Oasis Fan Katy Perry

Katy Perry has revealed that she is a fan of Oasis.

The 'California Gurls' singer - who got engaged to comedian Russell Brand in India on New Year's Eve (31.12.09) following a whirlwind romance - admits she loves the defunct rock bands work, even if she doesn't know all of their records yet.

Russell is a close friend of Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher, which Katy admits has influenced her taste in music.

She said: "I've met Noel Gallagher a few times but we haven't been in London a lot recently. I'm a big fan of Oasis, though I don't know the catalogue front to back."

The British funnyman has even been keeping his fiancee up-to-date on the controversial rockers' long running feud with rival band Blur so she didn't embarrass herself in front of either Noel or his estranged brother Liam Gallagher.

She explained to Q magazine: "Russell schooled me on that whole battle between Oasis and the Blur, so at least I wasn't going to make a faux pas there."

The American beauty also revealed she loves the different accents British rockers have- even when they are swearing.

She said: "They're like different dialects, but when you check it out, they're all just cursing a lot but basically saying the same thing."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

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Liam Promises 'No Oasis Reunion' As He Launches London Store

For those of you that could not view the video on sky.com.

Rock star Liam Gallagher has branched out - into the fashion world. The former Oasis singer has launched his own clothing range in London's Carnaby Street. But, as he told Sky's Entertainment Correspondent Steve Hargrave, he's also working on a new album AND a book!

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Liam Gallagher Launches Clothes Shop

Liam Gallagher launched his own clothes shop on London's famous Carnaby Street.

The former Oasis frontman opened the branch of Pretty Green with his wife Nicole Appleton and sister-in-law Natalie.

And he couldn't resist striking the odd pose for the invited snappers - and planting a smacker on his missus Nic.

Liam's also bent the ear of Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones, who popped in with Gem Archer and Andy Bell, Liam's Beady Eye bandmates.

But other invited pals, who already have suitcases of the clobber, sent their apologies.

Kasabian are on tour, Joe Cole's in Liverpool and Spurs' David Bentley was banned by his gaffer Harry Redknapp.

Until now the threads were only available online.

I'm sure the tourists will go mad fer it.

Click here to see the pictures.

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Lionel Messi Forms Oasis Tribute Band

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi has formed an Oasis tribute band - and is taking them on a secret European tour.

The Argentinian World Player Of The Year has revealed he performs as guitarist Noel Gallagher.

Hitman Messi, 23, has also recruited a Barcelona team-mate to play singer Liam - but won't say who it is yet.

He said: "Our disguise is based on how Oasis looked in the mid-90s. We have our wigs, clothes and glasses sorted.

"I also spent a lot of time getting the mannerisms right."

Messi says his band will tour soon - and says he's invited Noel to see them play.

He said: "We'll visit the UK. If you're at a pub or club where we are performing and see past our disguises there'll be a decent prize in it for you."

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Liam Gallagher Launches Pretty Green Store

"The main thing is to try to get our own little store, our own little shop out here at some point…we're looking at a place in London.”

Pretty Green is now just over a year old. An idea that started as a means to produce custom desert boots has now evolved into a two storey boutique in the heart of London’s West End. The store accommodates floor to ceiling artwork featuring label figurehead Liam Gallagher. The shots overlook the new Black and Green Label Spring/Summer 2010 collections as well as exclusive one off Pretty Green pieces. These include custom ‘Carnaby Street’ T-shirts, desert boots and jeans, which will be available for the first time. The Autumn/Winter 2010 collection will be presented both online and in store in August.

“Everything’s important. Pretty Green, the whole package, it’s the real deal... I’m proud of it.”

There could have only been one home for Pretty Green’s first flagship store; Carnaby Street. Under the stewardship of fashion legend John Stephen, Carnaby Street styled a generation of British youth in the 60’s, creating an image and lifestyle still devoted to by people all over the world. Not simply a tourist spot, Carnaby Street is home to some of the leading high street brands and in 2010 celebrated 50 years as a focal point for fashion, culture and arts in the Capital. Despite having only an online presence until this month, endorsements from leading figures in the world of music, sport, fashion and Hollywood have firmly placed the label in the top rungs of the high end fashion market, and established the label as a central body in men’s fashion, selling to over 80 countries in its first year.

“I’m liking the way it’s expanding...it’s been great and people seem to like it.”

