Interview With Former Oasis Drummer Tony McCarroll

Click here to watch an interview with the original Oasis drummer Tony McCarroll, who talks to TalkSport about his time in the band and his book, 'Oasis: The Truth'.

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Beady Eye Will Be Strictly New Songs Only

Liam Gallagher assures us new band Beady Eye is totally, definitely absolutely nothing at all like old band Oasis. When he goes on tour next year with Andy Bell Chris Sharrock and Gem Archer it will be strictly new songs only.

Gem told Q magazine: "There will be no Oasis songs either, if you were going to ask." The six-date tour begins on March 3 in Glasgow, before London and Manchester. Glad they cleared that up.

Source: Mirror.co.uk

It's been reported by abconcerts.be that the band's debut album will be in stores on 28th February 2011.

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Beady Eye 'Sons Of The Stage' Sneak Peak

Sneak Preview at Beady Eye's New 7" Inch B Side : 'Sons Of The Stage'

Listen to the full version here.

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Beady Eye Announce Debut Italian Show

Beady Eye have just announced details of their debut show in Italy also taking place in March 2011.

WEDNESDAY 16TH MARCH - ALCATRAZ, MILAN, ITALY.
Tickets on sale Friday 26th November, 10:00am local time from:
www.livenation.it/event/22321/beady-eye-tickets?c=beady-eye-official-site
Tel: +39 0253006501

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Beady Eye Debut Show In Belgium

Beady Eye have just announced details of their debut show in Belgium next March.

TUESDAY 22ND MARCH - ANCIENNE BELGIQUE, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.
Tickets on sale Friday 26th November, 11:00am local time from:
www.abconcerts.be
Tel : +32 548 24 24

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Beady Eye Announce European Dates

Beady Eye are thrilled to announce details of their debut shows in France, Germany, Spain and Holland in March 2011.

The band (Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock) will be giving fans a first live taste of their premiere album when they play in March next year. The shows are proving to be one of the most hotly anticipated live debuts of 2011.

SHOW DETAILS:

SUNDAY 13TH MARCH - CASINO DE PARIS, PARIS, FRANCE.
Tickets on sale Friday 26th November 11:00am local time from:
www.fnacspectacles.com - ph.: 0 892 683 622 (0,34€/min) / international calls : +33 1 41 57 32 28
www.ticketnet.fr - ph.: 0 892 390 100 (0,34€/min) / international calls : +33 1 46 91 57 57
www.digitick.com
www.alias-production.fr

MONDAY 14TH MARCH - LIVE MUSIC HALL, KOLN, GERMANY.
Tickets on sale Friday 26th November, 10:00am local time from:
www.eventim.de
Tel: +49 1805 570000

FRIDAY 18TH MARCH - LA RIVIERA, MADRID, SPAIN.
Tickets on sale Friday 26th November, 10:00am local time from:
www.livenation.es
www.ticketmaster.es
www.servicaixa.com

MONDAY 21ST MARCH - PARADISO, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND.
Tickets on sale Friday 26th November 10:00am local time from:
www.ticketservice.nl
Tel: 0900 3001250

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Beady Eye Announce Live UK Dates

Beady Eye are thrilled to announce details of their first live UK shows in March 2011.

After releasing their first piece of music - which NME termed an 'event release, the likes of which we haven't seen in aeons' - the band (Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock) will be giving fans a first live taste of their premiere album in a series of concerts in Glasgow, Manchester & London in March next year, which is proving to be one of the most hotly anticipated live debuts the UK has ever seen.

Supplemented by Matt Jones on keyboards and Jeff Wootton on bass, the group will be performing the following dates:

Thursday 3rd March - Glasgow Barrowland (0844 811 0051)
Friday 4th March - Glasgow Barrowland (0844 811 0051)

Sunday 6th March - Manchester O2 Apollo (08444 777 677)
Monday 7th March - Manchester O2 Apollo (08444 777 677)

Wednesday 9th March - London Troxy (0844 811 0051)
Thursday 10th March - London Troxy (0844 811 0051)

Tickets go on sale at 10am Friday 26th November available through www.beadyeyemusic.com or by phone through the box office numbers supplied.

Buy Online at: www.beadyeyemusic.com

24hr credit card hotline: 0844 811 0051 / 0844 826 2826
Maximum 4 tickets per applicant.

