Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Phoenix

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix, 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.

Beady Eye To Play At The Hop Farm Music Festival In July

It's been reported that Beady Eye will be performing at The Hop Farm Music Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent (UK) on July 1st.

Hop Farm Music Festival is set over 90 acres of unspoilt Kent countryside; this once working Hop Farm is one of Kent’s most popular tourist attractions and the home of Hop Farm Festival.

No official word yet, but I will keep you updated.

For more details visit hopfarmfestival.com

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

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play a second night at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix, USA later today (April 18th).

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.

You can also tweet us pictures and updates @scyhodotcom

Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In San Diego

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at the Balboa Theatre in San Diego, 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.

How To Get Hold Of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 'Record Store Day' Release

To celebrate Record Store Day this Saturday, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release, “Songs From The Great White North…”, an exclusive 12” pressed on opaque white heavyweight vinyl, individually numbered and limited to 2000 copies for the UK.

To find out what stores near you are participating click here, a number of online stores are also taking part.

Noel Gallagher Features On Paul Weller Next Single 'When Your Garden's Overgrown'

Following the chart topping success of 'Sonik Kicks' and five sold out shows at the Roundhouse, Paul Weller will return on May 28th with his next single 'When Your Garden's Overgrown' that features Noel Gallagher on bass.



The release will be available as a digital EP and is set to be backed by two brand new tracks - 'We Got A Lot' & 'Lay Down Your Weary Burden'

Discussing 'When Your Garden's Overgrown', Paul said: "I think this song's about Syd Barrett. It's like, what would it have been like if he hadn't got into music? If he'd gone off to the continent and just been an artist on the side-street in France. He probably would've been happier.

"There's some lines in there about the brush strokes of fame and I'm thinking of Syd at the time. He was an artist at heart, not a rock star."

The full tracklisting of the EP will be:

1. When Your Garden's Overgrown
2. We Got A Lot
3. Lay Down Your Weary Burden

For more details visit www.paulweller.com

Noel Gallagher Blasts Moaning Rock Stars

Noel Gallagher has taken aim at miserable rock stars, urging them to remember they're living someone else's dream.

The former Oasis star admits he likes to put on a smile for his fans and give them concerts to remember - because most of them would gladly swap places with him.

And he hates rockers who complain about the rigours of touring and promoting albums.

Speaking to YouTube.com backstage at the Coachella festival in California at the weekend (13Apr12), Gallagher raged, "I hate rock stars who f**king moan all the time about the pressure... 'Oh man, I've just got off a 15-hour flight from Tanzania and I'm f**ked!'

"We're living somebody else's dream. There's kids playing all over the place... dreaming to do what we do.

"How dare rock stars moan about the pressure... Don't bother doing it.

"There's kids all over America, singing other people's songs in bars, dreaming of being tired on an aeroplane - and being paid for it.

"This is the greatest game in the world... and it should be treated like the greatest game in the world. Be f**king happy about it".

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

Noel Gallagher's Flying High Again

Truth be told, we Yanks just can’t seem to see the glass as half-full when it comes to certain things. Take the beautiful game for example. It’s hard to say why, but Americans have never been able to get their head around real football – the ballet on the pitch – soccer, for all you gridiron fanatics.

It must be in part due to our inborn inability to appreciate the game’s nuances – “Yeah, it missed by an inch…but it did miss.”

And it’s the same innate negativity that has compelled Oasis’ U.S. fans to dejectedly regard the 2009 breakup of brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher as a sign of the apocalypse. But the optimistic reality is that the demise of the Britpop icons was actually addition through subtraction – with the best evidence being Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds debut album.

The former Oasis lead guitarist and principal songwriter’s eponymous unveiling debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart in October 2011 and incredibly, was certified platinum within a month of release.

And more importantly, Gallagher’s musicianship and songwriting mastery on the new effort garnered ample critical acclaim. It seems that the elder Gallagher brother wasn’t just sitting around lamenting the passing of the legendary British band.

Gallagher and the “birds”, David McDonnell (guitar), Russell Pritchard (bass), Mikey Rowe (keyboards) and Jeremy Stacey (drums), are currently on a global tour in support of the momentous record. As he prepared for the April 18 Phoenix Orpheum Theater stop on the tour, Gallagher chatted with Examiner about the new disc and life after Oasis

To read the full article click here.

Source: www.examiner.com

Noel Gallagher On On The NFL And More

In the video for his new single, “Dream On,” Noel Gallagher plays a boxing official refereeing a live fight. Some might say that the former Oasis songwriting genius always has sports on his mind.

“Other than my wife and kids, it’s one thing I’m most interested in. But does sport ever influence my songwriting? Not really,” says Gallagher.

