Noel Gallagher Says The Wait To Release His New Album Is Beginning To Do His Head In

Noel Gallagher has admitted that he's spent so long waiting to release his new album 'Chasing Yesterday' that it's beginning to annoy him.

The former Oasis guitarist took part in a Q&A session for XFM radio station yesterday evening (November 3) at the Hammersmith Club in London. Grilled by a panel of interviewers which included Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire, Gallagher took questions on Oasis' reissues and his new LP, which is set for release on March 2 next year (2015).

"I've had it finished since July," he said. "The last tour went on for 15 months and then I had a bit of time off. Then I finished my record early and then I've had to wait for these bloomin' Oasis reissues to stop selling before I can put my record out because it's all run out of the same office. That's not intended to stop you buying them by the way, it's just these things take time. It's been a long time sitting on this record, it's beginning to do my head in."

Source: www.nme.com

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Noel Gallagher Quit Oasis Over A Leather Jacket

The musician has been telling XFM about the time he quit Oasis… because of a fight between Liam and Bonehead over a jacket.

Noel famously jumped ship from the band while on a US tour in 1996… and it was all down to a row between brother Liam and guitarist Bonehead.

Speaking at a special XFM charity event last night (3 November), Noel told XFM's John Kennedy:

"I had enough when Liam and Bonehead - and this is true - started arguing over a leather jacket. I am not even kidding. I can dress it up more than this, but this is what happened.

"Liam said to Bonehead on the back of the bus: 'Where d'you get that jacket from?' And Bonehead said: 'What's it got to do with you?' It went from that, to fighting!

"Wonderwall was at Number 5 in the charts, the album was at… one push and it would have been Number 1! One tiny week of doing good gigs!"

A Night With Noel Gallagher In Conversation was a special night in which Noel was interviewed by XFM's John Kennedy live on stage, with contributions from Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers, former Creation Records boss Alan McGee and ex-Deputy Editor of the NME, Hamish McBain.

You can own an audio digital download of this exclusive one-off event for just £1.99, with all net proceeds going to Global's Make Some Noise to change young lives across the UK.

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Source: www.xfm.co.uk

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Interview With Noel Gallagher Ahead Of The Manchester Derby

Below is a short interview with Noel Gallagher and Frank Lampard, plus highlights from the all new City MatchDay app.

 

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DOWNLOAD: XFM Presents An Evening In Conversation With Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher is easily one of the most important songwriters of all time, as famous for his charisma as for his musicianship. Over the last twenty years Noel has helped shape contemporary music and change our notions of celebrity.

Now, for the first time ever, Noel Gallagher puts down his guitar to speak with a panel of music industry insiders at a special one-off XFM event for Global's Make Some Noise. A group of prominent music figures delve in to Noel's life in music in front of a live audience.

The panel consists of Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire, former Creation Records boss Alan McGee, and Shortlist magazine's deputy editor Hamish McBain; and your host is XFM's John Kennedy.

Noel Gallagher has said: "Having rarely stopped blowing my own trumpet since April '94, it'll come as no surprise I jumped at the chance to let the people catch me at it again, so to speak, while at the same time raising a few bob for the kids. It'll be a pleasure.”

You can own an audio digital download of this exclusive one-off event for just £1.99, with all net proceeds going to Global's Make Some Noise to change young lives across the UK.

THIS RECORDING CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE, THEMES THAT SOME LISTENERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE AND CONTENT THAT MAY BE UNSUITABLE FOR THOSE AGED UNDER 18.  PARENTAL AND LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED (YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!)

Net proceeds (at least £1.40 per download) from the sale of the XFM presents An Evening In Conversation With Noel Gallagher audio digital download will go to Global's Make Some Noise.

Global's Make Some Noise is an appeal operated by Global Charities, a registered charity in England & Wales (1091657) & Scotland (SC041475). Global Charities is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England (4359098).

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Noel Gallagher Not Looking Back On New Album

Noel Gallagher's new album may be called 'Chasing Yesterday' but it is "not reflective".

