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On March 30th 2000, Liam Gallagher was interviewed by Carson Daly in New York for MTV's Total Request Live.

Liam Gallagher Insulted By People Siding With Noel

Liam Gallagher is insulted people think his brother Noel Gallagher was "carrying" Oasis.

The singer formed Beady Eye with the remaining members of the 'Lyla' rockers - Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock - when Noel quit the band in August 2009, and admits he was surprised so many people wrote off his chances of musical success without his older sibling.

He said: "I'm insulted that people think Noel Gallagher has been f***ing carrying this band for the last 18 years.

"People were saying [about Beady Eye], 'Oh it's going to be f***ing s**t.' It's like, are you tripping or what?"

The 'Bring the Light' singer is upset some critics and music fans have seemingly chosen sides since the brothers combusted, and he thinks people should give them both a chance on their own.

He added: "The Noel versus Liam thing, I'm a bit saddened by it, that some people feel like they need to pick sides. Like, I wouldn't go and see The Stone Roses and be like, 'I hate John Squire but I'm into Ian Brown,' or whatever."

Source: www.list.co.uk

Listen To Highlights From The Concerts For Teenage Cancer Trust Tonight

Over two nights Absolute Radio will broadcast highlights, recorded at the Concerts For Teenage Cancer Trust 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Event details

When:7.00pm (UK TIME) on Wednesday, 30 March 2011 (today)
Until:8.00pm (UK TIME) on Wednesday, 30 March 2011 (today)
Where: on Absolute Radio

Event details

When:7.00pm (UK TIME) on Thursday, 31 March 2011
Until:8.00pm on Thursday, 31 March 2011
Where:on Absolute Radio

Charity Japan Gig Promoters Criticise Ticket Resale

Promoters for a charity gig set up to raise money for victims of the Japanese tsunami have criticised websites for allowing people to re-sell tickets for profit.

SJM, who are organising the show with the British Red Cross, have branded the sites "highly distasteful".

The gig at London's Brixton Academy features Beady Eye and Primal Scream.

They said: "We strongly disapprove of profiteering from the misery and suffering of the people in Japan."

Tickets for the show taking place on Sunday 3 April are being sold for over double their original value after they went on sale last Friday (25 March).

'Very disappointing'

Primal Scream, Blur's Graham Coxon, Richard Ashcroft, Paul Weller and The Coral will play alongside Liam Gallagher's new band.

SJM said they had asked companies involved in the secondary/reselling ticket market to "delist the event".

"It is very disappointing that one secondary reseller and eBay continue to offer these charity fundraiser tickets," it added.

Source: www.beadyeye.com

You can donate to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal can do so here or by calling 08450 53 53 53.

Liam Gallagher Blames Poor Vocals On Brother Noel

Liam Gallagher has conceded his singing during Oasis' doomed final tour was dreadful, and he blames his poor performances on the earphones he wore to drown out brother Noel's loud guitar.

The Beady Eye frontman attracted swathes of criticism for his half-hearted vocals towards the end of his former band's career as he often shouted his lines or cut them short.

Gallagher has now admitted his singing in recent years has been "s**t" but he's adamant Noel is responsible because he turned his guitar up too loud, forcing the frontman to use noise-reducing earphones onstage.

Gallagher tells Nme, "I've been getting a right kicking! I didn't know I sounded that s**t, but I'm gonna explain this now, right? I was using them in-ear monitors, and that isolated me from the band. I had to, cos our kid (Noel) was, like, up to 900 (on the guitar amps), so f**king loud."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Liam Gallagher Wants Beady Eye To Be Bigger Than The Beatles

Liam Gallagher has said he wants his new band Beady Eye to be more successful than The Beatles.

The singer once claimed he wanted to be more famous than Oasis but now he's told NME that he's setting his sights higher.

'I want to be as a big as The Beatles. F*** being as big as Oasis, man, you know what I mean?'

But the star wasn't getting too cocky - he admitted that it probably wouldn't happen.

