Oasis star Liam Gallagher delighted festive diners at San Carlo - when he turned up at the packed Italian restaurant on Sunday night.
Liam, dressed in a trademark green parka and with his hair back in a moptop style, stunned revellers when he turned up at the King Street West celebhaunt.
Burnage boy Liam has headed home for Christmas and was in festive mood - happily posing for pictures with fans inside the venue.
Liam may have been kicking himself at his timing though - as he just missed Manchester City star Frank Lampard dining at the venue with his missus Christine Bleakley in the afternoon.
Blues mad Liam is sure to be delighted that his team are now joint top of the Premier League with Chelsea - at least for another few hours anyway until Chelsea play Stoke City on Monday night.
And Liam appears to be making the most of his time back on home turf - he was spotted earlier on Sunday over at The Bull’s Head pub in Mobberley.
We’ll be keeping a beady eye on what Liam is up to in 2015 - after he announced in October that his band Beady Eye have split up.
They formed in the wake of Oasis’ split in 2009, and it means for the first time in over 24 years Liam is without a band.
Will he follow brother Noel Gallagher in going down a solo route? We can’t wait to find out.
It's fair to say he has a love of the beautiful game - and singer Liam Gallagher was more than thrilled when his team, Manchester City beat Crystal Palace 3-0 on Saturday.
The former Oasis star was pictured outside Southern Eleven Restaurant in The Spinningfields area of Manchester with a friend while fist-pumping the air chanting 'City! City! Top of the League.'
He also told photographers that the strong northern wind was playing havoc with his hair.
Liam, 42, was of course decked out in his trademark green jacket which he teamed with dark jeans and a striped T-shirt with white trainers.
Teenager Cancer Trust are auctioning a number of items of memorabilia collected at The Who's 50th birthday tribute show at Shepherd's Bush Empire.
Items include a Gibson guitar signed by Eddie Vedder and Roger Daltrey and a signed tambourine, both of which come from Eddie’s collection and were used on the night.
Other items include a guitar signed by Wilko Johnson and Daltrey, signed programmes, and a Vespa helmet signed by every artist including Liam Gallagher, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Tom Odell, Ricky Wilson and Rizzle Kicks.
The auction is live now (here), and will close later today, with all proceeds going to the Teenage Cancer Trust.
'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' next single will be the 'Ballad Of The Mighty I' and available on January 13, 2015 according to AMAZON.COM.
The track features Johnny Marr who spoke earlier this year about the track "He contacted me and said he had a song that he'd be happy for me to play on," Marr says. "I accpeted, gladly, and it was was really good to spend a day playing guitar in a little studio near Chelsea Bridge. When that was done I listened to about eight songs on the album."
Asked how the album sounds, Marr continues: "It's really good. What I heard of it was very melodic, some of it pretty rocking too, and fans are going to really like it. He doesn't do things he doesn't think are great. And his singing is really good on the album."
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"Whatever" is a single by British rock band Oasis, written by the band's lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It was released on December 19th 1994 as a stand-alone single bridging the gap between Oasis' debut album, Definitely Maybe, and their second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. "Whatever" entered the UK Singles Chart at #3, their first single to enter the top 5. The strings were played by the London Session Orchestra, arranged by Nick Ingham and Noel Gallagher.
The song joins the infectious pop-rock melodies of Definitely Maybe with the more sophisticated lyrics of (What's the Story) Morning Glory, preaching universal tolerance and the acceptance of all ideas and beliefs in a typically straightforward, Mancunian way. The first lines ("I'm free to be whatever I/Whatever I choose/And I'll sing the blues if I want") may have been Noel's reaction to his father's insistence that he join the building trade.
"Whatever" was released as a contender for the coveted position of Christmas #1, 1994
It is a testament to Noel Gallagher's all-conquering self confidence that he should predict "Whatever"'s success before he was even given a record contract, saying "In the beginning, there was a masterplan, to the extent that I knew that 'Whatever,' one of the first songs I ever wrote, would be a Christmas Top Five hit, but I think anyone who heard the song could have told you that."
When Oasis performed the song for Top of the Pops, they mimed and one of the cello players from the symphony was replaced by Bonehead, who clearly had no idea how his instrument is supposed to be played. Towards the end of the song, he gave up the pretense and started using the bow to conduct. A woman plays his rhythm guitar. The song was introduced by Damon Albarn of Blur who would later famously feud with Oasis. As Albarn introduced the song, the Gallagher brothers made hand gestures behind him, which only served to heighten the feud between the bands.
"Whatever" has been performed live by Oasis many times, sometimes with the ambitious symphony which accompanies the single version, sometimes without. They often end live versions of the song with lyrics adapted from the Beatles song "Octopus's Garden." They have also been known to add the lines "All the young blues....carry the news...", in reference to the Mott the Hoople song "All The Young Dudes". The "blues" are the fans of the Gallaghers' beloved Manchester City F.C.. At their famous performances at Knebworth in August 1996, the song was accompanied throughout by harmonica player Mark Feltham and is generally regarded by fans as one of the highlights of their set.
The B-Sides of "Whatever" were quite famous as well. One of them, "Slide Away" was already featured on their debut album, Definitely Maybe. The other two - "(It's Good) To Be Free" and "Half the World Away" - were later featured on The Masterplan, a collection of Oasis's best b-sides. "Slide Away" and "Half the World Away" would also be featured on Oasis' 2006 "best of" album Stop the Clocks, although "Whatever" itself was not included.
