Gem Archer On Beady Eye's New Mood And Experimentation

Beady Eye's Gem Archer has been speaking about the bands new mood and experimentation.

He told the NME  "We've been through something, all of us, and now we've had seven months to... I would never say 'reinvent', I wouldn't want to be that crass, but just have a look around the room, you know? And then this stuff comes out. And once you start building on the stuff, it becomes its own thing, rather then 'Oh we've gotta go and play this live'. That is absolutely not the point any more."

Another Gallery: Beady Eye In The Studio

Below are a number of pictures of Beady Eye in the studio working on the follow up to Different Gear, Still Speeding.

Liam Gallagher Talks Wiggins, Weller And More

We always knew that he wasn't just all mouth and no (paisley) trousers. From a handful of T-shirts in 2009 to a fully blown fashion label with stores in London, Glasgow and Tokyo, Liam Gallagher's Pretty Green label has come a long way in three short years. To celebrate, he staged a star studded presentation at The Arts Club on London's Dover Street, including the new face of the label Jesse Wood. In between admiring the parka-heavy autumn/winter 2013 collection we asked the Beady Eye front man about dressing sports personalities, Sid James wardrobe and why his worst dressed man isn't Noel.

GQ: You presented to Bradley Wiggins at the GQ Awards. If he asked you for something from the Pretty Green collection, what would you dress him in?
Liam Gallagher: Some really f*****g extra, extra small stuff or something made out of lycra. He looks good in a suit so I'd give him a few of those, man. Whatever he wants he can have.

When you launched the store in Japan, was there anything the fans out there were particularly "mad for"?
Anything with a Union Jack on it. I'm not the sort of guy that goes round with a f*****g clipboard asking, "What the f**k did you buy?" It was purposefully designed for those guys, we changed all the fits and sizes for them to create a 46 piece capsule collection of things you can't buy over here.

Paul Weller has previously told us he never gave you any advice on clothes. Have you ever given him any advice on how to dress?
Nah, the man's a legend. He looks cool whether he's in something I'd wear or not. You can tell the guy spends a bit of time getting ready and that's got to be admired. Same with me, you know what I mean? It might come out a bit more dishevelled on me, but a lot of work goes into looking this dishevelled!

What item are you most excited about in the autumn/winter 13 collection?
Black Label's where I'm at. I don't wear much colour or many logos so black's the key for me. I especially like the leather bomber jacket for next season.

Any chance Pretty Green will do black tie anytime soon?
Why not, man? We're not a one trick pony. There's this dinner jacket Sid James wears in Carry On Camping:a leopard print blazer with satin lapels. I'd like something like that. It's not all about baggy jeans in my wardrobe.

Who would you say is your worst dressed man?
Nigel Grant [brand director at Pretty Green]. What basically happens is he'll put something on and we'll say "Never f*****g design anything like that".

Check out a number of pictures here.

Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Celebrities Flock To Liam Gallagher's Pretty Green Autumn Winter 2013 Season Launch

Numerous rockstars flocked to launch of Liam Gallagher's Pretty Green London Collections: Men's Autumn/Winter 2013 on Monday night (January 7th 2013) at The Arts Club and he certainly seemed to be in celebratory mode. He was spotted in his usual indie get-up with a black jacket and jeans, decidedly avoiding the opportunity to don a smart suit on the red carpet. On the other hand, he wasn't the only one - his longtime bandmate Gem Archer, who joined him in his band Beady Eye after Oasis, wore an identical jacket and their friend Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan favoured very similar style shoes. Andy Bell, also from Beady Eye, attended though looked distinctly smarter.

Gallagher's wife Nicole Appleton from All Saints was also at the event showing her support for her fashion designer husband. Aside from the new collection, he has several ventures for Pretty Green he wants to concentrate on in 2013 including a range of eyewear and bags to add to the business in its fourth year of running. 'We're looking into accessories heavily, having dabbled in footwear', he said at the launch. 'The world's our oyster really, we'd like to think. There's the opportunity to grow into what we want.'

BBC Radio 1 presenter Fearne Cotton was another guest at the launch, heavily pregnant and supported by her boyfriend Jesse Wood, the son of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. Despite being on maternity leave, she took a break from resting to attend the event and looked 'pretty green' in a patterned turquoise and black minidress teamed with leopard print ankle boots that cleverly took the attention away from her bump. Though, as a fashion designer herself, you can hardly blame her for knowing all the tricks of the trade.

