Beady Eye Return To Canada

It's been reported that Beady Eye will announce a show in Vancouver next week.

The show is scheduled for November 29th at The Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.

Noel Gallagher Live Dates In Dublin, London And Glasgow

Noel Gallagher has revealed that his tour will kick-off in the Irish capital Dublin on October 23rd, and will then travel to England for dates in his hometown Manchester.

There will also be stops at London and Glasgow. Gallagher also admitted that he would be playing Oasis songs during the tour, due to the lack of material the band currently have to play live gigs with.

“We're going to go out on tour a week after the album is out.” Noel said. “We're going to start off slow in small theatres. If it's good enough to get bigger than that then it’ll get bigger than that.”Noel then publicised his hopes to put on a bigger tour next year, possibly following the release of his second album, an effort with psychedelic rockers Amorphous Androgynous.“I don't think they’ll be a huge great big tour this year. I think this year it’ll be a quick whizz around the world and try and do the major cities and then it will probably be a bigger tour next year.

Noel Gallagher Press Conference Alternative Video

Noel Gallagher confirmed Yesterday at a press conference in London that his brand new album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' - the first of TWO recently completed albums - will be released through his own label, Sour Mash Records, on October 17th (this date will vary slightly internationally).

'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' features ten new songs and was recorded over the past year in London and Los Angeles. It was co-produced by Noel and David Sardy, who Noel has worked with previously.




Noel said his band, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, will tour this autumn after the release of the album.

Noel also revealed in the press conference that he has completed a second album which is a continuation of his collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous. This as-yet untitled album will be released in 2012.

The tracklisting for 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' is below:

1. Everybody's On The Run

2. Dream On

3. If I Had A Gun...

4. The Death Of You And Me

5. (I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine

6. AKA... What A Life!

7. Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks

8. AKA... Broken Arrow

9. (Stranded On) The Wrong Beach

10. Stop The Clocks

Noel Gallagher Began Album On 'Momentous' Night

Noel Gallagher has revealed he started working on his debut solo album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' started on the same night his wife told him she was pregnant.

Noel Gallagher started writing his solo album the night his wife told him she was pregnant.

The songwriter has revealed he began work on the hotly anticipated LP on February 16 2010 and it was a momentous night because not only did he discover Sara MacDonald - who he married last month - was expecting their now nine-month-old Sonny - but his former band Oasis were also awarded the Best BRITs Album of 30 Years for their LP '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?', which his brother Liam collected.

Speaking at a press conference in London to announce two solo albums - 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' and an as-yet untitled companion LP - yesterday (06.07.11), he said: "I started the night of the BRITs when we won best album of the last hundred years, or whatever ... I was in the studio that night. That was a momentous night, because the wife phoned me up and told me she was pregnant and that was the first night we were recording the album."

Noel - who quit Oasis after having a huge fight with Liam before a Paris concert in August 2009 - admits he could have released his albums earlier if he hadn't had so much time off this year.

The 'Don't Look Back In Anger' singer - who also has a three-year-old son Donovan, with Sara and an 11-year-old daughter Anais from his first marriage to Meg Matthews - added: "I seem to have a lot of time off, we (me and Sarah) got married, had another kid, but it was nice not to have to work to a deadline which is the first time I've ever done that for as long as I can remember. But the whole thing was going on for the best part of 18 months - both of them have."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Beady Eye Roll Into Bilbao...

Beady Eye will play at the BBK Festival in Bilbao, Spain today (July 7th).

If you are going to the show, and you are able to scan your ticket or send in pictures email them to us @ scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will do my best to get them on the site.

Visit my newly launched Beady Eye fan site www.standingontheedgeofthenoise.com by clicking here.

Watch Highlights From Beady Eye At The iTunes Fesival On ITV2 This Friday

Friday 8th July on ITV2 from 10:00pm to 11:00pm

Alexa Chung and Dave Berry present coverage of this year's iTunes Festival, which is taking place throughout July at London's legendary Roundhouse venue.

Featuring performances and interviews from Bruno Mars, Linkin Park and Beady Eye.

On This Day In Oasis History...

"D'You Know What I Mean?" is a song by British rock band Oasis. It was the first single from their third album Be Here Now and was released on the 7th July 1997. It reached #1 in the UK singles chart, the 3rd Oasis song to do so. The song was written by Noel Gallagher. It was certified platinum for UK sales.

At the time "D'You Know What I Mean" was released, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and as a result, the single, along with the album, was highly anticipated. Upon its release it was critically and commercially successful.

