On This Day In Oasis History...

Above are few videos from January 14th 2001, When Oasis played at the Rock In Rio Festival in Brazil.

Liam Gallagher: There Was Never Any Question About Me Working With Gem, Andy Or Chris

Liam Gallagher has told the NME that there was never any question about him going on with his other Beady Eye band mates after Oasis split in August 2009.

He said: "There was never any question about me going on with Gem and Andy and Chris. Without them I probably wouldn't be in a band. I'd probably got stuck into doing the Pretty Green 'gear', chilled out for a bit, whatever".

Liam Gallagher Is John’s Latest Recruit

Pop megastar Liam Gallagher has become the latest in a long line of celebrities to back a campaigning football team.

The Oasis singer was in Glasgow to launch his new clothes shop, Pretty Green, and was besieged by hundreds of fans and paparazzi.

But that didn’t stop Renfrewshire United boss John Plott fighting his way through the heaving throng to ‘have a word’.

He told the Paisley Daily Express: “I wasn’t really surprised how busy it was, to be honest.

“The opening of the shop had been cancelled in December because of the weather and the new date had been well publicised in the papers and on radio.

“The one thing I couldn’t believe though was the amount of Liam ‘clones’ that were there. It was really spooky because everyone looked just like him!”

But John, who campaigns against bigotry and racism through his football club, managed a word with one of his musical idols and, more importantly, grabbed the opportunity to hand over one of the famous blue and green United tops – with ‘Wonderball’ emblazoned across the front.

He said: “Ingram Street was packed and we must have waited there for over an hour, but it was well worth it.

“I didn’t think we’d get near him when I saw the crowds but we’ve never given up in our lives and managed to fight our way to the front.

“When he got out his car I stepped forward and told him a bit about the team.

“He said, ‘that sounds great, mate’ and I passed him the strip. He said thanks and wished us good luck before making his way though the crowd into his shop.

“I thought ‘Wonderball’ was appropriate as one of Oasis’ biggest hits was ‘Wonderwall’.”

In the past, Plott and co have presented a strip to ex-Manchester City boss Mark Hughes, footballer Craig Bellamy, and Chelsea captain John Terry.

Source: www.paisleydailyexpress.co.uk

Liam Gallagher: Working With Gem And Andy Is Like "Putting On A Great F**king Jacket"

Liam Gallagher has told the NME that working with Gem Archer and Andy Bell for Beady Eye, is like "putting on a great f**king jacket".

The singer said "When I'm singing anything that Gem or Andy have written, it just feels absoulutly natural for me. There's not a single song of theirs where I'm like, 'F*ck this, it doesn't feel like me', or that I can't get involved in. It's like putting on a great f**king jacket, you know what I mean? I know I can wear it well".

Beady Eye release their eagerly anticipated debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' on 28th February 2011 on Beady Eye Records. The album features 13 brand new songs written by the band and was recorded at RAK Studios in autumn 2010 with producer Steve Lillywhite.

The band recorded the video for debut single 'The Roller' in sub zero temperatures in Cambridgeshire in December performing in a ‘Motorcycle Wall of Death’, one of only two in the country, complete with motorcycle stunt riders.

Watch the video for 'The Roller now on the official website (here).

Rhys Ifans Lined Up For New Biopic Of Oasis Svengali Alan McGee

Former Oasis manager and Creation records boss Alan McGee is in talks about a movie based on his life - with Rhys Ifans playing the lead role.

And Glasgow-born McGee, who also brought us The Jesus And Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream, is so keen to get the project off the ground that he gave up the chance to tour with his proteges and pals Glasvegas.

McGee is already the star of documentary film Upside Down: the Creation Records Story, which will have its Scots premiere on February 22.

He's now revealed to the Razz that he has other bigscreen projects in the pipeline.

McGee, 50, explained: "James from Glasvegas wanted me to come out on tour this week but I've got to go to London for a big film meeting.