That said, Noel is very in tune with his hometown soccer club, Manchester City, as they spar with rival Manchester United for the Barclays Premier League title. Last month, Gallagher even interviewed Man City striker Mario Balotelli for BBC Sport, talking with the star about the club’s rise and the manager, Roberto Mancini.

“He’s great, the man for the job,” says Gallagher, of Mancini who has led City to an undefeated home record this season. “The last few games haven’t been a great end to the season but we’ll see.”

As of April 16, Man City sat in second place, five points behind United with four left to play this season.

Gallagher’s High Flying Birds kicked off their 2012 US tour March 28 in Washington, D.C. The North American Tour, which features intimate venues, included a stop last weekend at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival near Palm Springs, Calif., and wraps up this week with stops in San Diego, Phoenix and Las Vegas.

Compared to his Oasis days, Noel's part as vocalist gives touring a fresh, different feel.

“Well, the gigs aren’t as big. That’s the main thing. But the atmosphere is better, more comfortable,” he said. Still, Noel admits that being the band’s frontman on tour, and not just playing guitar, is an adjustment.

But through it all -- the breakup of Oasis in 2009 and the new venture with High Flying Birds -- Gallagher has stayed true to his music and his love of sports. And being in the U.S. will give him a chance to experience the other kind of football up close.

“I love the NFL. I don’t have a team per se, but I’m into it” Gallagher said. “NFL comes on late night in the UK when I’m up. I love the color and energy of it all. There’s so many things going on in American Football. It took me a while to get it, but I like it a lot.”

Source: espn.go.com

Video: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds On Jimmy Kimmel Live

The videos below are of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds who performed 'AKA... What A Life!' and Don't Look back In Anger on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday.

Win A Signed Exclusive Vinyl By Noel Gallagher

To celebrate Record Store Day this Saturday, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release, “Songs From The Great White North…”, an exclusive 12” pressed on opaque white heavyweight vinyl, individually numbered and limited to 2000 copies for the UK.

Noel says of Record Store Day – "Record shops are as important as the records themselves."

The tracklisting is as follows:

A1. The Good Rebel
A2. Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me
B1. I'd Pick You Every Time
B2. Shoot A Hole Into The Sun

Noel has signed 5 of these exclusive limited 12"s! For your chance to win a copy, just answer this simple question:

The exclusive Record Store Day 12" features the B-sides from the four Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds singles to date. Which B-side is the first track to be released from the work Noel has recorded with Amorphous Androgynous?

Please email the answer with your name, age and address to info@rkid.co.uk before 12pm on Sunday 22nd April. (Please use the subject line: RSD Comp)

The winners will be notified by email. Please note entry is limited to one per email address and management's decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Noel Gallagher Is Sweet On Oz

Noel Gallagher has admitted he’s obsessed with Australia because of their chocolate bars.

The rock ’n’ roller, 44, said: “I love being down in Oz. I’ve never seen one kangaroo, not one.

“And there’s none of those fellas walking around with corks on the end of cowboy hats. But what’s great about it is they’ve got slightly different chocolate bars to what we have in the UK. It’s brilliant.

“And their news is crazy. It’s like watching Monty Python.”

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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

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

Yes comrades . . . been a few days. Mexico was great . . . as always . . . I fucking love that place.

So . . . anyway . . . landed here in LA a few days ago. Can't remember what day it was. It was raining though . . . think it was Friday. Drove out to top old peoples home "Palm Springs" for that Coachella Festival. Nice drive. Stopped at a place that claimed that it served "world famous" milkshakes. I mean the date and banana one was a winner but . . . come on . . . I bet they ain't heard of them in Tanzania!!!

Coachella Festival goes against everything that festivals stand for in the sense that it's VERY FUCKING CLEAN. You get the sense that you’re at an entertainment facility, not a massive piss up in a field, which is essentially what most festivals are right? I mean I was body searched on the way in?!?!?!? Jesus.

The gig itself was great. Not sure whether the old Yankee-doodles liked it or not but I loved it. Played great, sang great and because we was on at 6:30 we got to legitimately wear shades onstage!!! Always a bonus. Did manage to catch Kasabian soon after in some tent or other and they fucking smashed it . . . might have been the best I've ever seen them . . . saying that, I was out of my fucking mind!! Spent the rest of the night marauding round the sight like a cross between that video "weekender" and that other video "smack my bitch up" having the time of our lives . . . there may have been some dancing in the dressing room (and if there was I do hope no-one's filmed it!) might also have bumped into an Arctic Monkey . . . then all of sudden BANG!!! I woke up back where I started . . . in my room in LA . . . 3 hours away!! What the fuck?

I very much look forward to doing it all again next Saturday.

