Beady Eye Already Planning New Record

Beady Eye are already planning their second album, even though their debut, 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' has just been released.

Beady Eye are already planning their second album.

'The Roller' group – featuring all the former members of rock group Oasis apart from guitarist Noel Gallagher –can't wait to start work on their next record even though their debut, 'Different Gear, Still Speeding', was only released last month.

Speaking on the UK's BBC Radio2, singer Liam Gallagher said: "We've got lots of songs man, as soon as the tour wraps up we're gonna write another record. We're not going to stop.

"Our musical path carries on, we feel we're getting better. We're not getting any younger, but we want to be out there making music - sitting at home talking about it doesn't do it for me."

Liam, 38, also said his new group won't play any of his old band's material – most of which was written by his brother - as it would be too "weird".

He added: "'Wonderwall', 'Don't Look Back In Anger', 'Live Forever' – I can't play them anymore, it feels weird – it wouldn't feel like the right thing to do - jumping from Oasis to Beady Eye tracks would be very strange."

Beady Eye are currently touring Europe throughout March and April.

Source: www.tourdates.co.uk

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Beady Eye Interview

Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis band Beady Eye has released their debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'. RTÉ TEN's Taragh Loughrey-Grant grabs a word with Noel's little bro and his band mates to talk hard work, new sound and going solo.

Perhaps it was the lack of renowned tension between the two Gallagher brothers, but Liam and drummer Chris Sharrock and guitarist Andy Bell were in great form, with friendly camaraderie on tap.

Taragh Loughrey-Grant: Do you think people appreciate your work ethic? When Oasis fell apart you went straight into Beady Eye, you have your own clothing range 'Pretty Green' and you're married with three kids.

Liam: I don't think I work that hard really, to be quite honest. I just do me thing, at me own pace. When you get a bit of time, you do something with it. As long as you're doing it well, that's the thing, innit?"

What's your motivation because at this stage it's not money?

Liam: No man, I just like to keep busy. I'm a creative kind of dude and I just like to get things done instead of talking about it.

Out of the Oasis' ashes Beady Eye was born. How did it happen?

Andy: We didn't really think things through that much, we kinda looked 'round the room after the Oasis split happened and just sort of said 'Shall we just carry on making music together?' That met with a round of nods and then we came back to London and started doing it.

Liam: That met with a round of drinks actually!

Whenever you are linked to something controversial, the media often bring up your Irish background Liam.

Yeah, they don't realise I'm half Yugoslavian!

Are you still 'mad for it' and will you still be looking for crazy riders on this tour or are you more green tea and 'Coronation Street' these days?

I've always been that man. We've calmed down a little bit but not too much, we just pick and choose when to have a good time, know what I mean? But we're not in a nursing home!

Perhaps not a good time to bring up the fact that he's turning forty next year.

Sharrock joined Oasis in 2008 and Noel said at the time in an interview for MOJO: "Liam is still not happy about Chris Sharrock, because he's Robbie Williams' drummer. I went home and thought about it and it was just too much of a temptation to p**s Robbie Williams and Liam off in one phone call."

Chris you used to be the drummer for Robbie Williams and does Liam still hold that against you?

No, not at all, I don't think I'd be here if he did. That was just a gig that was just a job in a band, this is something else.

How would you describe the overall 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' sound?

Liam: I think it's pretty colourful man, the album as a whole it's colourful, it's not black or white record, it's not dull and it's very melodic as well.

Andy: If I had to describe the differences in style between Oasis and Beady Eye, I'd say we sound a little more uplifting on this record in comparison to the later Oasis stuff. It's a hard one to call, because we're inside it and we were inside Oasis too.

Chris: I think Andy being on the guitar is a major difference, sound wise.

Liam: And we're still having it man, we're loud and we're still gonna kick ass without a doubt.

'Bring the Light' is a good example of that - along with a couple of other tracks on the album it has a very 60's, psychedelic feel to it that will surely play well in your live gigs.

