Twisted Wheel: We Want To Hug Noel Gallagher

Bright, bold and deafeningly loud, Twisted Wheel are determined to make the world sit up and take notice.

They recently supported The Enemy on their UK tour, Oasis on their European tour and Paul Weller on a series of British forests gigs, but now they’re stepping out of the shadows and into the limelight on their own.

Their self-titled debut album was released last year, and has received positive reviews from all corners of the music press. Surely that’s a big boost to a new band?

“It’s hard to keep up with them all,” says Jonny. “I read a few on the internet and then we go on tour and I don’t see anything for weeks. I think even better than the reviews is that Paul Weller and Oasis have said they like us, and they’re just legends. Things are looking good so far.

“You have to pinch yourself, you know. I burst into hysterics when I think about it sometimes, you can’t beat it.

“Oasis have always been such an inspiration to me, and when I was younger, I dreamed of maybe meeting them one day. Before I knew it I was playing on tour with them. It’s unreal. You’ve got to keep your cool though, even if I want to just give them all a massive hug.”

They’ve certainly enjoyed supporting their heroes...

“It’s the best way to get known, I think,” says Jonny. “As we’re not getting played on Radio 1, we have to play live, and hopefully get ourselves a reputation as a great live band. That’ll make up for it. I love playing live, absolutely love it.”

Read the full article here.

Source: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Win An X-Box And Exclusive Oasis Merchandise!

A happy new year to you all. Hope you had a good Christmas and New Years!

So to kick off 2010 we've got a new competition for you.

You may have noticed that we recently changed the wallpaper here at Oasisinet and the band's Social Network Sites.

If you did, then click HERE to be in for a chance of winning an X-Box and some exclusive Oasis merchandise.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Vote for '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' for 'BRITs Album of 30 Years' HERE!

20% Off Pretty Green For Ten Days

20% Off selected Pretty Green items for ten days

use code: PG2010

plus free uk shipping on all orders

offer valid from 22nd january - 31st january

*available on all products in the 2010 OFFER category.

Use code at checkout to apply discount.

Source: www.prettygreen.com

Leona Lewis Covers 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' In The Live Lounge

Leona Lewis performing 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' live on BBC Radio 1: Live Lounge in the UK on 21/01/10.

Noel Gallagher's Fan-tastic Day

Man City-mad Noel Gallagher had a sore head from the post-derby match tear-up when he bumped into his side's newest star Patrick Vieira at Manchester's Radisson hotel yesterday.

Noel, Freddie Flintoff, M People founder Mike Pickering and an army of City fans had toasted the 2-1 win over rivals Man United into the wee small hours.

Gary Neville's invite must have been lost in the post.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Ex Oasis Man To Run The London Marathon

Ex Oasis drummer Alan White will be running the London Marathon in April for the Alzheimer's Society, you can sponsor him by clicking here.

Keep up to date with what Alan's up to on his myspace page www.myspace.com/whiteyalan

Oasis' Andy Bell Features In New Video For 'The Most'

As some of you may be aware Andy Bell collaborated with a Swedish band called The Most on a song called 'Now I Feel' around 18 months ago providing guitar and backing vocals.

The band now have recorded a promo video for the song and Andy is pictured in the video.

To find out more about the band visit www.myspace.com/themostsweden

Vote For Oasis To Win A Brit Award Now

Oasis' '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' has been nominated for 2010's 'BRITs Album of 30 Years'. The 14 x platinum album has sold a staggering 14 million copies worldwide, 4.2 of which are in the UK alone.

The number one album marked the band's first UK number one single with 'Some Might Say' as well as live favourites, 'Roll With It', 'Wonderwall', 'Don't Look Back In Anger' and 'Champagne Supernova'.

The BRITs category is open to the top-selling, BRIT award winning albums of the past 29 years to celebrate the Award's 30th birthday.

Fans of the album can vote for it HERE.

Click HERE to view photos from Oasis' past appearances at the BRIT Awards.

Oasis have previously won five BRIT Awards including the award for 'Outstanding Contribution' in 2007.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Vampire Weekend On Oasis Split

Vampire Weekend have spoken about the Oasis split, as the boys were due on stage before the Gallagher brothers for the Paris Rock en Seine festival in August last year.

“It was very awkward” recalls Tomson, “watching their crew breaking down all the lights and instruments, people started crying”.

