Join Beady Eye In Glasgow

Beady Eye's first ever gig will take place tomorrow evening at Glasgow Barrowland. The band made a conscious decision to play their first date in the UK with Andy stating, "We’re jumping in at the deep end."

If you weren't lucky enough to get a ticket to their first gig you can follow the action at Beady Eye's Twitter and Ping pages where the band's label Beady Eye Records will be tweeting.

The band's label will also be getting the guys to sign a setlist from tomorrow's gig so keep checking back to beadyeyemusic.com to be in with a chance of winning it!

Beady Eye's debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' came out on Monday and is getting a great response from the band's fans. Let us know what you think of the album at the website's Forum or at one of the band's Social Network Sites listed below.

The album is available to buy on the following formats:
- Limited Special Edition CD/DVD Album **SOLD OUT!**
- Standard CD
- Limited Double LP on Heavyweight vinyl
- Digital Download

The CD and vinyl are also available as part of an exclusive Beady Eye store bundle that come with a Beady Eye Records t-shirt. The t-shirt is only available to buy at the band's store.

'Different Gear, Still Speeding' is also available on special iTunes LP which features the exclusive track 'Man Of Misery', as well as 'Sons Of The Stage', the album booklet and the music videos for 'Bring The Light', 'Four Letter Word' and 'Sons Of The Stage', plus extra exclusive video footage.

You can preview the iTunes LP on a trailer Beady Eye Records made HERE!

The album is also available to buy at Amazon, HMV and Play.

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

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Beady Eye's Midweek Chart Position

Beady Eye's 'Different Gear Still Speeding' is at number three on the Official Midweek Chart.

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Beady Eye Head To Austria

Beady Eye have announced they will make their first appearance in Austria on Thursday 18th August at the Frequency festival.

Tickets are on sale now through www.musicticket.at and 0043 1 96 0 96.

Other bands confirmed to play the festival include Foo Fighters, Kasabian, The Chemical Brothers and The National.

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

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Liam Gallagher Eeks His Mind

Rastamouse has come in for a bit of stick – but Liam Gallagher reckons the rodent is irie.

The politically correct brigade, or gimps as they are otherwise known, claim the kids' TV character is racist.

But Beady Eye frontman Liam said: "Come on, man, people speak like that. D'ya know what I mean?"

Surely that should be: "Do you know what I an I mean?"

Liam also confessed why he loves watching children's TV channel CBBC with sons Lennon and Gene: "It's an excuse for a kip. I say, 'You stay there, here's your popcorn, wake me up at the end'."

Careful, Liam, they'll be at the blue WKD and the pick-and-mix.

His Pretty Green fashion line sell a T-shirt for the Teenage Cancer Trust from March 14, and Beady Eye play London's Royal Albert Hall for the same cause on March 25.

Tickets from teenagecancertrust.org.

Top work, lads, for a top charity.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Who Is Better At Insults: Liam Gallagher Or Noel Gallagher?

Liam Gallagher, former Oasis front man, does not much care for the new Radiohead album. “I heard that fucking Radiohead record and I just go, ‘What?!’ I like to think that what we do, we do fucking well. Them writing a song about a fucking tree? Give me a fucking break! A thousand year old tree? Go fuck yourself! You’d have thought he’d have written a song about a modern tree or one that was planted last week. You know what I mean?” Really, really just did not like it very much. Gallagher and his brother Noel, also formerly of Oasis, are famous for their public distaste for many of their peers. But which Gallagher brother hates things better?

Below, we’ve collected some of their most memorable tirades.

Noel, on Scissor Sisters: “I particularly loathe Scissor Sisters. I like ‘Laura’ from the first record, but it’s music for squares, man. They’re huge in England, but there’s no accounting for bad taste as far as the English are concerned.”

Liam, on Scissor Sisters: “Bright colors and fucking weirdos on stilts? I’m more entertaining than that shit.”

Noel, on Mark Ronson: “He wants to write his own tunes instead of ruining everyone else’s. Mark Ronson needs to learn three chords on the guitar and write a tune.”

Liam, on his own song “Wonderwall”: “I can't fucking stand that fucking song! Every time I have to sing it I want to gag. Problem is, it was a big, big tune for us.”

Noel, on the Kaiser Chiefs: “I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, ‘You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.’”

Liam, on Billie Joe Armstrong, of Green Day: “Fuck right off. I’m not having him. I just don’t like his head.”

