Liam Gallagher 'Made Up' At Being Voted The Ultimate Singer By NME.COM Users

Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher says he's "made up" after being picked as the ultimate singer by NME.COM users.

Liam was voted as the ultimate frontman in NME's poll of the greatest musicians ever, as part of the Ultimate Band issue, which is on newsstands from today or available digitally.

Pick up a copy to see who the likes of Johnny Marr, Foals, The Maccabees, Jake Bugg, The Libertines, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Frank Turner, The Mighty Boosh and tons more picked as the line-up for their ultimate band.

The ultimate band, as picked by NME.com users is:

Singer – Liam Gallager (Oasis)
Bassist – Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Guitarist – Johhny Marr (The Smiths)
Drummer – Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters)
The 'other guy' – Bez (Happy Mondays)

"I'm made up people voted for me as the ultimate singer. But no Keith Moon, Reni, Macca or Mani – are you sure?" Liam says in this week's NME.

Others included in the line-up of NME.COM users' ultimate band are Morrissey, Alex Turner, David Bowie, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Kim Deal, Jimi Hendrix, Matt Helders and Keith Moon. Pick up a copy of this week's NME on newsstands now or available digitally to find out the full line-up.

Source: www.nme.com

A Man's Man: Liam Gallagher Loves Manchester City... And His Missus

Liam Gallagher's priorities are 'City, kids, wife' if a chance meeting with Mike Summerbee is anything to go by.

The singer-songwriter was sent out to fetch some late-night apple pie by his wife when he chanced upon City's club ambassador.

'Before long I'd forgotten about the apple pie I'd gone out for and ended up in the pub with him having a few drinks,' revealed Gallagher.

'I ended up in the doghouse with the missus after that.'

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

A Number Of Rare Oasis Items Available Via Auction

Click here for a number of Oasis items that are currently being sold at auction.

They include promotional jackets and shirts, promotional bag, satchel, watch and other cool items.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Dallas

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Verizon Theatre @ Grand Prairie in Dallas, USA later today (Nov 7th).

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 or via our Facebook page here.

Reverend And The Makers To Support Noel Gallagher In London Next Week

After almost 15 months of touring the globe, crossing 6 continents in the process, Noel Gallagher will bring his mammoth world tour to a conclusion with an intimate one off show at London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on 13th November.

Support for the date will be from Reverend And The Makers.

Noel Gallagher On Manchester City, United And Chelsea

Noel Gallagher joined the Sports Bar boys to give his thoughts on the latest weekend of Premier League action and insisted he is not concerned by Manchester City's sluggish start to the season.

To listen to the interview click here.

Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Nashville

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, USA 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
Wonderwall
(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

Noel Gallagher, Keith Richards And Johnny Marr To Be A Guests On BBC 6 Breakfast Legends Week

The special guests have been unveiled today for 'Legends Week' on BBC Radio 6' Breakfast show.

They are listed below

Keith Richards: November 12th
Johnny Marr: November 13th
Noel Gallagher: November 14th

The show is broadcast between 07:00 and 10:00 on BBC Radio 6, to listen live click here.

Noel Gallagher And Kasabian To Record A New Version Of 'Walking In The Air'

Noel Gallagher and Kasabian are reportedly among artists in line to record a new version of 'Walking in the Air'.

The festive classic is to be given an update for an upcoming new version of Christmas animated classic The Snowman on Channel 4 this December.

Editors are also said to have expressed interest in recording a cover version of the song, reports The Mirror.

"The Snowman animated film, from which the song comes, is getting a modern twist and there are a lot of beardy blokes - who remember the film from their childhood - who are really keen to get involved," an insider claimed. "Everybody wants to pay homage to the Yuletide carrot-nosed legend.

"Tom Meighan and Serge Pizzorno from Kasabian and Tom Smith from Editors were among the first to be asked, but the producers hope to rope in the likes of Noel Gallagher and the indie elite, too.