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

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Extra Tickets Available For The Pretty Green Club Night

A limited number of tickets to the Pretty Green Club Night on Friday 26th November are still on sale.

Featuring live DJ's Andy Bell, Paul Gallagher, Eddie Piller, Jamie Skillz and performing live are Exit Calm.

Tickets are £12.50 each, click here for tickets.

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Noel Gallagher And Serge Pizzorno To Do The FA Cup Third Round Draw On Sunday

Noel Gallagher and Serge Pizzorno of Kasabian, will be at Wembley on Sunday to do the draw for the 3rd round draw of the FA Cup.

Sunday 28th November at 6PM (UK TIME) on ITV and online at www.thefa.com

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Kasabian Star To DJ In Pretty Green Store In London

Tom Meighan is the lead vocalist of Kasabian, recently voted 'The Best Act In The World' at the 2010 Q Awards. Their recent album 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum' entered the UK Album Chart at #1, giving the band their second #1 album.

Tom will be playing an exclusive DJ set in the Pretty Green store, Carnaby Street on Friday 26th November, starting at 16:00pm

Source: www.prettygreen.com

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Vinyl Countdown To Liam Gallager’s Clothing Gig

Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher has picked an up-and-coming Cardiff band to play at the glitzy London launch of his new clothing label.

The Broken Vinyl Club were stunned to get the call to say the notorious Brit-pop bad boy had personally requested them to play at the club night for Pretty Green.

They took the request from Gallagher in disbelief, saying that it was weeks before reality sank in.

Band frontman Scott Howells said the four-piece, who have only been together 18 months, had been inspired by Oasis. He said: “Oasis were one of the bands that made me want to be in a band.”

They will play a set at the Relentless Garage in London on Friday in front of a celebrity crowd. “We’re working really hard because obviously we want to get it right in front of so many influential people,” Scott added.

Liam heard the band’s first single, I Want You Girl, after Merthyr-born actor and musician Jon Owen passed it on to contacts in the music industry.

Music teacher Scott, 30, said he and his colleagues, who live in Cardiff and Aberdare, were amazed to get the call.

He said: “It didn’t sink in for about a week-and-a-half, we didn’t really believe it was true.”

But now he and band mates Meirion Townsend, Justin Beynon and Jamie Taylor are preparing for their biggest show yet.

“Hopefully the nerves will pass by the end of the second song,” Scott said.

“We’ve been going for 18 months as this band but we’ve never done anything as big as this.”

Gallagher’s Pretty Green clothing label makes designer wear and was founded by the Oasis lead singer.

Source: www.walesonline.co.uk

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Take That Fail To Beat Oasis' Sales Record

Take That's new album Progress has topped the UK chart, achieving the biggest opening week sales of any record for 13 years.

The Official Charts Company said it sold almost 520,000 albums - more than the rest of the top 10 put together.

It is the band's first album since reuniting with Robbie Williams.

The last album to exceed sales of 500,000 copies was Oasis's Be Here Now, which sold 663,000 in its first chart week in 1997.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Above is a video of Oasis playing at the Nulle Part Ailleurs in France, on November 22nd 1995.

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Win A Black Bomber Jacket From Pretty Green

Here is your chance to win the very sought after Black Bomber Jacket (Lime Trim) from Liam Gallagher's 'Pretty Green' collection.

Have a closer look at the jacket here.

Pretty Green take on the American Bomber Jacket. The black lightweight jacket features a stylish shallow collar, fitted macrocuffs, military style marco fastenings and two front zipper pockets. The jacket has reinforced elbows and is finished with chest badge and trim in vibrant lime creating a cool contemporary Bomber..

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What are the two colours of the jeans available from www.prettygreen.com?

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The competition ends at Midnight GMT on the 30th November 2010.
The winner will be picked at random on the 1st December 2010.

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Liam Gallagher At The 2010 Drapers Awards VIDEO

Click here to watch a interview Drapers’ Marie Davies chats to guests including Liam Gallagher (Around 50 sec in), Harrods’ Marigay McKee, Mark Bage from independent Sarah Coggles and Fearne Cotton at the 2010 Drapers Awards.

Thanks to Ruchin

On This Day In Oasis History...

