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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Competition

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds new single 'Dream On' is released in the UK through Sour Mash on 12th March (11th march on download). The B-side to the single will be 'Shoot A Hole Into The Sun', the first track to be released from the sessions Noel has recorded with Amorphous Androgynous.

The single will be available to pre-order from next week and will be available on limited edition 12" on heavyweight vinyl, CD and download. All orders until the 18th March of the CD and the 12" via the official store will receive a free set of badges. The 12" is individually numbered exclusively to the store and limited to no more than 3,000 copies. The digital download will also be available as a bundle including the video. Both Noel and Director Mike Bruce rate this video as the best yet, as well as being the most fun to make.

To celebrate the release of the video www.NoelGallagher.com have a very special competition prize for one lucky winner. Mike produced storyboard books for those working on the video shoot which outline the video shot-by-shot. To win a signed copy of the booklet head on over to the Competition section of the website HERE!



On Monday Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds head out on a tour of the UK and Ireland taking in the following dates:

13/02/12 – MANCHESTER, MEN Arena - SOLD OUT
14/02/12 – ABERDEEN, P&J Arena - SOLD OUT
16/02/12 – BELFAST, Odyssey Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE
17/02/12 – DUBLIN, The O2 - SOLD OUT
19/02/12 – SHEFFIELD, Motorpoint Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE
23/02/12 – NEWCASTLE, Metro Radio Arena - SOLD OUT
24/02/12 – GLASGOW, SECC Hall 4 - SOLD OUT
26/02/12 – LONDON,The O2 - TICKETS AVAILABLE
01/03/12 – BIRMINGHAM, NIA - SOLD OUT

Other dates confirmed for the UK this year:

17/07/12 – EDINBURGH, Edinburgh Castle - SOLD OUT
04/09/12 – BOURNEMOUTH, BIC - TICKETS AVAILABLE
06/09/12 – LIVERPOOL, Echo Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE
09/09/12 – CARDIFF, Motorpoint Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE
10/09/12 – NOTTINGHAM, Capital FM Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE

For ticket details visit www.noelgallagher.com

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Announce French Festival Date

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are confirmed to play this year's Les Déferlantes Festival in Argelès-sur-Mer, France on July 10th.

Tickets are available now through FNAC.

This festival appearance will mark Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' first French regional gig following two sell out shows in Paris.

Details in French can be found here.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Noel Gallagher Gives Track To CALM Compilation 'Thirty One'

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Elbow and Mr Scruff are among the Manchester artists who have donated their music to a new charity album.

Their songs appear on the two-disc Thirty One collection in aid of CALM (the Campaign Against Living Miserably).

Gallagher's band have given the B-Side 'Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me', while Elbow contribute a version of 'Lippy Kid' live from Pinkpop.

Other artists who appear on the discs include Barry Adamson, Everything Everything, Delphic, The Durutti Column, I Am Kloot, Bad Lieutenant, The Whip, The Travelling Band and more.

The album is released on The Factory Foundation and is available to pre-order from Monday, February 13. It is released on March 12.

t has been curated by Dave Haslam of the Factory Foundation and features art direction from Peter Saville.

"Picking and collating these 31 songs has given me much pleasure, and the fact that Manchester's creative health can directly serve to improve the psychological health of the city is a massive thing for me," said Haslam.

"Thirty One is beautifully conceived and produced in the tradition of Factory," Saville added.

Launched originally as a pilot scheme in Manchester in 1997 with the support of Factory Records boss Tony Wilson, CALM was founded to reduce the high suicide rate among men under 35.

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

Another On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below videos are from February 10th 2002, when Oasis played at the Columbiahalle in Berlin, Germany.

The Maccabees Blast Noel Gallagher

Hot rockers The Maccabees have hit out at Noel Gallagher for being a big gob.

The London lads, who hit No4 last month with latest album Given To The Wild, find singers who shoot their mouth off boring.

In a thinly-disguised attack on Noel, 44, guitarist Felix White told me: “There’s an attitude from Britpop-era bands that you have to say intentionally controversial things. It’s as if to be in a band they think you should be as arrogant as possible by having an opinion on everything.

“I don’t think that’s right as most people don’t often have firm opinions, whether about music or life.”

