Pretty Green
Pretty Green are offering fans free delivery WORLDWIDE on orders for the next 48 hours.
Visit www.prettygreen.com for more details.
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Free Posting Worldide For 48 Hours From Pretty Green
Pretty Green are offering fans free delivery WORLDWIDE on orders for the next 48 hours.
Visit www.prettygreen.com for more details.
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Liam Gallagher
The sun shone for the first time at the Blackrod Scarecrow Festival.
Weird and wonderful scarecrows popped up around the village at the weekend, and for the first time in three years, the sun was out.
More than 100 creations were put on display as part of the annual event on Saturday and Sunday.
Organisers say the scarecrows attracted thousands of visitors to the village to see them — all 2,000 programmes were sold.
Among the characters were Noddy, Rosie and Jim and SpongeBob SquarePants, as well as superheroes including, Superman and Batman and Robin.
Stars from the world of music also made it, with Elvis, Liam Gallagher from Oasis and Simon Cowell making an appearance.
The straw and paper mache creations were on view in homes, gardens, churches and schools, with a special map made available for visitors.
Denise Burton, aged 45, of Church Street, Blackrod, made the Liam Gallagher figure with her brother, Stephen Pollard, because her sons, Kris, aged 18, and Zak, aged 17, are Oasis fans.
Organiser Jean Hibbert said: “It has been brilliant. People have been coming from all over the place to see the scarecrows and have enjoyed themselves.”
Click here to see a short video of some of the scarecrows on display.
Source: www.theboltonnews.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Sun Shines As Scarecrows Come Out To Play In Village
The sun shone for the first time at the Blackrod Scarecrow Festival.
Weird and wonderful scarecrows popped up around the village at the weekend, and for the first time in three years, the sun was out.
More than 100 creations were put on display as part of the annual event on Saturday and Sunday.
Organisers say the scarecrows attracted thousands of visitors to the village to see them — all 2,000 programmes were sold.
Among the characters were Noddy, Rosie and Jim and SpongeBob SquarePants, as well as superheroes including, Superman and Batman and Robin.
Stars from the world of music also made it, with Elvis, Liam Gallagher from Oasis and Simon Cowell making an appearance.
The straw and paper mache creations were on view in homes, gardens, churches and schools, with a special map made available for visitors.
Denise Burton, aged 45, of Church Street, Blackrod, made the Liam Gallagher figure with her brother, Stephen Pollard, because her sons, Kris, aged 18, and Zak, aged 17, are Oasis fans.
Organiser Jean Hibbert said: “It has been brilliant. People have been coming from all over the place to see the scarecrows and have enjoyed themselves.”
Click here to see a short video of some of the scarecrows on display.
Source: www.theboltonnews.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Oasis
The iTunes LIVE: London Festival has begun and we have something very special on offer. We have FIVE PAIRS of tickets to give away to this year's Oasis show at London's Roundhouse! The show, which takes place on July 22, will feature support from The Enemy and will be broadcast live on Xfm...
Once again, we're making you work for such a prize. We have loaded up a stack Oasis tracks into our fiendish Beat The Intro game - if you can identify the classics from the first few seconds, you could be hitting the high score table. We'll pick five high-scorers at random and send them tickets!
Click here to enter and terms and conditions.
Source: www.xfm.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Win Oasis Tickets With Xfm's Beat The Intro Quiz
The iTunes LIVE: London Festival has begun and we have something very special on offer. We have FIVE PAIRS of tickets to give away to this year's Oasis show at London's Roundhouse! The show, which takes place on July 22, will feature support from The Enemy and will be broadcast live on Xfm...
Once again, we're making you work for such a prize. We have loaded up a stack Oasis tracks into our fiendish Beat The Intro game - if you can identify the classics from the first few seconds, you could be hitting the high score table. We'll pick five high-scorers at random and send them tickets!
Click here to enter and terms and conditions.
Source: www.xfm.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Oasis
Highlights from Heaton Park, Manchester
Source: Official Oasis YouTube Channel
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Highlights Of Oasis At Heaton Park, Manchester
Highlights from Heaton Park, Manchester
Source: Official Oasis YouTube Channel
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Oasis
You could be seeing Oasis live at London's Roundhouse as part of the iTunes Festival!
Access All Areas is go! Yes, Xfm will be giving away tickets to the greatest live shows in the world... ALL SUMMER LONG!
