Liam Gallagher's Label Pretty Green Is Full Of "Timeless, Classic Clobber"

Liam Gallagher says his fashion label Pretty Green is full of ''timeless, classic clobber'' and only contains stuff he would wear.

The rocker - who launched his own fashion line last year - deliberately kept his designs and ideas simple but opted for luxurious fabrics to make sure the range wasn't too "wild".

He said: "Pretty Green is timeless, classic clobber. Nothing too wild - parkas, nice macs, boating blazers, quality button-down shirts, polo shirts, desert boots - all made really well in really nice materials. It's quality."

The 37-year-old singer runs his label on a collection of simple rules and if an item doesn't look good on him, it won't make it into his clothing range.

He explained to Esquire magazine: "We discuss ideas, then they make them up, and if it doesn't look good on me, then I'm not f***ing having it. I'm not a fashion man but I know what looks good and what I like and that is as far as it goes. It's more about style really than fashion, and Pretty Green won't take any notice of trends. Fashion comes and goes. Style remains. I hate it when people say, 'That goes with that, and that with that.' I say, 'Well f**k of! I'll do what I like.'

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Liam Gallagher Blasts 'Overrated' Noel

The singer - whose older sibling quit the super-group last August after tensions and feuding between the pair became intolerable - believes his brother is completely over-hyped.

Discussing who he thought was the most overrated man in history, Liam told Esquire magazine: "Has to be Noel Gallagher."

Liam, 37, is currently working on new material with his ex-Oasis bandmates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock, while 42-year-old Noel - who wrote the majority of Oasis' biggest hits - is preparing to launch a solo career.

Although they can no longer work together, Liam believes Oasis were successful because they just concentrated on making great music.

He explained: "What's the secret to my success? Taking the music 100 per cent seriously but the rest of it having a laugh. Getting everyone at it. There's no point in doing it any other way. We weren't built on a career plan. All these kids these days are so obsessed with their careers. We just f***ing did it and it happened, and if it didn't f***ing happen, then it didn't."

Source: www.femalefirst.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

Naomi Campbell Named 'Angriest Celebrity'

Naomi Campbell has been named the angriest celebrity in the UK, a recent internet poll has revealed.

The model who today was cleared of allegedly assaulting her driver - won 24% of the survey's votes.

In second place, Libertines rocker Pete Doherty picked up 18%. Liam Gallagher claimed third position with 12%.

Christian Bale, John Prescott and Amy Winehouse made fourth, fifth and sixth place with 11%, 9% and 7% respectively.

Lily Allen also made it into the top ten at nine. Former Celebrity Big Brother star Vinnie Jones was tenth.

Liam Gallagher Interview In Esquire Magazine

Just to let you know that a interview with Liam Gallagher is in the current issue of Esquire Magazine.

Thanks to Tom...

Watch Gem Archer With Paul Weller At The NME Awards

Footage of Gem Archer with Paul Weller at the NME Awards last week.

Plan B And The Courteeners To Support Noel Gallagher At Teenage Cancer Trust Gig

Plan B and The Courteeners will join Noel Gallagher at his Teenage Cancer Trust gigs in London later this month.

The Courteeners will support the former Oasis star on March 25, while rapper-turned-singer Plan B is set to appear the following day.

The shows will mark Gallagher's first solo performances since his quit the Manchester band last summer.

The Teenage Cancer Trust concerts get under way at the Royal Albert Hall on March 22 with a performance from Them Crooked Vultures.

The US band, which features Dave Grohl and Josh Homme, will be joined by Little Fish.

Suede will be supported by These New Puritans on March 24 and Mystery Jets will join Arctic Monkeys on March 27.

Lemar and Diana Vickers are set to support JLS on March 28, while The King Blues will open for The Specials on March 29.

The charity concert series ends on March 30 with a performance from The Who, supported by Sweet Billy Pilgrim.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Slash Reckons UK Music Is "Tame Predictable And Faceless"

Slash reckons UK music is "tame, predictable and faceless". The legendary former Guns 'N' Roses guitarist admitted he is "down on music in general right now" and said that the UK is lacking any bona fide rock legends in the making.

