Liam Gallagher's 'Pretty Green' To Trial Retail Via Pop-Up Shop

Pretty Green, the menswear label set up by Liam Gallagher - frontman of rock band Oasis - will open a temporary store this month to test a retail offer before a possible roll-out.

The brand will open the pop-up store, understood to be on London’s Carnaby Street, at the end of the month. The store, which will trade for at least three months, will sell the summer 10 collection, which includes T-shirts, scarves and parkas at prices between £75 and £480. The brand is currently sold via its website and 60 stores including Selfridges and Xile. Wholesale prices range from £25 to £160.

Pretty Green chief executive Richard Ralph said: “Summer is a great time to open the store because of the tourist trade. We’ll take a view [on opening it up for longer] after three months; we’ll see how it goes. It will form the basis of whether we move into retail.”

Pretty Green, established in 2009, is also setting up wholesale distribution in markets such as the US, Italy and Japan. It already has wholesale accounts in Copenhagen and Paris.

Source: www.drapersonline.com

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Noel Gallagher Recording His Solo Album?

Tom Meighan from Kasabian told muzikalia.com during a recent interview that Noel Gallagher is recording his album.

When asked if he still had a good relationship with Noel he said: "Of course, we still have a good friendship, I talked with Noel last week and he's recording his album."

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Oasis played at the Eurokeenes Festival in Belfort, France on July 8th 1995.

Above are a few videos from the show.

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Oasis Break Up Will Be Good For Gallagher Brothers

Oasis’ break-up will give brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher a “new lease of life”, rocker Richard Ashcroft has claimed.

The former Verve frontman – who is close friends with both siblings and played a number gigs with Oasis when both bands were starting out in the early 90s – believes last year’s split will lead the pair into exciting new musical projects.

He told ShortList magazine: “I spoke to Noel a couple of days ago. He’s going to go through similar questions to the ones I went through in 2000. But he wrote the songs in the biggest band of the 90s, so he’s got nothing to worry about. It’ll be a new lease of life for both of them. I’m quite excited about it.”

But Richard – whose band initially split in 2000 before reforming in 2007 and disbanding again in 2009 – has ruled out the possibility of collaborating with either Liam or Noel, and is dismayed by the number of duets currently in the charts.

Asking about whether he’d be interested in recording a track with either Gallagher, he said: “Now you see someone’s album coming out and there are 15 different people on it. The younger generation, like Dizzee Rascal, are getting into ‘Top Trumps’ music – ‘I’m going to Top Trump you with how many guests I’ve got.’ ”

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On This Day In Oasis History...

"D'You Know What I Mean?" is a song by British rock band Oasis. It was the first single from their third album Be Here Now and was released on the 7th July 1997. It reached #1 in the UK singles chart, the 3rd Oasis song to do so. The song was written by Noel Gallagher. It was certified platinum for UK sales.

At the time "D'You Know What I Mean" was released, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and as a result, the single, along with the album, was highly anticipated. Upon its release it was critically and commercially successful.

The guitar chords on both the verse and the chorus are similar to the chords used for the Oasis single "Wonderwall" (F#m7/A/Esus4/Bsus4).

The song also shows more of Noel's influences. References include Bob Dylan ("Blood on the tracks and they must be mine"), and The Beatles ("Fool on the hill and I feel fine"), and even their own earlier work ("Don't look back in Anger "). The song also features a drum loop from N.W.A.

The Morse code in the background translates to include such sayings as "bugger all", "pork pies" and "Strawberry Fields Forever." Oasis haven't performed this song since 2002.

B-Sides

One of the B-sides, "Stay Young", has become a popular Oasis song, so much so that fans voted it onto the B-sides collection The Masterplan - one of only two B-sides from the Be Here Now period which made the album. The song was originally intended to be the "Digsy's Dinner" of Be Here Now (the lighthearted novelty track, such as "Digsy's Dinner" on Definitely Maybe and "She's Electric" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?), until Noel set it aside in favour of "Magic Pie". Gallagher claims not to be particularly fond of the track.

Interview

In a 1997 interview promoting Be Here Now, Noel Gallagher had the following to say about the first single: "I was going to make up some profound statement in the chorus but I couldn't come up with anything that fitted. Then I just thought "All my people right here, right now. D'You Know What I Mean? Yeah, Yeah" Very vague, very ambiguous, that'll do. Look in the mirror and wink while you're singing it and it's quite saucy. And I f***ing love that line, 'Coming in a mess, going out in style'. We were a bunch of scruffs from Manchester and we're going out in a Rolls Royce."

In another 1997 interview, this time on BBC, Noel Gallagher said: "I cant believe I wrote it, it's going to blow people away."