This week, we'll be giving away tickets to see Oasis at the iTunes Festival in London! The band will be headlining a special show at London's Roundhouse on July 22, supported by their old mates The Enemy. And you could be there...
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to listen out for the Oasis tracks on Xfm every weekday between 8am and 7pm between Monday July 6 and Friday July 10... Your presenter will tell you when to text in!
Good luck!
Please note: winners must be aged 18 years or over. For full competition terms and conditions, see www.xfm.co.uk/terms.
Source: www.xfm.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Win Tickets To See Oasis At The iTunes Festival
You could be seeing Oasis live at London's Roundhouse as part of the iTunes Festival!
Access All Areas is go! Yes, Xfm will be giving away tickets to the greatest live shows in the world... ALL SUMMER LONG!
This week, we'll be giving away tickets to see Oasis at the iTunes Festival in London! The band will be headlining a special show at London's Roundhouse on July 22, supported by their old mates The Enemy. And you could be there...
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to listen out for the Oasis tracks on Xfm every weekday between 8am and 7pm between Monday July 6 and Friday July 10... Your presenter will tell you when to text in!
Good luck!
Please note: winners must be aged 18 years or over. For full competition terms and conditions, see www.xfm.co.uk/terms.
Source: www.xfm.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Oasis
UPDATE
The Limited Edition Collectors’ Box Set has now sold out on the Oasis' Official Site.
A number will be on sale in HMV from July 13th,and are super limited so it might be worthwhile speaking to your local branch if you didn't manage to get one from the official site.
Limited Oasis One-Off Vinyl Re-Press On Sale Now (UPDATE)
UPDATE
The Limited Edition Collectors’ Box Set has now sold out on the Oasis' Official Site.
A number will be on sale in HMV from July 13th,and are super limited so it might be worthwhile speaking to your local branch if you didn't manage to get one from the official site.
The albums are still available individually, click here for more details.
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.
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Liam Gallagher
Just heard through the grapevine that Noely G is playing guitar on The Nolan sisters comeback tour...B Jeezus...
Follow Liam on Twitter by clicking here.
Source: www.prettygreen.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Liam Gallagher's Latest Twitter
Just heard through the grapevine that Noely G is playing guitar on The Nolan sisters comeback tour...B Jeezus...
Follow Liam on Twitter by clicking here.
Source: www.prettygreen.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Noel Gallagher
We won't be hearing anything new from Oasis for a long time, five years, maybe even more.
If the English group is ready to start a stand-by cycle caused by attrition it’s impossible to think that the sharpest tongue of rock will stop.
Inside the glass windows of an office in Murrayfield, Scotland's rugby’s ground. The 42 years old looks at the grassland filling up with 55,000 fans. Noel gives a paternalistic glance at the stage where The Enemy are playing, the band he chose himself as the opening act.
Noel talks to us about his future, the group, the rock, the uselessness of political involved rock stars like Bono and Chris Martin.
Will the tour's end at Milan’s Fair in August and announce a 5-year break. Fans are scared…
“It’s just a number, I could have said ten, but Oasis aren't going to split. It’s only that at this moment I don’t imagine what we can do more. Bigger tours? More money? I need something different to keep my interest alive.”
Have you already planned a solo album?
“No, no, I just would love to enter in a band and just play the guitar without worrying about singing and writing songs”
How are things going between your brother?
“As usual. We can get Oasis working without being best friends, Jagger and Richards we certainly are not.”
They aren't even brothers
“I understand people find it fascinating, but it’s boring to me. No need to lie, telling people we get on well unless we work well it’s good”
During your absence is a new Oasis going to be born?
“For what the music business is today, I don’t believe there will be a great band like us selling so many records”
What’s different?
“It’s a matter of time: we came a long before Internet, ipods, mobile phones. If we start tomorrow we will already have a website, facebook, we should give music for free. When we started, if you would come to listen to us you had to be where we were playing. When the first album came out there were no CD burners, you just had to buy it. There were the ‘pass the word’ brigade and in this way you were in contact with the audience. Nowadays someone records a gig on video and sends it to a friend in Brazil. It seems like people like shows just via the Internet”
Why do people come to see you?
“We just go on stage and we play. I have been to numerous stadium gigs. Everyone is talking about politics and nobody plays. But people are there for the music. At a U2 show or a Coldplay one there’s always a message about indigent people or people starving. OK, but can’t we just have a nice evening? Are we obliged to feel guilty? Let’s think to auto motive stages, to second stages for acoustic sets… this doesn’t make sense.
