Carl Fogarty on embarrassing himself in front of Noel Gallagher!
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Carl Fogarty
Noel Gallagher
Carl Fogarty on embarrassing himself in front of Noel Gallagher!
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Carl Fogarty On Embarrassing Himself In Front Of Noel Gallagher!
Carl Fogarty on embarrassing himself in front of Noel Gallagher!
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Andy Bell
chris Sharrock
Gem Archer
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
On May 7th 2009 Oasis played at the Citibank Hall in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Above are a few videos from the gig.
Noel Gallagher was interviewed by Russell Brand on 'MTV Leicester Square', on May 7th 2006, watch the interview here, here and here.
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On This Day In Oasis History...
On May 7th 2009 Oasis played at the Citibank Hall in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Above are a few videos from the gig.
Noel Gallagher was interviewed by Russell Brand on 'MTV Leicester Square', on May 7th 2006, watch the interview here, here and here.
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Liam Gallagher
Liam Gallagher is bringing his idols The Beatles back together on the big screen in a movie that will explore the ‘stoned’ years that led to the band’s demise.
The former Oasis frontman is developing a film, set between 1967 and 1970, based on an insider’s view of the circus-like atmosphere at the Savile Row headquarters of The Beatles’ record company, Apple.
Liam has the screen rights to Richard DiLello’s memoir of his years as Apple’s ‘house hippy’, where his job included working in the company’s press office.
DiLel lo’s highly personal account, The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider’s Diary Of The Beatles, Their Million Dollar Apple Empire And Its Wild Rise And Fall, published in 1972, details the comings and goings of Paul McCar tney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and their wives, girlfriends and hangers on.
It gives DiLello’s take on the personal and business problems that were to drive The Beatles apart.
His book recounts ‘stoned conversations’ and hilarious observations of the Apple office’s open bar and ‘other accommodations ’ with regards to recreational activities on offer.
The movie would feature actors portraying the Fab Four and cover the years when rock ’n’ roll was moving from its cool, ‘let it be’ vibe to the point where it was controlled by soulless multinational corporations.
And that is how the music industry has remained - though Liam and his brother Noel, in their Oasis heyday, certainly knew how to emulate the crazy, heady early era when rock really rolled.
Liam and his partners at Revolution Films will officially launch the project during the Cannes Film Festival next week.
They are still looking for a screenwriter and director. Then comes the task of casting actors to portray The Beatles, their families and associates, though that won’t begin until there’s a completed screenplay at the the task of casting actors to portray The Beatles, their families and associates, though that won’t begin until there’s a completed screenplay at the end of this year, or possibly early next year.
The Longest Cocktail Party also features tales of various other artists on the Apple roster, including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Doris Troy, Badfinger and Billy Preston.
Lauren Bacall, of all people, pops up in the tale after she visited the Apple HQ with her children.
Both Gallagher brothers are fans of the book. Noel has praised it, using language that is too colourful to repeat in a family newspaper.
With the two siblings at each others’ throats, I can only wonder at the behind-the-scenes wrangling over the rights. I can see Liam digging out his soul on this movie. If it all comes together, it’s going to be a scorcher.
With British productions Red, Hamlet, La Cage Aux Folles and A Little Night Music Hoovering up Tony nominations, I hear that the producers of Priscilla The Musical are to hire top choreographer Jerry Mitchell as ‘production consultant’ to whip the show into shape for Broadway.
The idea is to make it less vulgar for the Americans’ delicate sensibilities. Ha! There’s talk of Will Swenson, so good in Hair at the Gielgud, joining the show.
By the way, Cameron Mackintosh has lowered the price of tickets to his shows through May, so top tickets for Hair are just £39.50.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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Beatles To Party Again With Liam Gallagher
Liam Gallagher is bringing his idols The Beatles back together on the big screen in a movie that will explore the ‘stoned’ years that led to the band’s demise.
The former Oasis frontman is developing a film, set between 1967 and 1970, based on an insider’s view of the circus-like atmosphere at the Savile Row headquarters of The Beatles’ record company, Apple.
Liam has the screen rights to Richard DiLello’s memoir of his years as Apple’s ‘house hippy’, where his job included working in the company’s press office.
DiLel lo’s highly personal account, The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider’s Diary Of The Beatles, Their Million Dollar Apple Empire And Its Wild Rise And Fall, published in 1972, details the comings and goings of Paul McCar tney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and their wives, girlfriends and hangers on.