"Nobody wanted to do a straight cover of such a classic song, so it had to be a bit different. This was the only way The Snowman could possibly get any cooler."

The track will reportedly be recorded by the end of November for inclusion in the film.

Channel 4 confirmed plans to make a new version of the classic 1982 film last December. It was originally stated that 'Walking in the Air' would be replaced with a new original song.

'Walking in the Air' was performed by Peter Auty in the original film, while Aled Jones scored a big hit with his version in 1985.

The Snowman producer John Coates passed away in September, after working on the new version.

Watch the 'Walking in the Air' section from The Snowman below:

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk


 

Download A Free Tour EP Featuring Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Snow Patrol And Jake Bugg

To mark the halfway point of the Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg North American tour they have created a tour EP of your favourite live tracks.

The EP features Snow Patrol performing "Called Out in The Dark", live in Indianapolis, Noel Gallagher performing "Everybody's on the Run" at the O2 and Jake Bugg playing "Country Song".

To access the EP simply enter your details via the widget below.

 The joint headline continues this weekend with shows in  Austin and Houston this week.

A limited number of tickets are left for the shows by clicking here.

Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Louisville

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at The Palace Theatre in Louisville, USA 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
Wonderwall
(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

Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Hammond

Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at The Venue At The Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, USA last week.

(It's Good) To Be Free
Everybody's On The Run
Dream On
If I Had A Gun
The Death Of You And Me
Wonderwall
(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

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Nashville

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, USA later today (Nov 5th).

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 or via our Facebook page here.

Noel Gallagher: David Bowie Is In The Same League As John Lennon

There was a time when Noel Gallagher walked the earth with the imperious swagger of a rock ’n’ roll demigod. His band, Oasis, was in the process of selling 70 million records and earning roughly twice that many headlines in the United Kingdom alone.

Gallagher and his younger brother, Liam, were the faces of the band, and to describe them as “quotable” is inadequate beyond all measure. Everything they said, every backstage brawl they had and every single they released caused earthquakes.

This was in the latter half of the 1990s, when copies of 1994’s “Definitely Maybe” and 1995’s “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” were flying off the shelves — yes, there were still shelves — at a dizzying rate. The band continued for five more albums and dozens more fistfights before Noel had enough and left the band in 2009.

The headlines, however, have never stopped, and most of them are about a reunion.

“They live in hope, and good for them,” Gallagher said. “I get asked it every day and it’s written about virtually every week in Britain, but it’s not gonna happen. The three reasons bands re-form are for money, unfinished business and to get the rightful acclaim that they thought was theirs in the first place. But we had all that.”

Rest assured that Gallagher remains as quotable as ever. While chatting about his strong new album, “Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds,” and a tour with Snow Patrol that stops at the Louisville Palace Sunday night, he was charming, very funny, spectacularly profane and said “D’you know what I mean?” roughly 140 times in 22 minutes.

In America, Gallagher vacillates between headliner and opening act, while in Europe he performs in stadiums. He seems happy with life as a solo artist, and his band’s first tour has done well enough that it was extended from six months to 12, while the album has spawned a pair of Top 20 singles in the UK, including the excellent “If I Had a Gun ... .”

A few things have changed. He quit smoking, has cut back quite a bit on drinking and even goes to bed early, all due to the responsibilities he now has with his name above the title.

“I used to kind of shuffle onstage with Oasis and nobody really took much ------ notice of me, but now you’ve got to be on it, from first song to the last,” he said. “The way I used to be with Oasis, staying up until 5 o’clock in the morning debating whether David Bowie was in the same league as John Lennon, I can’t do that anymore. Got to go to bed.

“And for the record, David Bowie is in the same league as John Lennon. ... Song for song, they’re pretty equal until you realize that Bowie has got one green eye and one red eye. What the ----? ----- hell! He might be better than Lennon. He’s got two different-coloured eyes! Unbelievable.”

