Win Tickets To The Pretty Green Club Night

Pretty Green are giving away the chance to Win Two Ticket's to the Pretty Green Event Night being held in London on Friday 26th November. Exclusive to our Fans and Followers the competition is open now and closes on Thursday 18th November. So get your entries in quick!

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Beady Eye Teaser Video

Beady Eye released their first piece of music - 'Bring The Light' - through their website on Wednesday. If you haven't picked it up yet, you can get it for free here: www.beadyeyemusic.com.

You will be able to see the full video soon...

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On This Day In Oasis History

Familiar to Millions is a live album by Oasis from their July 21, 2000 concert at Wembley Stadium and was released on 13th November 2000. Familiar to Millions debuted at a respectable #5 in the UK charts with 57,000 copies sold in the first week. To date Familiar to Millions has sold around 310,000 copies in Britain alone (Platinum) and has estimated world sales of 1 million. The album was initially released simultaneously on six formats: DVD, VHS, Double CD, Double Cassette, Triple Vinyl and MiniDisc.

Track listing
All tracks written by Noel Gallagher, except where noted. Times are taken from the Double CD edition of the album.

Fuckin' In The Bushes (intro tape) – 3:04
Go Let It Out – 5:32
Who Feels Love? – 5:59
Supersonic – 4:30
Shakermaker – 5:13
Acquiesce – 4:18
Step Out (Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/Moy) – 4:05
Gas Panic! – 8:01
Roll With It – 4:43
Stand By Me – 5:49
Wonderwall – 4:46
Cigarettes & Alcohol – 6:52
Don't Look Back in Anger – 5:27
Live Forever – 5:09
Hey Hey, My My (Young) – 3:45
Champagne Supernova – 6:32
Rock 'N' Roll Star – 7:26

Video Version (DVD / VHS)

As well as the whole show the DVD features the following:

45 minute documentary shot in and around Wembley by Grant Gee including backstage interviews and fans footage.

Multicamera angles on the track "Cigarettes & Alcohol".

Live screen films for "Go Let It Out", "Supersonic", "Live Forever" and "Rock 'n' Roll Star".

Complete Discography (inc. international releases) with audio clips and artwork.

Stunning Dolby 5.0 stereo sound.

CDRom element - links to an exclusive page on the Oasis website with as-yet unseen photos and Songplayer module where fans can teach themselves to play 'Live Forever'.

'Tambourine' icon - click it and it takes you to and from the documentary in real time. A first for a non-film release.

The VHS features the whole show and a 20 minute documentary (entitled 'Mad Fer It') featuring exclusive interviews with Liam and Noel Gallagher. This documentary is unique to the VHS format.

Audio Version (CD / Vinyl / Cassette / MiniDisc)

The CD features a extra bonus track, a cover of The Beatles' song "Helter Skelter", which was recorded at the Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, USA on April 16, 2000.

A highlights CD was released on October 1, 2001 to celebrate Oasis' tenth anniversary as a band. "Fuckin' In The Bushes", "Step Out", "Stand By Me", "Hey Hey My My", and "Helter Skelter" were all ommitted.

As Liam didn't bother to sing the choruses of "Wonderwall" and also changed the words to other parts of the song ("By now you should have somehow... realised not to sniff glue" / "And all the lights that light the way are... doin' me fuckin' 'ead in!") at the July 21 gig, the version on the various audio formats features a different vocal track to the original one recorded at Wembley. This also applies to Noel's backing vocals. Most of these overdubbed vocals were recorded live at Oasis' gig at the Yokohama Arena, Tokyo, on March 5, 2000. Only one line: "I'm sure you heard it all before, but you never really had a doubt", is from the actual Wembley gig, as Liam slightly messed up this line in the Tokyo performance.

The audio version of the album is also missing various bits of between-track banter.

Other Trivia

A promo video of the Wembley version of "Gas Panic!" was distributed to music channels. The video featured visuals from throughout the gig and was slightly edited down to 6:57.

A "Gas Panic!" promo CD was issued in Brazil to promote Oasis' appearance at the Rock In Rio festival on January 14, 2001. The 2-track CD included the album version and an edited version of the Wembley track, which was edited down to 4:28.

The live album came about after the chaotic Wembley gig of July 22, 2000. This concert was being broadcast live to dozens of countries across the world but was hampered by an extremely drunk Liam Gallagher, whose out-of-tune singing and general ranting made it into an unappealing showcase of Oasis' live capabilities in the eyes of Sony BMG, who were worried about a large number of bootleg recordings being distributed.

