Oasis? It's All In The Pasta

Liam Gallagher has ruled out any chance of an Oasis reunion with Noel, declaring: "It's over."

Speaking for the first time about the band's split, the rocker said there was "no way he'd get back with Noel".

His brother quit the band last week after another bust-up with Liam, who then headed to Italy's Lake Como with girlfriend Nicole Appleton and fellow band member Andy Bell.

They spent four nights at the exclusive Villa D'Este hotel before checking out yesterday morning and flying back to London.

But on Tuesday night the group enjoyed a boozy three-hour dinner at il Gatto Nero, a hilltop restaurant overlooking Lake Como, and where Liam spent his birthday last year.

There Liam, 36, opened his heart to waiter Vincenzo Della Corte as he served him his favourite pasta with black truffle, washed down with Cristal champagne and Antinori rosé wine.

Vincenzo, 32, told the Mirror: "I had to ask him what the future was and he said it was all over and there was no way he would get back with Noel.

"He said that Noel had his style of music and he had his and they would be going their separate ways."

The waiter said Liam was on top form despite the band's split - and seemed head over heels in love with Nicole.

"You hear all these stories about Oasis being real rock and rollers but Liam was really polite and was very happy to talk," revealed Vincenzo.

"There were fans outside and he went out to sign autographs and pose for pictures. He was with them for ages.

"What also struck me was how in love he is with Nicole. He was kissing and touching her all the time and his leg was always resting on hers - you could tell they adore each other.

"They were all having a good time and he didn't seem at all bothered about the fact he had caused one of the world's biggest bands to break up.

"But Nicole had a bit of a sore throat which she said she had got from swimming in the lake.''

Most of their fellow guests at the Villa D'Este were elderly American tourists who had no idea who they were. One hotel source said: "They were no trouble. They've been here before and are welcome any time.''

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Oasis v the Beatles: We Won’t Look Back In Wonder

Oasis modelled themselves on the Beatles - but their legacy won’t come close

This has been a week of the Beatles and Oasis, two bands linked across the decades. They were the most popular British bands of their respective eras and generations, the Swinging Sixties and Britpop Nineties, putting Britain at the centre of the global airwaves. But while the music business gears up for the last hurrah of the Beatles, with the release of their entire re-mastered back catalogue and a computer game (The Beatles: Rock Band), which aims to extend their appeal to another generation, Oasis came to a bitter end, bowing out not with a bang, but a wearyingly familiar apology. While tens of thousands of fans waited for their heroes to appear on stage as headliners at the Rock En Seine festival in Paris, a message flashed up on the screens: “As a result of an altercation within the band, the Oasis gig has been cancelled.”

“Altercation” barely does justice to the history of attrition, insult, argument and abuse that has characterised the relationship between the two key members of Oasis, brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher. After a 15-year recording career marked by constant internal conflict, during their recent 13- month tour, the brothers have travelled separately, only communicating through insulting interviews, blogs and tweets. With only three more dates to play, they fatally met up in the backstage dressing room half an hour before they were due on stage. Liam was allegedly drunk and not untypically belligerent. Provocative words were exchanged, it quickly got physical, Liam smashed one of Noel’s guitars and Noel decided that he had had enough. He released the following statement: “It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”

Liam can be an unpredictable character but that’s part of what makes him such a compelling frontman. The brothers are chalk and cheese, as is often the case with siblings, who grow up occupying different family roles. Noel is the older brother, the sensible, steady one. But for a smart, thoughtful, loyal, surprisingly humble and generally very considerate man, he has never understood or empathised with his younger brother.

He recently characterised Liam as “rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy. He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.” Which is very funny. But then you meet Liam, and he’s completely charming and friendly.

I have heard enough stories to know that he can be a handful, that his behaviour can be confrontational and obnoxious around Noel in particular, but it has always seemed to me that what he really wants is his older brother’s love and approval. When that is not forthcoming, he acts up, often outrageously. You can see the same dynamic in many families. But then, most of us don’t have to go on tour with our siblings.

