Noel Gallagher Is On The XFM Breakfast Show Tomorrow

Noel Gallagher will be appearing on tomorrow morning's XFM breakfast show from 8am (UK time) and then on XFM Manchester shortly afterwards.

Listen live here.

The Black Box Revelation To Support Beady Eye On Their North American Tour

It's been reported that 'Black Box Revelation' are supporting Beady Eye on dates of their upcoming North American tour.

No official word yet, but tickets for the shows below are on sale now.

Visit www.beadyeyemusic.com for details.

11/29 Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, BC
11/30 Showbox – Seattle, WA
12/2 Warfield – San Francisco, CA
12/3 Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
12/5 First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
12/6 The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
12/8 9:30 Club – Washington, DC
12/9 Terminal 5 – NYC, NY
12/10 House of Blues – Boston, MA

Beady Eye Roll Into Copenhagen...

Beady Eye will play at the Vega in Copenhagen, Denmark later today (October 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 Beady Eye fan site standingontheedgeofthenoise.com by clicking here.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'AKA... What A Life!.. Digital Bundle Available Now

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's single 'AKA What A Life!' is released as a digital bundle today. It features the exclusive b-side track 'Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me'. The digital bundle also includes the video below.

The video was co-directed by Mike Bruce and Blake West, who worked with Noel on the video for 'The Death Of You And Me'. Filmed in California, Arizona and New Mexico, the video features an outrageous performance by actor/comedian Russell Brand.

To get hold of the digital bundle visit the official store here, iTunes here and Amazon here.

CD and 7" is available from tomorrow.

Watch Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Perform 'If I Had A Gun' On German TV

Below Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds perform 'If I Had a Gun' on German TV show Schlag Den Raab - October 15th 2011

On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from October 15th 1994, when Oasis played at The Metro in Chicago.

Stop Crying Your Heart Out By Oasis Is Sung On US X Factor

Below Elaine Gibbs performs "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" on the US version of the for Enrique Iglesias and Nicole Scherzinger at her house.

Video: Noel Gallagher Picks His Acts For An Imaginary Festival

Below is an interview with Noel Gallagher from Sweden choosing the acts for an imaginary festival.

Setlist And Videos From Beady Eye In Berlin

Below is the setlist and a few videos from Beady Eye's gig at the Columbiahalle in Berlin, Germany Yesterday.

Yellow Tail (Intro)
Four Letter Word
Beatles And Stones
Millionaire
Three Ring Circus
Two Of A Kind
For Anyone
The Roller
In The Bubble With A Bullet
Bring The Light
Standing On The Edge of The Noise
Kill For A Dream
The Beat Goes On
The Morning Sun
Wigwam
World Outside My Room
Sons Of The Stage

Ryan Adams: Noel Gallagher Is A Treasure

Having Noel Gallagher turn up at his concerts always spooked Ryan Adams.

The former Oasis axe-man was a one-time regular at the rocker's gigs in Britain during the noughties.

And he says being in such starry company was hard to cope with.

He recalls: "I could never believe when I was told he was at one of my shows.

"It was amazing because I really treasure that guy."

The respect lead to the 36-year-old rocker covering Wonderwall on his 2004 album Love Is Hell.

Noel returned the favour by having Ryan and his then band The Cardinals support Oasis on their final American tour in 2008.

And as Oasis disintegrated shortly afterwards so did The Cardinals.

Ryan announced his retirement in 2009 – but has now returned with his thirteenth studio album Ashes & Fire.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Five Minutes Cooling Off In The Car Could Have Saved Oasis

Noel Gallagher tells the Herald of his regrets at that break-up, getting old and how not to dress

It's midday at a plush hotel on London's Marylebone Road when Noel Thomas David Gallagher makes his entrance. In a moment, the 44-year-old rock star will take a seat and answer any question I throw at him. That is, after he's finished criticising my choice of clothing.

"He's dressed as a waiter," says Noel to his manager. True, I'm wearing a white shirt and black trousers. And there's a notebook in my hand. So the cheeky Mancunian requests a cappuccino. It's a teaser for what's to come.

The elder of rock's most famous brothers is a top bloke; warm, amiable, and often hilarious. A cocky swine, mind ("Did you see us at Slane? How good was I?"), but as the chief songwriter and lead guitarist for one of the biggest bands of all time, I suppose a little arrogance here and there is to be expected.