Gallagher 47, a member of Oasis until his departure in 2009 caused their split will release his "space jazz" and "disco" LP 'Chasing Yesterday' in March and despite an apparently nostalgia-yearning title, he insists the record is not a look at his past.

Speaking about the title, Noel said: "It kind of fits the record. The songs are directed at two people, in a narrative sense - boy, girl, girl, boy. So it's not me looking back. It's not a reflective album at all."

The singer has produced the album for the first time and admits he enjoyed the experience because he could make choices he would otherwise have been advised not to.

He explained to Q magazine: "I just thought, 'F**k it, this time I haven't got a producer telling me what to do', So I left three big songs off that other bands would probably say, 'What the f**k has he done that for?' I did it deliberately to make way for these songs that were a bit more left-field."

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher Says Manchester City Will Never Be As Big A Brand As Manchester United

Manchester City's most famous fan has admitted that the blue half of Manchester may never be as big a club as their city rivals.

Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher also said that City shouldn't be expanding their stadium, as they can't even fill its current capacity.

Speaking before Sunday's Manchester derby, Gallagher told Gary Neville that City had changed for the better, but will never be able to rival United as a brand.

'When you started it went from a big club to a mega brand,' Gallagher said to Neville on Sky Sports. 'I don't think City can ever get that.'

'I'm not sure it's a good idea to boost that stadium to 60,000.Because, really, if we were going to get that there'd be 10,000 locked out the stadium every week. When you look at the games and go to the games, there are empty seats.'

However, the City fan also hit out at United supporters over their perceived hypocrisy about spending power.

'It's the hypocrisy I hate,' continued Gallagher. 'They've been slagging City off for years and as soon as the big bad wolf's out the door, it's raining tenners!'

City have been successful in the fixture in recent times, winning five of the last six Premier League meetings.
And with his team finishing a massive 22 points clear of United last season, it is perhaps justified that Gallagher said he would only want David de Gea at his club out of Louis van Gaal's squad.

'I'd take the goalie, straight away,' Gallagher conceded, before joking: 'He could carry Joe [Hart's] kit around, he's a good No 2.

Gallagher also couldn't resist goading Neville about City's first Premier League win over their rivals, when the United defender was at fault for a Shaun Goater goal.

The musician described it as one of his favourite derby memories, before adding that 'It was a special moment'.
'We all knew you were getting the hair-dryer the moment you got in that dressing room.'

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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Watch Gary Neville's Interview With Noel Gallagher

Below is Gary Neville interview with Noel Gallagher ahead of today's Manchester derby.

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Gary Neville Interview With Noel Gallagher To Be Broadcast Tomorrow On Sky Sports 1

Ahead of the Manchester Derby, we pitched together two of the fierce rivals most famous sons. Watch it in full tomorrow on Super Sunday, Sky Sports 1 at 12.30 (UK Only).

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Gallery: Noel Gallagher And Stone Roses Legend Mani Enjoy A Night Out In Manchester

They sit on opposite sides of the Manchester footballing divide, but rock stars Mani and Noel Gallagher put those allegiances to one side to team up for a night out in the city.

Stone Roses legend Mani, a lifelong Manchester United fan, and ex-Oasis star Noel a dyed-in-the-wool City fan, headed to celeb-haunt Italian restaurant San Carlo with a group of pals on Friday night.

And they even dressed accordingly - with Noel in a blue bomber jacket and Mani in a red-lined puffa jacket.

Fans rushed to meet the stars as they headed out of the King Street West eatery late on Friday, where they posed for a few obligatory selfies.

The two stars were obviously not bored of each others company as they met again on Saturday afternoon at the same restaurant, this time just for a brief chat.

Click here to see a number of pictures.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Discover Pretty Green's AW14 Black Label

The Beatle’s rooftop concert was their last ever public performance on January 30th 1969 and serves as the inspiration for Pretty Green's AW14 Black Label collection.