"It's a really weird time as people seems to have come out of a depression and the big film guy I'm meeting is a good guy.

"He's good for a laugh and is interested in talking to me about making a feature film about Creation.

"It's a film about some lunatic who runs a label that ends up making millions of pounds.

"Actually there are two movie ideas - a druggie one and one that's more serious. Maybe we can make one that combines both."

Alan, who said he would love to get Mr Nice star Ifans to play him, was in Scotland yesterday to film a cameo role in a new music video for the Scots band Cousti.

In the video for their country rock song Sweetest Tunes, he can be seen playing the mandolin, a la John Peel in Rod Stewart's classic Maggie May.

Alan said: "It was fun - the weirdest thing was I realised I've made about 300 videos in my life and I don't think I've ever been in one playing an instrument before."

Alan, who these days spends most of his time with his family in Wales, also missed out on catching up with Liam Gallagher when he visited his Glasgow clothes shop, Pretty Green, last week.

After Liam claimed McGee was wrong to believe Oasis would re-form, he said: "Maybe I am wrong.

"From a fan point of view, I'd love to see them back."

He added: "Liam also said that Noel was making music for 50-year-olds but I don't have a problem with t hat as I am 50. "Noel is making for 21-year-olds and 70-year-olds too."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Gem Archer: There's Not One Bad Tune On Beady Eye's Debut Album

Gem Archer has told the NME that to be part of a new band at his age is f**king amazing.

He said "To be in a new band at this stage of your life is just f**king amazing, man. When we were writing the album it was like, first tune - f**king great. The next one - wow. Then you get up to about six or seven and you start thinking 'When are we going to write a clanger?' And we didn't man. There's not one bad tune on there".

Beady Eye recently announced a short European tour for March 2011 including six dates in the UK that sold out in thirty minutes. Jeff Wootton and Matt Jones will perform live bass and keyboard duties for the groups live dates.The band's debut studio album, 'Different Gear, Still Speeding', produced by Steve Lillywhite is released on the 28th February 2011.

Andy Bell On Beady Eye "The Magic Was With Us From The Beginning"

Andy Bell has said that "Oasis were a great band", but that part of his life is over now.

The guitarist told the NME: "Oasis were a great band, but that part of our lives is over now. We picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off and got Beady Eye going. And that's a great thing. You've got to look at this as an opportunity instead of just sitting there and being miserable about it. What's the point of that".

Bell also spoke about how the magic was with Beady Eye from the start he said: "The magic was with us from the beginning, and it's still with us now. Everything we do just falls into place".

‘The Roller’ will be the first single to be taken from Beady Eye’s debut album ‘Different Gear, Still Speeding’. It will be released on 7” single on the 21st February but will also be available from 24th January on iTunes.

The 7” features a brand new song on the b-side titled ‘Two of A Kind’.

Inside This Week's NME Magazine

Inside this week's NME is a small feature on Beady Eye.

On This Day In Oasis History...

"All Around the World" is a song by British rock band Oasis. Released on 12 January 1998, the track peaked at Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart; it is the longest single ever to do so. It went Silver in the UK.

"All Around the World", nearly ten minutes long, is embellished with string and horn pieces, and is followed by a two-minute-long instrumental, "All Around the World (Reprise)". Upon its release the reviews were generally positive. It is in keeping with many Oasis songs, such as "Whatever", "Acquiesce", "Live Forever" in that it preaches the belief that "it's gonna be okay". It also features a backing vocal in the coda remarkably similar to the corresponding section in The Beatles' song "Hey Jude".

History

The song was one of the first to be written by Noel, and there are recorded sessions of the band rehearsing it at the Boardwalk club as early as 1992. However, despite Noel's fondness for the song, it did not appear on their first two albums, Definitely Maybe and (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, as he wanted to wait until the band could afford to produce the song in the extravagant manner in which it was to eventually appear. From time to time, Gallagher has claimed that this is one of the best songs he has ever written.