It gives DiLello’s take on the personal and business problems that were to drive The Beatles apart.
His book recounts ‘stoned conversations’ and hilarious observations of the Apple office’s open bar and ‘other accommodations ’ with regards to recreational activities on offer.
The movie would feature actors portraying the Fab Four and cover the years when rock ’n’ roll was moving from its cool, ‘let it be’ vibe to the point where it was controlled by soulless multinational corporations.
And that is how the music industry has remained - though Liam and his brother Noel, in their Oasis heyday, certainly knew how to emulate the crazy, heady early era when rock really rolled.
Liam and his partners at Revolution Films will officially launch the project during the Cannes Film Festival next week.
They are still looking for a screenwriter and director. Then comes the task of casting actors to portray The Beatles, their families and associates, though that won’t begin until there’s a completed screenplay at the the task of casting actors to portray The Beatles, their families and associates, though that won’t begin until there’s a completed screenplay at the end of this year, or possibly early next year.
The Longest Cocktail Party also features tales of various other artists on the Apple roster, including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Doris Troy, Badfinger and Billy Preston.
Lauren Bacall, of all people, pops up in the tale after she visited the Apple HQ with her children.
Both Gallagher brothers are fans of the book. Noel has praised it, using language that is too colourful to repeat in a family newspaper.
With the two siblings at each others’ throats, I can only wonder at the behind-the-scenes wrangling over the rights. I can see Liam digging out his soul on this movie. If it all comes together, it’s going to be a scorcher.
With British productions Red, Hamlet, La Cage Aux Folles and A Little Night Music Hoovering up Tony nominations, I hear that the producers of Priscilla The Musical are to hire top choreographer Jerry Mitchell as ‘production consultant’ to whip the show into shape for Broadway.
The idea is to make it less vulgar for the Americans’ delicate sensibilities. Ha! There’s talk of Will Swenson, so good in Hair at the Gielgud, joining the show.
By the way, Cameron Mackintosh has lowered the price of tickets to his shows through May, so top tickets for Hair are just £39.50.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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Oasis
From 'Sgt Pepper' to 'Absolution', have you say on the greatest album cover ever...
To cast your vote for Oasis 'Definitely Maybe' click here.
Source: www.gigwise.com
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The Best Album Cover Of All Time - VOTE NOW!
From 'Sgt Pepper' to 'Absolution', have you say on the greatest album cover ever...
To cast your vote for Oasis 'Definitely Maybe' click here.
Source: www.gigwise.com
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Carlos Tevez
Noel Gallagher
Sara MacDonald
Noel Gallagher plans to call his baby Carlos.
The former Oasis guitarist - who already has a daughter, Anais, nine, from his previous marriage to Meg Matthews, and two-year-old son Donovan with his current partner Sara MacDonald - plans to pay tribute to his sporting hero, Manchester City soccer player Carlos Tevez, when he becomes a father for the third time in September.
He said: "The new baby, if it's a boy - Sara doesn't know this yet - is definitely going to be called Carlos. Yeah, without a doubt. Or just Tevez.
The musician also admitted Sara's pregnancy has scuppered his plans to spend this summer in South Africa for the soccer World Cup.
He added in a video interview for The Football Association website: "I was planning on going but I went and got my missus pregnant didn't I. I should have knocked her up when I got back or something instead."
Noel, 42, will now have to watch the tournament on television, but admits he still gets so involved in the action, he often frightens his children.
He explained: "Anais isn't into football, she thinks it's boring. She can't grasp the concept of dads standing up watching the TV, because I do that and shout and she's just going, 'Daddy, sit down, you're scaring me.' "
Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk
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Noel Gallagher Wants Baby Carlos
Noel Gallagher plans to call his baby Carlos.
The former Oasis guitarist - who already has a daughter, Anais, nine, from his previous marriage to Meg Matthews, and two-year-old son Donovan with his current partner Sara MacDonald - plans to pay tribute to his sporting hero, Manchester City soccer player Carlos Tevez, when he becomes a father for the third time in September.
He said: "The new baby, if it's a boy - Sara doesn't know this yet - is definitely going to be called Carlos. Yeah, without a doubt. Or just Tevez.
The musician also admitted Sara's pregnancy has scuppered his plans to spend this summer in South Africa for the soccer World Cup.
He added in a video interview for The Football Association website: "I was planning on going but I went and got my missus pregnant didn't I. I should have knocked her up when I got back or something instead."
