Liam: Oasis Will Not Split

OH brother - Liam Gallagher is going to continue with Oasis despite Noel binning the band for good.

The mad fer it Manc wants to Roll With It and keep the music alive as he holds the rights to the super band.

This week Liam said he wouldn't talk to his brother until January - because he thinks Noel will need that long to cool off.

I'm told by a contact in Liam's camp: "He's decided that just because the guitarist has quit, it doesn't mean the band should collapse.

"He's been on holiday with bassist Andy Bell and both of them reckon they can keep going and create good music - even without Noel.

"Liam has been writing a lot and Andy has made a big contribution to the band."

I'm also told that Noel has agreed to meet with Liam at the start of next year.

But on one condition - his MUM is there to make sure there's no fisticuffs.

Source: www.newsoftheworld.co.uk

Celebrity Clothing Ranges In The Men’s Market

If, thanks to the likes of Kylie Minogue, Jennifer Lopez and Elle MacPherson, the women’s wear market has long accepted direct celebrity involvement, it is – apart from the hip hop and urban clothing market – still a new idea for men’s wear. Until now.

In November new men’s wear label Pretty Green, a casual wear line with leanings towards Mod culture, will launch in Selfridges. It also happens to be designed by former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.

Alongside the singer’s new venture comes Nikki Sixx, bassist and founder of band Motley Crue, who will launch his Royal Underground brand in the UK this autumn, not to mention Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who are planning a men’s wear line to complement their women’s wear label The Row.

But will such name recognition help or hurt a brand when it comes to men’s wear? “There’s always a danger of losing credibility when a celebrity is behind a fashion brand,” says Pharrell Williams, of the band N.E.R.D., who partnered with Tomoaki Nagao, the Japanese designer behind A Bathing Ape, to create the Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream lines. “When it’s a world you don’t know much about, you need to team up with an expert. That said, however, name recognition also helps – we’ve been able to build up a dedicated fan base quickly,” he says.

According to Simon Aboud, director of brand consultancy Make Believe, now may be the best time for a new brand to have genuine celebrity involvement. During a recession consumers are more likely to re-examine brand values and seek those with heritage and integrity. And, says Aboud, “Celebrity values are among the most potent, especially now that fashion advertising has collapsed.”

Yet stars can be divisive, too. For every man who buys David Beckham’s forthcoming sportswear collection for Adidas Originals, there may be many who will be put off precisely because it is Beckham who is involved. A celebrity-backed men’s wear line is, says Nigel Grant, director of Pretty Green, a complex proposition to manage, as the demise of Vinnie Jones’s 2003 fashion line suggests.

Barry Grainger and Neil Adam, co-founders of new British men’s wear brand Citizen Seven, whose main investor is the Manchester City and England footballer Shaun Wright Phillips, have been subtle in publicising their famous backer.

“It has to be a drip feed,” Grainger says. “Clearly there is value in mentioning Shaun – it gives the brand appeal to terrace fashion fans. But we also know that it may alienate some people, maybe even simply because they support a rival team.” Although Phillips’ involvement is largely financial, the new label’s promotional material does mention him. “You have to accept that a brand with deeper celebrity involvement, rather than mere endorsement, may need more time to find acceptance.”

Grant of Pretty Green adds: “Consumers are seeing through those brands that have simply had a celebrity name lent to them. Ultimately, the product has to stand on its own.”

Trace Ayala, who co-founded William Rast with singer Justin Timberlake in 2005, says: “Running a brand with a celebrity is a double-edged sword. Men are more inclined to think that if a celebrity is involved, it’s them lending their name for the cheque. And there is a danger of the celebrity overshadowing the brand, which is why, after a while, it helps if they move into the background.

“That said, a famous name generates media interest and tends to open doors with buyers. Ask a department store to stock you, and the buyer is invariably not interested. Tell them that Justin Timberlake wants to meet them for dinner to discuss matters, and you get an altogether different response.”

Source: www.ft.com

Brothers Grim

Aussie rockers Jet say Noel and Liam Gallagher couldn't bare to be in the same room Four years ago.

Frontman Nic Cester says tension between the pair was evident when the band joined Oasis on their tour of the States in 2005 .

Nic said: "I'm not surprised they split at all. If anything I'm shocked they managed to make it work for so long. I'd say it's definitely the end. They didn't get on."

Brother Chris added: "They were never in the same room when we were on tour. I have never seen them have one conversation together the whole time I've known them.

"Avoiding each other was best."

He added: "Noel is one of the funniest people I've ever met. Liam is mental. A real clash."

Read the full interview and see the songs Jet performed in the Biz studio by clicking here.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Oasis From The Archives: Noel Gallagher In 1994

Just before the release of Definitely Maybe, Caspar Llewellyn Smith caught up with Noel Gallagher to find out about scraps with Liam, spats with Suede and why people would still be listening to his band's debut album in 20 years' time. Here, for the first time, we publish the whole interview

Oasis' Noel Gallagher with little brother Liam: 'If he ever acted like Brett Anderson I'd take off my guitar and smack him!'

