On This Day In Oasis History...

On April 10th 2000, Oasis appeared on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno', and performed 'Where Did it All Go Wrong' from 'Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants'.

The show was recorded in Los Angeles, click here to watch the video.

Liam Gallagher Announces Beady Eye's Album Tracklisting?

Liam Gallagher appears to have unveiled the tracklisting for Beady Eye's new album.

The frontman posted a series of messages on his Twitter page earlier this afternoon (09.04.13), sparking speculation it is the song titles of the band's forthcoming second record 'BE', as one line was 'Flick Of The Finger', the title of a track previewed by the group last week.

In three tweets, each ending with Liam's signature 'LGx', he announced the apparent track listing, which runs as follows:




While little is known about the sound of the album, Liam - who is joined in the band by fellow ex-Oasis members Gem Archer, Chris Sharrock and Andy Bell, plus former Kasabian guitarist Jay Mehler - says it is a huge departure from their debut, 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'.

During recording, he said: "I hate the word 'experimenting', but we are definitely experimenting.

"It feels like a really special album. You know when you normally go through a door and go, 'Er, I'm not really sure about that?'

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

Bonehead Looks Back At Oasis' First NME Cover

NME has always loved Oasis - so we invited Bonehead to have a nostalgic root around our archive cupboard and look back on the band's first NME cover.

Click here to watch the video.

Beady Eye Announce Album Details

Beady Eye have announced their new album will be called BE and is out June 10.

Liam Gallagher's band's second album was recorded in London with producer Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

The frontman has previously admitted the follow up to Different Gear Still Speeding will be more experimental and we are now told BE was created using a mixture of  'Protools, cassette tapes, samplers, recorded conversation, iphone apps and unusual instrumentation'.

"Working with Sitek just opened something up in us. He's without a doubt the best producer I've ever worked with, a real outlaw - he doesn't give a fuck, no rules," Liam Gallagher commented.

"We had a new found focus when we were writing it - we really got our heads down and got our shit together - clear heads, none of that crap from the 90s. It feels like a really special record for us."

A new Beady Eye track called Flick of The Finger leaked online earlier this week after being played on US radio.

The track, from BE, is not going to be a single.



Source: www.xfm.co.uk

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

Ballroom Figured 
Start Anew 
LG x 

I'm Just Saying 
Don't Brother Me 
Shine A Light 
LG x 

Second Bite of The Apple 
Soon Come Tomorrow 
Iz Rite 
LG x 

Flick of The Finger
Soul Love
Face The Crowd LG x

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Beady Eye On The New Album And More

ShortList’s Hamish MacBain discovers how “the maddest bastard in thick-rimmed glasses since my grandma” turned Liam Gallagher and Beady Eye from Sixties fetishists into psychedelic futurists

As ever, there are many things about which Liam Gallagher is currently “buzzing”. There’s his son Gene’s continued prowess on the drums (he’s now in a band), and the fact he was last month given a set of sticks by Reni from The Stone Roses. There’s today’s “mega” photoshoot. There’s Beady Eye’s new bassist Jay Mehler – formerly of Kasabian, absent with chicken pox – whose arrival he declares to be “like Van Persie going to United”.

There’s Suede’s latest single (“F*cking tune… I bumped into Brett at my kid’s school. I don’t mind him, he used to have a pop at me and I used to pop back but you get older: at least I’m not cuddling Damon Albarn and doing f*cking gigs with him”). There’s – still, always – The Stone Roses, who he saw in Dubai a few weeks ago. And while he’s not buzzing about Palma Violets – “I saw a picture, the guy was wearing a weird shirt” – he is all over Justin Bieber.

“Anyone who goes on two hours late is f*cking right in my book, man,” he raves, as the shoot is finishing up. “All these so-called rock bands that sit backstage going, ‘Hey, let’s wait 15 minutes.’ F*ck that, wait two hours and 15 minutes! He’s kicked the f*cking arse out of it – no one will beat that, ever. So get off his f*cking back, man: I am a Belieber!”