Noel, 42, will now have to watch the tournament on television, but admits he still gets so involved in the action, he often frightens his children.
He explained: "Anais isn't into football, she thinks it's boring. She can't grasp the concept of dads standing up watching the TV, because I do that and shout and she's just going, 'Daddy, sit down, you're scaring me.' "
Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk
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Andy Bell
Gem Archer
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Zak Starkey
On the 6th of May 2005, Oasis performed 'Lyla' and a cover of The Who's 'My Generation' on the Johnathan Ross Show on BBC 1.
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On This Day In Oasis History...
On the 6th of May 2005, Oasis performed 'Lyla' and a cover of The Who's 'My Generation' on the Johnathan Ross Show on BBC 1.
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Carlos Tevez
Noel Gallagher
Ex Oasis star Noel Gallagher is ditching Labour for the Blues - vowing to "vote" for Man City striker Carlos Tevez.
The rocker, 42, who famously went to a reception at No 10 after Tony Blair won power in 1997, revealed his plan yesterday in an interview on the FA website.
The fanatical Man City supporter said: "Me and the missus were talking about it because we've got to vote this week.
"She was going, 'Who are you voting for?' and I said, 'I'm not voting for anyone'.
"I'm just going to take my voting card and I'm going to put in massive letters 'Tevez is God' and throw it in the polling station. I'm voting Tevez."
Noel was seen as a key figure in the Nineties Britpop scene, which New Labour tried to cash in on.
Click here to watch the video.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
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Noel Gallagher Is Ditching Labour For The Blues
Ex Oasis star Noel Gallagher is ditching Labour for the Blues - vowing to "vote" for Man City striker Carlos Tevez.
The rocker, 42, who famously went to a reception at No 10 after Tony Blair won power in 1997, revealed his plan yesterday in an interview on the FA website.
The fanatical Man City supporter said: "Me and the missus were talking about it because we've got to vote this week.
"She was going, 'Who are you voting for?' and I said, 'I'm not voting for anyone'.
"I'm just going to take my voting card and I'm going to put in massive letters 'Tevez is God' and throw it in the polling station. I'm voting Tevez."
Noel was seen as a key figure in the Nineties Britpop scene, which New Labour tried to cash in on.
Click here to watch the video.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
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Andy Bell
Gem Archer
Oasis
On May 5th 2009, Oasis played at the Movistar Arena, Santiago, Chile, unfortunately there is no pro-footage of the gig.
However, above is a great interview with Gem Archer and Andy Bell that was broadcast on the day of the gig. Also as a added bonus, click here for a interview with Noel Gallagher.
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On This Day In Oasis History...
On May 5th 2009, Oasis played at the Movistar Arena, Santiago, Chile, unfortunately there is no pro-footage of the gig.
However, above is a great interview with Gem Archer and Andy Bell that was broadcast on the day of the gig. Also as a added bonus, click here for a interview with Noel Gallagher.
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Mick Jagger
Oasis
Mick Jagger has criticised Oasis for not always connecting with their audience at gigs.
The Rolling Stones legend - famous for his enthusiastic dancing when on stage - told the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio he felt Oasis were known for not moving on stage, but they needed to connect with the crowd in other ways.
Jagger said: "Well that's what they do, they don't move - that doesn't mean to say they don't connect - they do connect sometimes, sometimes they're not always good ways."
He went on: "What was that famous story when they were in New York and they didn't think the New York audience was loud enough, and they said something like 'You're rubbish' or something, 'New York, you're a load of c**p' or something like that - which is not what you do anywhere really, especially in New York."
The 66-year-old singer was full of praise for the Kings Of Leon, who he said he felt had learned to connect well with their audience when on stage.
Jagger said: "The Kings Of Leon at the beginning, they didn't really do that successfully, but everyone has to do it in the end because otherwise it becomes kind of embarrassing, being in a room when you're not really connecting.
"But now they play arenas and they're really good and they're much more forthcoming. They still have their shy moments, but they seem to have cut down."
Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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Mick Jagger: Oasis Don't Connect
Mick Jagger has criticised Oasis for not always connecting with their audience at gigs.
The Rolling Stones legend - famous for his enthusiastic dancing when on stage - told the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio he felt Oasis were known for not moving on stage, but they needed to connect with the crowd in other ways.
Jagger said: "Well that's what they do, they don't move - that doesn't mean to say they don't connect - they do connect sometimes, sometimes they're not always good ways."
