Noel Gallagher Worried His Live Shows Will Be Dull

Former Oasis star Noel Gallagher fears casual fans will be far from impressed when they come to see him live on tour - because he's not a showman.

The guitarist has gone solo after splitting from Oasis in 2009 and he's worried he hasn't got enough onstage "moves" to thrill fans.

He tells SPINNER.COM, "I've toyed with the idea of taking up juggling, just so it would be interesting for the crowd. I've got nothing to say.

"When people come to the gigs, I hope they just listen to the songs. There'll be no audience participation. None of that, 'Can you sing louder than those over there? I bet you can't!' None of that s**t. But I've got to learn how to do it in front of a paying crowd. They'll expect some kind of show."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Noel Gallagher Talks Liam, Twitter Feuds, Channeling Elvis, And Stagefright In Solo Interview

Noel Gallagher has a perhaps not entirely undeserved reputation for being a surly fellow and difficult interview--a rep surely only compounded by his former band Oasis's acrimonious breakup, after he and his famously feuding little brother Liam brawled backstage at Paris's Rock en Seine festival in 2009. But when the Britpop icon recently came by Yahoo! Music, he couldn't have been more pleasant. "It's not so bad doing interviews, innit?" the affable chap shrugged. "They fly you to Los Angeles first-class, you stay in nice hotels, and you go talk about yourself! What's not to like?"

Clearly going solo agrees with the man. The longtime songwriter for Oasis but only occasionally that band's singer, Noel is now going the full-fledged singer-songwriter route with his upcoming and much-awaited solo debut, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, and it's a welcome return to fine form after his two-year hiatus. "I've gotta do something," he laughed. "My wife demanded that I go make a record because I was annoying her: 'When are you going back to work?'"

Well, thank you very much, Mrs. Gallagher, for getting your husband back in the studio. Noel's new album features some of his best work in ages, and--let's just get the inevitable comparison out of the way here--it is far superior to the first album by Liam's new post-Oasis band, Beady Eye. Going it alone seems to be the right decision for Noel right now, despite his occasional misgivings and the public's never-ending demands for an Oasis reunion.

"Regret is maybe too strong a word, because really in hindsight it couldn't have gone on the way it did; there was just too much bad vibes," Noel said of that fateful night in Paris when Oasis disbanded for good. "At first I thought, 'Maybe I've been a bit hasty here,' because we only had two gigs left on the tour; maybe we could have done the two gigs, gone away, got a bit of distance from it, and things might have been different. But then you know, I started in the studio and I enjoyed it, so I don't miss [Oasis] too much."

Speaking about that night when Noel walked away from Oasis for good, after crying wolf many times over their tumultuous decade-and-a-half run, Noel was surprisingly frank. "I'd liken to it when you know when you're about to dump a girl. I don't know what made it any different. We'd had worse fights, worse arguments. I dunno, maybe I just sat there and I thought, 'This has gone on too long.' I can't remember what exactly I was thinking, but it's like, why do people change jobs? You just sit there one day and you think, 'I didn't feel like this yesterday, but I feel like it now. I'm off.'"

Unlike Liam, who later regrouped with ex-Oasis members under the name Beady Eye, Noel decided not to form a new band, and with good reason: "Once you've been in a band like [Oasis], you can't go anywhere with it. You can't start another band and say, 'This time it's gonna be different! We're gonna be less successful!' There's no point in doing that...I've already been in one of the best bands ever, so there's no need to do that."

Showing a surprisingly and rarely seen humble aspect of his outsized persona, Noel expressed some fear about hitting the road without his longtime band. "The live side, even in rehearsals, it was really strange," he confessed. "It's not really gonna hit me until I get onstage, because I haven't got the genetic makeup of a frontman. I haven't got anything to say, I haven't got any new moves, I don't know any jokes. I've just got songs. Frontmen come alive when they come onstage. I've got to wait and see what happens. I'm a bit...I wouldn't say I'm nervous, but I'm trepidatious, if indeed that is a word. I'm not a natural frontman as of yet. But then again, my inner Elvis might take over when I hit the stage!"