Each of the six different formats (plus the 2001 highlights CD) had a different colour for its own cover art.

Noel Gallagher was interviewed on the Frank Skinner Show on the same day as the albums release watch part one here and part two here.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Stop The Clocks is an EP by British rock band Oasis and was released on November 13th 2006.

The EP is a "preview" of the band's compilation collection, also called Stop the Clocks. The EP is led by "Acquiesce", and book-ended by "The Masterplan", one of the B-sides to the "Wonderwall" single released in October 1995. Also included on the EP is the demo of "Cigarettes & Alcohol" and a live version of "Some Might Say" from 1995.

The EP does not contain the song of the same name, and is available only as a one-off collectors edition CD and Double gatefold 7” including an exclusive sheet of stickers. As there are over two B-sides, the EP was not be eligible for inclusion in the UK Singles Chart. Had it been eligible it would have charted at #5 with 20,858 copies sold.





Track listing

CD RKIDSCD 37, 2 X 7" RKID 37

"Acquiesce" – 4:29
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" (demo) - 4:38
"Some Might Say" (live in '95, venue unknown) - 5:15
"The Masterplan" – 5:22
The EP's notes say that the location of the live recording of "Some Might Say" is unknown. However, analysis of bootlegs have shown that the location was the Club Citta in Tokyo, Japan on 22nd August, 1995.

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Michael Spencer Jones Talks Oasis

We recently brought you an exclusive Q&A with Brian Cannon, who designed some of Oasis’ most memorable sleeve designs and this month, Michael Spencer Jones, the man behind the lens of those iconic shots has discussed some of his favourite pieces which are now available in a limited edition 198 page box set. As much as Oasis were influenced by the music of the likes of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, Michael was equally inspired by their artwork. Both parties created something completely unique whilst referencing these bands and many others like them and the result was a perfect symmetry between music and artwork on records still considered the most defining of their era.

After starting out working in advertising, assisting renowned photographer Stak Aivaloitis on some of the iconic Benson Hedges campaigns, Michael Spencer Jones turned his attentions to Rock ‘N’ Roll. Against the flow of industry traffic to London, Michael moved to Manchester, working with bands such as The Verve and The Stone Roses, earning one of his first commissions shooting the latter’s legendary performance at Spike Island. Two years later in 1992, Michael was introduced to Oasis and over the next 5 years would be on hand to capture their ‘golden years’ as they made their ascent to becoming one of the biggest bands in the world.

The new portfolio boxset features hand signed photographs of all the Oasis artwork created by Michael in his time working with the band. Strictly limited to only 250 copies, the set recollects the group’s history from the early stages of the group to the peak of their popularity.




















Supersonic

The shot was taken at Monnow Valley studios in Wales where they had started recording Definitely Maybe. The idea was to have a cluttered studio environment with amps and cables strewn everywhere. Liam was only 21 at the time and already looked like a fully formed rock star so I decided to have him at the front of the shot.

I thought it would be a nice twist if I had my tungsten lights in view, the idea being to put Oasis firmly in the ‘spotlight’ for their debut single. I cross-processed the film which gives the shot its bluey tint.




















Shakermaker

The cover was a dali-esque type concept. I’ve always really been into the surrealists such as Magritte and Dali and I liked the idea that hard objects can take the form of soft ones. The idea was that if you played Oasis music loud enough the contents of your room would melt.

The shot was taken in the corner of my apartment in Manchester which had become an improvised studio. I went around all the junk shops in Manchester buying various plastic objects which I then melted on my front porch with an industrial blow torch not too dissimilar from a World War 2 flame thrower! It was really funny seeing the reaction of my neighbours, they just couldn’t figure out what was going off.


















Live Forever

When it came to do the photography for Live Forever nobody had any ideas on what was to go on the cover. My first thoughts were that it should feature a scene from everyday life; people walking in a street, or a group of people standing at a bus shelter in the rain maybe; something ordinary. This process of ‘writers block’ went on for several weeks until the band asked me if I had anything in my archive which would be appropriate.