He went on: "What was that famous story when they were in New York and they didn't think the New York audience was loud enough, and they said something like 'You're rubbish' or something, 'New York, you're a load of c**p' or something like that - which is not what you do anywhere really, especially in New York."
The 66-year-old singer was full of praise for the Kings Of Leon, who he said he felt had learned to connect well with their audience when on stage.
Jagger said: "The Kings Of Leon at the beginning, they didn't really do that successfully, but everyone has to do it in the end because otherwise it becomes kind of embarrassing, being in a room when you're not really connecting.
"But now they play arenas and they're really good and they're much more forthcoming. They still have their shy moments, but they seem to have cut down."
Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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Oasis
The Gallaghers dominate the top three spots in Xfm’s annual countdown.
You voted in your thousands, the Xfm DJs stuck in their oar, and we counted down the Best British Songs of all time yesterday. Oasis’ ‘Live Forever’ scooped the top spot, with ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ and ‘Wonderwall’ claiming the second and third spots respectively.
A Manc clean-sweep of the top 5 also saw Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ reach number 4 and The Stone Roses’ ‘I Am The Resurrection’ hitting number 5.
What do you think of our Top 100? What have we missed?
What do you think of our Top 100? What have we missed? Take a look at the chart now, send us your suggestions in our competition.
Source: www.xfm.co.uk
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Oasis’ ‘Live Forever’ Crowned Best British Song
The Gallaghers dominate the top three spots in Xfm’s annual countdown.
You voted in your thousands, the Xfm DJs stuck in their oar, and we counted down the Best British Songs of all time yesterday. Oasis’ ‘Live Forever’ scooped the top spot, with ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ and ‘Wonderwall’ claiming the second and third spots respectively.
A Manc clean-sweep of the top 5 also saw Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ reach number 4 and The Stone Roses’ ‘I Am The Resurrection’ hitting number 5.
What do you think of our Top 100? What have we missed?
What do you think of our Top 100? What have we missed? Take a look at the chart now, send us your suggestions in our competition.
Source: www.xfm.co.uk
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Alessandro Del Piero
Oasis
Del Piero talks about Oasis, on the 28th of April 2010.
Thanks to Roberto
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Del Piero On Oasis
Del Piero talks about Oasis, on the 28th of April 2010.
Thanks to Roberto
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Liam Gallagher
Pretty Green
Nice to see the Oasis split has done nothing to dent Liam Gallagher's ego. Taking his Pretty Green fashion range to the States, he boasted: "Some people are born stylish. It's not for me to say whether I was or not - but I was."
Modesty never was his strong point.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
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Liam Gallagher "Some People Are Born Stylish"
Nice to see the Oasis split has done nothing to dent Liam Gallagher's ego. Taking his Pretty Green fashion range to the States, he boasted: "Some people are born stylish. It's not for me to say whether I was or not - but I was."
Modesty never was his strong point.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
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Andy Bell
chris Sharrock
Gem Archer
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Oasis played arguably the best gig of the 'Dig Out Your Soul' tour at the Riverplate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 3rd 2009.
The stadium is Argentina's national football stadium and venue for the 1978 World Cup final.
Also known as 'El Monumental de Nuñez', the iconic stadium is the biggest stadium in Argentina for concerts.
Above are a few videos from the show.
Also on May 3rd 2008, Noel Gallagher was interviewed on the phone for Soccer AM. Click here to watch the video.
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On This Day In Oasis History...
Oasis played arguably the best gig of the 'Dig Out Your Soul' tour at the Riverplate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 3rd 2009.
The stadium is Argentina's national football stadium and venue for the 1978 World Cup final.
Also known as 'El Monumental de Nuñez', the iconic stadium is the biggest stadium in Argentina for concerts.
Above are a few videos from the show.
Also on May 3rd 2008, Noel Gallagher was interviewed on the phone for Soccer AM. Click here to watch the video.
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Bonehead
The Vortex
The Vortex have five songs in the forthcoming movie FREIGHT.
When a Russian gang who run a human trafficking operation bringing hopeful families from Moldavia to Leeds. They cross a local business man and a war breaks out, click here for more details.
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The Vortex Appear On Movie Soundtrack
The Vortex have five songs in the forthcoming movie FREIGHT.
When a Russian gang who run a human trafficking operation bringing hopeful families from Moldavia to Leeds. They cross a local business man and a war breaks out, click here for more details.
