On This Day In Oasis History...

Below is an interview with Liam and Noel Gallagher in Orlando, Florida. The interview was originally broadcast on CDUK on August 24th 2002.



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

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

Yes comrades.

Where we up to? Fuck knows, let me check . . . .

So, it would seem the last time we spoke I was getting ready for a festival in Vienna? It was good as I remember. Hadn't played for a while so I wasn't expecting much but it was pretty fucking good. Spoiled only by the death of one of my guitars. Well, it might not be actually dead but it was seriously maimed. A sad day. Rest in pieces my friend, I loved you very much.

After that we flew to Chelmsford for the 1st night of that V festival. Weather was great. Hot, hot, hot! That festival though (the Chelmsford end of it anyway) has become swamped with young boys in vests and silly hats. Big, big crowd though. Smashed it I think. Legged it pretty much straight off stage up to Manchester. 4 hours in the back of a car. It’s as grim as it get's let me tell you.

I was up in Manchester for no other reason than to see the new, and still defending, champions of England kick off the new season. Thank fuck it's back. Life is well shit without football. We won. Unconvincingly, if you ask me. Great game though. After that there was a mad dash to the northern end of V in Stafford. What a great gig!! Up there with Benni'. I'm sure it was the same crowd!! Big up if you was there!!!

So after that we flew to Belfast. A little festival. Good though. Rowdy as fuck. United lost!! We did laugh. Drove to Dublin straight after. Had 2 days off. Drank more than enough Guiness. Lovely.

Getting ready for a co-headline thing tonight in Marley Park with my old mates Kasabian. Haven't seen them for a while so I'm well looking forward to it. I lost the toss so I'm being put into bat first . . . so to speak. Got a day off tomorrow so it's bound to get messy.

Oh dear.

ONWARDS.

GD.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

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Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Dublin

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Marlay Park in Dublin, Dublin earlier today.

(It's Good) To Be Free (Not completed due to sound issues)
Mucky Fingers (Aborted after intro due to power cut)
Everybody's On The Run
Dream On
If I Had A Gun...
Supersonic
(I Wanna Live in a Dream In My) Record Machine
AKA... What A Life!
Talk Tonight
AKA... Broken Arrow
Half The World Away
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Whatever
Don't Look Back In Anger

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Technical Issues Reported At Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Marlay Concert In Dublin

Technical issues have been reported at Kasabian's and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds concert at Marlay Park in Dublin earlier today.

According to tweets from visitors to the site, sound was cut on stage one song into Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds set.

When the band returned after around 10 minutes, the power went again.

The band returned to the stage and finished off their set.

Site visitor @seangarvan tweeted us the pictures below, more pictures and updates are on our Twitter page here.

Started Mucky Fingers but never played it as sound went out.








































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Noel Gallagher Would Like To Manage Burscough FC

Rock legend Noel Gallagher says he would like to one day manage non-league Burscough FC.

The former Oasis star was discussing the fortunes of his beloved Manchester City when asked if he ever fancied himself in the dugout at a "little non-league club"

"I would be brilliant at it," he said.

"There is no question I would be really good at it. I am a leader of men."

Gallagher was asked if he could fit such a role into his hectic schedule if a non-league side made contact, the 45-year-old replied: "Burscough.

"I could do it. I can see me with the long coat on saying 'don't call me gaffer' and 'get your haircut'."

The comments have caused a stir amongst Burscough supporters who hope to raise the club's profile on the back of the revelation.

Burscough, nicknamed the Linnets, play in Step Eight of the English football pyramid in the Evo-Stik First Division North.

Managed by Derek Goulding, Burscough have made a positive start to the new season with a win and a draw from their opening two games and play a Victoria Park.

The club have never played at a higher level than the Conference North but shot to prominence in 2003 when they won the FA Trophy at Villa Park.

Source: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher Previews The Premier League Season

Rock 'n' roll legend Noel Gallagher joins Andy Goldstein in the talkSPORT studio to continue his preview of the Premier League season, click here to listen to part three.

Listen again to part one of the interview here, part two here for part three click here.

You can download both parts that have been broadcast to date via iTunes here.

Part four will be broadcast tonight from 10pm (UK Time) on Talk Sport, to listen live click here.