The truth is that the end of Oasis is really no great loss for music. They have been one of the greatest ever British groups, but their moment came and went in the Nineties Britpop boom, and musically they have been treading water ever since. When they exploded on to a moribund scene with their debut album, Definitely Maybe, in 1994, they were a breath of fresh air. They had the insouciant streetwise swagger of a young, working-class gang, oozing self-confidence and entrepreneurial bravado. They arrived in a fractured musical landscape of acid house, techno, hip hop, trip hop and American grunge, and put loud guitars and big, singalong songs right back at the heart of the pop agenda. They inspired a whole generation of bands.

There were elements of Led Zeppelin (the bone-crushing hard rock rhythm section), the Stone Roses (the clubby swagger) and the Sex Pistols (the sneering, power chord attack) in the Oasis formula, but most of all there was the Beatles, the group both the Gallagher brothers revere. It was in the mop-top look of the band, the classic structure of the songs, the flowing melodies and elegant chord sequences. And it was a constant reference in their banter. “If you don’t want to be as big as the Beatles, then its just a hobby,” said Noel. Liam once claimed to be the reincarnation of John Lennon (“I think I was him. He’s me now”), despite being born eight years before Lennon’s death (logic has never been Liam’s strong suit).

Yet, while the musical debt was obvious, a connection emphasised by the kind of hysterical surge in popularity that accompanied both their rises, actually it would be hard to imagine two more different bands. The Beatles were musical revolutionaries, constantly driven to explore new horizons. Oasis were nostalgic reactionaries, their music a throwback to a very narrow and specific template, and they resisted change with Luddite belligerence.

Oasis essentially took the ingredients of Revolver, which was arguably the Beatles at their leanest, sharpest, most succinct and cohesive, and reworked them over and over again, managing just seven albums of diminishing returns in 15 years. They lasted twice as long as the Beatles, made half as much music, and never showed the least interest in progress.

Still, unlike the Beatles, Oasis built a long-lasting live career. I was privileged to see one of their last British gigs, at Wembley Stadium in July. And it was fantastic. Fifteen years of the same old chords and swagger never really affected the public’s love for them. Maybe it was a formula, but it was one that worked, because it was based on the primacy of the song, and the emotion of its delivery. During an encore, Noel came out to perform a solo Don’t Look Back in Anger, but he didn’t even have to sing a word, he just strummed his acoustic guitar while the crowd of 70,000 carried the whole thing, bellowing out every nuance of lyric and melody. It was the biggest choral karaoke session in the world, a moment of community that was astonishing to behold.

It is hard to imagine the world poring over every recorded utterance of Oasis 40 years after the break up, as we continue to do with the Beatles. But we might still be singing their songs.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Oasis Feature On Match Of The Day Album

In Stores Now

Disc 1

Foo Fighters - Best Of You
Oasis - Supersonic
The Killers - Mr Brightside
MGMT - Time To Pretend
Stone Roses - Waterfall
Glassvegas - Geraldine
Script - Breakeven
The Enemy - We Live & Die In These Towns
Hard Fi - Living For The Weekend
Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
Specials - Gangsters
Pulp - Do You remember The First Time
Clash - Rock The Kasbah
Travis - Why Does It Always rain
Zutons - Valerie
The Coral - Pass It On
The View - Same Jeans
Embrace - Ashes
The Farm - All Together Now
Baddiel & Skinner featuring The Lightning Seeds - 3 Lions

Disc 2

Kasabian - Underdog ( From The Sony Bravia TV commercial)
Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
Doves - Black & White Town
Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
Primal Scream - Come Together
Metro Station - Shake It
Hoosiers - It's A Shame About Ray
Athlete - Wires
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Editors - Blood
Feeder - Buck Rogers
The Jam - Strange Town
Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
The Stranglers - Always The Sun
Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Nickleback - Rockstar
Lightning Seeds - Life Of Riley
New Order - World In Motion

It includes 40 anthems and a bonus DVD, featuring 100 Premier League goals.

Oasis Song Voted Best Of All Time

'Live Forever' has been voted the 'Best Song Of All Time' by the listeners of XFM. The station joined forces with radio stations from around the world including KROQ (in LA) and Triple J (Sydney) to compile the chart.

'Don't Look Back In Anger' came third in the poll with 'Wonderwall' coming in fourth.

