Listen To Highlights Of Noel Gallagher's TCT Shows Later Today

When: 7.00pm (UK Time) on Monday, 29 March 2010.
Until: 8.00pm (UK Time) on Monday, 29 March 2010.

Where: on Absolute Radio

Listen to highlights from Noel Gallagher's Teenage Cancer Trust performance at the Royal Albert Hall.

Roger Daltrey's Shock At Success Of Charity Gigs

Roger Daltrey is stunned by the success of his annual cancer charity gigs in the U.K. - because the star was convinced he'd have to cancel the residency at London's Royal Albert Hall after just two years.

The Who rocker founded the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series in 2000, and has played with his band on four different occasions, as well as signing up stars including Noel Gallagher, Ronnie Wood and Chris Martin to perform.

And Daltrey admits he's shocked the shows have remained so popular.

He tells Britain's Daily Star, "I'm amazed. It seems like yesterday that we started. I wanted to do something about the problem that teenage cancer sufferers have and I was determined to stick with it.

"Straight away we booked the hall for 12 years - you had to book it well in advance to be able to get it for the same week every year. We thought we could cancel it after two years, but go on as long as we thought we were able.

"Here we are, 10 years later, and I'm amazed at the support I've had from the music and comedy industry."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Liam Gallagher Admits He Has No Knowledge Of Fashion

Ex-Oasis star Liam Gallagher has admitted he knows nothing about fashion - despite launching his Pretty Green clothing range last year.

Liam, 37, said he had a a passion for footwear, adding: "I'm into suede shoes."

But he confessed: "I don't know anything about fashion."

He said he's been in the studio with his new band cutting a single due out in October.

He added: "It sounds like Oasis, Beatles-esque."

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

New Issue Of Q Magazine On Sale Now

The new issue of music Q magazine has a inteview with Liam Gallagher and a list of the best front men of all time, as voted for by their readers.

In stores now.

Teenage Cancer Trust Fundraiser

Pete McKee recently launched two special LTD edition prints for Noel Gallagher’s shows at the Royal Albert Hall.

The prints sold out straight away last Thursday and Pete would like to thank everyone for there help and support on this project.

They managed to raise a fantastic £4235 for Teenage Cancer Trust.

Liam Gallagher Interview

Excerpt from an Interview conducted by our friends at Live4Ever :

Live4ever: OK Liam, So how are you today, good?

Liam: Feel a lot better than I was yesterday. Yesterday I looked and I felt like I was a vampire man. Wasn’t to well. Throwing up a lot. Still a little bit dodgy but other than that I feel good man.
I hope it wasn’t a hot dog from JFK? I heard they gave you a bit of trouble out there, an extra wait of some kind when you flew in?

Nah Nah, I signed a wrong piece of paper.

A wrong piece of paper?

I’ve got a visa to come here. I don’t know…what was it Steve?

(Pretty Green’s CEO Steve Allen explains that it was just an immigrations officer doing his job and that they had to fill out a form again.)

(Grins) Considering I can’t write it took me a long time to fill it out - it took me all day.

Well I hope they treated you OK? They can get a bit uptight sometimes?

Nah, they were good, it was alright.

So you’re in New York to promote Pretty Green? As of today US residents can purchase your items using US currency in your online store, right?

(Steve jumps in and explains that all items are priced in US Dollars with no Import Taxes. The Items are distributed from the UK and delivery normally will take around 3 days.)

Did you talk to any New York department stores about carrying your line of clothing?

Our people back in the UK have been doing that and there is a store in New York, ‘Any Old Iron’, who will be the first store to sell our line starting in the fall.

Where you not interested in one of the bigger stores such as Barneys?

Oh yeah, I like Barneys but I heard it’s not so good at the moment. I’m easy I’ll put it anywhere. I’m not that precious about where it goes, you know what I mean? The main thing is to try to get our own little store, our own little shop out here at some point, if all goes well.

You already have your own stores planned elsewhere though?

We’re looking at a place in London - and Tokyo would be a good place because we have a bit of a fan base out there as a lot of people are buying from out there. Definitely New York, if you do one out there you got to do one in New York, yeah?