Would you prefer to be playing in clubs, but many people would remain outside?
We are not like U2 where everything becomes a device mechanism. I’m not saying that there career depends on a spectacular stage, it's just not what we do”
How is your relation with technology?
“If I were 15 years old I would be on Facebook. But I don’t even own a computer and it takes me an hour to send an email. Let’s analyze these things with two points of view. Internet is bad because people stop interacting. Taking everything to the utmost, we will have no need to go in a shop, in a bank, to the police, we will not have any contact with humans are they our relatives you detest or not. But there is also a good side: with people connected, there can’t be another holocaust, like we see today in Iran”
Have you ever thought you passed the limit on what you were doing?
“You can’t say this until you look behind. And now I can't see that between Knebworth 1996 (250,000 ticket sold for two concerts) and the end of the be Here Now tour we were too much on drugs and we were thinking very little about the music. But I don’t regret having done it.”
You don’t regret that you quit?
“I look at Chris Martin that says he never took any drug in his life and I think he’s an idiot. Taking drugs is the most beautiful thing of being in a rock band. Until 1998 I spent about 1 million pounds, then I quit because is bad for health, for brain, for life, for people around you. But while you are using it, except for the heroin that kills people and that I never tried, you say ‘mamma mia’.”
During 90’s you were the cool Britain icons, the new labour phase. Blair invited you in Downing Street. An era finished?
“I grew up with labour at the opposition. I was listening to their discourses about school and minimum salaries and thinking they were right. Then the entered the government and wow, I knew them. We discovered they are like everyone else, it has been like getting to know that Santa Claus doesn't exist. I will never vote again, nothing is gonna change anyway”.
Thanks to Tinny at oasislive.it for the translation of the interview from Corriere Della Sera.
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Noel Gallagher Interview With Corriere Della Sera
We won't be hearing anything new from Oasis for a long time, five years, maybe even more.
If the English group is ready to start a stand-by cycle caused by attrition it’s impossible to think that the sharpest tongue of rock will stop.
Inside the glass windows of an office in Murrayfield, Scotland's rugby’s ground. The 42 years old looks at the grassland filling up with 55,000 fans. Noel gives a paternalistic glance at the stage where The Enemy are playing, the band he chose himself as the opening act.
Noel talks to us about his future, the group, the rock, the uselessness of political involved rock stars like Bono and Chris Martin.
Will the tour's end at Milan’s Fair in August and announce a 5-year break. Fans are scared…
“It’s just a number, I could have said ten, but Oasis aren't going to split. It’s only that at this moment I don’t imagine what we can do more. Bigger tours? More money? I need something different to keep my interest alive.”
Have you already planned a solo album?
“No, no, I just would love to enter in a band and just play the guitar without worrying about singing and writing songs”
How are things going between your brother?
“As usual. We can get Oasis working without being best friends, Jagger and Richards we certainly are not.”
They aren't even brothers
“I understand people find it fascinating, but it’s boring to me. No need to lie, telling people we get on well unless we work well it’s good”
During your absence is a new Oasis going to be born?
“For what the music business is today, I don’t believe there will be a great band like us selling so many records”
What’s different?
“It’s a matter of time: we came a long before Internet, ipods, mobile phones. If we start tomorrow we will already have a website, facebook, we should give music for free. When we started, if you would come to listen to us you had to be where we were playing. When the first album came out there were no CD burners, you just had to buy it. There were the ‘pass the word’ brigade and in this way you were in contact with the audience. Nowadays someone records a gig on video and sends it to a friend in Brazil. It seems like people like shows just via the Internet”
Why do people come to see you?
“We just go on stage and we play. I have been to numerous stadium gigs. Everyone is talking about politics and nobody plays. But people are there for the music. At a U2 show or a Coldplay one there’s always a message about indigent people or people starving. OK, but can’t we just have a nice evening? Are we obliged to feel guilty? Let’s think to auto motive stages, to second stages for acoustic sets… this doesn’t make sense.
Would you prefer to be playing in clubs, but many people would remain outside?
We are not like U2 where everything becomes a device mechanism. I’m not saying that there career depends on a spectacular stage, it's just not what we do”
How is your relation with technology?
“If I were 15 years old I would be on Facebook. But I don’t even own a computer and it takes me an hour to send an email. Let’s analyze these things with two points of view. Internet is bad because people stop interacting. Taking everything to the utmost, we will have no need to go in a shop, in a bank, to the police, we will not have any contact with humans are they our relatives you detest or not. But there is also a good side: with people connected, there can’t be another holocaust, like we see today in Iran”
Have you ever thought you passed the limit on what you were doing?
