Alan White
Andy Bell
Gem Archer
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Below is a video from July 19th 2002, when Oasis played at the Bern Gurten Festival in Switzerland.
On This Day In Oasis History...
Below is a video from July 19th 2002, when Oasis played at the Bern Gurten Festival in Switzerland.
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Sara Gallagher
The Ronettes
Smitten rocker Noel Gallagher has revealed how he fell in love with wife Sara MacDonald at first sight.
On an edition of Desert Island Discs aired today, the Oasis star chooses Be My Baby by The Ronettes – the song for the couple’s first dance at their wedding in 2011.
He tells the Radio 4 show’s host Kirsty Young that his wife is “everything to me” and reveals she keeps him in check with straight-talking.
He said: “She calls a spade a spade as well. When I am working on music or writing songs and I do demos, she’s the last person I play them to because I can play her a song and go ,‘I think this is going to be an amazing tune’ and she’ll listen to it and go, ‘Hmm, it’s all right’.
“You know, I never believed in love at first sight or that soulmate thing until I met her.”
The couple, who have two young sons – Noel also has a daughter from his first marriage – have been together since meeting at a nightclub in Ibiza in 2000.
And Sara, who comes from Edinburgh, was watching Noel headline at T in the Park last week with his band High Flying Birds.
On the show – where guests choose the music they would take to a desert island – Noel also talks about his turbulent relationship with his estranged brother Liam, the singer with Oasis, whose hits included Wonderwall and Live Forever.
He describes how having a family member in the band became an Achilles heel because “you know how to push each other’s buttons” and reveals they never put an arm round each other’s shoulders.
He said: “Oh, no. We were never that kind of family. No, no, no. There’s no arms round each other saying, ‘You’re great – no, you’re great.’
“The way it worked was when we’re not slagging each other off, that’s when we’re telling each other that we loved each other. That’s it.”
Noel also revealed he has no regrets about meeting Tony Blair in Downing Street at the height of Cool Britannia.
Oasis were one of the biggest bands in the world when he attended the party following Blair’s landslide general election victory in 1997.
They gave celebrity backing to the PM and New Labour but the singer and songwriter says he couldn’t believe he and Scots record boss Alan McGee – who famously signed the band after seeing them play at King Tut’s in Glasgow – were even there.
He added: “I’d moved to London in 1994, three years earlier, with a holdall, an acoustic guitar, nothing.
“Three years later, I drove to No10 Downing Street in a Rolls- Royce, drinking champagne. We laughed all the way up there, me and Alan McGee.
“He’d worked at British Rail most of his life and we were laughing, going, ‘How did we get here? This is amazing.’
“Afterwards, you find out that, yes, they did want that photograph. So, you know, we helped usher in Labour. You’re welcome, all of you. They were great days.”
Noel, 48, also reveals his love of the era. He said: “What people are refusing to accept is the 90s were brilliant. If you think back now to that time of fashion and politics, Thatcherism being ushered out, New Labour being ushered in, and Oasis, Blur, Pulp and all those bands being in the top five all the time.”
The star’s song choices include Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols and With or Without You by U2.
He also reveals that only now Oasis are finished can he give his verdict on the band.
He said: “On our day, we were great. It’s reaffirmed every night I go on stage and play a couple of Oasis tunes and people are there who weren’t even born [when they were written] and they’re crying.
“All over the world, people still are in massive love with that band and none more so than me.”
Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk
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Noel Gallagher On His Wife Sara, Oasis, Liam, Tony Blair And More
Smitten rocker Noel Gallagher has revealed how he fell in love with wife Sara MacDonald at first sight.
On an edition of Desert Island Discs aired today, the Oasis star chooses Be My Baby by The Ronettes – the song for the couple’s first dance at their wedding in 2011.
He tells the Radio 4 show’s host Kirsty Young that his wife is “everything to me” and reveals she keeps him in check with straight-talking.
He said: “She calls a spade a spade as well. When I am working on music or writing songs and I do demos, she’s the last person I play them to because I can play her a song and go ,‘I think this is going to be an amazing tune’ and she’ll listen to it and go, ‘Hmm, it’s all right’.
“You know, I never believed in love at first sight or that soulmate thing until I met her.”
The couple, who have two young sons – Noel also has a daughter from his first marriage – have been together since meeting at a nightclub in Ibiza in 2000.
And Sara, who comes from Edinburgh, was watching Noel headline at T in the Park last week with his band High Flying Birds.
On the show – where guests choose the music they would take to a desert island – Noel also talks about his turbulent relationship with his estranged brother Liam, the singer with Oasis, whose hits included Wonderwall and Live Forever.
He describes how having a family member in the band became an Achilles heel because “you know how to push each other’s buttons” and reveals they never put an arm round each other’s shoulders.