Absolutely.

So as you’ve said before you are not trying to reinvent the wheel here with your line. It’s a priority for you that this is a top quality product.

Top quality yeah.

For the full interview click here for part one and here for part two.

Liam Gallagher Finally Unplugs His Spoiled-Brat Act And Starts Rocking A New Clothing Line

Liam Gallagher finally unplugs his spoiled-brat act and starts rocking a new clothing line.

Liam Gallagher was in town last week, and the city is still standing. No hotel rooms got brutalized. No pub brawls got started. The Guinness taps have not run dry. In fact, one of rock music’s most legendary bad boys seems distinctively less naughty these days. It’s probably been months since he’s punched anyone out.

To journalists at least, the former Oasis frontman is surprisingly soft-spoken and polite. He’s even a bit shy. His humble demands for a photo shoot include water, a sandwich and air conditioning — but only if it’s hot out. He’s kind to a small dog wandering around. Most horrifying of all, he takes pride in being punctual.

Oasis disbanded last August when older brother Noel left following yet another epic sibling squabble. Liam insists the group is done, though he continues to work on music with the remaining members.

In the meantime, the singer’s latest endeavor is a clothing line called Pretty Green, featuring menswear of his own design. The collection launched in the UK last June, and just became available stateside via mail order at prettygreen.com.

The line originally began with a pair of shoes.

“I’m into suede shoes,” Gallagher says. “Shoes have been going a bit pointy. I really wanted to make shoes like a desert boot.”

The first pieces were all black or white — “pretty mod, man,” he says — but for spring, the line has broadened to include colorful polo shirts and logoed tees, checked button-downs and a selection of baggy, knee-length jackets that are instantly recognizable to Oasis fans.

“I don’t know anything about fashion. I don’t want to know anything about fashion,” Gallagher says. “I haven’t got a favorite designer or anything like that. I like what I like, you know what I mean?”

The line was created in conjunction with British tailor Nick Holland, from whom Gallagher has previously bought suits after being introduced through friends. The idea is to produce simple, high-quality wardrobe staples — nothing too Jean Paul Gaultier.

Gallagher, 37, says he’s been into clothes since he was a teenager, mainly to impress girls. Back then, his fashion statements involved Sergio Tacchini track suits. Even after Oasis became the biggest band in the world, Gallagher says he always wore his own clothes onstage and in public. He detests fussy looks, and once took a shot at bands that employed stylists, saying, “U2? There’s no way you bought that jacket is there, Bono? Coldplay, they’re at it too.”

His hope for Pretty Green, he says, is for it to have its “own legs, not just Oasis fans behind it.”

He’s also hoping to move to New York. He and his wife, singer Nicole Appleton — who split time between London and a country house in Henley-on-Thames — are shopping for an apartment near Central Park. They’ve seen three, though none big enough.

Gallagher says he loves Central Park and often goes jogging there incognito in a hat pulled low.

One thing he doesn’t like in New York: the club scene.

“I’m done with that,” he says. “They don’t even play the type of music I like anyway, so what’s the point? It’s all f - - - ing techno s - - -. I go to see bands. Go out for a bite to eat. Don’t do too much.”

What he mainly likes to do is spend time with his family, including a dachshund, his and Appleton’s 8-year-old son Gene, and 10-year-old son Lennon, whose mother is Gallagher’s ex-wife Patsy Kensit.

He takes the kids to the movies (they enjoyed “Avatar”) and later this month, he’s treating them to a week at Disneyland.

This hardly sounds like the same man who was banned from Cathay Pacific in 1998 for drunkenly smoking and swearing on a flight, or the man who got his front teeth knocked out in a 2002 Munich bar fight, or who was busted with cocaine on a London street back in the ’90s.

He says he gave up drugs for good last November for his children’s sake.

“It doesn’t work with kids, man. You wake up the next day after a session and you’re looking for bits of your kids’ homework and football boots. You’re all over the place. It’s rubbish,” he told the Daily Express.

He’s also particularly focused on the forthcoming album with the Band Formerly Known as Oasis, with whom he’s spending four days a week in the studio. (Gallagher says the band doesn’t yet have a name.)