So at number 57 in the south corner of Carnaby Street, sits Pretty Green’s new pop-up store. The ground floor and basement of the 2,000 square foot building displays both the Green and Black Label collections featuring all the major pieces available online. The newest edition to Pretty Green is a range of jeans only available in store with desert boots set to go on sale in August. Upstairs there is a show room for Industry buyers which currently previews the Spring/Summer 2011 collection. On the ground floor customers will find t-shirts, knitwear, jackets, shirts and jeans whilst the larger items such as parkas (both the ivory and camo parkas are on sale) can be found downstairs along with hats, scarves and other accessories. Large prints of Liam hang on the minimalist white walls which haven’t been altered since the space belonged to St Martin’s College or Art and Design, so it feels a bit like an art gallery with a cash register. One point of interest for fans will be the soundtrack; all the music played in-store has been mixed by Andy Bell.

It’s the first time that fans have been able to see the extensive Pretty Green collection which up until now has only been available in select stores. It also provides another point of call for ‘Oasis tourists’ in London. Clothes and music have always been interchangeable and for Liam, and both areas have run together seamlessly during the last year. Liam has travelled to Tokyo, Milan and New York promoting the label as well as preparing a debut album with new band Beady Eye. The new store draws parallels with The Beatles opening the Apple boutique in 1967, and fittingly, Liam will also be involved with turning the memoirs of Apple ‘house hippy’ Richard Di Lello into a film as announced this year.

“We’ve only just started”

Pretty Green: Carnaby Street opens at 57, Carnaby Street, London on Friday 30th July 2010 at 11:00am. The rest of 2010 will see Liam concentrate on Beady Eye with a new single expected before the year end. If the bricks and mortar store is as successful as the online version, Liam has spoken of opening others, rumoured to be in Glasgow, Manchester, Tokyo and New York.

Thanks to Pretty Green for arranging the viewing, a number of HQ images can be found here.

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Liam Gallagher Says There Will Be No Oasis Reunion

Liam Gallagher has told Sky News his new band's album will be the "the best record you'll hear for the next 50 years".

The former Oasis star made the bold claim at the launch of the first store dedicated to his best-selling clothing range Pretty Green, in London's famous fashion-mecca Carnaby Street.

"Everything we do isn't a flash in the pan otherwise there's no point in doing it," Gallagher told Sky News.

"I'm not here to sell papers or get a little headline, but if we're gonna do something we are gonna do it proper, whether it's music, film, clothes, drink or whatever it is. We don't fart about."

Liam's new band Beady Eye - which features his Oasis bandmates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock - have been hard at work on their debut album.

All the songs have been recorded now, but it will still be some time before they are unveiled to the fans.

"It's not gonna be out until next year, " Liam explained.

"We'll probably get a single out October or November, and there's no point in doing gigs if people haven't heard the music. I'm looking forward to it."

Liam says Beady Eye will have a similar Beatles vibe to Oasis, but he is also been heavily influenced by T-Rex, and bizarrely notorious rock 'n' roller Jerry Lee Lewis.

"Without a doubt!" Liam shouts when I mention Lewis' name.

"We have this tune and it was a bit Rolling Stonesy, and I didn't like it. It was slow and boring.

"So we just got on a piano and ****** it up, Jerry Lee style, and stuck a John Lennon vocal on the top. It's good."

Some sneery critics might have been cynical when Liam announced he was launching his own fashion label, but its been a massive success.

The Carnaby Street store is currently just a temporary Pop-up, meaning it will not live forever of course.

Although if it's a success, more permanent dedicated Pretty Green stores will be opened in the capital, as well as Manchester, of course, and Scotland.

Meanwhile, Gallagher's mate Paul Weller is just about to help co-develop some new designs, which seems apt as the name Pretty Green comes from a Jam song.

Liam is also keen to move into women's clothing, though not in a literal sense of course.
"I have my fair share of women's clothes on the weekend," he laughs, "it's nothing new for me. But yeah, we might do a few bits and pieces.

"We're definitely doing some kids stuff man. I'd like to get my kid looking as cool as me. And maybe our Kid (his brother Noel) could get some cos he's a little fella isn't he."

Actually before the mention of Noel, it is easy to forget Liam's former band given how many other projects he is involved in right now.

But do not go thinking they are about to 'do a Take That' and get back together soon.
"We won't be back by the end of the year," Gallagher laughs.

"The only reason why Oasis will come back is when we're ****** skint and I'm far from skint as you can tell and I wont be skint for a long, long ****** time believe me, it ain't gonna be happening."

So there is no Oasis reunion then, but Noel is getting to indulge his Beatles obsession in another way by entering the world of movie-making.