Andy: When we were recording the album and playing it round our houses after the pub some nights, when we'd come back to someone's house and put the record on in its unfinished state - 'Bring the Light' was always the one that we'd tear up the room to.

There's an f-word discreetly dropped in there - do you ever worry about that restricting air play?

Liam: I don't think about it, swearing is one of my great pass times.

While you're at it, what's your favourite curse word?

Liam: Are you ready for this? [Big pause for effect.] Feck!

All the lads have a good laugh at this revelation.

The first track on your debut album 'Four Letter Word' is very cinematic.

Andy: It didn't strike us at the time but I definitely know what you mean and other people, like mates of mine have said the same thing, they think it [the album] sounds like a film soundtrack.

There are some interesting lyrics in 'Kill for a Dream', simple yet relevant such as "Life is too short not to forgive" - is that a little throw-back to the rift that ultimately led to the dissolution of Oasis?

Andy: It's a true line, whatever situation it came out of, it still applies to a lot of situations, that's what I was getting at.

Liam, there was a story recently where you told a curious fan, who asked about your lyrics, that you'd no idea what they mean!

Well I know I haven't got a clue what I'm on about. I think Andy knows what he's talking about but believe you me, I have no idea what I'm on about. I am winging it, big style.

Noel wrote most of the Oasis songs and the spotlight is on you now as you've picked up the pen. Are you enjoying it?

I am, I don't really sit around thinking about it too much. As we said, my life is pretty busy as it is but when it comes to writing a song, I find lyrics pretty hard. I clear my head and write the first thing that comes, if it rhymes with the next bit and gets me to the end of the song it's a sense of relief.

Would you ever go solo?

No, Never. Only when I go to the toilet!

At this stage in your careers, you've played some of the biggest stages and events in the world, including Knebworth, whether together as Oasis or with other groups. How does it feel to be starting out again?

Chris: It happens to us all.

Andy: Our audience is just getting more selective!

Is it exciting though to play the more intimate gigs, like your upcoming concerts in the Olympia in Dublin or is it 'Here we go again?'

A chorus of passionate 'No's followed by Andy's: 'Even in the Oasis days we would look forward to the two or three thousand sized venues which we would do regularly. We'd do a few of them on each tour and they're always the most exciting gigs. We're basically making a virtue of it. We can't come out with a new band and start booking stadiums because no one knows our music yet.
Liam: It's gonna be great man, it's what we're looking forward to. We're not doing this because we have to, we're doing it because we want to. There's plenty of time for the stadiums."

Given the fact that Oasis enjoyed 22 consecutive Top Ten hits and Beady Eye's debut single 'The Roller' entered the UK charts at no 31, where do you see Beady Eye going?

Andy: We'd love to see it going everywhere. The UK and Ireland are quite close to our hearts but I mean anywhere that wants and likes it.

How about America?

Liam: Yeah, they'll do an' all! We just want to keep making music, everything we put out we just want to be great, getting people excited and that but we don't have a real big plan. We just want to make another record as soon as poss.

You joked about your roots earlier Liam but how do you feel about Ireland and your Irish heritage?

I love Ireland, Ireland is top. I love going there and having a good time and that and I can't wait to get back there and play some gigs and having the craic!

The second before we go Andy blurts out..

And I'm married to an Irish lady, Shiarra.

All going well with this album and tour, that could be the paddle to float the next group interview with Beady Eye.

Fans shouldn't expect to hear any cries answered for Oasis favourites answered because it ain't going to happen. Instead get your hands on the new Beady Eye album, 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' and get practising.

Source: www.rte.ie

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Miles Kane Supporting Beady Eye At The Royal Albert Hall

Miles Kane will be supporting Beady Eye as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust series of show at the Royal Albert Hall in London on March 25th.

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Pre-Order 'Upside Down - The Creation Records Story' Now

Pre- order of the DVD and Blue-Ray for 'Upside Down - The Creation Records Story' is now available.

Click here for the DVD and here for the Blue-Ray.