As early as Spring 1994, the final production sound for this song was envisaged. On the interview Wibbling Rivalry, Noel Gallagher said of the song, "With Supersonic, I worried I was never going to write another song after that 'cos I thought, 'It sounds that good'... Two days later I superseded it by about 50 fuckin' times. The reason we haven't recorded that song is because there isn't enough money in Creation Records' bank balance to pay for the production of that record. When we do that record..." Noel also added when asked if there would be an orchestra on it, "Orchestras, man? It's not got to be one, it's got to be two".

Video



Keeping with the feel of the song, the video was also a lavish affair. Featuring the band in a yellow spaceship, the animated piece saw them travel through a world akin to The Beatles' Yellow Submarine film. The video was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and apparently took 24 computer animators 6 months to make. The video itself is not as long as the song, lasting just over seven minutes. The part of the song that was cut out is mostly towards the end.

Description

Noel described the song shortly before the release of the album- "I wrote this one ages ago, before Whatever. It was twelve minutes long then. It was a matter of being able to afford to record it. But now we can get away with the 36-piece orchestra. And the longer the better as far as I'm concerned. If it's good. I can see what people are going to say, but fuck 'em, basically."

"The lyrics are teeny-poppy. But there are three key changes towards the end. Imagine how much better Hey Jude would have been with three key changes towards the end. I like the ambition of it, all that time ago. What was all that about when we didn't even have our first single out? Gin and tonics, eh?"

B-Sides

The B-Sides of "All Around the World" were two Noel sung songs, The Fame and Flashbax. Oasis also recorded a cover version of a Rolling Stones song, "Street Fighting Man".

Trivia

When it was suggested that Oasis take legal action against pop band Hear'Say for their first single's ("Pure and Simple") uncanny similarity to "All Around the World", Noel simply laughed at the hypocrisy of such an act from a man who was famous for "borrowing" from other artists.

The harmonica pieces on the track were performed by Mark Feltham. Noel and Liam's then wives, Meg Mathews and Patsy Kensit and The Verve's front man Richard Ashcroft sang backing vocals.

Portions of the song's chorus were used as background music for AT&T's advertising campaign for "The New" AT&T.

The photograph on the front of the single was taken on Bournemouth beach in Dorset, England.

Track listing

CD CRESCD 282
"All Around the World" - 9:38
"The Fame" - 4:35
"Flashbax" - 5:07
"Street Fighting Man" - 3:54

7" CRE 282
"All Around the World (Edit)"
"The Fame" - 4:35

12" CRE 282T
"All Around the World" - 9:38
"The Fame" - 4:35
"Flashbax" - 5:07

Cassette CRECS 282
"All Around the World (Edit)"
"The Fame" - 4:35

This was the last Oasis single to be released on the Creation Records label.

This was the last Oasis single to include 3 b-sides on the CD version.

Pretty Green Presents Eddie Piller - Gary Crowley Interview

Pretty Green Presents Gary Crowley interviewing Eddie Piller at the Pretty Green Club Night on the 26th November 2010 at The Garage, London.

Eddie Piller started his career in the 1980's as a DJ and concert promoter amongst the English mod revival. Eddie went on to success with his own record label and continues to be influential as a live DJ on the radio and public appearances.

Gary explores Eddies career as a DJ and the records which can be found on his setlist. Eddie also discusses his connection to Pretty Green, his own style icons and what makes Pretty Green unique.

Source: www.prettygreen.com

Liam Gallagher Speaks To Real Radio

Liam Gallagher spoke to Real Radio’s Corrie Martin about fashion, music and why he has no regrets about his broken relationship with brother Noel.

He was in Scotland for the official opening of his clothing store, Pretty Green, in Glasgow.

Liam spent two hours meeting fans who’d queued in sub-zero temperatures to meet their idol, and gave us the lowdown on new band Beady Eye.

Listen to the interview here.