Noel, again on the Kaiser Chiefs: “The worst thing about them is that they’re not very good. They play dress-up and sit on top of an apex of meaninglessness. They don’t mean anything to anybody apart from their fucking ugly girlfriends.”

Liam, on Noel: “I’ve heard his fucking new record ’cos I fucking sung on half of it. Fucking nonsense. When I was in America for Dig Out Your Soul, he swiped some off because he obviously knew he wanted to do a solo album.”

Noel, on Keane: “I feel sorry for Keane. No matter how hard they try they’ll always be squares. Even if one of them started injecting heroin into onto his cock people would go ‘Yeah but your dad was a vicar, good night.’”

Liam, on Chris Martin: “Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher. What’s all that with writing messages about Free Trade? If he wants to write things down I'll give him a pen and a pad of paper. Bunch of students.”

Really, though, Liam won us over early with “you’d have thought he’d have written a song about a modern tree or one that was planted last week.”

Source: www.vanityfair.com

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Artwork for Beady Eye's 'The Beat Goes On' iTunes US Single

Artwork for Beady Eye's 'The Beat Goes On' iTunes US single

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Beady Eye Interview From Capital Radio

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Beady Eye's 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' Available Now In The USA And Canada

Beady Eye's debut album "Different Gear, Still Speeding" is now available in the USA

This week only, download the exclusive iTunes LP version of the album for only $7.99. The iTunes LP features the b-sides 'Man Of Misery' and 'Sons Of The Stage', the full album booklet, music videos for 'Bring The Light', 'Four Letter Word' and 'Sons Of The Stage', plus extra behind-the-scenes video footage.

Find the CD version of "Different Gear, Still Speeding" on sale at Best Buy stores in the USA for $7.99 this week, or order all physical formats (including limited edition deluxe CD/DVD) from Amazon.com.

On March 8th, the standard 13-song digital version will be available on all digital stores, and the 2xLP heavyweight vinyl will be in select retail stores.

CANADIAN FANS: 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' is out today! Exclusive iTunes LP version only $7.99 this week, click here for more details.

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Free Beady Eye CD/DVD In This Week's News Of The World

A brand new interview with Beady Eye will be feature in Jam Magazine that is free with the News Of The World this Sunday.

The interview was conducted by John Robb and features never before seen images of the band shot by the legendary David Bailey.

The mag also comes with an exclusive free 5 track Beady Eye CD/DVD that features 3 tracks from Beady Eye's debut album, plus two B-sides and the exclusive 17 minute interview conducted by John Robb

A snippet of the interview can be seen here.

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Liam Gallagher Playing Guitar For Beady Eye Inspiration

Liam Gallagher is eyeing a move into his brother Noel's shoes - he's buffing up his guitar skills to improve his songwriting.

The rocker played the instrument in the video for Oasis' 2003 track Songbird but admits his strumming talents are still at a basic level.

But he wants to increase his songwriting duties with new band Beady Eye - and he's relying on his guitar to make the task easier.

Speaking during a Music on 4 TV special in Britain, Gallagher says, "I've got a little DICtaphone and I play it on that every now and again. If I get something, great.

"I'm self taught. I'm still teaching myself, it could be a long time yet before I get behind a guitar. I do a little bit, keeps me happy, keeps me off the street, but I wouldn't say I'm a guitarist. Just to help me write tunes like this."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

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Liam Gallagher Designs T-Shirt For Teenage Cancer

Liam Gallagher and Pretty Green have designed a limited edition t-shirt and pin badge to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust.

“I've always been a massive supporter of Teenage Cancer Trust. This collaboration is only just the start” says Liam.

These exclusive t-shirts will be available for purchase from 14 March at www.prettygreen.com and at Pretty Green stores in London, Manchester and Glasgow for £45 with £20 from the sale of each t-shirt going to Teenage Cancer Trust.

Teenage Cancer Trust's Music Manager, Jane Ashton says, “Music plays a huge role in most young people’s lives, whatever they are going through and it’s a big part of Teenage Cancer Trust so naturally we are delighted that Liam has chosen to support us with this fantastic bespoke t-shirt and pin badge. We’re also excited to welcome back Liam to the Royal Albert Hall this year, with Beady Eye and look forward to further collaborations with Pretty Green.”

We're thrilled that Liam and his band Beady Eye will also be playing at this year’s Royal Albert Hall concerts.

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Source: www.teenagecancertrust.org

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Brian Cannon To DJ In London On Thursday

Brian will be spinning some classics and the Teenage Kicks of Birmingham will be special guests.