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Noel Gallagher: The Best-Dressed Roadie In The History Of Music

Noel Gallagher would still be a roadie if his music career hadn’t worked out.

The former Oasis star went on the road with indie band the Inspiral Carpets back in the late Eighties.

And he believes that would have been his job for life if success hadn’t come his way.
He said: “I would have been out there now, probably in an ill-fitting black T-shirt with a tattoo and some scruffy Converse trainers. Because that is what they all wear.

“But I was maybe the best-dressed roadie in the history of music. I used to wear white jeans and never got them dirty. I was too quick for the dirt.”
He must have saved a fortune on Daz...

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play a double-headliner gig with Kasabian at Marlay Park in Dublin, Ireland later today (Aug 23rd).

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On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from the 23rd of August 1996, when Oasis played on MTV Unplugged in London, England.





Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'Everybody's On The Run' is available now digitally and in stores more details can be found here.

Noel Gallagher Gives His Thoughts On Manchester City And More

Rock 'n' roll legend Noel Gallagher joins Andy Goldstein in the talkSPORT studio to preview the new football season and give his thoughts on Manchester City's Premier League title win.

To listen to part one of the interview click here, for part two of the interview click here.

You can download both parts that have been broadcast to date via iTunes here.

Part three will be broadcast tonight from 10pm (UK Time) on Talk Sport, to listen live click here.

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Pre-Order: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'International Magic At The O2'

Click here for details to pre-order Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'International Magic At The O2' it is released on 15th October 2012.

International Magic Live At The O2' comprises two DVDs packed with exclusive footage.

Disc 1 features Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds live at London’s O2 on February 26th 2012, the biggest Arena show Noel’s band have played to date.

Disc 2 features an acoustic set by Noel at The Mod Club Toronto, the 'Ride The Tiger' video trilogy plus footage from the NME Awards.

The special edition package also includes an exclusive CD featuring all the demos of album tracks, B sides and previously unreleased live favourite 'Freaky Teeth'.
























Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'Everybody's On The Run' is available now digitally and in stores more details can be found here.

Artwork For Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'International Magic Live At The O2' DVD

Below is the artwork for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds live DVD entitled 'International Magic At The O2' that is released on 15th October 2012.

International Magic Live At The O2' comprises two DVDs packed with exclusive footage.

Disc 1 features Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds live at London’s O2 on February 26th 2012, the biggest Arena show Noel’s band have played to date.

Disc 2 features an acoustic set by Noel at The Mod Club Toronto, the 'Ride The Tiger' video trilogy plus footage from the NME Awards.

The special edition package also includes an exclusive CD featuring all the demos of album tracks, B sides and previously unreleased live favourite 'Freaky Teeth'.
























Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'Everybody's On The Run' is available now digitally and in stores more details can be found here.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Announce Details Of New DVD

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have announced they will release a live DVD entitled 'International Magic At The O2' on 15th October 2012.

'International Magic Live At The O2' comprises two DVDs packed with exclusive footage. Disc 1 features Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds live at London’s O2 on February 26th 2012, the biggest Arena show Noel’s band have played to date. Disc 2 features an acoustic set by Noel at The Mod Club Toronto, the 'Ride The Tiger' video trilogy plus footage from the NME Awards. The special edition package also includes an exclusive CD featuring all the demos of album tracks, B sides and previously unreleased live favourite 'Freaky Teeth'.

'Ride The Tiger' is a 20 minute film comprising three of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds videos – directed by Mike Bruce. The trilogy sees 'If I Had A Gun...', 'The Death Of You and Me' and 'AKA…What A Life!' linked together to create one continuous film. It also features snippets of 'Shoot A Hole Into The Sun', one of the tracks Noel recorded with The Amorphous Androgynous.

The NME Awards saw Noel win Godlike Genius where he also played the closing set of the night, bringing the star-studded crowd to their feet – all captured on disc 2 of the DVD.

The special edition package will also include an exclusive CD – 'Faster Than The Speed Of Magic' – tracklisting is as follows:

1. Everybody’s On The Run
2. Dream On
3. If I Had A Gun…
4. (People Who Would Be) The Death Of You And Me
5. Record Machine
6. Ride The Tiger AKA What A Life!
7. Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks
8. Fallen Angel AKA Broken Arrow
9. (Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
10. Stop The Clocks
11. The Good Rebel
12. I’d Pick You Every Time
13. Freaky Teeth

'International Magic Live At The O2' is out on Sour Mash Records on October 15th.

