Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Piazzola Sul Brenta

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Hydrogen Festival in Piazzola Sul Brenta, Italy later today (July 8th).

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Noel Gallagher On Kanye West, Florence + The Machine And His Future Touring Plans

Noel Gallagher has spoken to the NME about Kanye West, Florence + The Machine's performances at Glastonbury.



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Noel Gallagher Dominates Vinyl Sales In The UK

Gallagher’s High Flying Birds top sales of both albums and singles on vinyl during the first half of the year.

Let no one say the vinyl market is dominated by the dinosaurs of rock or their fans. Actually, scratch that – because it is. The Official Charts Company has released its lists of the best selling vinyl albums and singles this year, and both are dominated by Men of Rock of a certain age.

Chasing Yesterday by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds is the best selling vinyl album of the year, with Nos 2 and 3 being Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti and the Stone Roses’ debut album. The highest placed album by a woman, or an act including women, is Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, at No 18. The only other women or acts featuring women to feature in the top 40 are Courtney Barnett (Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit, No 23), Florence + the Machine (How Big How Blue How Beautiful, No 27), Fleetwood Mac (Rumours, No 29), Belle & Sebastian (Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance, No 36), Björk (Vulnicura, No 37) and Wolf Alice (My Love Is Cool, No 40).

The singles chart is even more skewed, with Gallagher and his Birds occupying the top three places, as well as No 7. David Bowie, meanwhile is at No 5 and No 6 , as well as No 10 (for a split single with Television’s Tom Verlaine released for Record Store Day). Florence + the Machine (What Kind of Man, No 14) and Courtney Barnett (Kim’s Caravan, No 17) are the only women in the top 20.

The top 10 vinyl albums of 2015 so far

1 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
2 Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
3 The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
4 Blur – The Magic Whip
5 Royal Blood – Royal Blood
6 Arctic Monkeys – AM
7 Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon
8 Led Zeppelin – IV
9 Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
10 Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space

The top 10 vinyl singles of 2015 so far

1 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Riverman
2 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Ballad of the Mighty I
3 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – the Dying of the Light
4 Blur – Y’All Doomed
5 David Bowie – Changes
6 David Bowie – Young Americans
7 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – In the Heat of the Moment
8 Paul Weller – Saturn’s Pattern
9 Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk
10 David Bowie/Tom Verlaine – Side by Side/Kingdom Come

Source: www.theguardian.com

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On This Day In Oasis History...

"D'You Know What I Mean?" is a song by British rock band Oasis. It was the first single from their third album Be Here Now and was released on the 7th July 1997. It reached #1 in the UK singles chart, the 3rd Oasis song to do so. The song was written by Noel Gallagher. It was certified platinum for UK sales.

At the time "D'You Know What I Mean" was released, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and as a result, the single, along with the album, was highly anticipated. Upon its release it was critically and commercially successful.

The guitar chords on both the verse and the chorus are similar to the chords used for the Oasis single "Wonderwall" (F#m7/A/Esus4/Bsus4).

The song also shows more of Noel's influences. References include Bob Dylan ("Blood on the tracks and they must be mine"), and The Beatles ("Fool on the hill and I feel fine"), and even their own earlier work ("Don't look back in Anger "). The song also features a drum loop from N.W.A.

The Morse code in the background translates to include such sayings as "bugger all", "pork pies" and "Strawberry Fields Forever." Oasis haven't performed this song since 2002.




















B-Sides

One of the B-sides, "Stay Young", has become a popular Oasis song, so much so that fans voted it onto the B-sides collection The Masterplan - one of only two B-sides from the Be Here Now period which made the album. The song was originally intended to be the "Digsy's Dinner" of Be Here Now (the lighthearted novelty track, such as "Digsy's Dinner" on Definitely Maybe and "She's Electric" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?), until Noel set it aside in favour of "Magic Pie". Gallagher claims not to be particularly fond of the track.