While The Maccabees are steadily rising to the top, they have no interest in fame.

Felix, 26, continued: “We’re honest about our insecurities and I think that’s more interesting than shooting your mouth off all the time. That ties in with the idea of wanting to be a celebrity.

“There’ve been enough TV shows depicting the soul-destroying reality of what it’s like to be a celebrity. Who’d want that?”

Felix’s band may be dodging celeb status but they’ve become big enough to headline London’s Alexandra Palace on June 8.

New single Feel To Follow comes first on March 12.

Felix laughed: “Headlining arenas is a huge step.

“We’ll make that show an event but I don’t think we’ll be challenging Muse by suddenly getting a load of sci-fi special effects on stage.”

Speaking about a fourth album, Felix revealed: “I’ve said to the boys that our next record should be a double album but they told me to shut up as we’ve only just finished this one.”

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

On This Day In Oasis History...

Below is a video from February 10th 2009 when Liam Gallagher was interviewed on The Hot Desk at the The Holly Bush Pub in Hamsted.

Noel Gallagher: "Play Me 'Knights Of Cydonia' On A F**king Lute."

On 28 August 2009 the inevitable end to Oasis came after a backstage brawl between Noel and Liam Gallagher. Both brothers went onto start new projects almost immediately. Liam's Beady Eye has proven to be a slow burner, while Noel's 'High Flying Birds' project has enjoyed more soaring heights of success. The older Gallagher's debut record reached number 2 on the UK charts and has recently been nominated for an XFM New Music award. On top of that, Noel has also been nominated for the NME 'Godlike Genius award [previous winners include Dave Grohl, The Cure].

So where do you meet a godlike genius to discuss his divinity? In a dingy backstage room at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda.

With Gallagher in Australia to play the Big Day Out tour, TheVine was issued with a caveat to not mentioned Liam Gallagher. Keeping that in mind, we shared a couch with Noel to talk about fame, Manchester City, the roundness of Karl Pilkington's head and why Noel's songs are better than Muse's.

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How's the tour going?

Great.

And the Big Day out crowds?

They've been great - boringly fucking great. It's been really good every night. I don't know, it's a strange thing. The gigs pass me by in under a minute because I'm up there doing it. I don't know man, I feel good though.

Is the solo experience easier?

I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would. I thought I'd be stressed out about it, but it's been very, very easy. I haven't had any nerves whatsoever - apart from playing on TV shows. I don't like doing them. In fact, I fucking hate them. Apart from that, I've been strangely calm about it all.

Was it daunting starting from scratch again?

Not really, because when you're doing it, it's a gradual build up to the first gig. From recording the first song to doing the first gig it's a gradual step and you grow in confidence with the record you've made and the band you've put together. So when it comes to the first night, it's just the next step.

I don't allow myself to think about things that much. I always used to think of the big picture in Oasis, like where it would be in five years from now; what's this going to look like in Wembley Stadium. For this I don't look too far ahead, because, maybe then, it would have been daunting. After being in that band for 18 years to thinking, what am I going to do here? But I just took some time off and then made a record and that was it. I take it one step at a time.

Assuming Oasis was a vehicle for you as a songwriter, would you say that these High Flying Birds songs were always going to come - whether it was through Oasis or as a solo act?

Well, I think I only wrote a few of the songs on the album while I was a solo artist. I'm always writing songs. I'm writing songs right now - well, not this fucking second, but I'm writing on the road. The songs I'm writing now might be on my next record or they they might on an album three years from now. It just depends what I feel like when I go into the studio. 'What a Life' and 'Broken Arrow' I wrote while I was a solo artist…I don't really write from that perspective, you know? I just write songs all the time. The songs I'm writing now may not be for the solo stuff - I might form a band next, who the fuck knows.

I've noticed, that over the years, your lyrics have become more and more emotional, rather than circumstantial.

Yeah, although, I can still write a healthy dose of nonsense when I want to. The best lyrics are the ones that you mean. Some of my best words, I think, are on more obscure tracks like the B-Sides. Instead of trying to write big stadium rock anthems I try to write what I'm an expert about. And what I'm an expert about is life in the big city. I live in the centre of London and I know what it's like. I try to let my words speak to the listener, rather than speak about me. I don't really want people listening to lyrics about me. I would rather open a window and shine a light on a part of you that you didn't see.