“It takes more than a little man called Noel to pull the mat from underneath me,” he says, taking a cheeky shot at his brother.

“I make music,” he says. “I can either sit at home and do f - - - all, which is no good for the soul, or I can do what I like to do, which is making music and being involved with this.”

The new tunes are expected to be recorded over the summer, with a single released around October and the full album in 2011.

“It sounds like Oasis, Beatles-esque,” he says. “There’s a lot of energy. It sounds psychedelic, but when it’s rocking, it’s rocking.”

Thank goodness he hasn’t grown out of that.

Source: www.nypost.com

Noel Gallagher's House Party

I love Noel Gallagher. The Oasis rocker prepared for his Teenage Cancer Trust gig this week with a 25-minute rehearsal in a choir singer's Kitchen.

Noel, 42, performed with the Crouch End Festival Chorus at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday and Friday. But first he did some fine tuning at a female chorist's North London pad. I'm told: "Noel went there to try out arrangements. He sat playing her guitar in the kitchen which was great."

Source: www.people.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Wows Fans At His Royal Albert Hall Gigs

Since leaving Oasis seven months ago, everybody's been wondering what music Noel Gallagher will make for his first album.

Will he follow his mate Paul Weller in making traditional rock 'n' roll? Or, as the favourite gossip has it, is Noel going to start experimenting and make a far-out record miles away from Oasis?

Whichever route he's taking, Noel's giving no clues at his first show since the split. He's played solo gigs for the Teenage Cancer Trust before. Indeed, this one has the same setlist as his previous show in 2008. Although, as Noel points out, "I am wearing different clothes."

His backing band is the same too, with Oasis touring musicians Jay Darlington on keyboards and percussionist Terry Kirkbride - plus, most intriguingly, Gem Archer on guitar.

As everyone assumed Gem had chosen to stick with Liam's new band, he may now be the UN peacekeeping negotiator between the Gallaghers.

That familiar setlist means it's as comfortable a return to performing for Noel as possible. He gets to do a show he could play standing on his head while the fans, who would usually have had to watch Noel from the back of a vast stadium, get to sing along to Wonderwall, Slide Away and co in relative intimacy.

And, boy, do the fans relish the chance to bellow every word back at Noel, even on what should be obscure songs like Listen Up and Sad Song. The Albert Hall is the home of classical music but it's transformed into a rowdy Last Night Of The Britpop Proms.

Noel is backed by the 50-member Crouch End Choir, who may as well have stayed at home as their choral tones are inaudible over the fans' singing.

On a stool with his acoustic guitar, Noel laughs off requests for new songs, saying: "They're f***ing amazing, but this isn't the time and place."

Maybe, but of the 17 songs he plays, just one - 2005 hit The Importance Of Being Idle - isn't from Oasis' first two albums or their B-sides.

That could be the most telling sign of how unhappy Noel became in Oasis - or a hint that he wants to go back to his ballad-writing roots.

The show may be familiar - but as the 5,000 fans scream out Don't Look Back In Anger - that's certainly no bad thing.

Source: www.newsoftheworld.co.uk

Liam Gallagher: 'David Bowie And T-Rex Have Inspired My Post-Oasis Album'

Liam Gallagher has revealed that David Bowie and T-Rex have inspired his new post-Oasis album.

The singer told New York radio station RXP that his new group – featuring former bandmates Andy Bell, Gem Archer and Chris Sharrock – are aiming to head into the studio next month with a view to completing the record in June before releasing it the following summer.

"Andy and Gem are on fire at the moment," he enthused. "There's a bit of T-Rex and Bowie on there, I’m telling you there's a good mix of psychedelia but there’s some good rock 'n' roll tunes on there [as well].

"We're going to record halfway through April, we've got three weeks to do some tunes and if it's all cool we'll go back in June and finish it off. I'd like to have tune out in October and then put another one out after Christmas and then the album in the summer."

Although he has had several public digs at his brother Noel, who also had his first jovial pop at his younger sibling at his second Teenage Cancer Trust gig at the Royal Albert Hall last night (March 26), he did admit that the pair's new material will be "an exciting time for music".