"The morse code in the background was inspired by Strawberry Fields. We got hold of a code book and tried to tap out 'Bugger All' to follow that line 'Don't look back cos you know what you might see'. But if anyone can tell me what we really said, please let me know. Profound lagerisms..."

Seven Ages of Rock

In an interview with the BBC for their documentary Seven Ages of Rock, Gallagher said of the song, "Its eight and a half minutes, the first single, the drums haven't fuckin' come in for two minutes- its all feedback!". He also says that he expected someone to ask them to edit the introduction to the song down, but such was their status in Britain, nobody did. They even performed the song on Top of the Pops, still playing most of the lengthy introduction.

The performance on Top of the Pops ended with a stage invasion by surrounding fans- the second of three stage invasions in the whole history of the show (the first was Nirvana and the last Symposium).

Cover information

The single cover photograph, by Michael Spencer Jones and directed by Brian Cannon of Microdot, was taken in front of the 'Blind Steps', a staircase in Wigan so called because they run past the Blind Workshop, which can be seen to the left of the shot. The steps can still be found on Darlington Street. The shoot was shrouded in secrecy to protect mass media coverage, but newspaper The Wigan Evening Post got exclusive rights to cover the event and subsequently sold the photos to the Daily Mirror. At a lunchtime break, Liam Gallagher and sleeve designer Brian Cannon enjoyed a pint of beer in the nearby Crispin Arms pub by Birkett Bank.

Music video



The music video is filmed at Beckton Gas Works in London with many military helicopters and a strange landscape of concrete slabs and torn down buildings. Liam Gallagher is wearing a snorkel parka and sports a unique pair of sunglasses.

Track listing

CD CRESCD 256
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06
"Angel Child" (demo) - 4:28
"Heroes" - 4:09

7" CRE 256
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06

12" CRE 256T
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06
"Angel Child" (demo) - 4:28

Cassette CRECS 256
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Above is a video from June 6th 2000, Oasis played the Quart Festival in Norway. At the time Noel Gallagher had decided to quit overseas touring with Oasis.

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Ask Liam Gallagher - Richard Price

Ask Liam is back - www.prettygreen.com - Liam is answering your questions via video.

Richard Price - If john Lennon was around today which Oasis song would he most like to sing in your opinion ?

You can ask your own question - either email askliam@prettygreen.com, tweet it adding #askliam, or post it here on youtube as a video question.

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Argies Lost To Oasis

Argentina ace Lionel Messi tried to psych up his team-mates for the World Cup quarter-final by playing Oasis - before they were thumped 4-0.

Messi had the Manchester band's 1994 track Rock And Roll Star blasted out on the team coach stereo on Saturday.

A source said: "He was really keen to hype up the team with this rousing anthem. Unfortunately it didn't produce the desired result."

The South Americans were battered by Germany in South Africa.

Barcelona superstar Messi, 23, was introduced to Oasis's music by team-mate and Man City ace Carlos Tevez. Oasis's Noel Gallagher recorded a TV good luck message for the final. It has now been axed.

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Best Track From Oasis' 'The Masterplan'

This month the poll in the right side menu is for the best best track from 'The Masterplan'.

The Masterplan is a compilation album, comprising B-sides which never made it onto an album.

The album was originally intended for release only in areas such as the United States and Japan, where the tracks were only available on expensive European import singles.

It was first released in late 1998. The Masterplan reached #2 in the UK where it went platinum, and #51 in the United States. However, it did gain top spot in various charts around the world, going on to sell 2 million copies. Four songs from the album appear on compilation album Stop the Clocks.

The choices are

01: "Acquiesce"
02: "Underneath The Sky"
03: "Talk Tonight"
04: "Going Nowhere"
05: "Fade Away"
06: "The Swamp Song"
07: "I Am The Walrus (Live)"
08: "Listen Up"
09: "Rockin' Chair"
10: "Half The World Away"
11: "(Its Good) To Be Free"
12: "Stay Young"
13: "Headshrinker"
14: "The Masterplan"

The winner of last months poll to find the best number 1 single from the band, was 'Don't Look Back In Anger' with 43% of the votes.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

"Sunday Morning Call" is a song by British rock band Oasis taken from their fourth studio album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, and was released as the third and final single from it on 3 July 2000, peaking at #4 in the UK charts. The song is written and sung by Noel Gallagher, who took over lead vocal from brother Liam Gallagher on an A-side for the first time since "Don't Look Back in Anger" in 1996.

