Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Behind The Rainbow's End - The Making Of Chasing Yesterday - Part 1

Noel Gallagher and his band High Flying Birds have released their album Chasing Yesterday.

In the first part of the three-part series, Noel talks about the making of the album. (Part two is tomorrow).

Click here to read Noel's interview on making the album.



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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Official Aftershow Party In Paris

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Official Aftershow Party In Manchester

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Official Aftershow Party In Belfast

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Official Aftershow Parties In Glasgow And London

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Aftershow Party In Dublin

Up Close and Personal Promotions are proud to announce the Exclusive Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds Aftershow Party at The Grand Social on Wed 4th March, hosted by none other than Paul Gallagher and Bonehead.

Early Bird Tickets are priced €8 plus booking and available from here.

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Win A Sound Check Experience With Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Dublin

purehmv are giving you this once in a lifetime chance to win tickets to see Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds' sound check at a special sound check party in advance of the show that takes place on 4th March!

Where: 3Arena, Dublin

When: Wednesday 4th March 2015 at 4pm

Chasing Yesterday is the second album from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and is available to buy from hmv & Xtra-vision stores from Friday 27th February 2015.

Please note: Prize is for soundcheck-only.

To enter simply swipe your purehmv card when you purchase a copy of Noel Gallagher’s new album ‘Chasing Yesterday’ OR Enter the competition below using 1,000 of your purehmv points.

Competition ends Midday Tuesday 3rd March 2015

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Noel Gallagher On Losing His Eyesight And Hair

The 47-year-old rocker has revealed his eyesight has started to become blurry but he doesn't want to wear glasses, and will only embark on treatment to prevent the deterioration of his ailing vision when he is unable to tell the difference between his wife, Sara MacDonald, and other women.

He said: ''I do need glasses. But I'm going to wait until I walk into a restaurant and accidentally kiss other women while my wife is at another table before I do anything about it. Then I'm going to get them lasered.''

However, his poor eyesight is the least of his worries as the former Oasis star - who has 15-year-old daughter Anais, as well as sons Donovan, seven, and Sonny, four - is terrified of losing his hair as he grows older.

Speaking about the prospect of being bald, he said: ''I don't have the face for it, my nose is so big that I can't wear a hat.''

And while he is well known for penning some of Oasis' greatest hits along with two albums worth of solo material, the star admitted he would rather be unable to write further hits than lose his trademark hairstyle.

He told The Sun newspaper: ''If my hair ever goes, it's getting shaved. I'd rather lose my songwriting ability than my barnet. I've written loads of great songs, but it doesn't work without the hairdo.''

Source: www.tv3.ie

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Chasing Yesterday' Is Out Today!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds brand new album 'Chasing Yesterday' is out today!

You can get your hands on exclusive CD and vinyl versions from Noel's online store: http://po.st/NGHFBStore, or download the deluxe or standard versions from iTunes: http://po.st/vSSRrv, Amazon: http://po.st/NzqZ6h and Google Play: http://po.st/GglPly

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Pretty Green: New Arrivals And Items Back In Stock

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Liam Gallagher To Appear In Something Special For Comic Relief

Insiders claim that Liam Gallagher has agreed to support this year’s huge Comic Relief fund-raising effort.

He is believed to have a recorded a starring role in a special Red Nose production, said to involve “music and video” which will be the centre-piece of this year’s fund-raising appeal.

It is the first time he has taken part - though brother Noel has performed songs and done spoof interviews for previous events, the last occasion in 2013.

However, one insider hinted that Liam could be involved in a recording of a song and video similar to Peter Kay’s mega-successful re-make of Tony Christie’s (Is This The Way To) Amarillo in 2005.

“Music always plays a big part in Comic Relief and It is ten years since Amarillo proved such a massive hit.

“This year we once again have a great cast of characters, including Liam Gallagher, involved in a great Comic Relief event - that’s all I can say,” revealed a source.

Liam proudly took girlfriend Debbie Gwyther, 31, along to a London venue to film scenes for a video to promote his involvement in the secret project.

An onlooker said: “Everyone seemed in good spirits and looked liked they’d had a fun time. Liam certainly seemed in a happy mood.”