Interview

In a 1997 interview promoting Be Here Now, Noel Gallagher had the following to say about the first single: "I was going to make up some profound statement in the chorus but I couldn't come up with anything that fitted. Then I just thought "All my people right here, right now. D'You Know What I Mean? Yeah, Yeah" Very vague, very ambiguous, that'll do. Look in the mirror and wink while you're singing it and it's quite saucy. And I f***ing love that line, 'Coming in a mess, going out in style'. We were a bunch of scruffs from Manchester and we're going out in a Rolls Royce."

In another 1997 interview, this time on BBC, Noel Gallagher said: "I cant believe I wrote it, it's going to blow people away."

"The morse code in the background was inspired by Strawberry Fields. We got hold of a code book and tried to tap out 'Bugger All' to follow that line 'Don't look back cos you know what you might see'. But if anyone can tell me what we really said, please let me know. Profound lagerisms..."

Seven Ages of Rock

In an interview with the BBC for their documentary Seven Ages of Rock, Gallagher said of the song, "Its eight and a half minutes, the first single, the drums haven't fuckin' come in for two minutes- its all feedback!". He also says that he expected someone to ask them to edit the introduction to the song down, but such was their status in Britain, nobody did. They even performed the song on Top of the Pops, still playing most of the lengthy introduction.

The performance on Top of the Pops ended with a stage invasion by surrounding fans- the second of three stage invasions in the whole history of the show (the first was Nirvana and the last Symposium).

Cover information

The single cover photograph, by Michael Spencer Jones and directed by Brian Cannon of Microdot, was taken in front of the 'Blind Steps', a staircase in Wigan so called because they run past the Blind Workshop, which can be seen to the left of the shot. The steps can still be found on Darlington Street. The shoot was shrouded in secrecy to protect mass media coverage, but newspaper The Wigan Evening Post got exclusive rights to cover the event and subsequently sold the photos to the Daily Mirror. At a lunchtime break, Liam Gallagher and sleeve designer Brian Cannon enjoyed a pint of beer in the nearby Crispin Arms pub by Birkett Bank.

Music video



The music video is filmed at Beckton Gas Works in London with many military helicopters and a strange landscape of concrete slabs and torn down buildings. Liam Gallagher is wearing a snorkel parka and sports a unique pair of sunglasses.

Track listing
CD CRESCD 256
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06
"Angel Child" (demo) - 4:28
"Heroes" - 4:09

7" CRE 256
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06

12" CRE 256T
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06
"Angel Child" (demo) - 4:28

Cassette CRECS 256
"D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
"Stay Young" - 5:06


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

Below are the details for the Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Official Aftershow party in Manchester this weekend.

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Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Stockholm

Click here for a number pictures of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Grona Lund Tivoli in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In London

Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Clapham Calling 2015 in London, UK.

Everybody's On The Run
Lock All The Doors
In The Heat of the Moment
Fade Away
The Death Of You And Me
Riverman
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
Dream On
Whatever
The Mexican
Stranded On the Wrong Beach
AKA.. Broken Arrow
Digsy's Dinner
If I Had A Gun
The Masterplan
AKA... What A Life!
Don't Look Back In Anger

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Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds At Clapham Calling 2015

Below are a number of pictures of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Clapham Calling 2015 in London, click here for more pictures from the event.

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Milan

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Assago Summer Arena in Milan, Italy later today (July 6th).

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Review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds At The At Calling Festival

Click here for a review of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Calling Festival in London on Saturday.

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Noel Gallagher Says Beyoncé, Rihanna And Madonna Have Nothing Of Interest To Say

Gobby Noel Gallagher claims singers such as Beyoncé, Rihanna and Madonna have nothing of interest to say.

The ex-Oasis star no longer buys music mags or reads interviews with musicians.

He said: “Ninety nine per cent of artists having nothing interesting to say. I don’t give a s*** what they have to say.

“If Morrissey is on the cover of a mag I will buy it as he has something to say – or Kanye West, because he is funny.”

Noel also claims no interviewer has ever asked him a decent question.

He said: “If I could interview myself I’d ask me: ‘Why am I so f***ing brilliant at what I do?’”

The singer-songwriter, 48, also dismissed rumours that he will reform Oasis with his estranged brother Liam, 42.

