And The Winner Is?

The winner of the pair of tickets to the 'Upside Down: The Creation Records Story' Glasgow Premiere is Louise McSween.

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The Making Of Beady Eye's Album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'

Click here to see a short video of the Beady Eye recording 'Different Gear, Still Speeding.'

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Beady Eye's Tour Of Japan Now Sold Out

Tickets for Beady Eye's tour in Japan went on sale on Saturday and sold out straight away.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

The above video is from the 21st February 2003, when Oasis appeared on the 'Late, Late Show' in Ireland.

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Beady Eye Interview On 6 Music Later Today

An interview with Beady Eye will be broadcast on Steve Lamacq's 6 Music show later today, the show is broadcast between 4pm & 7PM (UK Time).

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Liam Gallagher Interview On 'XFM Manchester' Later Today

XFM Manchester will broadcast an interview with Liam Gallagher later this morning on the Breakfast Show.

The show is broadcast between 6am - 10am (UK Time)

A snippet of the interview can be heard here.

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Extra Tickets On Sale For Beady Eye's First London Shows

A limited number of tickets are on sale through www.gigsandtours.com for Beady Eye's previously sold out shows at the Troxy in London on the 9th and 10th of March.

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Preview Of Beady Eye's 'Hitlist Italia' Interview

Preview of an interview which is set to be aired this week on Hitlist Italia.

Thanks to frjdoasis2

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Beady Eye Forthcoming TV/Radio Appearances

21/02/2011 - The Xfm Manchester Breakfast Show with Tim Cocker, XFM Manchester, Manchester, England [Interview]

21/02/2011 - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music, England [Interview]

22/02/2011 - 90.3 KEXP, Seattle, USA [Live session + interview]

23/02/2011 - Zane Lowe, BBC Radio 1, London, England [Pre-recorded live Session]

28/02/2011 - Freshly Squeezed, Channel 4, England ['Performance', probably advance track from Abbey Road session]

28/02/2011 - Live From Abbey Road, Abbey Road Studios, Channel 4 & Q TV, London, England [Pre-recorded live performance/interview]

01/03/2011 - Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show, Absolute Radio, London, England [Liam interview]

2011-xx-xx - Dave Berry/John Kennedy XFM, London, England [Liam interviews]
2011-xx-xx - Capital, London, England [Interview?]

I will post a reminder for each one on the day of broadcast with times and links.

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Beady Eye's Two Of A Kind Available From iTunes Now!

Beady Eye's B-side to The Roller, Two Of A Kind is now available to buy from iTunes UK.

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Noel Gallagher On talkSPORT Tonight

Noel Gallagher will be on Andy Goldstein's Sports Bar on talkSPORT that starts at 9PM (UK TIME).

Listen online by clicking here.

Thanks to Mr Monobrow

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Beady Eye On The Cover Of Crossbeat Magazine

A few pictures from Crossbeat Magazine that is currenly on sale in Japan.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On February 20th 1998, Oasis played a third night at the Budokan, Tokyo, Japan.

Above are a few videos from the gig.

Tickets to all three shows sold out within days of going on sale, with over ninety percent selling on the first day.

During the afternoon of the second show, Liam was forced to cut short a shopping trip when he was mobbed by an enthusiastic crowd of over two hundred fans, in Shibuya in central Tokyo.

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Tickets For Beady Eye's First Japanese Tour On Sale Today

Tickets go on sale today for Beady Eye's first Japanese tour.

The band - whose album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' is released in Japan on February 23rd through Beady Eye Records / Sony Music Japan - are set to play the below five dates.