Source: www.realradio-scotland.co.uk

Watch The Video For Beady Eye's 'The Roller' Now!

Watch the video for ‘The Roller’ NOW!

The band recorded the film in sub zero temperatures in Cambridgeshire in December performing in a ‘Motorcycle Wall of Death’, one of only two in the country, complete with motorcycle stunt riders.

Miles Kane On Beady Eye's 'Bring The Light'

Bring The Light by Beady Eye

"After hearing this, I just want the album. It’s just having it, rock’*’roll style. It’s just what the world needs: to get back a bit of balls".

Beady Eye Announce UK Support

Beady Eye have announced Miles Kane as the support for their forthcoming six sold-out dates in the UK.

Miles - who previously played in The Last Shadow Puppets with Arctic Monkey's Alex Turner - has been working on his solo album which is due for release later in the year.

Miles Kane will be supporting Beady Eye at the following gigs:

3rd March - Glasgow Barrowland
4th March - Glasgow Barrowland
6th March - Manchester O2 Apollo
7th March - Manchester O2 Apollo
9th March - London Troxy
10th March - London Troxy

CLICK HERE to listen to Miles new single ‘Come Closer’ from his debut solo album due for release on February 21st 2011.

Source: www.prettygreen.com

Watch Beady Eye's Video For 'The Roller' At Midnight

The video for ‘The Roller’ will be premiered in the UK on Channel 4 at 12:10 tonight (local time) on the 10th January, and promises daredevil stunts.

The band recorded the film in sub zero temperatures in Cambridgeshire in December performing in a ‘Motorcycle Wall of Death’, one of only two in the country, complete with motorcycle stunt riders.

After the Channel Four premiere fans can watch the video at the band's YouTube channel HERE!

Liam Gallagher Not Looking Back In Anger

Amid cardboard boxes of clothes, marked “dog-tooth”, “grandpa”, “paisley”, “cobalt blood” and “patch pocket”, two sharp-dressed shop assistants in traditional mod gear debate with a security guard in gangster black what to do about the broken toilet.

It could be a scene from Are You Being Served: the big boss is on his way from London.

Outside Liam Gallagher’s plush new Pretty Green store on Glasgow’s Ingram Street, sharply-dressed Glaswegians mix with photographers and tabloid journalists, all keen to catch a glimpse of arguably the last great British rock star. Liam Gallagher looks remarkably unchanged from his early swaggering days with Oasis when their potential was first spotted here by Creation Records boss Alan McGee in the early 1990s. Gallagher’s determined character and black and white view of the world are undoubtedly behind the loyalty he inspires in those gathered here today. He is meticulous about every detail of his clothing business – whom he employs, the quality of cloth and even the layout of the store. Although the shop in Glasgow has only been open a month, there’s already a steady community building up around the place, with one fan today proudly sporting a straight-from-the-parlour Pretty Green tattoo, as a mark of his gratitude that he no longer has to trawl secondhand clothes emporiums for retro clobber. There might be a global recession, and indie record shops are falling like dominoes in an earthquake, but you wouldn’t know it here.

When Liam Gallagher finally arrives to greet the hordes, buses and black cabs grind to a halt. “Rock ’n’ roll stops the traffic,” shouts one gruff thirty-something male at the back.

The rock ’n’ roll clothes-horse could wear just about anything his eye directs him to and pull it off. Today it’s an Alex “Hurricane” Higgins trilby, with khaki parka. Recently he managed to get away with a Rod Stewart leopard-print jacket. For his generation there’s something of the (George) Bestie factor in his style.

Gallagher is undoubtedly at home in Glasgow. He returns for two Barrowland gigs in March, his first post-Oasis outing with new group Beady Eye: “I’m into Scotland in general; the people don’t take themselves too seriously. We were always going to open a shop in Glasgow, it makes sense. The connection goes back a long way with McGee and King Tut’s for the Barrowlands gigs and all that, but it’s the people.