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Oasis
Glastonbury festival founder Michael Eavis has revealed Oasis turned him down when he offered the chance to headline last year's event.
The Glastonbury Festival founder revealed the group - who split in August last year when Noel Gallagher left the band following a series of rows with his brother, singer Liam Gallagher- were asked to headline last year's event, but turned him down in favour of playing the double-venued V festival, when they famously cancelled the second of their headlining slots at the last minute.
Michael said: "They've all fallen out now. I offered them a chance last year but they didn't take it. So they did their own shows... and then they all bust up. To give them the opportunity to come back... they shot themselves in the foot Oasis last year didn't they? They should have taken me up on my offer. No-one's ever cancelled on me!"
Michael also revealed that singer Kylie Minogue - who pulled out of a headline spot after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 - will not be invited back to perform at the world-famous event.
He told BANG Showbiz: "Kylie Minogue was going to do it years ago, but then she was ill, we're over Kylie. We've all moved onto different things!"
Michael claims this year's festival - held in Somerset for three days at the end of June - which will be headlined by Stevie Wonder, U2 and Muse, will be a bigger success than ever.
He said: "It's going to be huge, well it's so big isn't it. We've got loads of new bands, like Vampire Weekend. We've got loads of stuff. It's really a fantastic line-up and it's not just the headliners either
Source: www.contactmusic.com
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Last Year Oasis Turned Down Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury festival founder Michael Eavis has revealed Oasis turned him down when he offered the chance to headline last year's event.
The Glastonbury Festival founder revealed the group - who split in August last year when Noel Gallagher left the band following a series of rows with his brother, singer Liam Gallagher- were asked to headline last year's event, but turned him down in favour of playing the double-venued V festival, when they famously cancelled the second of their headlining slots at the last minute.
Michael said: "They've all fallen out now. I offered them a chance last year but they didn't take it. So they did their own shows... and then they all bust up. To give them the opportunity to come back... they shot themselves in the foot Oasis last year didn't they? They should have taken me up on my offer. No-one's ever cancelled on me!"
Michael also revealed that singer Kylie Minogue - who pulled out of a headline spot after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 - will not be invited back to perform at the world-famous event.
He told BANG Showbiz: "Kylie Minogue was going to do it years ago, but then she was ill, we're over Kylie. We've all moved onto different things!"
Michael claims this year's festival - held in Somerset for three days at the end of June - which will be headlined by Stevie Wonder, U2 and Muse, will be a bigger success than ever.
He said: "It's going to be huge, well it's so big isn't it. We've got loads of new bands, like Vampire Weekend. We've got loads of stuff. It's really a fantastic line-up and it's not just the headliners either
Source: www.contactmusic.com
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Alan White
Andy Bell
Gem Archer
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Oasis appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman in New York, on the 2nd of May 2000 and played the classic I Can See A Liar.
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On This Day In Oasis History...
Oasis appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman in New York, on the 2nd of May 2000 and played the classic I Can See A Liar.
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Liam Gallagher
Oasis
This month the poll in the right side menu is for the best Oasis song written by Liam Gallagher.
The choices are
'Little James' from Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
'Songbird' from Heathen Chemistry
'Born On A Different Cloud' from Heathen Chemistry
'Better Man' from Heathen Chemistry
'Love Like a Bomb' from Don't Believe The Truth (co-written with Gem Archer)
'The Meaning Of Soul' from Don't Believe The Truth
'Guess God Thinks I'm Abel' from Don't Believe The Truth
'Won't Let You Down' from Lyla single (B-Side)
'Pass Me Down The Wine' from The Importance Of Being Idle single (B-Side)
'I'm Outta Time' from Dig Out Your Soul
'Ain't Got Nothin' from Dig Out Your Soul
'Soldier On' from Dig Out Your Soul
'Boy With The Blues' from Dig Out Your Soul (Bonus Track)
'I Believe In All' from Dig Out Your Soul (Bonus Track)
The winner of last month's poll for Best Official DVD was 'Lord Dont Slow Me Down' with 33% of the votes.
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What's The Best Oasis Song Written By Liam Gallagher?
This month the poll in the right side menu is for the best Oasis song written by Liam Gallagher.