Now I gotta go . . . I'm runnin' outta' change.

ONWARDS.

GD.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

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Another On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from April 17th 1995, when Oasis appeared on the White Room Sessions in London, they performed Acquiesce, It's Good To Be Free and Talk Tonight with special guest Paul Weller.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In San Diego

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play a second night at the Balboa Theatre in San Diego, USA later today (April 17th).

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.

You can also tweet us pictures and updates @scyhodotcom

On This Day In Oasis History...

"Who Feels Love?" is a song by British rock band Oasis, written by the band's lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It became the second single to be released from the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, peaking at number 4 in the UK charts when released on 17th of April 2000.


















The album was noted for its psychedelic feel, and "Who Feels Love?" was held up as the most extreme example of this. Mark Stent was praised for his production on the song, creating a "trippy" feel like that found on Beatles songs such as "Rain". With the psychedelic and Eastern sound, the song also reminds of George Harrison achievements like "Within You Without You" and also some of his solo work.

However, despite the high-quality production, the song was not well received by the critics, NME said that the production "triumphs over any real sort of feeling... pure mock Maharishi spirituality that not even Liam can salvage from the realm of self-parody".

One of the B-sides is a cover of The Beatles' "Helter Skelter". It was played live during the Shoulders tour of 2000. Paul Weller recorded a version of b-side "One Way Road" for his covers-album Studio 150 in 2004. The Weller version was subsequently used as the theme tune to Jack Dee's sitcom Lead Balloon.



Track listing

CD RKIDSCD 003
"Who Feels Love?" - 5:45
"One Way Road" - 4:03
"Helter Skelter" - 5:51 (Lennon/McCartney)

7" RKID 003
"Who Feels Love?" - 5:45
"One Way Road" - 4:03

12" RKID 003T
"Who Feels Love?" - 5:45
"One Way Road" - 4:03
"Helter Skelter" - 5:51

Cassette RKIDCS 003
"Who Feels Love?" - 5:45
"One Way Road" - 4:03

The UK CD also contains the promo video to Who Feels Love?

Helter Skelter was recorded during the sessions for Be Here Now.

Japanese CD edition ESCA 8133
"Who Feels Love?" - 5:44
"One Way Road" - 4:03
"Gas Panic!" (demo) - 6:39

The demo for "Gas Panic!" was only ever officially released in Japan before being included on a free Oasis CD issued with the Sunday Times on June 23, 2002.

Irish musician Rob Smith said in an interview on Irish national television in December 2006 that this was the most under-rated song of all time and should be "praised for its genius".

Video: Interview With Noel Gallagher From Coachella

Below is an interview Noel Gallagher did backstage at the Coachella Festival, over the weekend.

Listen Again To Noel Gallagher On Smart On Sunday

Click here to listen to Gordon Smart's interview with Noel Gallagher for XFM, that was broadcast yesterday.

Skip forward to 02:26:40 into the show to listen to the interview.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Are On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Later Today

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will be musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live, later today (April 16th).

Other guests include Zac Efron and Krysten Ritter, the show is broadcast on ABC in the USA.

For more details click here.

Noel Gallagher: "There's Nobody Better In The World At Being Me"

He spent two decades as the main creative force behind the most successful U.K. rock act of his generation, writing such modern pop classics as "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova" while ceding the spotlight in concert to Liam Gallagher, his younger, more front-man-ish brother.

But ask Noel Gallagher if he felt any pressure to top what he'd done in Oasis when launching his own band, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, and the pride he was always so quick to express when it came to Oasis would appear to be unshaken by the breakup.

"Well, no," he replies, a bit taken aback. "You could never do that anyway, which is one of the reasons why I didn't start another band. Once you've been in a band like Oasis, what's the point of being in another band? You could never really achieve a millionth of the success Oasis had, d'ya know what I mean? Particularly in England. It would be virtually impossible. Well, it would be impossible."

Hearing him say things as cocky as "Once you've been in a band like Oasis, what's the point of being in another band?," you can't help wondering if his reputation for unbridled arrogance is based, in part, on how those words are destined to appear in print. In conversation, it's hard to miss that he's often just playing the role of the blustering rock star for a laugh. That doesn't mean he isn't confident or proud of what he's done. Or even arrogant. But there's a playful charm that doesn't always translate. And speaking of translate, there are certain things that lose all sense of being said by Gallagher if you attempt to change the way he says it. It's "innit," not "isn't it," d'ya know what I mean?

He quit Oasis in the summer of 2009, the same day they canceled a festival gig near Paris, posting a statement on their website within hours of the cancellation. "With some sadness and great relief," he wrote, "I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."