I remembered a photograph that I'd taken a few years earlier of John Lennon’s childhood home in Liverpool that had an ethereal and mysterious quality. The photograph seemed to work on two levels: firstly it was a picture of an ordinary suburban semi which reflected some of the song's lyrical content and secondly when you considered that the greatest artist of the 20th century had grown up in the house the picture took on a far more powerful quality. Noel loved the picture and the sentiment behind it as soon as he saw it. So in many ways it was one of the easiest covers I worked on because the picture had already been taken.




















Definitely Maybe

The initial idea for Definitely Maybe came from the back cover to A Collection of Beatles Oldies which was a group photograph of The Beatles gathered round a small table in a Japanese hotel room. Oasis had decided that a similar group photograph should be taken in Bonehead’s front living room. I’d already heard the album many times and knew that it was a great challenge to create an image suitable for the cover. I was therefore horrified when I went to recce the room and saw how small and uninspiring the room was.

The band had assumed that I would take the photograph looking into the room with the bay window as a source of illumination – in other words the opposite direction to how it finally appeared on the cover. To me the bay window was the most interesting feature of the room and so I decided to take the unusual step of shooting into the light of the bay window. I then lit the room accordingly to avoid the band appearing as silhouettes.

The size of the room was made to look bigger by using a wide angle lens but this created a problem with the floor. The stripped flooring (which I believe Bonehead had done himself) had been transformed into this huge ‘desert’ expanse which overwhelmed and dominated the shot. The empty space and what to do with it became a real problem. A week before the shoot I had visited the Egyptology section at The Manchester Science Museum and as a result, the whole notion of lying in a preserved state and the way the Egyptians honoured and represented their past kings was very much fresh in my mind. The idea then occurred to me to have Liam lying outstretched and motionless on the floor with his head towards the camera and with his eyes closed; a rock icon ‘lying in a state’ or indeed some other transcendental state but not of this world.

This would create a first for an album cover but more importantly would solve my problem of what to do with the empty space and the stripped flooring. On the face of it asking the lead singer to adopt this pose for his debut album cover was a bizarre request and so I was relieved when Liam agreed to do it. I know many other singers who would have refused. This along with the spinning globe was the catalyst to the whole shot. Definitely Maybe has to be one of the best covers I did for Oasis and I know the band themselves were really pleased with it.




















Cigarettes & Alcohol

I shot the sleeve to Cigarettes & Alcohol at the Halcyon Hotel in London which was a favourite haunt of actors and musicians. The band had just returned from a controversial visit to Sweden where they had been given a ‘free lift’ back to the airport by the Swedish authorities after a number of reported incidents. When they arrived at the hotel they were in very high spirits.

The idea was basically to do a rock’n’roll type scene which mirrored the elements in the song. It was a great and memorable evening; Noel did an impromptu acoustic set for those of us still left in the room in the early hours. There were numerous complaints from the other residents and a four figure room service bill! Tim Abbott is the guy at the front of the shot who had been one of the directors at Creation Records. I shot it on fast grainy b/w film and later hand toned the image blue.




















Whatever

The original plan was to shoot the sleeve in the vast open spaces of the Arizona desert. Noel had wanted a vast landscape to evoke a sense of freedom. It was a very simple brief and was to be a relatively straight forward shot. I flew out to the states to photograph the band but after only a few days in Los Angeles the band had the infamous fall-out at the Whisky-a -go-go and Noel disappeared.

At the time it was very serious because the US tour had to be called off and for a while Noel was on the missing persons list. I went back to the UK feeling really disappointed but after two weeks news came through that Oasis had patched things up and the release was still to go ahead. Noel suggested doing the shot in Salisbury Plain but in the end I took the photograph on the Derbyshire moors close to where I had grown up in Sheffield.




















Some Might Say

This shot was basically a visual interpretation of the lyrics. Noel had wanted to have the photograph set at a working train station but I thought it would make for a more interesting and surreal shot if the station was disused with a set of characters waiting for a train that would never arrive.

The platform could act as the stage. I must have spent 2 weeks reccying the shot all around England, in the end a neighbour who I had been chatting to about the shot suggested Cromford station near Matlock in Derbyshire. I checked it out and it was the ideal location. I shot it on black and white film and spent a week or so hand painting the photograph with watercolours and a brush to create more of a surrealist effect.




















Roll With It

The original idea came from a dream that Noel had where he saw hundreds of TV’s floating down a river. This idea developed to TV’s in the sea and then TV’s on the beach. As Alan White, their new drummer, had just joined the band it was decided the cover would be a band shot so it became the band watching TV’s on the beach. They had wanted to wear Duffel coats which I thought was a nice visual pun and very much Oasis.