“You can’t say this until you look behind. And now I can't see that between Knebworth 1996 (250,000 ticket sold for two concerts) and the end of the be Here Now tour we were too much on drugs and we were thinking very little about the music. But I don’t regret having done it.”
You don’t regret that you quit?
“I look at Chris Martin that says he never took any drug in his life and I think he’s an idiot. Taking drugs is the most beautiful thing of being in a rock band. Until 1998 I spent about 1 million pounds, then I quit because is bad for health, for brain, for life, for people around you. But while you are using it, except for the heroin that kills people and that I never tried, you say ‘mamma mia’.”
During 90’s you were the cool Britain icons, the new labour phase. Blair invited you in Downing Street. An era finished?
“I grew up with labour at the opposition. I was listening to their discourses about school and minimum salaries and thinking they were right. Then the entered the government and wow, I knew them. We discovered they are like everyone else, it has been like getting to know that Santa Claus doesn't exist. I will never vote again, nothing is gonna change anyway”.
Thanks to Tinny at oasislive.it for the translation of the interview from Corriere Della Sera.
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Noel Gallagher
Taken fromNoel's tour diary for oasisinet.com
So last night was fuckin' brilliant. One of the bestest. Don't ask why. It just was.
Roskilde's not as big as I remembered it. I had it in my head it was about 100,000 people. Seemed like maybe half that. Still..it was one of those rare gigs where straight from the very 1st note you just know it's gonna be good.
I've lost one of my bags - AGAIN!! It's becoming a theme of this tour. Lost bags, lost clothes, broken ribs. It's beginning to get on my tits.
Back in dat'dare London. Coventry on Tuesday then Wembley!! Cannot wait.
In a bit.
GD.
Source: www.oasisinet.com
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Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere
Taken fromNoel's tour diary for oasisinet.com
So last night was fuckin' brilliant. One of the bestest. Don't ask why. It just was.
Roskilde's not as big as I remembered it. I had it in my head it was about 100,000 people. Seemed like maybe half that. Still..it was one of those rare gigs where straight from the very 1st note you just know it's gonna be good.
I've lost one of my bags - AGAIN!! It's becoming a theme of this tour. Lost bags, lost clothes, broken ribs. It's beginning to get on my tits.
Back in dat'dare London. Coventry on Tuesday then Wembley!! Cannot wait.
In a bit.
GD.
Source: www.oasisinet.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Songwriter reveals he wouldn't mind moonlighting with someone other than Oasis
Wanted: amazingly talented guitarist with GSOH is looking for a band for gigs, albums, but no charity work.
Fans who were dismayed this year when Noel Gallagher vowed not to release another Oasis album for five years should prepare themselves for some more bad news.
The Oasis guitarist has told an Italian newspaper that he would like to join another band, "play the guitar and not have to worry about singing or writing songs". He also reckons he spent £1m on drugs during the first few years of the band's success, and doesn't regret a penny. He stopped in 1998 apparently because "it is bad for your health, brain, life and people around you".
And contrary to what he recently told a British newspaper, he does not want to record a solo album, and it might well be longer than five years before Oasis head back into the studio.
Neither age nor fatherhood seems to have mellowed the 42-year-old, who appears to have been on top form when he was interviewed by Corriere della Sera.
The Oasis guitarist labelled his old foe Chris Martin, from the band Coldplay, a clean-living "idiot" and slated him, and the U2 front man Bono for mixing rock and roll with politics.
"I look at Chris Martin, who says he has never taken drugs in his life, and I think he's an idiot. Doing drugs is the most beautiful thing about being in a rock band," said Gallagher.
Never one to shy away from controversy, he had plenty to say about the upsurge in poverty concerts. "At a U2 or Coldplay concert there is always a message about poor people or people dying of hunger. OK, but can't we just have a nice evening? Do we always have to feel guilty?"
The songwriter has not lost his way with words but is clearly struggling to find the satisfaction he felt in the band's early years. Critics would argue that he and the band have also struggled musically and have failed to come anywhere near the creative highs of their first two albums Definitely Maybe in 1994 and (What's the Story) Morning Glory in 1995.
Asked about the reported five-year break for Oasis, he said: "[Five] was just a number. I could have said 10, but Oasis won't break up. It's just that at the moment I can't see what more we can do. Bigger tours? More money? I need something different to maintain my interest... My ideal would be to join another band."