He has been helping produce a new feature film based on the book The Longest Cocktail Party, which told the story of the rise and decline of the Fab Four's company Apple Corps in the late 1960s.

He will not act in it, but will help make the soundtrack, and by all accounts, it is a labour of real love.

"It's a good book and we can't balls it up now so the heat is on," says Liam.

"I'm more worried about getting that book right than getting the clothes right, and my record right. I'm not gonna be in the film but I'm worried about getting it right cos it's other people's lives."

Click here to watch bits of the interview with Liam.

Source: www.sky.com

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Win Some Pretty Green Clothing

Former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has launched his own clothing line at a store in London's Carnaby Street.

Now you can win items from his Pretty Green label in a Sky News Online competition.
The line has proved critics wrong and is selling out around the world.

Five Sky News Online winners will get a huge signed print of Liam and a jacket from the line's current season.

One lucky winner will also get a jacket from Pretty Green's next collection which as not yet gone on sale to the public.

All entrants need to do is answer the following question:

Liam Gallagher named his clothing line Pretty Green after a song by one of his favourite bands, which band was it?

Click here for details to enter.

Source: www.sky.com

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Liam Gallagher Opens Pretty Green Store In London

Liam Gallagher pictured with Wesley Fleet and Neil Eatock who won tickets for the Pretty Green launch reception, that took place earlier this evening.

Click here for some pictures from Getty Images.

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Pretty Green Carnaby Invitation And More

We would like to cordially invite you to preview the store at 11.00am tomorrow, Friday 30th July. We will be open to the general public at 12pm.

The Pretty Green denim collection will be available exclusively in store for the next week, as well as a selection of exclusive one off Pretty Green pieces and the Green Label and Black Label Spring Summer 2010 collections.

Make sure you get there for 11 so you don’t miss out, the doors will be open for the general public at 12pm.

Email from Pretty Green

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Carlos Tevez Met Noel Gallagher When Naked

Manchester City star Carlos Tevez has revealed he met his No 1 fan Noel Gallagher while naked.

The former Oasis guitarist, 43, was invited into the Argentina dressing room after a World Cup game in South Africa.

Noel, who has joked he will name his next kid after the striker, came in as he stepped out of the shower.

Tevez, 26, said: "I went outside with everything out to look for a towel - and in front of me was Gallagher. So I went to greet him, naked."

They shook hands and talked about footie before Tev covered up.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Above are a few videos from July 27th 2001, when Oasis played at the Sky Naeba Resort in Fuji, Japan.

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Win Exclusive Oasis 'Dig Out Your Soul' Prizes

Big Brother Recordings have kindly given us 20 swag bags of 'Dig Out Your Soul' gear. Each prize consists of:

- 'Dig Out Your Soul' tote bag
- 'Dig Out Your Soul' playing cards
- 12" of 'The Shock Of The Lightning'
- 12" of 'I'm Outta Time'
- Oasis logo badge
- Oasis T-Shirt

To be in with the chance of winning one of these bundles go to the Competitions page HERE!

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Pretty Green To Open Carnaby Store

Liam Gallagher's 'Pretty Green' will open it's first store on Carnaby Street on Friday 30th July. The store will be selling a selection of exclusive one off Pretty Green pieces in addition to showcasing the Green Label and Black Label Spring Summer 2010 collections.

The collection, founded and designed by Liam, draws its inspiration from the art, music and culture scene of the 1960s, so Carnaby Street is the perfect location for the brand's first store. Pretty Green is renowned for the attention to detail with an emphasis on quality fabrics, cut and classic tailoring. Demand for the SS10 collections have been high - form an orderly queue behind us!

The new store will be housed over two floors and even feature a Lambretta Li 150 Series 3 replica scooter and panoramic image of Liam on Brighton beach.

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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"

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The Vortex UK And European Dates

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

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On July 26th 2009, Noel Gallagher was interviwed backstage at the Jisan Valley Rock Festival in South Korea for MTV Korea.

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Bobby Gillespie Joined By Friends From Sex Pistols And Oasis

Bobby Gillespie unveiled his garage rock supergroup The Silver Machine for a one-off show at London's 1234 Festival tonight (July 24).

As promised, the Primal Scream frontman teamed up with Sex Pistols founder Glen Matlock, sometime Oasis drummer Zak Starkey along with regular bandmates Andrew Innes and Barrie Cadogan for a historic covers show at the festival in Shoreditch Park.

Canadian punks Fucked Up were the main stage headliners, but for most of the evening, all eyes were on the new band who, for apparently one night only covered a selection of favourite tracks by The MC5, The Troggs, Creation and The Flaming Groovies.