He said: “Oh, no. We were never that kind of family. No, no, no. There’s no arms round each other saying, ‘You’re great – no, you’re great.’
“The way it worked was when we’re not slagging each other off, that’s when we’re telling each other that we loved each other. That’s it.”
Noel also revealed he has no regrets about meeting Tony Blair in Downing Street at the height of Cool Britannia.
Oasis were one of the biggest bands in the world when he attended the party following Blair’s landslide general election victory in 1997.
They gave celebrity backing to the PM and New Labour but the singer and songwriter says he couldn’t believe he and Scots record boss Alan McGee – who famously signed the band after seeing them play at King Tut’s in Glasgow – were even there.
He added: “I’d moved to London in 1994, three years earlier, with a holdall, an acoustic guitar, nothing.
“Three years later, I drove to No10 Downing Street in a Rolls- Royce, drinking champagne. We laughed all the way up there, me and Alan McGee.
“He’d worked at British Rail most of his life and we were laughing, going, ‘How did we get here? This is amazing.’
“Afterwards, you find out that, yes, they did want that photograph. So, you know, we helped usher in Labour. You’re welcome, all of you. They were great days.”
Noel, 48, also reveals his love of the era. He said: “What people are refusing to accept is the 90s were brilliant. If you think back now to that time of fashion and politics, Thatcherism being ushered out, New Labour being ushered in, and Oasis, Blur, Pulp and all those bands being in the top five all the time.”
The star’s song choices include Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols and With or Without You by U2.
He also reveals that only now Oasis are finished can he give his verdict on the band.
He said: “On our day, we were great. It’s reaffirmed every night I go on stage and play a couple of Oasis tunes and people are there who weren’t even born [when they were written] and they’re crying.
“All over the world, people still are in massive love with that band and none more so than me.”
Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk
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Damon Albarn
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Thom Yorke
Cast away on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Noel Gallagher is to reveal the secret of his relationship with his brother, Liam, and to mount a sturdy defence of the 1990s, the era of BritPop and New Labour.
He will also comment on his use of drugs and on his status as a songwriter, explaining ruefully: “Put it this way, I am not as revered by the press as Thom Yorke or Damon Albarn. That is just a fact.”
Assessing the impact of Oasis, the band he set up with his brother, he says: “On our day we were great. People are there now at my concerts that weren’t even born then and they are crying at Oasis songs. All all over the world people are still in massively in love with that band – and none more so than me.”
On the subject of the rows with Liam that eventually caused the breakup of the band, Gallagher, 48, explains: “The way it worked was, when were not slagging each other off, that’s when were telling each other that we loved each other. That’s it. Clearly there was a point where he was the greatest singer in the world and it was great. It just so happens that the two of us we like to call a spade a spade. But it was very sarcastic mud-slinging.”
Gallagher tells presenter Kirsty Young that the pair had got on well as children in Burnage, Manchester. “He was an irritant though, because we shared a bedroom. When you are 10 and your brother is five it is a lifetime away and so I never hung out with any of his friends, but, yeah, we got on.” In the band, their sibling status was a mixed blessing, he adds. “You can gain some strength from being in a band with your brother when everyone else is a stranger, but as time goes on it becomes your achilles heel because you know how to push each other’s buttons.”
Gallagher, who has played solo and with his band High Flying Birds since 2009, confesses that in 1998 he realised the last three Oasis albums had all been created “on drugs”. “Not all of Oasis were on drugs though. Just effectively me and Liam,” he says. A move out to the country was followed by “a moment of clarity” when he found a stranger in his kitchen the morning after a party and decided to give up drugs.
“I have good willpower. It was one of the greatest things I have ever done,” he says, explaining he met his second wife, Sarah MacDonald, shortly after this.
Choosing the music of many of his heroes, such as David Bowie and the Smiths, to take to the desert island, Gallagher says he still regards the Beatles as “the greatest thing in music that ever was”.
Contrasting his heyday in the 1990s with the “gloomy, dark, fractured times” of the 70s and 80s, before the arrival of the “modern man”, Gallagher tells Young that people “have to admit” the Britpop era was great.
“What people are refusing to accept is that the 90s were brilliant. Think about that time, with Thatcher being ushered out and New Labour coming in. And Oasis, Blur and Pulp all those bands in the top five all the time. They were great days.”
He selects Jack Kerouac’s On the Road as his Desert Island Book, explaining it is the only book he has ever read..
Source: www.theguardian.com
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Gallagher Brothers' Relationship 'Was Achilles Heel For Oasis'
Cast away on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Noel Gallagher is to reveal the secret of his relationship with his brother, Liam, and to mount a sturdy defence of the 1990s, the era of BritPop and New Labour.