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Gem Archer And Liam Gallagher Talk Beady Eye

Liam and Gem from Beady Eye tell Christian how different they are from Oasis were. Liam admits there will be no shouting this time around!

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Liam Gallagher On Being A Dad

Liam tells Christian a trip to the cinema is a good excuse for a snooze and Liam's dog Ruby gets nippy!

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Beady Eye Interview

By the tone in his voice, Liam Gallagher makes it seem that having a much-publicized new album, competing with the legacy of his old band Oasis, is the most natural thing on earth.

Voted the best rock and roll front man of all time by readers of Britain’s Q magazine, ridiculed by others for a few loutish public episodes and applauded by yet others for his modish Pretty Green clothing line, Gallagher is sitting by a speaker phone, in the Bahamas, he says.

His new band Beady Eye, a.k.a. the remnants of Britpop standard bearers Oasis, is semi-rehearsing, semi-vacationing prior to the release of the group’s debut album Different Gear, Still Speeding, released in Canada on Tuesday.

How Gallagher got to this point is already chapter and verse to fans. Oasis had existed under the thumb of Liam’s brother and the band’s main songwriter Noel. One fraternal backstage fight too many, this time over who ate the last M&M (Noel did, according to Liam), led Noel to finally quit after 18 years. The rest of the band quickly decided to carry on, in much the same classic Brit rock vein. Liam and Noel haven’t spoken since.

So, what was recording the new album like without Noel leading the show? “We felt a lot more at ease. We went in, threw in a lot of ideas. We never felt like we couldn’t say anything. We just tried everything, and if it stuck, it was great,” Gallagher says, pronouncing “great” with a Northern English, Beatle-esque trill.

“It was just a nice time. We recorded it in England obviously, in London, around the corner from the house. Walked to work, walked home. It was just a nice time. We had a good spirit in the studio, man.”

“We were all massive Oasis fans, as much as we were in the band,” interjects Andy Bell, the Oasis bassist turned Beady Eye guitarist and Gallagher’s regular doppelganger in interviews. “We would be in Oasis now, if Noel was still interested in there being an Oasis. But this new situation has given us a bit more freedom because he used to run the direction of the band … It’s definitely freeing. It feels good.”

As Gallagher adds, “There was a lot of encouragement to sing earlier on in the songs.”

’R Kid, Mancunian slang for a pal or younger brother and Liam’s designation in Oasis, typically found himself recording his vocal tracks after much of the work had already been done on Noel’s songs. This time around, Liam was more integral to the whole process.

The ideas and demos came from all corners. “We all started taking turns,” Bell says. “Liam brought in [the tune] Beatles & Stones, that was the first one we worked on I think. And then I brought in Millionaire, and we worked on that. And then Gem [Archer, another guitarist] brought in The Roller. We took turns going round and round.”

Beatles & Stones could include “& The Who” in the title, given the song’s My Generation imitationriff, while the single The Roller opens with a swing basically identical to John Lennon’s Instant Karma.

Gallagher has, throughout the years, always said he isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. Oasis and now Beady Eye are codifying and updating a classic British rock sound, just as Gallagher’s Pretty Green collection does with classic mod style. Still, did the Beady Eye guys look at each other in the studio and realize they would need to change a chord or a chorus here or there to prevent homage from slipping into outright copying?

Bell laughs at the question. “No, not really. There’s a lot more going on than the Beatles if you get under the surface.”

Adds Gallagher: “I’m from Manchester, which is a little bit down from where the lads were from in Liverpool. So, it would be different if it was from Peru. Then you’d have a case, you know wha’ I mean?

“But I’m from where they’re from kind of, and drink the same tea and all that nonsense. I just think we sound like a great English band…”

“…The Beatles,” Bell finishes off with a laugh.

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

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Liam Gallagher Does Not Want To Sound Like Coldplay's Chris Martin

Liam Gallagher has taken a pop at Coldplay singer Chris Martin after being advised to change his singing voice by The Who frontman Roger Daltrey.

Gallagher’s dig at Martin came after Daltrey told him he should change his famous gravelly voice.

Gallagher told Absolute Radio: ‘I remember Roger telling me, “Look, you’ve got to warm up”. I was like that, “Warming up, man, are you mental?”. I don’t want to sound like Chris Martin.’

The 38-year-old also said he was confident his new band Beady Eye can be just as successful as Oasis, who broke up in 2009.