Source: www.stereoboard.com

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Noel Gallagher Flies At Freeloaders

It's not advisable to listen in to Noel Gallagher’s gigs without paying.

The High Flying Birds frontman branded residents he spotted watching his show from the balconies of their flats “freeloading b*******”.

As they looked down on his Belsonic festival performance in Belfast on Monday night, he shouted at them: “Who are you anyway?

“I’m not dedicating f*** all to you freeloading b*******!”
The crowd then turned on the residents by chanting “Who are ya, who are ya?” while pointing at them.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Yet Another On This Day In Oasis History...

On August 22nd 1995, When Oasis played 'Roll With It' on Top of the Pops, the Gallagher brothers switched roles with Liam pretending to play guitar and Noel pretending to sing.

The set ended with the band erupting in laughter at the Gallaghers' impressions of each other.



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Another On This Day In Oasis History...

On August 22nd 2009, Oasis played there last gig ever at the V Festival in Stafford. Below is the setlist from the gig and a few videos found on YouTube.

Rock 'N' Roll Star
Lyla
The Shock Of The Lightning
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Roll With It
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
My Big Mouth
Half The World Away
I'm Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Live Forever
Don't Look Back In Anger
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus







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On This Day In Oasis History...

"The Importance Of Being Idle" is a song on the British rock band Oasis' sixth album, Don't Believe the Truth, written and sung by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It was the second single released from the album in the UK, on August 22, 2005, where it debuted at #1. It was also the first time that Oasis earned two successive #1's in the same calendar year. It was written by Gallagher sometime during the summer of 2004, before the band made their final attempt at recording what would become Don't Believe the Truth. He got the title from the Mark Twain book of the same name which he found whilst cleaning out his garage (it belonged not to him but to girlfriend Sara McDonald.)

Musically, as Noel has commented, the song sounds like tunes from two British bands, The Kinks and The La's. In particular, the sentiment expressed is noticeably similar to The Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" and "Dead End Street", and the use of falsetto for every other verse line recalls The La's "Feelin'". The guitar sound is similar also to The La's b-sides; "Clean Prophet" and "Over". It also is a breakaway from the sound of Oasis's latter albums, especially the straight ahead rock 'n' roll anthems of Heathen Chemistry. The keyboard used on the pre-chorus sections was bought by bassist Andy Bell from the auction website eBay.

Noel has said that the lyrics of "The Importance of Being Idle" are inspired by his own laziness. Some of the second verse, with the reference to begging his doctor for "one more line", seems to be referring to an actual event as this resembles Noel's account of how he gave up cocaine in 1998.




















Most reviewers acclaimed the track as one of the highlights of Don't Believe the Truth, which itself was widely praised as a marked return to form. The band mentioned in interviews in June that it would become the second single, after the UK Number One "Lyla". The b-sides are Liam Gallagher's "Pass Me Down the Wine" and Gem Archer's "The Quiet Ones."



The promo film was directed by Dawn Shadforth, (whose previous videos include Kylie Minogue's award-winning "Can't Get You Out Of My Head"). Shadforth's film for "The Importance of Being Idle' starred Welsh actor Rhys Ifans and homages the style of early 1960s kitchen sink drama British films, and is set during the build up to a funeral procession in a northern town, with the extravagant undertakers parading the coffin at the video's climax and Ifans playing the part of a high-kicking funeral director. The video is based on the film and play Billy Liar with Ifans playing the role of Billy. Noel and Liam therefore play Shadrack & Duxbury, the owners of the funeral parlour where Billy works. The rest band (Gem,Andy and Zak) make a brief appearance as lazy workers playing cards in an undertaker's office. It was widely acclaimed at the time as being probably the best video Oasis had ever made, not least by the band themselves, who were said to be very happy with the finished product. The video is very similar in style and concept to the music video for "Dead End Street" by The Kinks.

Q Magazine readers placed the song at #1 in a list of 2005's greatest tracks.

The video for the song was voted the video of the year at the NME Awards.

The song is included on Oasis' 'best-of' album Stop the Clocks.