The guitar chords on both the verse and the chorus are similar to the chords used for the Oasis single "Wonderwall" (F#m7/A/Esus4/Bsus4).

The song also shows more of Noel's influences. References include Bob Dylan ("Blood on the tracks and they must be mine"), and The Beatles ("Fool on the hill and I feel fine"), and even their own earlier work ("Don't look back in Anger "). The song also features a drum loop from N.W.A.

The Morse code in the background translates to include such sayings as "bugger all", "pork pies" and "Strawberry Fields Forever." Oasis haven't performed this song since 2002.



















B-Sides

One of the B-sides, "Stay Young", has become a popular Oasis song, so much so that fans voted it onto the B-sides collection The Masterplan - one of only two B-sides from the Be Here Now period which made the album. The song was originally intended to be the "Digsy's Dinner" of Be Here Now (the lighthearted novelty track, such as "Digsy's Dinner" on Definitely Maybe and "She's Electric" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?), until Noel set it aside in favour of "Magic Pie". Gallagher claims not to be particularly fond of the track.

Interview

In a 1997 interview promoting Be Here Now, Noel Gallagher had the following to say about the first single: "I was going to make up some profound statement in the chorus but I couldn't come up with anything that fitted. Then I just thought "All my people right here, right now. D'You Know What I Mean? Yeah, Yeah" Very vague, very ambiguous, that'll do. Look in the mirror and wink while you're singing it and it's quite saucy. And I f***ing love that line, 'Coming in a mess, going out in style'. We were a bunch of scruffs from Manchester and we're going out in a Rolls Royce."

In another 1997 interview, this time on BBC, Noel Gallagher said: "I cant believe I wrote it, it's going to blow people away."

"The morse code in the background was inspired by Strawberry Fields. We got hold of a code book and tried to tap out 'Bugger All' to follow that line 'Don't look back cos you know what you might see'. But if anyone can tell me what we really said, please let me know. Profound lagerisms..."

Seven Ages of Rock

In an interview with the BBC for their documentary Seven Ages of Rock, Gallagher said of the song, "Its eight and a half minutes, the first single, the drums haven't fuckin' come in for two minutes- its all feedback!". He also says that he expected someone to ask them to edit the introduction to the song down, but such was their status in Britain, nobody did. They even performed the song on Top of the Pops, still playing most of the lengthy introduction.

The performance on Top of the Pops ended with a stage invasion by surrounding fans- the second of three stage invasions in the whole history of the show (the first was Nirvana and the last Symposium).

Cover information

The single cover photograph, by Michael Spencer Jones and directed by Brian Cannon of Microdot, was taken in front of the 'Blind Steps', a staircase in Wigan so called because they run past the Blind Workshop, which can be seen to the left of the shot. The steps can still be found on Darlington Street. The shoot was shrouded in secrecy to protect mass media coverage, but newspaper The Wigan Evening Post got exclusive rights to cover the event and subsequently sold the photos to the Daily Mirror. At a lunchtime break, Liam Gallagher and sleeve designer Brian Cannon enjoyed a pint of beer in the nearby Crispin Arms pub by Birkett Bank.

Music video





The music video is filmed at Beckton Gas Works in London with many military helicopters and a strange landscape of concrete slabs and torn down buildings. Liam Gallagher is wearing a snorkel parka and sports a unique pair of sunglasses.

Track listing

CD CRESCD 256
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06
"Angel Child" (demo) - 4:28
"Heroes" - 4:09

7" CRE 256
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06

12" CRE 256T
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06
"Angel Child" (demo) - 4:28

Cassette CRECS 256
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06

Beady Eye Defied Festival Downpour To Record Video

British rockers Beady Eye are glad they refused to let bad weather at the Isle of Wight festival halt plans to shoot their new video because the torrential rain actually improved the shots.

The group, which was formed by Liam Gallagher following the dissolution of Oasis, planned to record their set at the British event last month (Jun11) and use the footage in the promo for new track The Beat Goes On, the third single from debut album Different Gear, Still Speeding.

The festival weekend was marred by rainstorms, but the band didn't let the weather derail the filming plans.

Guitarist Gem Archer tells Bbc 6 Music, "Isle of Wight was special for a lot of different reasons. We've always wanted to play it, even talked about it with Oasis. The Isle of Wight just conjures up for us The Who... The Doors... and all those classic bands, so when that came up and it was going to be a weekend with the Foos (Foo Fighters) and with Kasabian, we were just made up, something we were really looking forward to.

"We get there and it's 60 miles per hour wind with rain in it, travelling horizontal right in your barnet (hair).

