Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In Aberdeen

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the P&J Arena in Aberdeen, UK later today (February 14th).

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Live Blog: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's In Manchester

Live updates from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Gig at the Manchester Evening News Arena.

Ricky Hatton has been spotted at the gig.

Pictures and updates can be found on our Twitter page here.

Setlist

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

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

From Noel Gallagher's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' tour diary.

So yes, well where were we? Australia!! Where are we now? Manchester!!

First night of this arena tour. I used to really, really, love doing arena tours. I loved the feel and the sound and the space etc etc...gotta say after the production rehearsals last night AND after doing theatres since October last year I'm not so sure I do anymore. It all seems too big, too loud, too fucking cold!! I'm sure I'll get used to it though. Bit of a shock how much you forget eh?

Got a right firm of people on the road with me. At any given time there will be upwards of 35 people onstage!! The introductions might take a while. I don't know anyone's name yet and probably won't even at the end. Looking forward to it though. It'll be fly by the seat of your pants gear but exciting none the same..we shall see eh?

ONWARDS.

GD.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

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Win Tickets To Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Aftershow Parties

Details of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's aftershow parties with Paul Gallagher in Dublin, and Belfast can be found below.

We have four pairs of tickets to giveaway all you have to do is email in either Dublin or Belfast in the subject of an email and include your name.

Tickets will go to the first people that email in.

Thanks to Aidan @ Up Close & Personal Promotions.

Noel Gallagher Talks About His Triumphant Return To Manchester

Of all the subjects CityLife imagined we might discuss with Noel Gallagher, we never saw The Dukes Of Hazzard coming.

But, camped out in his hotel suite in Adelaide, Australia, when he should have been outside soaking up some sun, Noel has embarked on a TV nostalgia marathon.

“Dukes Of Hazzard, Magnum, Knight Rider and The A Team,” he lists in excited amazement. “On Australian national TV – not even an 80s-themed channel.

“Boss Hogg – do you remember him? ******* hell, man, he’s mint.
“Do you remember what the old English fella was called with the ’tash, who lived in the house? ******* mindblowing... Higgins!

“I’ve been sat here texting everyone – ‘Higgins!’. Brown and yellow stripped helicopter - **** me, I wanted one of those.”

International quirks are what keep life as a touring musician interesting, says Noel. And he should know; since Oasis emerged with their smash hit of a debut, Definitely Maybe, back in 1994, Noel has performed in almost every territory imaginable.

There are exceptions: Paraguay for one, which he’ll visit soon with his latest project Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (“You may laugh,” he smiles. “I mean, is there anybody there who’ll have any vague idea who I am?”)
Japan – “still 20 years in the future” – fascinates him, but he reckons nowhere changes at such a mystifying rate as Manchester.

“It changes constantly,” Burnage-born Noel says.

“I go back on average maybe four or five times a year. Every time I go on a night out people are like, ‘Oh, no one goes there any more, they go here now’.

“It changes much more than London.

“But it’s still my home, you know – it doesn’t take me that long to get back into the swing of things.

“I walk down streets and in my head I’m thinking, ‘This is where I was writing Half The World Away.

“When I pass India House (on Whitworth Street), I look up at my old flat window and think, ‘I wonder if they know? If the people who live here now would mind me knocking on the door and saying, ‘I used to live here’.

“I wrote (What’s The Story) Morning Glory and Definitely Maybe in that flat. I’d love to stand and look out of that window again.

“I spent a lot of time staring out of that window smoking. I refer to them as the glory days.”

He may have written two of the most celebrated guitar records of the century, then, but Noel remains affably grounded, despite the fact his Adelaide stop off is because the High Flying Birds have soared far quicker than he imagined.

He’s had to satiate demand to see him play with a world tour before the HFB are even a formal band.

When he hits the UK on Monday, starting his tour in Manchester, he’ll be playing arenas.

As votes of confidence from fan to artist go, this is the ticket sales equivalent of being carried victoriously on the shoulders of your army before anyone’s even sustained a paper cut.

After the split of Oasis and the rift with volatile kid brother Liam, it seems 44-year-old Noel is an artist who can do no wrong.

Unlike Liam, whose new outfit Beady Eye met with a far frostier reception from fans and critics alike (Noel, it seems, is the only person left to see Beady Eye play, or formulate an opinion on them).

And, refreshingly, it’s a scenario he’s utterly surprised by.

