Vote For Oasis At The Q Awards 2009

The world's finest music awards is upon us once more. Ladies and Gentlemen, start your voting engines - and win the chance to join us on the day!

Last year's Q Awards with Russian Standard Vodka saw Grace Jones in a devil mask, Coldplay wearing Napoleonic army cast-offs and Kaiser Chiefs dressed as, er, bin men. This year's Q Awards, on Monday, 26 October, will be a similarly star-studded affair and will no doubt also feature plenty of sartorial madness - and, of course, much more besides.

HOW TO VOTE

Oh yes, you're in charge of who wins what. To vote, just register your details below then nominate your favourite artist, track or video in the various categories shown.

WIN TICKETS

Two tickets to the most prestigious music awards of the year are up for grabs. Everyone who votes online will be entered into a prize draw, with one winner chosen at random from a very large hat. Travel and accommodation are not included. Entrants must be aged 18 years or over. The judges' decision is final and the closing date for all entries is 9 October 2009. The lucky winner will be notified within a couple of days.

The Awards are voted for by the readers and listeners of Q magazine, Qthemusic.com, Q Radio and by the staff at Q. The final decision is the reserved right of the Q staff.

Click here to cast your vote, Oasis can be nominated in a number of catergories.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Roll With It is a song by British rock band Oasis written by their lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It was released 14 August 1995 as the second single from their second album (What's the Story) Morning Glory ?, reaching #2 in the UK Singles Chart (see 1995 in British music).

"Roll With It" received a great deal of attention when Food Records, the label of Britpop rivals Blur, moved the original release date of single "Country House" to clash with it, sparking what came to be known as "The Battle of Britpop". The British media had already reported an intense rivalry between the two bands and this clash of releases was seen as a battle for the number one spot. The media sensation was spurred on by verbal attacks from the respective camps (in particular Noel and Liam Gallagher, Damon Albarn and Alex James), that extended beyond the music industry to the point where the two bands were regularly mentioned on the evening news. In particular, public imagination was sparked by the contrast between the gritty, working class Oasis and the artsy, middle class Blur. In the end, Blur's "Country House" single sold 274,000 copies to Oasis' 216,000 copies of "Roll with It". The singles charted at number 1 and number 2 respectively.



In the week of its release, Damon Albarn was asked what he thought of the song. He dubbed the band as "Quoasis" and sang "Down, down, deeper and down" in reference of the song's likeness to Status Quo's 1975 hit Down Down..

The song is like several other songs, such as "Supersonic", in that it preaches the importance of being yourself. Noel Gallagher does not like the song at all. In a 2005 interview he described it as "appalling".

The melody for this song also appears in part in The Lemonheads' song Purple Parallelogram, which was co-written between Gallagher and Evan Dando.



Top of the Pops Performance

When Oasis played "Roll With It" on British chart show Top of the Pops, the Gallagher brothers switched roles with Liam pretending to play guitar and Noel pretending to sing (equipped with Liam's tambourine). It mocked the public's inability to tell them apart and also the institution of miming on programmes such as Top of the Pops (it is widely believed that the brothers' dislike of miming led them to do it). The set ended with the band erupting in laughter at the Gallaghers' impressions of each other.

Artwork

The photograph used on this release was taken on the beach at Weston Super Mare. In the background is the Grand Pier which burnt down in July 2008.

Oasis had been following in the footsteps of The Beatles, who were photographed on the beach wearing Victorian bathing costumes in 1963.

Track listing

CD CRESCD 212
"Roll With It" - 4:00
"It's Better People" - 3:59
"Rockin' Chair" - 4:36
"Live Forever" (Live at Glastonbury '95) - 4:40
"Live Forever" was recorded live at the Glastonbury Festival on June 23, 1995.

7" CRE 212
"Roll With It" - 4:00
"It's Better People" - 3:59

12" CRE 212T
"Roll With It" - 4:00
"It's Better People" - 3:59
"Rockin' Chair" - 4:36

Cassette CRECS 212
"Roll With It" - 4:00
"It's Better People" - 3:59

Australian CD HES 662325-5
"Roll With It"
"Talk Tonight"
"Acquiesce"
"Headshrinker"
"Headshrinker" was a b-side of the band's previous UK single "Some Might Say" and was one of the last tracks to feature original Oasis drummer Tony McCarroll.

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Upcoming Oasis TV Highlights

MUSIC: V Festival 2009 Live: The Headliners
On: 4Music (330)
Date: Sunday 23rd August 2009 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 10:00 pm to 12:30 am (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

A one-off alert is set for Sunday 23rd August 2009, 15 minutes before 22:00
Dave Berry presents live coverage of the V Festival from Chelmsford, featuring live headline sets from Oasis and Keane.
(Live)

MUSIC: V Festival 2009
On: Channel 4 (104)
Date: Sunday 23rd August 2009 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 11:20 pm to 1:00 am (1 hour and 40 minutes long)

Miquita Oliver and Steve Jones present highlights of the second day of the V Festival 2009 from Chelmsford. As well as interviews and the gossip from backstage there ARe performances from James Morrison, Snow Patrol, Elbow, Katy Perry, The Streets, Lady GaGa, Oasis and many more.