The shot which I wanted on the cover was the one that went onto the CD disc itself which in my opinion was a far better shot than the one that appeared on the sleeve. In the end record company messed up with the barcodes and initial sales were not registered thus affecting its chart position, furthermore and quite astonishingly, a batch of CD’s were pressed and distributed with the wrong music on! The pressing plant had put some obscure reggae artist onto the Oasis CD by mistake and so instead of hearing ‘Roll With It’ you heard African reggae music.

I can remember playing my copy and thinking ‘hang about, this doesn’t sound like Oasis’. I’m not quite sure how many copies were pressed like this but I’m sure they’re now highly collectable.




















(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?

Noel had described the recent music Oasis had been recording as riot music, and so that was taken as a green light to develop concepts about rioting and anarchy. So early on in the creative process there were one or two discussions about a Molotov cocktail featuring in some way on the cover, however that theme was quickly shelved when we heard tracks like Wonderwall and Cast No Shadow.

After many meetings about the artwork and what was to feature on the cover, it was finally agreed that we would have an early morning street scene with two men walking towards each other. I wanted the shot to be ambiguous and without any moral perspective. Unlike film, the power of the still image comes from its inherent weakness to portray the truth or to tell a narrative; we don’t know if the characters know each other, whether they are good or bad, friendly or hostile, whether they are going to stop and talk to each other or who they are?

It’s a brief narrative rooted in a very ambiguous moment and is for those reasons one of my favourite Oasis covers.




















Wonderwall

I had originally shot Liam for the front cover of Wonderwall in Primrose Hill, London but Noel had accidentally stumbled across us doing the shoot on his way to Creation Records. I can remember a bloke jumping out of a black cab and yelling at us through the railings of the park. I thought it was an Oasis fan heckling us so I ignored all the shouting and continued with the shoot.

The shouting continued so I finally decided to go and tell this bloke to leave us alone and then realized to my astonishment that the bloke was in fact Noel Gallagher. He explained that Wonderwall was ‘a f**king love song!’ and that no way was ‘our kid’ appearing on the cover. The shoot was quickly aborted and in the end I re-shot it the following day with a girl from Creation Records called Anita Heyert. I used the same black and white infra-red effect on this cover as I did on Live Forever.





















Don’t Look Back In Anger

For the cover of Don’t Look Back In Anger Noel had decided to pay homage to an incident which had happened at Abbey Road studios in 1968. It was inspired by a story about Ringo Starr walking out on the Beatles because he felt that he was not wanted. He was eventually persuaded to come back into the band and on his return George Martin, the Beatles producer, had decided to deck his entire drum kit out in flowers as a statement of love and gratitude. Noel thought this sentiment would make an interesting idea for a cover and so suggested we had the bands equipment covered in thousands of red, white and blue flowers, the colours of the Union Jack.

It was originally going to be an overhead shot and I had a scaffolding tower erected but I then decided to shoot it at eye level so that the bass drum with its Union Jack swirl could feature more prominently in the shot. The white piano was a reference to John Lennon. I had Creation Records import 5,000 carnations, of those 3,500 were white and of those 3,500, half were dyed blue as blue carnations do not grow naturally. A real privilege to have done this cover as it is one of the greatest pop songs ever.




















D’You Know What I Mean?

I shot the cover to D’you Know What I Mean? in an alleyway in Wigan, Lancashire next to a boxing club. An extremely difficult shoot to execute simply because of the number of people involved. Initially there was no shape to the photograph, and the band melted into the crowd and almost became invisible. The light was also very poor which did not help matters.

The photograph eventually came together when I positioned a young woman holding her baby alongside a girl in her school blazer in front of the band. This seemed to give the shot the extra depth and shape it needed. The sun briefly came out and I knew this would be the shot that would end up on the cover. The single, although not political, was released just prior to the 1997 general election. After 18 years of Conservative government there was definitely a sense that this was a rallying call for change. It certainly went through my mind when I was taking the shot. It turned out to be one of my favourite photographs of the band.




















Be Here Now

Originally the cover was to feature 4 separate photos each with a separate band member. To overcome the mathematical problem that there were five people in the band Liam would have a cameo presence in all of the shots. Noel wanted to be photographed up a tree playing guitar, Alan White in some east end pub, Guigsy on a beach in St. Lucia and Bonehead wanted to be photographed relaxing by a swimming pool at night with a rolls Royce submerged in it as an homage to Keith Moon. However, concerns grew that 4 separate images on a CD cover would have little impact and the idea was dropped.

