You've got to feel sorry for the bookers of Liam Gallagher’s band Beady Eye and brother Noel’s High Flying Birds – having to keep them apart on festival bills.
Liam and Noel both play the Fuji Rock festival in Japan this weekend but their sets are on different days.
Asked if they could ever be on a live bill together, Noel said: “I don’t think either camp would allow it.
“What happens if we’re on the same bill? People start asking if we’re reforming, that’s what.
“Or they’ll ask if we’re going to get on stage together and sing Digsy’s f***ing Dinner.
“I don’t need that and I doubt he does either. I’d rather avoid it all together, thank you.”
Now that Liam’s playing Oasis songs, too, Fuji Rock punters will get plenty of the band’s classics.
Parlour Flames have recently announced two UK shows in Brighton and Southampton in October.
Saturday, October 6th at the Royal Pavilion Tavern, Brighton. (Ticket details here)
Saturday October 13, 2012 at the Joiners in Southampton. (Ticket details here)
Parlour Flames is a collaboration with ex Oasis rhythm guitarist Bonehead aka Paul Arthurs and Vinny Peculiar, a debut album is expected to be released later this year.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds embark on a UK tour in September and will tour the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg later this year.
More details on the above dates and more can be found by clicking here.
EDIT: I HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT THAT THE AFTER SHOW IS JUST PAUL GALLAGHER AND NICK POWER FROM THE CORAL DOING A DJ SET. NO NOEL OR THE CORAL PLAYING LIVE THE WEBSITE WHO PUBLISHED THIS HAS GOT IT WRONG.
n Aylesbury based band have been invited to play alongside Noel Gallagher.
Palahniuk will perform during a VIP after-party at the Tiger Tiger club in Cardiff, which gets underway after Noel performs at the city’s Motorpoint Arena.
Noel will also play at the after-party on September 9, along with guitar group The Coral.
Palahniuk guitarist and writer Andy Ralph, 27, said: “This show is for all the people who have VIP tickets and people that have passes to meet him afterwards.
“The Coral are also playing and so is his brother Paul Gallagher, who is doing a DJ set.It’s a great opportunity for our band to get to play with such an iconic person in the music industry.”
The group were asked to play at the after-show party by music promoters Absent Kelly – who heard the boys’ music online and got in touch with them.
Andy said: “We have been advertising it and telling as many people as we can that we have this huge gig.
“I would say Noel’s solo stuff is slightly lighter than the Oasis stuff and we are in a similar vein. We also get compared to Feeder. We are British Indie rock music, the music that Oasis was.”
Meanwhile The trio will perform this Sunday afternoon at the Aylesbury Weekender – a free two day live music event in the town centre.
Andy believes the event is ‘fantastic for the town’, saying there are currently very few opportunities for new bands to perform original material in the area.
Palaniuk are named after the writer of Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk. The group formed in 2007
The competition to win tickets to see Noel Gallagher perform a special acoustic show for War Child at Camden Dingwalls on August 14th is now open!
We have a limited number of pairs of tickets to give away to fans who can answer the following question:
Which song did Noel record with Paul McCartney and Paul Weller for War Child?
Please email your answer to us at: info@rkid.co.uk. You MUST enter the subject line of your email as 'War Child competition' and include your name, age and home address in your email. The competition closes on Monday 30th July.
Tickets are provided free but we are asking all those attending to contribute £20 on the door with all moneys collected donated straight to War Child.
Terms and conditions:
Competition open to fans resident in Great Britain only. The prize is 1 pair of tickets to the Camden Dingwalls show on 14th August. Tickets are non transferrable and winners will be notified by email by Friday 3rd August. You must be over 14 to enter and under 18 year olds must be accompanied by an over 18. Once notified you will be required to confirm your attendance by return email. No travel costs included. You will be required to print your email and bring this with you along with some form of photo ID in order to guarantee entry.
This week marks 15 years since the release of one of the most anticipated and fastest-selling British singles of the ‘90s – Oasis’ D’You Know What I Mean.
The lead single from Oasis’ third album Be Here Now to this day remains the band’s fastest-selling single of their career. Shifting in excess of an astonishing 370,000 copies in its opening week, D’You Know What I Mean outperformed even the likes of giants Wonderwall and Don’t Look Back In Anger in each of their respective first weeks of release, even though the two (What's The Story) Morning Glory tracks remain Oasis biggest-selling singles.