“Part of you, when you make a record thinks, ‘This is ******* brilliant and why wouldn’t it be a massive success ’cos I’m amazing’,” he says, in classically tongue-in-cheek style.

“And the other part of you thinks, ‘Well, you just never know’.

“When I was listening to the mixes coming off the desk in Los Angeles I was thinking, ‘This is as good a bunch of songs as I’ve ever been involved in’, so by that rule alone I think it’ll do alright.

“But I never thought I’d have sold so many records in such a short space of time and be playing arenas; I never prepared for any of this.”

With arenas come endless meetings about lasers and light shows, sighs Noel. when all he’s interested in doing is making the music fill the space.

His solution: to assemble on stage upwards of 60 people to bring the album to life, including a full choir and brass section.

“There’s nothing better than watching people rather than a big screen,” he says.

“We’re going to fill the arena with noise and music as opposed to gadgets and charisma.”

The shorthand for what Noel got to experience with Oasis is ‘everything’.

They toured the world several times, cleaned up at awards shows and crucially wrote the final chapter in the Madchester music movement.

But there’s still new things to do. Creatively, Noel’s definitely on a high; he’s already revealed that his debut record is (conceptually speaking) the first part of a two-part album with the second half – written with Manchester production duo Amorphous Androgynous – being a pretty ‘far out’ companion LP.

And why shouldn’t he be brave enough to try something new? Because part of what keeps rock ’n’ roll interesting is fresh experiences, and now the thrill of the new for Noel is in the small details.

His most recent career first, though, is pretty Tom Jones; he’s become the kind of musician people fling bras at. “It was a wonderful moment,” he smiles. “I called my mrs (Sara MacDonald) and she was very proud.

“I’ve kept it as well, like a serial killer’s trophy.”

There’s plenty of time to gather more trophies before the tour ends in November, at which point he’s planning a year off to spend time with his kids (“There’ll come a point when Sara will get ****** off with me and send me back to work, which is what you women are like,” he laughs. “When I’m not there, she’s like, ‘You’re like a lodger’. When I am, she’s like ‘Don’t you have a job?’.”).

But more than anything, though, he’s just puzzling out how to be a contented musician again. “This is gonna sound like an awfully conceited thing to say, but I’ve done so much with Oasis that there’s nothing else to do; it’s about keeping things ticking over,” he considers.

“I’m not desperate to prove myself over and over again, I’m not one for chasing success and fame.

“If this thing becomes boring or about churning out records I’ll do something else.

“The road is open, whereas with Oasis I liked the security of that and I did see myself being in that band until I was 60.

“If someone had said to me in 2005, ‘Tell me where you’ll be in 2010’, I could have predicted where I’d be – with Oasis.

“If someone asks me now where I’ll be five years from now, I genuinely have no idea.

“A lot has happened since I put that album out, and I don’t know how the **** I’m gonna follow this up.

“Putting out an album was daunting after being in one of the biggest bands of all times.

“In Oasis, there was always a five-year plan,” he smiles, tentatively, “and I don’t have one of those plans any more.”

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds play Manchester Arena on Monday. £35-59.50.

Source: www.citylife.co.uk

Vote For Upside Down The Movie At The NME Awards

Upside Down The Movie has made it onto the shortlist of five for this year's Best Music Film at the NME awards.

Upside Down: The Creation Records Story is a 2010 film by Document Productions which charts the story of Creation Records. Directed by Danny O'Connor, the film features Alan McGee, Noel Gallagher, Bonehead, Andy Bell, Bobby Gillespie, Mark Gardener and more.

Click here to cast your vote, for more details on the movie visit www.upsidedownthemovie.com/

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In Manchester

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester, UK later today (February 13th).

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The Maccabees Love Noel Gallagher

The Maccabees want it known that they are huge fans of Noel Gallagher.

Yesterday, guitarist Felix White, 26, told me he wasn’t that keen on Britpop-era bands and he said some pretty controversial things about them.

But I’m happy to report that the 44-year-old former Oasis axeman and now solo BRIT- nominated superstar wasn’t who Felix meant at all. Perish the thought.

In fact, they’re playing together at this month’s NME Awards. Bromance cuddles all round.

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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

Win two tickets for Noel Gallagher'S High Flying Birds in the The O2 Dublin Arena, on Friday 17th February.

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They will even throw in a VIP entry to the club on any Saturday in February for you and 4 friends.

Win Tickets To Any Date On Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds UK Arena Tour!

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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.