Nostalgia was a surprising theme of the east London hipster bash, with Peter Hook once again repeating his 'solo' version of seminal Joy Division album 'Unknown Pleasures'. The bass player, currently estranged from the surviving members of the original line-up, played with a band of Mancunians which featured Happy Mondays diva Rowetta on guest vocals.

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Oasis Night On Sky Arts

Next Friday (JULY 30th) Sky Arts are having an Oasis night.

Sky Arts 1 – Channel 256 (UK ONLY)
Sky Arts 1 HD – Channel 258 (UK ONLY)

Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 2 are available as part of the Style & Culture Mix on Sky.

Oasis Live At The City Of Manchester Stadium
9pm on Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 1 HD
80 mins.

Oasis blast out 16 classic tracks in their Don’t Believe the Truth –tour homecoming gig.

Hailed as a triumphant return to the form of their first two seminal albums, Don’t Believe The Truth was Oasis’ 6th studio album. The album went on to win two Q Awards and included some of Oasis’ best loved songs, such as The Importance of Being Idle, Lyla and Let There Be Love.

In Oasis Live At The City of Manchester Stadium, the band perform not only songs from Don’t Believe The Truth but also a selection of fan’s favourites, like Wonderwall and Don’t Look Back in Anger.

Oasis Standing At The Edge Of Noise
10:20pm on Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 1 HD
60 mins.

Known for their rock ’n’ roll antics, huge stadium concerts and turbulent personal affairs, Standing On The Edge of Noise is a unique and intimate look at Oasis as they perform to a handful of fans in their rehearsal studio.

Preparing for their 2008/2009 tour Dig Out Your Soul, the band invited fans to join them for the final night of rehearsals before they hit the road. Over 10,000 fans applied in only 24 hours, and the very lucky 100 who got a place were treated to a very special performance.

Track list:
01. Rock 'n' Roll Star Intro
02. The Shock Of The Lightning
03. To Be Where There's Life
04. Waiting For The Rapture
05. Songbird
06. Slide Away
07. Ain't Got Nothin'
08. The Importance Of Being Idle
09. I'm Outta Time
10. Supersonic
11. Don't Look Back In Anger
12. Falling Down

Oasis: The Dave Fanning Interview
11:20pm on Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 1 HD
55 mins

Oasis: The Gallagher brothers pioneered the cool Britannia revolution with their indie rock anthems and carefree attitude. Noel discusses their music and careers with Dave Fanning.

Interview conducted in 2008.

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Things Are Getting Messi For Noel Gallagher

Lionel Messi has invited Bizarre lord Noel Gallagher to see him play in El Classico - the Barcelona-Real Madrid derby.

Bizarre revealed Oasis were the inspiration for pre-match preparations in the Argentina dressing-room during the World Cup in South Africa.

Now the Barcelona and Argentina star Messi, probably the world's best player, hopes to return the favour by getting Oasis guitar legend and Man City fan Noel over to Barcelona's Nou Camp stadium.

He said: "Maybe Noel could give the boys a live set after training and they could see how great Oasis are.

"At the moment they refuse to listen to anything other than Kasabian.

"We could also go for an Argentinean steak at this great South American restaurant in Barcelona. And if my plan works, it will mean Oasis being played in the world's greatest football club - after Man City, of course!"

There are some footie clashes all fans would love to go to - Boca Juniors v River Plate in Argentina, The Old Firm derby in Glasgow and Liverpool v Everton on Merseyside.

But the real big one? The Mc Classico Edinburgh derby between Hibs and Hearts, on November 6 at Easter Road.

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Questions For Brian Cannon

I'm gathering some questions, for a forthcoming interview with Brian Cannon. If you have any questions you would like to be ask please send them into scyhodotcom@gmail.com.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with the name, Brian Cannon was the art director for all Oasis work from Definitely Maybe right through to The Masterplan.

Noel Gallagher approached Brian Cannon after seeing the work he had done for The Verve.

Brian formed Microdot after finishing University they were responsible not only for Oasis sleeve imagery in the 1990’s but also a wide range of promotional and merchandise material.

Two of Cannon's record sleeve designs—Definitely Maybe (#14) and The Verve's "This Is Music" (#79) — featured in Q magazine's "The Hundred Best Record Covers Of All Time" list published in 2001.

Brian has also designed record sleeves for Ash, Ruthless Rap Assassins, Suede and Super Furry Animals and more.

See some examples of Brian's work including some rare Oasis pictures visit www.microdotcreative.co.uk

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