It was the second week of August 1994 and Oasis were at the Top of the Pops studio in Elstree to perform Live Forever. The band were on a short tour, including a festival date in Sweden (on the same bill as Primal Scream) and a gig the night before at the Astoria in London, where Paul Weller had gatecrashed the aftershow party. The Tories were still in power; no one had heard the term Britpop yet; the band's debut album Definitely Maybe would be released at the end of the month. The others – bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan, guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, drummer Tony McCarroll and singer, Liam Gallagher – left the dressing room while I spoke to 27-year old Noel Gallagher. I think I'm right in saying it was his first broadsheet interview and during the course of it he'd show why he wasn't just the best songwriter in the UK: for the next 15 years, he'd be the best interview in rock music, too.

Caspar Llewellyn Smith: How's this last tour been?
Noel Gallagher: Where do I start? Started last Tuesday – so that's a week and one day. So we've had a fucking riot: a broken ankle; we've been barred from two hotels; been to Sweden and made the front page of the national newspaper. They called us "English scum" and told us we weren't allowed back in the country. Throb from Primal Scream's got a broken nose and had to have eight injections in his knee.

CLS: So that's pretty much everything you've ever wanted …
Noel: It's been all right. This has been the wildest tour. We thought it'd be boring 'cause this is about the fifth one and we thought it would be just like the others but somehow this one has just got a bit out of hand.

CLS: What's it like doing Top of the Pops?
Noel: You've got to do it, you know what I mean? You can be a fucking knob like Joe Strummer and say you're never going to do Top of the Pops. You've got to get on and do it and try and be as fucking big as you can. It's all about ambition, innit?

CLS: Is that your aim? To be the biggest band ever?
Noel: You've gotta. If somebody says: "Do you want to be put into how-many-ever fucking million homes on a Thursday night?" it's like, "Yeah." You've got a duty to the people that buy your records. The people that buy your records are going to be sat at home on a Thursday night, and saying to their mams and dads, "See, this is the band I'm into. This is what I like." We don't want to be an indie band from England who've had a couple of hits. We want to go on and be an important band and there's certain things you've got to do. You want to sell 5,000 limited-edition red vinyl seven-inches, that's fine. Make music for a closet full of people in Bradford somewhere ... but it doesn't mean anything to anyone. Phil Collins has got to be chased out of the charts, and Wet Wet Wet. It's the only way to do it, man, to fucking get in there among them and stamp the fuckers out.

CLS: It's a pretty dire time.
Noel: There's more bands about now than there has been for the last three or four years. A lot of them are mediocre. A lot of them get press coverage and they're not very good. The only bands I'm into are Paul Weller, the Verve, Primal Scream and that's it.

CLS: Was it weird having Weller at the show last night?
Noel: We've met him a couple of times. He's all right. He's older than us and set in his ways. It's like, I totally respect him but he does his thing and we do ours. He likes our band and we love his band. He's a fucking top guy.

Oasis at the Knebworth Festival, 1996. Photograph: Rex Features CLS: What happens if it ends tomorrow? Do you carry on writing songs? Is that what it's really about?
Noel: The thing about all this fucking hype shit and press about our tours and drugs, although it's true, they write about it 'cos it sells papers. You've got to get your records out because your records last forever. Press stories last for a week until someone else is doing something else. The songs are what it's about and the albums, gigs, that's what sticks in people's memories – not being bundled off a ferry in Amsterdam. In 20 years' time our album Definitely Maybe will still be in the shops and that's what it's about. In 20 years' time people will buy the album and listen to it for what it is. They won't listen to it because we were rock'n'roll or something like that. That's what matters.

CLS: What's about the stories about rows with your brother?
Noel: The thing about brothers, the thing between me and him, is ... he can bullshit to other people and they believe him and I can bullshit to other people, but we can't bullshit to each other because we've known each other for too long. Brothers are always competitive anyway. Aren't they?

CLS: Is he happy with all your lyrics?
Noel: Yeah. If any of the band ever said, "I'm not singing that or not playing it ..." I'd say, "Right, we'll we're not changing it because that's the fucking song," you know what I mean? Of course he's happy. I mean, why would he not be?

CLS: The story is that he formed the band. It seemed that you needed that to get you off your arse...
Noel: Totally. I didn't know anybody else who I would desire to be in a band with, except these four guys. It's as simple as that. It's fate I suppose.

CLS: Is writing songs the most important thing in your life?
Noel: Totally. Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music. I write all the time. I've got the attention span of a fucking gnat so if I'm not doing something like writing or doing interviews I just sit there vegetating, fucking taking drugs.

CLS: How would you describe your sound to someone who's never heard you before?
Noel: I'd just say, all the best bits of every band that anyone's ever liked. We sound like all the important bands. People slag us off and say we sound like the Beatles, T-Rex, the Stones, Jam, Sex Pistols, but it's better than sounding like Spandau Ballet.

CLS: What's the best thing that you've written?
Noel: On the album I'd say Slide Away, personally. I remember the times when we recorded Supersonic and it was supposed to be a B-side and it ended up being the first single. That's my favourite for that reason. Married with Children, because it's funny. Sad Song, because I sing it. But Slide Away is probably the best song I've ever written. At the moment.