Upside Down will premiere in the USA at this year’s prestigious South by South West event.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Oasis appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman in New York, on the 8th of March 1995 and played the classic Live Forever.

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Liam Gallagher: Beady Eye Is 'The Best Band On This Planet'

Noel and Liam Gallagher rarely backed away from proclamations of genius as the guitarist and lead singer of Oasis, and the latter still speaks in absolutes when discussing his new band, Beady Eye.

"I feel I'm in the best band that is on this planet, right here today," he tells Billboard.com.

Fortunately for Gallagher -- who formed Beady Eye with three of his former Oasis bandmates -- the feedback on the band's debut album, "Different Gears, Still Speeding," has been nearly as favorable as his own assessment. Released Mar. 1 on Beady Eye Records/Dangerbird, the album debuts at No. 3 on the U.K. albums chart this week. The band is currently showcasing their first set of songs in Europe and will play a trio of North American shows in June at Chicago's Metro (June 18), Toronto's Sound Academy (June 20) and New York's Webster Hall (June 23), with tickets going on sale this Friday.

"We are excited," Gallagher says. "We want people to fucking like it as much as we like it, but realistically, not everybody's gonna like it as much as we do. We're interested to hear what people think about it. But it's not gonna make or break our day."

Gallagher wasted little time getting the new band together after playing with Oasis for 18 years and spending most of that time publicly feuding with brother Noel, who quit the group in August 2009. Liam says he never considered halting his musical output or retiring.

"I retired the day I joined the band. I retired the day I left school," Gallagher says. "I said, 'I ain't working for that bullshit. I'm gonna join a band.' I am retired. I've never worked in my fuckin' life. I've been in a band… It ain't about 'What are you gonna do when you retire?' Do fuck-all and sit there like a vegetable? Don't think so man. I'm gonna keep moving."

Calling on guitarists Andy Bell and Gem Archer, with whom he had played in Oasis for 10 years, and drummer Chris Sharrock, who toured with them in 2008, the group began demoing in London in fall 2009 and had six songs completed by Christmas.

"By that time, [producer] Steve Lillywhite called our management," recounts Bell. "He called almost straight away when [Oasis] broke up and said, 'Look, what's happening?' He heard we were getting a band together and said, 'I want to do an album or at least put my name in the hat.'"

Bell says they played Lillywhite demos of "Beatles and Stones," "Millionaire," "The Roller," "Kill For A Dream" and "Bring The Light," and the famed producer (U2, Dave Matthews Band) liked what he heard.

"And we liked him," says Bell. "So we said, 'Look, when we go in we'll go in with you.' We went back in to our demo studio and did the rest of the demos. We did 13, put them in the right order, and then when we went in with Steve we just recorded in that same order."

Some of the lyrics on "Different Gear" -- "You go your way and I'll go mine," from album closer "The Morning Sun," for example -- could be interpreted as referring to Gallagher's relationship with his brother. While Gallagher says that he just hopes the album "means something, if [listeners] get it wrong or they get it right," Bell doesn't think the album dwells on their frontman's fraternal strife.

"There's more to life than Liam and Noel's soap opera," Bell says. "There's bigger things to worry about, things that are actually life-and-death important. That's more what I hope, that someone that is having a bad time in their own life can listen to it too and it's going to uplift them. That's what I hope for it."

So does Gallagher ever get tired of having a public feud with his brother?

"No," he says. "I kind of like it, actually."

Source: www.billboard.com

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Tickets Still Available For Beady Eye's Teenage Cancer Trust Show

TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE....

Beady Eye will be headlining this year's Teenage Cancer Trust on Friday 25th March at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Teenage Cancer Trust is a long established charity set up to help young people fight cancer. You can read more about the charity and make donations at their website HERE.

The band have been keen supporters of Teenage Cancer Trust through the years with Liam, Gem and Andy having performed at the event in 2002 with Oasis and both Liam and Gem making several appearances between them through the past decade of gigs.