"He'll go and do his thing and we'll go and do our thing and it'll be an exciting time for music not just in England but worldwide," he said.

But he still had the last word adding: "Noel's record will be good and ours will be better."

The singer said that they still haven't spoken since Noel quit the band last August but he admitted that they "will at some point".

He also revealed that a new Oasis singles collection will be released in the near future and he criticised the UK music scene.

"There's a few good bands but there's a lot of bands just making fast food music," he said. "It's not digesting well, they're not making albums. You hear a good tune on the radio and go out and buy it and its not all that."

Elsewhere in the interview, Liam explained his recent comments about U2 and Coldplay's dress sense and he joked they should go out and buy his own clothing range Pretty Green, which he is currently promoting in the US.

"I've met Bono before and he's a geeser but someone asked me about fashion and you can see a lot of bands are styled like Coldplay and you know they don't buy their own clothes and you should, you should buy Pretty Green.

He added: "Coldplay are alright but they don’t do it for me that much, they're not rock 'n' roll enough man. They live all around the corner from me so I don’t want to say too much in case they come round and give me a paper cut."

Source: www.nme.com

Liam Gallagher In New York City

As part of the Pretty Green $USD launch, Liam has travelled to New York to talk about fashion and his lifelong love of classic British style with radio shows and newspapers.

As well as enjoying New York City, Liam was a guest on 1019RXP to talk about the inspiration behind Pretty Green and how decades of being a rock n’ roll style icon brought about the Pretty Green collection. You can view the interview at 1019rxp.com, or on Youtube - Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

The new Pretty Green website is now live and, as well as introducing a range of new products, US style fans can now shop in US dollars.

We’ll have more news from Liam’s trip to New York including the upcoming coverage of Liam and Pretty Green in the New York Times Style Section, New York Post, Nylon Guys, Blackbook and T.

Source: www.prettygreen.com

Watch Footage Of Noel Gallagher At The Royal Albert Hall For TCT

A few videos of last night's Noel Gallagher performance at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust series.

Thanks to RockEnBen for the videos.

To donate text TCT to 70300

Noel Gallagher Mocks Liam At Second Post-Oasis London Solo Show

Guitarist plays second Teenage Cancer Trust show in two nights

Noel Gallagher played his second post-Oasis solo show tonight (March 26), mocking his ex-bandmate and brother Liam during his London Royal Albert Hall gig for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The singer/guitarist played the same set he played the previous night at the venue, taking a pop at the fashion interest of his brother, Liam, who runs the Pretty Green clothes label after performing 'Cast No Shadow'.

Responding to shouts from a fan he said, "For the record that guy said, 'Where's Liam?'. He's probably being a real northerner somewhere designing the perfect desert boot."

Before the set started The Who's Roger Daltrey, who curates the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs, had given an introduction in which he explained how he'd invited Liam to help his band perform 'Quadrophenia' with them next week at the venue.

"I couldn't think of anyone better to play [character] Ace Face," he told the audience before making way for Noel. "I called him up but he said, 'I can't, I'm doing something far more important. I'm going to Disneyland with my children'."

As he had been last night, Noel was joined by his ex-Oasis bandmate Gem Archer on guitar plus Oasis' former live keyboard player Jay Darlington. An eight-piece all-female orchestra joined the set-up shortly into the gig as did the 50-strong Crouch End Choir.

With the set heavy on songs from the early parts of Oasis career and berefit of new material, Noel dedicated 'Slide Away' to his girlfriend Sara MacDonald. He dedicated 'Digsy's Dinner' to a particularly vocal crowd member who he found out was named Dave. Dave, stood near the front row, briefly earned cheers as he danced following the dedication before Noel said, "Are you done now?". He added, "Every note for you," as the song ended. "Every fucking note for you."

Following 'Whatever' he closed the show with an encore comprising 'The Masterplan', 'Married With Children' and 'Don't Look Back In Anger'.

"Thanks for supporting the charity for the past ten years," he said before leading cheers for his band, the choir and orchestra.