'Whatever' spent a total of 50 weeks in the UK Singles chart, more than any Oasis single to date.
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Ride, Bastille and Duran Duran will play intimate shows to benefit the international charity in the tenth year of its fundraising Passport:Back To The Bars shows.
Acts like The Cure, Amy Winehouse and Elbow have played War Child's Passport:Back To The Bars shows in the past, and now the first acts of the 2015 line-up have been announced.
Andy Bell and Mark Gardener from reunited shoegaze band Ride will play an acoustic set for a small group of fans, in the run-up to the group's sold-out series of shows in the summer.
Bastille have also been confirmed for the bill, while 1980s popstars Duran Duran will also do a show in the capital in aid of the charity.
The shows will take place in Manchester and London, in small venues of no more than 300 people. Further acts and details will be announced early in January.
Duran Duran’s John Taylor said: “Thousands of children...are often being denied education and other basic human rights. We are looking forward to performing an exclusive event in London this coming February, in support of War Child and the important work they do in the regions where these children are suffering."
Noel Gallagher may remain one of the most achingly cool rockers of all time.
But that doesn't stop him from being a seriously embarrassing dad, as 14-year-old daughter Anais found out the moment they came face to face with One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles.
Noel, 47, couldn't help himself when it came to exposing his model daughter's teenage crush when they ran into the pop star at a cafe recently.
Anais - who Noel had with ex-wife Meg Matthews - is a big fan of the X Factor-formed band but she was left mortified after her dad intervened when they first met.
The teen beauty, who signed with select models when she was 11, told Grazia magazine: 'Harry seems really nice. I was in a cafe once and Harry came in. I'd been joking that I'd probably wet myself if 1D walked in.
'So my dad started kicking me under the table and shouted, "Are you going to wet yourself now?" I literally died.'
It seems that in Anais' opinion, Harry and the band can rock it better than Oasis after she saw them perform the Take Me Home tour in 2011 and tweeted: 'best night ever xx loved it truly rocked it better than my dad noel Gallagher thanks @Harry_Styles for arranging it,'
Though Oasis rocker Noel previously said that band members Harry, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik were 'f***ing idiots' and snubbed the boys at the Brit Awards where they were politely told to f**k off.
When Oasis played their sold-out Madison Square Gardens gig on December 18th 2008, photographer Josh Cheuse filmed Noel performing an exclusive acoustic version of 'Waiting For The Rapture' in an unusual backstage location.
This performance was made available exclusively through (RED)WIRE.
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Liam Gallagher is reportedly receiving a rare Gretsch guitar from his girlfriend Debbie Gwyther for Christmas.
The former Oasis star is reportedly set to receive the gift, an iconic Gretsch electric variety, from his girlfriend Debbie Gwyther, who is said to have ''put a lot of work'' into finding the perfect present for her rocker beau.
A source told the Daily Star newspaper: ''Liam has been spending a lot of time playing his guitar recently and Debbie knows how much a rare Gretsch would mean to him.
''It's a US company but there are dealers and private sellers here.
'She's put a lot of work into sourcing the right one for him.''
However, it appears Liam, 42, won't be showing off his guitar skills with the thoughtful gift any time soon.
The 'Wonderwall' hitmaker - who also fronted Beady Eye until their split in October - has previously slammed ''idiotic'' musicians for playing their own guitars on stage and insisted he would ''rather eat [his] own s**t'' than do the same
.
In 2011, he said: ''I'd rather eat my own s**t than play my guitar on stage. I hate when singers do that, and even more so when frontmen do it. It looks idiotic.''
Oasis, Liam and Noel Gallagher have been nominated in various categories in the NME Awards, Click here to vote (Login Required).
Best Track
Future Islands – 'Seasons (Waiting On You)'
Jamie T – 'Zombie'
Jungle – 'Busy Earnin''
Kasabian – 'Eez-Eh' Noel Gallagher – 'In The Heat Of The Moment'
Royal Blood – 'Little Monster'
Hero Of The Year
Alex Turner
Dave Grohl
Kate Bush Noel Gallagher
Russell Brand
Taylor Swift
Reissue Of The Year
Led Zeppelin – 'Led Zeppelin II'
Manic Street Preachers – 'The Holy Bible' Oasis – 'Definitely Maybe'
Pixies – 'Doolittle'
Public Enemy – 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back'
Smashing Pumpkins – 'Adore'
Best Band Social Media
?uestlove's Twitter
Alana Haim's Twitter
Albert Hammond Jr's Twitter
Fat White Family's Facebook Liam Gallagher's Twitter
Slaves' Facebook
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Libertines legend Carl Barât & his new band The Jackals are to see in 2015 by playing two tiny New Year’s Eve This Feeling club night shows at The Macbeth in Hoxton and the Amersham Arms in New Cross.
The band will initially take to the stage at the Amersham Arms in South London around 10pm before hot-footing it across London to Hoxton’s 300-capacity The Macbeth North London for a second show after midnight.
Carl Barât said of the This Feeling NYE shows “I’ve always had a thoroughly enjoyable night DJing at The Macbeth and Amersham Arms so I’m chuffed that the fellows at This Feeling and Jack Daniel’s are letting me and the Jackals play at both venues on New Year’s Eve. It will be a great way start to 2015.”
Tickets £25 adv / £30 door (very limited) | 8pm - 4am | rest of the line up to be announced Dec 1st