Tickets are on sale now through the following ticketing agencies:

www.teenagecancertrust.org
www.gigsandtours.com (0871 230 7136)
www.ticketmaster.co.uk (0844 844 0444)
www.royalalberthall.com (0845 401 5030)
www.hmv.com and in selected HMV stores (London area only)

Pretty Green has teamed up with the Teenage Cancer Trust to create a new limited edition T-shirt in an effort to raise funds for the charity.

Speaking about the exclusive design, Gallagher says, "I've always been a massive supporter of Teenage Cancer Trust. This collaboration is only just the start."

The exclusive limited edition t-shirt will be available to purchase from 14th March online and in-store for £45 with £20 from each sale donated directly to the Teenage Cancer Trust.

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Watch Beady Eye's Soundcheck In Milan

Beady Eye's gig in Milan, Italy is coming soon...

Wonderwall.it and Sounday.it are proud to present a special competition RESERVED to all the Milan gig ticket holders.

The gig is on March 16th, four lucky ticket holder can have a closer look at Beady Eye's soundcheck and receive a special gift from Wonderwall.it with fanzines and other Beady Eye promotional stuff.

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Beady Bye In Manchester Setlist And Videos Day Two

Beady Eye played the second of two nights at Manchester's O2 Apollo last night.

Setlist:

'Four Letter Word'
'Beatles And Stones'
'Millionaire'
'For Anyone'
'The Roller'
'Wind Up Dream'
'Bring The Light'
'Standing On The Edge Of The Noise'
'Kill For A Dream'
'Three Ring Circus'
'Man Of Misery'
'The Beat Goes On'
'The Morning Sun'
'Sons Of The Stage'

If you are going to any of the upcoming gigs, and you are able to scan your ticket or send in pictures email them to us @ scyhodot@gmail.com and I will do my best to get them all on the site.

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Beady Eye Australian Interview

Molly Meldrum speaks with the boys from Beady Eye.

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Beady Eye To Return To The USA In August

Yesterday Beady Eye announced two dates in the USA, the band will play Chicago Metro on June 18th, followed by New York Webster Hall on June 23rd.

According to reports on hitsdailydouble.com and various other music sites, Beady Eye will play lives dates on the West Coast of the United States Of America in August.

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Liam Gallagher Splashes The Cash

Liam Gallagher’s been splashing the cash out on tour with his new band Beady Eye.

While in his hometown Manchester for gigs Liam Gallagher booked a fleet of blacked-out limos to ferry his team around.

He hired an entire floor at the chic Lowry Hotel and racked up a £2,000 bar bill, as well as taking wife Nicole Appleton, 36, on a shopping spree.

A source said: “She came back to the hotel with bags and bags of designer stuff.”

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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

One of the most tumultuous bands in rock history came to inauspicious end (for now, anyway) in 2009 when Noel Gallagher suddenly announced he was leaving Oasis after one last blow-out with his brother Liam the night before a Parisian show. A defining band of ’90s Britpop, Oasis was characterized by Noel’s outsized anthems and Liam’s insolent sneer—as well as the seemingly never-ending well of bad blood between the brothers—on classic albums like 1994’s Definitely Maybe and 1995’s (What’s The Story) Morning Glory. Considering the apparent lack of camaraderie in the Gallagher brothers’ relationship, perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise when Liam Gallagher quickly marshaled Oasis members Gem Archer and Andy Bell for a new band, Beady Eye, almost immediately after Noel announced his departure.

As Noel Gallagher continues woodshedding for his solo debut, Beady Eye released its first record, Different Gear, Still Speeding on February 28. While Noel was regarded as the creative brains behind Oasis, Different Gear suggests that Liam and his bandmates are more than capable of kicking up similarly feisty, classicist arena-rock songs without him. The A.V. Club recently spoke with Gallagher and Archer about why Beady Eye absolutely does not sound like Oasis, and whether Liam regrets drinking so much in the ’90s. (Spoiler alert: He doesn’t.)

The A.V. Club: What’s it like having to prove yourselves again with a new band?

Liam Gallagher: We don’t have to prove anything, mate. All we’ve got to do is make great music and play to our best ability, which is amazing.