Stop the Clocks is an album by British rock band Oasis made up of Oasis' favourite songs and moments of their career so far and was released on November 20 2006. “Unlike most albums of this nature, Oasis have sat down and undertaken the almost impossible job of picking what they consider to be their finest moments ever. So 'Stop The Clocks' is imbued with the sort of willfulness that has helped make Oasis the favourite band of millions of people worldwide and its running order will no doubt provoke equal parts adulation and bar discussions from the millions of Oasis fans worldwide. Could it ever be any other way?” . It released in November 2006. The "retrospective collection" is an 18-track double album with the featured songs chosen by Noel Gallagher. It went 3x platinum in the UK with sales as good as any album there since Be Here Now.

The album has come about due to the end of Oasis' recording contract with Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Noel Gallagher has gone on record before on numerous occasions saying that Oasis wouldn't release a greatest hits album unless the band were about to split up. However, in an interview with news.com.au in December 2005, he hinted that Sony were planning to release one anyway, and that despite his misgivings, he would have to get involved with it otherwise it'd be "shit". This was clarified in September 2006, when he told the NME that when he made it clear to Sony that the band were not going to re-sign to them, the record label decided to release a greatest hits album. Gallagher then explained that he insisted that it had to be a 'best-of' because he felt a compilation of the best singles, album tracks and b-sides would produce a stronger album than a compilation of singles.

To address some fans' concerns that the release of a greatest hits album was a sign that the band were about to finish, based on some of Noel Gallagher's previous comments, the press release for the album confirmed that they are merely taking "a well earned sabbatical prior to starting work on new material, destined for similar levels of success in the future. As such, this is not a full stop, but merely a time out; a dream set list, and a chance for the world to review the immense contribution that Oasis have made and continue to make to rock 'n' roll."

To celebrate the release of the album, the band will be unveiling their first full-length film - Lord Don't Slow Me Down, shot during the Don't Believe the Truth world tour, from May 2005 to March 2006, the film was shown in November 2006 around the world in selected picture houses, theatres and cinemas to winners of fans competitions and the press. It was also broadcasted on Channel 4 in the UK.

The album debuted at #2 in the UK charts selling over 50,000 copies in its first day of release and 216,000 in its first week of release, surprisingly not selling enough to knock off the top spot to The Love Album, by the boy-band Westlife. It also debuted at #89 on the U.S. Billboard 200, starting with 18,000 units sold. It did however enter the Japanese Oricon album charts at #1, selling 87,462 copies in its first week.

In Japan, a box set was also released of all their singles to coincide with the album.

The Songs

Stop the Clocks focuses heavily on the band's most popular albums, Definitely Maybe and (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, with each contributing five tracks, plus four B-sides (also included on the band's other compilation album The Masterplan) from this era. Only two tracks appear from Don't Believe the Truth, and one track each from Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and Heathen Chemistry, whilst Be Here Now is overlooked completely.

When the release of Stop the Clocks was first announced in July 2006, speculation was rife that the unreleased song of the same name would be included on the record as a bonus track. However, Noel Gallagher told fans at a Q&A session that the song was considered for inclusion, but they weren't happy with any of the many versions they have recorded.

Gallagher also confirmed that the title was chosen to sum up what was described in the initial press release as being "merely a time out; a chance for the world to review the immense contribution that Oasis have made and continue to make to rock 'n' roll." Noel Gallagher revealed in an interview in April 2005 that 'Stop the Clocks' was the original title for the band's early recorded material in early 2004, which turned eventually into Don't Believe the Truth.

Gallagher revealed to Billboard that he was approached about including some new songs on the album as well, but that he opted not to "because it takes the focus away from what you're actually trying to say with a retrospective."

Gallagher told the NME in September 2006 that he picked the tracks on the album, and there were about eight songs that "should be on there, but aren't". He explained that his original vision was for a 12-track album on one CD, but, after whittling down from an initial 30+ tracks, the track-listing was finalised. He admitted that he's had arguments with people about the tracklisting but that "someone has to pick the tracklisting, and I've picked it and that's the end of it. But that must mean we're pretty good, if people are arguing about what's not on it, it's brilliant!"

During an interview on Radio 1 in October 2006, and later during a question and answer session with The Sun, Liam Gallagher, who got a songwriting credit with his "Songbird", claimed that he was happy with the tracks Noel had selected for the album, although he said that he would have liked "Rockin' Chair" and "D'You Know What I Mean?" to be included. Noel, however, admitted that "D'You Know What I Mean?" was to be included on the album up until the moment it was being mastered, explaining that the length of the song "upset the flow of the album".