The Best 10 Songs Of All Time, according to the poll, are:

01) Live Forever – Oasis
02) Mr Brightside – The Killers
03) Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
04) Wonderwall – Oasis
05) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
06) I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
07) Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
08) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
09) Bitter Sweet Symphony – Verve
10) Plug In Baby - Muse

Oasis and XFM have a long history together with Manchester XFM's Pete Mitchell being the first DJ to play the band on the radio.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

No Looking Back In Anger For Noel As He Soaks Up Life After Oasis

Noel Gallagher seems to be revelling in his decision to quit Oasis and is enjoying a new life in the sun away from brother Liam.

Noel, 42, was spotted in Sardinia enjoying the sunshine with his long-term girlfriend Sara Macdonald and his son Donovan, 2.

He looked chilled and happy as he relaxed in the Italian sun - a far cry from the in-band rowing he said drove a wedge between him and Liam, 36.

Over in Italy's Lake Como, his younger brother was also snapped with wife Nicole Appleton soaking up the rays.

But while the brothers seem to have at least chosen the same country to holiday in, there's little else they appear to be able to agree on.

Noel shocked the music world last weekend by announcing he was walking out of Oasis, the band he formed with his brother Liam 18 years ago.

"The details are not important and of too great a number to list," he said in a statement, posted on Saturday.

I feel you have the right to know that the level of verbal and violent intimidation towards me, my family, friends and comrades has become intolerable.

"And the lack of support and understanding from my management and bandmates has left me with no other option than to get me cape and seek pastures new."

Noel announced his departure from Oasis after getting into a fight with Liam just minutes before they were due to play in Paris.

Liam is reported to have smashed a guitar and shouted at Noel: "You're no brother of mine."

Now remaining band members Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock are deliberating whether there's any future left for Oasis.

An insider told The Daily Mirror: "They saw how Liam treated Noel, and don't know what will happen if he does the same to them. They have their doubts it can survive without Noel."

Liam has stated in the past that he and brother Noel "don't really have a relationship" and only spoke to each other when they're on stage.

Source: www.metro.co.uk

See the photos here.

Let's Get 'Wonderwall' Back In The Charts

With the sad news that Noel Gallagher has quit Oasis, lets all try and get 'Wonderwall' back into the UK chart this week.

We are asking Oasis fan sites and forums Worldwide to help out with this project.

The song never got to number one on it's release in 1995, it only needs a few thousand downloads to enter the charts on Sunday.

Fans from the UK can buy the song from iTunes, Outside the UK you can get the song from the Official Oasis store here.

MGMT Cover Oasis

As previously reported MGMT started their show at the V Festival, Hylands Park on Sunday 23rd August 2009, with a cover version of Live Forever.

It's All Champagne Supernover

Noel's left and now the remaining members of Oasis could be about to leave Liam high and dry.

Liam is holidaying in Italy's Lake Como with his missus Nicole Appleton but we're told any plans for a new-look Oasis could sink without trace.

Says our mole: "It was always on the cards that Noel was to quit - the other band members saw it coming the night before he walked out.

"Some have already started to look for pastures new - as they have no idea how the new format of Oasis would work. Now that Noel has gone, no one else knows how they'll put up with Liam's big gob." It's an uncertain time for band members Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock. Our mole adds: "They saw how Liam treated Noel, and don't know what will happen if he does the same to them. They have their doubts it can survive without Noel."

Noel announced he was walking out on the band after a punch-up with Liam just minutes before they were due to play in Paris.

Liam is reported to have smashed a guitar and yelled at Noel: "You're no brother of mine." However, their mum Peggy reckons they will reunite, saying: "Liam adores Noel." Funny way of showing it.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Noel Gallagher vs Liam Gallagher - The War That Defined Oasis

It was August 1991 when Noel Gallagher, back in Manchester after a stint working as a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets went to see his younger brother's new band for the first time. As he would recall years later, "fucking cheers mate" was his thoughts as he saw his brother fronting a band and looking to forge his own way into the music world. Noel's status as world-touring roadie was in danger of being over-shadowed by his brother. The spotlight which Noel desired was now being sought by Liam as well. It was the start of the rivalry which would come to define Oasis when Noel joined.

