Below UK artist Steve Bowles speed painting Liam and Noel Gallagher in acrylic on canvas.
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Steve Bowles
Below UK artist Steve Bowles speed painting Liam and Noel Gallagher in acrylic on canvas.
Steve Bowles Speed Paints Liam And Noel Gallagher
Below UK artist Steve Bowles speed painting Liam and Noel Gallagher in acrylic on canvas.
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher is on the front of the NME this week, with part two of a world exclusive interview, the ex Oasis man talks about his debut solo album, his live plans, and his brother Liam.
Noel Gallagher Claims 'Liam Is A Born Liar' In This Week's NME
Noel Gallagher is on the front of the NME this week, with part two of a world exclusive interview, the ex Oasis man talks about his debut solo album, his live plans, and his brother Liam.
Chris Martin
Coldplay
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Noel Gallagher's first hurdle as a solo artist will be having to face Coldplay in a battle of the albums.
The guitarist will have a job on his hands to stay at the top of the charts for more than one week this autumn.
Chris Martin and the band are releasing their latest offering seven days later.
The former Oasis star issues his first solo album, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, on October 17.
It's certain to race to No1, but a week later, on October 24, is when Coldplay have scheduled the release of their fifth collection.
It's not the first time Noel and Coldplay have been involved in a chart battle.
Back in 2005 Oasis' Don't Believe The Truth hit shop shelves seven days before the rockers' third album X&Y.
The reign of Don't Believe The Truth at No1 lasted just seven days.
At least we can look forward to an autumn of brilliant new music.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Solo Noel Gallagher Battles Coldplay
Noel Gallagher's first hurdle as a solo artist will be having to face Coldplay in a battle of the albums.
The guitarist will have a job on his hands to stay at the top of the charts for more than one week this autumn.
Chris Martin and the band are releasing their latest offering seven days later.
The former Oasis star issues his first solo album, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, on October 17.
It's certain to race to No1, but a week later, on October 24, is when Coldplay have scheduled the release of their fifth collection.
It's not the first time Noel and Coldplay have been involved in a chart battle.
Back in 2005 Oasis' Don't Believe The Truth hit shop shelves seven days before the rockers' third album X&Y.
The reign of Don't Believe The Truth at No1 lasted just seven days.
At least we can look forward to an autumn of brilliant new music.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Alan White
Andy Bell
Gem Archer
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Below are a number of videos from the 19th July 2002, when Oasis played at the Bern Gurten Festival in Switzerland.
On This Day In Oasis History...
Below are a number of videos from the 19th July 2002, when Oasis played at the Bern Gurten Festival in Switzerland.
Liam Gallagher
Manchester is famous for football, music and the weather, and they all came together on Friday night! We’ve already shared with you the very special video that we’d created with Beady Eye to celebrate the launch of the new Manchester City home shirt, and today we’ve got some more great pictures to share with you. On Friday night, we wanted to bring Beady Eye singer Liam Gallagher and his club together even more, so we projected the iconic images of Liam in the new City shirt onto the Etihad Stadium.
As you can see from the pictures here and below, it was a pretty special moment, despite the weather!
For more on the new Manchester City home shirt, take a look at Umbro.com
Source: umbro.com
Liam Gallagher Shines On Manchester City's Stadium For Shirt Launch
Manchester is famous for football, music and the weather, and they all came together on Friday night! We’ve already shared with you the very special video that we’d created with Beady Eye to celebrate the launch of the new Manchester City home shirt, and today we’ve got some more great pictures to share with you. On Friday night, we wanted to bring Beady Eye singer Liam Gallagher and his club together even more, so we projected the iconic images of Liam in the new City shirt onto the Etihad Stadium.
As you can see from the pictures here and below, it was a pretty special moment, despite the weather!
For more on the new Manchester City home shirt, take a look at Umbro.com
Source: umbro.com
Beady Eye
Beady Eye have added another date to their North American tour in November and December.
It will mark the band's return to North America following their recent sold out gigs and performance on the 'Late Show with David Letterman'.
The details are below
BOSTON, HOUSE OF BLUES - 10th December :: Tickets on sale @ 10am (local time) Friday 22nd July through Ticketmaster.com and all Ticketmaster locations, Orpheum box office, House of Blues box office day one hour before doors, and charge by phone - 888.693.2583
Beady Eye Set For Boston In December
Beady Eye have added another date to their North American tour in November and December.