Noel Gallager played:

'(It's Good) To Be Free'
'Talk Tonight'
'Fade Away'
'Cast No Shadow'
'Half The World Away'
'Don't Go Away'
'The Importance Of Being Idle'
'Listen Up'
'Sad Song'
'Wonderwall'
'Rockin' Chair'
'Slide Away'
'Digsy's Dinner'
'Whatever'
'The Masterplan'
'Married With Children'
'Don't Look Back In Anger'

Source: www.nme.com

Noel Gallagher At The Teenage Cancer Trust Night Two

Setlist

(It's Good) To Be Free
Talk Tonight
Fade Away
Cast No Shadow (With Crouch End Festival Chorus) (Abandoned Guitar problems)
Cast No Shadow (With Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Don't Go Away (With Wired Strings & Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Half The World Away
Importance Of Being Idle
Listen Up (With Wired Strings & Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Sad Song
Wonderwall
Rockin Chair (With Wired Strings & Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Slide Away
Digsy's Diner
Whatever (With Wired Strings & Crouch End Festival Chorus)
The Masterplan (With Wired Strings & Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Married With Children
Dont Look Back In Anger (With Wired Strings & Crouch End Festival Chorus)

From the Oasis Official Twitter Page

An introduction from Roger Daltry and a standing ovation before a note had even been played. Pretty decent start!

'Fade Away' gets the first big singalong of the night. 'Cast No Shadow' playing now. Looking to be the second biggest...so far.

Did you guys ever hear about 'the lost chord'? We just had a collective one to 'Listen Up'. Shivers down the back. Very cool.

To donate to Teenage Cancer Trust text TCT to 70300

We're sure there will clips on YouTube so you should check them out. Another great evening. Thanks to everyone who came and sang along!

A short interview with Noel Gallagher ahead of last nights show can be watched here.

To donate text TCT to 70300

Questions For Bonehead

We have been given the opportunity to interview Bonehead as he prepares to hit the road with his new band The Vortex.

If you have any questions for Bonehead? Please send them to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will ask Bonehead the best ones.

Visit Bonehead's band 'The Vortex' MySpace page here for a number of upcoming UK and European dates.

Liam Gallagher Best Frontman Of All Time

Liam has been named the Greatest Frontman Of All Time by readers of Q Magazine. No argument from us.

When he's on stage, he commands your attention whether it be snarling out every word with limitless passion or challenging the audience to a staring out match (which he always wins!). His trademark stance - leaning up towards the mic, arms behind his back - is known the world over and has become iconic in its own right. And we literally have no idea how many tambourines he's got through over the years!

But all of this takes a backseat when it comes to the music. Put simply, he has one of the most distinctive and powerful voices in rock and roll.

We have our favourite performances of his and we're sure you have yours too so why not crank them up and raise a glass to him!

To celebrate him winning the poll we have a signed tambourine by the man himself. To be in with a chance of winning it, click HERE!

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Noel Gallagher Pokes Fun At JLS And Scousers At London's Royal Albert Hall

Noel Gallagher performed his first post-Oasis solo show as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust series at London's Royal Albert Hall last night.

Flanked by former bandmate Gem Archer and keyboardist Jay Darlington for much of the show, together with the Crouch End Festival Chorus and Wired String, the 42-year-old rolled out a 17-song set consisting entirely of Oasis classics.

Somewhat aptly, following a brief “hello” from Noel, the first track of the night was 1994 'Whatever' b-side '(It's Good) To Be Free'.

After third track 'Fade Away', Noel quipped to the sell-out "Behave. JLS was last night wasn't it?!"

In jovial spirits he even took time the take a swipe at a Liverpudlian in the crowd requesting new tracks.

“We're not playing any new songs”, he told the punter. "As brilliant as they are, now is not the right time or place. Are you an American? Oh, you're from Liverpool? Try and be American, it's better than being a f***ing scouser."

After the crowd member shouted out for 'Rockin' Chair', the track correctly next in his set, Noel joked again: “Did you rob one? Come on.”

After rolling out more classics in the shape of 'The Masterplan' and 'Whatever', Noel culminated with a rousing 'Don't Look Back In Anger'.

Looking delighted, he told the crowd: “It's been a pleasure. Thank you for coming along to support the charity.”

