Liam Gallagher terrified Kasabian when he started play fighting with them during a helicopter flight.
The 'Eez-eh' hitmakers bonded with the rocker when they supported his band Oasis during their run of hometown gigs at Manchester's Heaton Park in 2009.
They got on so well that guitarist Serge Pizzorno and singer Tom Meighan were taken to Scotland for lunch in the helicopter with Liam but decided to be mischievousness.
Serge said: ''On the way back, Tom and Liam started play-fighting, rocking the thing, screaming. I'm sitting there going 'Maaaate!' This ain't like the back of a car, man, we're f***ing miles in the air.
This rain starts coming down and the captain goes, 'Right, we've gotta land because the weather's terrible.'
Liam's like, 'We're not landing, man, just drive through it!' - in the end we had to land. We had to emergency land in this airport.''
The stars then went back to their hotel and Serge and Tom were still starstruck after spending time with Liam.
Serge gushed to NME magazine: ''Liam's such an amazing dude. He's funny and proper looks after us. Those gigs were unbelievable.''
Noel Gallagher, the driving force behind the biggest UK band of the 90s and the Gallagher brother least likely to punch you, is set to open a new free Oasis exhibition at Great Northern this July.
To mark two decades since the release of Supersonic, the debut release from Oasis, and the twentieth anniversary re-release of debut album, Definitely Maybe, Chasing the Sun: Oasis 1993-1997 will open at the former Dwell unit on Deansgate from Friday 18 July to Sunday 17 August.
Following the exhibition’s previous April showcase in Shoreditch, London, Chasing the Sun documents the band’s journey from unsigned Burnage band, through their first three albums: Definitely Maybe (1994), (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) and Be Here Now (1997).
The exhibit also documents live shows at London’s 100 Club, Glastonbury and their momentous two nights at Knebworth in August 1996, which saw over quarter of a million fans in attendance (2.5 million people applied for tickets – still the largest ever demand for tickets in British history).
Liam Gallagher, the more rambunctious Gallagher brother, recently said of Knebworth: "At Knebworth I thought we were doing one night and we were doing two. I got that mashed on the first I woke up to a knock on the door and thought I was at home. I forgot all about it. But I had to go and do it again. That was heavy."
The exhibition includes rare early footage of the band, previously unseen images from photographers such as Jamie Fry, Paul Slattery, Johnny Hopkins and the show’s curator, Lawrence Watson.
There's rare memorabilia, artefacts and even a selection of the band’s instruments too, including the original Union Jack Epiphone Sheraton guitar and a Gibson Les Paul Sunburst given to Noel by The Smiths’ Johnny Marr.
Fans will also be able to have their photo taken in a recreated scene from the album cover of Definitely Maybe.
Fingers crossed that Noel likes the new Oasis exhibition more than he likes bookish types: "I don’t get it. Book sellers, book readers, book writers, book owners – fuck all of them.” Right on brother.
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Chasing the Sun: Oasis 1993-1997 will launch the opening of the new ‘Home of Future Artists’ at the former Dwell unit at Great Northern, Deansgate.
Monday 16th June saw Pretty Green showcase the Spring Summer 15 Black label collection. The event took place at the famous Gibson Brand studio, the private HQ where bands such as Paul Weller, Miles Kane and Primal Scream plan their tours.
Models took to the catwalk with a sound track of rock and roll to debut the collection entitled ‘The Production’.
The show also marked the 5th Anniversary of the brand.
Click here to check out a video, and various pictures from the event.
Noel Gallagher dedicated his song to Russell Brand's Hollywood career.
The Starry Starry Night charity event lived up to its name with a guestlist that included Noel Gallagher, actress Gillian Anderson, and model Laura Bailey.
Nick Grimshaw hosted the evening at Cafe de Paris, which raised £360,000 for The Hoping Foundation, a charity for Palestinian children set up by Bella Freud and academic Karma Nabulsi.
AFTER watching the Liverpool v Manchester City match at Anfield, NOEL GALLAGHER agreed to an exclusive interview with The Anfield Wrap. they asked him about Liverpool, Scousers, Oasis, The Reds, Manchester City and modern football.
The festival season is upon us and Pretty Green have grouped some of it's favourite styles in a dedicated 'Festival Shop' to make packing a little easier.
Pretty Green are currently having a Summer sale, with up to 50% off selected items, check them out here.
