Setlist: Beady Eye In Manchester

Below is the setlist from Beady Eye in Manchester yesterday.

Beady Eye Are On The Front Cover Of Crossbeat Magazine

Beady Eye are on the front cover of INROCK magazine that is on sale in Japan on June 18th.

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Yet 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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Beady Eye Stars Shows Soft Side At Manchester HMV

High-fiving under-tens, posing for selfies with fans and giggling with bandmates... Sounds like a day in the life of The Wanted but nope, we're talking Liam Gallagher here, who showed his softer side at a meet and greet event at Manchester's HMV this week.

The British rock icon is on a promotional tour for new album BE, his second with band Beady Eye, which kicked off earlier this week with an intimate performance at London's Rough Trade East. Back on home soil last night, Gallagher seemed delighted as he met fans and appeared to be having more fun than he has in years, as he is seen laughing and joking with bandmates during the fan event.

Check out the photos of Beady Eye's Manchester signing session here - which includes a number of photos exclusive to Gigwise.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Pretty Great Night For Beady Eye Fans

Homecoming rock star Liam Gallagher hailed Manchester as the 'centre of the universe' as he and band Beady Eye launched their new album BE in the city last night.

Homecoming rock star Liam Gallagher hailed Manchester the ‘centre of the universe’ as he and band Beady Eye launched their new album BE in the city last night.

The group headed to Manchester for a packed album signing event at HMV on Market Street to huge cheers from the crowd.

And the band’s biggest fans were rewarded for their loyalty – after queuing to meet their idols, a select group of 100 were then invited to party into the night with Liam and the band.

Liam threw open the doors of his designer clothes store Pretty Green on King Street for the exclusive bash and The Diary was there too.

As he headed to the gig he posted on his twitter: “On my way to Manchester centre of the universe.”

And as he entered Pretty Green there were chants of ‘Liam, Liam’ from the adoring masses.

He and band mates Gem Archer,  Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock then delighted fans with an acoustic gig of tracks off the new album, which has been gaining rave reviews in the music world.

It’s the second album from the band which was formed after the acrimonious split of Oasis in 2009.

Rumours have been mounting that the band may comeback though, reuniting the warring Burnage brothers,  Liam and Noel.

Liam said this week he would reunite for ‘nowt’ to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Oasis’s seminal album Definitely Maybe next year.

Although that would of course depend on the brothers burying the hatchet.

Needless to say Liam’s new track, Don’t Brother Me, said to be about Noel, was one of the more emotional of last night’s exclusive gig.

There was also a cover of Beatles track Cry Baby Cry, while new track I’m Just Saying, was dedicated to Manc music icon Clint Boon who DJed at the album launch bash.

Liam finished the gig with a heartfelt thanks to the fans, saying: “Thank you for coming, if you bought the album thanks a lot, man, we really appreciate it.”

Fans won’t have to wait too long for Beady Eye’s return – they play an eagerly-anticipated gig at the Ritz next Wednesday.

Click here for a number of pictures and a video from the event.

Source: manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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.

Click here to watch the video.

Source: www.gigwise.com

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.

Clash Magazine is on sale now.

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.

Click here for a number of pictures.

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.

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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".'

Beady Eye's new album is in stores now...

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".

Beady Eye's album 'BE' Is on sale now.

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.

Clash Magazine is on sale now.

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?"

Clash Magazine is on sale now.

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