What Do Beady Eye Fans Think Of The New Album?

Beady Eye fans lined the streets of Brick Lane this morning in hope of grabbing a free wrist-band to the band's intimate in-store gig at Rough Trade East tonight (Monday 10 June).

Gigwise headed down to meet the dedicated fans to find out how long they'd been there and what they made of the second LP from Liam Gallagher and co., as well as asking them the burning question of: 'who do you prefer - Noel or Liam?'

Some of the more hardcore that we spoke to had been waiting at the record store as early as 11.30pm last night.

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Liam Gallagher On How His Song Writing Has Progressed Since Oasis And More

Beady Eye interview excerpt from Clash Magazine.

Clash Magazine: How do you think your own song writing has progressed since your initial forays with Oasis?

Liam: Yeah, it's getting better, man. I mean, it's like anything: if you keep practicing... You'll never master the art of song writing, and I don't want to. I'd say I'm a part-time songwriter -1 can sing anyone's songs, you know what I mean? But yeah, I'm obviously getting a little bit better. I'm not much of a wordsmith. I tend to go with the first thing that comes down; I just write it and hopefully it has a bit of a root to it. Sometimes it means absolute jack shit and then you listen back to it... Like with 'Don't Brother Me'; you go, 'Oh, right' - I didn't intentionally go out and write a song about our kid, you know what I mean? It just happened.

It's a cleverly passive/ aggressive song.

Liam: Yeah. It's not that malicious, you know what I mean? There are a couple of little [digs] in there. Like, he's going on about if he had a gun and all this shit, and it's  like, "Did you shoot your gun?" But there's nothing! malicious, man. It could be a lot worse.

But you've got to be prepared for people asking you about it?

Liam: Yeah man, without a doubt. I wouldn't have put it out unless... If| people ask me a question, they're always gonna get a fuckin' honest answer. But I don't care anyway; he's been writing songs about me all his fuckin' life.

Do you prefer to air your feelings in your music rather than keep them private?

Liam: Yeah, but he knows my feelings. Everyone knows my feelings, I'm not shy with that. I love our kid - as in the Noel that's not in a band and not in the music business and not all that bullshit that people see he is. But the band Noel? The fuckin' geezer that's in the band? I fuckin' absolutely fuckin' despise [him]. And I guess he feels the same way. But if you speak to him, he'll probably go: "Yeah, I know; I hate both the cunts'. But yeah, I love our kid when he's not surrounded by the bullshit.

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Beady Eye On Italian Radio Tomorrow

On Thursday (June 13th) at 15.45 (Local time) 14.45 (UK time), Beady Eye will be guests on Tropical Pizza on www.deejay.it.

I will post details tomorrow on how to listen live.

Thanks to Oasisitalia.it

Another Gallery: Beady Eye Instore Signing At HMV In Manchester

Click here for a number of pictures from Beady Eye's instore signing at HMV in Manchester yesterday.

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Liam Gallagher Suffers From Tinnitus, Just Like Brother Noel

Liam Gallagher is plagued by tinnitus, the hearing condition that torments his brother Noel.

The Beady Eye frontman has suffered from a constant ringing in his lugholes for years – down to fronting mega-loud Oasis gigs.

Noel visited doctors, who gave him a brain scan before the diagnosis. But Liam isn’t bothered about a check-up.

Speaking after an acoustic gig at London’s Rough Trade East store to launch Beady Eye’s new album BE, Liam revealed: “Without a doubt I have tinnitus. You’re not a proper rock ‘n’ roll star if you don’t.

“I learned to live with it a long time ago. I put up with it – I just talk really loudly over it.

“I’m proud of it. Anyone who doesn’t have ringing in their ears can f*** right off.”

Asked what he thought of Noel’s doctor visit, he sneered: “Each to his own I suppose. He’s got f*** all else to do, hasn’t he?”

BE is up against a record by the ear-shattering Black Sabbath this week, with both tipped for the top.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Liam Gallagher Is On A One-Man Mission To Save Rock ’N’ Roll

Beady Eye leader Liam Gallagher is on a one-man mission to save rock ’n’ roll.

The Manchester legend wants guitar bands to quit complaining and start ramming rock music down people’s throats again.

Speaking at Rough Trade East after an intimate showcase of tunes from spanking new disc, BE, he insisted the game has changed.

Liam, 40, told me: “There’s a lot of people out there that sit and moan in their bedsits saying ‘Ah guitar music’s over’.

“You’ve gotta take it to people. We don’t want people thinking we’re gonna start working in Sainsbury’s when we know what we’re doing is good.