When asked if he feels the UK should have more rock stars, he said: "It's lacking there. I mean you've got the Gallagher brothers but they've been around forever. It's gotten sort of tame predicable and faceless."

He did, however, add he didn't want to single the UK out, and that music across the world is undergoing a hard time, though he remains positive it will soon pass.

Source: www.antimusic.com

Liam Gallagher: 'Oasis Split Has Helped Manchester City'

Singer thinks the band and football club's fortunes are linked.

Liam Gallagher has joked that the fortunes of Oasis and his beloved Manchester City football team are linked.

The singer pointed out that the team seemed to do badly when the band were at their peak – and now that Oasis have split things look much better on the pitch.

"When Oasis were doing well, City were doing shit," Gallagher told the Daily Mirror. "But now we've split, City are doing good. Maybe there's some good times ahead with City, and that'll take the pain of the band splitting off a bit."

Manchester City romped to a 4-2 away win against Chesea on Saturday (February 27), while Gallagher is expected to make his musical comeback with former Oasis members later this year.

Source: www.nme.com

Best Track From Oasis' Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

This month the poll in the right side menu is to find the best track from Oasis' Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, that celebrated it's 10th birthday yesterday.

01: Fuckin' In The Bushes
02: Go Let It Out
03: Who Feels Love?
04: Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is
05: Little James
06: Gas Panic!
07: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
08: Sunday Morning Call
09: I Can See A Liar
10: Roll It Over

The winner of last last months poll to find Oasis best drummer was Alan White , who wins with 44% of the total votes.

Results

Alan White (44%)
Zak Starkey (33%)
Chris Sharrock (18%)
Tony McCarroll (2%)

Noel Gallagher Backstage At Kasabian Gig

Manchester MEN Arena in November 2009...their biggest crowd yet, and Noel Gallagher makes an appearance backstage.

Liam Gallagher's 'Pretty Green' To Sponsor His Beloved Manchester City?

Liam Gallagher wants to put some of his millions into his beloved Man City. The Oasis singer would like to become City's shirt sponsor.

But he may have to dig deep as their current sponsorship deal with airline Etihad costs £15 Million a year!

Liam said "I want Pretty Green on the kit as the sponsor."

Source: Daily Star

More Info On Liam Gallagher's 'Pretty Green' Desert Boots

As reported the other day Liam Gallagher has teamed up with Clarks for a new range of Desert Boots, available through his clothing range Pretty Green later this year.

Here is a picture of the black and brown Desert Boots, the rumoured price is believed to be around £99 with a shelf date of July 2010.

Apology To Noel Gallagher From Dan Wooten

LAST week I reported some comments Noel Gallagher made to a fan at a gig for the charity Warchild after the Brits.

Well, it seems that fan may have had one too many of the free beers on offer and got a little carried away.

Today I'm happy to make it clear that Noel has maintained a graceful silence about his brother Liam since he made a statement when he left Oasis last August.

I can't wait to see him take the stage for the first time since leaving the band at the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at London's Royal Albert Hall next month.

Dan Wooten, News of the World

On This Day In Oasis History...

Today is 10 years to the day since the release of 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants', the first album to be released on the bands own record label Big Brother.

To celebrate this day in the band's history and to thank you the fans, every one of Oasis' albums will be available to purchase digitally at a celebratory £3 each for ONE DAY ONLY. This includes the 14 million selling album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' which last week took the award for "Best Album Of The Last 30 Years" at the UK's Brit Awards.

You can access the digital store on Oasisinet HERE!

DON'T FORGET THIS SPECIAL OFFER ON SUNDAY IS FOR ONE DAY ONLY FROM MIDNIGHT (UK TIME) ON 27TH FEB!

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Oasis, released on February 28, 2000. In 1999, the year preceding the final release of this album, Oasis had lost two founding members (Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan) and hired a new producer (Mark "Spike" Stent). As a result of these changes, the album's tone was more experimental, with electronica and psychedelic influences. The darker feeling and psychedelic tone of this album is a departure from earlier Britpop-influenced Oasis records.