It was apparent from the start that Liam Gallagher was well aware of the talents and virtues of Noel. The very act of asking his brother to join, no matter how much he has tried to downplay it in the past, shows he knew immediately that Noel on board was an opportunity he couldn't resist. But it meant giving up control of the band to his brother, another action which went along way to starting the inter-band conflict between the two. Also, Noel's acceptance and insistence on becoming the band's leader was an obvious sign that he desired to be seen as superior to his brother right from the start. The awkward, unofficial positions of the two brothers in the band had already sown the seeds of a rivalry which would last for the best part of twenty years.

To begin with, all was well. The brothers were united in a desire to escape from the city they had grown up in, and in doing so create a new life for themselves. The brothers, along with Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll, would rehearse religiously and play any gig they could. Hugely committed to the band, their passion would materialise on stage, where they impressed all who saw them at the time with their power and intensity - the amount of people they were playing to was irrelevant. It was immediately clear that the fire that was burning inside Liam and Noel was powering the band on to inevitable success in the future. It had already become an integral part of Oasis.

When the band landed a record deal two years later, the clashes of personality and ideology between the two brothers began to become more apparent, as Noel Gallagher combined his own desire to live the rock n roll lifestyle with a determination to drive the band on, while his brother embraced all that a band on the road offers and began to lose sight of the underlying importance of the music and the gigs.

The first real display of strife came when Liam and Guigsy were detained on an overnight ferry heading to Amsterdam. With Noel tucked up in bed, his fellow band members got into a scrap with other passengers. Noel learned of the fight the next morning, and found his own plans being interrupted by his brother's antics. It was a story which would be played out many times in the intervening years.

Not long after, Noel abandoned the group for the first time. After a disastrous gig in LA in September 1994, Noel walked away from the band. Heading off to San Francisco in the middle of the night, Noel apparently had the full intention of leaving the band not long after they had begun to breakthrough in the UK. However, he was persuaded to rejoin after being tracked down by Creation man Tim Abbott, and after a short stay in Las Vegas, Noel returned and the band he was leading once again began to scale unprecedented heights.

By 1996, Noel's songwriting and fierce commitment to the band, coupled with Liam's emergence as the most dynamic, passionate frontman since Johnny Rotten, had propelled the group to super-stardom in Europe. Once more though, Noel was left to pick up the pieces after Liam pulled out of a planned MTV Unplugged appearance just moments before he was due to go on stage. Noel completed the gig, but his patience was being stretched to breaking point.

As their second album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' began to make waves in the US on the back of the worldwide hit 'Wonderwall', the band were booked for a tour of the US in August 1996. However, Liam had other plans, and moments before they were due to board the plane, Liam turned away, saying he needed to "sort his house out" with his new bride Patsy Kensit. Once again, these were actions Noel interpreted as selfishness and against the good of the band, and the ever increasing bitterness between the brothers began to be played out more and more in the press as interest in the group hit fever pitch. It was a tension which undoubtedly helped give the band it's power, and helped to generate an interest in the group that was beginning to reach unprecedented levels.

After Liam's about-turn at the airport, Noel decided to continue without him, but when Liam rejoined the group a few weeks later, it wasn't long before Noel's patience had been snapped once more and he walked away from the band for the second time in two years. Not long after their generation-defining gigs at Knebworth, Noel had walked out of the band with the clear intention of not returning. Return he did though, and not only did the band continue the tour, they found themselves back in the studio shortly after.

In 1999, the future of Oasis was once again in doubt. Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs had announced his departure not long into the sessions for a new album, and was soon followed by bassist Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan. With the troubles that the brothers had suffered over the past few years, it was unclear whether the pair would be able to pull together and guide Oasis through this transitional period. However, the brothers showed their mutual passion for the band and vowed to continue, recruiting new members Andy Bell and Gem Archer to fulfill the world tour that had been booked to support 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants'.

Once on the road, it wasn't long before trouble had flared once again between the Gallaghers. After the band were forced to cancel a gig in Barcelona in 2000 due to an injury to drummer Alan White, the members spent the night drinking in their dressing room. Insults were traded between Liam and Noel and after another punch up, Noel walked once more. The reported events of the fight were the first public sign that the tension had moved on from the petty squabbling and differences of two young brothers, to the more personal attacks which would begin drive them apart. After the now infamous fight in Barcelona, Liam soldiered on without Noel, and the band fulfilled the remaining European dates with stand-in guitarist Matt Deighton.