More so than any of these things, though, Liam and the rest of Beady Eye – equally enthused-by-life guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell, quiet drummer Chris Sharrock – are today excited about their new tune Flick Of The Finger which, if the world hasn’t ended, will go live a few days after you read this. Deriving from an old Liam demo of a song called Velvet Building – “It was on cassette, that’s how long ago it was,” says Gem – it was briefly mooted for the aborted, Death In Vegas-produced Oasis album in 2004, but has now been completely reinvented and retitled, with new words by Andy and Gem, a bombastic brass section and… well, let’s hand over to its creators, shall we?

Andy: “We’re gonna have to start the gigs with it. Got to. It’s a calling card.”

Liam: “It’s stomping, in-yer-face. It’s just mental. To me, it’s like a tsunami just waiting to f*cking come at you, and then it gets you.”

Gem: “It’s like Bruce Lee, on a surfboard, in a tsunami…”

Chris: “…with brass. Burning sage.”

And when you do hear it, and wonder who and what the ranted spoken word bit is all about, then here’s the sketch: it’s taken from Tariq Ali’s book Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography Of The Sixties, with the words – “whose weapons rapidly developed by servile scientists will become more deadly until they can, with a flick of the finger, tear a million of you to pieces” – originally those of 18th-century French political theorist and “friend of the people” Jean-Paul Marat.

Except that now they’re spoken by Fonejacker.

Gem: “We needed to re-record it anyway, and Kayvan [Novak, the show’s creator] came on board to do it. I just love that it’s this heavy, heavy piece of wordage, but delivered by Fonejacker.”

Liam: “So that’s the only guest appearance on the album – Fonejacker. And the first thing that people will hear of our new stuff is his voice: ‘Say what you believe.’ So he’s lucked out there, the little f*cker!”

A TOUGH START

If Beady Eye are happy and excited now, this was not the case a year and a half ago. With their debut Different Gear, Still Speeding not having connected in a way they would like – “At the end of the day, people just didn’t f*cking buy it,” Liam shrugged to me a while back – and having left their management (who also manage Noel), they found themselves playing a last few shows that, at times, Liam says, “Were absolutely f*cking painful.”

“At a lot of them, I was having a really bad time,” he says. “I mean, we were great, but it was just…

Gem: “Situation and circumstance, man. People were saying we’d never make the end of the tour. We were like, ‘We f*cking will!’”

By December 2011, Beady Eye had made it to the end. But they knew it was time to regroup. They would not play live again until June 2012, and even then it was just a handful of support slots with The Stone Roses. Still, at these shows they appeared revitalised: partly due to the rest, partly due to new management, partly because they had relented slightly on their decision to not play Oasis songs, with the crowd at Heaton Park treated to Rock’N’Roll Star and Morning Glory: songs written by Noel Gallagher but – as they say in showbiz – made famous by Liam Gallagher.

“The way I see it, it’s about giving people value for money,” he says. “It’s hard times out there, and if people want to hear a couple of f*cking tunes, is it doing any c*nt any harm? We’re not doing it to get into arenas and we’re not doing it to get out of sh*tholes. And, y’know: if people don’t want to hear them then… we’ll still do them!”

Andy: “We were definitely pretty up at that point. By then, we had about 12 new songs ready, too. We could have gone in the studio then, but we thought, ‘Let’s get a few more tunes written.’”

Liam: “We knew the next album had to be flipped on its head. We didn’t know how to do it, we didn’t know where to start by doing it, so at that point all we felt we had to do was write some good tunes. But we just needed a bit of f*cking help. The last record, the producer weren’t right, he bailed, Gem ended up mixing it and it turned out great for what it was. But we needed a great producer.”

Enter a man described by Liam as “the maddest bastard in thick-rimmed glasses since my grandma”. As well as being the main architect behind the adventurous, some-might-say-wilfully-difficult sounds of his own band TV On The Radio, Dave Sitek is feted for his innovative, forward-thinking production on albums by Brooklyn, New York’s avant-garde elite (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars), and his free-jazz influenced remixes. He once made a space-rock album of Tom Waits covers with Scarlett Johansson. So perhaps not a producer you would expect to be working with a band whose last album contained a song called Beatles & Stones, that sounded quite like The Who and The Kinks.