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Shaun Ryder Says 'Liam Gallagher Should Get Himself A TV Chat Show

Happy Mondays' frontman Shaun Ryder has said he thinks Liam Gallagher should get himself a TV chat show.

Ryder made his suggestions for the Beady Eye singer in the new issue of NME, which is on newsstands now and available digitally. He said: "Apart from have another crew cut, I think he should get himself a TV chat show."

Others, including Johnny Marr, also gave their suggestions as to what they think the ex-Oasis frontman should do now that his latest band Beady Eye have split. Marr, who performed live with Noel Gallagher earlier this month, maintained that Liam should stick to what he's good at, despite the press attention and drama that follows him.

"Liam loves music and loves being in a band. People shouldn't forget that," he said. "It's a shame all this stuff kicks up, because his fame gets in the way of that love. It's not a job, it's a passion he's had since he was a teenager, and he's really good at it.

"I'd hate to see the consequences of his band breaking up and the soap opera that goes with it stop him making music. Oasis were together a long time; the fact they're brothers might mean they have to go off and live their own lives more than people in a regular band, because they've been together since they were children.

"There is a human being in there, who brings people happiness, and people need to remember that."

Producer Alan McGee, who's known Gallagher since May 1993 when he signed Oasis to Creation Records, added: "I love Liam – whatever he wants to do is fine with me."

This week, it was revealed that Liam Gallagher will perform The Who Band as part of a Teenage Cancer Trust gig next month. It will be his first live appearance since the demise of Beady Eye.

Source: www.nme.com

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Ghost Of Liam Gallagher Is Trying To Kill Me: Manchester’s Spookiest (And Daft) 999 Calls

Halloween is upon us and MM can reveal that Manchester residents are no strangers to spooky encounters – with police handling more than 100 supernatural reports across the last three years.

Ghost, witch and alien sightings are just a handful of the creepy complaints made to Greater Manchester Police since January 2011.

There were also three reports from people claiming they had been abducted by aliens and 18 instances of witchcraft.

One traumatised individual contacted police in April 2011 claiming ‘Liam Gallagher is a ghost who steals things from her’ and ‘tries to kill her by giving her cancer’.

Another report detailed a Bury man who told police he had been chased around Prestwich by ‘hundreds of aliens’, before adding that he ‘had not had a drink or taken any drugs, just coffee’.

Michael James, an independent paranormal investigator from Atherton, 49, said previous traumas such as abuse and break-ups can often be responsible for such abnormal encounters.

He told MM: “I know for a fact that it's always due to a circumstance in someone's life. Always due.

“It's always due to a trauma. It opens the doors, the corridors, to influences that we shouldn't really be dealing with.

“I just know that there are always explanations for it.”

One case involved a spooked North Manchester man who said he had been abducted by aliens, but ‘felt daft to report it’ because he didn’t think police would believe him.

However some ghostly reports highlight the plight of pranksters abusing the 999 service.

In November 2011, a man dialled the emergency line and ‘requested to speak to Ghostbusters because he sees ghosts and wants them hoovered up’.

He then told the operator she ‘sounded fit and he could show [her] a thing or two’.

Diane Grandidge, GMP’s business lead for call-handling, has warned strongly against abuse of the service.

She said: “Every false or inappropriate 999 call wastes precious time that could be spent dealing with genuine emergencies.

“Apart from potentially putting somebody’s life at risk, misusing the 999 system is a criminal offence and we have the power to prosecute people for making hoax calls.”

Other reports included a woman who dialled 999 and asked for ‘brain police’, before asking why officers wear uniforms ‘when they should be wearing alien outfits’.

A petrified South Manchester woman contacted the force in December 2012 saying ‘she is having curses and spells cast on her by unknown witches’.

Expert Mr James also delivered a warning to those considering engaging in paranormal activities.

The ghost detective added: “I've learnt from a lot of experiences myself and I've had experience with witchcraft over the years. I've studied that – I've seen how dangerous that can be.

“I've studied certain religions. I went to spirit circles over 20 years ago and they never did any good for me.