But the band look back fondly on the Manchester bad boys. “We all liked their first few albums”, Tomson says, but “lost touch from there. I will be sad to see them go”.

Oasis were the face of Britpop, or, in Batmanglij’s words: “the pinnacle of British idiocy!”.

Noel Gallagher Endorses Adidas

Noel Gallagher has been chosen to model for Adidas Originals' 2010 Global Campaign.

The campaign will focus on Adidas' 2010 spring and summer collections, enticing consumers with an array of star-models, including David Beckham, Snoop Dogg, Ana Ivanovic and more.

The campaign, will be available on the Adidas website as well as on other online sites such as YouTube in the coming weeks.

Oasis Nominated For A Brit Award

To Celebrate its 30th Anniversary, The BRIT Awards 2010 will include the ‘British Album of 30 Years’ – where the top 10 best selling albums, that have also won British Album categories over the past three decades, will be voted by Radio 2 and 6 Music listeners.

BRITs Album of 30 Years Nominees

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Dido - No Angel
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Duffy - Rockferry
Keane - Hopes & Fears
Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Sade - Diamond Life
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Travis - The Man Who

For a full list of this years nominees click here.

The BRIT Awards 2010 with MasterCard is hosted by Peter Kay and takes place on 16 February at London’s Earls Court Arena and will be televised live on ITV1 (UK Only).

Fran Healy Predicts Oasis Reunion

Fran Healy has predicted that Liam and Noel Gallagher will reunite to reform Oasis.

The Travis frontman told his official website that the siblings will get back together after clearing the air with their separate projects following Noel's departure in the summer.

Healy said: "I met Liam at the Oasis concert in Wembley. He kissed me square on the lips and said, 'I fookin' love you'. Liam is a doll.

"As for Noel, I have not heard from Noel for years. I’m sure they'll return. The solo projects are a perfect digestive before the inevitable Oasis reunion. But I will say that my solo project will definitely be the best solo project."

Of his first album away from Travis, he added: "I would hate to be a new band coming through at the moment so it's nice to have already been introduced to people.

"However, I have no idea how Wreckorder will be viewed. So far, folks have been open to the idea of this solo excursion. But it's all down to the songs.

"If it's a pile of s**t then it will stink and if it stinks then I would like it to sink without trace. I think it doesn't stink, though. I have played it to some people now and the reaction has been very exciting."

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

Vote For Your Favourite Oasis Track Ever

You can vote for your favourite Oasis track ever on NME.COM.

Current top 10

01: Live Forever
02: Champagne Supernova
03: Don't Look Back In Anger
04: Supersonic
05: Slide Away
06: Rock 'N' Roll Star
07: The Masterplan
08: Acquiesce
09: Wonderwall
10: Whatever

Vote for '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' for 'BRITs Album of 30 Years' HERE!

Vote For Oasis In The 2010 NME Awards

We're well into the awards season now with it being the end of the year AND decade!

NME have just opened the voting for their 2010 Awards next February.

Oasis are eligible in quite a few of the categories so if you have a few minutes free, why not head on over to the voting page HERE to show some love.

Can Anyone Spot The Pretty Green Kit?

Tom before the bands first gig of the tour....its only the greatest show on earth!

Kasabian have announced their next single for release on 15th February.

Vlad the Impaler is the latest track from their 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum' album , which has sold over 500,000 copies so far.

Via Pretty Green Twitter

Liam Gallagher's Head Seen In Fireball

A fire-eater has mastered the art of blowing out balls of flame in the shape Liam Gallagher's head.

The circus artist created the fireball resembling the Oasis frontman during a procession in the Costa Tequise district of Lanzarote in the Canary islands.

John Brigden, 50, a lorry driver from Alcester, Warwickshire, who photographed the spectacle, said: "I was just watching the procession and clicking away taking photographs.

"And then when I looked at it later, I was a little bit spooked looking at it initially. With the long hair and things, it bears a hell of resemblance to Liam - I couldn't believe it."

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Photo Credit: CAVENDISH

Filming The Excesses Of Creation

If you think rock’n’roll is all about swagger, a new film on the drink- and drug-fuelled years of Creation Records is for you

WHEN AN UNSIGNED Noel Gallagher took the train from Manchester to meet the bosses of Creation Records in 1993, he had little idea what to expect. But in a room above a sweatshop in the backstreets of east London, surrounded by self-confessed “misfits, drug addicts and sociopaths”, the Oasis songwriter found his spiritual home.

