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

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

Yes comrades . . . so Lima? (that's in Peru by the way)

It's also the place where I wrote that song of mine called "If I Had A Gun".

Nice place. Foggy. Stinks of dead fish!! Got a little bit wasted the first night on that drink "pisco sour"? The locals say you should only ever have 2 and under no circumstances should one attempt a 3rd. I must admit that did sound like a bit of a challenge at the time and one I would live to regret!! Think I got into double figures. Great night . . . horrific morning. Terrible hangover.

Someone suggested a walk about the following afternoon and as I'd never actually left the hotel last time I was here I thought "fuck it . . . why not?"

It quickly descended into farce with an ever growing mob of kids (fans and that . . . ) following us everywhere. Felt a bit like Jesus (looked a bit like Jesus if the truth be told!!). It was decided we should fuck it off and jib back to the hotel. Someone then mentioned that there was an ancient pyramid nearby so a couple of us set off to find it. I do like a pyramid me . . . mysterious pointy things . . . I love 'em!! Trouble is when we got there it was closed (not like a shop . . . it's a tourist attraction innit!!) but they let us in anyway, only they have us a guide who started to give us a brick by brick account of it's history. I felt the life being sucked out of me as the centuries whizzed by until . . . I just . . . walked off (you know when you just need a lie down?) he's no doubt probably still yakking on about wedges and building techniques!!

Anyway . . . the gig!! The gig was great . . . it was in a football stadium . . . well at least part of a football stadium. I wouldn't say it was the best place I've ever played, but top night all the same. Great crowd . . . loud . . . and lot's of 'em! The night ended with a police escort back to the hotel. Now . . . I've been in a few police escorts in my time but I can safely say I've NEVER been overtaken in one . . . by a bus . . . TWICE!!!!! High speed it was not. Job done though.

Adios Peru. You were slightly unhinged but mega . . . in a scary kind of way.

I am currently in Santiago (that's in Chile by the way). Getting an early night. Got to be up early tomorrow to watch Manchester City. We need one more win and we'll be crowned champions!!!

Gonna be a tense morning . . . .

If god wills it etc . . . .

ONWARDS.

GD.

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

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Teatro Caupolican in Santiago, Chile later today (May 13th).

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Another On This Day In Oasis History...

Don't Go Away is a song by Oasis and is taken from their third album, Be Here Now, written by the band's lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. The song was released as a single in Japan on May 13th 1998, peaking at number 48 on the Oricon chart.



It was also a success in the United States, where it hit #5 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in late 1997. It was the band's last major hit in the United States until 2008's "The Shock Of The Lightning".

On This Day In Oasis History...

Champagne Supernova is a song Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher. The seven-minute anthem is the closing track on the record-breaking album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.

It was released on May 13th 1996 as a single in Australia, a music video directed by Nigel Dick was released to music channels and, as a result, the song received much television and radio airplay.



The song was released in the U.S. as a radio single and enjoyed great success there, becoming the band's second No. 1 single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. It also peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay, becoming the band's third top 40 single on that chart. The song is considered a fan-favourite and has received widespread critical acclaim.

Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Lima

Click here and here for a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the Estadio San Marcos in Lima, Peru yesterday.

Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Lima

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at the Estadio San Marcos in Lima, Peru 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
Let The Lord Shine A Light
Whatever
Little By Little
Don’t Look Back In Anger

Thanks to Sergio

Video: Various Interviews With Noel Gallagher From Argentina

Click here for various interviews that Noel Gallagher did during his recent trip to Argentina.

Interviews, Pictures And Reviews From Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird In Lima

Click here, here and here for various bits of press from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds show in Lima.

Thanks to AG

Video Report: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Lima

Click here to see a video report from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird gig in Lima.

Thanks to AG

On This Day In Oasis History...

Below are a number of videos from May 12th 2005, when Oasis played at the Alcatraz in Milan, Italy.

Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Cordoba

Click here and here for a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at the Superdomo in Cordoba, Argentina.

Thanks to AG

Noel Gallagher: Yaya Toure Can Become Manchester City's Best Player Ever

Noel Gallagher joins talkSPORT to look ahead to a potential title-winning weekend for Man City and claims if Yaya Toure scores the goal which wins the league he could go on to become City's best player ever.

To listen to the interview click here.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Confirmed To Headline Jersey Live!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are confirmed to headline Jersey Live on Sunday 2nd September. Other acts playing at the festival include Primal Scream, Chase & Status and Professor Green. You can find all the details about the Festival HERE!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have also announced that Folks will be supporting them at their sold out Edinburgh Castle show on 17th July. For more information on Folks and to download a song by the band head over HERE!