Though the song has the same anthemic feel that popularised many Oasis songs, and departs from the psychedelic feel of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, which had been poorly received by critics, it received a mixed critical reception. NME described it as "a dreary thing indeed", whereas Allmusic described it as a "self-consciously mature departure from the group's usual ebullience... a deliberately mellow, mid-tempo [song]".



The music video is a take on the Jack Nicholson film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with characters resembling McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. It was filmed in an old mental institution in Vancouver, Canada and features Scottish actor James Cunningham, who has previously starred in the original play of Trainspotting. Unlike the film, the video begins with the McMurphy character escaping his home and giving chase to the authorities, and ends in a football match. While the inmates celebrate a victory, Oasis are seen watching from the asylum window, and Noel Gallagher makes a 'wanker' hand gesture at Cunningham.

Although unconfirmed, there was widespread speculation at the time that the song was inspired by Noel's friend Kate Moss.

To date this is the only Oasis single on which Liam Gallagher does not provide vocals on any of the songs.

Track listing

CD RKIDSCD 004
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
"Full On" - 4:16

7" RKID 004
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00

12" RKID 004T
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
"Full On" - 4:16

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Win Some Pretty Green Prizes

The World Cup has now entered the quarter finals, and we have made some changes to our First Goal game to allow more of our members to play. The first and most obvious change is you now select the exact minute rather than a block of 10 minutes. Yes, this does make it MUCH harder to win, however we have also got a new selection of prizes to give away so well worth a try, and make sure you get all your mates playing on World Cup Final day as the prizes will be our prestigious Camo Parkas! Enjoy.

Select minute when you think that team will score first. You can only place 1 guess each day. Results will be posted within 24 hours so check back often. If all minutes are gray then all guesses have been used up, come back tomorrow!

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FAO Liam Gallagher: A Guide To Making An Oasis Biopic

If Gallagher is serious about making a film about Oasis, here are some pitfalls he would do well to avoid.

Despite explicitly telling Xan Brooks a month ago that he wouldn't follow up his Beatles film with any movies about "unkempt eyebrows", it looks as though Liam Gallagher has already caved in. In an interview on his clothing label's website, Gallagher has admitted that he'd like to make an Oasis biopic "very soon".

And, at least in theory, there's nothing wrong with that. But the music biopic is a genre fraught with unimaginable peril. One wrong move and Gallagher could end up with an epic turkey on his hands. Better that he should simply follow this set of firmly defined rules to avoid repeating the mistakes of previous biopics. Don't worry, Liam. They're idiot-proof ...

1. Cast appropriately

Remember the moral of Kevin Spacey's Beyond the Sea. If the film is about a man who shot to fame at the age of 22 before dying at 37, don't cast a 45-year-old. And, if you do cast a 45-year-old, don't try to mask it by constructing a bizarre meta-narrative where a younger version of the character sporadically appears to berate the actor for being too old. In short, Peter O'Toole probably shouldn't play Bonehead.

2. Avoid lyric-speak

For some reason, music biopics seem to delight in showing dialogue that will later turn up as the lyrics to a song, from Reese Witherspoon's "It burns! It burns!" breakdown in Walk the Line to the moment where the Beach Boys clumsily shoehorn the entire chorus of Fun, Fun, Fun into an awkward street-corner conversation during Summer Dreams. So basically there should be no pre-fame scenes where Noel walks down a hall fairly slowly while realising that he paradoxically appears to be travelling faster than a cannonball.

3. Drugs are bad

Even if it never happened in real life, the Oasis biopic needs to contain a sequence – around two thirds of the way in – where the band's drug use gives way to harrowing, near-death addiction. Only then can the band pull themselves together in time for their triumphant phoenix-like, final-act rebirth, which, in the case of Oasis, would be the moderately disappointing chart placing of their final single Falling Down.

4. Someone needs to die

Sorry to have to point this out, but if Liam Gallagher wants the Oasis film to do any business at all, then one of Oasis needs to die before it gets released. Death is why Ray won an Oscar, and why Walk the Line won an Oscar, and why people loved everything from The Doors to Sid & Nancy to Control. Guigsy might be wise to lock himself indoors for the next 18 months or so.

5. Don't get involved

Liam might be the one with all the stories, but he should remember that no good ever came from handing creative control to anyone who was actually there. Last year's Notorious is a perfect example of this – if you wondered why Notorious BIG's mother and Sean Combs came out of it looking particularly squeaky clean, it's because they were producers. And if, when Scorsese's Frank Sinatra biopic is finally released, you wonder why Sinatra's dark side has been completely whitewashed out, you'd do well to remember the creative control afforded to his daughter. If people want to see Liam Gallagher behaving like an arsehole – which they will – he should quickly learn not to meddle.