He will also comment on his use of drugs and on his status as a songwriter, explaining ruefully: “Put it this way, I am not as revered by the press as Thom Yorke or Damon Albarn. That is just a fact.”
Assessing the impact of Oasis, the band he set up with his brother, he says: “On our day we were great. People are there now at my concerts that weren’t even born then and they are crying at Oasis songs. All all over the world people are still in massively in love with that band – and none more so than me.”
On the subject of the rows with Liam that eventually caused the breakup of the band, Gallagher, 48, explains: “The way it worked was, when were not slagging each other off, that’s when were telling each other that we loved each other. That’s it. Clearly there was a point where he was the greatest singer in the world and it was great. It just so happens that the two of us we like to call a spade a spade. But it was very sarcastic mud-slinging.”
Gallagher tells presenter Kirsty Young that the pair had got on well as children in Burnage, Manchester. “He was an irritant though, because we shared a bedroom. When you are 10 and your brother is five it is a lifetime away and so I never hung out with any of his friends, but, yeah, we got on.” In the band, their sibling status was a mixed blessing, he adds. “You can gain some strength from being in a band with your brother when everyone else is a stranger, but as time goes on it becomes your achilles heel because you know how to push each other’s buttons.”
Gallagher, who has played solo and with his band High Flying Birds since 2009, confesses that in 1998 he realised the last three Oasis albums had all been created “on drugs”. “Not all of Oasis were on drugs though. Just effectively me and Liam,” he says. A move out to the country was followed by “a moment of clarity” when he found a stranger in his kitchen the morning after a party and decided to give up drugs.
“I have good willpower. It was one of the greatest things I have ever done,” he says, explaining he met his second wife, Sarah MacDonald, shortly after this.
Choosing the music of many of his heroes, such as David Bowie and the Smiths, to take to the desert island, Gallagher says he still regards the Beatles as “the greatest thing in music that ever was”.
Contrasting his heyday in the 1990s with the “gloomy, dark, fractured times” of the 70s and 80s, before the arrival of the “modern man”, Gallagher tells Young that people “have to admit” the Britpop era was great.
“What people are refusing to accept is that the 90s were brilliant. Think about that time, with Thatcher being ushered out and New Labour coming in. And Oasis, Blur and Pulp all those bands in the top five all the time. They were great days.”
He selects Jack Kerouac’s On the Road as his Desert Island Book, explaining it is the only book he has ever read..
Source: www.theguardian.com
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Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, England later today (July 19th).
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Suffolk
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, England later today (July 19th).
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This Feeling
A well known haunt of well known faces, and where to see future next big things in advance.
Visit www.thisfeeling.co.uk for tickets and information on club nights all over the UK.
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'This Feeling' Ibiza Special This Monday
A well known haunt of well known faces, and where to see future next big things in advance.
Visit www.thisfeeling.co.uk for tickets and information on club nights all over the UK.
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Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Noel Gallagher on happiness, therapy, Apple Music, why Kristoffer should interview Liam, comedy, Oasis, to have interviewee-skills, music, instagram, UKIP, success, Seinfeld, and (not) using FaceTime with your kids."
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Noel Gallagher On His Brother Liam, Oasis, UKIP, FaceTime And More
Noel Gallagher on happiness, therapy, Apple Music, why Kristoffer should interview Liam, comedy, Oasis, to have interviewee-skills, music, instagram, UKIP, success, Seinfeld, and (not) using FaceTime with your kids."
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Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played Live At The Marquee 2015 earlier this week, KC caught up with the main man himself before the show.
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Noel Gallagher On T In The Park, Ireland, Oasis And More
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played Live At The Marquee 2015 earlier this week, KC caught up with the main man himself before the show.
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Noel Gallagher
Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Super Bock Super Rock 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Everybody's On The Run
Lock All The Doors
In The Heat of the Moment
Riverman
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
Whatever
Dream On
The Mexican
If I Had A Gun
Digsy's Dinner
The Masterplan
AKA... What A Life!
Don't Look Back In Anger
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Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Lisbon
Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Super Bock Super Rock 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Everybody's On The Run
Lock All The Doors
In The Heat of the Moment
Riverman
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
Whatever
Dream On
The Mexican
If I Had A Gun
Digsy's Dinner
The Masterplan
AKA... What A Life!
Don't Look Back In Anger
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Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Live at Benicassim 2015 in Benicassim, Spain later today (July 17th).
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Benicassim
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Live at Benicassim 2015 in Benicassim, Spain later today (July 17th).
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Alan White
Bonehead
Guigsy
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
The video below is from July 17th 1995, when Oasis appeared on Zona TV in Spain.
On This Day In Oasis History...
The video below is from July 17th 1995, when Oasis appeared on Zona TV in Spain.
Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Live at the Super Bock, Super Rock in Lisbon, Portugal later today (July 16th).
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Lisbon
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Live at the Super Bock, Super Rock in Lisbon, Portugal later today (July 16th).
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Noel Gallagher
Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Live At the Marquee in Cork, Ireland.
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Everybody's On The Run
Lock All The Doors
In The Heat of the Moment
Fade Away
Riverman
The Death Of You And Me
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
The Dying Of The Light
AKA.. Broken Arrow
Dream On
Whatever
The Mexican
Digsy's Dinner
If I Had A Gun
The Masterplan
AKA... What A Life!
Don't Look Back In Anger
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Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Cork
Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Live At the Marquee in Cork, Ireland.
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Everybody's On The Run
Lock All The Doors
In The Heat of the Moment
Fade Away
Riverman
The Death Of You And Me
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
The Dying Of The Light
AKA.. Broken Arrow
Dream On
Whatever
The Mexican
Digsy's Dinner
If I Had A Gun
The Masterplan
AKA... What A Life!
Don't Look Back In Anger
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Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Much like being in the front-row at a comedy gig, there's a certain set of rules when it comes to being in the pit at a concert.
Stay on your feet, avoid crushing the people around you and try not to antagonise the lead singer of the band are just a few of them but it seems that this concert goer in Cork didn't take heed of this advice.
I'm a massive fan of Noel Gallagher because the former Oasis guitarist always speaks his mind and doesn't give a s**t about anyone else, something that he's frequently done when speaking about his brother Liam.
Noel was playing with his band The High Flying Birds last night at the Marque in Cork and one fan asked him to play the Oasis hit 'The Importance of Being Idle'.
Noel replied by saying that he doesn't play that song anymore but the fan continued with his line of questioning by cheekily asking him 'where's Liam?'.
Source: www.joe.ie
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Video: Noel Gallagher Slays A Heckler In Cork
Much like being in the front-row at a comedy gig, there's a certain set of rules when it comes to being in the pit at a concert.
Stay on your feet, avoid crushing the people around you and try not to antagonise the lead singer of the band are just a few of them but it seems that this concert goer in Cork didn't take heed of this advice.
I'm a massive fan of Noel Gallagher because the former Oasis guitarist always speaks his mind and doesn't give a s**t about anyone else, something that he's frequently done when speaking about his brother Liam.
Noel was playing with his band The High Flying Birds last night at the Marque in Cork and one fan asked him to play the Oasis hit 'The Importance of Being Idle'.
Noel replied by saying that he doesn't play that song anymore but the fan continued with his line of questioning by cheekily asking him 'where's Liam?'.
Source: www.joe.ie
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Chemical Brothers
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release ‘Lock All the Doors’ on August 28th. The track is the fourth single from the hugely successful No 1 album ‘Chasing Yesterday’ and includes B-side ‘Here’s A Candle (For Your Birthday Cake)’
‘Lock All The Doors’ has been in the making for 23 years, Noel said:
"There's a song on this record that's taken me 23 years to finish - it's called 'Lock All The Doors'. I gave a bit of it away to The Chemical Brothers in the '90s when we did 'Setting Sun' and I always meant to finish it off. I kept the chorus but I could never find a way of getting the verse to tie in with this chorus. One afternoon I was coming out the Tesco Metro where I live in Maida Vale, and I don't know what it was but it just hit me, coming round the corner, just by Boots, it came to me in a flash of inspiration. This song was never released by Oasis, but the chorus is so fucking brilliant I never gave up on it."
"Lock All The Doors perfectly recaptures the brutish, overdriven thrill of early Oasis" NME
A. Lock All The Doors
B. Here's A Candle (For Your Birthday Cake)
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Pre-Order: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Lock All The Doors' Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release ‘Lock All the Doors’ on August 28th. The track is the fourth single from the hugely successful No 1 album ‘Chasing Yesterday’ and includes B-side ‘Here’s A Candle (For Your Birthday Cake)’
‘Lock All The Doors’ has been in the making for 23 years, Noel said:
"There's a song on this record that's taken me 23 years to finish - it's called 'Lock All The Doors'. I gave a bit of it away to The Chemical Brothers in the '90s when we did 'Setting Sun' and I always meant to finish it off. I kept the chorus but I could never find a way of getting the verse to tie in with this chorus. One afternoon I was coming out the Tesco Metro where I live in Maida Vale, and I don't know what it was but it just hit me, coming round the corner, just by Boots, it came to me in a flash of inspiration. This song was never released by Oasis, but the chorus is so fucking brilliant I never gave up on it."
"Lock All The Doors perfectly recaptures the brutish, overdriven thrill of early Oasis" NME
A. Lock All The Doors
B. Here's A Candle (For Your Birthday Cake)
Click here to pre-order.
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