“He came to the Creation office and saw the words ‘Northern Ignorance’ scrawled in magic marker across the roof of the reception,” says former managing director Tim Abbott. “I’d done it the week before, when I was off my head on ecstasy, walking on the tables and drinking champagne. Noel saw it and went: ‘Fucking ’ell, I’m having that. I like it here.’”

Now, the full extent of the debauchery, precariousness and genius of the independent label is to be laid bare in the most revealing rock’n’roll film since 24 Hour Party People , the story of the “Madchester” scene. Upside Down, due out in spring, reveals Creation’s unusual method of making sure new bands came on board, according to Abbott.

“We often used to drink and drug the bands into submission,” he says.

In Gallagher’s case, after the initial bond formed, he was frogmarched to the pub, according to Abbott, where, unsurprisingly, all involved got “stuck into a session”.

A decade after Creation closed, and 25 years since the release of its first single, Upside Down charts the heady 15-year existence of the label that launched Primal Scream, Ride and My Bloody Valentine, as well as Oasis. It veered from one financial precipice to another, according to Abbott. Even after Primal Scream won the Mercury music prize in 1992, the resulting visibility did not translate into financial viability.

“We were always skint. It was like spinning plates, we were always trying to dodge the bailiffs,” Abbott says. “It was my job to go out and see them, probably because I was the smallest. [Co-founder Dick Green] would see to the manufacturers who we couldn’t pay and [co-founder Alan McGee] would just try to blag it. It couldn’t go on like that.”

Upside Down ’s director, Danny O’Connor, who admitted going through “near bankruptcy and dementia and all the other things that come with Creation” during the making of the film, says he was drawn to telling the story of the label that had provided the soundtrack to his life.

“No one does excess like Creation, no one does great records like Creation,” he says. “Creation was an indie, but it didn’t wear a cardigan, it didn’t apologise. There was a real power in its punch. If you think that rock’n’roll is all about swagger, this is your film.” And few do swagger like McGee. In a trailer for the film, he admits: “I was absolutely delusional. I actually thought I was up there with Beethoven and Shakespeare, creating metaphysical history by running Creation.”

Abbott agrees: “We were dysfunctional people working with dysfunctional bands, but somehow we still managed to function. We got results. ”

For Abbott, when Sony bought 49 per cent of the label in 1992, it spelled the end of its glory days. “When McGee sold creation to Sony, it was a curse. It took the pressure off financially, but it changed everything. Sony brought in accountants and a major label culture. The offices moved from Hackney to Primrose Hill and it got stupid.”

Abbott has few regrets about the closure of the label in 1999. “When the label folded, it was sad, but it had been consumed by a monster. It stopped being a vehicle for music and started being a vehicle for egos. Alan and Dick sold the soul of Creation to the devil, and the devil wanted it back with interest.”

Source: www.irishtimes.com

Damon Albarn: "Oasis Were Like The Bullies I Had To Put Up With At School"

Damon Albarn has admitted for the first time getting mixed up in a deadly heroin scene with ex-girlfriend Justine Frischmann from Elastica in the aftermath of Britpop madness.

Blur have bared their souls in a devastatingly honest documentary - about drugs, breakdowns, rivalries and reunion.

The definitive rockumentary, No Distance Left To Run, premiered in London last night in front of the four band members and I thoroughly recommend it to any music fan.

Blur clear up one old mystery - saying it was Damon's decision to release single Country House against Roll With It by Oasis.

The biggest chart battle of the decade became the defining moment of Brit pop - and Blur got the No1.

Damon says he did it to get back at Noel Gallagher. He recalled: "Noel used to take the p*** out of me constantly and it really, really hurt at the time. Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school."

Read more by clicking here.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Blur: No Distance Left To Run

Cert 15, 104mins

5/5

Hot on the heels of their reunion at last year's Glastonbury Festival, this terrific documentary takes a look at the ups and downs of reluctant Britpoppers Blur.

Refusing to gloss over hard truths, this is access-all-areas stuff as the four members discuss their rivalry with Oasis, guitarist Graham Coxon's alcoholism and the turmoil that led to their six-year hiatus.

Anchored by footage of their reunion, we examine the band's Essex childhoods and how being Britain's biggest band in the mid-90s almost did for them.

While lead singer Damon Albarn is charmingly self-deprecatory, it's Coxon who's the best value, amusingly reminiscing about his stint in rehab and how he'd avoid showbiz parties filled with women "dressed like spiders" for the normality of Camden boozers.