Yet again, Noel returned, saying he felt a duty to new members Archer and Bell to record a new album, and the band completed their 2000 summer UK stadium shows with Noel back on board, and returned to the studio a year later.

2005 was perhaps the strongest year for the brothers since 1996. With a new album under their belts that had spawned two UK no.1 singles, they hit the road for their biggest world tour to date which included huge US shows at venues such as Madison Square Garden and Hollywood Bowl. The tour passed off without incident, and relations between the two seemed to be well.

However, when the band reconvened in the studio to begin a follow up in 2007, it wasn't long before Liam was again putting personal wishes ahead of the group in Noel's eyes. Leaving the studio to marry his long-time girlfriend Nicole Appleton, Liam interrupted plans to record a couple of tracks for the album, one of which Noel said had been eyed up as a potential future single. The remaining members were forced to change their plans and record different tracks without Liam, and being forced change his schedule to suit Liam yet again seems to have finally pushed Noel close to the edge

The resulting tour was disappointing. The stories of separate hotels, dressing rooms and tour buses indicates a whole new level of antagonism between the brothers, one that was only working against the band and now holding it back. The only communication between the brothers came via Noel's tour blog 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' and Liam's Twitter account. Frankly, it was all rather embarrassing and the feeling that all the animonisty, which now seemed to be bordering on hatred, was becoming too much, was hard to resist. Eventually, all the pent-up emotion exploded on Saturday night in Paris with another dressing room brawl between the pair, resulting in Noel announcing his departure from the band for the fourth time. But was it the right decision?

One thing is clear, Oasis wouldn't have functioned, or at least to the heights they once did, without the two brothers on board. However, the past 18 months has revealed that the rivalry between Liam and Noel Gallagher was no longer working for the band, and was in fact acting detrimentally. It's one thing not communicating on tour, but once in the studio, and if Oasis were to continue as a viable entity they would have had to record eventually, all members need to be speaking and on the same page. Warring in the studio is only going to stifle creativity, and the last thing Oasis as a band needed was to carry on simply as a money-making touring machine. It would have been excruciating for the antics that have been played out on the 'Dig Out Your Soul Tour' to be repeated again and again on subsequent tours.

So if the tension and rivaly, which was once the driving force behind the band is now only damaging it, then Noel is right to walk away. Certainly the online squabbling between the two since Oasis went back on the road in 2008 is a million miles away from the impassioned tension of the twenty-somethings that managed to captivate the public so much so that a recording of their argument, 'Wibling Rivaly', managed to make the charts.

Will Oasis carry on without Noel? Can they? It's by no means unprecendented to see a band carry on after the departure of a major member, and even go on to new heights. Pink Floyd managed it, as did The Rolling Stones. However, rarely has one man been so integral to the success and direction of a band and carrying on Noel-less would surely only further weaken Liam's position in what has already been a fairly one-sided argument.

Team Noel or Team Liam? Let us know which side you're on by leaving your thoughts below.

(Dave Smith)

Source: www.live4ever.uk.com

Promoter Cool Over Oasis Split

The French promoter faced with paying a refund to each of the 30,000-plus music fans who turned up in Paris to see Oasis says he has no plans to take legal action against the band.

Salomon Hazot of Nous Productions, who has run the city’s Rock En Seine Festival for seven years, told Pollstar he believes he can work out an amicable solution with the act’s management.

“I think I am dealing with someone who is very straightforward and professional,” he said, four days after the Manchester band pulled out of its headline slot only minutes before it was due onstage.

“What is the point in paying lawyers, who already get so much for doing so little, and then everybody except them loses in the end? If we get money, then we wait one, two or even three years before it comes.”

Hazot was eating dinner in the festival’s catering area when he got the news that the act wouldn’t be playing. At first he thought it was a joke.

“What can I say about it now? I think the two brothers are still like 6-year-olds fighting over a toy,” he explained.

International news reports suggest there was a dressing room bust-up in which lead singer Liam Gallagher broke his songwriter brother Noel’s guitar.

The latter quit the band immediately and has since posted a note on the band’s Web site claiming his departure was due to “lack of support and understanding from my management and bandmates.”