The choices are
'Little James' from Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
'Songbird' from Heathen Chemistry
'Born On A Different Cloud' from Heathen Chemistry
'Better Man' from Heathen Chemistry
'Love Like a Bomb' from Don't Believe The Truth (co-written with Gem Archer)
'The Meaning Of Soul' from Don't Believe The Truth
'Guess God Thinks I'm Abel' from Don't Believe The Truth
'Won't Let You Down' from Lyla single (B-Side)
'Pass Me Down The Wine' from The Importance Of Being Idle single (B-Side)
'I'm Outta Time' from Dig Out Your Soul
'Ain't Got Nothin' from Dig Out Your Soul
'Soldier On' from Dig Out Your Soul
'Boy With The Blues' from Dig Out Your Soul (Bonus Track)
'I Believe In All' from Dig Out Your Soul (Bonus Track)
The winner of last month's poll for Best Official DVD was 'Lord Dont Slow Me Down' with 33% of the votes.
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Blur
Oasis
Fifteen years ago this summer, two of Britain’s most popular bands engaged in a battle to capture the hearts and the critical plaudits of the nation. Blur and Oasis decided to go head-to-head by releasing their latest singles, “Country House” and “Roll With It” respectively, on the same date. It was a marketing masterstroke, provoking coverage on the national television news, and luring the public into a debate of no little vigour, which is the symptom of a healthy popular culture.
The great chart showdown teased the imagination on a number of levels. There was a pleasing bipolarity to the affair. The fey, southern English college-boy pop of Blur against the raucous northern blasts of Oasis. Artful experimentation versus back-to-basics. Cute irony pitched against a primal scream.
Attempts were made to recall the golden age of British pop music: this was the Beatles versus the Rolling Stones all over again. Unlike the mutually respectful protagonists of that conflict, however, the frontmen of Blur and Oasis really did seem to hate each other, which made perfect sense for our ever-coarsening times, and great copy.
By the end of the summer, Blur were perceived as having won the battle – “Country House” outsold “Roll With It” – but lost the war: Oasis’s subsequent album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory was universally adored, becoming one of the biggest selling British albums of all time and capturing the so-called Britpop moment with its arrogant swagger. It also managed to conquer the US market, the sine qua non of rock superstardom.
Critics, jaded by years of anodyne dance music and electro beats, generally enthused over the triumph of Oasis, overlooking the group’s execrable lyrics and blatantly derivative riffs. The simpleton je-m’en-foutisme of the Gallagher brothers further excited the nation over the next couple of years. Liam Gallagher made a string of ever more outrageous endorsements of the joys of drug-taking; Noel Gallagher found himself in Downing Street, chatting to a new prime minister in thrall to his atavistic charms.
It seems a long time ago. The new prime minister came and went, and the idea that the simultaneous release of two competing singles by “real” bands could provoke a national debate seems quaint. Manufactured pop stars – indeed the very manufacturing of them – are what capture the headlines now. The process has been deemed more thrilling than the end result. Manipulative and trite, the 2010 pop scene is a travesty of a healthy popular culture.
And what of Blur and Oasis? What does our distant perspective tell us of their skirmishes of 15 years ago?
Oasis never relived their moment in the sun. Subsequent albums became repetitive and tired. The band ran out of guitar riffs. The lyrics didn’t get any better. Their bellicose protagonists turned their ire towards each other, playing out their sibling rivalry in the tabloids. At the time of writing, they are not talking to each other. Liam Gallagher has a new group influenced, he says, by T Rex and David Bowie. Oh dear.
As for Blur, they retreated from the battle of the bands and made a series of increasingly complex, brooding works. Their front man, Damon Albarn, branched out. He recorded an album in Mali. He formed a virtual rock band, Gorillaz. And then he set about writing a Chinese circus opera that would be performed at the Royal Opera House. The band recently reformed, to great acclaim.
So there we have it: Blur were the band that moved with the times, while Oasis became imprisoned in theirs. Albarn responded to the world’s cultural changes to become arguably the most interesting British musician of the millennium’s first decade; the Gallagher brothers are still playing Punch and Judy. And yet ask anyone to pick out the soundtrack of those hot summers of the mid-1990s, and they will surely recall those surging Oasis singles. They possessed the quality that pop music confers better than any other art form: the reckless joy of being young and carefree.
Who, finally, won the war? A report by PRS for Music, the royalty-collection society, last year concluded that Oasis had received far more airplay over the years than their rivals. But that is a crude indicator. Truth is, it was never a war at all; more a tribute to the versatility of British culture, which has always managed to reconcile high thinking and low thrashing, lyricism and loutishness, pretensions to everlasting significance with cheerful evanescence.
