Robbie Williams: 'I've Always Loved Liam Gallagher'

Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher were once sworn enemies, but age has mellowed their rivalry – at least as far as Robbie is concerned.

At the 2002 Brits, Robbie threw down the gauntlet saying: “A hundred grand of your money and a hundred grand of my money. We’ll get in a ring and we’ll have a fight.”

Meanwhile, Liam went and married Rob’s ex Nicole Appleton and branded him the “fat dancer in Take That”.

But 11 years on, Rob, 37, blogs (in annoying caps lock): “The truth is, I love Liam, always have. I think he’s an amazing singer and as a personality the world’s a better/more interesting place because he’s in it.

“Liam, if you’re listening, I’ve got nothing but respect for you.”

Hmm, I feel cheated out of a £200k fight.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Liam Gallagher Dedicates Song To Noel At Spanish Festival

Liam Gallagher hit back at brother and former Oasis bandmate Noel during Beady Eye's set at Spain's Bilbao BBK last night (July 7), dedicating a song to his estranged brother.

After playing 'The Roller' Liam announced: "This is for the one and only Noel Gallagher", before launching into 'Bring The Light'.

'Bring The Light', which was the first track Beady Eye released, in November 2010, features confrontational lyrics such as, "I see no point in what you're thinking", and "I'm standing tall, well fucking tough."

The sarcastic dedication comes in a tumultuous week for the pair, which has seen Noel announce two solo albums and reveal why he quit Oasis. By way of response, Liam took to Twitter to post a one word response: "SHITBAG".

For the rest of the gig Liam was in gregarious mood, dedicating other songs to female members of the audience and signing autographs in the pit before leaving the stage.

Source: www.nme.com

Beady Eye Roll Into Punchestown

Beady Eye will play at the Oxegen Festival in Punchestown, Ireland today (July 9th).

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.

Noel Gallagher Set To Release 'Lost' Oasis Song After Ten Years

Noel Gallagher's upcoming solo album 'High Flying Birds' will feature a track the former Oasis songwriter has been working on for over 10 years.

Gallagher announced details of the album at a press conference on July 6. To the delight of long-standing Oasis fans, the tracklisting includes ‘Stop The Clocks’ which was originally written in 2001, and was set to appear on the band's sixth studio album 'Don't Believe The Truth' in 2004.

The song was talked up by Oasis as being one of their greatest ever but was eventually removed from the final track listing. It also failed to appear on their greatest hits compilation of the same name.

Gallagher is thought to have agonised over the track for a decade, constantly rewriting it to get the song just right. In 2006, the band spoke to The Sun after a fan asked them what had happened to 'Stop The Clocks'.

Gallagher said: “There are about ten different versions and I can’t decide on which one. It’s a good song, the lyrics are great."

Former bandmate Andy Bell also raved about it in the interview, saying: “It is an amazing tune. It has quite a heavy theme to it and we’ve had a few goes at it. We’ll get it right one day.”

This week Noel Gallagher announced details of two new solo albums.

'Stop The Clocks' will appear on the first collection, called 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds', which is due for release on October 17. It features ten new songs and was produced by Gallagher and Dave Sardy.

The second collection will be a collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous set for release in 2012, which he describes as being very different to Oasis' music.

Source: www.nme.com

Listen To Beady Eye's 'In The Bubble With A Bullet' Now

Beady Eye's B-side to their new single 'The Beat Goes On' that is available from the 18th July, and available to buy from the band's store and iTunes.

Watch Highlights From Beady Eye At The iTunes Fesival On ITV2 Later Today

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.

Watch Beady Eye Talk To Mark Hoppus Later Today

Below is a snippet of the interview with Beady Eye from Hoppus On Music, Watch it later today at 11P/10C on Fuse!

Video: Beady Eye At The BBK Festival

Click here to see a video of Beady Eye at the BBK Festival in Bilbao, Spain yesterday.

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