Morning Parade Talk Liam Gallagher & Lady Gaga

Liam Gallagher is "an arsehole," but "in a good sense" according to Morning Parade.

The 'A&E' group want to see more great eccentrics in rock music, following in the footsteps of groups like KISS, Queen and the outspoken former Oasis singer, because today's pop stars are taking over.

Guitarist Chad Thomas told BANG Showbiz: "I think with Lady Gaga - she's not like that as a real person but it works.

"I think rock's gone a bit sterile, it's been too clinical and I think I would be good to get some more of that charisma and wackiness in rock stardom - as long as you've got something to back it up with.

"Like in the old days with Oasis and stuff, Liam Gallagher was a complete arsehole, but in a good sense because he could back it up with brilliant music. It's good to have a bit of that attitude."

Chad was a big fan of Oasis - who split following a fight between Liam and his guitarist brother Noel in 2009 - but thinks the singer's new band, Beady Eye, also have much to bring to today's music scene.

He added: "I loved Oasis, but I'd probably had enough of that, I think I've done my duty, for Liam I think Beady Eye are great lyrically and songwise, and he's brought back the Mod scene, relighting that again - someone's got to do it!"

Morning Parade's debut album is set for release later this year.

Source: www.music-news.com

Noel Gallagher Says No To X-Factor

Noel Gallagher is thought to have turned down more than £1million to replace Simon Cowell on X Factor.

Music mogul Simon told the former Oasis guitarist to "name his price" to fill his judging slot on the hit ITV talent show.

But Noel, 43, said he did not need the cash and wanted to focus on his music career instead – because he had "a duty" to stop brother Liam's band Beady Eye "stinking up the bottom of the charts".

A source revealed multi-millionaire Si, 51, offered a "head-spinning amount of cash", adding: "Noel could name his price.

"Simon promised global fame and a crack at the US panel in future years. He was setting it up for him to make the show his own and fill his boots."

But Simon also wanted Noel to put his music career on the backburner to focus full time on X Factor. And with his first solo material on the horizon, Noel refused.

The future of judges Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh is still undecided, although both are expected to return.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Pengu!ns To Play An Intimate London Gig

Ex-Oasis drummer Zak Starkey's band Pengu!ns are set to play an intimate London gig on Saturday (April 9).

The band will play the Queen Of Hoxton for the This Feeling clubnight.

Starkey is the son of ex-Beatles sticksman Ringo Starr, and is The Who's touring drummer. His band is completed by singer Sharna Liguz aka Sshh.

He played on Oasis' 2005 album 'Don't Believe The Truth' and 2008's 'Dig Out Your Soul'.

Pengu!ns are set to play UK support days with Beady Eye later this year.

See Thisfeeling.co.uk for more information.

Source: www.nme.com

Thank You From Beady Eye

Last Sunday Beady Eye were one of several acts to perform at a benefit to raise money for the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal. The Coral, Graham Coxon, Paul Weller, Kelly Jones, Primal Scream and Richard Ashcroft all played sets to a sell out crowd at Brixton Academy.

Beady Eye would like to thank all the fans, artists and everyone who made the day possible. The event raised £163,262.97 for the appeal.

Beady Eye have also recorded a cover of The Beatles track 'Across The Universe'. Proceeds from the track, which is available to download until Sunday 17th April, will also go to the benefit. Fans can download the track HERE!

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

Noel Gallagher Camp Divided Over New LP?

Noel Gallagher has reportedly collaborated with Amorphous Androgynous on his upcoming solo material.

However, online blogger Peter Cornish-Barlow of Sourmash Music has claimed that the ex-Oasis guitarist disagrees with his management over the tracks.

Writing about the recording sessions on Twitter, Cornish-Barlow said: "He left LA to get away from his management because they don't like the work he is doing with Amorphous Androgynous

"No-one, apart from Noel likes the reworked material AA have done! Its causing problems in camp, so I am told. (sic)"

He added: "Also the feeling is that he won't get his way, and he will most likely [release] the album that did the rounds last year!

"The one [Ex-Creation boss Alan] McGee has heard. He has two albums worth of material too apparently."

Amorphous Androgynous are Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans, also known as The Future Sound Of London. The duo produced a 22-minute remix of the final Oasis single 'Falling Down' in 2009.