A celebration of music and friendship, and a document of the vacuousness of Cool Britannia, documentaries don't get any better.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Interview With Paul Gallagher

Excerpt of Paul Gallagher Interview with Crash Bang Pow (Dec. 2009)

Of the three siblings, perhaps surprisingly it was Paul who became the first of the Gallaghers to own a guitar but when it began to gather dust, an eight-year-old Noel decided to practise on it himself for endless hours, locked away in his bedroom. At least Paul was able to escape the incessant playing of his younger brother: “I never shared a room with Noel but Liam did.” So if nothing else, fans of Oasis have Paul Gallagher to thank for introducing Noel to the instrument that he would later use to craft tunes of such resonance as Live Forever and Wonderwall.

Paul quickly realised that he could not compete with Noel’s talent and so he dumped his interest in playing the instrument himself, deciding to “leave the guitar thing to people who know what they are doing.” When asked if the success that Noel and Liam have since had has ever tempted him to pick the guitar back up, Paul concedes without regret: “No, I never get back on the bus.”

Noel, on the other hand, never got off the bus and continued to practise and improve his guitar-playing and song-writing skills to such a standard that he effortlessly put Liam‘s early violin-playing career in the shade. By the time that Paul got Noel a job at Kennedy’s Civil Engineering he was an accomplished player, who took the silver lining of being on light duties after a JCB dropped a section of gas mains on his foot, by bringing his acoustic guitar to work.

It was during this time, in between handing out nuts and bolts to labourers, that Noel Gallagher composed four of the songs that were to later appear on Oasis’ debut album in 1994. Was Paul aware, even back then, just how special Noel’s early songs were? “Of course. You know a good song when you hear it, then it’s for others to create the snowball effect… and whoosh!”

Yet despite Noel having already written a number of bona fide classics, it would still be some time before anyone else would get the opportunity to hear them. He played briefly in the mid-eighties with Paul Bardsley in a five-piece called Fantasy Chicken and the Amateurs before auditioning to be the Inspiral Carpets’ front man in 1988 at the tender age of 21.

Although Noel, along with Tim Burgess, failed to get the gig and it went to Tom Hingley, the Inspirals offered him a job as a roadie and instrument technician. Was this the biggest oversight since Ronaldinho was offered to Saint Mirren F.C. as a 21 year old? “I'm not sure if you would have seen Oasis if Noel was front man of the Inspirals. Be careful what you wish for…”

By the time that Noel left the Inspirals in 1991 his younger brother Liam had finally begun to show an interest in guitar music, leaving his electro and hip hop days behind him to become a fully-fledged member of the Stone Roses appreciation society: “I think by Liam seeing the Roses at Spike Island, and that Ian Brown to him was just an ordinary fella, it made him believe that he could achieve the same thing and more.”

Paul himself had sampled Manchester’s finest throughout the eighties and stuck to the cigarettes and alcohol when everyone else seemed to be sampling the ecstasy-fuelled hedonism of Madchester through 1989 and 1990: “I seen the Roses at Manchester International 2, Blackpool Empress Ballroom and Spike Island. Glorious days.”

It wasn’t long before Liam found a band of his own when he filled the void left by Chris Hutton by joining Paul Arthurs, Tony McCarroll and Paul McGuigan in The Rain: “Liam didn’t form the rain, it was a band already named. He came in and renamed the band OASIS. Then Noel joined, and the rest.. well you know the rest.”

Oasis played their first gig, still without Noel, in August 1991 at the Boardwalk in Manchester and Paul was there from the very beginning to offer early support to his youngest brother‘s musical career: “I have seen most UK shows since ‘91.”

Having been one of only around 50 people to have witnessed such a landmark performance, did Paul see any early song-writing potential in Liam Gallagher’s first compositions, such as Take Me, Alice or Reminisce? “Liam? No. He's coming into his own now though. He always wanted to be a front-man and leave the song-writing to others. Though now he has the means to do both.”

Within three short years, Noel had joined Oasis and taken on song-writing duties, which culminated in the release of Definitely Maybe, the fastest-selling debut album of all time in the UK when it was unleashed. The release of this album came at a time of otherwise lost opportunity for other Manchester bands. The Stone Roses had become embroiled in legal wranglings with both their record company and former manager and the Happy Mondays had finally ingested too many pills, thrills and bellyaches during the making of Yes Please in the West Indies. Oasis stepped up boldly to grab the mantle and the Roses and Mondays were never quite the same again. “(the success of) Oasis never had anything to do with the Roses demise. And the take off from Definitely Maybe? It was a juggernaut. Nothing could stop it.”