It's easy to pull a sad element out of certain Oasis songs which are generally quite upbeat: 'Hello' is a perfect example.

For my mind, one of the best Oasis songs is one of the saddest and uplifting songs and that's 'Some Might Say'. It's a great chest beating air thumping anthem, but if you read the words it's almost like you're trying to find redemption from something.

"The sink is full of fishes"?

Yes. Although, that doesn't mean a great deal (laughs). There is a sadness to that. Maybe it's the Irish in me, I don't know. What can I say? People perceive words differently and the listener is king. It's not up to me to define what my words are about because that would spoil it for you. You have to work out for yourself what the song means, don't try and work out what it actually means, because that spoils it. Who really wants to know what was going through fucking Leonardo's [Da Vinci] mind? That's the beauty of the Mona Lisa. I mean, who is she?

So it's about the power of ambiguity?

Absolutely.

Click here to read the rest of the interview.

Source: www.thevine.com.au

Who Are Noel Gallagher's Psychedelic Friends, Amorphous Androgynous?

Noel Gallagher: not the staid three-chord classicist some perhaps thought, it turns out. Created in tandem with his High Flying Birds solo album, the man they call The Chief has a second record under his own name out this year and it'll sound (literally) galaxies apart from Oasis, thanks in no small part to his collaborators Amorphous Androgynous. Cosmic journeymen and prolific compilers of psychedelic rock, duo Gaz Cobain and Brian Dougans are the men behind British electro pioneers The Future Sound of London.



The duo met at university in the mid eighties while studying electronics in Manchester. Releasing the odd bleepy single, including Q and Metropolis under the FSOL monker, they eventually released their first influential-in-the-house-scene compilation Earthbeat in 1992. Later, developing a taste for ambient, they released their first long-player as Amorphous Androgynous , Tales Of Ephidrina, in 1993, however the alias didn't really come into its own until 1997 and following a DJ set under the same, the pair unleashed their first proper AA compilation AA, the blissed-out psych stew that was volume one of A Monstrous Psychadelic Bubble ExplodingIn Your Mind. And speaking to our sister title Mojo last year, Noel revealed it was that compilation series that first piqued his interest.

"I was on a plane to LA, reading Mojo, when I saw an ad for a compilation called A Monstrous Psychadelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind. Well, I'm having that," he recalled and soon picked up the pair's first remix album. Contact was soon made with Cobain, not only to congratulate him on the mixes, but The Chief had an ulterior motive for the call.



He wanted the pair make over of Dig Out Your Soul track Falling Down for its single release. Amorphous Androgynous responded with a sprawling, five-part, 22-minute exotic epic, that Gallagher deemed so far out that he released it on its own 12 inch.

With the cosmic duo clocking up four volumes of the ...Psychadelic Bubble compilations, seamlessly blending the likes of Tim Buckley, Can, Miles Davis, Pentangle, Hawkwind and more. Which it turns out is exactly what Noel was looking for with his second solo release.

Recorded partly at Paul Weller's studio in Woking, the first track from the new album, Shoot A Hole In The Sun, will be debuted in March as the B-side to High Flying Birds' single Dream On. According to Noel it's a good taster of the album "heavy jazz, avant-garde pop". So it seems we should be thinking more Gallagher's Chemical Brothers Let Forever Be or Setting Sun rather than Live Forever or Wonderwall, particular as the duo had a "healthy disrespect" for Gallagher's songwriting.



"I almost called it off on the first day when Gaz made me play the same guitar line for five hours and ten minutes," Noel admitted to Mojo. Fortunately he didn't and that guitar line - and many others - are set to form a swirling, technicoloured, third-eye-opening universe later this year.

By Jamie Sky

Source: qthemusic.com

Extra Tickets Available For Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's At The O2

A handful of production tickets have just been released for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' gig at The O2 in London on Sunday 26th February.

Details can be found here.

Another On This Day In Oasis History...

The video below is from February 8th 2000, when Liam Gallagher was interviewed on the Big Breakfast TV show.