"We planned on making a video or shooting some film and then if it worked with The Beat Goes On we were going to use it... it kind of added to it because when you look at it and you're looking out it really does looks British, people surviving at all costs."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Noel Gallagher On Beady Eye

Noel Gallagher on Beady Eye: I've read a few of the reviews and it got better reviews than any of you fuckers gave to Oasis albums. You can't begin to imagine how annoying that was."

Noel Gallagher's Debut Album US Release Date

Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds will be released in the US on November 8th, via Mercury Records.

Liam v Noel Gallagher: Round Two (Or Is It 42?)

In one corner, the Beady Eye singer. In the other, a bloke on a stool with a guitar. The brothers battle for your attention ...

Liam Gallagher has been unfairly maligned. Barely a week goes by without someone having a pop at his loutish boorishness or patented Manc swagger. Only this morning, his brother Noel admitted "I hadn't had enough of Oasis, I'd had enough of Liam" – a sentiment possibly shared by millions who bought Oasis' era-defining Definitely Maybe but who have yet to be tempted by Beady Eye. Meanwhile, news of Noel's imminent solo album, High Flying Birds, seems to have sent Twitter into something approaching meltdown, suggesting a forthcoming battle between the Gallaghers for the nation's hearts may be a bigger ruckus than the one where Noel attacked Liam with a cricket bat, or the one where Liam precipitated Noel's exit from Oasis by attacking him with a guitar.

Is Noel really that much more interesting than Liam? It's starting to resemble the old Simon and Garfunkel situation where fans had their loyalties stretched between the one who wrote the songs, and the one who made a better job of signing them. For me, Liam makes the better rock star. Noel's live gigs to date have involved a bloke, a stool and a guitar, which admittedly may be all you need when you've written a song such as Don't Look Back in Anger (or, indeed, the lesser-known Rockin' Chair, my own personal favourite Oasis track.

But even now, to see the younger Gallagher, Liam, preening, posturing and singing his heart out in front of a packed crowd is to experience the increasingly rare thrill of primal rock'n'roll. And while Beady Eye's album may not have been a Definitely Maybe, it had its moments, some better than anything Oasis had done for donkeys.

Which is where things get interesting, because according to insiders, Noel has been stockpiling his best songs for years. Indeed, one of them, I Want to Live in a Dream in a Record Machine, dates from Oasis' sessions for Dig Out Your Soul. But seems to have mysteriously been pulled at the last minute. Both Gallaghers have long been accused of being musically conservative, but Noel is planning two solo albums (one a collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous, the former genre-busting Future Sound of London), and the mind may boggle at the prospect of his recordings with the Crouch End Festival Chorus – an orchestra founded in 1984 – or New York-based the Wired Strings, 30 musicians who have collaborated with everyone from Massive Attack to Barry White to, er, Stereophonics and the Spice Girls.

Perhaps, like Simon and Garfunkel, it's a shame such a historically important pairing can no longer work together, but then Oasis had been in decline for years. Conversely, we may just get one Gallagher you'd want to see live, and another to play at home. Or you may decide you've had enough of them, and listen to something entirely different. Your opinions on the "new" Noel track please ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Slams Media Phone Hacking Scandal

Noel Gallagher has slammed the media over the recent phone hacking claims.

The singer/guitarist who appeared at a press conference today (July 6) in London to announce his new solo album, said that phone hacking is 'the dark side of the media' today.

When asked what he thought about the recent phone hacking claims, Noel said: ''I hope ours have been hacked. There are some f*cking great comments on their from over the years. And if it was hacked you'd all end up in the s*it''

He added: ''It's probably the most gross an infringement of people's civil liberties as there is ever likely to be particularly in the case of that young girl who died. It's the dark side of the media.''

Source: www.gigwise.com

Video: Noel Gallagher's Full Press Conference

Noel Gallagher's complete, unedited press conference from July 2011, in which Noel reveals details about his new album (Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds), plus speaks for the first time in explosive detail about the Oasis split, and about the actions of his brother, Liam.

Click here to watch the full press conference.

Listen To Noel Gallagher's Press Conference Now!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will embark on a tour this Autumn and Noel told Xfm fans can expect, unlike at Beady Eye gigs, to hear Oasis songs in his set.

"They're my songs and I wrote them all by myself and I'm proud of them and I'm proud of what they mean to other people and I'm proud of where they sit with what I've done now," he told Xfm's Sunta Templeton.