Formerly one of New Labour's most famous supporters – he drank champagne and talked guitars with Tony Blair – he said that he was disillusioned with politics and there were unlikely to be more nights out at No 10. He no longer votes.
"As time passed they [New Labour] became like the others. It was like you find out Father Christmas doesn't exist."
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
'I Need Something Different – Maybe Another Band,' Says Noel Gallagher
Songwriter reveals he wouldn't mind moonlighting with someone other than Oasis
Wanted: amazingly talented guitarist with GSOH is looking for a band for gigs, albums, but no charity work.
Fans who were dismayed this year when Noel Gallagher vowed not to release another Oasis album for five years should prepare themselves for some more bad news.
The Oasis guitarist has told an Italian newspaper that he would like to join another band, "play the guitar and not have to worry about singing or writing songs". He also reckons he spent £1m on drugs during the first few years of the band's success, and doesn't regret a penny. He stopped in 1998 apparently because "it is bad for your health, brain, life and people around you".
And contrary to what he recently told a British newspaper, he does not want to record a solo album, and it might well be longer than five years before Oasis head back into the studio.
Neither age nor fatherhood seems to have mellowed the 42-year-old, who appears to have been on top form when he was interviewed by Corriere della Sera.
The Oasis guitarist labelled his old foe Chris Martin, from the band Coldplay, a clean-living "idiot" and slated him, and the U2 front man Bono for mixing rock and roll with politics.
"I look at Chris Martin, who says he has never taken drugs in his life, and I think he's an idiot. Doing drugs is the most beautiful thing about being in a rock band," said Gallagher.
Never one to shy away from controversy, he had plenty to say about the upsurge in poverty concerts. "At a U2 or Coldplay concert there is always a message about poor people or people dying of hunger. OK, but can't we just have a nice evening? Do we always have to feel guilty?"
The songwriter has not lost his way with words but is clearly struggling to find the satisfaction he felt in the band's early years. Critics would argue that he and the band have also struggled musically and have failed to come anywhere near the creative highs of their first two albums Definitely Maybe in 1994 and (What's the Story) Morning Glory in 1995.
Asked about the reported five-year break for Oasis, he said: "[Five] was just a number. I could have said 10, but Oasis won't break up. It's just that at the moment I can't see what more we can do. Bigger tours? More money? I need something different to maintain my interest... My ideal would be to join another band."
Formerly one of New Labour's most famous supporters – he drank champagne and talked guitars with Tony Blair – he said that he was disillusioned with politics and there were unlikely to be more nights out at No 10. He no longer votes.
"As time passed they [New Labour] became like the others. It was like you find out Father Christmas doesn't exist."
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Chris Martin
Coldplay
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
U2
Oasis star Noel Gallagher has spent an amazing £1m on drugs and enjoyed every minute of it, he told an Italian newspaper.
The 42-year-old also labelled Chris Martin from Coldplay an ''idiot'' after he claimed not to have taken drugs and slammed the rival band and U2 for using concerts as stages for "'rock politics".
At the peak of the Britpop era, Noel and brother Liam's hedonistic excesses were well known and their partying was legendary.
Gallagher once revealed he had taken cocaine at a Downing Street reception in a toilet reserved for the Queen.
In his interview with Corriere Della Sera, he said: "I look at Chris Martin who says he has never taken drugs in his life and I think he is an idiot.
"Doing drugs is the most beautiful thing about being in a rock band.
"Up until 1998 I must have spent £1m on drugs then I stopped because it is bad for your health, brain, life and for people around you.
"But while you use them - except for heroin which kills people and which I have never tried - as you lot (Italians) would say 'Mamma Mia'."
Turning to bands who used concerts to get across a political message, Gallagher stormed: "We get on the stage and play.
"I have been to loads of concerts where bands don't play they just talk about politics.
"At a U2 or Coldplay concert there is always a message about poor people or people dying from hunger.
"OK, but can't we just have a nice evening? Do we always have to feel guilty?"
Gallagher - who with the rest of Oasis met Tony Blair several times at the height of their fame - also spoke of his own political views and said: "I grew up with Labour in opposition.
"I heard their policies on education and minimum wages and I thought they were right.
"Then they got into government and wow, I got to know them.
"Then as time passed they became like all the others - it was like when you find out Father Christmas doesn't exist.
"I don't vote any more - anyway it doesn't matter as nothing will change."