It's been reported that Gallagher has also been working in Los Angeles with Jon Graboff, formerly of Ryan Adams & The Cardinals.

Graboff reportedly revealed on his Facebook page: "Heading back to NYC today after an awesome session yesterday with Noel Gallagher in LA."

Source: Digital Spy

Liam Gallagher Is Just A Regular Fella

The rock star Liam Gallagher tells the National why he's 'just a regular fella'

I'm not going to get all sentimental," says Liam Gallagher. "I've got too much still to do. You get your hanky out if you want to. Not me. I'm a busy man."

Liam Gallagher - still sporting the round bowl haircut that his estranged brother, Noel, memorably dubbed "the Ann Widdecombe" - is sitting in the boardroom of his management company in Marylebone, central London. We are looking at the framed photographs, which have lately been removed from the walls, of Noel and him in their Oasis heyday. Boxes of merchandise promoting his new band, Beady Eye, have arrived to be unpacked. It feels odd, spooky even. Like the sad day after a rancorous divorce when one member of the embittered couple moves out and the other tries to move on.

"It don't feel strange at all," he insists. "It's people like you that need to get over it. Don't need pictures and gold discs and what have you. It's all in here." He taps his head. "I've got the greatest rock 'n' roll movie playing in me 'ead. All the time."

When a partnership as seminal as that of the Gallagher brothers splits, you might expect the one who brought the looks, charisma and singing but little meaningful songwriting to the equation to approach a new band with some trepidation. But Liam Gallagher is positively beaming today. Here is a man at last in full control of his destiny. He is dressed in items from his own Pretty Green clothing company. He has come hot foot from tour rehearsals at a studio down the road.

In fact, Beady Eye is Oasis minus his brother and the fulfilment of an old dream. Oasis played their first show 20 years ago this year. It was famously Liam Gallagher's band until his elder brother stepped in. Once Noel assumed songwriting duties he propelled them to a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful UK band of the 1995-2005 decade after selling over 70 million albums.

Now, though, after two decades of often pantomime sibling rivalry culminating in a catastrophic falling-out in Paris in 2009, Liam Gallagher has got his band back.

"People go on about there being a power struggle but I don't really see it that way," he says. "We didn't get on. We never have. And in the end it became unbearable. And whatever was written about me being the c*** I know what happened and what it was like.

"People can believe what they want to believe about me but you know what? I'm all right. I'm OK to be around and I do my job. The band (Andy Bell, Gem Archer and drummer Chris Sharrock) followed me out the door, remember. Not the little fella. That tells you all you need to know."

In August 2009 Oasis were still one of the biggest live acts in the world when their tour reached Paris's Rock en Seine festival. Backstage before the show, there was a row - hardly a new occurrence; Liam is known to have attacked his brother with a tambourine as far back as 1993 - but Noel issued a statement claiming "verbal and violent intimidation" from his brother towards himself and his family had reached intolerable levels. He didn't sound like a rock star. He sounded like a man reporting a serious domestic violence incident. Liam scoffs at the suggestion that he was the cause of the split. As he tells it, in fits and starts:

"It all kicks off backstage just before the gig in Paris... Our kid f***s off. We others went back to the hotel and had a couple of beers. No tears, mind. We kind of seen that coming. I ask them... 'What do you want to do? Stay a band?' Agreed... We'll meet in a couple of months and book a little studio and do some tunes. That was August. We were meant to meet in November but... We couldn't wait that long. That says a lot, doesn't it? We met the following week... That's it... We started a new band and it was all nice and easy and it happened like that because there was no aggro and there was no f***ing tantrums and there was no boss throwing his f***ing weight around."

He paints a rosy picture of the working practices of Beady Eye. He could almost be an idealistic youngster celebrating the fall of a dictator. There is no leader as such, he says. They all pitch in ideas and it becomes obvious when they are not heading in a productive direction. But one thing they agreed on is the fact that the 1960s, when The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and The Who held sway in UK rock culture, were the greatest days there have ever been. It is the spirit of these times that underpins everything Beady Eye does, whether it be the haircuts, the moody photo shoots in leather jackets or indeed the music; that spirit was the underpinning of a lot of Oasis music, too.