(Watch Online, Subtitles)

Thanks to Mr Monobrow

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Noel Gallagher Says He Wants Another Baby

Oasis star Noel Gallagher has revealed that he is looking forward to extending his family.

The rockstar said he’s pretty eager to get home after finishing off the band’s UK tour so that he can make babies with missus, Sara MacDonald.

“It will be cool if we can pull it off,” the Mirror quoted Gallagher as saying.

Gallagher is already father to a daughter named Anais from ex wife Meg Mathews and a son Donovan born in 2007 from Sara.

Source: www.thaindian.com

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Xfm's Top 100 Songs Of All Time

Last Bank Holiday, Xfm counted down The Best British Songs Of All Time as voted for by you - with Oasis taking the top 3 places.

Take a look at the list here.

So, we asked ourselves: just how good is British music compared to the music from the rest of the world?

This coming Bank Holiday, August 31 - Xfm is teaming up with the world's coolest Radio stations - K-ROQ in Los Angeles and TripleJ in Australia to countdown The Top 100 Songs of All Time as voted for by YOU!

Just what is the best song in the WORLD?

Oasis or Nirvana...?

Kasabian or The Killers...?

Arctic Monkeys or Green Day...?

Muse or Foo Fighters...?

From Monday August 17, you can vote for your favourite songs of all time at Xfm.co.uk..!

Source: www.xfm.co.uk

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Liam Gallagher's Latest Twitter

@Heathy1 glad you like the parka the pictures only went to the first 100 people that ordered...

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Source: www.prettygreen.com

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To Beer Or Not To Beer?

What ho! Noel Gallagher swapped cigarettes and alcohol for a jolly good night at the theatre.

The grumpy guitarist slipped on a posh cardigan to see his thesp mate, Jude Law, 36, star in Hamlet at London’s Wyndham theatre.

But in true Oasis style, the 42-year-old rocker was spotted looking plastered after the curtain had fallen.

Either Jude’s performance was totally mind-blowing or naughty Noel sneaked some Special Brew into the stalls.

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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Police Drug Warning Over V Festival

Revellers are being warned not to take drugs to this year’s V Festival on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border or they will face court action.

A condition of entry to the festival at Weston Park, near Shifnal, means that all festival-goers must allow themselves to be searched by police or security staff. Police, using drugs dogs, and stewards will be searching people as they enter the site for the festivities from August 21 to 24.

Chief Inspector Vera Bloor, from the tactical support department at Staffordshire Police, said: “Drugs aren’t welcome at V. If you take them, or deal in them, we’ll catch you and prosecute you.”

Anyone found in possession of drugs will be arrested. They will have to provide a DNA sample and have their fingerprints taken which will be kept on the police national database.

A mobile drugs laboratory and a laptop drugs-identifying machine will help officers quickly establish the type of substances seized and offenders could then be put before the next available court.

Chief Inspector Bloor said: “We work closely with the organisers to ensure that the event is a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone.

“It is renowned for being one of the safest in this country and we will continue to make it even safer for festival-goers and members of the local community.”

Police nationally have recovered fake drugs at concerts and found plaster-of-paris pills being sold as ecstasy and a drug called chloroquine, used to treat malaria, being sold as cocaine.

Chief Inspector Bloor added: “Obviously these fake drugs could be extremely harmful and even life-threatening. Anyone caught with fake drugs will risk arrest, being put before a court and could face a prison sentence.

“It is also important for people entering or leaving the site to remember that driving under the influence of drink or drugs puts lives at risk.”

Anyone with information on drugs at the festival is urged to report it by going to the police post on site, or by texting vfest (then message) to 07929 30 20 10, or calling confidentially through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Visit www.staffordshire.police.uk/vfestival for more information.

Source: www.shropshirestar.com

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Last Chance To Vote For Oasis As MTV's Greatest Superstar

1981: The year that saw the demise of Punk, the birth of New Romanticism, the rise of the CD, the death of Bob Marley, and John Lennon’s message for “the world to live as one” top the charts world-wide with the posthumously-released classic, Imagine.

It was also the year a new musical revolution rocked the planet - THE LAUNCH OF MTV.

From the moment Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star ushered in the world’s first dedicated music channel, nothing would be the same again.

New musical superstars such as Madonna and Def Leppard were introduced and MTV would go on to single-handedly help create and break entire movements like 80s hair metal, hip-hop, grunge, nu-metal and Britpop to name but a few.

But who’s been the biggest act to find global fame, chart success and fan worship since that very launch in ’81? We're asking you to vote for your Greatest Superstar.

Source: www.mtv.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Interview

A short interview with Noel Gallagher from the Rock Werchter Festival in Belguim earlier last month.

Skip forward 3 minutes into the video for the Noel interview to start.

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Oasis: 'V Festival Is Always Our Favourite'

With a couple of weeks to go until their headline slot at V Festival, Oasis have revealed that the festival is their favourite to play.
During an interview with Eleanor Conway, the band - minus the Gallagher brothers - also fuelled their ongoing feud with Glastonbury branding festival-goers ‘yoghurt weavers’.