AVC: But is it exciting to start something new?

LG: But of course, man. That’s what we gotta do, you know what I mean? It was forced upon us. You don’t just stop making music because Noel Gallagher leaves the band, you know what I mean? If people think it was all about Noel, they’re very wrong. We’re all music lovers, we’re all into it. Maybe it’s good that people have low expectations of us.

AVC: It’s inevitable that people are going to compare Beady Eye to Oasis. How comfortable are you with that?

Gem Archer: People obviously will compare. I suppose to the innocent bystander, we look like Oasis and we probably smell like Oasis, but it ain’t Oasis, you know? This is a time in our life when we’ve been given a whole new set of tailors, man.

AVC: Different Gear, Still Speeding sounds very much like a continuation of Oasis. Do you feel like Beady Eye is picking up where that band left off?

GA: Not at all. I don’t see it as a continuation at all, really. That band is over. Noel with Liam was Oasis, and that’s obviously not there anymore. You’ve got a whole load of different angles to look at it.

AVC: How is Beady Eye different?

LG: I think it sounds a lot fresher, a lot grander. The playing, the singing, it’s got a real zest to it. So a continuation? No. This couldn’t be an Oasis album. It’s got a brand new feeling about it.

AVC: Once Oasis folded, how long did it take for you guys to decide to carry on as a new band?

LG: About four beers.

AVC: Is there more to that story?

LG: We went back after the gig where it happened and sat around and had a couple of beers. There was no crying or weeping or anything. We all wanted to carry on, and stay on our musical journey, you know what I mean? We decided to meet up in November, and have a crack at making some demos or whatever. We couldn’t wait that long, so we met up the following week and got cracking. And it’s been nonstop ever since.

AVC: You said earlier that you didn’t have any choice but to start Beady Eye once Noel left Oasis. But did you have any sense before then that Oasis had run its course, and that you wanted to try something else?

LG: Nope. It never crossed our mind. We thought we’d have some time off and then do another record. But I think Noel really wanted out, to be quite honest. He wanted a long time-out. But we’re not getting any younger, and me for one doesn’t want to be sitting at home for five years twiddling me thumbs. I need to be making songs and making music.

AVC: It seems like there was always so much drama and tension in Oasis. Is it more relaxed in Beady Eye?

LG: Yeah, I think so. We’re jumping in and we’re doing our thing and we all have a lot of respect for each other, you know what I mean?
GA: The tension and all that in Oasis, sometimes, if you weren’t in the know, you wouldn’t know what the fuck was going on, man. Because it would all be unsaid, with a tip of the hat and nod and a wink and all that. It wasn’t like they were coming in and knocking each other out every day, you know what I mean?
LG: Yeah, it wasn’t WWF wrestling or anything.

AVC: It seems like Beady Eye is more of a democracy, where Oasis was a dictatorship ruled by Noel. Is that an accurate perception?

LG: Yeah. Oasis is probably more of Noel’s thing. He had the vision of it and all that. But this is four guys that are on the same page, doing the same thing. There are obviously different roles, people better equipped to do different things. No point in us all doing everything.

AVC: How motivated were you during the making of Different Gear, Still Speeding to make a record that would top whatever Noel ends up doing?

LG: Not in our mind. We don’t care what anyone else does. We just do what we do, man. We give it our all, our best shot, you know what I mean? Then we’ll be happy. We’re not in competition at all.

AVC: When was the last time you talked to Noel?

LG: Not since that last time we mashed out a few things at each other at that festival, that was it.

AVC: Noel has given numerous interviews over the years where he’s talked about how hard you are to work with, Liam. Did that ever bother you or hurt your feelings?

LG: Well, it hurt my feelings, but I’m a big boy. But I’m not hard to work with. I’m pretty easy to work with. I think you’ll find that he was probably talking about himself.

AVC: Gem, is it easier for you to be in Beady Eye than it was being in Oasis?