All was not lost as it became apparent that of all the ideas put forward by the band Bonehead’s idea of a Rolls Royce in a swimming pool was by far the best. Many locations were considered including Clivedon where the Profumo scandal of the 1960’s had taken place. Eventually Stocks Hotel in Hertfordshire, the former home to the Playboy magnate, Victor Lowness was chosen as it had a swimming pool directly in front of the house. The shoot was fraught with difficulties. Firstly, Stocks Hotel was a hotel open to the public and as word got out the hotel came under siege. Secondly far too much alcohol was consumed on set and so by evening time the shoot had become chaotic, also one of the generators blew. In the end a shot from the daytime session was chosen although the shots I took at the night-time session are very interesting.




















All Around The World


With any conceptual photograph there is always an initial idea or trigger which forms the basis for the inspiration. With All Around The World the initial inspiration came from a photograph taken from the top of a beach side hotel in Florida where Beatles fans had communicated with their idols above by writing messages to them in the sand.

To write the song title in the sand was an obvious development for the cover, it also fitted in with the global sentiment of the song. People have been writing messages in the sand for centuries and so for me I saw the beach as a global messaging board or forum where anybody could come along and post a message, in retrospect like a Stone Age version of twitter.

However, conceptual ideas don’t always work visually and the problem with this shot was that there was nothing of substance to give the photograph depth or shape. At this point I decided that it was vital to have the sea featured in some way in the shot. It would also add to the notion that the message was transitory and that at some point the message would be washed away by an incoming wave. In the end it was myself who wrote the message in the sand by using a stick.

The positioning was vital, too close to the sea and the sea would wash it away and too far away and it would not be possible to have both the message and the sea in shot at the same time. I took the shot from the top of an extended hydraulic arm attached to a fire engine which was in a fixed position on the beach front (in Bournemouth, England). There was only one stretch of beach so the positioning of the lettering had to be right first time. It would not be possible to rub it out and start again as this would have disturbed the appearance of the sand.

When I was taking the picture I was struck by the way the sea entered the frame at the top of the picture, this was very reminiscent of beer overflowing down the side of a glass and this to me makes the shot.

For more details on the limited edition box set and to see a number of rare images visit www.spellboundpublications.com and Michael's own site www.michaelspencerjones.com.

You can download a PDF of the 'Out Of The Blue' brochure by clicking here, here or here.

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Sonny's Shining For Noel Gallagher

Having kids has turned one time hell-raiser Noel Gallagher into a big softy.

The ex-Oasis rocker, 43, shunned a night on the lash in Manchester for a quiet time chatting about six-week-old son Sonny.

We’re told: “Noel paid for his lad mates to travel first class from London to Manchester for a Man City game.

“On top of a private box at Maine Road, he paid for them to stay at five-star Radisson Edwardian hotel.

“They had a quiet meal and a few drinks at the bar.

“Noel was telling them about his new son, saying he couldn’t wait to get back home to him.”

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher Debut Album Set For Summer 2011 Release?

It was reported by the Daily Star yesterday that Noel Gallagher's solo album will appear before the 2011 summer festivals.

This goes against what Noel told BBC News in September he said "I'm moving house and my missus is nine months pregnant so I'm not doing anything until well into next year."I'll be doing nappies and all that malarkey."

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Andy Bell Set For Guerilla Art Exhibition

Art Mosh is set to hit London on November 25th, with a series of pop up exhibitions.

Hosted by Nixon, Art Mosh is a new guerilla art exhibition which has been travelling across the world. Previous events have taken place in Paris and New York with Nixon set to bring Art Mosh to London.

A strictly one off event, Art Mosh takes place on November 25th. The exhibition will pop up at the A Foundation in Shoreditch, a former Victorian school converted into an imposing gallery in the heart of the contemporary art world.

Launched in 2007, Art Mosh finally comes to London - one of the truly vital centres of modern European art. Featuring an abundance of talent, the one day event will host a series of exhibitions.

Emerging British artist Richie Culver will be exhibiting with high profile London based illustrator Sophie Stevens, launching his new project 'Monsters'. A gruesome children's game with a twist, the exhibition features body parts crafted by Eliot Sumner of I Blame Coco and Robbie Furze of The Big Pink, amongst others.