And indeed, the Oasis juggernaut continued to captivate the musical world for another 15 years, with the British music and tabloid press following every tantrum and triumph blow by blow. One of the most memorable media frenzies came in the shape of the Oasis versus Blur chart battle in August 1995 that was billed as “The Battle Of Britpop” and which even catapulted both bands onto the national news bulletins. How much of this chart battle does Paul think was manufactured by the NME and Damon Albarn? “The times we lived in... The music business needed a North / South battle. I was never and am still not a fan of Blur. They say nothing to me musically.”

To the detriment of great British music, The Roses imploded quickly after the rise of Oasis and in the words of Ian Brown the seminal Manchester group, “George Best-ed it.” Of the former Roses, Brown himself has crafted out a hugely successful solo career but is Paul surprised at the current lack of success of some of his iconic ex-bandmates? “I thought Reni would have released something by now.”

There is no doubting the Roses’ influence on the Gallaghers and Noel calls Spike Island his “blueprint”. He also paid tribute to the Stone Roses by claiming that they “kicked open the door and we nailed it to the wall” and both he and Liam were to later work with Ian Brown and John Squire on singles during their post-Roses careers. Does Paul believe that his brothers will again work with these Mancunian legends now that they are embarking on their own post-Oasis careers? “Noel maybe. Liam? Who knows.”

By the time 1995’s (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? had sold 10 million copies worldwide, the band’s dynamics had changed and Tony McCarroll became the first of many casualties when the original drummer was replaced by Alan White. Being so close to the band throughout its lifespan, does Paul still see much of that classic line-up who adorned the Definitely Maybe cover in one of the most iconic images of the nineties? “Nope. I aint seen Bonehead for a few years. And Guigsy? Nothing since he left the band. And Tony? No, nada…”

What about Peter Sifter, who owned the second-hand record shop in Burnage and who was famously name-dropped in Oasis’ second single Shakermaker? “I think it’s still going, I dunno. Mr Sifter was a United fan I later found out...”

News of the band’s ‘split’ was finally announced in August 2009 but with such a history behind them, what does Paul feel will be Oasis’ legacy? “Various shows: Old Trout, Windsor, 1994; The Point, Dublin, 1995; Madison Square Gardens, New York, 2005; City of Manchester Stadium, 2005.

Records? All of ‘em. Line ups? All of ‘em.

Oasis is Oasis. People will always have their ‘faves‘. I seen it for what it was: A great band… the last great band.”

When a longstanding band with a discography like Oasis finally call it a day, it is often reason enough for their record company to release a deluge of ‘lost recordings’, scrapped sessions and rare outtakes. Will Oasis fans finally get to hear the infamous Richard Fearless recordings? “Everyone has opinions on different sessions that never seen the light of day. Death in Vegas? Now come on, as much as I like the band, if it was that good it wouldn’t have been scrapped.”

After fifteen years at the top and with Dig Out Your Soul quite probably their best album of the noughties, was it really time for Oasis to end? “You should never leave anything you're happy with to please others, always please yourself. In saying this yeah, I think everyone needed a break. Is it over for good? Who knows… its a long life.”

As of yet, Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell, Chris Sharrock and possibly Jay Darlington are still ‘Oasis’ but should Liam make a clean break and start with a new identity now that he’s the only original band member left? “Liam should call the band whatever he feels. If he wants to continue as Oasis then let him. After all, he started the band.

Then again, you could also say that Oasis haven’t split… Noel left. I dunno… all will be revealed at some point. Like me, we'll all have to wait and see.”

The jungle drums are suggesting that Liam’s post-Oasis project may well release an album as early as this summer and that at least half a dozen songs are already demoed. Although Paul doesn’t have any suggestions for a new band name, he can confirm that they are working on new material: “I have heard some demos…”

And as for Noel, has he stockpiled any of his own songs over the years with Oasis? “I'm sure Noel has hundreds.”

So 2010 looks to be a good year for Oasis fans then, with albums expected from both Liam and Noel Gallagher. A few years ago, the sensible money would have been on Noel to shine without his brother so how does Paul see their fortunes developing without each other? “I think they BOTH will surprise everyone.”

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