He also apologised to those who bought tickets to see the band in Paris and who bought tickets for the previous week’s show at the U.K.’s V Festival in Chelmsford, although that date was pulled due to Liam Gallagher suffering from viral laryngitis.

The two brothers’ stormy relationship has been well documented since their first public bust-up, when Liam hit Noel over the head with a tambourine on stage in Los Angeles in 1994 during their first U.S. tour. Not for the last time, Noel threatened to call it a day.

This time his online comments about his brother suggest the Paris row may have finally put a finish to the band.

At press time it wasn’t possible to get comment from the band’s manager, Marcus Russell of Ignition Management, on what the act is prepared to do to facilitate the amicable solution with Hazot.

It’s the second year in succession that the French promoter has paid out refunds because a headline act didn’t play.

In 2008, when Amy Winehouse failed to make it to Paris, those who paid euro 70 for a two-day ticket or euro 42 to see her headline the second day got a euro 18 discount for this year’s festival.

The acts who turned up and also played at Rock En Seine Aug. 28-30 included Faith No More, The Prodigy, MGMT, Amy Macdonald, Macy Gray, Vampire Weekend, Madness and Bloc Party.

Source: www.pollstar.com

Pete McKee Manchester Show

Great news the Pete McKee show in Manchester titled ‘Great Moments in Music History’ has grown in size. The lovely people at oddest in Manchester are helping him tour the exhibition around their three bars in the city. The show will now run from Thursday 8th October all the way through till Thursday 14th January 2010 and will call at Odd, Odder and Oddest Bars. The full dates and venues are:

Oddest – Wilbraham Road: 8 October – 5 November
Odd – The Northern Quarter: 5 November – 7 December
Odder – Oxford Road: 7 December – 14 January

This will be his first show in Manchester and should be something special...

The exhibition is his way of celebrating the role Manchester’s music scene has played in helping sullen teenagers grow up to be Sheffield’s Guardian-reading social workers and teachers — or Tesco night line managers — or artists.

Keep your eyes on www.therealmckee.co.uk for some special announcements about the shows in the coming weeks.

Inside This Week's NME

In the new issue of NME, on sale across the UK from Wednesday 2 September, we reveal the truth behind Oasis' split and salute two decades of Gallagher bust-ups by naming our top 5.

Source: www.nme.com

Bloc Party React To Oasis Split

Bloc Party have revealed they had to tell fans that Oasis wouldn't be coming on after them in Paris last Friday. The band split just before they were due to play at the Rock en Seine concert. Bloc Party front man Kele and drummer Matt said they didn't know while they were on stage how serious it was.

I understand you had to break the news to the crowd in Paris that Oasis had split up the day before you played the Leeds Festival? Is that right?

Kele: We were playing our set and my tour manager came up to me and said that Oasis had cancelled and we had to play for longer. And I was like, 'Oh. OK', and we told the audience.

We didn't know that they'd split up. We were just told that they'd cancelled. We were told afterwards.

Read the full interview by clicking here.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Supergrass Singer Gaz Coombes Confident Oasis Will Reunite

Supergrass's Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey, who have a new band Hot Rats, say Oasis will reunite.

Danny told us: "You can't really split when you're brothers."

Watch the interview interview is at www.mirror.co.uk/celebs

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Bookies Slash Odds On Oasis Reunion

Whoever said breaking up is hard to do was telling porkies.

First Oasis split and now there are shocking rumours that the Pussycat Dolls are set to follow (cat)suit.

This is awful news because my bedroom is a shrine to the Dolls. I have a Pussycat Doll on each of my walls and a blow-up one in my bed.

A Doll break-up was on the cards. When you get five gorgeous girls in such proximity you can always bank on cattiness and bitching. You can also bank on naked mud-wrestling, at least in the movies I rent.

Hills quote 5-6 for the Dolls still to be together on Christmas Day and 5-6 to have split by then. In other words, it's take your pick - in which case I'll pick Nicole.

Oasis have split following reports the Gallagher brothers have failed for years to hit it off - the 'it' presumably being the head of the other.

But bookies believe the tiff is only temporary - Ladbrokes have slashed from 2-1 to evens the odds for Liam to sing with Noel again before the end of the year.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Oasis Split Divides Loyalties

The bitter split between Liam and Noel Gallagher has left their famous friends torn between the two rowing brothers.