However, Oasis fans needn't worry: Noel confirmed to Yahoo! that he and his inner Elvis will be playing a few classic Oasis tunes when he tours this fall. "I don't really consider them anymore to be Oasis songs. They're my songs, I wrote them," he explained. "It's not like I'm Morrissey and I'm taking half of what Johnny Marr done and kind of running away with it, or vice versa. I wrote those songs and all the words and all the melodies and I arranged them all, so they're mine. The end. To save the constant shouting for 'Don't Look Back In Anger,' it's easier just to do it. And I think my new songs are strong enough that they'll stand up alongside the old songs."

He's definitely right about that. Noel's excellent album comes out in October, but you can hear all about it now from the man himself, in this exclusive two-part interview, along with some hilarious chatter about why he won't go on Twitter, how a band called You And Me At Six outed him when he was recording in secret, his upcoming psychedelic side-project with Amorphous Androgynous, what he really thinks of Beady Eye, and whether or not he thinks he is an "icon."

Source: yahoo.com

Liam Gallagher Celebrates His Birthday By Sending Tim Burgess A Pretty Green Present

Could rocker Liam Gallagher be the most benevolent birthday boy going?

For it seems that to celebrate his 39th birthday yesterday, the Burnage boy was the one sending out the presents - to rocker pal Tim Burgess of The Charlatans at least.

Tim revealed on his Twitter site that he “felt a bit guilty” after Liam sent HIM a gift from his own Pretty Green fashion collection despite the ex-Oasis frontman being the birthday boy.

Charlatans frontman Tim tweeted: “Kind of feel a bit guilty, I got sent an ace Pretty Green jacket on Liam’s birthday. Like a reverse birthday present.”

Tim then vowed: “I’ll send a cake.”

Source: menmedia.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Won't Give Up Talking Shit Or Singing Oasis Songs

Spinner Interview: In House With Noel Gallagher, the Solo artist who won't give up talking shit or singing Oasis Songs.

Another On This Day In Oasis History...

Below is a video from September 22nd 2004, when Noel Gallagher appeared on Tim Lovejoy And The All Stars in London.

Beady Eye Interview From Madrid

Old interview but I have not come across it before, Liam Gallagher and Andy Bell speak with ETB's Aizpea Zearreta before a concert in Madrid.

Click here to watch.

Noel Gallagher Interview In Next Week's NME Magazine

Next week's NME will feature a new interview with Noel Gallagher, ahead of his new album.

On This Day In Oasis History...

"Stand by Me" is a song by British rock group Oasis, written by lead guitarist, Noel Gallagher. It was the second single to be released from the band's third album, Be Here Now, and peaked at number 2 in the UK charts in September 1997. It was kept from the top-spot by the record breaking Elton John single "Candle in the Wind 1997," re-recorded and released in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, who had died three weeks before the release of "Stand by Me". Despite this, "Stand By Me" still went Gold in the UK. "Stand by Me" was acknowledged as one of the stand-out tracks from Be Here Now.



















Interview

In a 1997 interview promoting Be Here Now, Noel Gallagher had the following to say: "It starts, 'Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday'. When I first moved to London my mam kept on ringing up and asking was I eating properly. Yes, Mam. So I tried to cook a Sunday roast and puked up for two days with food poisoning. It was back to Pot Noodles after that. It's a bit like "Live Forever", I suppose, with a touch of "All the Young Dudes" in the background -- though I made sure I changed the chords."

Live Performances

Due to Noel Gallagher's general dislike of Be Here Now, "Stand by Me" is rarely played live by the band at their concerts, as it is Noel who usually decides the song listings for Oasis' tours. A live version of the song from this tour can be found on the double-CD version of Familiar to Millions.