CLS: One of the things I love about your band is the sense of humour.
Noel: Most of the bands in England are just too inward looking. Bollocks! Music should be like TV. Turn it on, it entertains you. That's what we're about. The lyrics do mean certain things. I don't like talking about it 'cause it's too difficult for me. Each line in a song means something else. They mean what they mean to people. [But] we don't aspire to be deep like Suede or the Smiths. A lot of people want to go out and change people's lives and dictate to them what they should be doing and what they should be wearing and who they should be voting for. Our music has changed people's lives, I know it has, Live Forever has, but all the songs on that album were written when I was on the dole and I had fuck all going for me. I was writing about escaping. I wasn't writing about being on the dole and how shit it was. I was writing about how great it could be if we were in a band. That's what [people] – especially the people who come to the gigs – can relate to cause we're singing about them. If it takes you out of your surroundings, if you're listening to it at work or on the bus, then that's what it's all about.

CLS: Do you not find it weird with pop music … it's not like an advert. That entertains you but it's just so what. [Pop is] three minutes of ... a bit of magic.
Noel: Yeah. If you try too hard you're never going to get there. Most of the pop stars today ... Blur are trying to be entertaining but they're trying too hard. Their music just doesn't mean anything. They get people to gigs and sell out and that's fine. They're a working band and play live. Fucking great, I've got respect for them but it sounds like they're trying too hard. What we do is just completely natural. I sit there and just pick up a guitar and I wait and I wait and I wait and then something goes and it fucking comes out. I don't try to write songs about things. Like Girls and Boys about being on holiday in Spain. I ain't the voice of a generation for anyone and neither is anyone in the band. We're not figureheads of any movement and we don't aspire to be. People are saying we're the most important band since blah blah blah and that's their opinion. We're not going to say, "No we're not". If you say we're the most important band since the Smiths then fine. But I'm not going to go and say, "I'm the most important songwriter since John Lennon". It's not within me to say that.

CLS: What were you doing before [you joined the band]? Roadying?
Noel: Yeah. For a Manchester band. Fucking about. Before that? Fucking fish-tank maker. I worked in a bakery. As a signwriter. As a labourer. Worked in a dry cleaners. You fucking name it, I done it. I only done it because I had to. I only did it for the money, I only did it because that's what I had to do. Why the fuck would I aspire to be a fucking fish-tank maker? Beyond me. I was 16, 17. You do what you have to do, because your mam boots you out of bed at 11 o'clock in the morning and says, "Get down the fucking job centre!".

CLS: Do you think you are special in that you've got this ability?
Noel: If it was that easy every fucker would be doing it. If it was that easy, you'd be doing it. I believe people have got certain talents. Not everyone can write songs, that is special 'cause you're communicating with people. If it's for building walls or plastering or painting or something like that, then that's a fucking talent. You can't build a house yourself, you've got to get someone to build it for you. I believe everyone's got special talents, it's just a matter of finding it, realising what it is and then getting on with it and doing it. I was always told when I was young, there's no point in playing that guitar because you're just going to end up working in Maccy D's. It was like, no. Fuck that.

CLS: What was school like?
Noel: I wish somebody had actually taken the time to realise that I could actually play the guitar and could write songs and took me to one side and gave me a bit of fucking time. They always take the best footballers and put them in their own little class and they get treated better at school. There should be more emphasis put on music and the arts. The education system doesn't understand musicians ... doesn't understand music except classical music. Classical music means fucking diddle in this country to the kids.

CLS: What's this about you saying you'd like to move about a bit more on stage?
Noel: But I can't because I'm concentrating too much on playing guitar. Yeah. I'd hate to be like Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix who actually mastered the guitar. Then I'd just go, "Pfft, fucking hell, it's just not exciting anymore". I learn new chords everyday. I'll get dead excited and fucking be like, "here, check that out for a chord. Fucking ace!" Someone will be like, "Oh yeah, G minor flat suspended". "I just invented that chord! And it's called N!"

CLS: What about your brother on stage? He stands dead still.
Noel: Well, I mean, he shakes the tambourine, doesn't he? Sings the songs. Not that much else to do really. Unless you want to be Brett Anderson.

CLS: Is he never tempted to do a Jagger or Bobby Gillespie number?
Noel: Us lot would all laugh at him. That's him. He is his own man. It's as simple as that. He just doesn't do them sort of things. He doesn't talk to the crowd. That's him. If he started acting like Brett Anderson I'd fucking take my guitar off and I'd fucking smack him round the back of his head.

CLS: Has it all come naturally to him?
Noel: I'd imagine so.

CLS: Does he get nervous?
Noel: Him? Oh yeah, absolutely fucking terrified. But he'd never admit it to anyone. You see that look of fear in his eyes before he goes out on stage. The shitbag. But that's him. He doesn't scare me.

CLS: What if he wants to start writing songs himself?
Noel: Erm ... I suppose we cross that bridge when we come to it. If they're all right songs, then fine, but he won't be writing them for this band. It's taken us three years to get where we are today and I'm not going to hand over the reins ... You can keep your songs and stick 'em up your arse. When the band splits up or runs its course, then you can write your own songs, but it was me who got us where we are.

CLS: The music you seem to like, it's all white rock guitar bands, isn't it?
Noel: When it first kicked off in 88, 89, I was at the Hacienda every night, into dance music and hip-hop and all that. But I got bored of it 'cos it ran its course, and now it's just 2 Unlimited and the Prodigy and it's too fast and it's lost its groove. I'm not really a dance music fan. But people who are into it are into it ... and people who are into dance music can't understand people like us.