Songs such as the Indian-influenced "Who Feels Love?", the progressive "Gas Panic!" and the electronica "Go Let It Out" depart from Oasis' old Britpop style. The album was the sixth fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. Despite becoming their fourth number one album in the UK, it is one of the band's lowest-selling albums, selling only 3 million copies worldwide.

Trivia

The album's title was taken from the words of Sir Isaac Newton: "If I can see further than anyone else, it is only because I am standing on the shoulders of giants". Noel Gallagher saw the quote on the side of a £2 coin whilst in a pub and liked it so much he thought it would be a suitable name for Oasis' new album. He then wrote the name on the side of a cigarette packet whilst drunk. When he awoke in the morning, he realised he had written "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants — A Bum Title".

Due to the departure of Bonehead and Guigsy from the band whilst the album was in production, their parts had to be re-recorded, for legal reasons. Thus, the album only features the Gallagher brothers and Alan White. The sleeve of the album also features them.

The first track, "Fuckin' in the Bushes", is featured on the soundtrack for the film Snatch, and is regularly used in introductions for high-tempo events, due to its quick tempo and loud volume.

In the April 2006 issue of Q magazine, the album was the only Oasis record to feature in a countdown of the "50 worst albums of all time". It was placed at number 46 and described as "the low point of their fallow years", despite the fact that the album had been favourably reviewed in the magazine at its time of release and featured in the magazine's "50 Best Albums of 2000" list. In response to the Q feature, Noel has said, "Even though it wasn't our finest hour, it's a good album born through tough times. I worked harder on that album than anything before and anything since."

A notable B-Side was Lets All Make Believe. This song was on the Go Let It Out single and is said to be one of the bands finest songs. Q Magazine declared it the greatest ever "lost" track in the February 2007 issue and said that if it was on the album it would have carried "an extra star" on the review. Q gave this album 4 Stars back in 2000, meaning an extra star would be 5 stars. So with Lets All Make Believe on the album, according to Q magazine's logic, SOTSOG would have been a 5 star classic.









Track listing

01: "Fuckin' In The Bushes"
02: "Go Let It Out"
03: "Who Feels Love?"
04: "Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is"
05: "Little James"
06: "Gas Panic!"
07: "Where Did It All Go Wrong?"
08: "Sunday Morning Call"
09: "I Can See A Liar"
10: "Roll It Over"

Demos

A bootleg of demo sessions recorded for this album was leaked onto the internet in January 2000. Most of these songs were recorded by Noel Gallagher with the help of a couple of friends in his home studio at Supernova Heights and at Oasis' own Wheeler End Studios complex. All of the songs, apart from "Little James", were sung by Noel.

The tracklisting of the demo bootleg is:

"Carry Us All"
"Who Feels Love?"
"Fuckin' in the Bushes"
"Little James"
"Gas Panic!
"Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is"
"Sunday Morning Call"
"I Can See a Liar"
"Go Let It Out"
"Roll It Over"
"Revolution Song"
"Where Did It All Go Wrong?"
"(As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes in Hell"
"Just Getting Older"
"Let There Be Love"

At the time of the leak, four songs ("Carry Us All", "Revolution Song", "Just Getting Older" and "Let There Be Love") were not scheduled for release on either the album or as B-sides on the new single "Go Let It Out". These songs were also completely undocumented, apart from "Revolution Song", which had been mentioned by author Paolo Hewitt in his 1999 book Forever the People — Six Months on the Road with Oasis. As such, these four songs had made-up titles based on commonly-repeated phrases mentioned in the songs. Whilst "Carry Us All" and "Just Getting Older" were correctly guessed, the other two tracks were given titles which, in time, would prove to be incorrect. "Revolution Song" was given the title "Solve My Mystery" and "Let There Be Love" was given the title "It's a Crime". "Let There Be Love" was released on Don't Believe the Truth. Because Noel mentioned in a February 23, 2000 interview with Melody Maker magazine that "Revolution Song" had been demoed — but not released because Blur had recently released a similar sounding song — it can be assumed that these titles are correct.