Gallagher didn’t rush into a solo career, working on his album for nearly two years (he actually recorded two albums, although he said that he’ll re-record the second before releasing it). The result is less a collection of singles and more of what he calls “a proper album,” with a unified story. It’s a result, he said, of writing songs that he would sing instead of Liam.

“With a song like ‘If I had A Gun ... ,’ for instance, I know who that song is about, so I as the writer am able to deliver that song in the correct way because I ------ wrote it about something that’s real to me,” he said. “If someone else is writing words for you, how can you possibly have any connection to that, d’you know what I mean?

“The happy accident is that whatever I was writing about that was going on around me, people have taken it and they see it as about them, d’you know what I mean, and that’s ------ mind-blowin’. It’s just ------ magic, that’s what it is. I am as in awe of that as you are, trust me.”

Gallagher’s show Sunday — his first time in Kentucky — comes near the end of his year-long tour. Soccer will be getting serious soon in Britain and Gallagher is eager to watch Manchester City, his home team. He’ll miss America, though.

“One of the great things about touring America, and this is a fact, is that you get to do concerts in America where people are there to listen to the music,” he said. “In England, it’s a bit more about fashion and who you’re sleeping with and what shoes you’re wearing.

“In America, people aren’t interested in what shoes you’re wearing. They want you to play the ------ songs and be good. Don’t look good, be good. Look good if you can, y’know, but actually be good. And fortunately for me, I’m pretty ------ good.”

Source: www.courier-journal.com

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Louisville

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Palace Theatre in Louisville, USA later today (Nov 4th).

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 or via our Facebook page here.

Beady Eye's Performance Of 'Wonderwall' At The Olympics Is Now Available On DVD And Blu-Ray

Beady Eye's performance of Wonderwall is now available on the official DVD of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

It was the Olympic Games we will never forget; an extraordinary event in Britain’s history with intense drama, sporting brilliance and heart-wrenching emotion. Capturing the key moments of the Games, including a specially-edited version of the entire Opening Ceremony from Director Danny Boyle, over seven hours of sporting highlights and the full Closing Ceremony, these day-by-day highlights relive the triumphs, moving stories and memories that will live on forever.

Experience once again the magnificent performances from outstanding athletes such as Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Chris Hoy and Jessica Ennis. Marvel at the many amazing achievements, including Mo Farah’s double gold, Oscar Pistorius’ Olympic Games debut and Nicola Adams’ gold in the boxing ring. Relive Team GB’s 29 gold medal triumphs and recapture the moments which made these Olympic Games so special; from the electrifying atmosphere in the stadium on ‘Super Saturday’ to judo’s Gemma Gibbons’ tearful dedication and the pure emotion of swimmer Chad le Clos’ father.

5 DISC BOX SET INCLUDES:

DISC 1: The Opening Ceremony: Part One
DISC 2: The Opening Ceremony: Part Two
DISC 3: Sporting Highlights (Days 7 – 10)
DISC 4: Sporting Highlights (Days 11 – 16)
DISC 5: Closing Ceremony

The London 2012 Olympic Games ended in style with a celebration of music and sporting achievement, created by Kim Gavin. It marked the end of an amazing chapter in London’s life and featured an array of British artists from the last 50 years including Beady Eye, Russell Brand, Eric Idle, The Kinks, The Spice Girls and Jessie J.

For more details visit the BBC website here.

Is Liam Gallagher Set To Perform An Acoustic Set In January?

The Sun reported in September that Liam Gallagher will be making his first acoustic performance in January as part of London Fashion Week and that only 120 people will hear eight songs he is set to play.

Taken from a recent interview with Pretty Green's Head of Design Pat Salter spoke to GQ Magazine.

What do you have planned next?

We want to do more on the accessories side of things - we have a completely new shoe range launching next season which is exciting. The next big thing is our showing at London Collections: Men in January.

No official word yet but I will keep you informed.

Review And Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Kansas

Though it wasn’t officially billed as one, Thursday’s show at the Midland theater featured co-headliners.