Andy: “People will talk about him being from one world and us being from a different world, but actually we’re pretty similar. We agreed on a lot of stuff musically: the stuff we liked, stuff we were playing in the room, for fun.”

Gem: “Initially he was like, ‘Why do they want me?’ But we sent him some tunes and he went, ‘Oh, I get it: they want to go there.’ And he wanted to make some rock’n’roll, as he put it. So it was a leap of faith that worked.”

Liam: “I love him: he’s an outlaw. He definitely didn’t come over to London to see the Queen, know what I mean? He came to make a good record. When people mention ‘experimenting’, the thing about that word, it makes it sound like they’re really f*cking trying hard. But we didn’t really try that hard, man. We just laid it on the line. He was like, ‘I’m not here to make demos sound better, I’m here to f*cking toss it up in the air and see what happens.’ And he did, but that’s as far as experimenting went. We weren’t sitting there going ‘Right, we need to do more of this kind of thing’ or whatever, because I find all that sh*t f*cking hard work.”

BE: HERE NOW

Whatever the process, the results, anyone would concede, are very different-sounding. The songs are

still swaggering and direct, but now there are many layers of colour, with tunes taking unexpected twists at every other turn. And Liam’s voice is a revelation: mixed dry, with barely any effects on it, so you feel he’s right up against your forehead. “It’s how I sound round the house or on the back of a camel or whatever,” he says. “I’m sick of idiots saying I can’t sing. Hopefully now they’ll get off my back.”

With the first time Liam and Sitek laid eyes on each other being Day One at State Of The Ark Studios in Richmond, it is a marriage that was helped, too, by the fact both parties were barely aware of each other’s legacies. There was not the reverence a British producer might have for four-fifths of Oasis.

Liam: “It weren’t all f*cking rosey, that’s for sure. We had a couple of ding dongs, definitely. Not fisticuffs, but there was a lot of…”

Andy: “…push and pull. We pushed him and he pushed us.”

So was there material you brought in and he went, ‘No thanks’?

Liam: “Yeah, without a doubt. And you know how that goes down. He’d be, ‘I’m not having that’, and I’d be going, [aggressively], ‘Well, I f*cking am.’ So there’d be a bit of bullfighting going on. And then he’d go off and conduct ‘a musical experiment’ and you’d be like, ‘Hmm, that don’t sound too bad at all, actually. I can go with that.’ And there were others where we were like, ‘You’re losing your mind, we need to get back to Hare Krishna land.’”

Andy: “Sometimes we won, sometimes he won. But the best person won each time for the tune.”

Liam: [Adopts comedy posh voice] “Guys, the record won. Music won!”

The record, by the way, is called Be. Liam wanted to call it Universal Gleam, but was vetoed by “certain people” (Chris). He concedes that you could have “gone into a right old coked-up bullsh*t waffle about that, but with this you can’t really speak much about it. It just is.”

He adds, “My theory is that it’s gonna have Be on the cover, and then on the back I-E-B-E-R. [Stands up, shouts football chant-style] Biiiiieee-ber! I’ve got his f*cking back, man.”

Why are you going on about Justin Bieber so much today?

Liam: “I don’t f*cking know, do I? It’s better than going on about The Strypes, or any of them other f*ckers, innit?”

FAMILY TIES

At the right of this page, there’s more details about specific songs on Be,

but one warrants a slightly lengthier discussion: a spaced-out, electric sitar-assisted Liam ballad you might first hear as Don’t Bother Me, but it’s actually entitled Don’t Brother Me.

So then, Liam: why would you go and call a song Don’t Brother Me?

Liam: “Well, it just sounds shi*t, Don’t Sister Me, doesn’t it? Especially when I haven’t got a sister.”

You must know that it makes it pretty clear who it’s about, and that people will pick up on it.

Liam: “Yeah, yeah, people will pick up on it, but I’m ready to go there. So yeah: it’s about Our Kid.“

You’re prepared for the fact you’re now going to continue to be asked about Noel for the next year and a bit of your life?