'I want to be bigger than The Beatles. That's what we're dealing with and whether we do or not - and we probably won't - but who cares?

'It's just the f***ing name of the game. Yes, we want to sell a s**tload of records, play stadiums and inspire s**tloads of kids over the f***king universe. Deep down that's what I wanna do...but not just yet.'

Gallagher also used the interview to mouth off against The Strokes and Elbow.

Liam rubbished The Strokes' frontman Julian Casablancas for acting like it was a 'chore' for him to be in the band.

He also attacked Elbow saying they had a 's**t name for a band'.

'That's like calling yourself The Chins or The Knees or something!'

Source: www.metro.co.uk

Northern Ireland Screenings Of 'Upside Down', The Creation Records Story'

Fans will be able to see Upside Down, The Creation Records Story, in Northern Ireland later this week.

The two dates are:

Belfast Film Festival on Friday April 1st - details here.
Select screening in Derry on Sat Apr 2nd, details here.

Upside Down is a film charting the rise and fall of Creation Records, and will be available on DVD and Bluray on May 9th (more details here).

The documentary has been put together by Document - the production company run by Danny O'Connor and Steve Lamacq - and will feature the likes of Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and, of course, McGee himself.

McGee, alongside Joe Foster and Dick Green, started Creation in 1983, eventually signing the likes of The Jesus And Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Super Furry Animals and Oasis throughout its 16-year saga.

For more film festival dates in numerous countries click here for more details.

Pre-Sale Link For Beady Eye At Somerset House

PRESALE SOLD OUT

The pre-sale link for Beady Eye's Somerset House gig on July 12th, will be available at the band's Facebook page from 8.45am (UK Time) today here.

Tickets go on general sale from Friday 1st April at 9am through Ticketmaster.

Liam Gallagher Reveals Beady Eye's Album And Tour Secrets

Beady Eye have spoken to NME about the secrets behind the tracks on their debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'.

Liam Gallagher's band are on the cover of new issue of NME, which is on UK newsstands now (March 30) or available digitally.

Gallagher, Andy Bell and Gem Archer revealed the history behind their debut single 'The Roller', which was written in 2001 and hailed by the singer's then-Oasis bandmate Noel Gallagher as "a fucking Number One single".

The band also reveal that the intro music to their recent gigs is an instrumental song named 'Yellow Tail'. It was written by Archer and completed while rehearsing for the tour.

"Me and Andy, at the last rehearsal in Brixton, the day before [their first gig in] Glasgow, were still finishing it," he explained.

Meanwhile Gallagher also gave his verdict on Beady Eye's tour so far as NME follows the band throughout Europe. He also gave his thoughts on other bands including The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys and Elbow.

Source: www.nme.com

Beady Eye To Perform On 'Later...'

Beady Eye are set to perform on 'Later...' on BBC2 in the UK. The band will perform on the first episode of the new series and will be joined on the show by Elbow, Anna Calvi, Raphael Saadiq and The Tallest Man On Earth.

The show will air live at 10pm on Tuesday 5th April, then repeated with extra performances at 11:50pm on Friday 8th April and Sunday 10th April at 12:30am.

The show will also be available to view for a limited period on the BBC iPlayer for fans in the UK.

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

Beady Eye On The Front Cover Of This Week's NME

In this week's NME...

We're on the road with Beady Eye from Glasgow to Milan as they complete their first ever tour. Expect a new crop of classic Liam-isms. Here's part of one now: "D'you want a tan or what, you dick?"

Listen To Highlights From The Concerts For Teenage Cancer Trust

Over two nights Absolute Radio will broadcast highlights, recorded at the Concerts For Teenage Cancer Trust 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Event details

When:7.00pm (UK TIME) on Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Until:8.00pm (UK TIME) on Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Where: on Absolute Radio

Event details

When:7.00pm (UK TIME) on Thursday, 31 March 2011
Until:8.00pm on Thursday, 31 March 2011
Where:on Absolute Radio

Beady Eye To Play Somerset House, London

Beady Eye are pleased to announce they will be headlining an outdoor summer gig at London's Somerset House on 12th July.