Forget the battle of the bands: the Blur versus Oasis moment was at least one in which pop music seemed to matter. That in itself is cause for nostalgia, because if we do have a new prime minister this time next week, the pop charts will be far from his mind as he assembles the guest list for his first Downing Street party, and it will be all the poorer for it
Source: www.ft.com
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Who Won The Battle Of The Bands?
Fifteen years ago this summer, two of Britain’s most popular bands engaged in a battle to capture the hearts and the critical plaudits of the nation. Blur and Oasis decided to go head-to-head by releasing their latest singles, “Country House” and “Roll With It” respectively, on the same date. It was a marketing masterstroke, provoking coverage on the national television news, and luring the public into a debate of no little vigour, which is the symptom of a healthy popular culture.
The great chart showdown teased the imagination on a number of levels. There was a pleasing bipolarity to the affair. The fey, southern English college-boy pop of Blur against the raucous northern blasts of Oasis. Artful experimentation versus back-to-basics. Cute irony pitched against a primal scream.
Attempts were made to recall the golden age of British pop music: this was the Beatles versus the Rolling Stones all over again. Unlike the mutually respectful protagonists of that conflict, however, the frontmen of Blur and Oasis really did seem to hate each other, which made perfect sense for our ever-coarsening times, and great copy.
By the end of the summer, Blur were perceived as having won the battle – “Country House” outsold “Roll With It” – but lost the war: Oasis’s subsequent album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory was universally adored, becoming one of the biggest selling British albums of all time and capturing the so-called Britpop moment with its arrogant swagger. It also managed to conquer the US market, the sine qua non of rock superstardom.
Critics, jaded by years of anodyne dance music and electro beats, generally enthused over the triumph of Oasis, overlooking the group’s execrable lyrics and blatantly derivative riffs. The simpleton je-m’en-foutisme of the Gallagher brothers further excited the nation over the next couple of years. Liam Gallagher made a string of ever more outrageous endorsements of the joys of drug-taking; Noel Gallagher found himself in Downing Street, chatting to a new prime minister in thrall to his atavistic charms.
It seems a long time ago. The new prime minister came and went, and the idea that the simultaneous release of two competing singles by “real” bands could provoke a national debate seems quaint. Manufactured pop stars – indeed the very manufacturing of them – are what capture the headlines now. The process has been deemed more thrilling than the end result. Manipulative and trite, the 2010 pop scene is a travesty of a healthy popular culture.
And what of Blur and Oasis? What does our distant perspective tell us of their skirmishes of 15 years ago?
Oasis never relived their moment in the sun. Subsequent albums became repetitive and tired. The band ran out of guitar riffs. The lyrics didn’t get any better. Their bellicose protagonists turned their ire towards each other, playing out their sibling rivalry in the tabloids. At the time of writing, they are not talking to each other. Liam Gallagher has a new group influenced, he says, by T Rex and David Bowie. Oh dear.
As for Blur, they retreated from the battle of the bands and made a series of increasingly complex, brooding works. Their front man, Damon Albarn, branched out. He recorded an album in Mali. He formed a virtual rock band, Gorillaz. And then he set about writing a Chinese circus opera that would be performed at the Royal Opera House. The band recently reformed, to great acclaim.
So there we have it: Blur were the band that moved with the times, while Oasis became imprisoned in theirs. Albarn responded to the world’s cultural changes to become arguably the most interesting British musician of the millennium’s first decade; the Gallagher brothers are still playing Punch and Judy. And yet ask anyone to pick out the soundtrack of those hot summers of the mid-1990s, and they will surely recall those surging Oasis singles. They possessed the quality that pop music confers better than any other art form: the reckless joy of being young and carefree.
Who, finally, won the war? A report by PRS for Music, the royalty-collection society, last year concluded that Oasis had received far more airplay over the years than their rivals. But that is a crude indicator. Truth is, it was never a war at all; more a tribute to the versatility of British culture, which has always managed to reconcile high thinking and low thrashing, lyricism and loutishness, pretensions to everlasting significance with cheerful evanescence.
Forget the battle of the bands: the Blur versus Oasis moment was at least one in which pop music seemed to matter. That in itself is cause for nostalgia, because if we do have a new prime minister this time next week, the pop charts will be far from his mind as he assembles the guest list for his first Downing Street party, and it will be all the poorer for it
Source: www.ft.com
Check out live dates from 'The Vortex', by clicking here.
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