"Just 'cause it's a new band don't mean we've changed our tastes in music," says Gallagher. "We know what's great."

It's hard to overstate how important the preservation of the Beatles/Sixties sensibility is to Gallagher. One of the formative moments in his songwriting career came after he was invited to visit Yoko Ono's apartment in New York's Dakota apartment building a few years ago. The visit was arranged by a manager, and Ono greeted him at the door.

"It were dead spooky the feeling I got in that place," he says. "She was top. She made the tea. But I was a bit weirded out by being in there. In a good way though. I felt his [John Lennon's] presence. And afterwards I was writing loads of tunes. It was inspiring. They just came out of me 'cause of being in that apartment."

The new album, Different Gear, Still Speeding, features a track called Beatles & Stones, which pretty much formalises a manifesto that has riled critics but delighted fans for years: the Sixties were the greatest music decade ever, and there's no point trying to improve on it.

"We're not doing anything new," says Gallagher. "We are the first to admit that. I haven't got time to be experimenting. I just want to f***ing rock 'n' roll. We do the Beatles-y, Stones-y, Kinks-y sound better than anyone and I'm not pretending it's anything that it isn't. We are still a band that are going to get a lot of kids off their arses. I'm proud of that."

He shifts in his seat and rubs his knuckles. This is familiar territory. Oasis has been one of the most bankable British band for 20 years and yet save for the flowering of Britpop they have been critical kicking boys for much of that time, too. "Music for van drivers", "pub rock" - the plaudits saved for peers such as Radiohead and Damon Albarn's Blur have rarely come their way.

"I don't want to break new ground," Gallagher snarls. "I don't. I've heard what goes on on the new ground and it sounds like **** to me. F***ing Radiohead. I mean I really truly don't get it. A band goes out of its way to make things hard for the f***ing listener and the critics are stroking their chins and loving it. But... I've grown up. I'm not getting into knocking anyone. To me music is all about the feeling it gives you. You can't beat where The Beatles took us and I like to think that we can bring some of that back to the kids today. End of."

Gallagher says he is getting to do things he did not have a chance to do when his brother was in charge. For one, they can make decent videos (he says his brother didn't care enough about them). Secondly, they can take charge of photo shoots. And finally, he says he is not being forced to scream his vocals over the dense sound his brother preferred. Beady Eye is a softer proposition. More light and shade. Lyrics that you can understand (these are in part the contribution of Bell and Archer.) In short, he has been released from the tyranny of "the little fella".

"People have said that they can hear me singing properly for the first time since... right back at the start of Oasis," says Gallagher. "With Oasis I'd be shouting and screaming to be heard over the top. With this album Andy and Gem encouraged me to sing first over acoustic guitar and drums, and a lot of them were keepers. I got in there first and it gave me a bit more room to breathe and so yeah... I hope it shines through. I'm working with people now as opposed to being wheeled on to sing over something. There's more of me in it."

Gallagher feels he has been a rock star for 20 years now. You would have expected him to have been a casualty given his past appetite for drink and drugs. When several of his teeth were knocked out in a Munich bar fight 10 years ago it seemed par for the course. And yet here he is, nearing 40 and the picture of contentment.

"I am a rock star. Born a rock star," he says. "But that don't mean I act like a ****. I don't do premieres or hang out with young bands trying to be the big man. That's pathetic."

Each morning he wakes up at 5:59. He likes to beat the alarm, which is set for 6am. He dons his running gear and canters onto Hampstead Heath near where he lives with his wife, the Canadian pop singer and actress Nicole Appleton, and their nine-year-old son, Gene. Gallagher will then run for around 90 minutes. No headphones, no music. When he gets home he might make breakfast and then he takes Gene to school. He gives a detailed and convincing description of the little plastic school chairs he has to cram into on parents' evening to review his children's work.

"I do it all. I'm just a regular fella... who happens to be a rock star," he says.

As well as his clothing line and his new band he is about to launch a career as a film producer. It doesn't come as any great surprise to discover it is a Beatles-related project. His production company has begun work on the adaptation of The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary of The Beatles, Their Million-Dollar Apple Empire and Its Wild Rise & Fall written by the Apple records insider Richard DiLello in 1972.