Elsewhere, Tomomi Sayuda’s interactive installation, ‘iBum 100’ is a contemporary, tongue in cheek reinterpretation of Yoko Ono’s “Film Number 4 (Bottoms)” while Dublin born film maker Niall O'Brien brings a series of new and previously unseen prints to London.

Art Mosh brings together exciting new talent with some hugely respected artists, in a one day celebration of creativity. The London event will include music from Liam Bailey, former Oasis guitarist Andy Bell and house don Ashley Beedle.

Elsewhere, London based producer J Saintil will appear, while Jamie Skillz of MonoChrome will put down his paintbrush just long enough to fire up the turntables.

Brought to you by Nixon, Art Mosh takes place in A Foundation, London on November 25th.

RSVP HERE.

Source: www.clashmusic.com

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Win £200 To Spend On Pretty Green

One man that you can guarantee was watching the Manchester Derby at Eastlands in the Premier League last night as Manchester City and Manchester United drew a blank is former Oasis front man and massive City fan Liam Gallagher. Liam has set up a clothing label that many Premiership footballers would be proud to wear and we’re giving you a chance to sample it for yourself as you can win a £200 shopping spree at Pretty Green’s new Carnaby Street Store!

Football FanCast have teamed up with Liam Gallagher’s clothing label, Pretty Green, to offer one lucky reader the chance of a £200 shopping spree at the recently opened Carnaby Street store. Pretty Green is a British clothing label founded and designed by Liam Gallagher. There are two distinct collections:

Green Label is a focused, casual range dedicated to providing quality, everyday signature pieces.

Black Label is classic British tailoring, using fine fabrics with an innovative attention to detail.

To enter the prize draw simply answers the following question:

What is Liam’s new band called?

A – Big Brother

B – Beady Eye

C – Tailgunner

Email your answer to competitions@footballfancast.com to be in with a chance of winning this fantastic prize!

Source: www.footballfancast.com

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Alan McGee Berates Fans For Criticising Beady Eye's 'Bring The Light'

'How can you judge them on one tune?' says former label boss

Alan McGee has hit out at fans for posting negative reviews of Beady Eye's first song 'Bring The Light' online.

Reviews of Liam Gallagher's band's track have been posted on NME.COM since its release yesterday (November 10), with some saying they were disappointed with the debut.

McGee, who signed Oasis to his Creation label in 1993, said people should not judge the band on just one song and declared that there was little doubt that Beady Eye would prove to be a great band.

"I was on the internet this morning, everybody's judging the band on one tune," he told NME. "How can you do that? Let's hear the album."

He added: "It's a fucking free download. It's too early to fucking say. Think of the talent in that band: Gem [Archer], [Chris] Sharrock, Liam Gallagher, the best frontman there's ever fucking been! And Andy Bell, one of the best guitarists up there with [Jimmy] Page. How can that be a bad band?"

Beady Eye's debut album is expected to be released next year. 'Bring The Light' is available as a free download now.

Source: www.nme.com

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Free Download From Beady Eye Available Now

Beady Eye's 'Bring The Light' is NOW available as a free download worldwide to their fans from their website www.beadyeyemusic.com.

It's the first track to be heard from their debut album, the album has been recorded over the summer in London and will be released next year.

A strictly limited 7" vinyl of 'Bring The Light' is also NOW available for fans to purchase.

It will only be available through the Beady Eye website and comes with 'Sons Of The Stage' on the B-side. To pre-order the 7" click HERE.

On This Day In Oasis History...

On November 10th 2008, Oasis played at the Bataclan in Paris France.

Above are a number of videos from the show.

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Alan McGee On Oasis

Former Creation label boss Alan McGee says Oasis will reform "in four or five years".

Alan McGee, who founded the Creation record label and signed Oasis, says he thinks the band will get together again, despite last year's acrimonious split.

“Yeah, in about three or four or five years time, they will," he told BBC 6 Music. "I'm pretty sure."

Guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher quit Oasis last August, announcing: "People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."

At the time, McGee called the brothers' bust-up "the worst fall-out that they've ever had".

Now, he says, "I think they'll make up".

"I mean, they’re brothers. Its like, I’ve fallen out with my sister before and we’re best mates now. Why are brothers gonna be any different?"