Currently, only one song ("Revolution Song") remains commercially unreleased.

Courteeners Cover Oasis

Courteeners frontman Liam Fray overcame a bout of nerves to perform a special cover of Oasis' B-side D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman during the band's acoustic set which also included recent hit You Overdid It Doll.

The singer said: "It's quite daunting covering an Oasis song. There will be comparisons to them but we are not the new Oasis."

Click here to watch the video

Noel Gallagher More Popular Than Liam

The Gallagher brothers have banged on about their rivalry for years, who’s the best singer, who’s the funniest . . . yadda,yadda, yadda.

Finally, we can prove Noel Gallagher, 42, is six times more popular with the public than his juvenile kid brother.

Moments after Liam, 37, threw Oasis’s Brit award into the crowd during last week’s ceremony a prankster listed it on eBay under “Noel Gallagher’s Brit award”. Within hours a flood of bids from excited fans had surged past the £50,000 mark.

However, the joke seller was forced to admit it was a spoof and not the real McCoy.

Later, the real gold figurine which Liam tossed into the crowd was put on eBay by a genuine seller listed as “Liam’s Brit award”.

It received only 13 bids in a whole week with the top offer scraping just £7,800.

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

Noel Gallagher To Build New Summer House

Former Oasis band member Noel Gallagher is hoping to create an 'oasis' of his own in Chalfont St Giles.

Mr Gallagher, who was a songwriter, guitarist and singer in the popular Britpop group, has applied for planning permission to build a summer house in his ten-acre gardens at his home in Nightingales Lane.

He plans to swap the rock'n'roll lifestyle for relaxing amongst wild flowers in the Buckinghamshire countryside. He has proposed a single storey octagonally-shaped structure where he can enjoy 'champagne supernova' and will be used by his family.

The timber building is to have a thatched roof - a world away from the Manchester streets where he grew up.

A council report states the summer house will not overlook his neighbours and will be screened by existing shrubbery - being more than 100 metres away from the wonderwalls of his house.

It states: "The family intend to enhance the existing shrubs and trees with more planting and native meadow flowers. The overall appearance of the summer house is designed to blend in with the surrounding trees and shrubs and create a refuge in the garden."

Last August Mr Gallagher quit the group after 18 years following a disagreement with fellow band mate and brother Liam. The band recently won a Brit award for best album of the past 30 years for their release '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'

Source: chalfontstgiles.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk

Catch The NME Awards On TV Tonight

The Shockwaves NME Awards, which was hosted by Jarvis Cocker, will be broadcast on Channel 4 at 11:25pm (GMT) tonight (26 Feb) then on T4 on the same channel at 11:10am on Saturday (27) UK ONLY.

Look out for Paul Weller who performed with Gem Archer for a six-song set with his solo set that spanned his career and brought the Shockwaves NME Awards to a close.

All Oasis Albums £3 Each For One Day

As previously mentioned 2010 marks the tenth birthday of Oasis' own label, Big Brother Recordings.

'Go Let It Out', the first ever release on the label, was marked on the 7th February - ten years to the day that it was released - with a special bundle at the Oasisinet store which sold out in less than 24 hours!

This Sunday 28th February is 10 years to the day since the release of 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants', the first album to be released on the label.

To celebrate this day in the band's history and to thank you the fans, every one of Oasis' albums will be available to purchase digitally at a celebratory £3 each for ONE DAY ONLY. This includes the 14 million selling album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' which last week took the award for "Best Album Of The Last 30 Years" at the UK's Brit Awards.

You can access the digital store on Oasisinet HERE!

DON'T FORGET THIS SPECIAL OFFER ON SUNDAY IS FOR ONE DAY ONLY FROM MIDNIGHT (UK TIME) ON 27TH FEB!

Source: www.oasisinet.com