Speaking to Conway, bassist Andy Bell admitted, “[V Festival is] always our favourite actually, I’m not just saying that it really is.” When asked why they prefer V Festival to the likes of Glastonbury, Bell answered, “It’s the audience, it’s our audience really, it’s our people.”

Guitarist Gem Archer then interrupted saying he prefers V Festival because it is “louder for a start,” before he's heard to say, “yogurt weavers.” When asked what he meant, Archer replied, “you know, farmers - people who weave yoghurts,” referring to Glastonbury-goers.

Source: www.virtualfestivals.com

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Free Drink For Those Of You Going To The V Festival

Those of you that are going to the V Festival at either Staffordshire or Chelmsford on August 22/23 can grab yourself a free drink from Bacardi.

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Listen To Oasis At The V Festival And More

Thanks to Guitar Hero, we'll be bringing you live music from this year's Virgin Media V Festival. We might have changed our name, but Absolute Radio is still the place to find the best V Festival coverage. We'll be there to broadcast full live performances from Oasis and Snow Patrol as well as other great acts.

You'll also find exclusive photos, sessions and video interviews from Hylands Park, right here!

It looks set to be an unmissable live music event and will be held at Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in Staffordshire on 22 and 23 August 2009.

For exclusive stage and backstage photos from the Festival, listen again to live performances, and watch exclusive video interviews click here.

Tickets for the V Festival may have sold out but we still have pairs to give away every day. Play now for the chance to win a pair of weekend camping tickets.

Source: www.absoluteradio.co.uk

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Oasis Star Liam Gallagher Is A Fab Babysitter

Most parents would surely think twice before leaving their children in the care of Liam Gallagher.

The Oasis rocker has two kids, nine-year-old Lennon by ex-wife Patsy Kensit, and Gene, eight, by current missues Nicole Appleton.

But I had the Manc singer down as most likely to subscribe to the Frank Gallagher from Shameless school of parenting. Not so.

Nicole's pal from their All Saints days, Shaznay Lewis, says Liam's a natural with kids, including her three-year-old, Tyler.

Shaznay, expecting again in the autumn, told Closer mag: "Liam is a fantastic babysitter. When our kids get together, he takes charge. He's amazing with children, they love him."

Move over, Supernanny.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Happy Birthday Andy Bell

A very Happy Birthday to Andy Bell who was born on August 11th 1970 and is 39 today.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

It's 13 years to the day that Oasis played in front of a combined audience of 250,000 at two huge outdoor shows at Knebworth on August 10 and 11 1996.

The band sold out both shows within minutes; 250,000 people over two nights (2.5 million people applied for tickets, and 375,000 were actually sold, meaning the possibility of 53 sold out nights), at the time a record-breaking number for an outdoor concert held in the UK, and to this day the largest demand for a show in British history.

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Liam Gallagher Phones His Dog From Los Angeles

If reincarnation is for real then you could do worse than be reborn as a celebrity pooch.

Just look at the pampered existence of Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton’s 18-month-old daschund, Ruby.

So treasured is she, Ruby gets phone calls from her barking owners when they are away on holiday.

Liam, 36, and Nicole, 34, are in LA at the moment.

So when Nic’s fellow All Saints lovelies Mel Blatt and Natalie Appleton entered the pup into a competition while babysitting at the weekend, the besotted couple were on the other end of the dog and bone the whole way through the event.

Nat even held her mobile up to the creature’s ear so “mummy and daddy” could comfort Ruby during her ordeal.

We can’t imagine Liam suffering from stage fright but he tried to be the understanding “parent” anyway.

Mel, 34, and Nicole’s big sister Nat, 36, entered the cherished dog in the prettiest female category of the Pup Idol competition, which was being held at Garden Gate pub in London’s Hampstead.

Sadly, the well-preened pet was just not gorgeous enough to win the title and lost out on the crowning glory to – horror of horrors – a stray.

How rude.

Did they not know who she was?

The All Sainters were not best impressed by Ruby getting snubbed.

Mel jokingly moaned: “It’s crappy Pup Idol. More like Sh*t Idol. It’s a fix!”

Dancing On Ice star Jeremy Edwards, 38, also entered the love of his life into the competition – his Boston terrier, Molly.

The black and white canine cutie has become a familiar feature in London parks and has even been known to proudly display a diamanté collar and tiny little dog suits.

Hmm.

On second thoughts, maybe it wouldn’t be so smart to be reincarnated as a celeb hound.

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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Limited Amount Of Tickets For The V Festival On Sale Now!

A limited amount of weekend only tickets are still available from seetickets for the V Festival at Weston Park, Staffordshire on August 22/23.

Click here for more details, it could be your last chance to see them in the UK for a few years.

Thanks to Shane

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Oasis Artworks By Silver Cruiser

Have a look at these superb fan artworks for Oasis gigs from Maine Road 1996, GMEX 1997 and Finsbury Park 2002.

Click into each of them to to make them bigger....

They are made by Loic Degenève

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