“If people don’t buy the record and we don’t get played on the radio that much and there’s no videos going on the TV then I guess you gotta go and take it on the road and ram it down their throats that way, do ya know what I mean?

“You gotta tour it, without a doubt.”

Liam recently changed his tune and decided reality TV shows could be a good way of salvaging rock music.

He repeated his view before the gig: “If you get the chance to go on these shows you’ve got to go toe-to-toe with the bullsh*t.

“I could be on X Factor or The Voice, and while they might not be cool shows, I’d still be cool. I wouldn’t sabotage it. If my crime would be singing live and in tune on a music show, then shoot me.”

BE, out now, has breathed renewed vigour into the band. With acoustic takes on indie snarl Just Saying and single Second Bite Of The Apple sounding their slickest yet, the future’s bright for the Beady boys.

Forming Beady Eye with Oasis bandmates Andy Bell, 42, and Gem Archer, 46, just hours after his final spat with brother Noel, 46, Liam is contemplating a break.

He said: “Even if this album sells loads I might not make a record for a while because we’ve been doing this non-stop since the last Oasis album.”

Still, Liam doesn’t rule out a reunion with his motherband as the 20th anniversary of classic Oasis debut Definitely Maybe looms. “I’m easy. I’ll do it.” he said.

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

Liam Gallagher Is Greeted By Fans As He Arrives in Manchester

He might live in London, but Manchester will always be home to Liam Gallagher.

The Northern musician arrived into the city on Tuesday, and was greeted by fans as he stepped off the train onto home soil.

Joined by his Beady Eye bandmates, Liam, 40, made a dapper return in his trademark Modish style.

The former Oasis star wore a dark blue jeans under a beige mac with a pair of matching suede pumps from his own Pretty Green menswear collection.

Round his neck, Liam wore a blue, red and white scarf and carried a checked weekend bag over his shoulder as he stepped out of the train carriage onto the platform at Manchester Piccadilly station.

Before he and his band exited the train hall, Gallagher stopped to sign some autographs for some fans making the most of the rare opportunity to see the Manchester legend.

Beady Eye's arrival into the city comes a day after the release of their second record - BE - which was launched in London's Rough Trade with a special performance from the band at the Brick Lane store.

The band - made up of Liam, Andy Bell and Gem Archer - worked with cult producer Dave Sitek on their second album and promise an experimental new sound unlike anything their fans have heard before.

'Sitek just opened something up in us, ' Liam explained. '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 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.'

In the studio Beady Eye played around with Protools, cassette tapes, samplers, recorded conversation, iPhone apps and unusual instrumentation to create and 'ambitious and exhilarating set of tracks showcasing a stunning depth of songwriting.'

'It’s a trippy record!' Sitek says. 'The strength of the tracks is so high that we got to really play around!'

It’s rock-band instrumentation, but used in a different way. Liam’s vocals are incredible, all you have to do is turn on a microphone and you’re like, "that sounds like a record!" You don’t have to do anything to them'.

Despite his success with Beady Eye, Liam wouldn't say no to a reunion with Oasis, as he told NME magazine: 'People ask would I get Oasis back together. I'd do it for nowt, but if someone's going to drop a load of f****** money, I'd do it for that too.'

'If we do, it'd be nice to do that f****** thing that's coming up (the 20th anniversary). I'd be up for that but I'd still go back to Beady Eye and Noel would go back to his thing.

'We could bury the hatchet for a quick lap of honour.'

Soon they will be performing in a series of three very special intimate fan-only UK live shows, starting off at The Manchester Ritz on June 19th, then at the Camden Centre in London on the 20th, before heading back up North to Glasgow for the final gig at the ABC on June 22nd.

Their new track, Flick Of The Finger, had it's first play on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show.

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Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Gallery: Beady Eye Instore Signing At HMV In Manchester

Below are a number of pictures found across Twitter from Beady Eye's instore signing at HMV in Manchester earlier today.

Thanks to AG

Pro Footage From Beady Eye's Surprise Show In London

Beady Eye invited 30 fans to London to hear BE in full before its release, and surprised them by performing an unexpected show in their rehearsal studio.

 

Liam Gallagher Initial Ideas For What Beady Eye's Second Album Would Be

Liam Gallagher has spoken to to the current issue of Clash Magazine on what his initial ideas for Beady Eye's second album 'BE' would be?

