The ex-Oasis guitarist posted a tweet of himself from a cluttered recording studio, on his 47th birthday.
Even though it was his birthday, Mr. Gallagher treated us to a little gift. The tweeted photo, which you can see below, shows Noel in a recording space surrounded by guitars.
The photo confirms that Noel is working on his follow up to 2011's High Flying Birds record.
On his new record, associate Mark Coyle said "Noel's new album is fucking great. It reminds me in some respects of the spirit of 'Definitely Maybe', because it’s so obviously exciting."
Lindsay Lohan, Lily Allen and Kylie Minogue were among the stars who turned out to help rocker Noel Gallagher celebrate his birthday at a party in London on Thursday night (29May14).
The former Oasis star turned 47 on Thursday and he spent his big day in the studio working on new music.
In the evening, he hosted a star-studded party at London hot spot Chiltern Firehouse for celebrity guests including Hollywood actress Lohan, who was spotted leaving the bash with a mystery man in the early hours of Friday morning (30May14).
Other attendees included pop stars Allen and Minogue, Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am, fashion designer Stella McCartney, Kasabian rocker Sergio Pizzorno, and model-turned-actress Suki Waterhouse.
Don't Believe The Truth is the sixth studio album by Oasis, released on May 30, 2005. It reached #1 in the UK Albums Chart with first week sales of just under 238,000. The album entered the U.S. charts at #12, the highest any Oasis album has reached there since 1997 with Be Here Now, although its chart stay was brief. The album went triple platinum in the UK in the first week of 2006, and is the ninth fastest selling album there. As of August 2006, Don't Believe the Truth has sold approximately 2.5 million copies worldwide.
Every member of the band contributed to the writing of tracks for the album, and the album is the first where all duties were divided between the bandmembers. On some of the tracks regular bass player Andy Bell handled guitar, while Gem and Noel contributed bass to other songs. Don't Believe the Truth is the first Oasis record to feature the drumming of Zak Starkey, who replaced Oasis' longtime member Alan White.
Liam also had a larger impact on the album by his developing songwriting. Noel has said that this album is his favourite of Oasis' last four, because all members have contributed to it. This, he claims, has given it a different feel to a typically Noel-written Oasis album.
The band embarked on a massive world-wide tour and started off at the London Astoria for their Don't Believe the Truth Tour.
Recording The recording process for Don't Believe the Truth was prolonged. The album was originally supposed to be released around summer/autumn 2004, with an initial 3-4 week session produced by Death in Vegas. The recording finally began after Alan White's departure in January 2004 at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall, the same place where Oasis had recorded their debut album Definitely Maybe. These sessions were completed but the band weren't happy with the results.
Noel has commented since on numerous occasions that there was no problem with the work done by Death In Vegas, but he felt the songs they were working on were simply not good enough to form a record, and felt a break was needed in which new material would have to be written. In Noel's words: "we were trying to polish a turd". Around 10 tracks were worked on with Death In Vegas of which, according to Noel, 6 were "not even good enough to make the b-sides". Four of the tracks which eventually appeared on the album were worked on with Death In Vegas, those songs being: "Turn Up The Sun", "Mucky Fingers", "A Bell Will Ring" and "The Meaning of Soul", although all of these had extra work done to them or were re-recorded before being released.
After a short break in which many new songs, including "Let There Be Love", "Lyla" and "Part Of The Queue" were written, the band reconvened at their Wheeler End Studios with Noel as producer. The band were joined on these sessions by The Who's drummer Zak Starkey. In June 2004, Oasis debuted two new songs from these sessions, the Liam-written "The Meaning of Soul" and the Gem-written "A Bell Will Ring" at two live shows in Poole and at the Glastonbury Festival.
After hearing of the band's production problems from Oasis manager Marcus Russell, American producer Dave Sardy expressed interest in taking over production duties. Sardy was given tapes of existing recording sessions to mix, and after his work was praised by the band, he arrived in the UK to oversee new recording sessions at Olympic Studios in London. These sessions didn't last long before he asked the band to travel to Los Angeles and re-record most of the album there, as he felt more comfortable working in a studio closer to home. With the band eventually agreeing to this, recording sessions began at Capitol Studios in October 2004 with the band spending around 9 weeks there.
Release The decision to have the leadoff single, "Lyla", on the album was a controversial one, prompted by the label's feeling that there wasn't a suitable lead single among the tracks originally presented. As a result, the decision was taken to record "Lyla", a song which Noel had written and demoed a year previously, but which wasn't recorded by the band during the previous recording sessions. It was decided that Dave Sardy would remix Noel's original demo with Liam recording a set of lead vocals and Zak adding a fresh drum track. "Lyla" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and number nineteen on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart. After having initial reservations about the choice of the first single being taken out of the hands of the band, Noel, who initially wanted "Mucky Fingers" to be the first single, has now reluctantly conceded that the song has indeed "done the business".
In April 2005, four tracks from a promo disc leaked: "The Meaning of Soul", "Mucky Fingers", "Keep the Dream Alive", and "Let There Be Love". The full album found its way onto the Internet on May 3, 2005, when Apple Inc. accidentally put the album up early for sale on their iTunes Music Store service in Germany. While there was no official comment by Apple or by Oasis management, it was speculated that Apple simply got "May 30" confused with "May 03" or "May 3".
Watch the promo video for Lyla HERE
Watch the promo video for The Importance Of Being Idle HERE
Watch the promo video for Let There Be Love HERE
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Following on from acclaimed taster track 'Airborne', The Van Doos are proud to present 'Speak Up' - the first official single from their debut album.
The quartet, who hail from a market town on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, recently featured live in session on BBC Introducing, offer up a small but perfectly formed bolt of indie-pop with a racing beat.