CLS: Does it bother you that it's not like the 60s, when everyone liked the Beatles and the Stones? Does it upset you that it's never going to be like that again?
Noel: Totally. It upsets me that Suede have to all intents and purposes split up. Blur are a musical joke. So really there's only us that are a new young band doing anything and there should be six or seven of us, but there ain't. People are trying to build up Shed Seven against us but Shed Seven couldn't tie my shoelaces. They go on in the press saying, "Oasis stole our thunder". But thunder belongs to no one ... it belongs to the kids. If it wasn't for us, fucking Echobelly and Shed Seven would be the most important bands in Britain and that would be a farce.

CLS: Can you ever see yourself settling down with a couple of kids?
Noel: No, fucking never.

CLS: A nice semi in the country? A big mansion in LA?
Noel: Well, that's the general plan! Buy an island ... build a big fence, keep the fuckers out. Maybe I'll wake up one day and think I'll want two kids and a wife but I can't see it, I'm too selfish. When I'm 50, am I going to be bankrupt and in rehab? I don't think about that. I just think about today and tomorrow. I don't believe in that ethic of live fast and die young – which is what the song Live Forever is about – I hope to live to be 390. But what will be will be. I believe everything is mapped out for you anyway. Nothing gets me down about life in general, nothing pisses me off. I'm ambidextrous, I write with my left hand and I play guitar with my right. I'm right-footed, I'm double-jointed in one elbow: I'm the most bizarre character ever. So nothing amazes me. If I see a spaceship land I won't get freaked out. I'll just say, "What kept ya?". As long as people keep buying the records and coming to the gigs, there's no point in being down about anything. We're not deep people, we don't worry about what's going to happen in five years' time. I might get up in the morning and inclination might take me to say, "Fuck it, I don't want to be in a band no more". You live and die by your decisions and I'll live and die by whatever decisions I make. But I'll still be laughing.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Danny Dyer: 'I'm More Oasis Than Punk'

Danny Dyer has said that Oasis are the biggest influence on his appearance.

The actor plays Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious in stage play Kurt & Sid and recently said that he would like to take the role to the big screen.

However, Dyer told thelondonpaper: "I've never really been into the punk look. The biggest influence on me was Oasis. I'm a trainers, jeans and T-shirt man. With music, I'm into a bit of everything.

"I've just started DJing, so I've got back into the classic house tunes. I'm a massive fan of Kasabian - they're the best around at the moment. And I like soul. I like everything except heavy metal."

He added: "I do like the Sex Pistols. You have to be in the mood, though. It's not Sunday afternoon music. Sid was never really a musician. He was a tortured soul, an enigma.

"He couldn't sing, play bass, couldn't do f**k all. But it worked. He was beautiful - a rebel without a clue. They used to take the plug out of his bass without him knowing."

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Is Looking Back In Anger

Noel Gallagher is set to reveal all about his furious bust-up with brother Liam on prime-time telly.

Chat king Piers Morgan is battling to sign up the Oasis star for his hit show.

The band announced their split last week.

Noel, 42, quit before a Paris gig, claiming he had suffered “verbal and violent intimidation”.

Reports suggest he and brother Liam had to be pulled apart when a bitter row turned physical.

Now Piers, 44, whose Life Stories show returns to ITV1 this autumn, wants to grill Noel over the bust-up with Liam, 36.

Bosses are hammering out the final details of the deal, but a show insider said: “It’s the interview everyone wants to see.

“Noel and Liam haven’t been shy in having a public slanging match, but there is much more happening behind the scenes than anyone can even imagine.

“Piers is the perfect interviewer to get to the heart of what has been going on.”

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

Oasis Gig At Spa Could Be Historic

Bridlington Spa may well go down in history as the last indoor venue to ever host music giants Oasis.

The band played at the Spa on August 20 then appeared at the V Festival in Staffordshire on August 22 – but have since cancelled appearances.

Then at the weekend lead guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher claimed he has left the band.

Noel posted a message on the band's official website on Friday night stating: "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."

If the band have indeed split, it would mean the concert at Bridlington Spa two weeks ago was their last ever indoor show.

Around 3,500 revellers enjoyed the intimate Bridlington gig and the knowledge that it may well have been one of the last chances to see Oasis perform in their current line-up has given the Spa date even greater significance.

Source: www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk

Celebrity Watch: Of Course Oasis Has Split Up Again

Who’s a chart-topper and who’s out of tune on this week’s countdown of fame
(Caitlin Moran)

“OASIS SPLIT!” the headlines roared. And CW knows what you were thinking: “Holy guacamole, I am too jaded to read much past ‘OASIS SP . . .’.”

News that the Gallagher brothers have had a massive mid-tour fight and imploded had a “Groundhogian” element to it. Over the past 14 years one could have made a passable impression of being psychic by sporadically rising from an easy chair and shouting: “I have a feeling that Oasis will split this week after a violent bust-up in Germany!” Statistically, you would have been right with impressive frequency. Oasis split all the time — it’s what they do.