On This Day In Oasis History...

The video below is from February 8th 2003, when Gem Archer and Liam Gallagher appeared on Top Of The Pops and performed Songbird.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Munich Aftershow Party

Details of another Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's aftershow party in Munich can be found here and here.

Chris Martin To Join Noel Gallagher At The Brit Awards

Noel Gallagher will reportedly team up with fellow British rock superstar Chris Martin for his set at this month's (Feb12) Brit Awards in London.

Gallagher is preparing to play his first solo performance at the event at London's O2 Arena, where he is also up for the Best Male award.

And to ensure his set thrills the crowd, the former Oasis star has asked Coldplay frontman Martin to accompany him on piano.

Speaking about the Brit Awards to Bbc Radio 2, the event's host James Corden says, "I'm really looking forward to Noel Gallagher because I don't think he's done a big gig like that before. I think it'll be great, because I don't think he would do it unless he was certain he could show he was the true music god that he is.

"I'm almost certain I'm not supposed to tell you this, but I don't really care, I think Chris Martin is going to accompany him on piano. I just think that will be great."

The Brit Awards will take place on 21 February (12).

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Watch Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Video For 'Dream On' Now!

Below the video for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Dream On' single it will be available to buy on 7", CD and download on March 12th through Sour Mash Records.

The digital download will also be available as a bundle including the video, which both Noel and director Mike Bruce consider the best and most fun yet they have ever worked on filming together.

Official Artwork For Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Dream On' Single

Below is the official artwork for the 'Dream On' single from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's, the single will be available to buy on 7", CD and download on March 12th through Sour Mash Records.

The digital download will also be available as a bundle including the video, which both Noel and director Mike Bruce consider the best and most fun yet they have ever worked on filming together.

Thanks to Jake

Artwork For Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Dream On' Promo Single

Below is a picture of the 'Dream On' CD 1 track promo from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's, no word yet if this is the official artwork but I will keep you updated.

EDIT THIS IS THE ARTWORK FOR THE PROMO THE OFFICIAL ONE HAS JUST BEEN POSTED.



















Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release new single 'Dream On' on March 12th through Sour Mash Records. The B-side will be 'Shoot A Hole Into The Sun', the first track to be released from the sessions Noel has recorded with the Amorphous Androgynous.

The single will be available to buy on 7", CD and download. The digital download will also be available as a bundle including the video, which both Noel and director Mike Bruce consider the best and most fun yet they have ever worked on filming together.

Noel Gallagher On Amorphous Androgynous, Kasabian Paul Weller And A Future Oasis Release

Noel Gallagher spent much of the 90s proving that ‘Rock Stars’ still exist. His early days in Oasis are as memorable for their expletive-fuelled speeches, drug binges and public stoushes with brother Liam as they are for the band’s seminal album’s Definitely Maybe and What’s The Story Morning Glory.

These days Noel is all grown up, and you’d more likely find him spending time with his wife and children then having a public hissy fit. Since ending Oasis in 2009 – minutes before the band was due on stage in Paris – Gallagher has gone about doing what he has always done: writing songs. And the result is his debut solo album Noel Gallagher And The High Flying Birds.

While in Australia for the Big Day Out and a run of sold-out solo shows, FasterLouder sat down for a chat with the elder Gallagher brother, to find a surprisingly funny, self-deprecating musician who, while no longer caught up in the excesses of rock n roll, still enjoys a bit of a blag and the occasional swear.

How’s the tour gone so far?
Great. As well as I could have hoped for. I like Australia. I knew it was gonna be good.

It’s probably the longest tour you’ve done here as well, in terms of time span?
I dunno. We did the Livid festival a few years ago and that was quite long. It’s great and the gigs have been very well received. They’ve been my first festivals ever as a solo artist and I’ve enjoyed them a lot.

I was at your Sydney show and the thing that struck me was the crowd reaction. People were going beserk, singing along to not only Oasis songs but to the new songs as well. Has that type of reaction surprised you?
Part of me is thinking ‘Well it’s not a surprise because my new songs are fucking brilliant’ but another part of me, in equal measure, is surprised because those new songs are up against songs that are very, very, very famous and they’re very important to people. I understand that.

