Noel Gallagher On Writing His Debut Album

Noel Gallagher has been speaking about how long it took him to write debut album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'.

Speaking to Rolling Stone he said “If I Had A Gun…” was very quick. "Stop The Clocks" and "Broken Arrow,” too. But “The Death Of You and Me” took me ages, and that’s as good as anything on the album. Today I heard it on the radio and thought, “I’m glad I stuck it out."

He was also questioned if he nervous at all about being the only one in the spotlight when he's on tour.

He replied "Once I’ve got a few gigs under my belt, I’ll be fine. I’ve done huge fucking gigs [with Oasis] where we had to go and prove ourselves. I’m less nervous now because the guys I’m playing with are all paid to get it right. And if they don’t, some fucker’s going home."

Noel Gallagher On His Fondest Memories Of His Time In Oasis

Noel Gallagher has been speaking about his fondest memories of his time in Oasis.

When Questioned by the Rolling Stone "What are your fondest memories of Oasis?" Noel replied "Ironically, the best period in the band, between '97 and '99. coincided with the worst musical period. We were touring behind Be Here Now - not my best work - but I've got to say, the fucking tour was incredible. Fuck me! I never drank and took so many drugs as I did on the first night."

When questioned on what drugs he was taking? he responded "All of ‘em. We were living the fucking life. When I got into my thirties, I realized, “This is bullshit.” and I quit. Then the music came back."

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In New York

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Beacon Theatre in New York, USA later today (November 14th).

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.

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Beady Eye Roll Into Birmingham...

Beady Eye will play at the 02 Academy in Birmingham, UK today (November 14th).

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.

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Wow Another On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from the 13th November 2000, when Noel Gallagher was interviewed on The Frank Skinner Show.

Another On This Day In Oasis History...

Familiar To Millions is a live album by Oasis from their July 21, 2000 concert at Wembley Stadium and was released on 13th November 2000. Familiar to Millions debuted at a respectable #5 in the UK charts with 57,000 copies sold in the first week. To date Familiar to Millions has sold around 310,000 copies in Britain alone (Platinum) and has estimated world sales of 1 million. The album was initially released simultaneously on six formats: DVD, VHS, Double CD, Double Cassette, Triple Vinyl and MiniDisc.




















Track listing

All tracks written by Noel Gallagher, except where noted. Times are taken from the Double CD edition of the album.

Fuckin' In The Bushes (intro tape) – 3:04
Go Let It Out – 5:32
Who Feels Love? – 5:59
Supersonic – 4:30
Shakermaker – 5:13
Acquiesce – 4:18
Step Out (Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/Moy) – 4:05
Gas Panic! – 8:01
Roll With It – 4:43
Stand By Me – 5:49
Wonderwall – 4:46
Cigarettes & Alcohol – 6:52
Don't Look Back in Anger – 5:27
Live Forever – 5:09
Hey Hey, My My (Young) – 3:45
Champagne Supernova – 6:32
Rock 'N' Roll Star – 7:26

Video Version (DVD / VHS)

As well as the whole show the DVD features the following:

45 minute documentary shot in and around Wembley by Grant Gee including backstage interviews and fans footage.

Multicamera angles on the track "Cigarettes & Alcohol".

Live screen films for "Go Let It Out", "Supersonic", "Live Forever" and "Rock 'n' Roll Star".

Complete Discography (inc. international releases) with audio clips and artwork.

Stunning Dolby 5.0 stereo sound.

CDRom element - links to an exclusive page on the Oasis website with as-yet unseen photos and Songplayer module where fans can teach themselves to play 'Live Forever'.

'Tambourine' icon - click it and it takes you to and from the documentary in real time. A first for a non-film release.

The VHS features the whole show and a 20 minute documentary (entitled 'Mad Fer It') featuring exclusive interviews with Liam and Noel Gallagher. This documentary is unique to the VHS format.

Audio Version (CD / Vinyl / Cassette / MiniDisc)

The CD features a extra bonus track, a cover of The Beatles' song "Helter Skelter", which was recorded at the Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, USA on April 16, 2000.

A highlights CD was released on October 1, 2001 to celebrate Oasis' tenth anniversary as a band. "Fuckin' In The Bushes", "Step Out", "Stand By Me", "Hey Hey My My", and "Helter Skelter" were all ommitted.

As Liam didn't bother to sing the choruses of "Wonderwall" and also changed the words to other parts of the song ("By now you should have somehow... realised not to sniff glue" / "And all the lights that light the way are... doin' me fuckin' 'ead in!") at the July 21 gig, the version on the various audio formats features a different vocal track to the original one recorded at Wembley. This also applies to Noel's backing vocals. Most of these overdubbed vocals were recorded live at Oasis' gig at the Yokohama Arena, Tokyo, on March 5, 2000. Only one line: "I'm sure you heard it all before, but you never really had a doubt", is from the actual Wembley gig, as Liam slightly messed up this line in the Tokyo performance.

The audio version of the album is also missing various bits of between-track banter.

Other Trivia

A promo video of the Wembley version of "Gas Panic!" was distributed to music channels. The video featured visuals from throughout the gig and was slightly edited down to 6:57.

A "Gas Panic!" promo CD was issued in Brazil to promote Oasis' appearance at the Rock In Rio festival on January 14, 2001. The 2-track CD included the album version and an edited version of the Wembley track, which was edited down to 4:28.

The live album came about after the chaotic Wembley gig of July 22, 2000. This concert was being broadcast live to dozens of countries across the world but was hampered by an extremely drunk Liam Gallagher, whose out-of-tune singing and general ranting made it into an unappealing showcase of Oasis' live capabilities in the eyes of Sony BMG, who were worried about a large number of bootleg recordings being distributed.

Each of the six different formats (plus the 2001 highlights CD) had a different colour for its own cover art.

On This Day In Oasis History...

Stop The Clocks is an EP by British rock band Oasis and was released on November 13th 2006.

The EP is a "preview" of the band's compilation collection, also called Stop the Clocks. The EP is led by "Acquiesce", and book-ended by "The Masterplan", one of the B-sides to the "Wonderwall" single released in October 1995. Also included on the EP is the demo of "Cigarettes & Alcohol" and a live version of "Some Might Say" from 1995.

The EP does not contain the song of the same name, and is available only as a one-off collectors edition CD and Double gatefold 7” including an exclusive sheet of stickers. As there are over two B-sides, the EP was not be eligible for inclusion in the UK Singles Chart. Had it been eligible it would have charted at #5 with 20,858 copies sold.







Track listing

CD RKIDSCD 37, 2 X 7" RKID 37

"Acquiesce" – 4:29
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" (demo) - 4:38
"Some Might Say" (live in '95, venue unknown) - 5:15
"The Masterplan" – 5:22

The EP's notes say that the location of the live recording of "Some Might Say" is unknown. However, analysis of bootlegs have shown that the location was the Club Citta in Tokyo, Japan on 22nd August, 1995.

Noel Gallagher's Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere (Vol.2) Part Nine

Yes comrades... What up?

So... Where were we? That's right, Philadelphia. At the Academy Of Music, if my memory serves me correctly - which generally it doesn't - but I think it does this time.

Beautiful venue. Seriously. Like a mini Albert Hall. The show was... good... ok... not bad. Quite a tame crowd, I thought. Dunno... a bit reserved, which is no bad thing. As long as they're listening and clapping, who cares?

There was one guy though who kept shouting "WHATEVER!" inbetween the songs... Hope he wasn't a journalist practising some kind of new instant review technique!!

On to the historic city of Boston. I don't recall ever spending much time there in the past. Managed to see a bit of it this time and I gotta say it was beautiful. A bit like Edinburgh. Nice. I liked it a lot.

Another breathtaking venue and a great gig... Really great atmosphere. What a wonderful crowd. They sang their hearts out. Good gear.

Plotted up after the gig to watch the big fight between the great Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. And what a tear up! They literally beat the living daylights out of each other for 12 rounds. Pacquiao won on points. I thought it was a draw myself.

Muchas gracias to those who waited outside, singing songs in the cold 'til 1am. Nice to meet you.

Over-nighted it to NYC, which is where you find me now. Got 2 shows coming up at the Beacon Theatre. Looking forward to it. A few comrades have made the journey across the pond. Should be fun.

Day off today. Gotta go and get a shirt altered. It's a blimmin' 'small' and it's still too big. I might be shrinking!!!

In a bit.

GD.

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Photographs Of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds By Mitch Ikeda

Click here for a number of pictures of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds by Mitch Ikeda on a number of their UK tour dates.

Beady Eye Interview From The Planet Terra Festival

Below is an interview with Andy Bell and Gem Archer from Beady Eye at the Planet Terra Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil earlier this month.

Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Boston

Click here for a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the Wang Theater in Boston, USA.

Thanks to AG

Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Boston

Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the Wang Theater yesterday in Boston, USA.

(It's Good) To Be Free
Mucky Fingers
Everybody's On The Run
Dream On
If I Had A Gun
The Good Rebel
The Death Of You And Me
Freaky Teeth
Wonderwall
Supersonic
(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine
AKA... What A Life!
Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks
Talk Tonight
AKA... Broken Arrow
Half The World Away
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Little By Little
The Importance Of Being Idle
Don't Look Back In Anger

A number of pictures can be found on our Twitter page here.

Yet Another Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Philadelphia

Click here for a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the Academy Of Music in Philadelphia USA on Friday.

Beady Eye Setlist And Video From Blackpool

Below is the setlist and a number of videos from Beady Eye's gig at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool on Friday.

Four Letter Word
Beatles And Stones
Millionaire
Two Of A Kind
Three Ring Circus
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
Man Of Misery
The Morning Son
Wigwam
World Outside My Room
Sons Of The Stage

Yet Another Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Philadelphia

Click here for a number of pictures from yesterdays Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the Academy Of Music in Philadelphia USA.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Achives Platinum Sales In The UK

The self-titled debut from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds has been certified a platinum selling album with over 300,000 sales in the UK, the BPI has reported!

The album, released through Noel's own label Sour Mash Records, features 10 brand new tracks and includes the hit singles 'The Death Of You And Me' and 'AKA… What A Life!'.

BPI certified awards were originally introduced in April 1973 to measure the performance of individual titles based on sales to the trade each week.

Qualification for albums was initially on the basis of revenue received by manufacturers, but in January 1978 the BPI abolished the old monetary system for albums and replaced it with a unit system. This brought album awards into line with singles and also with other countries where qualification levels are based on unit sales. Multi-platinum awards, introduced in February 1987, are any multiple of the platinum level, e.g. quadruple platinum status for an album = 1.2m. The growth of digital formats saw a la carte singles and album downloads become eligible from 2004 onwards, while the first Music DVD certification was awarded in 2005.

BPI member companies apply for titles to be certified via the BPI research department and well over 9,000 have been issued since the awards scheme was launched.

Noel Gallagher's Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere (Vol.2) Part Eight

What a star-studded day we had yesterday. Famous people everywhere we went.

So, said day started early... 6am early!!!! Had to be at that VH1 place at 8am to do some blimmin' live breakfast TV show. The interview was a little strange... one doesn't expect to be discussing one's pet cat's bollocks (or lack thereof!!! He's had them whipped off, see?) so early in the morning... and certainly not on live TV!

We did meet Adam Sandler though - I say 'we' cause I was with my mate, and friend of the stars, "Scully", who does like a celebrity meet and greet. He (Adam Sandler) was cool as fuck. We have a mutual friend in Russell Brand, so the conversation went summat like this...

"Yes Adam... You know Russell, innit?"
"Yes I do... He loves you, man!!"
I know this already cause he tells me... regularly.

Anyway, as we went our separate ways Adam Sandler left me with these words...

"You have fun, buddy"... Thanks Adam Sandler, I will!!!!

From there we made our way to the Ed Sullivan theatre for the David Letterman show.

The Letterman show takes place in the Ed Sullivan theatre, on the very stage where that band The Beatles changed the world on the Ed Sullivan Show way back in 1963, I think?

On the show with us was some right-wing politician - who showed up with some very smartly turned out security - and top Scientologist Katie Holmes! (Mrs Tom Cruise)...more of which later.

If you've never been to the David Letterman show, which I'm sure some of you haven't, the studio itself is fuckin' freeeeeeeeeezing... For real, it must be close to actual freezing. Proper ball-ache.

Our dressing room was next door to none other than the legendary comedian Steve Martin who, for some reason, wasn't on the show but was there anyway - never did get to the bottom of why. He only stuck his head round the door to say hello! What an honour!!! We talked banjo and he had a bit of banter with the lads. Top, top man. Funny as fuck!!

Steve Martin I am having you, la'.

As showtime approached we got a little visit from that fella Billy Gibbons from that band ZZ TOP. Another top little dude. Who's not having that tune "Sharp Dressed Man"? Squares... that's who!

We literally bumped into that top Scientologist Katie Holmes on the way into the studio. We came out of the lift and BANG, there she was.

Now at this point my mate, and friend of the stars, Scully was doing a bit of filming for my website and managed to capture the moment. She did look a bit miffed at the various North-West accents and some vigorous handshaking, but there was no need to send one of her people over to demand the video be deleted!!!! Un-fuckin'-believable.

We didn't let it spoil the day though. And what a day. Loved it.

Am currently backstage at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. Mega venue. Like a mini Albert Hall.

Gotta go. I've lost my phone. It isn't the first time, and it won't be the last!!!

In a bit.

GD.

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Beady Eye To Release An Official Live DVD/Blu-Ray?

It has been reported by a number of people in attendance at last night's Beady Eye concert at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool was recorded and will be released on as an official DVD/Blu-Ray at a later date.

Beady Eye To Release An Official Live DVD

It has been reported by a number of people in attendance at last night's Beady Eye concert at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool was recorded and will be released as an official release at a later date.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Philadelphia Video And Setlist

Below is the setlist and a number of videos from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig yesterday at the Academy Of Music in Philadelphia, USA.

(It's Good) To Be Free
Mucky Fingers
Everybody's On The Run
Dream On
If I Had A Gun
The Good Rebel
The Death Of You And Me
Freaky Teeth
Wonderwall
Supersonic
(I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine
AKA... What a Life!
Talk Tonight
Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks
AKA... Broken Arrow
Half The World Away
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Little By Little
The Importance of Being Idle
Don't Look Back In Anger