GA: Oh man, it’s not my job to compare. It all seems so long ago now. But working with Liam is honestly incredible, man. In Oasis, I’d be working on Liam’s demos, and the next week I’d be working on Noel’s demos. To me, that was the dynamic of that band, and that’s how it was established when I came into it. The dynamic of this band is still unfolding.

LG: You’ll never hear me having to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the microphone. I’m the first one that wants to get in there and make records. It’s not a chore for me.

GA: With Andy, too, I’m the one going, “Whoa whoa whoa, hold on a second, lads.” Because they’re there, white-hot, ready to go, and I’m like, “Fucking hell, man, hold on a second here.” You’ve got an idea, and you’re setting up the mics, and Andy’s already on the fucking drum kit, ready with a drum part. It’s like, “Chill out, man.” I’m the guy who’s trying to keep people level-headed, sometimes.

AVC: It sounds like Beady Eye might have enough material to do what Oasis did early on with its singles, where you had two or three B-sides for each release.

LG: Yeah, we’d like to do a lot more. But I think them days are gone of releasing like, three B-sides on every track. But we’ll have new B-sides on every track, no doubt.

GA: We had to put our foot down, keeping the album at 13 songs, because some people wanted it to be 10. We were just like, these 13 have got to be together.

AVC: Did you have a lot of songs left over from the Oasis years that you were able to use for Beady Eye?

LG: None of these songs are rejects, you know what I mean?

GA: I genuinely felt encouraged by it, because when me and Andy both joined up, Liam and Noel were goin’, “Do you got any tunes? Do you got any tunes?” It was all about passing the guitar around. It was a pretty fucking established, mega band you’re joinin’ with a fucking ridiculous set list, and your tunes are going to go somewhere amongst that. You’ve got to stand up and be counted as a songwriter. It was always great, it just so happens this is an absolute blank page for all of us.

AVC: Will you be playing any Oasis songs live?

LG: Beady Eye music, mate.

AVC: What’s touring like for you these days? Is it less crazy than it used to be?

LG: We’d like to think it won’t be as mad, and doing massive, massive tours. We just booked the year ahead and it’s shaping up pretty well. But we don’t want to run it into the ground. We want to keep it special, you know what I mean?

AVC: Liam, you had a reputation for living the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle in Oasis. Has that leveled off as you’ve gotten older?

LG: We can go when we go. But we’re old and have kids. You don’t want to be up until 4 and then it’s 8 o’clock and your kids are going to school. But if anyone wants to fucking challenge me to drinking, we can go.

GA: We can go for days, but it’s not the point anymore.

AVC: Do you ever look back on the ’90s and wish you hadn’t drank so much?

LG: I look back and wish I drank more.

AVC: What about at the massive Knebworth shows in ’96, when Oasis played for 250,000 people over two days? You’ve said you don’t remember those gigs.

LG: No, I don’t. But I was obviously there.

AVC: Liam, you’re now an elder statesman of British rock. How do you feel about your legacy?

LG: I’m very comfortable with it, man. There’s a lot more to come. You haven’t seen fuck-all.

AVC: Let’s say Noel Gallagher rang up tomorrow and said he wanted to get Oasis back together. What would you say?

LG: I’d say, “Behave.”

Source: www.avclub.com

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Noel Gallagher: 'Manchester United Were Appalling Against Liverpool - It Was Beautiful To See'

Dr Octagon joins The Sports Bar to give his typically controversial views on City, United, football watching habits and pipe smoking...

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Beady Eye Bootleg Artwork

Bootleg artwork made by fans has now been added to my Beady Eye site here, I have also added a number of new videos and images.

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Beady Eye Head To North America

Beady Eye are pleased to announce a short run of gigs in North America this June.

The three dates take in Chicago Metro on June 18th, followed by Toronto's The Sound Academy on June 20th and New York Webster Hall on June 23rd.