D'You Know What I Mean, a grandiose, feedback-driven, endlessly layered track that featured a nonsensical chorus, clocked in at an impressive seven and a half minutes. Of course it went straight to Number 1. Spending a total of 18 weeks in the Official Singles Chart, it held the top spot for only a week in July 1997, intersecting the six-week non-consecutive run at the top for Puff Daddy’s breakthrough single I’ll Be Missing You.
D’You Know What I Mean was Oasis’ first single for 16 months, followed the ubiquitous Don’t Look Back in Anger and became the sixth in an impressive run of 18 consecutive Top 5 singles. And let’s not forget the video: Coloured smoke! Post-apocalyptic theme! Army helicopters! Liam’s enormous parka! Noel with a Flying V! Liam not flicking the V (for once). Aww, bless the 90s.
The enormous success of the band’s previous blockbusting album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory, which spent 10 weeks at Number 1 and a total of 147 weeks on the Official Album Chart, saw Oasis being catapulted into superstardom, putting pressure on Noel Gallagher to follow suit with something extraordinary. The excitement and media attention that preceded the release of Oasis' new single, resulted in a huge first week sale, and has to date sold 730,000 copies in the UK, making it the third biggest-selling single of their career on home turf.
When Be Here Now was released in August 1997, reviews were bordering on ecstatic and the album sold over 660,000 copies in its first week. Although Be Here Now eventually received its fair share of criticism - included being somewhat written off by its composer - it remains a chart-busting signature piece of a time when Britpop was slowly descending from its zenith. Well, Liam still likes it!
Be Here Now yielded two further singles: Stand By Me, which charted at Number 2 in October 1997, and All Around The World which reached Number 1 in January 1998. Perhaps surprisingly, both tracks can be found in the Top 10 fastest-selling Oasis singles.
OfficialCharts.com can exclusively reveal Oasis' Official Top 10 fastest-selling UK singles, as compiled by the Official Charts Company. (figures reflect rounded first-week UK sales of each single):
01: D'YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN - 370,000 02: DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER -227,000 03: GO LET IT OUT - 180,000 04: ROLL WITH IT - 163,000 05: WONDERWALL - 143,000 06: STAND BY ME - 137,000 07: THE HINDU TIMES - 116,000 08: ALL AROUND THE WORLD - 112,000 09: SOME MIGHT SAY - 101,000 10 WHATEVER - 100,000
When Liam Gallagher gave up booze and started running five miles every morning, he wasn’t on the sniff for an Olympic call-up.
But it’s just as well he’s in top shape because the Beady Eye frontman has been given the nod to appear at the closing ceremony of London 2012.
The former Oasis star will perform a new arrangement of iconic Noel track Wonderwall with bandmates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock.
David Arnold, one of the top producers in the world, has been in AIR Studio in north London this week working on a new, epic orchestral arrangement. And Noel can look forward to another tidy royalty check off the back of it.
A source said: “A couple of months back the Olympic production team got in touch with Noel about playing his part in the closing ceremony.
“Along with his manager, they thought long and hard about it. It was a big temptation, with 650million people expected to tune in on TV.
“But he knocked it back in the end — he has been on a great tour and he doesn’t really need to do it. The organisers asked Liam if he was game and he said yes.
“The Who are on the same bill, so he was well up for it.
“The team wanted something quintessentially British — a real flag-waving, singalong moment to show the rest of the world what this country has produced. Oasis were exactly that and, whether it’s Noel or his brother Liam, they just wanted a bit of rock ’n’ roll in there.”
Other acts in the closing ceremony include Kaiser Chiefs — and Russell Brand doing a turn with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
All performers have had to sign serious non-disclosure contracts to keep the big night a surprise.
Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle has been overseeing the process, so it’s bound to be special.
On stage in front of 650million will also give Liam the chance to advertise his Pretty Green clobber — which will be getting Games organisers in a lather.
There’s also a good chance at least one four-letter word will slip out.
If swearing was an Olympic event, Liam would be the Usain Bolt of the field.
Orders for the limited edition Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds CD or Vinyl singles boxes will need to be placed by the end of next week. For more details click here
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Pretty Green, Liam Gallagher's fashion label, invited the first 50 people who bought sunglasses from the new range to take part in a photo shoot by Tom Oxley for an ad campaign by Holler.
The images were then used to create a film to be used to promote the range. In addition, a mini-documentary will be seeded online.
The work was created by Barry Markham and directed by Charlie Lightening through Lightening Productions.