PLUM

Today, Noel has three things to do: rehearse, get a haircut, and speak to yours truly about everything and anything from the past 20 years.

It's been two years sine the infamous Oasis split, yet it's the bitter feud with his brother that continues to make headlines.

Only a day after this interview, it was announced that Liam was suing his brother over comments he'd made regarding the band's cancelled V Festival appearance in 2009. The case has since been dropped.

There is no clear explanation for how the end came to be.

We do know is that it took place backstage at a festival in France -- five minutes before Oasis were due to headline. It may or may not have involved flying guitars and a, er, plum. Whatever the case, Noel is, technically, the one who walked out on the band. Does he regret how it ended?

"Yeah, of course," he says. "Not at the time. I was like, 'f**k this, I'm out of here'. Too much violence, d'you know what I mean? Slagging each other off is one thing -- violence is another.

"In hindsight, it would have been great if this was a kind of side project, because 2015 is coming up which would have been the 20th anniversary of Morning Glory. We could have done a new album, and we could have played that album in its entirety and done it all over the world and it would have been f**king amazing.

"Looking back on it now, the coolest thing to do would have been to sit in the car and take five minutes. We only had three gigs left. We could have had f**king five years off. They could have gone off and done their thing, I could have done mine, we could have all reconvened and life would have been great. But that's the benefit of hindsight."

Former bassist Andy Bell reckons Noel's depiction of the break-up (it all started when Liam requested to advertise his clothing range in an Oasis tour programme and got annoyed when Noel asked how much he'd pay) is nothing but a pack of lies.

"Well, Andy's entitled to Liam's opinion," says Noel, "and I'm quite prepared to let him have the last word on it."

Has he spoken to Liam since?

"No," he replies. "He called me once when me mam was taken ill.

"But it was in the middle of the night; just a message on the answering machine. But no, I haven't spoken to him.

"He always hung out with Gem and Andy and their wives and their kids, and they were kind of a contained unit," he continues.

"I've got a completely separate life so, it's no big deal. It's only a big deal for people like interviewers who say 'oh, isn't it sad?'" Noel shakes his head and laughs.

I ask if he misses his brother.

"Well... if I go by the last time I saw him, no, I don't miss the violence and the verbal f**king sh*t that goes with all that. I don't miss that"

And so to the music. Noel's new solo album, High Flying Birds, is thankfully worth the wait. It's everything you'd expect, only... better.

It was "easy", he insists.

His description of his second solo effort -- a yet-to-be heard collaboration with British electronic artists Gaz Cobain ("literally the most unique man in the music business") and Brian Dougans, aka The Amorphous Androgynous, sounds even more interesting.

That will see the light of day next year and is apparently the "farthest out" he's ever been. It would be great to sell a million records, he admits, but Noel is under no illusion that he'll have the kind of success he had with Oasis.

"I'm never gonna be in another band or do anything that ever remotely even gets close to that," says Noel. "I wouldn't be that f**king lucky to have that twice in my life. Thank God I was the lead guitarist and wrote most of the songs. I'm not doing this to compete with that, or whatever the other boys are doing. No good can come of that."

Indeed, the "other boys" now call themselves Beady Eye. Noel believes that Oasis were the "last great, traditional rock'n'roll band" and that their debut album, 1994's Definitely Maybe is up there with the Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks. Or so he says.

The conversation turns to age. He looks after himself, he tells me. He still smokes and drinks (much to his wife's disgust), but getting older isn't something that bothers him.

"After all I've done, it's f**king great," he smiles. "I'm not sitting here thinking 'I really missed the boat there in that music game, me -- I could have been somebody'."

Given a second chance, is there anything he'd change about his time in Oasis?

"If you can even imagine this," he answers, "I'd have enjoyed it a little bit more. I had to write all those songs, d'you know what I mean? So as much as I was enjoying it, believe you me, the other four were enjoying it more because there was no pressure on them. But I wouldn't change a f**king thing".

As Noel and I shake hands and I agree to improve my wardrobe, I ask him how he'd like to be remembered.

"I'd just like to be remembered," he replies. "That's the great thing about music -- if you're in a big band, the songs are immortal, which means you're immortal."

Noel Gallagher plays Dublin's Olympia Theatre on October 23. High Flying Birds is released today.

Source: www.herald.ie

Noel Gallagher Is On Soccer Saturday Later Today

Noel Gallagher is on 'Soccer Saturday' later today, the show starts at 12noon (UK) on Sky Sports News HD.

Fenners catches up with Manchester City's avid supporter Noel Gallagher, the former Oasis rocker and High Flying Birds frontman with plenty to say on his club's start to the season.

Noel Gallagher On German TV Later Today

Noel Gallagher will be playing 'If I Had A Gum' on German TV show 'Schlag Den Raab' on channel ProSieben.

The show starts at 8:15pm (local time).

Thanks to CoolProphet

Noel Gallagher Interview And Live Performance From Skavlaon

Click here to watch an interview with Noel Gallagher and a performance of 'The Death Of You And Me' by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds on Skavlan.

Interview starts @ 44:50
The Death Of You And Me starts @ 54:55

Noel Gallagher: 'All I Ever Wanted Was A Bigger Telly'

He thinks he might have wasted his life. Not all of it, you understand. Certainly not two decades during which his old band Oasis sold 70 million albums, swigged from champagne flutes at the British prime minister’s Downing Street residence and played Wembley Stadium. No, the bit before that. From the ages of 17 to 27 to be exact. A complete lost decade. Noel Gallagher has been thinking about it a lot recently.

“When I was 17 I was a typical north-west scally, going to football matches, smoking dope and collecting my dole. I became a self-taught expert on Prisoner Cell Block H and WWF wrestling and the local guide for magic mushrooms. People say to me ‘Oh, but you must have been writing songs, getting your foot on the first rung of the ladder’. I didn’t even notice the ladder was there. The people I hung out with – if you had any ambitions you were seen as a bit of sissy so I didn’t even pick up a guitar.”

He’s been thinking about this time again because, since the acrimonious break-up of Oasis in 2009, he has in effect been unemployed again. There has been a long lay-off during which time he has had a third child, re-married, moved house and thankfully written some new songs. Now at last he has a new job too: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are about to release their first album.

“I was better at being unemployed this time round,” he says. “I got more done. Didn’t stay up too late. No mushrooms.”

We are drinking coffee on a sunny café terrace in east London. An office block overlooks us and some female workers spot him and start waving and cheering. He waves back. When they go on a bit too long, he knots his eyebrows quizzically and you can see why some people used to call him “Parker” after the monobrowed Thunderbirds character.

Being instantly recognised, I say, after a long absence and the demise of the band that made him famous, must be reassuring.

“I don’t know about reassuring. I’m trying something new and you never know how people will react. I think there’s goodwill. But that soon disappears if you haven’t got the songs.”

His brother Liam’s rival band, Beady Eye, have had a six-month head-start and enjoyed a raft of “not as terrible as we all feared” reviews. But Noel Gallagher believes that he has the songs to put this rivalry to bed. Wisely, he has taken the precaution of recording them with a band with none of the personnel issues of the old one. Backed by unknown side-men and, as if to emphasise his post-Oasis creative liberation, the High Flying Birds have recorded two albums. The imminent High Flying Birds album and a psychedelic sister album recorded with the electronic dance rock pioneers The Amorphous Androgynous, which will be released in 2012.

“I’m easing everyone in gently,” Gallagher laughs. “You get the recognisable me first time round. And then next year you get the mind-blowing version.”

What drives the most successful British rock stars of the past 20 years? Well, classic post-divorce angst for a start. In the fall-out from the split with his brother it has become a point of principle to show just who the real talent was. Noel Gallagher is prepared to admit that Liam was the handsome, charismatic front man but he is at pains to prove that it was always he who wrote the Oasis classics. And if the melodies aren’t enough, then new song titles such as If I Had a Gun and The Death of You & Me surely tell their own story.

Gallagher realises that the High Flying Birds put him deeply out of his comfort zone for the first time in 20 years. He will once more be proving himself in venues where, as he says, he can see the “whites of people’s eyes”. He is hedging his bets a little: he will play small venues to begin with plus a smattering of Oasis songs. But he is adamant that the days of working with his brother are over.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.

Source: www.thenational.ae

Part Three And Four Of Noel Gallagher's Interview With 3FM

3FM have posted part three and four of an audio interview with Noel Gallagher, click here to listen to the interview.

Scroll down page and it's under 'The Death Of You And Me' video.

Thanks to AG_foto

Win Tickets To See Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In New York

Click here to win tickets to Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds sold out show on November 14th.

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Noel Gallagher Is On The Cover Of 'Rolling Stone Magazine' In Chile

Noel Gallagher is on the cover of the 'Rolling' Magazine in Chile, on sale now!

Noel Gallagher Discusses His New Solo Album, 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'

Noel Gallagher might have joined his brother’s band, Oasis. But he also eventually became its creative force.

His gift for writing hit songs put Oasis on the map in 1994. Their 1995 album, What’s The Story (Morning Glory)?, which featured the hits “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back In Anger,” sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and propelled the band to international stardom.

But from the very beginning, brothers Noel and Liam fought -- usually in the public eye, often via the press. On September 5, 2009, Noel had finally had enough and called it quits. Oasis split into two, with the entire band (minus Noel, of course) joining Liam in the newly formed Beady Eye. Noel went solo.

Noel's debut album, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, which comes out November 8 via Sour Mash/Mercury Records, is distinctly "Noel Gallagher" in that its 10 tracks capture some of the brilliance of Oasis' early hits. In fact, “The Death Of You And Me” and “If I Had A Gun…” could fit nicely on any classic Oasis album.

Over the years, it hasn’t been easy to track down Noel. His not needing to do press is a luxury of being in a massive, internationally famous band. But now with a brand-new solo album, it’s a different story. Luckily, Guitar World grabbed a half-hour of his time during his recent visit to New York. We tried to play catch-up for a few decades of his work, right up to his new album.

GUITAR WORLD: When did you start working on Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds?

I don’t really have a set start date; I’m always writing songs. But the first day in the studio was Valentine’s Day. It was a momentous day because my wife called me at 3 o’clock that day and told me she was pregnant. It was as I was doing the drums for the first track, and I was like, “Wow.” I couldn’t tell you what year that was ... last year.

Do you have your own recording studio? In the past you've spoken about using Garage Band.

No, I don’t. I used to, but I let it go. It’s just a fucking waste of money. It’s counterproductive in the end. We would end up recording the album twice. But no, just a friend's studio in London; and then we finished it off in Los Angeles.

I know “Stop The Clocks,” which is on the album, is an unfinished Oasis song. Are there any other songs from Oasis days?

Yeah, “Record Machine.”

I've always wanted to ask you about the Oasis song “The Masterplan.” Was that finished or unfinished? I ask because it seems to be missing a verse.

The story of that song is, “Wonderwall,” the single, was coming out, and we didn’t have a B-side. My label hooked me up with a studio and said we need a B-side, so the night before I wrote it in my kitchen and I thought, “Fucking hell, that’s really good.” I didn’t really think anything of it at the time. I just thought it’s a really good song. We recorded it over a few days and then as the finished thing emerged, everyone was going, “Are you sure you want to send this out as a B-side?” And I was like, “What do you want me to fucking do? You asked me to write a song, there it is."

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE.

Source: www.guitarworld.com

Noel Gallagher Speechless For Fans

Noel Gallagher has got "nothing to say" to his fans when he plays live.

The former Oasis star is preparing to go on his debut solo tour but he insists anyone coming along shouldn't expect him to do much else but sing and play guitar.

He told BBC Radio 2: "I've got nothing to say to these people who are coming to see me apart from this song is called... I'm not really into audience participation. I wouldn't come down and look down at your computer while you're at work.

"They're here to listen to the music. You clap, I sing, good night, the end."

The tour will be Noel's first full run of shows he has played without his brother and former Oasis bandmate Liam singing with him, but he insists he isn't nervous about stepping on stage without his younger sibling.

Noel - who quit the 'Supersonic' rock band after having a huge bust-up with Liam before a festival appearance in Paris, France, in August 2009 - added: "I'm ready for it. I wouldn't say I'm overly excited. I wouldn't say I'm overly nervous. I'm a bit intrigued about what people expect."

Source: Bang Showbiz