Oasis are due to play three concerts at Wembley Stadium this week and will end their current tour in Milan on August 30.
Source: sky.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Noel Gallagher Spent £1m On 'Beautiful' Drugs
Oasis star Noel Gallagher has spent an amazing £1m on drugs and enjoyed every minute of it, he told an Italian newspaper.
The 42-year-old also labelled Chris Martin from Coldplay an ''idiot'' after he claimed not to have taken drugs and slammed the rival band and U2 for using concerts as stages for "'rock politics".
At the peak of the Britpop era, Noel and brother Liam's hedonistic excesses were well known and their partying was legendary.
Gallagher once revealed he had taken cocaine at a Downing Street reception in a toilet reserved for the Queen.
In his interview with Corriere Della Sera, he said: "I look at Chris Martin who says he has never taken drugs in his life and I think he is an idiot.
"Doing drugs is the most beautiful thing about being in a rock band.
"Up until 1998 I must have spent £1m on drugs then I stopped because it is bad for your health, brain, life and for people around you.
"But while you use them - except for heroin which kills people and which I have never tried - as you lot (Italians) would say 'Mamma Mia'."
Turning to bands who used concerts to get across a political message, Gallagher stormed: "We get on the stage and play.
"I have been to loads of concerts where bands don't play they just talk about politics.
"At a U2 or Coldplay concert there is always a message about poor people or people dying from hunger.
"OK, but can't we just have a nice evening? Do we always have to feel guilty?"
Gallagher - who with the rest of Oasis met Tony Blair several times at the height of their fame - also spoke of his own political views and said: "I grew up with Labour in opposition.
"I heard their policies on education and minimum wages and I thought they were right.
"Then they got into government and wow, I got to know them.
"Then as time passed they became like all the others - it was like when you find out Father Christmas doesn't exist.
"I don't vote any more - anyway it doesn't matter as nothing will change."
Oasis are due to play three concerts at Wembley Stadium this week and will end their current tour in Milan on August 30.
Source: sky.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Liam Gallagher
Evening pop pickers, Roskilde, it takes a lot to put me in a God mood and each and everyone of you did it, take care, Live Forever...
Follow Liam on Twitter by clicking here.
Source: www.prettygreen.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Liam Gallagher Latest Twitter
Evening pop pickers, Roskilde, it takes a lot to put me in a God mood and each and everyone of you did it, take care, Live Forever...
Follow Liam on Twitter by clicking here.
Source: www.prettygreen.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Oasis
Tonight's setlist from Oasis at the Roskilde Festival, Denmark.
Rock N Roll Star
Lyla
Shock Of The Lightning
Roll With It
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
My Big Mouth
Half The World Away
I'm Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Live Forever
Don't Look Back In Anger
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus
Oasis' next stop is Ricoh Arena in Coventry on Tuesday.
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Oasis In Denmark
Tonight's setlist from Oasis at the Roskilde Festival, Denmark.
Rock N Roll Star
Lyla
Shock Of The Lightning
Roll With It
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
My Big Mouth
Half The World Away
I'm Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Live Forever
Don't Look Back In Anger
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus
Oasis' next stop is Ricoh Arena in Coventry on Tuesday.
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Oasis
The Jaguar Exhibition Hall at the Ricoh Arena will be transformed into the city’s biggest bar ahead of the Oasis gig on Tuesday.
Doors will open at noon and the indoor hall can accommodate up to 8,000 people.
Organisers are hoping fans will arrive early and beat the traffic to the band’s only Midlands gig this summer.
Anthony Mundy, facilities director at the Ricoh Arena, said the hall had been opened to ease traffic congestion as 38,000 people headed to the venue.
“We can comfortably hold up to 8,000 in the Jaguar Exhibition which we will be turning into a bar for the afternoon,” he said.
The concert will start with band Free Peace, who are due to play at 5pm, followed by Twisted Wheel at 5.45pm.
Coventry’s The Enemy will be on stage from 6.45pm with Oasis due to start playing their set at 8.15pm.
Source: coventrytelegraph.co.uk
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Oasis Fans Will Accommodate Coventry's Biggest Bar On Tueday
The Jaguar Exhibition Hall at the Ricoh Arena will be transformed into the city’s biggest bar ahead of the Oasis gig on Tuesday.
Doors will open at noon and the indoor hall can accommodate up to 8,000 people.
Organisers are hoping fans will arrive early and beat the traffic to the band’s only Midlands gig this summer.