Source: www.gigwise.com

Thanks to Tim Ford for the setlist, watch some of his videos from last nights show here.

To donate text TCT to 70300 (UK ONLY)

Videos Of Noel Gallagher At The Teenage Cancer Trust

A few videos from last night Teenage Cancer Trust show.

To donate text TCT to 70300 (UK ONLY)

Video recorded by JP Zarka

A number of pictures will be on www.teenagecancertrust.org later today as well as behind the scenes footage.

Noel Gallagher Begins Solo Life

Noel Gallagher stuck to familiar material at his first show since Oasis split - but promised that "brilliant" solo songs are on their way.

Despite speculation about his solo plans, he declined to play new songs at the first of two shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

He told the crowd that the gig, in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, was "not the right time or right place".

Instead, he rolled out 17 Oasis tracks - 16 of which dated from the 1990s.

The sight of men in their 30s with arms outstretched, baring their souls as well as their paunches to the stage, is one that Noel Gallagher must be used to by now.

That emotional salute and surrender was a common sight up and down the tiers and around the edges of the Albert Hall, and became more frequent as this gig unfolded.

Another commonly-viewed phenomenon was the number of blokes (and some women) with arms around each other's shoulders, or beers aloft in approval, or bouncing up and down while singing their hearts out - some doing all of the above.

The fact that Noel did not avail us of any of new material, or even play more than one track from the last 12 years, did not matter.

In fact, it was a good thing because it meant he could focus on material from the inspired and prolific songwriting patch he enjoyed in the mid-1990s.

So the crowd sang along in full voice to almost every song - they saluted, bounced and swayed as Noel strummed along to Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger and Whatever.

Many instinctively knew every word to 15-year-old B-sides like The Masterplan, Half The World Away, Fade Away or Talk Tonight.

Noel brought the 50-strong Crouch End Choir to back him up - but he need not have bothered because they were totally drowned out by the enthusiasm of the crowd.

And as well as the singing, football-style chants of his name occasionally erupted on the Royal Albert Hall's terraces.

The reason for this level of involvement and devotion is that Noel's best songs make a primal connection with the listener, without them ever really being able to figure out why.

In those songs, he tapped into themes like romantic idealism, nagging insecurity, vanishing youth, domestic drama, dreams of escapism.

All of which struck a chord with his fans somewhere deep down, despite the fact that, if you actually listened to them, his lyrics did not make very much sense at all.

For Thursday's gig, rooted to his stool and strapped to his acoustic guitar, he picked the songs that suited the unplugged setting and his sensitive nature.

His partnership with brother Liam in Oasis was always one of ying and yang, where he would take on the more thoughtful material and Liam would be the macho, arrogant and tenacious one.
Diplomatic silence

That means there were lots of Oasis songs that Noel did not, and probably would not, touch in a solo set. He steered clear of the bombast of tracks like Live Forever, Supersonic and Morning Glory, even if he wrote them.

Liam was not mentioned tonight. Despite being goaded by his estranged sibling - most notably at the Brit Awards - Noel is wise enough to be more diplomatic.

There were also no big-name special guests. Last time he played here, doing a very similar set for the same cause in 2007, he was joined by Paul Weller.

He was aided this time, though, by his former Oasis bandmate Gem Archer on guitar.

Gem had been rumoured to be in Liam's new band, so whether this means he has switched sides, or just stayed neutral, remains to be seen.

Tonight's gig was a rousing trip down memory lane, but the question still remains - what next for Noel? And, more to the point, will it compare to his past masterpieces?

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Kasabian's Tom Meighan Compares Coldplay And Oasis

It's hardly Oasis versus Blur but Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan is trying to start a band war with Coldplay.

The cocky Brit Award winner says: "Chris Martin is all right if you're 35 and feeling sad that your mortgage repayments have gone up." Ouch.

He goes on to Q magazine: "But Liam [Gallagher] is the voice you want if you're feeling young and free and up for anything. In terms of honesty, looks and attitude there's no one left."

That'll be the 37-year-old Liam with the mortgage, we presume?

Source: www.mirror.co.uk