FRIDAY 6th MAY
OSAKA: Zepp Osaka
Doors open: 6pm / Show start: 7pm
Ticket: ¥6,500 (tax incl. / 1F: Standing / 2F: Seats / Plus 1 drink charge)
INFO: 06-6535-5569 (SMASH WEST) / MEDIA: FM 802

SATURDAY 7th MAY
NAGOYA: Zepp Nagoya
Doors open: 6pm / Show start: 7pm
Ticket: ¥6,500(tax incl. / 1F: Standing / 2F: Seats / Plus 1 drink charge)
INFO:052-936-6041 (JAILHOUSE) / MEDIA:ZIP FM

MONDAY 9th, TUESDAY 10th & THURSDAY 12nd MAY
TOKYO: Zepp Tokyo
Doors open: 6pm / Show start: 7pm
Ticket: ¥6,500 (tax incl. / 1F: Standing / 2F: Seats / Plus 1 drink charge)
INFO: 03-3444-6751 (SMASH) / MEDIA: J-WAVE

BOX OFFICE:
Promoter Pre Sale: 12:00 (noon) Tuesday 1st February until 12:00 (noon) Friday 4th February
Tickets go on sale 10:00am SATURDAY 19th FEBRUARY
TICKET PIA / LAWSON TICKET / e+
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Beady Eye Interview From MTV Japan

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On This Day In Oasis History...

"Don't Look Back in Anger" is a song by the British rock band Oasis, written by the band's guitarist, Noel Gallagher. Released as the fourth single from their hit second album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, on February 19th 1996.

The song became the band's second single to reach #1 in the United Kingdom charts, where it also went platinum. "Don't Look Back in Anger" was also the first Oasis single to feature Noel on lead vocals instead of his brother, Liam Gallagher. The title is perhaps a play on the song "Look Back in Anger", from David Bowie's Lodger album or on the play, Look Back in Anger by John Osborne, from which Bowie's song took inspiration.



Music video

The video for the song, directed by Nigel Dick, features Patrick Macnee, the actor who played John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers, apparently a favourite of the band. While filming the video, drummer Alan White met future wife Liz Atkins. They were married 13 August 1997 at Studley Priory Hotel, Oxfordshire but later divorced. Macnee has no recollection of the filming of the video.

History

Noel said of the song, "[It] reminds me of a cross between All the Young Dudes and summat the Beatles might've done." Of the character "Sally" referred to in the song he commented, "I don't actually know anybody called Sally. It's just a word that fitted, y'know, might as well throw a girl's name in there. It's gotta guarantee somebody a shag off a bird called Sally, hasn't it?". Noel claims that the character "Lyla", from Oasis' 2005 single is the sister of Sally. In the interview on the DVD released with the special edition of Stop the Clocks, Noel also revealed that a girl approached him and asked him if Sally was the same girl as in The Stone Roses' track "Sally Cinnamon". Noel replied that he'd never thought of that, but thought it was good anyway.

Noel admits that certain lines from the song are lifted from John Lennon: "I got this tape in the United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He's going on about 'trying to start a revolution from me bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.' I thought 'Thank you, I'll take that'!" "Revolution from me bed" most likely refers to Lennon's infamous bed-ins in 1969, both in the quote and in the song. The piano during the intro of the song highly resembles Lennon's "Imagine". Like many other popular songs,the chord progression for both the verse and the chorus are based on the classical piece Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel. The songs only differ slightly at the end of each phrase. Gallagher also admits that he was under the influence of substances when he wrote the song, and to this day he claims he does not know what it means.

The song has become a favourite at Oasis' live performances. Noel encourages the crowd to sing along and often keeps quiet during the chorus, allowing the fans instead to sing along while he focuses on his guitar playing. The volume of crowd noise that usually descends on the chorus at concerts is easily audible on the rendition of "Don't Look Back in Anger" on Familiar to Millions. During the Dig Out Your Soul Tour the song has been played acoustically at a slower rate by Noel. Which surprised some fans, but it is still sung by all the fans.

In a 2006 radio interview, Liam Gallagher said that it was he who came up with the line "so Sally can wait" as Noel was struggling with that particular line at the time. Noel confirms this on the bonus DVD, entitled Lock the Box, released with the Stop the Clocks retrospective album. In the interview with Colin Murray, Noel admits, "I was doing it in the sound check and the so Sally bit, I wasn't singing that...and he [Liam] says, 'Are you singing so Sally can wait?' and I said, 'No.' and he said, 'Well you should do.'"

Noel was so excited of the potential of the song when he first wrote it, he used an acoustic set to perform a work-in progress version, without the second verse and a few other slight lyrical differences to the finished version, at an Oasis concert at the Sheffield Arena on April 22, 1995, saying before playing that he'd only written it the previous Tuesday (April 18, 1995) and that he didn't even have a title for it.