This year’s Red Nose Day is on Friday March 13 - when the British public will be asked to ‘Make Your Face Funny for Money’.

New sketches from Mr Bean, The Vicar Of Dibley, David Walliams and Catherine Tate will form part of the BBC programming on the night.

Click here for a number of pictures.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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Watch 'The Saturday Night Show' With Noel Gallagher Full Interview And More

Brendan O'Connor is joined by singer Noel Gallagher, presenter Kathryn Thomas and GAA pundit and organ donation activist Joe Brolly.

Click here to watch the full show, Noel's interview starts at 50:00 into the video.

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Watch Noel Gallagher's Performance On The Saturday Night Show

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds perform Ballad Of The Mighty I and Heat of the Moment on The Saturday Night Show.

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Noel Gallagher On His Upbringing And His Brother Liam

Brendan talks to Noel Gallagher about Noel's family, his upbringing and his relationship with his brother Liam.

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Noel Gallagher On His Bromance With Bono

Singer Noel Gallagher has opened up about his bromance with Bono.

The U2 frontman and the Oasis singer have been friends for years, and Noel has revealed the pair love to get drunk together.

“What do we do? We get roaring drunk,” Noel admitted.

“I was on holiday with him this summer down in France, we hung out in a Casino. I won €2,000 but then we went to a nightclub he knew and a round was like €4,000.

“His house was enormous, and so it should be,” he added.

Speaking to Brendan O’Connor on The Saturday Night Show, Noel admitted he and his wife spent a week with Bono and wife Ali and partied the entire time.

“My wife and I were there for five nights, she can only remember going to bed one of the nights. We had a lot of tequila,” he explained.

“I party with my wife most of the time, I don’t really do crazy lads night out. My favourite person to hang out with, sadly enough is my wife,” he added.

Source: www.goss.ie

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Why Noel Is No Longer Chained To The Mirror And The Razor Blade

Barry Egan recalls a lively chat about cocaine with Noel Gallagher almost 20 years ago.

August, 1996, backstage at Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork: Noel Gallagher is batting the breeze with me, two hours before he is due to go with his brother Liam and their band in front of 70,000 people.

I asked him what was his view on Oasis as shameless Beatles plagiarists. "I agree with it," he laughed, "most of the time. Because it pisses people off. Everything is derivative of something. Everyone goes on about Oasis not being as innovative as the Beatles but what they fail to realise is up until the album Rubber Soul, the Beatles were derivative of black American music and not being very good at it."

Would he sue over the recent £4,000-a-week-on-cocaine article in the News of the World? "You can't sue over an amount. It's hardly defamation of character, is it?"

Does taking cocaine give your lyrics a new clarity? "I find that when I get really out of my head on drugs," he answered almost academically, " I tend to write songs like Supersonic."

Was Live Forever written on cocaine? "No. Morning Glory is about the mundanity of cocaine conversations, because it's all bullshit at the end of the day. Then you wake up with a bad head and you've solved f**k all. I suppose that directly inspired the line 'chained to the mirror and the razor blade'."

Presumably he'd agree with the saying: 'Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're earning too much money'? "Yeah, I would!" Noel hooted. "But I was doing coke when I was on the dole anyway." How much was he getting on the dole? "About £60 every two weeks." And you're getting about two million for these Cork shows? "Oh, yeah," he smiled.

Almost two decades later, Noel Gallagher is possibly not getting two million for his solo show at the 3Arena in Dublin this Wednesday. The 47-year-old hasn't lost his million-dollar wit. Not least when Noel recollected the "disgusted text" he received from his pal Paul Weller when U2's Songs Of Innocence album came out free on iTunes: "Why do I have their fucking album on my computer? You're a mate of Bono's - you must have known!"

Noel also recalled that when his wife Sara picks up something unpleasant in the kitchen sink, she will admonish him thus, "There is a dishwasher here. Can you not do anything?" To which he will reply: "Can you play the guitar? No, you can't, thank you very much, jog on."

Noel's second solo album Chasing Yesterday is jogging along very nicely, too. My one quibble with the new record is that Noel hides himself in his songs. Intriguingly, in an interview with Sabotage Times in 2013, Noel was asked did having an allegedly violent father contribute to his apparent reluctance to reveal himself in song.