6. Be nothing like Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys

Without question the worst music biopic that's ever been created. Badly cast, badly written and guilty of committing every single biopic crime in the book – plus it features Charles Manson in a lady's wig! – Gallagher should watch this film in its entirety and take extensive notes. Or, alternatively, decide not to make an Oasis biopic at all.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On July 2nd 2005 Oasis played the second of three nights at the City Of Manchester Stadium, above are a few videos from the show.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Heathen Chemistry is the fifth studio album by English rock band Oasis, first released on July 1st 2002. It sold over 1 million copies in the UK, ending up in the top ten best selling albums of 2002, and about 4 million worldwide as of 2005.

Heathen Chemistry was received more warmly than the previous Oasis album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, by both fans and critics alike. It spawned four singles, each of which made the top three in the UK charts: "The Hindu Times", their sixth number one single in the UK, "Stop Crying Your Heart Out", a song made famous as it was played on the BBC when the English football team were knocked out of the World Cup, the Double A-Side, sung by Noel — "Little By Little/She Is Love" — and "Songbird", the first single written by Liam.

This album was the last one to feature the band's longtime drummer, Alan White, who left in early 2004, with Noel Gallagher claiming White's commitment to the band wasn't up to scratch. He was effectively replaced with Ringo Starr's son, Zak Starkey.

Album History

The title of the album, according to Noel, came from a t-shirt he bought in Ibiza which featured a logo reading, "The Society of Heathen Chemists". Similarly, the name of the first single, "The Hindu Times", originated from a logo on a t-shirt that read the same thing, which Noel saw during a photo shoot for GQ's 100 Greatest Guitarists edition. The name was given to the track when it was just an instrumental, as all the instrumentals of this album were given actual titles as opposed to "Instrumental 1", etc., and the name stuck once the track was finished.

The album was recorded during 2001–early 2002, and was the first studio album written and recorded with the two new members, bassist Andy Bell and rhythm guitarist Gem Archer. Bell and Archer wrote one track each, and Liam Gallagher contributed three, thus the album signalled the end of Noel Gallagher songs dominating Oasis albums (though Liam had contributed "Little James" to Standing on the Shoulder of Giants).

The release of the album was overshadowed by an internet leak of all 11 tracks almost three months prior to release. However, listeners of the commercially released album heard slight differences to two tracks, "Little By Little" and "Better Man".

Music Videos









Track listing

01: "The Hindu Times"
02: "Force Of Nature"
03: "Hung In A Bad Place"
04: "Stop Crying Your Heart Out"
05: "Songbird"
06: "Little By Little"
07: "A Quick Peep"
08: "(Probably) All In the Mind"
09: "She Is Love"
10: "Born On A Different Cloud"
11: "Better Man"

Release Date: 1 July 2002

Highest Chart Position: No 1 in the UK

Written By: Tracks 1,2,4,6,8,9 by Noel Gallagher. Tracks 5,10,11 written by Liam Gallagher. Track 3 written by Gem Archer. Track 7 written by Andy Bell Creations Songs Ltd/ Warner Chappell Music Ltd.

Produced By: Oasis

Recorded At: Wheeler End and Olympic Studios, England.

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Liam Gallagher To Open Flagship Pretty Green Store In London

Liam Gallagher's 'Pretty Green' will soon be opening it's first store in London.

Speaking in a interview earlier this year with live4ever.uk.com Liam said: "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. 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, a lot of people are buying from out there.

And definitely New York, if you do one in Tokyo, you got to do one in New York, yeah?"

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Another Picture Of Beady Eye In The Studio

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Lionel Messi: I’ll Score Goal For Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher has a good reason to watch the Germany v Argentina World Cup clash on Saturday - because one of the world's best footballers will be playing with him in mind.

Lionel Messi has vowed to beat the German squad for the sake of his favourite band Oasis.

The striker said: "If they love England as much as they do Manchester City, you can tell them from me I will do everything I can to defeat the team who knocked their beloved England out of the Cup."

Messi has been listening to Oasis tunes on his iPod before games in South Africa.

The Barcelona forward would like to meet the Gallagher brothers after his Cup duties.

He added: "Maybe we can all watch a game at Manchester City."

Ah, but he'll have to schedule in two City games as the siblings still aren't talking.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Ask Liam Gallagher - Derek Adams

Today's Ask Liam from Derek Adams.

Whats the inspiration for Beady Eye?

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On June 30th 1994, Oasis made their debut on 'Top Of The Pops' performing 'Shakermaker'.

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The Oasis WOWee ONE was created to celebrate the release of Time Flies... 1994-2009, the complete singles collection celebrating the work of Oasis from start to finish, which is released on June 14.

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