Anthony Mundy, facilities director at the Ricoh Arena, said the hall had been opened to ease traffic congestion as 38,000 people headed to the venue.
“We can comfortably hold up to 8,000 in the Jaguar Exhibition which we will be turning into a bar for the afternoon,” he said.
The concert will start with band Free Peace, who are due to play at 5pm, followed by Twisted Wheel at 5.45pm.
Coventry’s The Enemy will be on stage from 6.45pm with Oasis due to start playing their set at 8.15pm.
Source: coventrytelegraph.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Liam Gallagher
Hi there pop pickers, Belgium, what a night top crowd, see ya soon.
Follow Liam on Twitter by clicking here.
Source: www.prettygreen.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Liam Gallagher's Latest Twitter
Hi there pop pickers, Belgium, what a night top crowd, see ya soon.
Follow Liam on Twitter by clicking here.
Source: www.prettygreen.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Noel Gallagher
Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com
Well last night was brilliant. Great big, big crowd. 70-odd thousand. Fuck me, it was hot though.
Lily Allen was on our stage. I haven't seen her in a while. I've known Lil' since she was a kid. Her old fella used to bring her round to that Supernova Heights gaff of mine in the 90s. A good kid. Works hard, plays hard.
Am currently heading to Denmark where we will play the Roskilde Festival. Get on the bill (see if you can spot the odd one out):
FAITH NO MORE!!!
NICK CAVE AND THEM BAD SEEDS!!!
oasis
NINE INCH NAILS!!!
Can you tell? Someone's having a shit night, eh?
In a bit.
GD.
Source: www.oasisinet.com
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Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere
Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com
Well last night was brilliant. Great big, big crowd. 70-odd thousand. Fuck me, it was hot though.
Lily Allen was on our stage. I haven't seen her in a while. I've known Lil' since she was a kid. Her old fella used to bring her round to that Supernova Heights gaff of mine in the 90s. A good kid. Works hard, plays hard.
Am currently heading to Denmark where we will play the Roskilde Festival. Get on the bill (see if you can spot the odd one out):
FAITH NO MORE!!!
NICK CAVE AND THEM BAD SEEDS!!!
oasis
NINE INCH NAILS!!!
Can you tell? Someone's having a shit night, eh?
In a bit.
GD.
Source: www.oasisinet.com
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Alan White
Bonehead
Guigsy
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
"Sunday Morning Call" is a song by British rock band Oasis taken from their fourth studio album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, and was released as the third and final single from it on 3 July 2000, peaking at #4 in the UK charts. The song is written and sung by Noel Gallagher, who took over lead vocal from brother Liam Gallagher on an A-side for the first time since "Don't Look Back in Anger" in 1996.
Though the song has the same anthemic feel that popularised many Oasis songs, and departs from the psychedelic feel of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, which had been poorly received by critics, it received a mixed critical reception. NME described it as "a dreary thing indeed", whereas Allmusic described it as a "self-consciously mature departure from the group's usual ebullience... a deliberately mellow, mid-tempo [song]".
The music video is a take on the Jack Nicholson film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with characters resembling McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. It was filmed in an old mental institution in Vancouver, Canada and features Scottish actor James Cunningham, who has previously starred in the original play of Trainspotting. Unlike the film, the video begins with the McMurphy character escaping his home and giving chase to the authorities, and ends in a football match. While the inmates celebrate a victory, Oasis are seen watching from the asylum window, and Noel Gallagher makes a 'wanker' hand gesture at Cunningham.
Although unconfirmed, there was widespread speculation at the time that the song was inspired by Noel's friend Kate Moss.
To date this is the only Oasis single on which Liam Gallagher does not provide vocals on any of the songs.
Track listing
CD RKIDSCD 004
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
"Full On" - 4:16
7" RKID 004
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
12" RKID 004T
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
"Full On" - 4:16
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
On This Day In Oasis History...
"Sunday Morning Call" is a song by British rock band Oasis taken from their fourth studio album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, and was released as the third and final single from it on 3 July 2000, peaking at #4 in the UK charts. The song is written and sung by Noel Gallagher, who took over lead vocal from brother Liam Gallagher on an A-side for the first time since "Don't Look Back in Anger" in 1996.
Though the song has the same anthemic feel that popularised many Oasis songs, and departs from the psychedelic feel of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, which had been poorly received by critics, it received a mixed critical reception. NME described it as "a dreary thing indeed", whereas Allmusic described it as a "self-consciously mature departure from the group's usual ebullience... a deliberately mellow, mid-tempo [song]".