Liam Howlett from The Prodigy paid tribute to the label with a thin green scarf while his wife Natalie Appleton (also from All Saints and sister of Nicole) turned heads in a net top and tight leather pants. It certainly wasn't a night for conventional red carpet glamour but was dazzling nonetheless. The range of different styles donned by the evening's celebs went some way to prove a point Gallagher made about his clothing not fitting into one category, as inspiration seems to be everywhere. 'People might say it is but we didn't set out to create a Mod label', he insisted. 'It's music, from the Sixties and Seventies.'

'The Inbetweeners' star James Buckley was also in attendance looking chipper as usual. He hung up his role as the egocentric though secretly insecure character of Jay from the British comedy series in 2011 following a three series run and a closing movie. In November last year (2012) he married his long-term girlfriend Clair Meek at Dundas Castle in Scotland and the pair have a 14 month old son together named Harrison. Whether he's named after Blake Harrison, the actor who played Jay's best friend in the series, is unknown  though we'd sort of like that to be the case.

Click here to check out a number of pictures.

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Another Gallery: Liam Gallagher's Pretty Green At London Collections

Last night Pretty Green debuted it's Autumn Winter '13 collection at the 2nd British Fashion Council's London Collections: Men show and it went off with a bang.

Liam Gallagher celebrated with family and friends alongside Jesse Wood, the Pretty Green face of 2013.

Check out a number of photo's from the evening here and here.

Thanks to AG

Gallery: Liam Gallagher's Pretty Green At London Collections

Last night Pretty Green debuted it's Autumn Winter '13 collection at the 2nd British Fashion Council's London Collections: Men show and it went off with a bang.

Liam Gallagher celebrated with family and friends alongside Jesse Wood, the Pretty Green face of 2013.

Check out a number of photo's from the evening here and here.

Liam Gallagher's On The Front Of This Week's NME Magazine

There’s trouble in town! Liam Gallagher’s back and leading the pack for NME’s first part special preview of all the albums you must own in 2013.

Pick up a copy of this week's NME digitally or on newstands from today (January 8).

Liam Gallagher: 'Beady Eye's New Album Is The LP Oasis Should Have Made After 'Morning Glory''

Beady Eye frontman Liam Gallagher has told NME that the band's new album is the record Oasis should have made after '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?'.

Speaking in this week's issue, the frontman also declared that Beady Eye have shown no fear on album number two and admitted that his former group would never have been brave enough to make this record. He said: "This is the record Oasis should have made after '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?'.

He added: "I'm not saying it's better than 'Be Here Now' or it's going to be this or that - I love 'Be Here Now', I won't have a bad word said about it but when you're selling 20 million records, you've got people there going, 'Oh let's just chuck out that formula again'. So I'm a bit disappointed we didn't ever do it. But this fucking record: we've booted the door off the hinges and steamed right in there, into this other world."

The ex-Oasis frontman also admitted that he was disappointed by the reaction to Beady Eye's 2011 debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'.

He said: "Maybe it was too quick after Oasis. But you can blame it on this, you can blame it on that... at the end of the day people just didn't fucking buy it, they didn't get it, it didn't connect, so back to the drawing board."

For more on Beady Eye, Liam's views on working with TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek and a look at this year's forthcoming album releases pick up a copy of this week's NME digitally or on newstands from today (January 8).

Source: www.nme.com

Vote For Oasis In The Greatest Song Released In 6 Music's Lifetime

At 7am on 11 March 2002 BBC Radio 6 Music was born. Since then we reckon we've played over one million songs!

As our 10th anniversary year drew to a close, we compiled our Top 100 Greatest Hits and now we're asking YOU to choose the greatest song released in 6 Music's lifetime. The 100 tracks up for vote were selected by 6 Music staff and presenters Steve Lamacq, Cerys Matthews, Don Letts, Lauren Laverne, Tom Ravenscroft, Liz Kershaw, Shaun Keaveny, Tom Robinson, Nemone, Chris Hawkins, Marc Riley, Mark Radcliffe, Gideon Coe and Stuart Maconie.


They were all released between March 2002 and the end of 2012. Now it's over to you to vote for the track you believe to be the pinnacle of musical achievement in this period.