Snow Patrol played the evening’s final slot, but it was clear that many of the 1,300 or so fans were there to see the second of three bands: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

The double bill turned out to be a blessing after a mechanical issue shortened Snow Patrol’s set.

Gallagher was the main songwriter, lead guitarist and singer with the British rock band Oasis, which called it quits in 2009. This year he launched the Birds, his first post-Oasis solo project. Oasis hadn’t been in Kansas City since a show at Memorial Hall in 1994, so there was plenty of anticipation among the group’s fans.

He is touring off the Birds’ self-titled first album, a collection of songs that bear many of the traits of his Oasis material: big guitars, lovelorn lyrics, thick harmonies and sweet, sticky melodies. His hour-long set featured several Birds tracks, but not before he fed the early arrivals a treat: “It’s Good to be Free,” an Oasis B-side. (It appeared some people were surprised by Gallagher’s 8:10 p.m. start, apparently figuring he was the headliner.)

From there Gallagher and his band turned to the “Birds” album, starting with “Everybody’s On the Run,” a gust of British anthem-rock with a slight psychedelic accent, then “Let the Lord Shine a Light on Me” and “If I had a Gun,” a heart-on-the-sleeve love ballad (“If I had a gun/I’d shoot a hole in the sun/And love would burn this city down for you.”)

But Gallagher was happy to indulge those who came to hear songs from the band that made him (and his brother, Liam) famous and infamous. The acoustic version of “Wonderwall” was nice; the closer, “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” now 17 years old, generated lots of singing and faraway, nostalgic gazes.

Gallagher also tossed in some lesser-known songs and B-sides: “Talk Tonight” and “(I Wanna Live in a Dream in my) Record Machine,” an Oasis song that appears on the “Birds” album. Throughout his set, he was crusty but congenial, chatting and sparring lightly with his crowd up front. It wasn’t an Oasis show, but for those of us who never saw his band, it was a satisfying substitute.

Thursday’s show was the fourth time in five years or so that Snow Patrol has performed in Kansas City. A couple of those shows, especially its first at the Uptown Theater, were exceptional. They are a suitable paring with Gallagher’s band; their music shares some of the same traits. Gary Lightbody, the band’s lead singer, is a dynamic frontman, the type who can rev up a crowd and stoke the mood inside a big room.

Things were going well for about a half-dozen songs, including “Hands Open,” “Take Back This City” and “This Isn’t Everything You Are.” Then something went awry on stage. Lightbody seemed flustered and distressed, and the band continued to perform a half-acoustic set, he without his guitar. After the show, Lightbody’s Twitter message said: “Thanks Kansas City for your warmth. It wasn’t the show we wanted to give you but after the guitar systems went down we gave you all we had.”

To the band’s credit, with sport and grace, it made the best of a situation that could have ended the show. Instead it delivered a few of its big numbers, such as “Chasing Cars” and “Just Say Yes.” There was even an encore: “Life-ning.”

In the end, Snow Patrol played an 11-song set that lasted a bit more than an hour. Lightbody apologized a few times for what happened and thanked the crowd for its patience. But it’s unlikely too many people who were there will look back on this night in anger. The other headliner made certain of that.

Click here for a number of pictures.

Source: www.kansascity.com

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have released International Magic Live At The O2 DVD through Sour Mash Records.

They are currently playing the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg.

For details on the above and more click here.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Hammond

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at The Venue at Horseshoe in Hammond, USA later today (Nov 2nd).

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 or via our Facebook page here.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have released International Magic Live At The O2 DVD through Sour Mash Records.

They are currently playing the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg.

 For details on the above and more click here.

Win Tickets To See Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Dallas

Click here for details on how to win tickets to see Noel Gallagher on November 7th at the Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie in Dallas, USA.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have released International Magic Live At The O2 DVD through Sour Mash Records.

They are currently playing the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg.

For details on the above and more click here.