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SATURDAY JUNE 21st, HAVANA, LEICESTER 10.30pm - 4am
This Feeling, where KASABIAN have been revellers for the last eight years, is the place to be after the band's 10th year anniversary show at Victoria Park.
The band kicked off the very first This Feeling with a DJ set after their Electric Proms show and loved it so much they're always propping up the bar when in London.
Coinciding with the hugely-anticipated release of Kasabian's massive 5th album, '48:13', the homecoming couldn't get any bigger. Anyone who was at This Feeling after the lads headline slot at Hard Rock Calling, London knows what to expect…a massive end to a massive night!
Peter Crouch, Miles Kane, Abby Clancey, Anna Friel, Leighton Baines all descended upon This Feeling.
Get yourself down to Havana in Leicester after the gig on Saturday June 21st, just a fifteen-minute walk from Victoria Park, for This Feeling - Tom and Serge's favourite club night playing rock n roll indie anthems till 4am…
Doors 10.30pm, DJ's till 4am.
£5 advance tickets available now. If it's your last trip, it'll get you on your way...
Visit www.thisfeeling.co.uk for tickets and information on club nights all over the UK.
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"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" is a song by British rock band Oasis. It was released as the second single from Heathen Chemistry on 17 June 2002, peaking at number two in the UK charts. It went silver in the UK.
The song is an "epic weepy" anthem in the spirit of "Don't Look Back in Anger", reassuringly advising that in times of hardship, simply get over it and get on with your life. Noel Gallagher explained the song saying "A friend of mine was going through a pretty bad time and I sort of wrote it with him in mind."
Noel Gallagher had great expectations for the song, saying "I hope it does for us what 'Don't Look Back In Anger' did... I didn't want it as a single because I thought we'd done all that before, but everyone's going, 'You're fucking mad.'". NME said, 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' [is where] you really start rolling out the red carpet. A return to the long lost humanism of 'Don't Look Back In Anger', it's a reminder of Noel's knack of cheering up his audience just when they need it most." Q magazine held up the song as proof that "genius never completely left Oasis".
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" was one of the songs played during the end credits of the movie, The Butterfly Effect, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. It has been on the TV show Smallville too. The song also appeared after England's defeats in the 2002 Football World Cup and the 2006-07 Ashes. Noel Gallagher dedicated it to the English football team before playing it at the 2004 Glastonbury Festival. The song is also featured in the film Made of Honor, Starring Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan and appears towards the end of the film.
This blog and my Oasis site was named after the song.
Track listing
CD RKIDSCD 24
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" - 5:02
"Thank You for the Good Times" - 4:32
"Shout It Out Loud" - 4:20
7" RKID 24
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" - 5:02
"Thank You for the Good Times" - 4:32
12" RKID 24T
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" - 5:02
"Thank You for the Good Times" - 4:32
"Shout It Out Loud" - 4:20
DVD RKIDSDVD 24
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" - 5:03
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" (demo) - 5:08
10 Minutes of Noise and Confusion - Pt. Two - 7:24
"10 Minutes of Noise and Confusion - Pt. Two" is the second part of a feature covering 48 hours on the road with Oasis during the Tour of Brotherly Love which took place in the USA with the Black Crowes during May and June 2001.
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Noel Gallagher has recalled a story in which Paul Weller gave a fan the shirt off his back.
The revelation comes as part of a new video, see above, in which a number of musicians talk about their memories of Weller. Paul McCartney also features and speaks about his appreciation of Weller's ability to adapt with the times and change his musical style on a regular basis. Miles Kane and Ocean Colour Scene's Steve Cradock, Weller's long-time musical collaborator, also appear.
Telling his own story, Noel Gallagher says: "I've seen a kid come up to him once and say, at a pub outside ours, I really like that shirt and he just took it off and gave it him and then sat in the pub topless, yep, then sat in the pub topless for the rest of the day."
alking about the changing status of his relationship from fan to friend with Weller, Noel continues: "Once you've had to throw someone out of your house a couple of times at 7 in the morning, and you know, nearly got in fights with them, that kind of thing ceases to exist anymore and it's like, you know, you're kind of his mate."
Weller released his latest compilation album, 'More Modern Classics', featuring tracks from the past 15 years of the singer's solo career, on June 2.
The album acts as the follow up to 1998 compilation 'Modern Classics.' 'More Modern Classics' covers the period from that year until the modern day with new song 'Brand New Toy', recorded for Record Store Day 2014, included alongside the likes of 'From The Floorboards Up' and 'That Dangerous Age.'