But have I been surprised? Yes and no. It’s great. I knew that Everybody’s On The Run and If I Had A Gun and What A Life and The Death Of You And Me are as good a songs as I’ve written. I knew that when I was putting them out there, but you can’t predict what other people are going to feel. They may have fallen on deaf ears. Many a song I’ve written, played it live and thought ‘this is as good as I’ve ever written’ and people have fucking all gone to the bar. So, you know, I am surprised a little bit.

You mentioned in your tour diary about the bra that got thrown on stage at the Enmore [show in Sydney].
It’s a wonderful thing.

Then, at the Big Day Out there was a bra and knickers…
And top hat! [Laughs]

Do you think you’ve started something?
I do hope so. I keep them all as trophies like a little serial killer. You know, ladies underwear is always welcome on stage in any capacity.

From where I was standing, the knickers came from behind and you saw them and had a slightly puzzled look on your face.
Well I was thinking ‘do the top hat and the knickers belong to the same person because I want to meet that girl and get a monocle off her’.

Are you enjoying being on this tour along with Kasabian?
Yeah, I was out with them the other night. Good lads. We’re not just showbiz mates, we socialise outside of showbiz, baby.

I’m surprised you’ve not played a song or two with them at some point.
I’ve not been asked. You’ve gotta be asked. You can’t just say ‘Right, I’m playing on Club Foot’. I’m available if asked.

You’ve just announced a new single, Dream On.
This album is turning into Thriller.

You mentioned a while back in your diary about shooting a video for it. Is it a continuation of the last three videos or is it something different?
No, no, it’s different now, we’ve stopped that. We were gonna carry it on but I think it was time for something different. The other three songs are slightly psychedelic and I do mean slightly. This one is a straight-up pop song. But it was the most fun, I have to say, I’ve ever had on a video shoot. I was fucking absolutely amazing.

Can you give us a bit of an idea of what it entails? Is there more acting from you?
[Laughs] Don’t refer to what I do as acting. All I’m doing is being in it. I’m in this one more. It’s a song that involves a man and a woman but I’m neither the man nor the woman.

An outside observer?
If you like. It’s good. I like it. It was a fucking great doing it I’ve gotta say. Such a good time.

It was also announced that the b-side is one of the Amorphous Androgynous tracks. Is it that one that’s being played at the shows?
Before we come on, yeah.

Is that one of the songs from the High Flying Birds album that’ll be on this next one?
That album is sadly been put on the backburner now because this album has become so successful, that the release date keeps getting put back. But yeah, that’s one of the three singles that’s on it. They’re not remixes, they’ve been completely re-recorded.

In the same way that they did the version of Falling Down?
The What A Life one is a bit like Falling Down. The If I Had A Gun one called Shoot A Hole Into The Sun, really if I’m not singing ‘Shoot a hole into the sun’ over it, if you take the vocal out of it, you wouldn’t know that it was the same song. It’s been completely re-worked. The Death Of You And Me sounds like something from Jack The Ripper times, it’s very vaudeville.

I can’t talk too much about that record because it’s yet to be mixed and the mixes that I have done of it or have been done of it, I’ve not been happy with and I’m all about the mixing. But that one is finished.

As you were saying, this album’s kind of barrelled along and in the next UK tour you’re going to have horns and strings added to the band – are you looking forward to have more musical augmentation?
I’ve got a 50-piece choir on stage with me as well for all the gigs. I always try not to do so much of that cause I always feel it’s a shame for people round the rest of the world when they see it on YouTube and they think, ‘Oh, fucking hell!’ But it’s just too expensive to bring 75 people all over the world. So unfortunately they’re only the kind of things you can do close to home.

I’m not one for the razzle dazzle and the razzamatazz and I think, in arenas, people now come to expect something a little more. So I decided to fill the stage with people and instead of looking at screens, look at people. What’s more interesting than looking at people? Nothing. Maybe animals. But until animals can sing, that ain’t gonna happen.

To read the rest of the interview click here.

Source: www.fasterlouder.com.au

Another On This Day In Beady Eye History...

The video below is from February 7th 2011, Beady Eye were interviewed on Virgin Radio in Italy.