Ticket information:

June 18 - Chicago, IL @ Metro:
On Sale March 11th at 10am at www.etix.com , www.metrochicago.com, Metro Box Office & Charge By Phone: 773.549.4140

June 20 - Toronto, ON @ The Sound Academy:
On Sale March 11th at 10am at www.ticketmaster.ca & all Ticketmaster locations

June 23 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall:
On Sale March 11th at Noon at www.ticketmaster.com & Webster Hall & Mercury Lounge Box Offices & Charge By Phone: 212.260.4700

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

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Video Of Beady Eye In Glasgow

Beady Eye played their first ever gig on 3rd March 2011 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."

As a thank you to the fans who came along and made it such a special night they've put together a short film.

Via Beady eye's Official YouTube page.

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Another Review Of Beady Eye In Manchester

Everyone you speak to in here tonight is referencing the past to survive the future.

Is Liam Gallagher the last of the great old school rock stars? Where did all the great music go? Will this be any good?

Oasis soundtracked a big chunk of a generation, Generation Y, generation why not? People who needed some magic in the broken end of Britain, who needed some belief and needed people like them who made it happen despite everything and the Gallaghers did that. And then some.

Crawling out of the wreckage of Oasis Liam brought the rest of the gang with him minus his kid brother and has created Beady Eye and built a shrine to the sixties. A time when things were simpler and people believed in the redemptive power of music, when dressing up and having a sharp haircut could change the world.

A lot of things get said about Beady Eye and all of them contradictory. Liam Gallagher divides opinion but not in the Apollo where the white heat of adoration is cranked up another couple of notches for the prodigal son returning to his home city.

This is a very northern affair from the clobber to the rock n roll to the punters I bump into tonight like Kev from Leigh who needs this to be great to Joe from Rochdale who loves the album and whose girlfriend knows this will be good to a bunch of scousers with Oasis tattoos. The packed hall is wall to wall comb down hair, modesque clothes mixed with baggy and everyone doing the pimp roll walk. These are people who still believe in the power of rock n roll and are ready for something.

When the band walk on the stage you can feel the heat. Liam Gallagher has got the star thing nailed and radiates the swaggering cool that covers the jangling nerves. He’s going to need it because, oddly, Beady Eye are still a new band. The album has been out five days and even if there’s a bunch of stuff leaked on the internet but people are just getting to grips with the lyrics, ‘don’t worry if you don’t know the words, I don’t either’ jokes Liam as the crowd sing along anyway.

The set is short and sweet- it’s the whole album plus their cover of the genius World Of Twist’s Sons Of The Stage minus their own Wigwam which is one of the album high spots- I guess with its multilayers of sound are tough to play.

The album’s mixture of rockers and anthemic, mobiles in the air songs work perfectly. It’s quickly obvious that this a new Liam, he displays the touch of that vulnerability that has made the Beady album so special. He seems more open now and less guarded in the way he sings and even in the way he moves around on the stage- that’s not say he’s lost his edge, he still does that cool, dead eye, impassive stare into the audience thing and still has his hands behind his back- give it everything- hunched mic assault.

The rest of Beady Eye are the other trump card, consummate musicians and now with Andy Bell back on guitar instead of bass, they sound tight as fuck with a rhythmic looseness provided by Chris Sharrrock that gives the band their edge.
The rockers like Standing On The Edge Of The Noise do their stomping Slade meets White Album Beatles thing perfectly. Set opener Four Letter Word is almost Pistolian in its churning swagger whilst Beatles And Stones ambitiously sets the band’s stall- declaring their legendary status in a show of northern bravado that harks back to the Stone Roses- another band who believed.

The Roller may cop Lennon’s favourite descending riff that he used for All You Need Is Love and Instant Karma but then he copped it from Three Blind Mice- Beady Eye know it’s what you do with the riff that counts. You don’t buy into this for originality- you buy into this for feel, for warmth, a little bit of humanity in the hard sell of modern culture and Beady Eye wear their humanity on their sleeve, their touching love of the classics and the belief that high tide British rock n roll can solve everything is quite touching.

If anything is lost its on the more whimsical numbers like my personal album favourite, The Beat Goes On, which is sung with a childlike innocence and touching belief by Liam, but loses the meletron which is key to the song’s sound.