“It’s the same as Manchester: it’s a great football city, the people are into proper clothes and music, which is what it’s all about. All of those things connect with me. It’s the same with the gigs; the fans bring something to the table. After Oasis split, things could have got bitter. I’m not about sitting around doing that and Pretty Green kept me in touch with people.”

After a final argument backstage in August 2009 the credits rolled on one of rock’n’roll’s longest running soap operas for good. Noel Gallagher walked out, dissolving Oasis after fifteen years in the public eye.

“Everyone knows I’ve got the a*** with our kid, and he’s playing the good guy card. That’s fine, but I’ll say what I want to say. I’m not looking back in anger but I’m not going to shut my mouth either. We were never The Waltons; we didn’t go for long strolls together; you know what I mean?

“The old days are lodged in my mind, my soul and my blood. I wish it hadn’t happened but it has and it’s done, time to move on; no one’s dead. It’s Beady Eye now and we are putting as much, if not more, into this band than we did Oasis.

“The rehearsals have been rocking man; there’s been a lot of energy and spirit around the place.”

Forthcoming single The Roller sounds like the starry-eyed ghosts of Ronnie Lane and John Lennon strumming in a pastoral 1970s country pile. Bring The Light and opener Four Letter Word from their debut Different Gear, Still Speeding both retain the exigency of typical Oasis, but there is also a defiant shift.

“Wigwam was the hardest in the studio; it was three different tracks stuck together. We started out tuning into that tight Small Faces vibe, but by the end it goes right into an I Am The Resurrection jam; it’s different, man.

“Steve Lillywhite threw his hat into the ring early on, and he’s produced a load of great bands. He brought in energy, but we had just come off tour with Oasis so it wasn’t like we had forgotten what to do.

“Andy Bell is back on guitar and on fire. He’s been set free, it’s a proper band, it’s not Liam Gallagher solo. It’s the first time Chris (Sharrock) has played on a record with us, and they are all great musicians and writers. I’m getting there as a songwriter: I’m not Morrissey or Oscar Wilde but its proper rock ’n’ roll.

“It’s not that they were prisoners before, because Oasis was a great band, but it was Noel that rubber-stamped everything.”

Gallagher bangs his fist down on the table to make the point clear. “I’m feeling these songs like I felt in Oasis. I can sing other songs, my brother doesn’t have to have written them! With Beady Eye it’s been all of us grafting together, all of us pulling our weight.”

This year Pretty Green will continue to launch retail outlets throughout the UK, Europe and Asia as Beady Eye tour Europe. Gallagher’s own production company is also currently developing The Longest Cocktail Party feature film, chronicling the story behind The Beatles Apple Corps. There remains an urgency and concentration in Gallagher’s eyes and he retains steadfast self-belief. While in Oasis he referenced his violent father as an inspiration. Each time we have met he refers to “the days of no worries” – childhood holidays in his mother’s hometown of County Mayo or the teenage tearaway Saturday afternoons watching Manchester City with his mates. He shrugs off a rag trade Drapers Award for Pretty Green with a flippant “no-one’s cured cancer”. Whether it’s his father, his brother, his critics or his past, the competition remains close – and William John Paul Gallagher is determined to be a contender.

Different Gear, Still Speeding is released on February 28. Beady Eye play Glasgow Barrowland on March 3 and 4.

Source: www.heraldscotland.com

Photo Of Noel Gallagher At Leicester v Manchester City

Noel Gallagher at the Leicester City v Manchester City game today.

Andy King struck the equaliser as Leicester took Manchester City to a replay after a pulsating FA Cup third-round tie that ended 2-2.

See tomorrow's Leicester Mercury for more...