Tickets for the gig will go on sale from Friday 1st April with Beady Eye fans being given the opportunity to get theirs early through an exclusive website pre-sale from 9am on Wednesday 30th March.

To get the password for the pre-sale, head on over to the band Facebook page HERE! from 8.45 on Wednesday 30th March.

Tickets go on general sale from Friday 1st April at 9am through Ticketmaster.

Keep checking back to the website for support band details.

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

Beady Eye Support 'Old Friends' In Japan

Beady Eye organised a charity concert for earthquake victims in Japan because they have ''old friends'' in the country.

The 'Bring The Light' band decided to organise the event in London - which will include performances from Primal Scream, Paul Weller and Richard Ashcroft - because they have always been treated with respect in Japan both as members of Oasis and with their latest group.

Speaking ahead of another charity show, for Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall, last Friday (25.03.11), guitarist Gem Archer said: "There's a real long relationship. I mean, some of these Japanese fans are old friends now, let alone the people in the record companies and whoever else we've met. So then this idea came up of, 'Why don't we just get something together and then give all the money to the Red Cross'. "

The musician added he is pleased with the reception to Beady Eye - which is comprised of all the members of Oasis minus Noel Gallagher - in Japan, with their debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' being a hit and a tour selling out weeks in advance.

He told Absolute Radio DJ Ben Jones: "We are meant to be going, I think, in about three weeks, four weeks, and those shows all sold out in the blink of an eye.

"It's a small club tour, but they were like bang on it, and they stuck our album at number one."

The earthquake charity concert will take place at London's 02 Academy in Brixton on April 3 with all proceeds going to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.

Highlights from the week long shows for Teenage Cancer Trust can be heard on Absolute Radio in the UK.

Source: www.contactmusic.com

You can donate to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal can do so here or by calling 08450 53 53 53.

Beady Eye Interview With Ben Jones

BEN JONES INTERVIEWS BEADY EYE

BJ: Ben Jones
BE:Members of Beady Eye

BJ: Alright, this is Ben Jones, it is Absolute Radio, and we're backstage at the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at the Royal Albert Hall, and I’m delighted to say that Beady Eye are here. Good to see you.

LG: Good to see you, mate.

BJ: Rare that you get the opportunity to talk to a band pre-show. Do you get nervous before shows like this?

LG: Not really, no, don’t get nervous at all, as long as the sound is alright everything is great, you know what I mean, its when the sound isn’t up to scratch, that when you kind of get the nerves set in because you think ‘Oh God, its going to be like this’, but if the sound’s good, we’re good.

BJ: And in terms of acoustics, you don’t get much better than the Royal Albert Hall do you.

LG: Yeah, so they say.

BJ: Now some people wanted this project to kind of maybe fail, and the success of the tour and the success of the album have, yet again, proved these people wrong. Thats a nice position to be in, a comfortable position to be in, that you proved the critics wrong maybe?

GA: Oh they of little faith. It’s not their job to have belief is it.

BJ: You had the belief, you knew it was going to be alright, yeah?

GA: Yeah, born with the belief.

BJ: Tell us a little bit about those early sessions when you went in, and it was only really a couple of weeks post the conception of the band that you decided you had a lot of songs and you wanted to get into a studio and record them, they came quite quickly, is that right?

GA: Yeah, I think the lads started demoing pretty much after all that happened, and sent me the tunes up and that, and I learned my part and they just kept on sending me tracks up, so yeah, it was pretty quick really, few weeks.

BJ: And tell us a little bit about the subject matter of the songs, where did the ideas for some of these tracks come from, or were they songs that had always been kicking around in various heads?

GA: The lyrics to the tunes were written over a long period of time I think, really. I mean, some of them go back a few years, some of them are brand new, but just basically the same way you always write songs, just personal, whatever, you know, things that rhyme.

BJ: Liam, tell us a little bit about that first show as Beady Eye, when you stepped out onto stage, what do you remember?