His answer was revealing in a way his lyrics rarely are: "All the songs that I like, they're not written by songwriters pulling the scabs off themselves. All John Lennon's shit about his mother; I'm not interested in it, doesn't mean anything to me. All these songs about personal torment, how can it? How can Mother mean anything to anybody apart from John Lennon? It can't, because he's singing it about his mother, not mine."

"That's just my perception of it. It's never come out in my music because (a) it's nobody's f**king business; and (b) it doesn't make for great music.

"For instance," he continued, "Waterloo Sunset [by The Kinks]. The sun setting at Waterloo Station belongs to everybody. The ... father I had belongs to me. I really wouldn't want to share that or put it into a song."

What Noel has put into song is his apparent nostalgia for Manchester: 'Taking you back to the town where I was born. . .' he sings on While The Song Remains The Same, hinting at a possible move home.

"We did think about it before our second son [Sonny] came along," Noel said recently. "I wouldn't mind. My mum's still there, still in the same house. But I feel sorry for her; some guy shot a woman in the face yesterday in the middle of the street as she begged for her life."

Source: Sunday Independent

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Noel Gallagher Wants To Be Neil Young When He Grows Up

Now live on Spotify is an exclusive Spotify Radio Show Playlist from Noel Gallagher, who chats about some of his favourite songs, in advance of the release of High Flying Birds' new album Chasing Yesterday, which will be available on Spotify upon its release on Monday.

Below are the tracks he chose and key quotes from the interview.

1: Pinball - Brian Prothero
2: Coup (12" version) - 23 Skidoo.
3: My Spine Is The Bass Line(12" version) -Shriek Back.
4: Flight 2 - Angelou and 18
5: Moody (Spaced Out) - ESG.
6: Colt - Dense & Pika
7: Calm Down- Ill Most Wanted.
8: Say No Go (Say No Dope Mix) - De La Soul.
9: Somebody Made For Me - Emmit Rhodes.
10: Lunatics Lament - Kevin Ayers.
11: Inside Looking Out - The Animals.
12: Gloria -Van Morrison.
13: The Colour Field - The Colourfield.
14: Treason - The Teardrop Explodes.
15: Wigwam - Bob Dylan.

On the most impressive person he has ever met...

"My wife. My mum is a staggering individual. McCartney because he's McCartney and he's still a dude. There's no such thing as The Greatest, but David Bowie would be way up there. Neil Young, he's just a fucking dude. I want to be Neil Young when I grow up - that's what I want to be. John Lydon is initially intimidating, but really he just wants a cuddle and for you to tell him you love him. Weller is a genius. Johnny Marr is a genius. Morrissey is fucking devastatingly cutting and funny and he's not got a good word to say about anyone or anything and I love him for that. He's misunderstood for sure."

On his kids.. 'I don't want my fucking kids talking like Ali G, I'd like them to get on in life.'

On his life... "A champagne cork popping and the Pogues' track Fiesta - that's the sound of my social life.

On his opinions... 'my opinion is not wrong or right - it's just an opinion.'

You can listen to the full radio show here.

Noel Gallagher's forthcoming High Flying Birds album Chasing Yesterday will be available on Spotify upon its release on Monday 2nd March.

Source: www.music-news.com

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Follow Live Updates From The Start Of Noel Gallagher's World Tour

Have you ever wanted to see what happens backstage at a NGHFB's tour?

To celebrate the start of the world tour in Belfast on Tuesday, we'll be bringing you backstage videos, pictures and concert footage throughout the afternoon and evening, exclusively on Twitter.

Catch the action by following Noel (@Noelgallagher) and by watching the hashtag ‪#‎NGHFBTOUR‬ from 3pm, Tuesday 3rd March.

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Noel Gallagher On His New Album, Oasis, Singer-Songwriters, Box Sets And More

Click here to read an interview with Noel Gallagher who talks about his new album, Oasis, singer-songwriters, box sets and record producers.

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Noel Gallagher Is On 'The Saturday Night Show' Tonight

Noel Gallagher will be interviewed and play two tracks on Irish TV show 'The Saturday Night Show' on RTE on later today.

The show is broadcast at 21:35 on RTE.

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