"You've really got to be on stage and see the reaction of crowds when you play Don't Look Back in Anger and The Masterplan and stuff like that. Unfortunately them songs are like drugs to me and I don't think I'd ever play a gig without them"

Play Listen to the full press conference with Noel - WARNING: Does include bad language

Source: www.xfm.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Goes Solo: 10 Things We Learned From His Press Conference

At a press conference in west London today (6 July) Noel Gallagher finally announced details of his forthcoming solo album, and broke his silence for the first time on Oasis' split.

To be called Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "The High Flying Birds are
air hostesses," he joked - the album will be released 17 October on Gallagher's own Sour Mash Records.

It was recorded in London and Los Angeles in 2010 and 2011 with co-producer Dave Sardy and a band that includes former Zutons bassist Russell Pritchard and David "Macca" McDonnell of Liverpool's The Sand Band.

Surprisingly, Gallagher also announced that an as-yet untitled companion album recorded with producers Amorphous Androgynous which will follow in 2012.

Looking trim and appearing uncharacteristically humble (he refused to compare himself to Paul McCartney at one point), the former Oasis leader arrived just before 1pm and declared, "Let battle commence".

Here are ten things we learned from an audience with "The Chief"

1. Recording a solo album is less stressful than recording with Oasis...
"It's different because there are different musicians on it, and it's all my songs, and I'm singing them so I didn't have to explain to anybody how [the song] went or what it was about or what the delivery should be. The box of teabags lasted longer too."

2. High Flying Birds will appeal to Oasis fans...
"The first [album], the High Flying Birds one, people who are fans of what I do will hear echoes of Oasis in there, but there isn't a guitar solo until the sixth track. It's not very Guitar Hero...

3. "If I Had A Gun... sounds great played on an acoustic guitar. AKA... What A Life! is, for want of a better term, dance music..."
"The songs are not Oasis songs - it's not stadium rock. There's an electric kettle on there, and a double bass and a washboard. When I write a song, I'm not thinking, 'I have to do something different because of what I've done in the past'. We're all there to serve the song. The first track you're going to hear doesn't sound like anything I've done before. But that's not a conscious thing, it's just the way these songs are written. Some of these songs were demoed on the last Oasis album and I wasn't planning on leaving then, so subconsciously I wasn't thinking of doing something different."

4. The second of his two albums will be a bit more surprising...
"The other one, it's fucking far out, man. [Producers] The Amorphous Androgynous worked on a remix for the last Oasis record and managed to stretch 23 minutes out of one song. The album's got 18 tracks on it. Some of it's Vaudeville, some of it's actual space jazz, some of it's Krautrock, some of it's soul, some of it's funk... and that's just the first song. It's the furthest out I've ever been, put it that way."

5. Noel will be going on tour the week after the album comes out - and he'll be playing Oasis songs
"Ten songs on an album would last for 46 minutes and 12 seconds, and that ain't long enough to charge people 75 quid. Not that I'll be charging 75 quid. But I'm going to be playing Oasis songs. They're my songs and I wrote them all myself and I'm proud of them, I'm proud of what they mean to other people, I'm proud of where they sit with what I've done now... Those songs are like drugs to me, and I don't think I'd ever do a gig without playing them.

"We're going to start off small in small theatres and if it's deemed good enough to get bigger than that then it'll get bigger than that. I don't think there'll be a huge great big tour this year because I've got to do stuff around the rest of the world... The first gig is Dublin in Ireland on the 23 October, and then all the usual places: Manchester, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Warmington-On-Sea..."

6. Liam's says he's better off without Noel, but Noel is not sure if the opposite is true...
"I'm sure he is [better off]. Am I better off? What, financially? Musically? I don't want to put a downer on it, but I've never really seen myself as a frontman, and I can see it being a major pain in the arse for me. I've done gigs for charity but in my head I was thinking, 'I'm doing someone a favour, so fuck 'em'. Now I've got to stand in the middle of the stage and that's going to be weird. He's probably better off with me; it remains to be seen whether I'm better off without him... I'd perfected that role of that guy who stood on the right and played lead guitar, did backing vocals and sang the odd acoustic track. It took me 18 years to do that and I was brilliant at it."

7. Liam's Pretty Green clothing label caused the argument that ended Oasis...
"I never had enough of Oasis. Our whole relationship was never as bad as people made out... It kind of all started to unravel when [Liam] started his clothing label. He demanded that he be allowed to advertise it in the Oasis tour programme and I was against it. I didn't think it was right to be flogging his gear to our fans, and there was a massive row about that. It went back and forward for a bit and in the end I said, 'If you want to advertise in the programme, how much [are you going to pay]?' And he couldn't get his head around that. It all went downhill from there."