Track listing

CD CRESCD 221 (re-issued as RKISCD 018)
"Don't Look Back In Anger" - 4:48
"Step Out" - 3:40
"Underneath the Sky" - 3:20
"Cum on Feel the Noize" - 5:09

7" CRE 221
"Don't Look Back In Anger" - 4:48
"Step Out" - 3:40

12" CRE 221T
"Don't Look Back In Anger" - 4:48
"Step Out" - 3:40
"Underneath the Sky" - 3:20

Cassette CRECS 221
"Don't Look Back In Anger" - 4:48
"Step Out" - 3:40

CD re-issue (US) 34K78356
"Don't Look Back in Anger" - 4:48
"Cum On Feel The Noize" - 5:09

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Beady Eye 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' Album Review

Considering that Noel Gallagher wrote the majority of Oasis’ songs, best or otherwise, and that Liam’s role throughout their chequered history was to be the charismatic bit of rough, and bearing in mind that the latter’s contributions to the Oasis canon were hardly propitious, it’s actually quite staggering that Beady Eye’s debut album is anything less than abysmal. In fact, it’s pretty fine, really good in places, with moments that eclipse most Oasis material since (What’s The Story) Morning Glory. There isn’t a Beatles comparison that springs to mind, but it does strike one as being a little like The Who making a decent record without Pete Townshend.

Different Gear, Still Speeding has the energy, if not the invention, of a classic Who album. Hardly surprisingly, however, it’s the Lennon and McCartney (and Jagger-Richards) songbooks, as well as the retro Merseybeat of The La’s, that prove the main inspiration – there’s even a track called Beatles and Stones. What did you expect? An album influenced by Burial and Ramadanman? Produced by Steve Lillywhite over 12 weeks in London’s RAK Studios during summer 2010, Different Gear... finds Liam, with Gem Archer on guitar, Andy Bell on bass and Chris Sharrock on drums, sharing songwriting duties and a commitment to upholding eternal verities: big riffs, pounding drums, and basslines that prop up simple melodies.

That said, the songs here are less oikish, more nimble and nuanced, than a lot of Oasis’ ponderous later music. Four Letter Word is a strong opener, powerfully surging orchestral rock providing an effective showcase for Gallagher’s appealingly coarse bellow, which as ever serves to invest the banal lyrics ("Nothing lasts forever," apparently) with, if not meaning, then at least menace. Millionaire is a curious hybrid of folky Led Zep and Wings. Beatles and Stones sounds like The Rutles doing 19th Nervous Breakdown. The Beat Goes On captures some of the lysergic whimsy of Sgt Pepper's-era Lennon while Wigwam hints at what St John might be doing today had he lived. That’s a criticism of Lennon, by the way, but high praise indeed for Gallagher. The Morning Son is the epic closer that grows from an acoustic start towards a cloudburst of psychedelic colour and baroque instrumentation. It’s superb.

Who’d have believed it? No one, that’s who. Well, apart from Liam.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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Liam Gallagher Interview On 'XFM Manchester' Monday

XFM Manchester will broadcast an interview with Liam Gallagher on Monday 21st at February on the Breakfast Show.

The show is broadcast between 6am - 10am (UK Time)

A snippet of the interview can be heard here.

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Beady Eye On The Front Cover Of German Rolling Stone Magazine

Inside this month's German 'Rolling Stone' magazine is a free 7in copy of 'The Roller', fans from outide Germany can order it from here.

For a closer look at the vinyl click here.

The magazine is on sale from February 24th.

It is being reported on several German sites that Beady Eye will play the following dates in Germany later in the year.

28.5. HAMBURG - Große Freiheit
31.5. OFFENBACH - Capitol

01.6. MÜNCHEN - Tonhalle
03.6 NÜRNBERG - Rock im Park Festival
04.6 NÜRBURGRING RACE COURSE - Rock am Ring Festival

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Listen To Beady Eye's Radio One Session On Wednesday

Radio 1 session with Zane Lowe will be broadcast on Wednesday 23rd February 7pm (UK Time)

Listen live here.

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