The band has cancelled tours or split no less than four times, including an incident where Liam Gallagher, under the influence of crystal meth, assaulted Noel with a tambourine. Not even a proper instrument! Just something kids play at drop-in centres! No wonder Noel was furious. The general consensus — not least held by the Gallaghers — is that they are incompatible. Noel is a well-rounded soul, with a nice line in Lennon-esque put-downs (“Liam is a man with a fork in a world of soup”), who just wants to put in an honest day’s work, doling out the rock equivalent of spag bol to 40,000-seater arenas. Liam, on the other hand, appears to be a borderline psychotic Scrappy-Doo, who would offer out some fog if he thought it had looked at him funny, and appears to be sporting the hair of Paula Wilcox in the 1974 run of Man About The House.

Essentially, Liam is a mystery, wrapped inside an enigma, wrapped inside a git. He is the man who called 57-year-old George Harrison “a dirty old nipple . . . sweaty old mushroom”, threatened to smash Paul McCartney “to Jupiter and back” and said that if he met Harrison, he’d “stand on his head and play golf”. This, despite the fact that he had previously said that anyone who didn’t like the Beatles was “a prick”.

It’s estimated that the scuffle has cost the band £4.5 million — but this is an essentially nugatory sum. There are, after all, only so many anoraks and pictures of John Lennon a man can buy. No, the real ramification is just what cultural fixture can stand in for Oasis, during the sulky solo-projects period to follow. There are millions of men bereft of an opportunity to go to a concert, drink beer, hug and bellow nonsense. CW hopes security at Last Night of the Proms is ready for a sudden influx.

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger

Noel Gallagher's decision to quit Oasis is years overdue, says Nick Hasted. The band were no longer relevant. And yet there is much to celebrate about their Champagne Supernova.

When the end finally came for Oasis, it did so with a whimper. The violent altercations between the Gallagher brothers, a source of knockabout humour in the good days, had turned sour and abusive, said Noel, so he walked out with relief. One of the biggest bands in the history of British rock had just imploded, and the music world reacted with a bored shrug. Everyone, it's quite clear, had lost interest long ago – Oasis, perhaps, most of all. It makes you wonder what legacy all those tens of millions of the band's albums in homes worldwide amounts to. What mark have they left on the rock history books that they were more in thrall to than any band before them?

The ledger looks thin to most critics, these days. It has been more than a decade since Oasis made an album that mattered for any reason other than to justify another money-vacuuming tour. In that sense they were like the modern-day Stones, 20 years earlier in their careers. Watching last year's shows in Liverpool and London, with Noel, wounded after a moronic fan crashed into his ribs, hunched in the shadows, and Liam still standing motionless, singing the same old hits, Oasis looked like a rusting machine, running down fast.

Their lasting influence on music seems at first to be unremittingly awful. The critical fashion for bands of angular intelligence and artful arrangements, for Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes and the rest, is in response to a so-called "indie landfill" of their desperately unimaginative guitar-toting peers. That hole seems populated entirely by Oasis support acts: The Enemy, The Fratellis, Twisted Wheel. It was fellow Mancunians The Stone Roses who first let the British musical clock, relentlessly futuristic till then, turn back to acknowledge The Beatles, in 1989, while welding them to brand-new acid-house. Oasis only looked at rock's past, permitting no future in a way Johnny Rotten never meant. Noel's kneejerk protest at Jay-Z's Glastonbury appearance last year said everything about a band paralysed with fear of progress.

But there is a flipside to Oasis's influence. The exhilarating, arrogant demand for success of early songs such as "Rock'n'Roll Star", delivered by council estate kids from Burnage with nothing to aid them but the self-belief that burned through Noel's writing then, motivated a generation of working-class boys just as powerfully as punk. If Noel had nothing concrete to say to that generation once their dreams had awakened enough to pick up a guitar instead of working "when there's nothing worth working for", as Liam once sneered, he had still done more good than today's more refined indie kings.

The mass audience that resulted, filling global stadia irrespective of their creative decline, is Oasis's glory and curse. Theirs has always been the crowd most likely to hurl pints of piss and turn to violence, in a throwback to the rock shows of Noel's beloved 1970s. Horrified reports from their huge Manchester gigs this year even mentioned a man flinging his own excrement at those around him, as if there was something feral, barely human, about their fans. These hooligans were enfranchised by Oasis, and no other rock band. They are part of a football-style support; faithful as if to a home-town team, irrespective of form, and constantly replenished by fresh generations.

Other "people's bands" have followed in their wake. And not just the cluelessly conservative likes of The Enemy, whose album title We'll Live and Die in These Towns denies Oasis's dreams of escape. Fiercely intelligent, underestimated working-class bands in their teens and early twenties have also been inspired by the Gallaghers. At Oasis's Liverpool gig last year, I bumped into Dundee's The View, giddy with excitement at seeing their heroes. Uxbridge's brand-new 12 Dirty Bullets have the requisite football-style fans, but also a songwriter, Jamie Jamieson, who literately questions his environment as Noel never would. "They were massively inspirational," he tells me, "because they represent where we come from. Rock stars like David Bowie seem like they come from another planet. Oasis could be the lads next door, who just happened to take over the world."