The front man said "We demoed all the songs that are on this album, and they were good; we could have gone in and made it like that and it would have been stuck in that '60s kinda rut - but I like that kind of thing. So it would have still been good, but I guess it would have been 'Different Gear, Still Speeding Part Two', you know what I mean? We're always up for a bit of change - we're always up for doing something different - but until it's in front of your face and your ears, it's hard to tell what you want to do. So with [previous producer] Dave Sardy, Scott, our new manager, he said, 'Look, you don't want to go in with the normal producer, you've got to go with someone who's a little bit out of your comfort zone'. I went, 'Cool. Let's fuckin' check it out'.

Speaking about the first time he met the producer of the album Liam said "The first day I met Dave Sitek was in the studio. I liked abit of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - I've never really heard much about his band [TVOTR] - and then he just started fuckin' playing us what he'd done to [the demo of] 'Flick Of The Finger'. I thought, 'Fuckin' yes' - it had a dark and menacing edge to it that we didn't have. And then when he got 'Soul Love' out, he'd started putting all these atmospherics on it and cosmic fuckin' shit - ambient stuff that we wouldn't normally do. So that's when we thought, Yeah, this is it, man".'

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Liam Gallagher On The Next Beady Eye Album

Beady Eye released 'BE' this week and Liam Gallagher is already talking about the next album.

Questioned by Clash Magazine if the bands next album will be even bigger, better and stranger then the current one.

Liam said "Yeah, I guess so. Who fuckin' knows, man? The door is definitely open. With this album we've definitely gone to a new dimension - whether it's the right one time will tell and that, but I like it The gloves are off now - we can definitely do some weird shit, man".

Andy Bell On Being Restricted In What He Could Do Musically In Oasis

Beady Eye's Andy Bell has spoken to the Clash Magazine about being restricted with what he could do musically in Oasis?.

Questioned were you restricted with what you could do musically in Oasis? Since you've been Beady Eye, is there more room to experiment?

Andy Bell said "Yeah. I guess it's all in our hands; it's a smaller concern and it's not so important what we do in the big picture of life and the universe, so we're allowed to just do what we want and are just getting on with having fun with it in our little corner of the world. It doesn't really feel like the world of music is waiting to hear it so we're just kind of getting on with it, and then maybe it will catch fire".

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How Do You Define What A Beady Eye Song Is?

Beady Eye interview excerpt from Clash Magazine.

Clash Magazine: How do you define what a Beady Eye song is?

Liam: A Beady Eye song has got to have attitude, it's got to have a great melody, great chords - you've got to be able to play it on acoustic, you know what I mean? That's how I measure a good song: if vou can fuckin' sit there and strum it on the acoustic guitar in your house to your dogs and it still sounds good, then that's the sound of a good song. Then once you put all the other shit on it, then obviously it gets better, I guess.

Andy: At the beginning of the demo session we were like, 'Let's direct ourselves at a cross between [George Harrison's] 'Wonderwall Music' soundtrack and 'All Things Must Pass'. We had a sort of orchestral Simon And Garfunkel epicness.

Gem: Yeah, Liam was banging on about Simon and Garfunkel a lot, but what we actually wanted from the lyrics and the melodies was just real strong songs, man. Emotion, directness, vulnerability, hope, broken hearts, paranoia; the usual kind of adult emotions that you pick up.

Andy: With the first album we would have been saying, 'Right, we need rock 'n' roll. It needs to be lairy, lean and mean. We don't want to have any indulgent bits on it - not too many guitar solos - we just want it to be arranged to play the fuck out of live'. So that was the message there. The message now was more like a bit of headspace. Dave saw that in the tunes and he brought a whole lot of ambience to it as well that we wouldn't have got near without him. Dave added the ambience, the chaos, the invention, the questioning - we questioned every tune on the day. We came out with an amazing record that at times is space rock, other times is ambient, at times it is like Hawkwind, and at other times it's like Oasis or Beady Eye's first album; it kind of runs through the whole spectrum.

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Beady Eye On The New Album 'BE'

Beady Eye's Gem Archer and Andy bell have spoken about the mindset between going into your second album from their debut Different Gear, Still Speeding that was released in 2011.

Gem Archer told Clash Magazine "With [the debut] we wanted to play some rock 'n' roll and it was just about getting moving after the band had split - if we'd have left it too long we would have probably got the fear. Now this one sounds like our considered opinion.

Andy Bell said "We were just frantic coming out of Oasis and we just wanted to get moving, and we had a bunch of tunes that we were already ready to do and wanted to build a live set, because we didn't want to do Oasis tunes straight away - we wanted to be Beady Eye and start off and make that an entity of its own. So making the album, you hear it: you can feel that franticness in it, you can feel the fact we are almost reeling a little bit. But these are not necessarily bad things, you know?"