Source: plixi.com

Brother's Attempt To Recreate Oasis Is Merely Depressing

The band's bid to relive 1996 might fare better if they had an ounce of wit or originality

In the summer of 2009, a T4 interview with Raygun did the rounds of the Twittersphere. It seemed to present a real-life Spinal Tap with a fondness for "drinking Mojitos at 11am – what the hell, man!" that displayed a mesmerising lack of self-awareness. Last year produced nothing quite so cringeworthy, though a promo film of the hotly tipped Brother came close.

Documenting the lad-rock band's attempts to play for "the people", it showed the quartet setting up their equipment at two locations in their native Slough, only to have their first gig shut down by "the man" (translation: an old man tells them they need permission to play and the boys pack up their stuff and leave politely), while their second attempt is met with mild bemusement by some schoolgirls. A tale of rock'n'roll shenanigans that could make Keith Richards blush this was not. None the less, Brother have excited a great deal of interest, starring on the cover of the NME last week with a strapline hailing "the return of the great British guitar band".

How has this happened? At their debut gig in London a few months ago, Brother took the stage with the hilarious boast: "If anyone here doesn't want to see the future of music, leave now!" Leaving aside the daftness of the question (did anyone shuffle towards the door muttering: "Future of music? Not for me, mate, I thought this was the quarter-final of the Nuneaton tiddly winks championship…") such an attitude tells you a lot about Brother and their desire to revisit Britpop.

Just take the name, which seems to have arisen from a challenge to invoke Oasis in as many ways as possible using just one word: Oasis were based around two brothers, the band's label was called Big Brother and "Brother" was the sponsor splashed across the Manchester City football shirts worn in those famous early photos.

Then there's their sound, a bold, eclectic cocktail that dares to ask the question no other band dare tackle, namely: "What happens if we combine the Seahorses with Mansun?"

It's hardly surprising that a band would feel the time was right to exhume Britpop. Blur and Suede have recently performed triumphant reunion shows, and Pulp caused a stir last year when they announced a string of 2011 festival dates with the "classic" Britpop line-up. Elsewhere, there's a debut album due from Liam Gallagher's new band, Beady Eye, a group who aim to rise above the memories of Oasis by, er, recruiting every single member of Oasis bar that guy who played guitar. And that's before we've mentioned Shed Seven, Kula Shaker and the Bluetones, who it turns out never went away.

There's nothing wrong with a revival, as long as the artists involved do enough to make it seem fresh. Just look at how Zola Jesus and new Domino signing Anna Calvi have breathed life into the corpse of goth with tremendous debuts. And let's not forget that Britpop itself was perhaps the ultimate revival, although for all the "Oasis sound like Beatles" comments, the most memorable bands all brought something new to the table, be it attitude (Oasis), wit (Pulp) or only being able to play two chords (Menswear).

The depressing thing about Brother is that they seem genuinely to believe that it's still 1996. When they played recently at the Met Bar (where else?), they demanded that the DJ "turn that dubstep shit off". In terms of sonic invention, their music makes Noel Gallagher look like Shostakovich. But it's their unintentionally hilarious attempts to act up to the Brit rocker image that really make you despair.

Studying Oasis (again), Brother clearly think that outrageous statements about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll are the way to get noticed. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have a member with the bizarre comedy persona of a Liam Gallagher to deliver said messages. That's why recently you found them telling the Guardian that they would soon be heading for a world of "drugs and prostitutes". Prostitutes? I'm sure countless budding bands dream of the day when they can finally afford to pay for sex.

If anything, these misfiring quotes are perhaps Brother's only redeeming feature. It's an almost lovable stupidity that makes you hope they might stick around for entertainment value, if nothing else. How could you not when they told the NME: "We're sick of all these American bands" while posing for an accompanying photograph wearing a jumper emblazoned with the Stars and Stripes?

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Spanish Oasis Podcast

Part eight of the Spanish Oasis related podcast has been launched, and is by rocknrollstars.

It features news, band history and so much more. For more information and to download the podcast click here.

Interview With Liam Gallagher In Glasgow

Interview with Liam Gallagher at the rescheduled opening of Pretty Green in Glasgow.