Perhaps change the rather quaint reference to a mere million dollars and there are irresistible echoes in that title. Will Oasis ever re-form?

"What for? What would be the point? Me and our kids ain't going to change," Gallagher says. "I'll miss them songs but they are in me 'ead. They are in my life deeply already. In my DNA. But Beady Eye can't start banging out f***ing Live Forever, can they? It would be like Simon Cowell going on holiday with all his ex-wives. It's f***ing wrong, man. Leave it alone. It's not right."

Source: Thenational.ae

Beady Eye's 'Andy Bell' 5-10-15-20

Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to Andy Bell about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives.

Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are.

Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "Dinomutt Dog Wonder" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.

Click here to see what Andy picked, including The Beatles, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Oasis, Jay-Z and more.

Source: pitchfork.com

Watch Beady Eye On 'Later' Now

Beady Eye's interview and live performance of Millionaire that was broadcast last night on BBC Two's 'Later'.

The show is 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.

Beady Eye 'Japan Disaster Benefit' Footage And Interview

Broadcast in Peru, the video contains footage from Sunday Night's Japan Disaster Benefit at the Brixton Academy, London.

Yoko Ono Thanks Liam Gallagher

Yoko Ono has thanked Liam Gallagher for his support he has given to the people of Japan, following the devastating Tsunami that hit the country last month.

Yoko Tweeted earlier today today: 'Thank you, Liam. It's nice to know that you are there with us. Love, yoko http://bit.ly/ATUjap @Beady_Eye AcrossTheUniverse £→BritRed+'.

She included a link to download Beady Eye's cover of The Beatle's 'Across The Universe', which they performed live during Sunday Night's Japan Disaster Benefit at the Brixton Academy in London.

The concert also featured The Coral, Graham Coxon, Paul Weller, Kelly Jones, Primal Scream and Richard Ashcroft. Beady Eye closed the show with their first ever performance of 'Across The Universe'.

The day before the charity event, during an 8 hour session, Beady Eye went into RAK studios to record and mix their version of the song from The Beatles' 'Let It Be' album.

Beady Eye have made the track available for a limited period to download through their website.

You can download the single here.

All proceeds from the sale of the track after VAT, credit card fees and mcps (62p) will go directly toward the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.

A number of pictures of Liam with Yoko from 2005 can be found here.

Liam Gallagher & Andy Bell's 13 Favourite Albums

Speaking on behalf of Beady Eye, Messrs Liam Gallagher and Andy Bell tell us their favourite records.

The more cynical Quietus reader would probably expect the members of Beady Eye – essentially Oasis without the scowling eyebrows and dictatorial plankspanking of Noel Gallagher – and frontman Liam Gallagher in particular to simply list all 13 of The Beatles’ for their Bakers Dozen choices, but not so. Indeed, while their list errs towards the tail of the 1960s, punk and the dawn of Britpop, the absence of any albums by the Fab Four in their group incarnation is telling, as is the presence of the single Beatles member who does make the final cut.

Running through the list with The Quietus, Gallagher and guitarist Andy Bell are at pains to point out that the compiled list is a group effort and not the choices of a single member. “Beady Eye is a democracy and we all bring in ideas and we all bring in songs and of course we have complete freedom,” explains Bell. “That’s the thing that has to be mentioned in comparison to Oasis. That doesn’t mean that we didn’t have freedom in Oasis because we did. The dynamic in Beady Eye is really healthy.”

Click here to see the albums the boys picked and why.

Source: thequietus.com

Beady Eye Interview From Radio 105 In Italy

Click here to watch an interview with Beady Eye from Radio 105 in Italy.

Watch Beady Eye On 'Later...' Tonight

Beady Eye are set to perform on 'Later...' on BBC2 (UK Only). 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 tonight (5th April), it's 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.

On This Day In Oasis History...

Noel Gallagher appeared on TFI Friday on April 5th 1996, the show was presented by Chris Evans and the interview was filmed in Chris' London home.

Click into the following links to watch the videos, part one & part two.

Noel Gallagher To Wed This Summer

There is no shortage of celebrity wedding action this summer.