Oasis's golden years were only ever short, stretching from their 1994 debut Definitely Maybe to 1996's Britpop Götterdämmerung at Knebworth, when 250,000 fans saw them over two days, the cocaine flowed, and the world seemed theirs for the taking. I was there as a fan, separated from friends for the whole long day, with no apparent prospect of getting home as the rain fell, and Oasis began. But when that impossibly huge crowd roared themselves hoarse as one to the communal anthems which every song on their first two albums had become, nothing else mattered to me. Rock hasn't had that warming generational unity since.

Noel Gallagher has admitted on many occasions since that that is when Oasis should have split. He knew it was the top, from which they could only fall. He said he didn't have the nerve to do what his hero Paul Weller had done with The Jam, that he had to keep his band-mates in jobs. It sounded bravely honest the first time, just sad every time afterwards. Oasis's legacy to Noel Gallagher had become one of him dutifully clocking on at stadia and studios, the opposite of the reason they formed.

Flicking through the channels the other day, I caught Noel singing "Half a World Away", the great old Oasis B-side The Royle Family uses as a theme song, this time alone with an acoustic guitar. It was deeply affecting, in a way not a second of his band's empty thunder was last year. The last remaining good thing Oasis can do is turn out the lights, and let their leader go. When not being closed-minded and cloth-eared, they have freed more people than we'll ever know. Noel Gallagher, unburdened from his dying creation, deserves no less.

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Noel’s Not Half A World Away

Noel Gallagher once penned the song Half The World Away.

But he hasn't managed to get even a quarter of the world away from little brother Liam.

The warring siblings have gone on holiday to get away from the storm caused over the Oasis split.

But they have ended up in the same country.

Noel has taken missus Sara MacDonald and their little laddie Donovan, to the Italian island of Sardinia for a well-deserved break after a gruelling world tour.

Meanwhile, on the mainland at Lake Como Liam and his wife Nicole Appleton have been enjoying a bit of sunshiiiiine.

Oasis bassist Andy Bell seems to have tagged along for the ride as well.

I hope everyone doesn't bump into each other at the airport on the way home.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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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.

Online Campaign For Oasis Single

An Oasis fan site has launched an online campaign to get the band's single Wonderwall back into the charts after Noel Gallagher sensationally quit.

Noel announced he was leaving Oasis by writing on their official website "I simply could not go on working with [brother] Liam a day longer" following a row before the band were due to perform at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris, leading them to cancel their performance.

The Stopcryingyourheartout.com site appealed for other fan sites, forums, and Oasis fans to contribute to their attempt of reliving the band's glory days by downloading the single.

Source: www.webuser.co.uk

The End Of Oasis: The Truth

Guitar smashing and recriminations... The events and causes of the bust-up that ended with Noel Gallagher walking out

Like a Cassandra to his own Trojan war, it might just be that last year Liam Gallagher saw the events of the past few weeks advancing over the horizon and felt unmoved to avert them. If, as sources close to the band suggest, the rest of Oasis plan to continue beyond Noel Gallagher’s departure, then the Liam-penned final tune on last year’s Dig Out Your Soul will assume some prescience. “Who’s to say/You were right/And I was wrong?/Soldier on.” Would they dare to, though? What kind of an ego would it take to continue Oasis without their songwriter Noel Gallagher, the man who gave them Live Forever, Wonderwall and Supersonic?

There’s no shortage of anecdotal mater-ial to suggest that Liam has succumbed to many of the clichés that surround the pampered rock frontman. Own dressing room? Check. Boutique clothing range? Check. Personal security guard? Check. From here, it would be natural to infer a gulf that has Noel and the rest of Oasis on one side and Liam — who has long since relinquished even the need to be present at soundchecks — on the other. And yet it’s worth noting that — in the wake of the fight that nixed their appearance at Friday’s Paris en Seine festival — Liam and his wife Nicole Appleton high-tailed it to Lake Como in Italy with the Oasis bassist Andy Bell and his girlfriend in tow. According to one insider: “People are scared of Liam. And if he wants to carry on the band, Andy and [guitarist] Gem Archer will probably go along with it.” In the statement released hours after the Paris altercation, Noel pronounced himself disappointed with the “lack of support and understanding from my management and bandmates that left me with no other option than to seek pastures new”.

The history of brothers in bands — from the Bee Gees to the Kinks — is dotted with recriminations and subsequent reconciliations. Oasis have had their fair share, most seriously in Barcelona nine years ago, when Liam goaded his brother by casting doubt on the legitimacy of Noel’s daughter Anaïs. Wasn’t there every reason, then, to assume that these latest wounds would also heal? Their mother Peggy seems to think so. “They love each other,” she says. “They’ve had fights before and got over it.”

Mothers often know best, but mothers are also rarely able to view their children’s spats as, well, anything more than children’s spats. In the wake of Oasis’s no-show at the V Festival — attributed to Liam’s laryngitis — the singer had seemed similarly keen to play down rumours that the band’s future was in jeopardy. Bypassing the spellchecking software on his phone, he issued a reassuring tweet to his fans: “The voice may of disappeared, but I’m still here ... I’m gutted your gutted what can I say f*** all at the moment.”