It was two years later when "The Death of You and Me," a bittersweet ballad with obvious echos of the Kinks' best work, arrived. His first single with High Flying Birds, it went Top 20 on the U.K. pop charts, followed in October by a self-titled full-length debut that topped the U.K. charts on its way to going double platinum.

Asked how he feels the new album compares to, for example, "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?," the 1995 Oasis masterpiece that won a special Brit Award in 2010 for the best British album of the last 30 years, he chooses not to take a side.

"Well, that's all open to conjecture, innit?" Gallagher responds. "There will be some people who will say it's the best album I've made. There's some people that say Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are better than Oasis. Who's to say? I can't, can I? I'm too close to both of them. But this is now. Oasis was then. And I don't even know what's gonna happen in the future. I might get to the end of this tour and be (expletive) bored of being solo. I might join another band or start a supergroup or just (expletive) sit at home and smoke some cigarettes."

It seems worth pointing out that there's a second solo album he's already started in collaboration with the Future Sound of London, using their alias of Amorphous Androgynous.
"Well, yes, it's recorded," Gallagher replies. "But it's not mixed. And whether it'll ever see the light of day or not, I don't know. There's a lot of work left to be done. A lot of work. I just did my bits in the studio and left it up to the Amorphous Androgynous to artistically direct it. And unfortunately for everybody, they've not finished it."

In the meantime, he's touring the self-titled album, whose sound is sure to speak to anyone who ever cared about Oasis. Asked if he would call it a continuation of the music he was making with Oasis, he'd prefer to sit that judgment out as well.

"I'm just kind of writing songs for a living," he says. "I don't make calculated moves, like 'This is gonna be a continuation of Oasis' or 'It's gonna be completely different' or 'I'm gonna do some jazz' or 'I really want to explore this reggae kind of thing.' I write songs, I record them and I put them out."

But having put them out, does he see that they sound a bit like what one might expect Noel Gallagher to write at this point?

"I know what you mean," he responds with laugh. "(Expletive) brilliant."
One major difference between the new album and Oasis is the number of guitarists. He's the only one on the High Flying Birds album, allowing for more space in the recording. It's different live, though, with touring guitarist David McConnell fleshing out the sound.

"People are not coming to your shows to listen to the record," Gallagher explains. "They might as well put headphones on and watch you mime it if that's what they want. The record is 1,000 takes and 1,000 edits over a three-month period. We try to nail it every night but I personally have never subscribed to the fact that we have to make it sound like the record. Some some of the songs sound a lot better live. They've got a lot more energy. There's more guitars and it's a bit more electric, a bit more 'Wow' and in-your face."

As to his new position as a front man, the guitarist says, "I'm comfortable enough that I don't get nervous. I don't walk out there with any trepidation. But I don't think I'll ever feel fully at home. I mean, I was 20 years as a backing vocalist and lead guitarist. I'm not gonna suddenly shed that skin in eight months. But I don't feel inhibited. I'm not Mick Jagger, put it that way. But I can engage an audience. I'm lucky in the sense that what I'm really good at is being me. There's nobody better in the world at being me. I'm very confident in that (expletive) fact. So if you come to see me, you're coming to see an expert."

Gallagher is not the type to take his duties as a front man lightly.
"I don't want somebody walking on stage who looks like he'd rather be somewhere else," he says. "This is rock and roll, baby. This is for heroes and rock stars, not the (expletive) guy next door."

Of course, part of what makes him a rock star is the fact that he wrote all those songs for Oasis. And he's not about to put them out to pasture just because he couldn't bear to go on working with his brother.

"Why would I throw away 20 years of music to start again?" he asks. "They're my songs. I don't give a (expletive) what people say. What, would you rather go see Paul McCartney and have him not play anything by the Beatles because the (expletive) Beatles aren't together anymore? Please. Come on. (Expletive) grow up. D'ya know what I mean? I've always looked at the live thing like this. As long as I get to play what I want to play, then I'll play what you want to hear. So out of 20 songs, I'm playing 13 or 14 new ones. And then, if you want to hear some Oasis songs, yeah, I'll play some."

As to whether he sees himself playing those songs with Oasis again, he declares it a moot point.

"If you're asking me now? I just don't see it," he says. "I close my eyes and I don't see it. And I listen to my heart and I don't want it. So there's no point in even talking about it."

Asked if he's spoken to Liam, who's formed his own band, Beady Eye, since the breakup, Gallagher says, "We texted over Christmas, stuff like that. Beady Eye are off being the best band in the world and I'm doing my thing and there we go. That's it. But it's not like we were together for a year and made one album, then split up and people are going, 'Oh man, I never got to see them.' We were together for 20 years. We made 10 (expletive) albums. If you didn't see us, tough (expletive)."

And yes, that last part sounded charming, too.

Source: www.azcentral.com