‘Speak Up’ is the first single for The Van Doos' debut album ‘Fingertips’, which is scheduled for release in Autumn 2014.
With nods to key influences The Teardrop Explodes and The Jesus and Mary Chain, 'Speak Up' carries a trademark Van Doos feel-good flavour, offset by the neurotic theme: "tell me everything / speak up and I won't keep unbalancing!"
Produced by Tristan Ivemy (Frank Turner, The Heartbreaks), The Van Doos are an unmistakably British guitar band who take their cues from the landscape on their doorstep: wide, wild and life-affirming.
The band headline This Feeling this Friday. Info & free download at www.thisfeeling.co.uk
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He left the band under a cloud in 1995 and now former Oasis drummer Tony McCarroll is auctioning off the drum kit he played on the band's debut album Definitely Maybe.
It will be offered for sale next month as part of a Pop Culture sale at Christie's in London, on June 20 and is expected to fetch as much as €18,500.
McCarroll (42), who was memorably featured being buried alive in a shallow grave in the Oasis video for Live Forever, was fired in April 1995 after the band alleged that his drumming wasn't up to par.
"I like Tony as a geezer but he wouldn't have been able to drum the new songs,"
Noel Gallagher was quoted as saying at the time.
The Pete Best of Britpop later took the band to court for a share of their profits. He received a sizable award from the court.
"This drum kit was used by me throughout my time with Oasis, from the very beginning during rehearsals at the Boardwalk in Manchester through touring and the recording of Definitely Maybe," he said. "I have owned the kit ever since and as it is just gathering dust, I have decided to give Oasis fans the opportunity to own it."
Phoneys & The Freaks is the brand new Rock N Roll band fronted by rising singer/songwriter Alex Lipinski & founding member & guitarist of Oasis, Paul (Bonehead) Arthurs.
The debut EP is released as a limited edition collector’s 10” vinyl EP, details can be found here to pre-order.
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Click here and answer a simple question to win a signed guitar by Noel Gallagher, please note this competition is different from the ones previously posted.
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There were rumours circulating about Oasis reforming for a comeback album, but it would appear Noel Gallagher is way too busy meeting his childhood hero Hulk Hogan.
The 46-year-old frontman grinned as wrestling megastar Hulk Hogan wrapped his arms around the British rocker and posed for a picture.
Hulk is currently in London filming the WWE SmackDown show with his muscly co-stars - and as a huge wrestling fan Noel wangled his way backstage to get a picture with his hero.
A source revealed the pair spent ages back stage chatting away like old friends, discussing Simon Cowell.
Both Noel and Hulk have worked with the music mogul on music projects in the past and it seemed to be a talking point for the pair.
Hulk also revealed he was a huge Oasis fan and they're top of his iPod list.
Meanwhile, speculation the Wonderwall hitmakers were set for a comeback reached fever pitch last month after Noel's brother Liam shared the band's name one letter at a time on his Twitter page.
Several bookmakers subsequently suspended betting on Oasis reuniting for a performance at Glastonbury festival in June, but the event's organisers have since denied the rumours.
Now guitarist Noel has dismissed the rumour, telling radio station talkSPORT: "I was in the newsagent the other day when the story broke and the Daily Star said 'Oasis to get back together for £500 million', which is half a billion (pounds).
"I'd do it for half a billion anything. Yorkshire Tea bags, condoms, Pot Noodles."
Click here for a number of pictures of Noel with the WWE Superstars.
Two decades ago, American audiences got their first taste of a charmingly opinionated British rock star with an intriguing way of pronouncing "sunshine" when Oasis released their debut, Definitely Maybe. As Rob Sheffield writes in his four-and-a-half-star review of the band's new three-disc reissue of their first album, "Twenty years on, Oasis' debut remains one of the most gloriously loutish odes to cigarettes, alcohol and dumb guitar solos that the British Isles have ever coughed up."
To mark the reissue's arrival this week, Rolling Stone is debuting this footage of the band playing "Cigarettes & Alcohol" at the Lomax in Liverpool on April 13th, 1994.
Highlights: Liam Gallagher's star-shaped tambourine and the fact that the camera finds guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs more often than Liam's partner in crime, Noel.
Source: www.rollingstone.com
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The Blossoms are an innovative psych-pop quintet hailing from Manchester's grey suburbia. In contrast to this murky Northern city, their sound emulates that of a more organic West-coast trip, and could quite easily soundtrack Tarantinos next silver screen venture.
Join them for a Hammond driven ride into the realms of dark psychedelia.
They release 250 copies of You Pulled A Gun On Me themselves on limited edition vinyl in July (release date TBC).
Live dates:
23rd May - Purple Turtle Camden/This Feeling
30th May - Gullivers Manchester
13th June - Night and Day Manchester
It's £3 entry with an Arctic Monkeys Finsbury Park ticket stub.
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This week sees the release of the special Chasing The Sun 20th anniversary edition of Oasis' seminal debut album, Definitely Maybe. To celebrate, we've got an iconic black Gibsion Epiphone electric guitar, signed by Noel Gallagher to be won.
Few albums have had the impact of 1994's Definitely Maybe - and now it's been reissued, sounding bigger and better than ever. In addition to a remastered copy the album, the three-disc set includes an assortment of rarities, demos, and live recordings from the era. There's deluxe box set and the remaster will be available as a single disc release and on vinyl.
Oasis may not be reforming or playing Glastonbury, but what better way to celebrate one of the most important bands of a generation than by owning a little piece of history?
To be in with a chance of winning a black Gibson Epiphone electric guitar signed by Noel Gallagher, just click here and answer a simple question.