LG: It was great, man, but we’d been rehearsing for a couple of months before that so we knew what was going down, all we had to do, we’d done some great gigs in front of no one, you know what I mean, so we just had to put the kids in there. A bit of nerves and that, but a bit of relief that people seemed to take to us, you know what I mean, and it’s only going to get better. There’s no one screaming for Noel or Oasis or obscure songs, so that was nice.

BJ: You’ve played these gigs before as part of Oasis, and obviously Noel’s got a good history with the Teenage Cancer Trust shows as well. When you get that call from Roger Daltrey I guess its kind of difficult probably to say no isn’t it?

LG: Well I did last year, I said no last year, but only because my kids were going to Disney World and that. I don’t think he was too pleased, but there you go, man. I mean, how do you tell the kids that you’re not going to Disney Land, but here we go, forget that, we’re back here.

GA: You should do it like that advert, you know, ‘We’re not going to Disney World’.

BJ: Yeah, ‘We’re not going to Disney Land’.

BE: Yeah, so having to say no to him was a bit heavy, you know what I mean, I was sweating a lot that day.

BJ: He called you, he described you as ‘a sweetheart’ on the show to us not that long ago, and of all the phrases, of all the words that are often used to describe Liam Gallagher ‘sweetheart’ wouldn’t have been if I was on Family Fortunes it wouldn’t have been one of the ones that I’d necessarily gone for.

LG: Yeah.

BJ: What’s your relationship like with him?

BE: Me and Rog go way back, he’s a sweetheart too. We’re just two little sweethearts lost in this world of straights.

BJ: You started off on Twitter and you got like 190,000 followers in no time at all, and yet you haven’t Tweeted for a while. Have you got bored, have you moved on to something else, what’s the deal with that?

LG: I only Tweet when someone’s got it majorly wrong, you know what I mean, that’s the way I use it. If someone’s barking up the wrong tree I sort of point them in the right direction, but other than that I’m not into Tweeting, its rubbish.

BJ: Tell us a little bit about the clothing company. We are literally just around the corner, Absolute Radio is just around the corner from your store. Where do these ideas come from, do you actually design all the clothes yourself? Talk it through.

LG: Yeah, well its inspired by the 60s and that I suppose, that’s about it, bands and stuff. I’m not reinventing the wheel, I like that kind of style, you know what I mean, so that’s what we do. Me and Nick Holland, there’s a guy who does it with us, he just comes round and goes through our wardrobes, and anything that looks rubbish or a bit tired we sort of just breathe a bit of life into it.

BJ: Gem, one of the questions I wanted to ask you, there has been a lot of talk post the Oasis split that you guys were also going to be working with Noel and also working with Liam further down the line and following on from the success of Beady Eye, which is very much now a new band, what is the deal with you guys working on Noel’s projects?

GA: There’s always a lot of talk, so much myth and rumour and all that. We should have pulled up on this earlier, there’s no projects in our world, this is a band, so that I suppose informs this answer, there’s no projects going down, it’s a band, simple as, or, at a push, a group.

BJ: The live shows have been getting some tremendous reviews, and you’re doing this very special gig on April the 3rd for the Japan Tsunami Appeal.

GA: Yeah.

BJ: Tell us a little bit about that, because it kind of comes across as an ‘and friends’ gig when you look down the list of who’s playing.

GA: Well that’s exactly it. Liam came up with the idea because we are meant to be going I think in about three weeks, four weeks, and that all sold out in the blink of an eye. It’s a small club tour, but they were like bang on it, they stuck our album at number one, there’s a real long relationship. I mean, some of these Japanese fans are old friends now, let alone the people in the record companies and whoever else we’ve met, so then this idea came up of ‘Why don’t we just get something together and then give all the money to the Red Cross’. And you know what? It is possible, this took 10 days to bring together and it sold out in an hour.

BJ: It’s incredible how some of these gigs take months and months and months to organise.

GA: Well there you go.