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Beady Eye Launch New Album 'BE' At Rough Trade East Instore Gig

Beady Eye launched their second album 'BE' with an intimate record store show in London yesterday (June 10).

Liam Gallagher's band performed at the Rough Trade East store in front of around 150 lucky fans who had queued for wristbands, playing highlights from the Dave Sitek-produced record, as well as a cover of The Beatles' 'Cry Baby Cry'.

Dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses that covered most of his face, Gallagher cut an understated figure during the acoustic performance, bolstered occasionally by pre-recorded backing tracks from Sitek. As the band started the 45-minute set just after 7pm, he said simply: "This is tiny, innit?" At the end he thanked fans for buying the record: "Nice one for coming and if you bought the record… nice one.

Beady Eye played:

'Second Bite Of The Apple'
'Soul Love'
'Iz Rite'
'Soon Come Tomorrow'
'Start Anew'
'I'm Just Saying’
'Don't Brother Me'
'Cry Baby Cry'
'Ballroom Figured'
'Shine A Light'
'Flick Of The Finger'

It’s a big week for the east London record store, as tonight (June 11) sees Queens Of The Stone Age play an instore of their own, to promote their Number Two album '…Like Clockwork' ahead of their performance at Download this weekend.

Next up, Beady Eye will play Manchester Ritz on June 19 before heading to London for a show at Camden Centre on June 20. The short stint will come to a close in Glasgow at the ABC on June 22. The band have also lined up summer festival slots at V Festival, Benicassim and T In The Park.

Source: www.nme.com

Beady Eye Feature On New Double Issue Of Clash Magazine

Clash Magazine are pleased to announce the cover stars of our latest issue - Beady Eye!

Summer's here and the time is right...

Clash Magazine are preparing to launch our new double issue. Clocking in at a satchel bursting 210 pages our latest instalment features Liam Gallagher's shock troops on the cover, as they prepare to launch their new album 'BE' in typically outspoken style.

However all is not as it seems - when Clash speaks to Liam Gallagher we find a quiet, reserved songwriter who openly admits to being "loved up".

Elsewhere, Primal Scream open up about their first album in five years while Disclosure reflect on a stunning year which has seen them move from underground prodigies to chart mainstays.

Adding a touch of soul to hip hop, John Legend is on hand to cast a spell on Clash readers while Ghostface Killah and Brooke Candy continue the hip hop tip.

Leather clad blues rockers Deap Vally get us all excited, while the always essential Ones To Watch section takes a look at xxyyxx, Young Fathers and more.

Available now, you can order Issue 86 online HERE.

Clash Magazine is available from all good newsagents.

Source: www.clashmusic.com

Watch The Teaser For The Robin Friday Movie Written By Founding Oasis Member

Below is the trailer for a movie based on founding Oasis member Giugsy and Paolo Hewitt's book best selling book.

He is responsible for one of the greatest photographs in English football history, and now The Robin Friday Story is set to be made into a film.

Based on the eponymous book written by former Oasis bass player Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Paolo Hewitt, Friday was a Reading and Cardiff City striker in the 70s whose boozing, smoking, womanising and drug-taking contributed to his tragically young death at the age of 38.


Despite his short life, the film should make for an entertaining biography of one of English football's most memorable mavericks. Friday was also immortalised on the Super Furry Animals' album sleeve The Man Don't Give A F**k.

Although football has traditionally struggled on the big screen, the relative success of 2009's The Damned United and the 2006 documentary Once in a Lifetime suggests the 70s appears to be an auspicious era for depicting the beautiful game on film.

The movie is released later this year.

Beady Eye 'Second Bite Of The Apple' 7", Limited Quantities Available!

At Recordstore they only have the last few copies of the Beady Eye's new single 'Second Bite of The Apple' on 7" Vinyl!

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Vote For Noel Gallagher As 'Best Live Act' At The Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards

Noel Gallagher is in the Top 30 shortlist for the Best Live Act Award at the Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards.

It's really easy to vote on the Nordoff Robbins’ website www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/bestliveact.

The vote is live now and closes on 17 June 2013. The winner will be announced at the O2 Silver Clef Awards on Friday 28 June 2013.

All those who vote will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win a £500 Ticketmaster giftcard or 4 VIP tickets to a concert at the O2 (subject to availability).

Please visit www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/bestliveact to read more about how the shortlist was compiled.