Friends of the guitarist, however, were left with an altogether graver picture. Noel told friends that Oasis would never play a British show again, the implication being that if they could just see out their remaining European festival shows, he could walk away quietly. If Oasis had fulfilled the Paris obligation, they would have had just one more show left to play.

So what happened at Rock en Seine to tip Noel over the edge? Despite occupying the neighbouring dressing room, the New York band Vampire Weekend have kept their counsel, merely hinting at the weirdness of coming off stage following a triumphant set to encounter ugly scenes. The Scottish singer-songwriter Amy McDonald was less discreet: “Oasis cancelled again, with one minute to stage time! Liam smashed Noel’s guitar, huuuge fight!”

Speaking to The Times, a source close to Noel said: “The problems began even before Liam arrived in Paris. He travelled separately from the band, as he does these days, on Eurostar. By the time he got to the venue he was his usual confrontational self. He said things about Noel’s family and made pointed personal insinuations about Sara [MacDonald, Noel’s partner].” What we now also know is that the guitar smashing involved an acoustic guitar given to Liam by Appleton, to which Noel laid waste before walking away.

In any band of Oasis’s stature there are usually systems in place to stop the build-up of tensions. If pre-gig drinking has the potential to become an issue, management and the security staff employed by them can ensure that group members make it onstage in a state of relative sobriety. In the days when Liam Gallagher was merely the frontman with Oasis, such matters would have been dealt with by the group’s management company, Ignition. In 2009, however, things have ceased to be as simple. Accompanying Gallagher on Eurostar was Stevie Allen, Liam’s personal security guard and the business partner with whom the singer set up his clothing line Pretty Green. As anyone who has kept up with Liam’s Twitter updates this year will know, the singer’s enthusiasm for Pretty Green seems, at times, to have eclipsed his enthusiasm for his band.

Sources close to Noel say that he is furious at what he sees as Liam’s willingness to use the goodwill earned by Oasis’s music to sell clothes. The confusion between Liam’s band and brand was further heightened by the singer’s recent interview with NME, arranged through the PR he uses for Pretty Green. Parading various garments on his label, Liam confirmed that the pair were no longer on speaking terms, alleging: “It takes more than blood to be my brother.”

Others have questioned the wisdom of a band with Oasis’s fractious history committing to a ten-month world tour — not least because of issues around the recording of Dig Out Your Soul that were still not resolved before its release. After eight weeks of sessions at Abbey Road studios, Liam had yet to record a single vocal. Speaking to Q magazine, Noel revealed that Liam waited until mixing for the album commenced in LA before recording his vocals. Even then, halfway though the fortnight-long stay in LA, Liam fled to London, saying he had “some business to attend to”. This, it turns out, was his wedding to Appleton, to which none of his bandmates had been invited. As a result, Noel told Q, the band were forced to shelve two album tracks, including “an epic, Champagne Supernova song with backwards Are You Experienced-type rhythms” and a 50-piece choir. Anything but contrite, Liam tweeted: “A 50-piece choir on it ... more like 50 shit guitar solos on it.”

And that’s the way it’s been with the Gallaghers this year. “He’s constantly going on about how much soul he’s got,” Noel said. “I assume Bob Marley had soul ... I don’t see Bob Marley at the Rainbow [the scene of the famous Wailers concert in 1977] wailing about the colour of the napkins in his dressing room.”

Paul Rees, the editor of Q, remembers being struck by the way that, throughtout their interview, Noel kept bringing the subject around to his brother. “He seemed so tired,” Rees says. “People who have seen them on tour this year have noticed that he seems to be going through the motions.”

Beneath the weariness, however, is hurt. “He’s never seen my little lad [one year-old Donovan]. Just pictures,” Noel confided (a claim strenuously refuted by Liam). “If you were in the circle of people that we are in, you wouldn’t have him in the house if he spoke to you the way he speaks to me and my family.”

One bone of contention appears to be MacDonald herself, who Liam is said to have consistently sought to antagonise. “At the Brits in 2007 Liam snatched her glass of wine and allowed it to smash at her feet,” one insider alleges. And the source of the acrimony? “They move in different circles. Sara knows journalists and people in the media. He sees her as sleeping with the enemy. Liam seems to prefer celebrities. He’s friends with Gok Wan and Holly Willoughby. Noel, meanwhile, prefers the company of musicians.”

Rees echoes the sentiments: “Noel has always been keen to broaden his musical horizons — perhaps more than Oasis would allow at times.” The man who discovered Oasis, Alan McGee, reckons it’ll be less than five years before the brothers end up on the same stage together. Friends of Noel suggest that ten years is a more realistic assessment. But If Liam’s ego has spiralled out of control, Noel may want to stop and consider whether he inadvertently had a hand in the process. Seven years ago, when his younger brother brought his maiden songwriting effort Little James to the table, Noel encouraged him to write more. Now, with three creditable efforts on Dig Out Your Soul, it’s conceivable that Liam — who, lest we forget, started Oasis without his brother — feels bold enough to carry the burden of their reputation.

In a funny way, he may even have a point. In this divorce, Liam may come off surprisingly well — at least in monetary terms. It may not excite the critics, but an Oasis that functions as a travelling jukebox — Britpop’s first heritage act — may play in Liam’s favour. Hard to imagine? Go and see Oasis live and the beery mass you see bellowing the words to Wonderwall bear far greater resemblance to Liam than Noel. Will they mind if Oasis never record another note? Or do they just want to party like it’s 1995?

