The following statement by Noel Gallagher, was posted on the Official Oasis Site on August 28th 2009.
"It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that 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.
"Apologies to all the people who bought tickets for the shows in Paris, Konstanz and Milan."
Oasis were due to play the Rock en Seine festival in Paris but cancelled at the last minute. When the support band said Oasis would not be performing, many fans thought it was a joke, but then screens at either side of the stage showed this message: "As a result of an altercation within the band, the Oasis gig has been cancelled."
Noel Gallagher has revealed that he thought Beady Eye "were great" at the Olympic closing ceremony earlier this month.
Asked about his impression of 'Wonderwall', he said: "It was all right. David Arnold did a new string arrangement for it, which was like thanks very much. It was good. It was great, don't get me wrong. I sat and watched it and I thought it was great. I thought Beady Eye were great, I'm glad Oasis in some way was represented in it".
He continued: "I'm glad somebody did it, if they hadn't done it they would have got fucking Keane to do it or something. At least it was Liam and the lads, I was cool with it".
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds embark on a UK tour in September. He will also play the iTunes Festival on September 12 at London's Roundhouse and will tour the US alongside Snow Patrol later this year.
Noel Gallagher has revealed that his collaboration album with psychedelic producers Amorphous Androgynous has been scrapped.
Speaking to entertainment.ie when asked about the album he said: "I have scraped it now, because I'd recorded it these guys were mixing it. I'd yet to take delivery of it the night before the press conference. And I thought well f*ck it I will just announce it how shit can it be? The famous last words. I kind of got it and I didn't like it. So they tried to remix it while I was on the road, and that was not working".
He continued: "So during my time off I got back to England got into a studio, and I didn't like it. And with this album still being in the top ten in England, I couldn't have brought it out now anyway as it would kill this one stone dead. By the time I get of this tour, I'm going to not be in the mood for going back into the studio. It's still there, it isn't finished and even if was finished it is no were near as good as this so everything has to match up to this one".
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds embark on a UK tour in September. He will also play the iTunes Festival on September 12 at London's Roundhouse and will tour the US alongside Snow Patrol later this year.
Rock superstars have died out because the music industry no longer makes them enough money, Noel Gallagher has claimed.
The Oasis star, feels artists such as Michael Jackson and Guns n’ Roses enjoyed the best years, benefitting from huge record company advances.
Gallagher, 45, said his finest work was now behind him. He was at his most creative while pushing to make the Britpop band he formed with brother Liam, 39, a success.
He said: “Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.
“Everybody will be jobbing musicians. It’s unbelievable. The music industry has changed beyond all recognition. The music business we signed in to does not exist any more.
“What is fascinating about that is that there was a way of making money and selling records that got happened upon in the Sixties and it worked for 30-odd years then all of a sudden, in under a decade, it’s gone, never to return.
“It used to be about the A&R man going to see gigs, demos and people going into record labels saying ‘give us a chance’ and it’s not like that any more.”
Gallagher also feels his millionaire lifestyle has detached him from his audience.
He said: “You can’t be a hypocrite and write songs about the plight of the working man when you are sipping champagne at eight in the morning in the South of France with a supermodel.”
Oasis shot to stardom thanks to hits like Live Forever and Cigarettes & Alcohol.
Their second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory, sold 23 million copies worldwide.
Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Rock En Seine Festival in Paris, France yesterday.
(It's Good) To Be Free Everybody's On The Run Dream On If I Had A Gun... The Death Of You And Me (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
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.
In this exclusive hour long chat Noel Gallagher discusses with Andy Goldstein his love of Manchester City, the sackings that await Premier League managers and why Manchester United will finish in pole position in the Premier League again this season.
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Last night’s gigs in Marlay Park passed off without incident, bar a few small power problems during Noel Gallagher’s set.
Noel Gallagher must have mellowed in his old age as you can see in the above clip. Posted by YouTube user GenuisNoelGallagher, it shows the moment last night when Gallagher’s band, High Flying Birds, lost power on stage in Dublin last night.
The High Flying Birds were the main support act for Kasabian in Marlay Park last night but shortly after they took to the stage sound problems forced them off.
They came back minutes later only for the power to go. As you can see above, Noel, and the crowd, took the disruption well and at the third attempt the gig went off without a hitch.
entertainment.ie music editor John Balfe sat down with Noel Gallagher before his show last night in Marlay Park for a chat about his post-Oasis career, why Noel decided to ditch an (already recorded) follow-up to his first solo album, the performance of 'Wonderwall' at the Olympics closing ceremony and what would have happened to the music had Oasis never split.
Have a listen below. Strain your ears and you might even pick up The Cribs, who were playing in the background!