BJ: And yet I got this email a few days after, and it was put together very, very quickly. Who organised it?

GA: Liam was sort of texting me everybody’s replies, like forwarding or whatever, you know, and it was all in the total spirit of it, like a wop bop a loo bop, that was from Bobby Gillespie, let’s have it.

LG: Everyone was buzzing, man. I mean, obviously there was a few people that couldn’t make it and that, but we let them off this time.

BJ: Well listen, have a tremendous show, and I know that there’s a lot of people outside desperate to see Beady Eye at the Royal Albert Hall. Congratulations on the success of this new band.

BE: Thank you.

Interview by Absolute Radio DJ Ben Jones TCT gig highlights can be heard on Absolute Radio.

Thanks to Jonny Silver for the transcript, listen to the interview here.

Liam Gallagher: 'Twitter Is Rubbish'

Liam Gallagher has branded Twitter "rubbish".

The Beady Eye frontman claims that he's not a big fan of the micro-blogging site despite the fact his own Twitter page, Twitter.com/liamgallagher, with over 200,000 followers.

"I only tweet when someone's got it majorly wrong, you know what I mean? That's the way I use it," he told Absolute Radio.

He added: "If someone's barking up the wrong tree I sort of point them in the right direction, but other than that I'm not into tweeting - it's rubbish."

Gallagher's Twitter page was regularly used to promote his Pretty Green clothes label, although he last used it to spread some Christmas cheer in December.

Source: www.nme.com

Beady Eye Interview From Absolute Radio

Click here to listen to an uncut interview with Liam Gallagher and Gem Archer with Ben Jones at the Concerts for Teenage Cancer Trust 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Highlights from the Teenage Cancer Trust gig can be heard on Absolute Radio.

Beady Eye Add Festival Date In Italy

Beady Eye are pleased to announce they will be returning to Italy to play at this year's Heineken Jammin' Festival in Venice, 9th June.

Tickets are on sale now through www.ticketone.it.

Other acts confirmed for the festival include Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Coldplay.

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

Alan McGee Credits Model With Oasis Discovery

Music legend Alan McGee has sourced plenty of great bands during his years in the business including The Libertines and Primal Scream – but his greatest discovery owes itself to a certain female figure.

The Glasgow mogul – who founded the legendary Creation Records – was just a love-struck young man when he entered King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut on the city's St Vincent Street in May 1993.

Waiting to be set up with a model friend of his sisters, McGee took little note of the floppy haired Mancunian brothers raggedly setting up their instruments on the nearby stage.

However, a cruel twist of fate would result in McGee finding one of the greatest rock n’ roll bands in British music history.

Speaking to The Hour, McGee told the real story behind his discovery of Oasis and how he plans to cope with retirement from the industry he loves.

“I didn’t go looking for Oasis,” explained McGee. “I was actually chasing a model at the time but I can’t say who because she was my sister’s friend.

“The girl didn’t show up in the end but me and my sister stayed to watch this band, who turned out to be Oasis. So that’s actually why I was there.

“Most of my best signings have been to do with chasing women. It helps because girls usually know what’s good in music.”

Now retired from the cut-throat music industry, the man who discovered some of Britain’s biggest bands is now working behind a film documenting his days with Creation Records.

Aptly titled Upside Down, the movie tells the story behind one of music’s biggest and most chaotic movements and how Britpop would change the nation’s musical tastes for years to come.

Although McGee admits that the days of The Beatles and Oasis are long gone he still has high hopes that his home city can produce some more music greats – even without his legendary eye for talent.

“I like some Scottish new bands. I like Glasvegas obviously and I like Pete Macloud.

“There are three cities that are really important in UK for music. Probably the most important city is Manchester, but Liverpool and Glasgow are also important.

“I think it’s the fact that these cities are all cultural centres for Irish people and that celtic-ness, it just kinda works."

Watch the interview here.

Source: stv.tv/music

Liam Gallagher's Big 5

Click here to see Liam Gallagher talk about his top 5 Manchester City moments.