8. Liam skipped the band's second 2009 V Festival appearance because of "a hangover" forcing the slot to be cancelled...
"Liam didn't turn up to the V Festival gig because he had a hangover. He claims he had laryngitis, but whatever."

9. What really happened in Paris on 28 August 2009, according Noel...
"The night in Paris, [Liam] was quite violent. It was a bit like WWE wrestling and he was Macho Man Randy Savage. I'll never forget, there's all this to-ing and fro-ing going on and I'm looking at Andy, who's sat there counting how many shoes he's got on, not saying a word. Liam was saying, 'Fuck you and fuck you' and he storms out of the dressing room. On the way, he picked up a plum and threw it across the dressing room and it smashed against the wall. Part of me wishes it did end like that, because that would have been a great headline: 'Plum Throws Plum'.

"So then he goes out the dressing room and for whatever reason he goes to his own dressing room and comes back with his guitar, wielding it like an axe. I make light of it because it's what I do but it was a real unnecessary violent act. He nearly took my face off with it. [The guitar] ended up on the floor and I put it out of its misery. There were people in the band not saying anything. We were all involved but no-one was saying anything. So I said, 'You know what, I'm out of here...' I got in the car and sat there for five minutes and said, 'Fuck it!' I regret it really, because we only had two gigs left. If I'd have gone back and done the gigs, that gig would have been dreadful because he was out of his mind, but we'd have done that gig and the next gig and we'd all have gone away and discussed what we were going to do. We may never have split up; we may just have taken a hiatus. Liam always said he would bring down Armageddon in the end."

10. Noel hasn't listened to the Beady Eye album...
"I know most of the songs anyway because they've been going around for a few years for Oasis albums. I've read a few of the reviews and it got better reviews than any of you fuckers gave to Oasis albums. You can't begin to imagine how annoying that was."

PLUS: Liam wasn't at the press conference, but we also know what he thinks of Noel going solo too...
"SHITBAG" (via Twitter).

Source: qthemusic.com

Liam Gallagher In Twitter 'Sh*tbag' Outburst As Noel Gallagher Discusses Oasis Split

Liam Gallagher has taken to Twitter on the same day his brother, Noel, announced details about his debut solo album.

Liam, who rarely posts on the micro-blogging website, wrote the message: “Sh*tbag” shortly after lunchtime today (July 6).

His tweet follows his brother's decision to speak about Oasis's split at a press conference in London today, although it is not known whether his comment is directed at Noel.

As previously reported on Gigwise, Noel Gallagher announced details of two new solo albums, including his debut 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' earlier.

When asked by journalists about his relationship with former bandmate and brother Liam, Noel said: ''I never had enough of Oasis, I had enough of him and our relationship but it was never as bad as people made out.

“It all unravelled when he started his clothing line (Pretty Green) and wanted to advertise it on our tour and I didn't agree with that.''

'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' is released on October 17.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Noel Gallagher Video: Why Did Oasis Split Up?

While speaking about his new album, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Noel Gallagher finally explains exactly how and why Oasis broke up, and reveals the explosive details of what happened with his brother Liam that night in Paris...

Oasis Split 'Came Fom Liam Ad Row'

Noel Gallagher has revealed that one of the most infamous splits in rock and roll stemmed from a row about an ad in an Oasis tour programme.

The guitarist, launching his solo album, finally broke his silence about his departure from the band, explaining that it spiralled from a squabble about brother Liam's demands for a free plug for his clothing range.

Noel quit the group in 2009 after years of tension between the pair.

He said that on the night of his departure - which led to the cancellation of a headline slot at a Paris festival - Liam stormed into the dressing room wielding a guitar like "an axe".

"He nearly took my face off with it," he said.

Noel said he regretted the way the band ended, splitting with just two shows to play. He added that if the group had finished the tour and had time to reflect, "we'd never have split up".

Noel is to launch his post-Oasis career with a new album, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, on October 17, the first of two albums which have been completed. The second will follow next year.

Noel revealed that tensions had been heightened on the night of the Paris showdown because the band had been forced to cancel a headline slot at the UK's V festival because Liam had failed to show up due to "a hangover". The official cause of the cancellation was Liam suffering from laryngitis.

The climactic row in France also led to Liam throwing a plum at his brother, which splattered against the dressing room wall, shortly before they were due on stage.

"Part of me wishes it did end like that - 'plum throws plum'," said Noel.

Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

SHITBAG

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Gallery: Beady Eye At The iTunes Festival

Click here for a gallery from last night's Beady Eye performance at the iTunes Festival.