Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Milwaukee

Click here to see a number of pictures and a review from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the at Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, earlier this week.

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

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Egyptian Room in Indianapolis, USA later today (April 3rd).

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

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

Yes . . . well . . . Detroit then? A lively bunch. Great show. Nearly up to speed now. Close to 100%. Ben our newest member was getting the shout out from the crowd. Funny.

Overnighted it to Chicago. No drama. It is fucking cold though. It's always freezing here.

The gig itself here in the windy city was maybe the best so far. My voice is not at it's best though. My cold is playing havoc with it. A bit frustrating but what can you do?

Had a day off here yesterday. Bought myself a new guitar!! Hadn't bought one in a couple of years. A beauty it is too. A blonde Gibson 345 . . . 1972 . . . quite rare.

Not much else going on at the moment. Driving to Milwaukee today. Got a show there tonight.

And that comrades, is about all I've got for you.

ONWARDS.

GD.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

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Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Milwaukee

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, USA yesterday.

(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
Supersonic
(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine
AKA... What A Life!
Talk Tonight
Solder Boys And Jesus Freaks
AKA... Broken Arrow
Half The World Away
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Whatever
Little By Little
The Importance Of Being Idle
Don’t Look Back In Anger

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

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

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

Yes..well now then the gig in DC was OK. We ain't played for a couple of weeks so it always takes 3 or 4 gigs to get back into the groove so to speak. Our usual keyboard player (can't remember his name now) has stayed back home to help his wife have a kid, so his roadie has valiantly stepped into the breach to cover for him . . . . A bit of pain in the arse but we shall soldier on as best we can. Got a bit of a cold and all . . . with all that in mind the gig wasn't too bad. It was a good laugh anyway. Great crowd.

Bussed it overnight to the cultural centre of the middle of fucking nowhere, Columbus, Ohio. There is quite literally NOTHING going on here. Nothing to see. nothing to do. Had a gig here last night. Still not quite at full power but it was another fun night. Great crowd. They was chanting the stand-in keyboard players name by the end of the night . . . very funny (his name's Ben by the way).

Got a dirty little hangover today. Not nice, feel like a little lump of shit in fact but get on this . . . of all the people in all the world, have a guess who checked in to this hotel this morning? Go on have a guess . . . you'll never guess.................... only blimmin' Kasabian!!! What are the odds on that? Unbelievable!

Before I let you go I must tell you this story that has literally JUST happened to me. So . . . I'm just stood at some traffic lights waiting to cross the street when some guy slopes up to me . . .

"Hey man I don't mean to disrespect you”, (now that usually means you're about to be disrespected) “but you do realize you got a little 80's thing going on with your hair there?"

I was speechless.

"What do you call that style you got?"

I was without speech.

"You look like that . . . who was that muh-fucker pro-doocer who shot that bitch in the face?"

Erm..Phil Spector?

"Phil Spector! You look like Phil Spector!!"

Erm..thanks..(I don't know why I said thanks)

"Say . . . do you believe in Jesus?"

Seriously that just happened to me!!!!

I fucking love America.

ONWARDS.

GD.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

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

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, USA later today (April 3rd).

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Another Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Chicago

Click here to see a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the at The Riviera in Chicago, on Sunday.

Noel Gallagher Working And Performing At His Own Pace

Noel Gallagher quit Oasis in 2009, and he probably did so knowing that whatever he did next would be compared with everything he had left behind. However, he has also found that going solo has its pleasures as well as its pains.

"The main thing is that I can work at my own pace," he said during a phone interview the weekend before he and his band, the High Flying Birds, were set to play Milwaukee on Tuesday night. "I'm not beholden to anybody's timetable."

Gallagher didn't refer directly to his younger brother, Liam, or the remains of Oasis, who re-formed under the name Beady Eye, but the contentiousness between the siblings was never a secret. And with the preponderance of tabloid reporting in his native England, Noel was certainly aware that the press shifted its focus from any music Oasis made to the fraternal disputes that roiled the band.

"You're at the mercy of what people write," he said. "I don't really take any of it seriously when they're talking about your haircut or who you happen to be sleeping with. I know it's really about the music because I get up onstage every night and I do it."