Source www.timesonline.co.uk

Andy Bell Features On New SPC ECO Tune 'Silver Clouds'

SILVER CLOUDS (Featuring Andy Bell)

This track was another revisited recording. I have known Andy Bell for many years and we thought it was time to do some long discussed and overdue recording. Sometime in 2008 I forget exactly when I recorded Andy playing a very odd electronic sitar drone machine and an old custom Dulcimer made by the same dude that made a similar one for Brian Jones back in the 60s, in fact it might actually be the same one, anyway, It's a four stringed instrument I noticed on Andy's wall when visiting him one time.

I recorded him making about 6 passes of the Dulcimer while he played along to a basic beat (which we ended up using) of Monti playing a very old pig skinned drum kit that Ian Dury had given him as a present which now lives with me. When Andy left the studio I then cut up and arranged the passes into something with more sections and melodic clarity. Adding a bass and a few extra drones n tones. I then sent it to Andy to check (which he loved).

He then came back with a vocal idea, which we recorded and it was left just like that. Many months later Quince Records in Japan requested an exclusive bonus track for the album so I went back and investigated the Andy track but with Rose singing instead. We completely reworked all the vocals then added a very cool Joey noise guitar. It ended up being yet another of my favourite tracks. It’s always the same with me when making an album.

You have a very inspired energy at the beginning of the record swiftly followed by a down beat soul searching middle then a flurry of creativity and energy at the end. This was one of those inspired connections Rose and I touched upon which led us to believe that we were actually very good at this shit. All those years of singing and messing about with mad recordings when Rose was growing up all make for the combination and connection we have now.

Trust me, the track is just awesome. We just have our fingers and toes crossed that the record is well received so we can plan for a fun filled tour of the major cities and noodle bars of Japan!!

Source: www.spceco.com

Listen to the track by visiting www.myspace.com/spceco

Oasis Split 'Sad But Inevitable,' Says Inspiral Carpets Front Man

While the Strabane faithful who made the trip to Slane Castle in June to see Oasis were still taking in the news of Noel Gallagher's acrimonious split from the group on Friday, one of Noel's former employers was in Strabane on Sunday for a very special gig of his own.

Tom Hingley, front man of nineties 'Madchester' favourites, The Inspiral Carpets, for whom Noel worked as a 'roadie' for a number of years before joining his brother Liam's band in 1991, wowed the Sunday Comedown Club' in Dicey Riley's on Sunday night with a dazzling acoustic set, and the Chronicle spoke to the singer afterwards to get his take on the most talked about story in the music world over the weekend.

"It was inevitable really," he told us. "Obviously it's sad that Oasis are finishing but I think it's probably a good thing. They were very much associated with 'Brit-Pop', the end of the Conservatives and the rise of 'New Labour', so it's probably quite a smart move to quit now before the Conservatives get back into Government again. I'm by no means saying that they did this deliberately but maybe now it means that they will be defined by that period of change.

"Very few bands will ever be as big or as successful or as significant as Oasis. In one way it's sad and in another sense it's not. All things have a certain life-span, then it ends. Brothers in bands will fight. Ray and Dave Davis of The Kinks used to punch each other's lights out, too. At the end of the day, it's only music. Family is much more important. I think, as brothers, Noel and Liam should try to get on a bit better and if that means not seeing each other for a couple of years then that might not be a bad thing," Tom suggested.

As everyone speculates as to what Noel will do next, Tom has his own opinion on what the singer-songwriter behind numerous anthems like 'Live Forever', 'Wonderwall' and 'Don't Look Back In Anger' should do.

"Noel will probably do that solo album he should've done about ten years ago," predicted Tom. "I do think that if he gets a load of famous musicians like Paul Weller to join him that would be very boring, though. I have no doubt that Oasis will play again somewhere down the line. I think it's possible in the future that they will get back with the original line-up of Liam, Noel, Tony McCarroll, 'Bonehead' and 'Guigsy'. I think a lot of people would love to see that and, to be honest, I've never really regarded any other of the later line-ups as being Oasis," Tom confessed.

Finally, it was put to Tom if Noel could have his old job back when The Inspiral Carpets tour again. "That's a question indeed! You'll have to ask Noel that one," he laughed.

Source: www.nwipp-newspapers.com

Liam Gallagher To Be Interviewed By Jonathan Ross

Liam Gallagher will be a guest of Jonathan Ross in a few weeks, it's not known yet if it will be on his weekend radio show or on his TV show that returns to BBC1 this Friday.

When asked on Twitter

@Wossy you should have Liam or Noel on one of your shows to tel us what happened

He replied

Liam is booked. Hope he still comes on. In about 3 or 4 weeks !

Thanks to Mr Monobrow

Liam Gallagher "Oasis Will Be Back"

Our insider Luca & Ale meet Liam Gallagher his wife Nicole and Andy Bell in Lake Como, Italy.

Liam has rekindled the hopes of the fans, saying that Oasis will return, and an announcment on the bands future will be made in January!

Source: www.radiosonic.it

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.