It will mark the band's return to North America following their recent sold out gigs and performance on the 'Late Show with David Letterman'.
The details are below
BOSTON, HOUSE OF BLUES - 10th December :: Tickets on sale @ 10am (local time) Friday 22nd July through Ticketmaster.com and all Ticketmaster locations, Orpheum box office, House of Blues box office day one hour before doors, and charge by phone - 888.693.2583
Andy Bell
Beady Eye
To celebrate the release of the Beady Eye's new single Andy Bell has very kindly given the official website two exclusive mixes on the newly created 'Mixes' page.
Last week they unveiled Andy's 'I'm Coming Up!' mix, the first of two to mark the release of 'The Beat Goes On'.The second of the mixes is titled 'Drifting'.
Andy has told the official Beady Eye site that he's particularly pleased with this mix and describes it as 'Morning-after music'. It features acts such as Scott Walker, Jimi Hendrix and some classic Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac. Check it out HERE!
'The Beat Goes On' is released today through the band's own Beady Eye Records and comes with brand new track 'In The Bubble With A Bullet' on the b-side. It will be available to buy from the band's store and iTunes.
Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com
New Beady Eye Mix - Drifting!
To celebrate the release of the Beady Eye's new single Andy Bell has very kindly given the official website two exclusive mixes on the newly created 'Mixes' page.
Last week they unveiled Andy's 'I'm Coming Up!' mix, the first of two to mark the release of 'The Beat Goes On'.The second of the mixes is titled 'Drifting'.
Andy has told the official Beady Eye site that he's particularly pleased with this mix and describes it as 'Morning-after music'. It features acts such as Scott Walker, Jimi Hendrix and some classic Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac. Check it out HERE!
'The Beat Goes On' is released today through the band's own Beady Eye Records and comes with brand new track 'In The Bubble With A Bullet' on the b-side. It will be available to buy from the band's store and iTunes.
Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com
Beady Eye
Beady Eye have announced they will be performing at Zurich's Volkshaus venue on 11th October as part of their European tour this autumn. It will mark the band's second performance in the country following their appearance yesterday at the Gurten Festival in Berne.
Tickets for the Volkshaus gig go on sale this Wednesday 18th July at 8am (local time) through ticketcorner.ch
Beady Eye have already announced gigs in Italy, Germany and The Netherlands as part of the European tour. Full details of the gigs can be found on the site's Gigs page HERE! Sign up to the band's mailing list to be kept up to date on the band's activities HERE!
Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com
Beady Eye Return To Switzerland In October
Beady Eye have announced they will be performing at Zurich's Volkshaus venue on 11th October as part of their European tour this autumn. It will mark the band's second performance in the country following their appearance yesterday at the Gurten Festival in Berne.
Tickets for the Volkshaus gig go on sale this Wednesday 18th July at 8am (local time) through ticketcorner.ch
Beady Eye have already announced gigs in Italy, Germany and The Netherlands as part of the European tour. Full details of the gigs can be found on the site's Gigs page HERE! Sign up to the band's mailing list to be kept up to date on the band's activities HERE!
Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com
Andy Bell
Beady Eye
Gem Archer
Below is an interview with Beady Eye's Andy Bell & Gem Archer who talk about the next Super-Band, about being mistaken for a cover-band and about Manchester City.
Andy Bell & Gem Archer Interview
Below is an interview with Beady Eye's Andy Bell & Gem Archer who talk about the next Super-Band, about being mistaken for a cover-band and about Manchester City.
Arctic Monkeys
Jamiroquai
Kasabian
Rain turned to sunshine on the last afternoon of the Gurten Festival Sunday, as Liam Gallagher, Beady Eye's hard-rocking front man, charged through songs from their new album.
Former Oasis frontman Gallagher and his band took advantage of the timely change in weather, lifting the packed crowd with "Four Letter Word," "Beatles and Stones" then rattled off "Millionaire" and "The Roller" _ their updates on classic British rock.
The audience sang along, and band camarderie was strong _ drummer Chris Sharrock threw a drumstick high in the air, and caught it without missing a beat on "Three Ring Circus," and similar antics from guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell _ all former Oasis members _ helped lift the crowd.
Liam's older brother, Noel _ Oasis' former main songwriter, lead guitarist and backing vocalist _ has announced that he, too, will be putting out a new album. The brothers' well-known antics and rivalry finally broke up the band, but at one time Oasis considered itself _ and perhaps was _ the biggest in the world.
But no one yelled for an Oasis' song Sunday, and there was a sense in the crowd that maybe they were seeing the beginnings of another great British band.
"You're beautiful!" Gallagher told an enthusiastic sea of faces, just before their last song in their hourlong set.
The four-day Gurten Festival, atop the hilltop of the Gurten overlooking the Swiss capital and the Bernese Alps, began Thursday and ended Sunday. A small train takes festival-goers up and down the hill, and attracts thousands of music lovers each year.
This year's festival also featured the Arctic Monkeys, who played later Sunday, Jamiroquai, Kasabian and dozens of other popular bands.
Source: www.nctimes.com
Rain To Shine, Beady Eye Rocks Swiss Festival
Rain turned to sunshine on the last afternoon of the Gurten Festival Sunday, as Liam Gallagher, Beady Eye's hard-rocking front man, charged through songs from their new album.
Former Oasis frontman Gallagher and his band took advantage of the timely change in weather, lifting the packed crowd with "Four Letter Word," "Beatles and Stones" then rattled off "Millionaire" and "The Roller" _ their updates on classic British rock.
The audience sang along, and band camarderie was strong _ drummer Chris Sharrock threw a drumstick high in the air, and caught it without missing a beat on "Three Ring Circus," and similar antics from guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell _ all former Oasis members _ helped lift the crowd.
Liam's older brother, Noel _ Oasis' former main songwriter, lead guitarist and backing vocalist _ has announced that he, too, will be putting out a new album. The brothers' well-known antics and rivalry finally broke up the band, but at one time Oasis considered itself _ and perhaps was _ the biggest in the world.
But no one yelled for an Oasis' song Sunday, and there was a sense in the crowd that maybe they were seeing the beginnings of another great British band.
"You're beautiful!" Gallagher told an enthusiastic sea of faces, just before their last song in their hourlong set.
The four-day Gurten Festival, atop the hilltop of the Gurten overlooking the Swiss capital and the Bernese Alps, began Thursday and ended Sunday. A small train takes festival-goers up and down the hill, and attracts thousands of music lovers each year.
This year's festival also featured the Arctic Monkeys, who played later Sunday, Jamiroquai, Kasabian and dozens of other popular bands.
Source: www.nctimes.com
Alan White
Bonehead
Guigsy
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Below is a video from the July 17th 1995, when Oasis appeared on Zona TV in Spain.
On This Day In Oasis History...
Below is a video from the July 17th 1995, when Oasis appeared on Zona TV in Spain.
Beady Eye
Click here for a number of pictures from Beady Eye at the Hultsfred Festival in Swedwn from July 14th.
Photo Gallery: Beady Eye At Hultsfred Festival
Click here for a number of pictures from Beady Eye at the Hultsfred Festival in Swedwn from July 14th.
Beady Eye
Beady Eye will play at the Gurten Festival in Berne, Switzerland today (July 17th).
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.
Beady Eye Roll Into Berne
Beady Eye will play at the Gurten Festival in Berne, Switzerland today (July 17th).
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.
Beady Eye
Below are a number of videos from Beady Eye at the Melt Festival in Berlin, Germany earlier today.
Video: Beady Eye At The Melt Festival
Below are a number of videos from Beady Eye at the Melt Festival in Berlin, Germany earlier today.
Andy Bell
Beady Eye
Gem Archer
Liam Gallagher
Below is an interview with Beady Eye from backstage at the Melt Festival.
Beady Eye Interview From Backstage At The Melt Festival
Below is an interview with Beady Eye from backstage at the Melt Festival.
Bonehead
Brian Cannon
Guigsy
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
The Verve
Tony McCarroll
Taken from an interview with Sabotage Times, read the full interview here.
Meeting Noel Gallagher…
It’s true, I met him because of a pair of trainers. When I graduated in 1988 I moved to London immediately, then I got into house music and was travelling back every Friday afternoon to Manchester to go to the Hacienda. So I thought ‘fuck it,’ if I was there all the time I may as well move there, so I moved back. The scene was just remarkable. So I got an office in an old cotton mill that had been broken up into little business units. Mine was £20 a week and had no windows in it, which is a bit of a drawback if you’re doing visual stuff, but it was cheap as chips. I didn’t have a computer, I had a photocopier and a drawing board and that was it. And I was doing the early Verve stuff, I’d seen this guy knocking around. You take it for granted now that everyone wears adidas and what have you but back then it was a rarity and mainly ex-football hooligans, or current football hooligans for that matter, I’d been into the football for a while and it was exclusive for that group of people.
I was in Rome on holiday with me Mum in 1991 or 92 and I bought these Adidas indoor supers. I’d seen this bloke knocking around the building, but you’d walk around and I’d clock him and he’d clock me, both too cool for school to say hello. Anyway one day I was in the lift and he gets in and I had the trainers on, which you couldn’t get in England. First thing he said to me was ‘where the fuck did you get those trainers from?’ And that’s how we got chatting. He asked me what I did, I told him, he said ‘who’ve you done?’ so I told him I’d done a couple of Verve singles by that point and he said ‘no way, I think they’re really good.’ Then as he got out of the lift he says ‘I’m in a band and when, not if, when we get signed I want you to do the artwork,’ and that were it and he was good to his word.
Seeing Oasis live for the first time…
The first time I saw Oasis, and I think I’ve seen them play something like 70 times, was at the Hop and Grape bar at Manchester Uni, probably holds about 300 people. Noel had been fucking mithering me to come and watch them but you know what it’s like, we’d become friends by this point and if a mate of yours plays in a band your like ‘they’re bound to be shit aren’t they?’ He was cool but I thought they’d be shit, all bands are shit except for a handful over the past 20 years or whatever, and I was worried about what I’d say if they were shit. But I went along and they were amazing. I was with Marcus Russell (manager) and Johnny Marr who Marcus had persuaded to come. It was super early on this and there was no looking back after that, I became the biggest walking advert for Oasis that you had ever seen, people thought I had gone mad. I was just ranting ‘this band are fucking brilliant they’ll be bigger than Led Zeppelin,’ and people were like ‘what the fuck are you going on about?’
The live show was like a fucking juggernaut coming into the room it were just ace. Before they showed their arses in public they were rehearsing 7 nights a week they really put a shift in. All of them are really nice blokes, Tony gets a hard time but I got on really well with him, all of the time we used to have a laugh, just constantly laughing. A lot of bands these days, and this really pisses me off, they’ve just been signed and they think the world owes them a living and they just turn into knobheads. You’ve got to remember that before Oasis Bonehead who was the eldest was a fucking plasterer. He knew how lucky he was, he woke up every morning and just went ‘Yesssss’ because he didn’t have to plaster walls anymore. They just knew it was a gifted situation they were in and they were gonna grab it with both hands. It was just an amazing phenomenon to be involved with.
Creating the Oasis logo…
The first meeting I ever had with them as a band took place backstage at a gig at Sheffield uni, I believe they were supporting the BMX Bandits! Fucking hell, the BMX Bandits supported by Oasis. Any road, like I said I never normally referred to other sleeves when I was doing a sleeve because you run the risk of becoming derivative or doing pastiches which I’m not about. But on this occasion, because it was the first time I’d met them and wasn’t sure what they were about, I took a load of books with me of classic album covers and classic rock photography and they liked a lot of the early Stones albums like Out of Their Heads. But more importantly they used to have the Decca logo on the front, and it hit me like a ton of bricks in the meeting that it would look ace with Oasis like that on it. Everyone knows it as the definitive Oasis logo and it started to go all downhill when they changed it.
The Definitely Maybe cover…
I don’t remember much about the conversation for Definitely Maybe, we decided it was going to be a band shot and did it at Bonehead’s house. I saw on some website recently that some idiot in some debate about Oasis’ artwork said ‘I hate that cover’ and my first thought was ‘nobhead’ because it’s ace, it’s like someone saying that they don’t like The Beatles, get a fucking grip mate. So I asked him why, and he said ‘it’s so aspirational.’ Which it isn’t, the inference was that these guys were shitkickers from Manchester and they all live in slums and they’ve had their picture taken in this posh flat. That was offensive in the extreme. The idea was that it wasn’t posed but it was, we spent weeks before the shoot with me sitting in every position and being photographed to build up a composition.
On getting The Verve to use Oasis as a support band in 1994…
It was my idea, you can fucking print this, it was all down to me, this is rock and roll history. You’ve heard of the famous Oasis swirl cassette, there’s only ten in existence, the last one went for £2500 on ebay. Noel gave me one but I can’t find the cassette, but I suppose the box would be worth a fair bit. On that Verve tour I drove round in a Renault 5 playing the cassette to David Haliwell the Verve’s manager. And he said this is amazing, and I told Richard that he needed to have them supporting and I introduced them. That tour was something else, no separate dressing rooms, we all just mucked in. They played one in Edinburgh and the power went and the crowd was getting restless and Bonehead went out and played the spoons singing she’ll be coming round the mountain.
The Rock And Roll Lifestyle…
Do you know what, I say this a lot. There’s some things I can’t reveal and wouldn’t. There’s a cracking story about Noel at a fancy dress party at Ronnie Wood’s house, I can’t tell you the rest, not that Noel would give a shit but… fucking hell. We were all so normal and down to earth and what we got up to was no different than what you and your mates got up to. There was a lot of boozing, a lot of cocaine knocking about and a lot of laughing. It was just a fucking piss up, just having a laugh, they were that open about it that there aren’t really any hidden stories, we took drugs, so fucking what. Noel said it all when he said it was as normal as having a cup of tea because it was. We got pissed, got hammered and had a laugh. Nobody was raping virgins or slaughtering animals, it was just so exciting knowing that you were part of something that would be remembered forever. It’s a good job I didn’t know then what I do now it would’ve driven me round the bend. We weren’t blasé about it though, we knew it was super super special and we were all very privileged to be there
Putting a Rolls Royce in a swimming pool…
The Be Here Now album, which incidentally a lot of people slag off including Noel, is a fucking great record. The original idea was to shoot the individual band members at any location in the world of their choice to make a composite image. Noel wanted to go to the mountain from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Guigs wanted to go to Jamaica but we changed our minds in the end, nothing to do with budget mind, we could’ve have done anything we wanted. Bonehead wanted to be shot next to a pool with a Rolls Royce in it to hark back to the Keith Moon story which never actually happened, so that was that and we set about finding a location that would let us put a car in their swimming pool. Despite what people think that wasn’t done digitally, that car is in that pool. It was scrapped with no engine and it cost us a grand. And all the props around the pool have no meaning whatsoever, I just took Liam and Noel down to a BBC props warehouse in White City and they picked loads of random stuff, it was total nonsense. It’s a sign of what was going on at the time, people say it was over-produced or whatever but it’s Be Here Now for fuck’s sake. It’s bollocks, it’s Oasis’ last great album…
On stopping working with Oasis…
There was no fall out, I worked again on the 10 year anniversary of Definitely Maybe DVD. It was a crazy time, half the band had left, Guigs had gone, everyone’s head was up their arse, Noel and Liam were falling out and Noel wanted to go in a new direction. I didn’t have a god given right to do it, Robert Freeman did four or five Beatles albums and didn’t do the rest, that’s the way it goes. As it happens it was probably best I didn’t do the others. Oasis was the best time of my life and I’ll always look back on it with incredible fondness and it certainly didn’t do my career any harm. No hard feelings, no animosity, no fallout.
On Noel’s album
Noel’s a genius songwriter and you don’t lose a talent like that. I haven’t heard any of the stuff but I hope it’s really, really, really good because if it is it will be ace and loads of people will get onto it. He’s an amazing person, top bloke to work for, genius songwriter and I’m expecting great things. But when you’ve got Definitely Maybe as a yardstick it’s difficult isn’t it?
Source: Sabotage Times
Brian Cannon Talks Oasis, Noel Gallagher And More...
Taken from an interview with Sabotage Times, read the full interview here.
Meeting Noel Gallagher…
It’s true, I met him because of a pair of trainers. When I graduated in 1988 I moved to London immediately, then I got into house music and was travelling back every Friday afternoon to Manchester to go to the Hacienda. So I thought ‘fuck it,’ if I was there all the time I may as well move there, so I moved back. The scene was just remarkable. So I got an office in an old cotton mill that had been broken up into little business units. Mine was £20 a week and had no windows in it, which is a bit of a drawback if you’re doing visual stuff, but it was cheap as chips. I didn’t have a computer, I had a photocopier and a drawing board and that was it. And I was doing the early Verve stuff, I’d seen this guy knocking around. You take it for granted now that everyone wears adidas and what have you but back then it was a rarity and mainly ex-football hooligans, or current football hooligans for that matter, I’d been into the football for a while and it was exclusive for that group of people.
I was in Rome on holiday with me Mum in 1991 or 92 and I bought these Adidas indoor supers. I’d seen this bloke knocking around the building, but you’d walk around and I’d clock him and he’d clock me, both too cool for school to say hello. Anyway one day I was in the lift and he gets in and I had the trainers on, which you couldn’t get in England. First thing he said to me was ‘where the fuck did you get those trainers from?’ And that’s how we got chatting. He asked me what I did, I told him, he said ‘who’ve you done?’ so I told him I’d done a couple of Verve singles by that point and he said ‘no way, I think they’re really good.’ Then as he got out of the lift he says ‘I’m in a band and when, not if, when we get signed I want you to do the artwork,’ and that were it and he was good to his word.
Seeing Oasis live for the first time…
The first time I saw Oasis, and I think I’ve seen them play something like 70 times, was at the Hop and Grape bar at Manchester Uni, probably holds about 300 people. Noel had been fucking mithering me to come and watch them but you know what it’s like, we’d become friends by this point and if a mate of yours plays in a band your like ‘they’re bound to be shit aren’t they?’ He was cool but I thought they’d be shit, all bands are shit except for a handful over the past 20 years or whatever, and I was worried about what I’d say if they were shit. But I went along and they were amazing. I was with Marcus Russell (manager) and Johnny Marr who Marcus had persuaded to come. It was super early on this and there was no looking back after that, I became the biggest walking advert for Oasis that you had ever seen, people thought I had gone mad. I was just ranting ‘this band are fucking brilliant they’ll be bigger than Led Zeppelin,’ and people were like ‘what the fuck are you going on about?’
The live show was like a fucking juggernaut coming into the room it were just ace. Before they showed their arses in public they were rehearsing 7 nights a week they really put a shift in. All of them are really nice blokes, Tony gets a hard time but I got on really well with him, all of the time we used to have a laugh, just constantly laughing. A lot of bands these days, and this really pisses me off, they’ve just been signed and they think the world owes them a living and they just turn into knobheads. You’ve got to remember that before Oasis Bonehead who was the eldest was a fucking plasterer. He knew how lucky he was, he woke up every morning and just went ‘Yesssss’ because he didn’t have to plaster walls anymore. They just knew it was a gifted situation they were in and they were gonna grab it with both hands. It was just an amazing phenomenon to be involved with.
Creating the Oasis logo…
The first meeting I ever had with them as a band took place backstage at a gig at Sheffield uni, I believe they were supporting the BMX Bandits! Fucking hell, the BMX Bandits supported by Oasis. Any road, like I said I never normally referred to other sleeves when I was doing a sleeve because you run the risk of becoming derivative or doing pastiches which I’m not about. But on this occasion, because it was the first time I’d met them and wasn’t sure what they were about, I took a load of books with me of classic album covers and classic rock photography and they liked a lot of the early Stones albums like Out of Their Heads. But more importantly they used to have the Decca logo on the front, and it hit me like a ton of bricks in the meeting that it would look ace with Oasis like that on it. Everyone knows it as the definitive Oasis logo and it started to go all downhill when they changed it.
The Definitely Maybe cover…
I don’t remember much about the conversation for Definitely Maybe, we decided it was going to be a band shot and did it at Bonehead’s house. I saw on some website recently that some idiot in some debate about Oasis’ artwork said ‘I hate that cover’ and my first thought was ‘nobhead’ because it’s ace, it’s like someone saying that they don’t like The Beatles, get a fucking grip mate. So I asked him why, and he said ‘it’s so aspirational.’ Which it isn’t, the inference was that these guys were shitkickers from Manchester and they all live in slums and they’ve had their picture taken in this posh flat. That was offensive in the extreme. The idea was that it wasn’t posed but it was, we spent weeks before the shoot with me sitting in every position and being photographed to build up a composition.
On getting The Verve to use Oasis as a support band in 1994…
It was my idea, you can fucking print this, it was all down to me, this is rock and roll history. You’ve heard of the famous Oasis swirl cassette, there’s only ten in existence, the last one went for £2500 on ebay. Noel gave me one but I can’t find the cassette, but I suppose the box would be worth a fair bit. On that Verve tour I drove round in a Renault 5 playing the cassette to David Haliwell the Verve’s manager. And he said this is amazing, and I told Richard that he needed to have them supporting and I introduced them. That tour was something else, no separate dressing rooms, we all just mucked in. They played one in Edinburgh and the power went and the crowd was getting restless and Bonehead went out and played the spoons singing she’ll be coming round the mountain.
The Rock And Roll Lifestyle…
Do you know what, I say this a lot. There’s some things I can’t reveal and wouldn’t. There’s a cracking story about Noel at a fancy dress party at Ronnie Wood’s house, I can’t tell you the rest, not that Noel would give a shit but… fucking hell. We were all so normal and down to earth and what we got up to was no different than what you and your mates got up to. There was a lot of boozing, a lot of cocaine knocking about and a lot of laughing. It was just a fucking piss up, just having a laugh, they were that open about it that there aren’t really any hidden stories, we took drugs, so fucking what. Noel said it all when he said it was as normal as having a cup of tea because it was. We got pissed, got hammered and had a laugh. Nobody was raping virgins or slaughtering animals, it was just so exciting knowing that you were part of something that would be remembered forever. It’s a good job I didn’t know then what I do now it would’ve driven me round the bend. We weren’t blasé about it though, we knew it was super super special and we were all very privileged to be there
Putting a Rolls Royce in a swimming pool…
The Be Here Now album, which incidentally a lot of people slag off including Noel, is a fucking great record. The original idea was to shoot the individual band members at any location in the world of their choice to make a composite image. Noel wanted to go to the mountain from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Guigs wanted to go to Jamaica but we changed our minds in the end, nothing to do with budget mind, we could’ve have done anything we wanted. Bonehead wanted to be shot next to a pool with a Rolls Royce in it to hark back to the Keith Moon story which never actually happened, so that was that and we set about finding a location that would let us put a car in their swimming pool. Despite what people think that wasn’t done digitally, that car is in that pool. It was scrapped with no engine and it cost us a grand. And all the props around the pool have no meaning whatsoever, I just took Liam and Noel down to a BBC props warehouse in White City and they picked loads of random stuff, it was total nonsense. It’s a sign of what was going on at the time, people say it was over-produced or whatever but it’s Be Here Now for fuck’s sake. It’s bollocks, it’s Oasis’ last great album…
On stopping working with Oasis…
There was no fall out, I worked again on the 10 year anniversary of Definitely Maybe DVD. It was a crazy time, half the band had left, Guigs had gone, everyone’s head was up their arse, Noel and Liam were falling out and Noel wanted to go in a new direction. I didn’t have a god given right to do it, Robert Freeman did four or five Beatles albums and didn’t do the rest, that’s the way it goes. As it happens it was probably best I didn’t do the others. Oasis was the best time of my life and I’ll always look back on it with incredible fondness and it certainly didn’t do my career any harm. No hard feelings, no animosity, no fallout.
On Noel’s album
Noel’s a genius songwriter and you don’t lose a talent like that. I haven’t heard any of the stuff but I hope it’s really, really, really good because if it is it will be ace and loads of people will get onto it. He’s an amazing person, top bloke to work for, genius songwriter and I’m expecting great things. But when you’ve got Definitely Maybe as a yardstick it’s difficult isn’t it?
Source: Sabotage Times
Beady Eye
Beady Eye will play at the Melt Festival in Berlin, Germany today (July 16th).
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.
Beady Eye Roll Into Berlin
Beady Eye will play at the Melt Festival in Berlin, Germany today (July 16th).
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.
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