He also did it in the studio with "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds," the debut album that came out in October. He grabbed a couple of songs he'd written for Oasis that the band "had never got around to finishing" and wrote eight more.

"I took out my notebook and said, 'Let's try that, and if it doesn't work, we'll try another one,' " he said of the process. "I liked the freedom to play as many instruments as I like, to work with as many session musicians as I like. I could do whatever I wanted to do."

Mostly, Gallagher wanted to keep creating the classically minded, tastefully crafted rock songs with which he not only dominated the early Oasis albums, like 1994's hugely popular "Definitely Maybe," but also influenced one muscular wing of the 1990s Britpop quasi-movement.

"I tried to make this record as intimate and as human as possible, and the lyrics as direct as possible," he said. "They're vague enough for you to be able to think those songs are about you, but they're personal enough for me to know who all the protagonists are."

Gallagher's main concern in choosing sidekicks to help him tell the stories was simply that he knew them.

"These are just my friends," he said of his musicians. "I wasn't really picking these guys for any particular statement, and it was a new venture, so I thought I should surround myself with as many friendly faces as I could in case I (messed) it up."

Apparently satisfied that he didn't mess up, Gallagher will be on tour until November, and after that he might finish mixing his second solo album, a collaboration with psychedelic collective Amorphous Androgynous that he said was "a bit of a mess" at the moment.

On the other hand, he might just take a break.

"I can go straight back into the studio, or I can take three years off," he said. "The road lies open, so it's all good, but I'm not going to chase it. I'm just going to go wherever it takes me."

Source: www.jsonline.com

Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Chicago

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at the Riviera Theater in Chicago, USA yesterday.

(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
Supersonic
(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine
AKA... What A Life!
Talk Tonight
Solder Boys And Jesus Freaks
AKA... Broken Arrow
Half The World Away
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Whatever
Little By Little
The Importance Of Being Idle
Don’t Look Back In Anger

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

On This Day In Oasis History...

The video below is from April 2nd 1996, when Oasis played at the Sald Zeleste in Barcelona, Spain.

Noel Gallagher Interview From Italy

Below is an interview with Noel Gallagher that was broadcast on "Uno in Musica" on Sky Uno, please note the interview is in Italian.



Another part will be posted soon, thanks to frjdoasis

Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Chicago

Click here to see a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the at The Riviera in Chicago, yesterday.

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Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Detroit

Click here to see a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Detroit, last week.

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Noel Gallagher Features On Recreated Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Album Sleeve

British artist Sir Peter Blake has recreated the iconic album sleeve for The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on his 80th birthday.

"It's a cross I bear, it's an albatross I have to deal with," he says.

It is a fairly stark, somewhat surprising admission from Sir Peter Blake, sleeve designer of The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.























"What vaguely depresses me still is that I'm known pretty much as 'Peter Blake - who did the cover of Sgt Pepper' when I've done so much else," he says.

"Every so often I manage to forget it but it comes back all the time."

What makes the revelation even more surprising is that Sir Peter has set aside any misgivings he has about his most famous work on the sleeve of arguably the Fab Four's greatest album, to create a new poster reimagining the image to mark both his 80th birthday and designer Wayne Hemingway's Vintage Festival.

Gone are cutouts of actress Marilyn Monroe, comedians Lenny Bruce and WC Fields to be replaced by Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss, artists Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst and musicians Eric Clapton and Noel Gallagher.

Sadly, gone too are The Beatles themselves.

"I don't own the copyright," he explains. "Part of everything that went wrong at the time was that my agent signed away any kind of royalties and the copyright so we had to ask Apple Corps - The Beatles' management - for permission and they didn't want it to be associated with advertising."

Apple Corps have yet to comment on Sir Peter's claims.

Instead, Sir Peter has used what he called "family, friends and icons" on the latest poster. Though he has craftily managed to get round the Beatle-ban by including not one but three McCartneys.

Longtime friend Sir Paul is in there, alongside designer daughter Stella and her sister, photographer Mary.

Alongside the McCartneys are an array of faces - from food, represented by restaurateurs Chris Corbin and Jeremy King and chefs Delia Smith and Rick Stein, to Kate Moss and Paul Smith from fashion and Noel Gallagher, John Peel and Paul Weller for music.

