limited edition box set of Dig Out Your Soul at a special discounted rate of $79.99 (originally $99.99). The limited edition box set includes:

Dig Out Your Soul CD
Dig Out Your Soul Bonus CD with 9 extra tracks
Dig Out Your Soul DVD (NTSC/region 0) - includes footage of the Making Of Dig Out Your Soul, The Making Of 'The Shock Of The Lightning' Video and 'The Shock Of The Lightning' Video
4 x heavyweight LP Set (180 gram vinyl) of Dig Out Your Soul and Dig Out Your Soul extra tracks
A hardback 24 page book featuring exclusive artwork
Digital download of the album

Order your copy today HERE.

Also, for merchandise orders* of $75 or more placed between today and June 30th, domestic standard shipping will be free! Be sure to check out all of the fantastic tour merchandise including our most popular item, the Oasis "Splat" logo track jacket, the limited edition US and Canada tour posters, and exclusively designed t-shirts featuring art elements from "Dig Out Your Soul." Once these items sell out, they will be gone forever so do not hesitate! All summer specials end on June 30th.

Enjoy!

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USA & Canada Store

*excludes music

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Liam Gallagher: 'How I Fell In Love With A Stolen Parka'

Oasis frontman explains how wearing a jacket to The Stone Roses converted him

Oasis' Liam Gallagher has revealed he first fell in love with parka jackets after his "auntie" pinched one from her work for him.

The singer, who launched his Pretty Green fashion label with a green parka jacket, explained that he wore one to see in the late '80s and he was hooked.

"The first parka I ever got, my auntie worked at a sport centre. There was one left behind, an Yves Saint Laurent one, and it was yellow cord and she sort of like, robbed it if you want but it was left behind so she bagsied it," he explained in a video interview you can watch above.

"I went to see The Stone Roses in Blackpool (in 1989) and I was the only one down there with one, it was yellow cord and it was beautiful," he said. "I was the ace down there without doubt. It was proper out of this world, I don't know where it is now but I fell in love with them. Every time you put them on you feel like you're going to war or something - and they hide a lot of sins!"

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Oasis Live At The Millennium Stadium

To celebrate the Oasis gig at the Millennium Stadium, WalesOnline has trawled the archives to bring you a selection of stories and pictures featuring everyone's favourite sibling rock 'n' roll rivals.

Later today we will also be bringing you exclusive coverage of the Cardiff show via our Twitter page.

In addition, our team of reporters will be out amongst the crowds taking pictures, shooting video with the fans and bringing you all the build up as The Peth, The Enemy. Kasabian and Oasis take to the stage at the Millennium Stadium.Twitter coverage of the show will begin at 3.30pm as the gates open at the stadium.

WalesOnline's Twitter page will be carrying updates and pictures throughout the show, so if you can't make the gig stay logged on to WalesOnline for the latest.

Keep checking this article here throughout the day for updates, videos and pictures.

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Liam Gallagher's Latest Twitter

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Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

Arright.

Great night last night. Watched all 3 bands. The Makers. The Enemy and Kasabian. From out front. All brilliant. It may have been the best I've ever seen from Kasabian. Great crowd. Very young. Very male. Saying that, you're never quite sure up in the north-east, could've been lots of girls there. Everyone looks the same!! Unbelievable audience though. Kind of makes you wish you were 20 again and down the front with your mates.

Anyway, enough of that bollocks. Little spotty-arse Ronaldo is finally leaving England!! £80m. To Real Madrid (they could've bought Newcastle for that). Good riddance, I say.

Am currently en route to Cardiff. This one WILL get messy. The Peth are opening up. All 10 of 'em. Apparently Rhys has broken his leg - and he's still doing the gig!! He fuckin' loves it.

In a bit.

GD.

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Still Rolling With It

It’s now more than a decade since Oasis played three groundbreaking concerts at Knebworth. As they prepare to take to the Millennium Stadium stage tonight, are they still as valid today? Devotee David Owens mounts an argument for the defence

Tonight the monobrowed Oasis music machine swaggers into Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium, ready to unleash an impressive armoury of hits that are sure to have an expectant crowd singing themselves hoarse to those heart-embroidered anthems that have become familiar to millions.