He said: “We don’t talk. He is not a nice person. For me it’s not worth getting back together. What would it take for us to reform? A hell of a lot of money.”

Outspoken Noel hasn’t been playing Oasis’s biggest hit Wonderwall on his current tour. But he claims he still likes the song, which he penned back in 1995.

He said: “I just don’t feel like playing it. I have no problem playing Oasis songs because – after all – I wrote them.”

But in a blast at Liam, who used to perform the track with his band Beady Eye, Noel said: “If I were Mick Jagger and I performed songs on stage on my own that I’d written together with Keith Richards then I’d feel a fraud.”

Asked if he thought Oasis fans should listen to his new music, he said: “No. I would never tell people to listen to my music. I don’t give a s*** what you’re listening to.”

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In London

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Clapham Calling 2015 in London, UK later today (July 4th).

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Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Stockholm

Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Grona Lund Tivoli in Stockholm, Sweden.

Do The Damage
Stranded On The Wrong Beach
Everybody's On The Run
Fade Away
In The Heat of the Moment
Lock All The Doors
Riverman
The Death Of You And Me
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
Whatever
Dream On
The Dying Of The Light
The Mexican
AKA.. Broken Arrow
Digsy's Dinner
If I Had A Gun
The Masterplan
AKA... What A Life!
Don't Look Back In Anger

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Noel Gallagher Says Zlatan Ibrahimovic Is A F*cking Idiot

Former Oasis star Noel Gallagher has criticised Zlatan Ibrahimovic, comparing the Swedish footballer to his brother Liam.

The Paris Saint-Germain forward, just like the rock star, has courted controversy all through his career at a number of clubs including Ajax, Juventus, Barcelona and Inter Milan.

Training ground fights, fall outs with management and crass statements on his abilites have rivalled his undoubted skills for headlines.

And Gallagher, a huge Manchester City fan and himself no stranger to the wilder-side of life, has slammed the 33-year-old.

When asked about Ibramhimovic, he said: "This guy is a f**king idiot. I do not like him, he is full of crap.

"He is like my brother, he talks a lot but can’t back it up. Cool tattoos and a big mouth,” he told Swedish newspaper Afton Bladet.

Source: talksport.com

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On This Day In Oasis History...

"Sunday Morning Call" is a song by British rock band Oasis taken from their fourth studio album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, and was released as the third and final single from it on 3 July 2000, peaking at #4 in the UK charts. The song is written and sung by Noel Gallagher, who took over lead vocal from brother Liam Gallagher on an A-side for the first time since "Don't Look Back in Anger" in 1996.

Though the song has the same anthemic feel that popularised many Oasis songs, and departs from the psychedelic feel of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, which had been poorly received by critics, it received a mixed critical reception. NME described it as "a dreary thing indeed", whereas Allmusic described it as a "self-consciously mature departure from the group's usual ebullience... a deliberately mellow, mid-tempo [song]".

The music video is a take on the Jack Nicholson film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with characters resembling McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. It was filmed in an old mental institution in Vancouver, Canada and features Scottish actor James Cunningham, who has previously starred in the original play of Trainspotting. Unlike the film, the video begins with the McMurphy character escaping his home and giving chase to the authorities, and ends in a football match. While the inmates celebrate a victory, Oasis are seen watching from the asylum window, and Noel Gallagher makes a 'wanker' hand gesture at Cunningham.

Although unconfirmed, there was widespread speculation at the time that the song was inspired by Noel's friend Kate Moss.

This is the only Oasis single on which Liam Gallagher does not provide vocals on any of the songs.


















Track listing

CD RKIDSCD 004
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
"Full On" - 4:16

7" RKID 004
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00

12" RKID 004T
"Sunday Morning Call" - 5:14
"Carry Us All" - 4:00
"Full On" - 4:16

Pretty Green Add A Large Number Of New Arrivals To It's Current Collection

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Noel Gallagher On Song Writing, Oasis And More

Click here to watch an interview with Noel Gallagher who talks about song writing, Oasis and more.

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Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Roskilde

Click here for pictures of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

The video below is from July 2nd 2005, when Oasis played the second of three nights at the City Of Manchester Stadium.