The group claim their new album Different Gear, Still Speeding is the result of their new, more democratic mode of functioning.

‘Noel [Gallagher] always had in mind what the album was gonna be. But this time round, on this record the four of us were really on the same page,’ Liam said.

Guitarist Gem Archer added: ‘I already feel it's special. We don't want to squeeze the life out of it, keep it special.’

Beady Eye begin their British tour in Glasgow on March 3.

Source: www.metro.co.uk

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Watch Beady Eye From Abbey Road Now

Beady Eye play tracks from debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' at the world famous Abbey Road studios.

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Liam Gallagher And Gem Archer Talk Beady Eye, Oasis And More

On the day of his new band Beady Eye’s album release, Liam Gallagher has given hope to Oasis fans who are planning on living a long life. Despite previous rants to say that Oasis would never return, the singer now refuses to rule out an Oasis reunion, saying he is “not going to say ‘never’, but at the moment no f***ing chance.” For the time being though, Liam and his bandmates are focussed on Beady Eye, aiming to tour the band extensively this year.

He and bandmate Gem Archer appear on The Absolute Radio Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show tomorrow to discuss Beady Eye’s new album, Different Gear, Still Speeding, and compare their experiences with the new band and Oasis. The pair offer a revealing look at the split and how it propelled them into creating Beady Eye only days after the abandoned gig that marked Oasis’s end.

Singer Liam reveals how he was misrepresented as the catalyst of the band’s split but that he felt it was brother Noel who “was sort of itching for a couple of scraps and that.” He and Gem also talk extensively about the night of the split, Liam telling DJ Chris O’Connell that “there might have been a couple of things smashed and that” and Gem revealing how he found out when Noel left the gig:

“When Noel came out I genuinely thought, when he sort of looked over, I thought he was going to say something like ‘Where’s my f***ing iPod?’ or something, but he just kept walking…”

Time has made Liam more philosophical about the whole matter:

“You’ve got to laugh, you’ve got to laugh at it sometimes, you know. I know it means a lot to people, but bands that I liked when I was young split up, you know what I mean, so I understand the pain and that, but you’ve got to move on. No one’s dead… there’s other things going on in the world I suppose, but it’s just me and Noel being dicks isn’t it, and we’ve got to grow up I suppose.”

That philosophical side led him and his bandmates to form Beady Eyes - “just because Noel left doesn’t mean to say our musical journey comes to an end” – and it was the anger that led to the reports in the days after the split that Laim would continue Oasis without Noel:

“I just wasn’t going away quietly, you know what I mean, I was just being a bit stubborn. People were going ‘You’re not going to be able to…’, I was like that, ‘We’ll f***ing see about that’. I was just making everyone sweat a little bit, but we knew that Oasis can’t carry if Noel’s not there, you know what I mean, it would be weird playing his songs and it would be weird for the fans, plus it would be weird for us.”

Liam also reveals how new band Beady Eye rose from the ashes of Oasis: “After the gig… well we didn’t do the gig, but that night in Paris we went back to the hotel, had a couple of beers, and sort of went ‘Right, let’s meet up in a couple of months and have a look at some tunes that we’ve got knocking about’. Couldn’t wait that long, we met up the following weekend, got cracking on it, and we haven’t stopped.”

Gallagher says he “can’t wait to go and play [the new album] live”, an album he found a very different experience to create when compared to his “very lonely” recording sessions for Oasis albums:

“Of course it would be Noel’s vision for his song and the overall vibe of the album and where the band would be at that point, but with this, because it’s a brand new band, we rehearsed it like a brand new band before we recorded. Like you would if it was your first album, you know. So the whole thing, just standing toe to toe and just getting involved, so when you go in the studio you know what you’re doing, you know where the map is.”

Guitarist Archer adds: “Even though we are the same guys, you can’t compare it, because even if one head in the room changes, it changes a lot, you know. But this was just a blast, man. It flew down, seven weeks in the summer in north London. It was great.”

So Beady Eye are set to be the band of 2011, with a fitter, happier and more productive Liam Gallagher at the helm. But even a more mellow Gallagher can still shake things up with a few words, and so without further ado, here are Liam’s pearls:

“You take Beady Eye out of the way and that, and there’s not much else going on in the music business I think.”

Source: www.beehivecity.com

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Win Tickets To See Beady Eye In Milan

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Beady Eye Interview From Hitlist Italia

Full interview with Andy Bell, Gem Archer and Liam Gallagher, broadcast on the 26th February 2011 in Italy.

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