“I think they're all dangerous and I think you should keep well away.”

Source: www.mancunianmatters.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: 'In The Heat Of The Moment' Exclusive Vinyl Available To Pre-Order Now!

'In The Heat Of The Moment' is the first single to be released from Noel's forthcoming record 'Chasing Yesterday'. You can pre-order the 7" now, with b-side 'Do The Damage' from Amazon.

An exclusive limited edition coloured vinyl can be ordered from Noel's store.

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Happy Halloween...

Happy Halloween everyone... Pumpkin 1 and 2 is by Jenny 'Supersonic' and Pumpkin 3 is by D Holt.

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Tickets Go On Sale Tommorow For 'The Who Hits 50' Featuring Liam Galllagher, Eddie Vedder And More

The Who hits 50 at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on 11 November: featuring Featuring Liam Gallagher, Eddie Vedder, Wilko Johnson, Geddy Lee, Ricky Wilson, James Dean Bradfield, The Strypes, Sheila Ferguson, Rizzle Kicks, Tom Odell, Amy Macdonald, Brody Dalle, Andy Burrows and more.

Tickets are on sale from 9am Friday 31 October from:
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An evening of music in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust
The house band for the evening is The Who's band featuring Simon Townshend, Zak Starkey, Pino Palladino, Billy Nicholls, Frank Simes, Loren Gold and John Coury, and they will be joined onstage by some of the best artists in the world all performing Who classics.

Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Liam Gallagher, Ricky Wilson from the Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, Geddy Lee from Rush, The Strypes, Brody Dalle, Tom Odell, Amy Macdonald, Andy Burrows and Rizzle Kicks as well more to be announced soon, have chosen their favourite WHO songs to perform in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.

Roger Daltrey and Teenage Cancer Trust
The Who's Roger Daltrey is a long-standing patron of Teenage Cancer Trust and has been curating the charity’s annual flagship event, Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall, for 15 years. In that time the shows have raised over £19 million to help young people with cancer and the charity has grown to include 28 specialist units and 48 expert teenage cancer nurses and youth-support coordinators.

Source: www.teenagecancertrust.org

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Dave Sitek: 'Liam Gallagher Should Get Back In The Studio With Me'

Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio has suggested that Liam Gallagher should record solo material with him following the Beady Eye split.

Sitek produced Beady Eye's second album 'BE' and spoke to NME about what is next for the former Oasis frontman.

"Liam's hilarious, that guy really makes me laugh. And he's super talented," Sitek says. "I remember when he first went up to the microphone, we had no effects and it was just like, 'wow'. He should either have a show or get back in the studio with me and we'll make a couple of tracks for fun."

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Another On This Day In Oasis History...

Wonderwall is a song by English rock band Oasis, written by the band's guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. Released as the third single from (What's the Story) Morning Glory? on October 30th 1995.

Wonderwall peaked at number two in the UK Singles Charts and proved to be their American breakthrough, reaching number eight on the Hot 100 and giving them their only top-ten hit in the US thus far.

Wonderwall is perhaps their most popular song, despite the fact that British TV stars Robson & Jerome's "I Believe"/"Up on the Roof" kept it out of the top slot. Wonderwall continues to have enduring popularity in Oasis's canon; as of 2008, it was 76th in the UK's list of best-selling singles, and has now sold over a million copies in single and download sales in the UK, where it went platinum.

The song is included on Oasis's compilation album Stop the Clocks.

Background

The song takes its name from the 1968 album Wonderwall Music by George Harrison, at the time still a member of the Beatles.[3] Harrison's album was in fact a soundtrack to the film Wonderwall, but the film has remained unknown by the general public. The original title of the track was "Wishing Stone".

It is often claimed that "Wonderwall" was written for Gallagher's then-girlfriend, Meg Mathews. Noel married Mathews in 1997, but the couple divorced four years later. Gallagher now claims that the song was not about Mathews at all, but he felt he had to go along with the rumour, saying "The meaning of that song was taken away from me by the media who jumped on it. How do you tell your Mrs it's not about her once she's read it is? It's a song about an imaginary friend who's gonna come and save you from yourself."