Liam: “But the tune is the tune, I love the tune more than I love having to go and speak about it. I could’ve tried to call it to something else, but that’s what it is. [Sings] ‘Don’t brooo-ther meeee.’ And that is it. It’s a lovely f*cking song.

I love the song. I’m not gonna change the title to make my life easier.”

Some of the lines in it – ‘Come on now, give peace a chance’; ‘In the morning, I’ll be calling, hoping that you’ll understand’ – suggest it might be an olive branch?

Liam: “Well, as Andy said to me, it’s a bit contradictory. There’s a load of love in there, and a load of f*cking…”

One verse goes: “I’m sick of all your lying/Scheming and your crying.”

Liam: “Yeah, but the lying and the scheming and the crying might not be about him. It might be about someone around him. Or it might be about me. He might be sick of my scheming, lying and crying. But anyway, there’s a lot of love in there, but there’s also a couple of – humorous, I think – digs. There’s nothing malicious in there, ’cos it’s not in my nature. I wish I could write a malicious one – you’d f*cking know about it if I could – but I couldn’t.”

What do you mean you couldn’t?

Liam: “Ahh, I’m joking, man. But I couldn’t. And You, You C*nt sounds shit, doesn’t it? Plus he’s heard that one before. Everyone’s heard that before.”

Gem interjects: “Life isn’t black and white, is it? It’s many shades of grey.”

Liam: “The best line for me is ‘Did you shoot your gun?’”

Why?

“I just think it’s cool. He’s always on about shooting guns, isn’t he? If I Had

A Gun... Well, did you f*cking shoot it?”

Gem: “See, I never even got that.

So that’s the point of it all, isn’t it?”

Liam: “And there’s ‘You’re always in the sun/With your Number One.’

The Sun newspaper… There’s loads of little things going down in there!”

You bumped into Noel after you played the Olympics, didn’t you?

Liam: “I did, yeah. Well, he bumped into me.”

How was it?

Liam: “It was all right. I wasn’t that p*ssed actually, I’d only had like… four bottles of champagne.”

Gem: “I knew that was coming.”

Liam: “I thought I was pretty pleasant, you know what I mean? I said, ‘What do you make of that then, you f*cker?’ And he went, ‘Uh, yeah, it was all right.’ Then I said, ‘I seen your mates there, they said to say hello,’ and he went ‘Who?’ and I said, ‘Take That,’ and he went, ‘Urggh.’ That was it, and I turned me back and had a drink and then everyone was going, ‘Here y’are: speak to him,’ and I said, ‘Nope, I’m f*cking having a drink,’ and that was it.”

But you’re saying it was relatively cool?

Liam: “Well, it wasn’t Jerry Springer or Jeremy Kyle. It was more Montell.”

You mean as in Montell is a bit less scratching-each-other’s-eyes-out…

Liam: “Montell is cool as f*ck. At least he knows what he’s talking about. D’you know what I mean? You can’t have one chav telling another chav to wind his neck in, can you? Montell’s a f*cking dude: he’s been there, seen it. And he wears f*cking polo necks in front of a live studio audience.”

This seems as good point as any to leave “the Noel bit”, doesn’t it?

EYEING THE FUTURE

As we finish, Beady Eye collectively move straight into looking at video treatments, sat round a table, getting excited again. Gem shows me the artwork for the record on his phone – from a shoot for Seventies magazine Nova that he rightly says “won’t get into Tesco”.

Andy talks about how new bands such as The Strypes and Temples, ironically, will now sound retro next to his band’s new album, but even though Beady Eye’s second is an adventurous step into more leftfield territory, he’ll still “be gutted if it doesn’t go to No1”. Liam talks about “some interesting gigs” that they have coming up. There are ideas everywhere, and the definite sense of a band refreshed and reinvigorated, looking forward.

Beady Eye needed to roll the dice, and they have. It looks like it might just pay off.

Be is released on 10 June. Flick Of The Finger gets its first play on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show on Monday
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The New Beady Eye Album Is Called...

Beady Eye didn’t spend too long coming up with their new album title.

Liam Gallagher and the boys have called their second release BE.