However, as Oasis race through a pulsating selection of the songs that have embedded themselves in the national psyche, questions will again be asked if this is the Gallagher brothers’ last hurrah.

To admit to being an Oasis fan circa 2009 is now akin to committing something of a horrendous social faux pas.

As those other soon-to-be Mancunian visitors to the Millennium Stadium, Take That, have risen phoenix-like, triumphant from the cruel dictates of critical indifference and fickle fashion to forge a second coming, Liam and Noel find themselves in an altogether different place to their legendary ’90s incarnation.

Then when they were the greatest rock ’n’ roll band to bestride the musical cosmos, the nation fell at their feet in idolatory worship. They were fully feted Britpop kings, undisputed rock royalty, and we, their loyal followers, bowed down in complete subjugation to their throne.

Now, though, they are oft viewed with derision.

“They’re a spent force,” snipe the critics with a sharpened axe to grind, without realising that most of their latter output, while not hitting the dizzying heights of their earlier work, still ranks alongside the best that British music has to offer.

It’s just that when your first album was Definitely Maybe and your second was What’s the Story Morning Glory, you will forever have to spend the rest of your career living in the shadow of your own legendary back catalogue.

Those snobbish critics may still spill their bile over the lack of intelligence in Oasis’ music, but the Gallaghers – if they could be bothered, and they aren’t – could point to achievements that would reduce to a trifling insignificance accusations of intellectual prejudice.

They’ve left a legacy that any future band will struggle to emulate. They’re responsible for songs that will forever be woven into the fabric of the nation’s musical consciousness, they’ve paved the way for a host of fine young pretenders and they’ve created some of the most epochal headlines in rock ’n’ roll history.

Of those, Knebworth was their zenith – a gargantuan underlining of the redemptive power of music to unite people from disparate backgrounds, a seething mass of humanity, brought together in joyful union – in the grounds of a stately home in Hertfordshire.

This is why we love Oasis. It’s as much about the emotions involved in their congregational pulling power as it is about the skyscraping anthems. Songs fired by adrenaline and melody that soar into the ether, sung with gusto from the stage and returned with equal conviction by an enormous call and response choir.

Oasis – the 2009 model – have no truck with convention, don’t feel the need to align themselves to any scene or trend and stands alone in their own belligerent belief that they are still the greatest rock band in the world.

This isolationist approach, while fuelling fire for their detractors, hasn’t stopped an impressive roll call of names lining up to work with the band. See recent collaborations with folk maestro Devendra Banhart, The Prodigy, and anyone who’s heard the 22 minute 28 second remix of Falling Down (from their new album Dig Out Your Soul) by psychedelic mind melders Amorphous Androgynous will testify to Oasis’ continued need to satisfy their musical instincts.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, while reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated by the music press, the public refuses to let them fade away. Each new album and tour is greeted with a fevered expectancy by a huge worldwide following.

Even when the music ranked a poor second to the fractious headlines of fallouts and feuds, Liam and Noel remained consistent in their desire to keep Oasis alive and the fans remained as loyal as ever.

They will arrive in Cardiff fresh from playing to 210,000 people over three nights in Heaton Park in Manchester, with reports that despite a technical hitch on the first night, their live show has moved up a notch.

And it’s on stage that Oasis truly come into their own. A force-of-nature that can spin a venue off its axis with a hurricane-blast of energy and guitars.

Former Ride member Andy Bell, ex-Heavy Stereo guitarist Gem Archer and legendary sticksman-for-hire Chris Sharrock, have injected Oasis with the shot-in-the-arm they lacked with their original line-up – namely focus, professionalism and stage craft.

So when the sibling rivalry roadshow spills its contents onto the Millennium Stadium stage tonight, I’ll be there to witness a spectacle still unique in its uncertainty. Anything can happen and probably will, especially with the Gallagher brothers, a double act without compare, in our midsts.

And with Kasabian, The Enemy, and Rhys Ifans (with his band The Peth) on crutches in a supporting cast, that’s the noughties answer to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Jam and a hobbling Welsh Hollywood hellraiser all set to appear for your very own entertainment.

And you’re telling me that’s not worth the admission fee alone?

Oasis play the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, tonight

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