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Another Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds At The V Festival Staffordshire

Click here for a number of pictures of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the V Festival in Staffordshire last weekend.

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Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds At The Belsonic Festival

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Belsonic Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland yesterday.

(It's Good) To Be Free
Everybody's On The Run
Dream On
If I Had A Gun...
Supersonic
(I Wanna Live in a Dream In My) Record Machine
AKA... What A Life!
Talk Tonight
AKA... Broken Arrow
Half The World Away
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Whatever
Don't Look Back In Anger

Thanks to Sandra

A number of pictures are on our Twitter page here.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'Everybody's On The Run' is available now digitally and in stores more details can be found here.

On This Day In Oasis History...

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the UK release of Be Here Now

Be Here Now is the third studio album by the English rock band Oasis. Released on August 21 1997, the album was highly anticipated by both music critics and fans as a result of the band's previous worldwide successes with their 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, and its 1995 follow up (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. The album's pre-release build up led to considerable hype within both the music and mainstream press. At that point, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and Be Here Now became the UK's fastest selling album to date, selling over 420,000 units on the first day of release alone, and over one million within two weeks. As of 2007, the album has sold eight million copies worldwide.

Oasis' management company Ignition were aware of the danger of overexposure, and before its release they sought to control the media's access to the album. Ignition's campaign included limiting pre-release radio airplay, and requesting that journalists sign gag agreements. These tactics resulted in the alienation of members of both the music and mainstream media, as well as many industry members connected with the band. Ignition's attempts to limit pre-release access to the album only served to fuel large scale speculation and publicity within the British music scene.

Artistically Be Here Now failed to live up to the expectations that preceded its release. Although initial reviews were positive, retrospectively the album is viewed by much of the music press and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated. In 2007, Q magazine described Be Here Now as "a disastrous, overblown folly—the moment when Oasis, their judgement clouded by drugs and blanket adulation, ran aground on their own sky-high self-belief." The album's producer Owen Morris said of the recording sessions: "The only reason anyone was there was the money. Noel had decided Liam was a shit singer. Liam had decided he hated Noel's songs [...] Massive amounts of drugs. Big fights. Bad vibes. Shit recordings." None of its songs were included on the band's 2006 "best of" compilation album Stop the Clocks.





















Album cover

The cover image to Be Here Now was shot at the Stock Hotel in Hertfordshire in April 1997. It features the band standing outside the hotel surrounded by assorted props. At the centre of the image is a Rolls Royce floating in a swimming pool. The photographer Michael Spencer Johns said the original concept involved shooting each band member in various locations around the world, but when the cost proved prohibitive, the shoot was relocated to the Stock Hotel. Spencer remarked that the shoot "degenerated into chaos", adding that "by 8pm, everyone was in the bar, there were schoolkids all over the set, and the lighting crew couldn't start the generator.

It was Alice in Wonderland meets Apocalypse Now." Despite various meanings people have tried to read into the selection of the cover props, Johns said Gallagher simply selected items from the BBC props store he thought would look good in the picture. Two of the props that had considered thought in their inclusion were the inflatable globe (intended as a homage to the sleeve of Definitely Maybe) and the Rolls Royce, which was suggested by Arthurs. The release date in each region was commemorated on the calendar pictured on the sleeve; Harris said the dating "[encouraged] fans to believe that to buy a copy on the day it appeared was to participate in some kind of historical event."

Tracklisting

D'You Know What I Mean? – 7:42
My Big Mouth – 5:02
Magic Pie – 7:19
Stand by Me – 5:56
I Hope, I Think, I Know – 4:22
The Girl in the Dirty Shirt – 5:49
Fade In-Out – 6:52
Don't Go Away – 4:48
Be Here Now – 5:13
All Around the World – 9:20
It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) – 7:00
All Around the World (Reprise) – 2:08

Singles





D'You Know What I Mean?"
Released: 7 July 1997
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (FIN), #1 (IRE), #3 (CAN), #4 (US)




Stand By Me
Released: 22 September 1997
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
Chart positions: #2 (UK), #5 (US), #2 (IRE)




All Around The World
Released: 12 January 1998
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (IRE)




Don't Go Away" (Japan Only)
Released: 13 May 1998
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'Everybody's On The Run' is available now digitally and in stores more details can be found here.