If you were thinking Prince William's nuptials were shaping up to be the booziest, Lily Allen's the most debauched or Ed Miliband's the "must-have" invite - you'd be wrong.

Former Oasis star Noel Gallagher and fiancée Sara MacDonald are tying the knot in the most rock 'n' roll ceremony of 2011.

The couple - who have two young sons together, Donavan and Sonny - have been an item since they bumped into each other in Space nightclub during a wild summer in Ibiza back in 2000.

It has taken a bit of time but loaded Noel finally saved up enough of his hard-earned cash to buy a sufficiently huge diamond ring to rope his Scottish "missus" into marriage. A source said: "Noel secretly asked Sara to marry him on her birthday last October. He's not one for making a big scene. This is the man who kept his leather jacket on when his lad Donovan was born.

"They have been living like they are married for years anyway, but now they have a family together Noel thought it was the right time to do the romantic thing.

"He splashed out on a mega posh Solange Azagury-Partridge ring from a Bond Street jewellers. They are madly in love and spend all their time together without any bickering. They are a perfect match."

These two are not shy about having a good night out on the tiles. Without any Oasis gigs or major football championships this summer, I suspect they probably felt obliged to organise some entertainment of their own.

Sara has been busy organising the finer details of her big day - including the ultimate guest-list headache. Famous pals Russell Brand and Katy Perry will fly in for the day.

They can look forward to rubbing shoulders with Noel's Manchester City supporting pals including Scully, the gentleman rogue from Wythenshawe.

Noel is just about to finish mastering his debut solo album in Los Angeles.

I hear he bumped into Mark Wahlberg in Toys R Us in Hollywood the other day.

That's something that doesn't happen very often when he's getting the milk in Waitrose in north London.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Liam Gallagher's Morning Glory In The Park

If you'd have told Liam Gallagher to buy Lycra and follow a daily jogging routine 15 years ago, he'd have punched you in the teeth.

How times have changed for the former drug-hoovering rock 'n' roll star.

The Cigarettes & Alcohol singer is still "mad for it" - but he's getting his kicks fighting the flab these days.

The former Oasis frontman looked committed to the cause covered head-to-toe in exercise attire as he burned a few calories on London's Hampstead Heath.

With his hood up, Liam would have struggled to hear a Songbird or F***** In The Bushes as he ran the through the park.

Click here to see the photo.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Beady Eye Record Beatles Cover For Japan Tsunami Appeal‎

Beady Eye have announced they are releasing a cover of The Beatles' 'Across The Universe' which they performed live during Sunday Night's Japan Disaster Benefit at the Brixton Academy, London. The concert also featured The Coral, Graham Coxon, Paul Weller, Kelly Jones, Primal Scream and Richard Ashcroft. Beady Eye closed the show with their first ever performance of 'Across The Universe'.

The day before the charity event, during an 8 hour session, Beady Eye went into RAK studios to record and mix their version of the song from The Beatles' 'Let It Be' album. Beady Eye have today made the track available for a limited period to download through their website. All proceeds from the sale of the track after VAT, credit card fees and mcps, (62p) will go directly toward the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.

To download your copy go HERE!

Beady Eye Records have three posters commemorating the event, designed by Gem, that will be given to three lucky fans chosen at random who download the track. The posters have been signed by Liam, Gem and Andy.

The Japan Disaster Benefit has so far raised over £150,000 for the British Red Cross Japanese Tsunami Appeal. To read more about the Red Cross' work in Japan and to donate, click HERE!

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

'Upside Down: The Creation Records Story' Glagow Premiere Videos

Upside Down: The Creation Records Story documents the rise and fall of legendary indie label Creation Records.

Director Danny O'Connor spoke to Stow College's TV Production students about the process of making the film.

The official Glasgow Film Festival film team from Stow College's TV Production course were there to capture the action and to find out what some of the party-goers thought of the film.

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

Massive thanks to all the musicians for playing last night and especially the fans who were amazing ! Keep the faith, bware of darkness LG


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Japan Disaster Benefit Gig Gallery

Onstage and backstage at the charity fundraiser - featuring the likes of Beady Eye, Paul Weller, Primal Scream, Richard Ashcroft, Graham Coxon, Kelly Jones and The Coral...

Click here to see the gallery.