The new Liam is fascinating- you can see him emerging a more rounded, more real version of himself. The guard dropped this Liam allows his childlike wonder at the world and innocence to emerge in his voice.

Set ender The Morning Son- the song that could be about his fractured relationship with Noel works perfectly building and building to a climactic Chris Sharrock driven exit. It’s wonder at the world feel really harks back to George Harrison’s fantastic All Things Must Pass. It’s all quite stunning. It’s also the only vague reference to our kid- there are thankfully no sneering remarks, no put downs. The audience still respect Noel and are asking constantly about his album. The split is perhaps the best creative thing that could have happened to the band.

The critics moan about the band’s lack of originality but, Beady Eye- like Oasis, have managed to twist their influences into their own trip and their love of the classics makes sense in rip off Britain where you can’t trust anyone from the government to the banks- maybe having something this rock solid makes sense. For one hour the people got what the people wanted for once and Beady Eye delivered.

Source: louderthanwar.com

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Beady Eye In Manchester Review

Looking around the Apollo ten minutes before Beady Eye’s first ever Manchester gig, it’s as if nothing has changed. The Stone Roses blares from the speakers, lager flies everywhere, and Liam Gallagher’s name is chanted, football terrace style, by the inebriated disciples who have already decided where their loyalties lie.

Even by the time Liam strides on to deafening noise in that Mancunian swagger he seemingly invented, squint and this could be Oasis.

Of course, having fallen out spectacularly with brother Noel, Beady Eye are Oasis without the man who wrote the songs that made them Britain’s biggest band.

But if Liam has any cause for regret, he doesn’t display it during a raucous hour-long set that seems determined to banish the memory of Oasis’ long, painful descent into dreary irrelevance.

Four Letter Word, introduced by Liam with several of them, kicks things off with an abrasiveness that barely ceases, the band creating a noise that has more in common with Oasis’ early, us-versus-the-world tenacity than their latter day bloated weariness.

The crowd feed off this, and it is also evident that Liam is revitalised by this reconnection. If you ignore that he appears to have picked up a strange habit of constantly grabbing at his crotch, his status as one of rock’s great frontmen is utterly justifiable, even if the concept of how a man can stand motionless, hands in pockets and remain intensely magnetic is difficult to comprehend.

His voice, too, is fantastic. Having sounded shot to bits in recent years, here his rasping John Lennon-meets-John Lydon snarl is incendiary.

But what about the songs? Debut album Different Gear, Still Speeding sounds exactly as you’d imagine (you didn’t expect them to do a Radiohead, did you?) but being eternally indebted to the obvious rock greats makes for a decidedly mixed bag of tunes.

There are times when you left despairing. Three Ring Circus is the work of a pub band with delusions of grandeur, and the less said about The Roller the better; you may be able to pardon that it steals so flagrantly from Lennon’s Instant Karma, but its pedestrian nature is unforgivable.

Undeniably, though, there are thrilling moments. Bring the Light, the precise point where Lennon meets T-Rex, is driven by a 1950’s rock’n’roll piano to a pulsating climax, but the more esoteric songs are just as promising.

The La’s jangle of For Anyone is surprisingly affecting, but best of all is set-closer The Morning Son, a trippy, semi-psychedelic epic that hints at what could become of Beady Eye if their horizons were to broaden further. For the time being, unruly rock’n’roll concerts will suffice. Over to you, Noel

Source: www.citylife.co.uk

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Gallery: Beady Eye In Manchester

Beady Eye played the first of two much-anticipated homecoming gigs at the Apollo in Manchester.

The band, fronted by Liam Gallagher, entertained a sold-out crowd with songs from their debut album ‘Different Gear, Still Speeding’, which debuted inside the top-3 on the UK album chart at the weekend.

Consisting of Gallagher’s former Oasis band mates minus brother Noel, Beady Eye also performed a cover of World Of Twist's 'Sons Of The Stage'.

Click here to see a number of pictures from the gig.

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