McGee, who semi-retired from the music industry two years ago, also revealed he had heard Noel Gallagher's heavily anticipated solo material.

“I’ve got Noel's demos," he said. "Noel's demos are absolutely amazing. Totally amazing.

"He’s got three tunes there that are as good as anything - as Live Forever or Don't Look Back In Anger.

"The reason that guy is quiet is he knows what he's got up his sleeve."

Liam Gallagher has also been recording material with his band, Beady Eye - which features former Oasis musicians Gem Archer and Andy Bell.

The band have announced they will release a single, Bring The Light, as a free download on their official website tomorrow (10 November).

McGee said he had not yet heard Liam's new songs, which were recorded with U2 producer Steve Lilywhite.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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Free Beady Eye Download And New Single Presale!

Beady Eye will be making available 'Bring The Light', the first track to be heard from their debut album, as a free download worldwide to their fans on Wednesday 10th November from 10am (GMT) from their website www.beadyeyemusic.com

The album was recorded over the past summer in London and will be released next year. A strictly limited 7" vinyl of 'Bring The Light' will also be available for fans to purchase.

It will only be available through the Beady Eye website and comes with 'Sons Of The Stage' on the B-side. To pre-order the 7" click HERE from 10am on Wednesday!

Don't forget, get your download from 10am (GMT) on Wednesday 10th from www.beadyeyemusic.com

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Vote For Liam Gallagher As The Best-Dressed Man

The gallery ranks Liam Gallagher alongside style mavericks such as David Beckham, Mark Ronson and Bryan Ferry, allowing users to vote, Tweet and Facebook about the men who they feel are most stylish.

To vote for Liam click here.

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Win A Black Denim Long Western Jacket From Pretty Green

Here is your chance to win the very sought after Black Denim Long Western Jacket from Liam Gallagher's Pretty Green collection.

Have a closer look at the jacket here.

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Noel Gallagher: 'I'm Not Going To Haye v Harrison, I Only Do Vegas'

Noel Gallagher joins the lads again the discuss the Manchester derby, boxing, trannys and saving money on fireworks.

Click here to listen to the interview.

Oasis Feature On Christmas Album

Warner Bros. Records' 2009 digital holiday album Gift Wrapped: 20 Songs That Keep on Giving was such a smashing success that the label has created a new collection for this year's holiday season. Gift Wrapped II: Snowed In, which features 11 brand-new recordings and five highly coveted and previously unavailable tracks, will be released digitally during Thanksgiving week. Extra-special bonus content will also be announced soon. Furthermore, a limited-edition two-LP vinyl pressing will be available as a gift only from surprise locations, and not available for sale.

The album features Oasis' cover of Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody."

Look out for exclusively sequenced Gift Wrapped CDs at Hot Topic (Gift Wrapped: Stocking Stuffer) and at independent music retailers (Gift Wrapped: A Change In Season) on November 22nd, 2010.

Click here for the full track-listing.

The Oasis 'Excess All Areas' Podcast

Iain Lee takes a sideways look at the lives, loves and lifestyles of the Gallagher Brothers.

Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds.

To listen again or to download the podcast click here.

Liam Gallagher Is Hooked On Strictly Come Dancing

Prancing Ann Widdecombe was last night revealed to have an unlikely fan - Oasis wildman Liam Gallagher.

The Roll With It rocker, 38, shuns the pub to stay in on Saturday nights glued to telly's Strictly Come Dancing.

Hellraiser Liam grudgingly decided to tune in to the BBC1 show's new series when it started in September - because ex-wife Patsy Kensit, 42, is in it.

Now he is hooked and never misses seeing larger-than-life Ann, 63 - the former Tory MP whose ballroom antics have seen ratings soar.

A pal of Liam's current wife Nicole Appleton, 35, confirmed his idea of heaven on a Saturday night is ordering a takeaway then settling down for a cosy night in front of the telly - starting with an eyeful of waltzing Widdecombe.

Next up is The X Factor, followed by Piers Morgan's Life Stories.

The friend said: "Liam's wild days are behind him - he likes the TV on a Saturday night. It suits him to stay in with the missus.

Sometimes they have pals round, sometimes it's just the family, but they always watch Strictly."

Liam - who has a son Gene, nine, with Nicole - still cannot bring himself to phone up and join in the voting on the show.

But he is not the only high-profile convert to Strictly.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is also a fan - as is Prime Minister David Cameron.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk