Noel Gallagher: 'Solo Album Getting To No.1 Was Best Day Of My Life'

Noel Gallagher has described the day his debut solo album went to number one as "unbelievable".

The singer topped the UK chart with his first studio record Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds back in October, beating X Factor champ Matt Cardle to the top.

Gallagher told The Graham Norton Show: "If there is a chart, you might as well be number one.

"It went to number one on the day City beat United 6-1 so it was an unbelievable day and one of the best days I have had in my entire life."

The former Oasis star recently admitted that he was nervous ahead of his first ever solo tour as the venues were a lot smaller than he was used to.

The Graham Norton Show airs Fridays at 10.35pm on BBC One.

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Fans outside the UK can watch the show here at 10.35 (UK) Time.

Gallery: Noel Gallagher Arriving At BBC Radio One

Click here for a number of pictures of Noel Gallagher as he arrives at BBC Radio One yesterday and signs an autograph for a fan.

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Noel Gallagher Rolls With It

While the fraternal circus that was Oasis is now behind him, Noel Gallagher has found there's still plenty of surprises on the road. "Well, the world is a vastly ever-changing place inhabited by f...wits," he says sagely down the line from Los Angeles.

"You deal with them more often than not. The world is a freaky place, I like it. If only people didn't carry guns, though."

He makes a good point. Only days previously a gunman had gone on a shooting rampage up the street from where Gallagher was staying. The aftermath was not what the singer/songwriter expected.

"F...ing hell, it was crazy. The weird thing is, about an hour later, it's like nothing's happened. People are just kind of like 'Did you hear that shooting before . . . oh yeah'. What do you mean, 'Oh yeah'. Seven people got f...ing shot in the street and some guy got his head blown off by the cops. And it was like nothing had happened. I mean, I like this country but really, what the f...?"

Gallagher is on the long and winding road touring in support of a new album, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, his debut solo LP and first release since Oasis broke up in 2009. Almost to his surprise, it seems to be going very well.

"You wouldn't expect me to say anything other than it's been great," Gallagher says. "But I thought that I would be very frustrated and uneasy and awkward and a bag of nerves and very dissatisfied with it. I have to say that I'm taking to it like a duck to water. I find it very relaxing, walking onstage. I'm more at ease with this than I was with the Oasis thing, to be honest, because I know there's not somebody on the other side of the stage actively going out there ready to f… my s… up. I'm kind of just getting on with it; do you know what I mean?"

The High Flying Birds album came several months after the release of Beady Eye's Different Gear, Still Speeding, the debut album from brother Liam and the remains of Oasis.

Typically, the split with Liam was bitter, with threats of defamation suits floating around since. In terms of competition with his vocalist brother, it seems there isn't any on Noel Gallagher's part - his own album was released simply because he'd completed it.

"I don't really get that fussed about not being in the limelight. I've got enough faith in my own ability as a songwriter to just take my time and it was put out when it was ready.

"After Oasis finished people started asking me immediately what I was going to do next and I said 'Nothing, I'm not doing anything. I'm just gonna sit around my house, smoke some cigarettes, drink tea, watch some football. I'm gonna annoy the f... out of my wife, and I'll see where that takes us."

It has taken him to a pretty good place, though you can certainly tell from listening to High Flying Birds that Gallagher was the guy who wrote the songs in Oasis - both a compliment and a criticism of the album. He writes constantly, eschewing the notion of writing projects to order.

"I've written a fair few songs in my life and I've got a fair idea when something is good," Gallagher says.

"It didn't feel as though any of the songs I'd written or was recording were not working. I never thought 'People won't get it'. I don't know, maybe I'm just an arrogant bastard."

Nor did Gallagher have a problem writing songs that weren't being sung by Liam. Many guitarist/songwriters write with their lead singer in mind, but Gallagher has always been uncomfortable with that scenario.

"No, no, no, no," he stresses. "Even when I wrote songs for Oasis I never really wrote with Liam in mind. I wrote the song; I didn't write for the singer. I was writing a song. If he couldn't sing it, I would. That was it.

"To be honest, from the day I got into the studio I never really thought about Oasis. I only ever think about it when people mention it in interviews.

"When I'm onstage singing (Oasis songs) Talk Tonight or Don't Look Back in Anger...or even when people are putting Oasis CDs in front of me to sign, I'm never sitting there going (sullenly) 'Oh, what a great band it was. Those were happy days'," he says.

"That was then, this is now. We can't go back to then. So I'm just living in the now, really."

On tour Gallagher has played the majority of his solo album, along with songs from his old band, in roughly 50/50 proportion. As time rolls on, the fans remain loyal to the man and - more importantly to him - his songs.

"Well...I don't think it's blind loyalty. I don't think people like music just because they like who you are. I mean, I love Paul McCartney, but I'm not having the Frog Chorus," Gallagher laughs.

"You'd have to ask them individually, but it seems to me, from my lofty position on stage, that they are as equally accepting of the High Flying Birds' music as they are of the older stuff.

"The show is about the songs. I have to believe that or there's no point in me being there, because I've got f...-all to say and I've got no moves. If you've not really come to listen to the music then you're having a s... night out, to be honest."

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Noel Gallagher Is On The Graham Norton Show Tonight

Noel Gallagher will be a guest on 'The Graham Norton Show' later today, the show will air at 22:35 on BBC1 and iPlayer (UK only).

Other guests confirmed are actor Gerard Butler and actress Karen Gillan.

Listen To Noel Gallagher's Interview Again On BBC Radio 2

Below Steve Wright chats to Noel Gallagher about High Flying Birds and hiss plans for 2012.

Listen To Noel Gallagher Again On BBC Radio 2

Below Steve Wright chats to Noel Gallagher about High Flying Birds and hiss plans for 2012.

Noel Gallagher Was Nervous About His First Live Shows

Noel Gallagher admits he had to ''fly by the seat of his pants'' at his debut High Flying Birds show in Dublin, Ireland.

Noel Gallagher admits he had to "fly by the seat of his pants" at his debut High Flying Birds show.

The 'If I Had a Gun' singer was nervous about his first ever concert as a solo artist in Dublin, Ireland, as it was a very different experience playing in a smaller venue to the stadiums he had become used to with his old band, Oasis.

He told BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe: "The first show was fly by the seat of your pants and I'd not played anywhere that small for a while, I used to rehearse in bigger rooms than that.

"And it's got better. To start off in England was quite mad, because the crowds are crazy over here, then we went to America where they are a bit more reserved, so I got into it a bit more, I'm enjoying it."

While 'The Death of You and Me' hitmaker played down rumours he will support reformed band The Stone Roses this summer, he is happy they have finally got back together for the first time since 1996.

He said: "I know they've been rehearsing and I've spoke to a couple of people who have been in rehearsal who have said it sounds amazing, but I'm just really made up for them that they have finally did it.

"It's great to see [guitarist] John [Squire] and [singer] Ian [Brown] on stage already, and great that [bass player] Mani will eventually shut up about not making any money. All he's done for the last 15 years has been, 'Did you know we got robbed in the Roses'."

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Noel Gallagher: The Stone Roses' Rehearsals Sound Amazing

Noel Gallagher has revealed that The Stone Roses' rehearsals sound 'amazing'.

The singer appeared on Zane Lowe's Radio One show this morning (January 5) and revealed that the band's rehearsals are sounding good for their reunion shows.
''I know they've been rehearsing and I've spoken to a couple of people who have been in rehearsal who have said it sounds amazing, but I'm just really made up for them that they finally did it.''

"It's great to see John Squire and Ian Brown on stage already, and great that Mani will eventually shut up about not making any money. All he's done for the last 15 years has been, 'Did you know we got robbed in the Roses?'"

The band, who announced their reunion at a press conference on October 18 originally planned to play two hometown shows at Manchester's Heaton Park on June 29 and 30, as well as going on an extensive world tour.

Due to phenomenal demand for tickets after they went on sale this morning (October 21) an additional date was added for Sunday June 31.

220,000 tickets sold in 68 minutes with the first two nights selling out in 14 minutes.

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Listen Again To Noel Gallagher On Radio 1

Below Zane Lowe chats to Noel Gallagher about High Flying Birds and Noel's plans for 2012.





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Noel Gallagher Is On BBC Radio 1 Later Today

Noel Gallagher will be a guest of Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 on Thursday 5th of January.

The show is broadcast from 07:00/10:00 (UK Time) to listen live click here.

Noel Gallagher Is On BBC Radio 2 Later Today

Noel Gallagher will be a guest on Steve Wright In the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday 5th of January.

The show is broadcast between 14:00/17:05 (UK Time) to listen live click here.

Noel Gallagher On Gary Speed, The Stone Roses And More

SUPER FLY GUY

A number one album, Manchester City steamrollering Manchester United 6-1 and a Hot Press Gig of the Year Award for his show in the Olympia. It’s been a great 2011 for Noel Gallagher who talks to Stuart Clark about life after Liam, the Roses reunion, Gary Speed and running in to Tom Cruise’s missus.

“What do you want?”

“Er, to give you an award.”

“What for?”

“Gig of the Year as voted for by the Hot Press boys and girls.”

“Do I get anything for it?”

“Just our continued adulation.”

“That’ll do!”

It’s a little under four hours until showtime at the Casino de Paris, a 19th Century music hall on the rue de Clichy, and Noel Gallagher appears rather chuffed that his October 24 show in the Dublin Olympia – his first with the High Flying Birds – tickled so many Trinity Street fancies.

“My guitarist Tim’s from America – he’s not really got a clue about much – so when our intro music, ‘Blue Moon’, came on and people started booing he didn’t realise it was because Dublin’s full of filthy United fans upset that they’d just been beaten 6-1 by City,” Noel grins mischievously. “I mock shivered and said, ‘They don’t like me in this town. Fuck me, it’s a horrible place – we should have started the tour somewhere else’, which made him think we’d be bottled off stage!”

What was Noel thinking as the boos rose to a crescendo?

“‘Please God, let me get to the mic without falling over and see what comes out the other end!’ No, I wasn’t nervous. In fact, I’m more relaxed now doing this than I was with Oasis because I know there’s nobody else who’s going to fuck it up! I’m in control of it, I know how to do it and everybody in the band’s happy unless I tell them otherwise!”

He must have been the proverbial dog with two dicks after smiting Fergie’s men like that.

“Well, if Carlsberg did days! I got the call that my album had got to number one at three; the game finished at six; we did the gig and then got a private plane home to London so I could be presented with ‘Icon of the Year’ at the Q Awards. ‘Fucking hell, what a 24 hours this has been!’ To top it all off Bono and his lovely wife Ali were there, so we got to catch up and have a few drinks with them .”

So life as a (sort of) solo artist is treating him well?

To read the full article click here.

Source: www.hotpress.com

Noel Gallagher On TV And Radio This Week

To kick off the new year Noel is confirmed to make a number of UK radio and TV appearances this week.

He will be interviewed Thursday morning on UK Radio 1's Breakfast Show. Zane Lowe - sitting in for Chris Moyles for the first week of January - will be chatting to Noel about Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'If I Had A Gun…' and his plans for the year. Fans can tune in from 8am or listen online HERE!

Noel will also appear on Steve Wright's UK Radio 2 show Thursday afternoon. Tune in between 14:00 and 17:00 or online HERE!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' will perform new single 'If I Had A Gun…' on this week's Graham Norton Show, which will air Friday 6th January at 22:35 on BBC1 and iPlayer (UK only). Noel will also join Graham on the couch for a chat. Also set to appear on the show are Doctor Who actress Karen Gillan and actor Gerard Butler.

Noel's fourth and last appearance of the week will see him chatting about all things football on UK Sky TV's Soccer AM show this Saturday 7th January. He will join hosts Max and Helen plus American Pie actor Seann William Scott and ex-Man City midfielder Dietmar Hamann. The show will air from 10am.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Paul Weller On Noel Gallagher, The Stone Roses And More

The NME caught up with Paul Weller at the 2011 Crisis gig, where he discussed his forthcoming record 'Sonik Kicks', working with Noel Gallagher and Graham Coxon, and his thoughts on the Stone Roses reuniting.

The Smokin’ Barrels To Support Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Newcastle

The Smokin’ Barrels have been confirmed as the support act for Noel Gallagher‘s forthcoming sold out show at the Newcastle Metro Radio Arena on February 23rd this year.

The high profile home-town gig marks more positive news for the hotly-tipped trio, and follows glowing praise from Noel Gallagher, who recently tipped the band for big things in The Sun newspaper.

“They’ve got something,” he told the paper. “They are a bit like Kasabian and a bit like Oasis. What’s not to like? They just need to put in a bit of hard graft.”

The Newcastle date is a part of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds‘ maiden UK arena tour, which arrives just a few short months after the release of their self-titled debut album. The arena tour will open at the Manchester Evening News arena on February 13th, and is preceded by a clutch of Japanese dates, as well as a series of Big Day Out appearances across Australia.

The Smokin’ Barrels’ latest EP, ‘Mindless Self Indulgence‘, is due for release later this month.

Source: www.live4ever.uk.com

Manchester City's Top 10 Tunnel Cam's Of 2011 Featuring Noel Gallagher And More

Noel Gallagher features on a few occasions in Manchester City's Top Ten Tunnel Cam's Of 2011.

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Noel Gallagher On BBC Radio 2 This Thursday

Noel Gallagher will be a guest on Steve Wright In the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday 5th of January.

The show is broadcast between 14:00/17:05 (UK Time) to listen live click here.

Details can be found here.

Noel Gallagher To Join Zane Lowe On The Breakfast Show This Week

Noel Gallagher will be a guest of Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 on Thursday 5th of January.

The show is broadcast from 07:00/10:00 (UK Time) to listen live click here.

Zane picks a fight with Amir Khan in Thursday's Versus, Noel Gallagher drops in and we reveal the artist at No.2 in the BBC's Sound of 2012.

Details can be found here.

Picture From Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Dream On' Video

Below is a picture that has been posted by Oasis Mania from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Dream On' video that was filmed last month in Los Angeles.

Noel Gallagher Is On Soccer AM On Saturday

Noel Gallagher will be a guest on Soccer AM on Saturday January 7th, the show is broadcast on Sky 1 and Sky Sports 2 at 10am (UK Time).

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