Voting opens at 5pm on Monday 7 January and you have until until 7pm on Friday 25 January to vote. Let battle commence!

Click here to vote for Oasis' 'The Importance Of Being Idle'.

Tune in to 6 Music on Friday 1st February to find out the results of the vote as we countdown the Top 100.

Liam Gallagher Says Beady Eye Have Gone For The Full Pink Floyd Trip On New Album

In Oasis's heyday a call going out to a brass band to join a studio session would have been a sign the drug threshold had been reached.

But Liam Gallagher insists his new band Beady Eye are willing to do things a bit differently on their second album in a quest for more rock ’n’ roll success.

Last week he had a pop at Mumford & Sons for looking like they might have nits — but the brass section isn’t a sign he’s joining a colliery band.

Speaking at the launch of his new fashion range for Pretty Green, he said: “We’ve gone for the full Pink Floyd trip, man.

“There’s the psychedelic stuff and then the rock ’n’ roll bangers.

“Our producer Dave called up our manager and told him to get a brass band round sharpish one day.

“If it makes it a better record, I’m having it man. I’m buzzing for it. It’s going to blow people’s minds.”

It was a brave move getting Dave Sitek on board. He’s in a band called TV On The Radio and produced Foals and Yeah Yeah Yeahs records.

They are the kind of characters you might expect to be mingling with the Derek Zoolander fashion crowd with ironic facial hair.

But Liam and his team have done the business slipping into the fashion world over the last four or five years — and they are cashing in.

Pretty Green unveiled the new face of their brand, Jesse Wood, the guitarist son of Rolling Stone Ronnie.

He’s a top bloke and a great shout for the brand. He brought his heavily preggers missus Fearne Cotton along, but they did the back door shuffle when her feet couldn’t take any more.

Inbetweeners hero James Buckley was in his element, too.

The actor, who owns so much he must keep Liam’s label ticking over, joked that he was trying to steal some threads. He tweeted: “Tried to walk out with those suit jackets.”

Speaking about being newly married to Scottish girlfriend CLAIR MEEK, he said: “My father-in-law came over to me at the wedding and said, ‘Don’t you ever be doing a Scottish accent in any films now, you hear me?’ I got the message loud and clear.”

Kasabian’s Tom Meighan was out for the night too. And being out for the night, he’s probably still going as you read this.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

On This Day In Oasis History...

The video below is from January 8th 1996, when Noel Gallagher performed 'Don't Look Back In Anger' on Hotel Babylon.

Oasis Reign Supreme On The Jukebox In 2012

New releases reign supreme on the jukebox in 2012, but Oasis grab the top artist spot.

An in-depth look into both online and offline jukebox selections reveals Oasis are the most played artist of 2012, despite the fact every one of the ten most popular jukebox track choices for the year were new releases.

Supplying over 15,000 digital jukeboxes in the UK, Soundnet have unparalleled access to information on what pub-goers across the country are listening to, helping us guide landlords on the most profitable jukebox tracks for their pub or bar.

In 2012, we’ve found that the UK public are three times more likely to select ‘chart and new releases’ on their local jukebox than any other category, with 80 per cent of jukebox income typically coming from this category.

This interest in popular culture has even influenced the chart for the back catalogue section, with Kenny Roger’s ‘The Gambler’ rising to the top spot this year after becoming the unofficial England Rugby team anthem in 2007. Similarly, the ‘Album of the Month’ option, a Soundnet exclusive featuring the latest albums in full, came in as the second most browsed category.

Source: www.soundnet.net

Win A Money Can't Buy Ticket To Liam Gallagher's 'Pretty Green' London Collections

Pretty Green is set to join the ‘London Collections: Men’ line-up for Autumn / Winter 2013-14 on Monday 7th January.

This will be the first time we have been involved in the prestigious fashion event.

For details on how to win click here.

Get up to 60% off selected items from Liam Gallagher's 'Pretty Green' here.

Noel Gallagher: I’ll Get Into Heaven Because God’s An Oasis Fan

Noel Gallagher has faith he will end up in Heaven — because he believes God loves Oasis.

The rocker has already written his Pearly Gates speech to persuade St Peter to overlook the catalogue of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll sins he’s racked up.