The music video is a take on the Jack Nicholson film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with characters resembling McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. It was filmed in an old mental institution in Vancouver, Canada and features Scottish actor James Cunningham, who has previously starred in the original play of Trainspotting. Unlike the film, the video begins with the McMurphy character escaping his home and giving chase to the authorities, and ends in a football match. While the inmates celebrate a victory, Oasis are seen watching from the asylum window, and Noel Gallagher makes a 'wanker' hand gesture at Cunningham.
Although unconfirmed, there was widespread speculation at the time that the song was inspired by Noel's friend Kate Moss.
To date this is the only Oasis single on which Liam Gallagher does not provide vocals on any of the songs.
Track listing
CD RKIDSCD 004
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
"Full On" - 4:16
7" RKID 004
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
12" RKID 004T
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
"Full On" - 4:16
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Oasis
Tonight's setlist from Oasis at the Rock Werchter, Belguim.
Rock N Roll Star
Lyla
Shock Of The Lightning
Roll With It
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
My Big Mouth
Half The World Away
I’m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Live Forever
Don't Look Back In Anger
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus
Oasis' next stop is Roskilde Festival in Denmark tomorrow.
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Oasis At 'Rock Werchter' Setlist
Tonight's setlist from Oasis at the Rock Werchter, Belguim.
Rock N Roll Star
Lyla
Shock Of The Lightning
Roll With It
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
My Big Mouth
Half The World Away
I’m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Live Forever
Don't Look Back In Anger
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus
Oasis' next stop is Roskilde Festival in Denmark tomorrow.
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Guigsy
Oasis
A Teenage guitarist from Morecambe is 'Supersonic', says a former member of rock group Oasis.
Harrison Wood recently caught the eye of Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan – who played bass with the Manchester superstars during their peak years in the 90s.
McGuigan saw Harrison – who plays both bass guitar and double bass (yes, he has more than one string to his bow!) – performing in Scotland alongside up-and-coming young violinist and songstress Joni Fuller at the Montrose Music Festival.
Afterwards, he said: "(Joni) has a great young bass player with her...who was far better than me at that age (better than me now actually)." And then, on what he called "the proudest day of my musical life", Harrison went on to win the Royal Northern College of Music (RCNM)'s highly prestigious Junior RNCM award, The Director's Prize for 2009.
"It was all very emotional and the award means the world to me," said Harrison.
At the same awards ceremony, he was also awarded this year's Yorke Trust Prize For Double Bass.
Harrison, who is clearly destined for great things, has also been awarded a scholarship to study double bass at the RNCM from September 2009 and has played with the Halle Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
The versatile young musician is the son of David Wood, owner of Promenade Music in Morecambe and the Faith and Hope record label that took Mint Royale to number one in 2008 with the 'Singin' in the Rain' remix.
To find out more about Harrison, look at his website www.harrisonwood.com.
Source: www.thevisitor.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
Musician Wins Praise From Ex Oasis Man
A Teenage guitarist from Morecambe is 'Supersonic', says a former member of rock group Oasis.
Harrison Wood recently caught the eye of Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan – who played bass with the Manchester superstars during their peak years in the 90s.
McGuigan saw Harrison – who plays both bass guitar and double bass (yes, he has more than one string to his bow!) – performing in Scotland alongside up-and-coming young violinist and songstress Joni Fuller at the Montrose Music Festival.
Afterwards, he said: "(Joni) has a great young bass player with her...who was far better than me at that age (better than me now actually)." And then, on what he called "the proudest day of my musical life", Harrison went on to win the Royal Northern College of Music (RCNM)'s highly prestigious Junior RNCM award, The Director's Prize for 2009.
"It was all very emotional and the award means the world to me," said Harrison.
At the same awards ceremony, he was also awarded this year's Yorke Trust Prize For Double Bass.
Harrison, who is clearly destined for great things, has also been awarded a scholarship to study double bass at the RNCM from September 2009 and has played with the Halle Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
The versatile young musician is the son of David Wood, owner of Promenade Music in Morecambe and the Faith and Hope record label that took Mint Royale to number one in 2008 with the 'Singin' in the Rain' remix.
To find out more about Harrison, look at his website www.harrisonwood.com.
Source: www.thevisitor.co.uk
Tickets are still available for a number shows on Oasis' largest-ever UK Stadium tour, click here for availability of tickets.
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