Kasabian lead singer Tom Meighan is determined to stay neutral after he became close to the pair while supporting Oasis on their latest tour.

'It's not very nice because I'm friends with both Noel and Liam,' said Meighan, 28, talking exclusively to me just hours before the brothers' final bust-up in Paris.

'They're going to have some time out now to re-evaluate the situation,' he said. Some Oasis band members have already staked their loyalty with Liam, 36.

Bassist Andy Bell was pictured holidaying with Liam and his wife Nicole Appleton, 34, in Italy at the weekend. Noel announced he was leaving the band on Saturday.

'I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer,' the 42-year-old said on the Oasis website.

Meanwhile, Kasabian are performing at Guinness's 250th anniversary music festival in Dublin next month.

Source: www.metro.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Was Right To Quit Oasis, Says Midge Ure

Ultravox star Midge Ure says he respects Noel Gallagher for walking away from Oasis.

Midge, who played Retrofest at the weekend, believes Noel's decision to split from brother Liam and the band was "admirable".

The Scot said: "I respect Noel Gallagher for being big enough to stand up and say enough is enough.

"That sparring brotherly love-hate relationship is what drove Oasis on and kept the engine running - maybe it got to the point that is was so painful.

"You can't go on stage with someone pushing all your buttons all the time and can't go on and pretend it doesn't affect you." Midge believes Noel had wrestled with the decision for years.

He said: "The writing may well have been on the wall.

"It was maybe not that surprising. After all, when Alan McGee first saw them and signed them to his label, they had a fight that night.

"I don't know the guys but I imagine that's how it was.

"Liam seems quite a difficult character to get along with and I don't think it matters about the details of how it fell apart."

Like McGee, Midge, who met the band at the Brits, reckons Oasis may well reform in five years.

He added: "It's a very personal thing between brothers as to what's going on. When you are family, things come and go."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

The Office's Rainn Wilson: Ryan Adams Should Join Oasis

I don’t normally pay attention to the Twitter musings of actors, but we need to keep a keen eye on The Office’s Rainn Wilson because the guy’s attempting to meddle in music for the second time in recent memory and last time Weezer ended up with a quite unfortunate album title. As we all know by now, Noel Gallagher has quit Oasis following a last straw row with his brother, Liam, and the band has split. Here’s what Wilson had to tweet on the subject:

“Liam. You should grab Ryan Adams. He does y’alls songs better.” He then posted a link to Adams’ Grammy-nominated cover of “Wonderwall,” by Oasis.

I’m sure he’s joking, but nerdy rockers are sometimes powerless against Wilson’s charms. Here’s what Rivers Cuomo said just the other day on how Weezer named their 7th LP (via Pitchfork): [Rainn Wilson] has a super-rock persona. When it came time to find a title for the Weezer album, I asked him what he thought the ultimate album title would be, and he said ‘Raditude.’”

A collaboration between Ryan Adams and one of the Gallagher brothers wouldn’t be that random actually, as Adams did join Oasis for a successful (read: drama-free) tour last year, but he seems like more of a Noel man to me. I’ll spare you my opinion, but once I’m on a hit show, I’ll be tweeting all about it.

Source: www.twentyfourbit.com

Hitler's Reaction To The Oasis Split

Boy so politically incorrect but yet so funny...had to post ....sorry guys

At Least Nic Loves You, Liam

Yesterday I asked who you are backing in the Oasis break-up - and the results are in.

An incredible 88 per cent of you voted in favour of Noel, which bodes well for his future solo career.

That leaves just 12 per cent backing Liam.

Noel fled to London after quitting Oasis just before the Rock en Seine festival in Paris on Friday and hasn't been seen since.

But Liam headed to Lake Como in Italy with wife Nicole Appleton and bass player Andy Bell on Saturday and he's been looking happier than he has for a long time.

Yesterday he and Nicole were kissing and knocking back rosé next to the pool.

Louis Walsh is staying just up the road and has invited Liam to help out on The X Factor offering advice to contestants - but don't hold your breath.

Meanwhile, Xfm listeners have voted Live Forever Oasis's greatest ever song.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk