Beady Eye Roll Into Tokyo...

Beady Eye will play at the Zepp Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan today (September 12th).

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 Beady Eye fan site www.standingontheedgeofthenoise.com by clicking here.

Official Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds App Available Now!

Below are a number of screen shots from the Official Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds App, that was launched earlier today.

iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users click here, Android users click here.

The app is free to download.

Gallery: Beady Eye In Nagoya

Click here for a number of pictures from Beady Eye's gig at the Zepp Nagoya in Japan, earlier this week.

The pictures are by Mitch Ikeda.

Beady Eye Interview In 'Rockin'On' Magazine Next Month

Fans in Japan can read an interview with Beady Eye in 'Rockin'On' magazine, that goes on sale October 1st.

Details can be found here (in Japanese), the link also includes a recent picture of Liam Gallagher and Chris Sharrock.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'AKA... What A Life!' Is Available To Buy Now!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' second single 'AKA… What A Life!' is out now!

The single - the second to be taken from the forthcoming eponymous debut album - is available to buy now on download through the following retailers:

Official Store
iTunes
Amazon

A digital bundle - which comes with the exclusive b-side 'Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me' + the music video for 'AKA… What A Life!' - will be available to download from October 16th. Pre-order it now from the Official Store HERE!

The single will also be released on 7" and CD, both of which include the exclusive b-side 'Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me', on October 17th. Pre-order them now from the Official Store HERE!

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

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Beady Eye Roll Into Tokyo...

Beady Eye will play at the Zepp Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan today (September 11th).

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 Beady Eye fan site www.standingontheedgeofthenoise.com by clicking here.

Video: Beady Eye In Seoul

Click here for more footage of Beady Eye in Seoul earlier this month.

Thanks to AG_foto

On This Day In Oasis History...

Below is a video from September 10th 2004, when Ian Brown and Noel Gallagher performed 'Keep What Ya Got' on the Jonathan Ross Show.

Listen Again To Noel Gallagher's Show For BBC Radio 2

Mancunian musical legend and wit Noel Gallagher presents the Dermot O'Leary Show, with Matt Morgan.

He's joined by actor John Simm and has live music from new band Folks, who are supporting Noel's High Flying Birds on tour.

David Walliams also joins the show by phone, to provide an update on his bid to swim the length of the Thames for Sport Relief.

To listen to the show click here (UK ONLY).

David McDonnell No Longer Playing With Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

David McDonnell will not be playing Guitar with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds when they hit the road in October.

In a statement posted on his band's FaceBook page it said "David McDonnell will not be playing with Noel Gallagher & The High Flying Birds .. keeping it Northern & Avian .."

David let it slip that he'd joined up back in January, during an interview to promote The Sand Band's debut album.

He has also played guitar for 'The Coral', when Bill Ryder-Jones left mid Tour, he has also played on Richard Ashcroft's solo material.

Listen Now To Noel Gallagher Playing 'AKA... What A Life!' Live

Noel Gallagher played an acoustic version of his new single 'AKA What A Life!'... earlier today while he was hosting Dermot O'Leary's Radio 2 show with Matt Morgan.

Video: Beady Eye Interview From The Summer Sonic Festival UPDATED

Click here to an interview with Beady Eye, from the Summer Sonic Festival that took place last month.

Video: Beady Eye Interview From The Summer Sonic Festival

Fans in Japan can watch an interview with Beady Eye here, from the Summer Sonic Festival that took place last month.

Listen To Noel Gallagher And Matt Morgan On Radio 2 Later Today

Noel Gallagher and Matt Morgan will be hosting Dermot O'Leary's Radio 2 show in the UK later today. The pair will sit in while Dermot's away on holiday, broadcasting between 3pm and 6pm (UK time).

The three hour show is set to feature music picked by Noel as well as guests in the studio.

Already confirmed for the show are up-and-coming band Folks, who are also set to support Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at The Roundhouse in October.

International fans will be able to tune in via the Radio 2 website HERE.

Noel Gallagher Interview In 'Rockin'On' Magazine Next Month

Fans in Japan can read an interview with Noel Gallagher in 'Rockin'On' magazine, that goes on sale October 1st.

Details can be found here (in Japanese), the link also includes a recent picture of Noel.

Noel Gallagher Likes Liaisons At The Lanesborough And Doesn't Get Shakespeare

Home is…
Noisy because I live with three kids.

Where do you live in London?
I moved to Little Venice ten months ago and live there with my wife Sara and our two boys, Donovan and Sunny, and sometimes my daughter Anaïs.

What's your favourite restaurant?
Locanda Locatelli. There are Italian people in the kitchen, and there's the chance you might see Madonna.

What was the last play you saw?
Hamlet with Jude Law. It's four hours long and there wasn't one single minute that I knew what was going on. I was thinking, 'I know they're speaking English but it's just all f***ing gibberish.' I can appreciate the acting and the way they learned all those lines but… what the f*** was going on?

What advice would you give a tourist?
Avoid Oxford Street, it's not like it used to be, it's just a cattle market now. There's no record shops any more and I always seem to be walking the wrong way.

Which shops do you rely on?
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War. Reed at Percy & Reed has cut my hair for years. I buy any clothes that fit me from Stone Island. Everything else I get from Waitrose and Selfridges.

Which is your favourite London club?
I've been a member of The Groucho for ten years. The snooker room is like a second home.

Which is your favourite shopping street in London?
I spend hours in Denmark Street looking at guitars.

What do you most like wearing?
A top and jacket from CP Company.

What animal would you most like to be?
A Beatle, which limits it. Probably McCartney.

What's the first thing you do when you arrive back home?
Download a box set to help me deal with jet lag. I've just got into The Wire. Then I watch Match of the Day on record. I support Manchester City. Then I'll get the troops together for a night at The Box - it's f***ing good.

What's your earliest London memory?
I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the News At Ten all my life I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

If you could live in any building in London which would it be?
Anywhere in Manchester Square. I'm from Manchester so it would give me a sense of home.

Do you have a recurring dream?
No, but I have seriously weird dreams. I'll be watching Coronation Street and suddenly think, 'F***ing hell I was doing mushrooms with you last night.'

What's the most romantic thing someone's done for you?
About 11 years ago, Sara booked a suite at The Lanesborough for a surprise illicit rendezvous, just to celebrate the fact that we'd got to know each other.

How would you like the opening line of your obituary to read?
'Wake Saint Peter from his slumber, there's a little one on the way.'

What would you do if you were Mayor of London for the day?
Abolish the smoking ban. I've smoked since I was a teenager and now poor souls like me have to stand outside. What really annoys me is that in the winter we're all outside shivering, with all the squares inside, and then in the summer the squares come outside and it's like, 'This is for smokers, get back inside with your Birkenstocks.'

What are you currently up to?
Rehearsing with my band. It took me a couple of weeks to get used to standing with everyone behind me.

What are your favourite London discoveries?
I used the Tube once 15 years ago to go from Chiswick to Rotherhithe and it took me about a day and a half. But I've started using it again now to get to rehearsals and it's amazing. People stare but go, 'Nah, it can't be him, what would he be doing on the Tube?' I just pretend to send texts.

What was the last album you bought?
Sergio Pizzorno from Kasabian just gave me their new album Velociraptor! It's really good.

Have you ever had a run-in with a London policeman?
I was out one night with my wife and some friends. I was sat in the front of the car and they insisted on sticking their heads out the sunroof in the back like drunken dogs. We got pulled over by the cops, who said, 'Look, Noel, just have a word with the girls in the back.' I've always liked London police and had a good laugh with them.

Where did you last go on holiday?
The last great holiday I went on was my honeymoon with Sara in June. We had five days at the Hotel Caruso in Ravello, Italy, and we made a pact that we would eat pizza and drink red wine all the time. We go to Cape Town every January and stay at the Mount Nelson, which is a kid-friendly, old-school hotel. I've just got back from New York, my favourite city, where I always stay at The Bowery Hotel and always get the same room.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' debut album is out next month

Source: www.thisislondon.co.uk

Gallery: Beady Eye In Osaka

Click here for a gallery from Beady Eye's gig in Osaka yesterday.

Thanks to AG_foto

Noel Gallagher "I'm A Better Songwriter Now Than I Was Ten Years Ago"

For nearly two decades Noel Gallagher was the songwriting genius behind Oasis, penning radio-ruling classics like "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova," while his younger brother Liam became Britpop's most volatile frontman. That all ended in August 2009, when a fight backstage before a gig in Paris split the brothers and their band for good.

Now Noel is returning as a solo artist, stepping into the role of frontman for an album, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (U.S. release: November 8), that looks to merge Oasis-like hooks with experimental flourishes like the New Orleans-style ragtime brass section on the first single. He'll continue his comeback next year with an even more adventurous second solo release, a yet-to-be-titled psychedelic rock effort recorded with British electronic duo Amorphous Androgynous.

SPIN met with Noel recently at Manhattan's Bowery Hotel to chat...

What's the most difficult part of going solo?

"That will be getting up onstage, when I have to be a frontman. Part of me still wishes I had the safety blanket of four guys. I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it."

How does it feel to answer only to yourself for the first time in your career?

"I'm relieved that I don't have to explain the sounds to anybody. I don't have to endlessly say, 'Okay, what I'm talking about is... ragtime music!' I don't have to say, 'No, this is how you play it!''"

Sounds like you've been liberated.

"These songs never would have ended up on an Oasis record. But I wasn’t frustrated in Oasis. I directed everything that went on in that band. But Oasis was a stadium-rock band so I wrote stadium-rock music. Now it's different. Doing the new solo album was fucking great. It was serene. I could take it at my own pace. But in another way it wasn’t a relief."

How so?

"Well, I like being in bands. I loved being in Oasis. But circumstances ran out of everybody's control, ya know what I mean?"

Most Oasis fans wouldn't expect Noel Gallagher to experiment with ragtime horns or dance music.

"In their essence these songs don't sound like a weird departure. People will still get them. The songs haven’t suffered because of the style. When a lot of musicians change styles their songwriting suffers because they want to be different. I don’t want to be different. I still write great songs, and if I stumble across a different avenue then I'll go with it. Other than that, I'm not looking to be stylistically different."

What about your album with British electronic and psych-rock duo Amorphous Androgynous?

"It sounds a bit like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. The sound is similar to High Flying Birds, but more psychedelic and tripped out. It's not an electronic project. People are jumping to that conclusion because Amorphous Androgynous used to be an electronic outfit. I'm not even sure what the album's title is going to be yet. I'm just fucking about with the mixes now. When will it be out? In my head, next summer. But if High Flying Birds is a success, then not until next winter."

How do your new solo songs compare to the Oasis classics?

"They stack up easily. But people have such a different perception of those classic songs, like 'Rock N Roll Star' and 'Don’t Look Back in Anger' and 'Wonderwall.' So I have to be honest with myself. The likes of 'What a Life' and 'The Death of You and Me' are easily up there with the best things that I've written, particularly in the last 10 years. Whether 10 years from now we're still talking about those new songs in the same breath as 'Wonderwall' and 'Don't Look Back in Anger,' well... only time will tell, won't it?"

Are you a better writer now?

"I'm a better songwriter now than I was 10 years ago, absolutely. But I went backwards at some point. From the start of Be Here Now to Don't Believe the Truth I didn’t know what I was doing, songwriting-wise. I didn’t have any particular inspiration or direction. I was writing songs for the sake of it and just waiting for something to happen. Then I wrote 'The Importance of Being Idle' and 'Lyla' and it went up from there. It comes and goes with me. I have good patches and then I go through great lengths of time where I fucking think I've never played the guitar or written a song before."

Did going solo ever cross your mind earlier in your career?

"Solo project, yes. Solo career, never."

Do you have to prove yourself all over again as a solo artist?

"I don’t have to do anything. I could easily and justifiably never make another record -- not have made these records. People would have said, 'Oh well. He's retired and with his family. Good luck to him.' I'm doing it because I write songs and I think they're pretty good. I'm an independent artist now. I've got enough money to make my own records."

After Oasis' split in August 2009 you weren't sprinting out of the gate to release an album…

"I don't live to work; I work to live. Being in Oasis was great, and I enjoyed every single last second of it. Well, maybe not the last five minutes [laughs]. It was nice to get off tour, go home and sit in a chair and wait for the kids to come home from school. I did that for two years. What's not to fucking like about that? There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars. I would never want to chase fame or success, like, 'I've got to do something or people will forget about me.' I was hoping people would forget about me."

Are you concerned about the success of the solo album?

"It would be great if it sells 11-fucking-thousand-million, but I'm not that concerned about it. I can't make people like it. I only hope that the people that do buy it love it. I’d be disappointed if somebody got really excited about it, went out to buy it, and then took it home and thought, 'This is a fucking waste of money.' I'd be disappointed if that happened. But the sales, no."

Is there any competition with Liam's Beady Eye?

"No, no. They're into their rock'n'roll thing. Their live shows will be far better than mine. They've got more power than I have. I don’t feel any competition because they're on their way to being a stadium-rock thing. We're playing two different kinds of music. I don't want to limit myself to being one thing or another anymore. That's where I'm at musically right now."

Do you feel like you've outgrown stadium-rock?

"I fucking loved it. I loved it. Anybody that's stood on a stage at a rock gig in a stadium will tell you it's a fucking spectacle. I don’t feel like I've outgrown it. Maybe I'll play stadiums again one day. But right now I'm more interested in something that's a little more intimate and human."

Source: www.spin.com

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Announce Second Night In Los Angeles

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have announced a second night at the Beacon Theatre in Los Angeles on 18th November.

Tickets go on general sale next Friday 16th September - check back for ticket link details - however a limited number of tickets are available to BUY NOW on pre-sale HERE!

Source: www.noelgallagher.com