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Can City Do It? Liam Gallagher And Ricky Hatton Give Fans View

Manchester City are within touching distance of their first league championship in 44 years. Roberto Mancini's men know a victory against relegation-threatened QPR on Sunday should be enough to pip United to the title.

Liam Gallagher

I WILL move back to Manchester if City win the title. I got back from Disneyland with the kids and we got beat by Arsenal so we were eight points behind and I was getting loads of grief from United fans in Disneyland. Even Daffy Duck is a secret Red I think, he was having a pop, so I thought it was well and truly over then.

Ricky Hatton

IT will be the biggest day of my football life. Ever since I've been a fan we've had to watch the enemy down the road win everything. It's been a living nightmare for City supporters. I don't want to speak too soon because the wheels can always come off. We've just got to get our noses over the finishing line. If we can't beat QPR at home on the last day to win the title then we don't deserve it.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Estadio San Marcos in Lima, Peru later today (May 11th).

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Liam Gallagher Features In Inside City

Liam Gallagher is featured twice in Inside City this week, he features in the video at 4:00 and 5:18.

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

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

Yes comrades.

So . . . Paraguay? Holy shit-balls what a crazy country!! We'll get to the gig in a bit but first let me take you on a little journey from the hotel to the soundcheck. 40 minutes it took and honest to God you've never seen anything like it . . . well I haven't anyway.

So . . . we set off in a convoy of sorts. 3 vans, security guards armed to the teeth in unmarked cars, police in off road vehicles sirens wailing and some on motorbikes which looked like they may have been brand spanking new at some point in the 80's . . . closely followed by crazy fans in a separate convoy of private cars and taxis; It quickly turned into some kind of stunt driving chase scene from a James Bond movie. The faster we went the faster these kids went. Each time we hit traffic (quite literally I might add!) and slowed down to a crawl these kids jumped out of their cars and surrounded mine banging on the roof and waving random memorabilia like they were some kind of religious artifacts. At one point we were hurtling up some kind of dual carriageway and a fucking cow just appeared in the middle of the road . . . A FUCKING REAL COW . . . just casually out for a stroll!!! We skidded right up to it's gloriously gormless bonce as it give us that look that cows do and mooed at us as if to say . . . "watch your speed gringo!"

On we went at various points I seen:

A fully functioning gym just "there" at the side of the road.

Brand new-shrink wrapped-office furniture just stacked up in the middle of a flooded street.

A LOT of broken down motorbikes.

A herd of chickens . . . in the middle of the road (probably looking for the cow).

A seemingly endless army of young men at traffic lights holding out bunches of bananas (for sale presumably).

Big houses, little houses, bombed out houses and half built houses no-one could be arsed finishing.

A city of tents.

Something what looked like a car repair work-shop/pet shop!!

And to cap it all somebody transporting a horse on the back of a truck . . . not a wagon . . . a little truck . . . not in a horse box, oh no, just standing on the back of a little truck with some lad holding onto it's mane!!! All this while travelling over pot-holes the size of swimming pools!! (It's probably fair to say you won't be seeing Morrissey anytime soon!!).

The time was 2:30 in the afternoon. God help us all when it goes dark I thought to myself.

The gig itself was HUGE. Another 10,000!! It was held at a jockey club race track thing. As night fell and the dust was being kicked up and the floodlights were on it looked like something out of Apocalypse Now, or apocalypse yesterday . . . whatever . . . it was cool as fuck!!

Now, as we know these South Americans love a banner and of course there were the usual marriage proposals and paternity claims etc,etc . . . but this next one has to go down as the weirdest one yet . . . here goes:

IF I HAD A GUN I'D SHOOT A HOLE INTO THE FRUITS BACKSTAGE!!!

What the holy fuck is that supposed to mean? Surely they didn't mean my band??

Had a nice little (I say little but it was perfectly adequate) bra slung onstage too!! Always a treat. One side of it was a sequined Paraguayan flag . . . the other a sequinned Union Jack!! And in that wonderful moment our two great nations had never been closer.

That – comrades - is the power of music (and probably a little bit of alcohol) right there.

Makes you proud eh?

Paraguay. You are madness personified.

I loved you very much.

We'll meet again.

ONWARDS.

GD.

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Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Asuncion

Click here and here for a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at the Jockey Club in Asuncion, Paraguay.

Thanks to AG

Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Rio De Janeiro

Click here, here, here and here for a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at Vivo Rio in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

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Video: Noel Galllagher Interview From Peru

Below is an interview with Noel Gallagher that was done during his recent trip to Lima in Peru.