Recording

The song was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, during a two-week recording of the 'Morning Glory' album in May 1995. According to producer Owen Morris, the song was completed in 6-8 hours.

Morris claimed that Gallagher had presented an alternative arrangement of the song "which had some extra complicated pre-bridge bits that didn't have singing or melody - but just had some chord changes - which seemed completely unnecessary", the night before it was recorded. This idea was quickly shelved.

Noel initially wanted to sing this song on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, but he gave his brother Liam Gallagher the choice, and Noel ended up singing "Don't Look Back in Anger".



















Live performances

Noel debuted the song on UK TV, backstage at Glastonbury and broadcast on Channel 4 on June 24, 1995. The song wasn't performed by the band during their headline performance the night before.

In August 2002, Noel changed the arrangement of his live performances of the song to a style admittedly heavily-influenced by Ryan Adams' cover version of the song. This arrangement has continued to his most recent live performances of the song. When the full band performs the song live, with electric guitars, it's still in the original style as presented on the record. During the 2008 tour, however the band have return to performing the song in a semi acoustic form.

A live version of the song, recorded at Wembley Stadium in 2000, is featured on the band's live album Familiar To Millions.

In an interview with Q magazine in August 2008, Liam said that he hates performing the song: "I can't stand that fucking song, every time I have to sing it, I want to gag. Problem is 'Wonderwall' was a big big tune for us and so you go to America and they're like, 'Are you Mr Wonderwall?', and you want to chin someone."

Video

The music video to the song was filmed in the relatively brief period when bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan quit the band due to nervous exhaustion; Scott McLeod came in to replace him.



Cover art

The sleeve artwork was inspired by the paintings of the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, and was shot on Primrose Hill in north London. The hand holding the frame is that of art director Brian Cannon; the woman is Anita Heryet, a Creation Records employee. The original idea was to have Liam in the frame before Noel vetoed that idea whilst the shoot was taking place.

Chart history

It reached No.2 in the UK charts.

In the US it also peaked at #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for an unprecedented ten weeks (this amount was later eclipsed in 1998 by Marcy Playground), and reached #8 on the Hot 100.

Awards and accolades

In 1995, "Wonderwall" came in at number one in the national Australian music poll, the Triple J Hottest 100.

The promo video for "Wonderwall", directed by Nigel Dick, won the Best British Video award at the 1996 BRIT Awards.

In the Grammy Awards of 1997 the band received a nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group and Noel Gallagher picked another nomination for Best Rock Song, winning none.

In 2003, VH1 ranked the song at number 95 in its countdown of the "100 Greatest Songs Of The Past 25 Years."

In May 2005, "Wonderwall" was voted the best British song of all time, in a poll of over 8,500 listeners conducted by Virgin Radio.

The song "Wonderwall" placed 105 of the 3000 top songs of all time on the website acclaimedmusic.net.

In August 2006, "Wonderwall" was named the second-greatest song of all time in a poll conducted by Q Magazine, finishing behind another Oasis song, "Live Forever".

In 2006, U2's guitarist The Edge named "Wonderwall" one of the songs he most wishes he'd written.

In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Wonderwall" at number 27 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

In December 2007, it came in number 35 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's countdown.

In early 2007, "Wonderwall"'s drumming, provided by Alan White, was voted 90th best drumming track ever in Modern Drummer magazine.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

The video below is from October 30th 1994, when Oasis appeared on MTV 120 Minutes in New York, USA.

Liam Gallagher Steps Out With Girlfriend Debbie Gwyther

He shocked fans by taking to Twitter on Saturday to announce that his band Beady Eye had called it quits.

And Liam Gallagher looked like he was enjoying his new-found freedom he ventured out of his north London house with his girlfriend Debbie Gwyther early on Wednesday morning.

The Britpop legend covered up in a khaki coat and wore his hood pulled up over his head as he took his pet pooch for a walk.

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Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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