Dad-of-three Noel, 45, said: “I’d say, ‘You’ve heard Don’t Look Back In Anger?’, and they’d say, ‘Of course’. I’d say, ‘Look it’s me, let us in. I can play you a tune. I robbed some stuff, I took a lot of drugs, but I’m all right’.”

But Noel could face some awkward questions at Heaven’s gate. He once echoed John Lennon’s “Beatles are more important than Christ” claim by saying Oasis were bigger than God.

When he picked up the Godlike Genius gong at last year’s NME awards he said: “I accept I am a genius, just like God.”

And when asked about the lyrics to 1997 hit D’You Know What I Mean? — which include “I met my maker, and I made him cry” — Noel said: “On Judgement Day, if there ever is one, I’ll have a few things to say to Him.”

But Noel believes his “real-life angel” missus Sara McDonald, 40, will be straight in.

The High Flying Birds frontman added: “She’s not a heavenly body.

"I can touch her and I do regularly and it’s great — for me, not for her.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Gem Archer Says Bandmate Liam Gallagher Has Matured

Gem Archer has told Q Magazine how his Beady Eye bandmate Liam Gallagher has matured and is still completely restless.

He said "Liam, is still out there, he's definitely matured but he's still got that thing I can see in Liam, he's just on the search. I don't know what for...It. I don't know if he'll ever find it. But that's his engine. He's still completely restless."

Beady Eye are set to release the follow up to Different Gear, Still Speeding later this year.

More On The New Beady Eye Album

A few quotes about the new Beady Eye album, that I typed up from the current issue of Mojo.

Liam Gallagher: "It feels like a really special album, You know when you normally go through a door. Errr, I'm not really sure about that... Well, we've f*cking booted the door of the hinges. We've steamed in... I hate the word experimenting, but we are definitely experimenting."

Gem Archer: "We've had a few mates in, there's been the sound of jaws dropping."

Liam Gallagher "We tend to work 12 to 12. Maybe have a drink at the weekend. But theres a lot of sage being burnt. keep out them evil spirits. That's Dave - you know what Americans are like. Scaredy cats aren't they? it smells nice though.

Gem Archer: "It's broader, wider, deeper. It's not stripped-down rock 'n' roll, that's for sure. The constant is Liam's voice and he's truly on form. He sounding outrageous."

Producer Dave Sitek on Liam's voice: "It's unreal. When you can just turn on a microphone and do nothing to the vocals and you're like, that sounds like a goddam record! It's one of those. It's rock band instrumentation, but it's used in a different way. There's a lot of slowed-down and sped-up and outer space. It's trippy. The Strength of the songs is so high that we got to be real playfull."

The album features some unusual instrumentation - including celeste, plus cymbals played with a violin bow.

Happy New Year

Wishing you all a happy and prosperous new year. It gives me another opportunity to post this brilliant video.

 

Liam Gallagher Not Impressed By Noel's Success

Noel Gallagher hasn't "lit up the world" with his solo material, according to his brother Liam.

The two siblings have a famously fiery relationship which caused their band, Oasis, to split in 2009. While Liam has gone on to release music with his group Beady Eye, Noel has focused on his own material.

Noel has made disparaging remarks about Beady Eye's success in public, with Liam unsure why he feels able to point the finger.

"I tell you f**king what, we've all got a lot of graft to do, d'you know what I mean? Him too," Liam fumed to Q magazine. "He's sold a f**king few records, why wouldn't he sell records, he was the main songwriter of Oasis but he certainly hasn't f**king lit up the world."

Liam still harbours some animosity towards his brother for the way Oasis ended. The pair argued backstage at a concert in Paris, resulting in a broken guitar and Noel quitting.

Liam finds is hard to support his brother's new venture after what happened.

"Was I pleased for him [when he released his album]? What, for splitting up my f**king band? I'm not pleased for him, no," Liam said.

"I hope he's f**king happy but he doesn't look it. And he won't be happy when he hears we've done an out-there record that we're actually gonna f**king release before him. With our out-there record, you're gonna hear it next year, with his out-there record, you'll never hear it."

Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

New Extended Interview With Noel Gallagher

Below is an interview by Gary Crowley with Noel Gallagher who talks about the past year, his career and picks a number of songs.


Thanks to frjdoasisplus

Beady Eye Interview In The Current Issue Of Mojo

The current issue of Mojo has an interview with Beady Eye, the magazine is in stores now.