Out on June 10, it is more experimental than their debut thanks to Yeah Yeah Yeahs and TV On The Radio producer Dave Sitek.

Liam said: “Working with Sitek just opened something up in us.

“He’s without a doubt the best producer I’ve ever worked with, a real outlaw.

“He doesn’t give a f***, no rules. We had a new-found focus when we were writing it. We got our heads down and got our s**t together – clear heads.

“None of that crap from the 90s. It feels like a really special record for us.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Liam Gallagher Uses Sound Of iPhone Apps To Create New Beady Eye Album

Liam Gallagher says he’s leaving the 90s behind him at long last after revealing he used the sound of people’s conversations and iPhone apps to make his band Beady Eye’s forthcoming album.

Talking about the follow up to 2011’s Different Gear, Still Speeding, the former Oasis singer said he called on London with cult producer Dave Sitek to help his band reinvent themselves.

‘He’s without a doubt the best producer i’ve ever worked with, a real outlaw – he doesn’t give a f***, no rules,’ Gallagher said of Sitek.

The 40-year-old frontman added: ‘We had a new found focus when we were writing it – we really got our heads down and got our s*** together – clear heads, none of that crap from the 90s. It feels like a really special record for us.’

The outspoken frontman previously set the bar high for his band’s success, when he said: ‘F*** being as big as Oasis. I want to be bigger than The Beatles, man.’

The first single from the album will be track ‘Flick of the Finger’ before the album is released on June 10.

Soource: www.metro.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Has Been Offered £2m To Judge The X Factor

X Factor bosses have approached Noel Gallagher for the second time with a “name your price” offer to join the judging panel.

The former Oasis guitarist, 45, has been on Simon Cowell’s wish list for the hit ITV talent show for years.

And in the past fortnight Noel’s management company Ignition received a fresh megabucks offer — asking him to name a price around the £2million mark.

A source said last night: “Simon is determined to get Noel on board. He sees him as his natural replacement as the real alpha male on the panel.

“He thinks Noel would be ideal, with his music knowledge, straight-talking and rapier wit.”

The last time Simon, 53, made a seven-figure offer to the award-winning rock star he was knocked back.

The married dad-of-three was about to launch his critically acclaimed solo project, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

He has just finished touring and is now planning to make “going to the dry-cleaners last a day”.

The source added: “Noel’s daughter Anais is a huge fan of One Direction and X Factor, so she’ll be nagging him to say yes.”

Noel was first approached by Simon in 2011. The rock star told him he wouldn’t like to say lines like, “You know I can only take three into the final, and this is the toughest decision I’ve ever had to make. I left Oasis, but that was nothing compared to this”.

Take That star Gary Barlow is expected to return with Nicole Scherzinger. Sharon Osbourne is also in talks with bosses undecided on Louis Walsh.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

Alright Liam it’s LG just heard ya version of FOTF well done dig the chicks on BV’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtEYDrKrsoQ

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Noel Gallagher On Paolo Di Canio, David Beckham And The Manchester Derby

High Flying Birds frontman and huge Manchester City fan Noel Gallagher joined Andy and Bobby live on the Sports Bar and insisted finishing the league in second place and lifting the FA Cup will cap off a positive season for the Citizens.

to listen to the interview click here.

Listen To A New Beady Eye Song Now

Listen to a new song from Beady Eye called 'Flick Of The Finger' below.

EDIT

According to a member of Tweets and emails I have received, 'Flick Of The Finger' is only an album track and the lead single is called 'Kill Switch'.
 

Watch Parlour Flames Video For 'Manchester Rain'

The official video for 'Manchester Rain' by Parlour Flames. 'Manchester Rain' will be released as a limited edition 7" single for Record Store Day 2013 on Saturday 20th April.

The track is taken from Parlour Flames self-titled debut album released worldwide on 20th May by Cherry Red Records.

It has been announced today that the band will play the Glastonbury Festival later this year, visit the official site here for all the latest tour dates and more.

On This Day In Oasis History...

On April 5th 1996, Noel Gallagher appeared on TFI Friday the show was presented by Chris Evans and the interview was filmed in Chris' London home.

Click into the following links to watch the videos, part one & part two.