A well-known acoustic version of "Stand by Me" was shown on television the night before the release of Be Here Now as part of a BBC1 documentary, featuring Noel, Liam Gallagher and drummer Alan White sitting by the side of a swimming pool, with Liam on vocals, Noel on acoustic guitar and White holding a tambourine.



Writing

Noel Gallagher claims to have written the song whilst suffering from food poisoning when he first moved to London. His mother Peggy would phone him to check on him and repeatedly told him to ensure he was eating properly. This spurred Gallagher to cook himself a proper English Sunday dinner, which resulted in a bout of food poisoning. Gallagher claims that the song's first line—"Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday/I've got a lot of things to learn"—came to him as he lay on the floor and it was then that he began to pen the lyrics to the song.

The title for the song probably comes from the song "Stand By Me", which was covered by the Gallaghers' idol John Lennon. In a characteristic example of Noel Gallagher lifting elements from songs of which he is fond, the rousing sequence of chord changes between the repeated chorus lyrics 'Stand by me/Nobody knows the way it's gonna be' bears a remarkable similarity to a similar chord sequence in Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes", written by David Bowie.



Video

The video for the song was a reworking of a famous series of adverts for The Guardian newspaper. Entitled The Whole Picture, the adverts showed people appearing to be engaging in criminal and/or anti-social acts—only to revealed that they are actually helping someone else. For example, a scruffily-dressed skinhead rushes at a businessman; it appears he is making an effort to mug him; only the "whole picture" reveals that he is fact dashing to push him away from a load of falling bricks. Similarly in the video for "Stand By Me", a shop appears to be being burgled - its window smashed and people taking away electrical goods—only for it to be revealed that in fact the victim of a motorcycle crash has gone through the window and is buried under the televisions.

Track listing

CD CRESCD 278
"Stand by Me" – 5:55
"(I Got) The Fever" – 5:14
"My Sister Lover" – 5:58
"Going Nowhere " – 4:41

7" CRE 278
"Stand by Me" – 5:55
"(I Got) The Fever" – 5:14

12" CRE 278T
"Stand by Me" – 5:55
"(I Got) The Fever" – 5:14
"My Sister Lover" – 5:58

Cassette CRECS 278
"Stand by Me" – 5:55
"(I Got) The Fever" – 5:14

"My Sister Lover" - Some fans believe the title to be a reference to the band Sister Lovers, a group that invited Oasis to a May 1993 gig at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, Scotland, where they were spotted by Creation Records chief Alan McGee, who reportedly offered Oasis a recording contract on the spot after the gig.

"Going Nowhere" - apparently Noel's attempt at a Burt Bacharach style song - can be found on The Masterplan, a collection of Oasis B-sides. It is one of only two B-sides from the Be Here Now era to be included on the album. Although it was not released until 1997, the song was written in 1990, before Noel even joined Oasis, let alone before they were signed.

Win Tickets To See Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Soundcheck In London

Win Tickets To See Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds live & attend the soundcheck before the show!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will be performing at the hmv Forum in London on 30th October 2011.

To celebrate the release of their debut album we have 3 pairs of tickets for the show & the opportunity to attend the soundcheck beforehand.

To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets for this unique event, simply pre-order the album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'.

For full details and terms click here.

"No purchase necessary. For free entry, send your name, address, email and telephone number handwritten on a plain piece of paper by pre-paid post to ‘Noel Gallagher Competition’, The Promotions Dept, HMV, Film House, 142 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8LN, to arrive before 17th October 2011 . Only one plain paper entry per stamped envelope. "

Source: hmv.com

Noel Gallagher On The Cover Of 'Rolling Stone' Spain

Below is the new edition of Rolling Stone that goes on sale in Spain tomorrow.

Jason Derülo's Favourite Song Is Oasis' Wonderwall

Jason Derülo who turned 22 today has revealed he is a big Oasis fan, and that he also shares the same birthday as the former Oasis man.

When questioned about his birthday during an interview he said “It’s Liam’s birthday too,” and added “I like Oasis, Wonderwall is my favourite song.”

UPDATE: Noel Gallagher TV And Radio Appearances This Sunday And Monday

Noel Gallagher will be a guest on several Italian radio and TV programmes this Sunday (25th Sept).

Noel will feature in "Quelli che il calcio", a famous Italian music and football show. The host is no longer Simona Ventura, who made an embarrassing interview with the Liam and Noel Gallagher back in 2009.



The host is Victoria Cabello, the show is broadcast live from 13.45 (local time) on Rai Due.

Then Noel will be on RTL 102.5, talking about and playing a few acoustic tracks from 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'. The show is broadcast live from 17.30 (local time) and it is available in "radiovision" on Sky 750 (Italy).

On Monday Noel will then be interviewed by Nikki on Tropical Pizza on Radio DeeJay from 15.30 (local time). An acoustic performance is expected.

I will post a reminder on Sunday and Monday with links to listen and watch live.

Thanks to frjdoasis

More On The Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Preview

Sitting in the midtown Manhattan offices of Mercury Records listening to a 5-track sampling of songs from Noel Gallagher's upcoming solo album, I can't help but wonder. Funnily enough I'm not wondering what these songs would have sounded like as Oasis tracks. In fact, I'm wondering why it took so long for Gallagher to make the leap as a solo artist.

"I had perfected that role," Gallagher told me a few weeks ago at a swanky rooftop party in SoHo to celebrate his new venture, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. "I was quite happy to be the guy on the side of the stage, playing guitar and singing the odd song. It's actually a pain in the arse to have to be up front. Talk to me after a few shows. I might be moaning about I've made a huge mistake."

But from what I'm hearing, to put it plainly, he doesn't need Oasis.

Gallagher's tour is selling out everywhere, and he quickly added a second Beacon Theater show here when demand for tickets to the first, November 14th, show were white hot.

Certainly Gallagher is the Great White Hope of Oasis fans. While many were glad to see Gallagher's brother Liam soldier on with his former-Oasis bandmates in Beady Eye, most were not surprised when that band sputtered rather than took off like a rocket. But even casual Oasis fans always expected great things from The Chief.

And so the pace of the elder-Gallagher's ticket sales and album pre-sales have far outstripped those of his rivals, and perhaps even the last Oasis album and tour.

And deservedly so. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds is the first new music I've heard in ages that warrants real excitement and anticipation.

"Everybody's On The Run" is huge, with the giant sound of a chior over a jagged beat set to an epic Gallagher melody. "If I Had A Gun" is simple in structure and composition, but has a universal nature that -- like many of Gallagher's best songs -- belies that simplicity. "AKA... What A Life" and "The Death Of You And Me", like "If I Had A Gun" are all over the Internet these days, but heard on a decent stereo system they are nothing short of glorious. Best of all, they take left turns sonically where in Gallagher's previous incarnation he might have gone a more straightforward route.

And then there's "Record Machine." While great quality demos of the song circulate, the song -- the one that Liam Gallagher never got to add vocals to during the making of the last Oasis album, electing to return to the UK from LA to get married instead -- is, like all of these songs, under 4 minutes. Producer Dave Sardy has stripped things back in many respects. But it's no less epic. Sporting a smoother, more intimate vocal than the demo and strings that come in almost at the beginning of the song, "Record Machine" is the Oasis song Noel Gallagher hasn't released in ages.

Which again begs the question: What if Noel Gallagher had jettisoned the Oasis machine after "Be Here Now"? We likely would not have the gotten the maturity in both production and songwriting that we have here, but clearly Gallagher enjoyed the challenge of showing just what he's capable of on his own in making "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds", delivering some of his best songs in ages and certainly the strongest vocal performances of his career.

In the end, though, all of that is just a parlour game. What's most amazing about what I've heard so far from this record is how it is classic and familiar while also retaining its edge and sounding fresh. That's no small feat.

In a week or so I'll have the entire album in my hands. I'll write more then. I can't wait.

Source: www.examiner.com

Gallery: Beady Eye In Taipei

Click here for a number of photographs from Beady Eye's gig at Studio 18 in Taipei.

Happy Birthday Liam Gallagher

Happy Birthday to Liam Gallagher who is 39 today.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'If I Had A Gun...' Is Available Now In North America!

'If I Had A Gun...' is out now to buy in North America! Get it from iTunes here, and Amazon here.

Nicole Gallagher Says Husband Liam Is Her 'Rock'

Nicole Gallagher has credited husband Gallagher as her "rock," saying that he's flying in from Japan via Abu Dhabi to watch the recording of her new show.

Nicole is one of the hosts on 'Cover Me Canada' that starts on September 18th on CBC.

"He really is excited," she says when her husband's reputation as a hater of all things not Beatles or Stones is brought up. "Of course, Liam was a huge fan of (U.K. reality-TV band) S Club 7 Juniors," she adds with a chuckle.

As for the rumour that Gallagher's current band, Beady Eye, will perform on the show, Appleton says it's not going to happen. "No, he won't (perform)," she declares. "He's not Canadian!"

Bonehead And Pete MacLeod Live Date In Newcastle And More

Pete MacLeod and former Oasis band member Bonehead, have announced an acoustic show on December the 10TH, 2011, at Newcastle's Riverside venue. Speaking of the show and Pete's music Bonehead said, "I first heard about Pete's music through Alan Mcgee's recommendation back in 2008 and followed his progress. I really liked what I heard with his songwriting and vocals. I think Alan mentioned this to Pete and through that we got talking about working together. We then did a UK/Irish acoustic tour together with me playing on all of Pete's songs and that was top! We had a right good laugh and the songs sounded great, we both really enjoyed it. His recent single, Rolling Stone, is a GREAT tune and I'm really looking forward to Newcastle in December." Speaking of the acoustic show Pete said, "I love playing acoustic gig's and I found in LA that there are many venues that are built for that purpose. When you play an intimate venue or show with everyone listening, nothing beats it. I guess it's a songwriter thing? At the end of the day without my acoustic guitar I wouldn't have any songs. That's where they all come from and I think it's good to keep it simple like that. Having Bonehead playing on my songs again is great. He's done it all and still has a passion for new music. He's one of the good guy's and I'm really looking forward to joining up with him again for the gig in Newcastle."

After performing a solo acoustic show at Glasgow's King Tut's in 2010, Pete realised he had some musician friends gathering around him for general support. Little did Pete know at the time that it was all beginning to fit into a fateful line-up. "I started to acknowledge that I had a few friend's around me when I came back from the Los Angeles. Fergy, bass player (Cancerian), guitarist Kev Donnelly (Cancerian) and guitarist Pedro (Cancerian). All three musician's were in previous band's with me at different times in the past. Not knowing if I was going to form a band again, I allowed things to develop naturally and let time go on to see if this was indeed the right path for me." The three musician's were keen to be involved musically again with Pete but he wasn't convinced just yet if that was the right thing for him to do, as it's a tried and tested road he has been on before. The band went into the rehearsal studios listening to Pete's song's and performing it by ear with several different drummers to see how thing's felt. Thing's weren't working out for various reasons and Pete had accepted that this was to be the way fate had turned out, until he had heard of young drummer and local musician, Martin Johnston's talent's. After a chat on the phone with the conversation ending on asking Martin what his star sign was and Martin replying "Cancerian, why?", Pete began to realise that this was to be fate's handling in some weird way. (It also turns out Martin's family actually worked with Pete's Dad back in the day, small World). The band went into rehearsals in Glasgow and played Pete's songs with the outcome being very impressive. After a few weeks of rehearsals Pete wondered if he should name the band or not. "I'm a Leo, so I thought about calling the band Leo and The Cancerian's but decided not to risk being sued by Leo Sayer and so I left it for a few day's. I then looked at it again after I typed it into my iPhone and noticed that the star sign LEO was already in my name!" Pete MacLEOd & The Cancerian's. Pete named his previous band thestar69. He got a tattoo on his arm when he was 22 with the ying yang and the 6 and 9 in the circle instead of the dot's. Weirdly, 6 and 9 is the Cancerian's symbol. It just might be that some thing's are in the stars...

Pete and his band, (Pete MacLEOd & The Cancerian's), will be swapping Hollywood for Kirkwood over the next two months as they prepare to perform a monthly residency at local bar The Eagle Inn on September 30TH and October 28TH. They will then be playing in Newcastle's Riverside on the 11TH of November and a headline Christmas show @ King Tut's, Glasgow, on the 23RD of December. This will be the first time that Pete has ever performed in the place he grew up, having spent all of his childhood in Kirkwood. You can follow Pete's progress on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.

All dates of Pete's tour are below:

September 30th, Pete MacLeod & The Cancerian's LIVE @ The Eagle Inn, Coatbridge. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001254914501

October 28th, Pete Macleod & The Cancerian's LIVE @ The Eagle Inn, Coatbridge. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001254914501

November 11th, Pete MacLeod & The Cancerian's LIVE @ Riverside, Newcastle. www.riversidenewcastle.co.uk (FOR TICKET'S)

December 10th, Pete MacLeod & Bonehead LIVE @ Riverside, Newcastle. www.riversidenewcastle.co.uk (FOR TICKET'S)

December 23rd, Pete MacLeod & The Cancerian's LIVE @ King Tut's, Glasgow. www.kingtuts.co.uk (FOR TICKET'S)

Further information on Pete and his work is available on:
www.petemacleodmusic.com
www.myspace.com/petesolomusic

Noel Gallagher Interview On RTL 102.5 On Radio Deejay Monday

Noel Gallagher will be a guest on Italian radio station Radio Deejay on Monday 26th September, he will be on the Tropical Pizza Show.

The show is broadcast live from 15:30 - 17:00 (local time).

Noel Gallagher Features In The Trainspotting 15th Anniversary Blu-ray

A brief interview with Noel Gallagher at the premiere of Trainspotting in Cannes, is included in the extras of the Trainspotting 15th Anniversary Blu-ray.



Trainspotting is a 1996 Scottish film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in early 1990's economically-depressed Edinburgh and their passage through life.

The film stars Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton, Ewen Bremner as Spud, Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy, Kevin McKidd as Tommy, Robert Carlyle as Begbie and Kelly Macdonald as Diane. Author Irvine Welsh also has a brief appearance as hapless drug dealer Mikey Forrester.

The Academy Award-nominated screenplay, by John Hodge, was adapted from Welsh's novel. It does not contain any references to the non-drug-related hobby of train spotting. The title is a reference to an episode in the original book (not included in the film) where Begbie and Renton meet "an auld drunkard", who turns out to be Begbie's estranged father, in the disused Leith Central railway station, which they are visiting to use as a toilet. He asks them if they are "trainspottin'" (p309, Minerva edition). The title also relates to obsessive behavior (drug addicts obsess about getting their next fix just as trainspotters obsess about collecting train numbers) and to a slang term to inject heroin or "Mainline" it. Beyond drug addiction, other concurrent themes in the film are exploration of the urban poverty and squalor, in 'culturally rich' Edinburgh

The film has since developed a cult following and has been ranked 10th spot by the British Film Institute (BFI) in its list of Top 100 British films of all time. It was also part of a cluster of motion pictures that some claimed glamorized the gritty lifestyle of opiate addiction to a mainstream audience and also included Pulp Fiction (1994) and The Basketball Diaries (1995) The success of these films revealed that the heroin culture, although dark and forbidden, was equally fascinating. It demonstrated that the American public hungered for glimpses into heroin's dark and mysterious culture.