Late singer Amy Winehouse also gets a nod, Sir Peter fondly recalls his first memorable meeting with her.

"It was after a South Bank Show lunch at the Savoy and we went into the American Bar after the lunch," he says.

"We were thrown out because Jamie Cullum was playing the piano, Amy was singing and we were singing along around the piano and we got chucked out. I really liked her very much and admired her and was very sad at what happened.

"It was memorable to be staggering out with Jamie and Amy," he adds.

From the art world, sculptor Grayson Perry makes an appearance in full drag and contemporaries Emin and Hirst are present.

Sir Peter is quick to defend Hirst from recent criticism, notably by the critic Julian Spalding who questioned the artist's credentials.

"I admire Damien enormously, I think he added a great deal to the excitement of the art world and I think that he is a very interesting artist," he says.

"I think the mistake people make is that they think it's about him making money and it's not that. Money and wealth are often his subject and I think people mistake that for greed which again it isn't.

"I honestly feel that if he suddenly didn't have any money, he'd be perfectly happy to stay in Devon and paint."

Musician Noel Gallagher, who worked with Sir Peter on the Oasis greatest hits album, said he was "very chuffed" to be included in the new work.

"I was lucky enough to go down to his studio," he told the BBC. "We were fans and all the props were still there from the Sgt Pepper photo shoot".

Gallagher added that he had his photo taken with a waxwork of boxer Sonny Liston and "was as starstruck meeting the doll in the jumper that said, 'Welcome the Rolling Stones', as I was when I met Ringo."

"If, for me, The Beatles and the Who and The Kinks and the Stones were the sound of the 60s then Sir Peter's work is the visual representation of that.

"When I look at his pop art stuff, I hear the Beatles. He's as important as the music."

The Vintage Festival which brings together fashion, music and art from the 1920s to the 80s is being held at the Boughton Estate in Northamptonshire on 13-15 July.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

On This Day In Oasis History...

Below are a few videos from April 1st 2000, when Oasis appeared on Later With Jools Holland, it was Oasis' first live British performance in over 2 years and gave UK fans a sneak peak at the new members Gem Archer & Andy Bell in action.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Announce Argentinian Dates

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have announced two shows in Argentina in May, they will visit Cordoba on the 5th and Buenos Aires on the 6th.

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Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Detroit

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Detroit, USA yesterday.

(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
Supersonic
(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine
AKA... What A Life!
Talk Tonight
Solder Boys And Jesus Freaks
AKA... Broken Arrow
Half The World Away
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Whatever
Little By Little
The Importance Of Being Idle
Don’t Look Back In Anger

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

Noel Gallagher: Flying High After Oasis

When the song "Wonderwall" hit the airwaves in 1995, Oasis was arguably the biggest rock band in the world. At the heart of the group were two combustible figures: Noel Gallagher, the main songwriter, and his brother Liam, the main singer. With their fiery tempers and frequent public outbursts, the two were on the covers of the tabloids as often as the top of the charts.

Oasis burned out quite suddenly a few years ago, with a now-famous meltdown backstage before a show in Paris.

"We were backstage waiting to go onstage to 30,000 people in Paris," Noel Gallagher tells NPR's Guy Raz. "The tour manager came in and said, 'Five minutes!' We broke up within that five minutes. I'm not proud of that, but all things come to an end."

Liam Gallagher and the other members of Oasis have kept the band going under a new name, Beady Eye. Noel, however, has stepped out as a solo artist. His first record under the name Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds was released late last year.

"When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song," Gallagher says. "It was great to free up everything. The simple songs became more simple, and the more elaborate ones became more elaborate.

"I had a very clear idea that I wanted it to sound cinematic, but at the same time intimate and direct," he adds. "When I listen back, I wanted every verse to be like a scene in a film. I've had the best time making this record."

Listen or download the interview here.

Source: www.npr.org

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

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the The Riviera in Chicago, USA later today (April 1st).

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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Alternative Video: Mark Lawson Talks To Noel Gallagher

Mark Lawson talks to former Noel Gallagher about his life, career and becoming one of the most successful songwriters of his generation.





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