In the special boxed-edition of 'Stop the Clocks' at the end of the 'Lock the Box' interview, when Liam was told 'Whatever' was not on the track-listing he said "Thank fuck for that".

Track listing

All songs written by Noel Gallagher except "Songbird", written by Liam Gallagher

Disc one
"Rock 'n' Roll Star" (from Definitely Maybe)
"Some Might Say" (from (What's the Story) Morning Glory?)
"Talk Tonight" (from The Masterplan)
"Lyla" (from Don't Believe the Truth)
"The Importance of Being Idle" (from Don't Believe the Truth)
"Wonderwall" (from (What's the Story) Morning Glory?)
"Slide Away" (from Definitely Maybe)
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" (from Definitely Maybe)
"The Masterplan" (from The Masterplan)

Disc two
"Live Forever" (from Definitely Maybe)
"Acquiesce" (from The Masterplan)
"Supersonic" (from Definitely Maybe)
"Half the World Away" (from The Masterplan)
"Go Let It Out" (from Standing on the Shoulder of Giants)
"Songbird" (from Heathen Chemistry)
"Morning Glory" (from (What's the Story) Morning Glory?)
"Champagne Supernova" (from (What's the Story) Morning Glory?)
"Don't Look Back in Anger" (from (What's the Story) Morning Glory?)

Cover

The cover was designed by Sir Peter Blake, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but also well recognized within the genre for his work on the cover of Paul Weller's Stanley Road album.

According to Blake, he chose all of the objects in the picture at random, but the sleeves of Sgt. Pepper's and Definitely Maybe were in the back of his mind. He claims, "It's using the mystery of Definitely Maybe and running away with it." Familiar cultural icons which can be seen on the cover include Dorothy from Wizard of Oz, Michael Caine (replacing the original image of Marilyn Monroe, which couldn't be used for legal reasons) and the seven dwarfs from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

Blake also revealed that the final cover wasn't the original one. That design featured an image of the shop 'Granny Takes A Trip' on the Kings Road in Chelsea, London.

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We have more prizes to give-away from 'Pretty Green' so keep a Beady Eye out...

On This Day In Oasis History...

Above is a video of Oasis playing at the Pabellon Wurtzburg in Salamanca, Spain, on November 19th 2002.

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Miles Kane Confirms Noel Gallagher's Solo Album Is Being Recorded

Taken from a Q&A with Miles Cane from The Last Shadow Puppets.

Q - Reading the roll-call of guests on your record felt like leafing through the Christmas issue of Q magazine. There's Noel Gallagher, Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys, the singer from The Courteneers. You must have one hell of a Rolodex.

A - Noel sings on one song, he's only doing harmonies. It's great. We met a couple of times, he asked me to play guitar on his solo record. I played on one track, so he repeated the favour. I'm very honoured.

Read the full Q&A here.

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Liam Gallagher's Magic Beady Eye: Tom Meighhan Is A Fan

Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan has given Liam Gallagher’s new band Beady Eye his rock seal of approval.

Leicester lad Tom has had a private listen to the group’s debut album and reckons it’s going to blow fans away.

Speaking about the disc, which isn’t out until next year, Tom, 29, said of the 39-year-old: “Liam came to my room about three months ago and put it on a little stereo and you know I’m just buzzing for him.

“He’s really done something different from Oasis so I’m really pleased he’s getting out there. His album’s fantastic and its not Oasis any more, it’s Liam’s band.

“I support him all the way with that. I don’t think he cares [what people think], he just wants to make music.”

Speaking to Absolute Radio DJ Ben Jones, 33, the Kasabian rocker says his crew are feeling similarly inspired.

The gang will headline Sunday’s stage at next year’s Isle Of Wight festival and Tom is telling fans to expect the unexpected. He explained: “If people are expecting West Ryder or Underdog they’ve got another think coming because it’s nothing like the last record.

“We’re not the same band any more. We always keep changing. At the beginning of this year we went on tour to Australia and we had a few ideas.

“It all stems from Serge, he plants the seeds and this sort of giant beanstalk starts forming and then we take it in the studio and start to lay down the drums and go from there.”

Tom has promised you won’t see him on I’m A Celebrity, like Madchester legend Shaun Ryder, 48.

He added: “Shaun is amazing, just class to watch, you know.

“He’s a genius, but I could never do that to myself.”

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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