Noel Gallagher: Behind The Scenes At His Teenage Cancer Trust Concert

Behind the scenes at the Royal Albert Hall when Noel Gallagher joined Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon on stage for a special one off performance of Tender to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust.

Watch Pro Footage Of Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Damon Albarn And Graham Coxon

London's Royal Albert Hall has seen some special collaborations over the years as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs.

But this year’s show delivered one of the biggest box office moments yet when curator Noel Gallagher took to the stage with Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon.

The Blur v Oasis Britpop rivalry had been buried years ago but the moment they all joined forces to play Blur hit Tender will live long in the memory.

Both bands and their record labels have agreed for us to show the footage exclusively.
You can also make a donation to the Teenage Cancer Trust while you are at it – just follow the instructions at the end of the video.

To watch the video click here.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Roger Daltrey Thanks Noel Gallagher

The Who legend Roger Daltrey thanked has thanked Noel Gallagher for taking the reins of the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts while he toured this year.

He said: “Noel, you truly are a rock ’n’ roll star!!! I’d like to give a big round of applause to Noel Gallagher for taking up the challenge of stepping in for me and curating this year’s concerts for Teenage Cancer Trust.

“Producing one charity gig is hard enough. To arrange seven nights at times seems impossible, but Noel did it, and he did it in style.”

Liam Gallagher Enjoys A Night Out In London

Seeing Liam Gallagher roll out of a club after a raucous night was the norm in the 1990s.

And it seems that the former Oasis star is back to his old ways after he was spotted doing just that on Sunday, clutching three bottles of champagne.

Unmissable in his green khaki anorak, the singer piled into the back of a taxi with wife Nicole Appleton and her All Saints sister Natalie after partying at Little House in Mayfair.

The rocker might now be a married father-of-three, but he's clearly been missing his wild lifestyle, seeming intent on returning to the 1990s.

In true rock star style, the Beady Eye front man did little to go incognito as he left the exclusive London haunt at the weekend.

Making his presence in the street well and truly known, Liam emerged brandishing three bottles of champagne, holding them up high in the air for everyone to see.

The star made sure that he posed for picture with his haul, obviously not caring who knew about his night out on the town.

Looking like he'd already had a good night, the singer seemed in usual spirits as he jumped into the back of a cab with wife Nicole and a group of female companions.
And far from looking embarrassed by her husband's loud behaviour, the former pop star laughed as he jumped into the back of the car, seeming to enjoy the spectacle.

Liam didn't seem to have updated his style since the 1990s either, sporting the same haircut and similar green jacket to the ones he became best known for in Oasis' heyday.

Staying true to form, the star has been cultivating a few more famous feuds recently, unsurprisingly with brother Noel.

After his brother performed with former rival Damon Albarn at the Teenage Cancer Trust gig last week, he was clearly unimpressed, writing on Twitter:

'Don’t know what’s worse RKID sipping champagne with a war criminal or them backing vocals you’ve just done for BLUE ! LG x.'

Liam also reportedly fell out with Idris Elba at the NME Awards last month, over the actor's bobble hat.

Click here to see a number of pictures.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Listen To Noel Gallagher Talk To Mr Gee About Poetry And More

 Poet and DJ Mr Gee talks to songwriters about poetry and how it influences their work.

The performance poet, DJ and broadcaster, Mr Gee - familiar from his work on Saturday Live and Russell Brand's Radio 2 show - is fascinated by poetry and songwriting, the similarities and the differences between these crafts. He seeks out songwriters who love poetry and hears from them about the importance of poetry in their lives and the way it influences their songwriting.

Noel Gallagher recalls going to see poets such as John Cooper Clarke and Lemn Sissay perform, and explains how his songs are metaphorical and imagistic, using the techniques of poetry.

To listen again click here.

Noel Gallagher And David Beckham To Appear In New Star Trek Film

Musician Noel Gallagher and footballer David Beckham are set to appear in 'Star Trek into Darkness' that opens in the UK and US on May 17th.

In the new trailer that has been released today, you can see the pair in a scene with Captain James T. Kirk.

To watch the video click here.