Everyone from Noel Gallagher to Ella Eyre has come together to create a playlist in the name of Oxjam.
Wolf Alice, Eliza Doolittle and The Vaccines have also thrown their pick of tracks into the mix, resulting in a playlist that ranges from Drake to The Clash.
Speaking about her inclusion of The Rolling Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want', Eliza explained: "That had me in tears [at Glastonbury]. As soon as the choir came in I was bawling. So good."
Throughout October, 700 venues, 6,000 volunteers, 5,000 musicians and 150,000 audience members will help Oxjam raise at least £300,000 for Oxfam's work around the world.
Events include Oxjam Takeovers (a series of mini festivals in 42 UK locations) as well as a nationwide search for Band of the Year.
Noel has pulled together his favourite tracks for Autumn and we've added them to his 'Songs From The Mighty I Radioshow' playlist over on Spotify.
Make sure you give the playlist a follow as Noel will continue to add to it.
For those of you on other streaming services here is the tracklisting.
State Trooper - Bruce Springsteen
Like A Ship - Pastor T.L Barrett
Wondrous Place - Billy Fury
Finale: It's a fast Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warholes Sixteen Minutes - The Dandy Warholes
There There My Dear - Dexys Midnight Runners
A Thing Called Love - Johnny Cash
Let's Live For Today - The Grass Roots.
He's strutted his stuff with Oasis, Beady Eye and the newly reformed Ride, and now Mr Bell shares some of his trade secrets, click here to read the tips.
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Andy Bell's life changed the first time he heard Oasis.
The 45-year-old musician joined the 'Supersonic' band as their bass player in late 1999 as a replacement for original bassist Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan and admits it was a dream come true for him to be part of the now defunct group because their debut album 'Definitely Maybe' had such a huge impact on him when it was released in 1994.
Andy - who played guitar in Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis band Beady Eye and is now back playing in his original group Ride - recalled: "Oasis definitely did change my life when I first heard them! They were like a breath of fresh air. To put it into context, Ride were working on the third album, 'Carnival of Light', and we were taking a bit of a break. We were starting to get a bit frayed at the edges and we were starting to pull in different directions musically, too. We were really shooting for a kind of West Coast Byrdsy California sound mixed with a little bit of Led Zeppelin and a little bit of classic rock.
"I think we were also subconsciously trying to make a cleaner record, because we'd stopped getting played on the radio ... but then along comes Oasis sounding like the Jesus and Mary Chain meets the Sex Pistols and just completely blew everything out of the water!"
Andy also paid tribute to his former Oasis bandmate Noel Gallagher, insisting his skills as a guitarist are underestimated by too many people.
He told website MusicRadar: "I just want to say that I think Noel's really underrated as a lead guitar player. His playing is like a John Squire-y thing, but there's a lot more muscle behind it. He kind of trademarked his own style, which has become something that everyone uses now - that massively overdriven sound with quite a lot of delay on it. [His playing] just sounded epic."
Clyde 1 Live returns to Glasgow’s The SSE Hydro on Tuesday 8th December for a night of amazing live music from some of the biggest stars on the planet!
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Stereophonics
Kodaline
Foxes
Tom Odell
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"Cigarettes & Alcohol" is a song by Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher. It was released as the fourth single from their debut album Definitely Maybe, and their second to enter the UK top ten in the United Kingdom, peaking at #7 (three places higher than "Live Forever"), eventually spending 35 weeks on the charts, re-entering the Top 75 on several occasions until 1997. The single was released in the UK on October 10th 1994
Background
Whereas earlier singles "Supersonic" and "Shakermaker" had used psychedelic imagery, and "Live Forever" used softer chords and tender lyrics, "Cigarettes & Alcohol" was the first real taste of the wilder attitude that Oasis appeared to be promoting. The song proclaims the inherent appeal of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as a remedy to the banality and seemingly futile nature of the working class life. Lyrics such as "Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?" taps into the common sentiment of western disenchantment that was particularly common in the mid-1990s.
Upon first hearing the song, the man who discovered the band, Alan McGee, claimed that the song was one of the greatest social statements anyone had made in the past 25 years.
Track listings
CD CRESCD 190
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 4:48
"I Am the Walrus" (live) – 8:15
"Listen Up" – 6:39
"Fade Away" – 4:13
7" CRE 190
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 4:48
"I Am the Walrus" (live) – 8:15
12" CRE 190T
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 4:48
"I Am the Walrus" (live) – 8:15
"Fade Away" – 4:13
Cassette CRECS 190
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 4:50
"I Am the Walrus" (live) – 8:15
Contrary to the sleeve notes, which claimed it was recorded at the Glasgow Cathouse in June 1994, "I Am the Walrus" was actually recorded at a soundcheck for a gig at the Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland on 6 February 1994, as part of a Sony Music seminar. The reason why this wasn't mentioned on the original sleevenotes is that Noel thought mentioning the fact that it was recorded at a corporate event would "look shit". The crowd noises at the beginning and end of the track are from a Faces bootleg of Noel's.
The single is the first Oasis release to feature the inclusion of a song not written by Noel Gallagher.
Noel in the Lock the Box interview says "I remember writing it in my flat in Manchester, and two guys used to live above me, and in those days, being the fucking geezer that I was, I used to write on the electric guitar with my amp in the fucking room, in a block of flats, on ten, and one of the guys passed me on the stairs and said "You're not gonna fucking write a song to that riff are you? That's fucking rubbish" and I was going "Listen fat arse, that's gonna be fucking amazing when it comes out"."
Noel has also said of "Cigarettes and Alcohol", "That song keeps getting better and better for me."
Noel claims that when they released "Cigarettes and Alcohol", he realised how big they were going to be. He said in an interview that "that was the moment when we realised we should belt up, it's gonna get a bit mad from here on in."
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The video below is from the 9th October 1997 when Oasis appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman in New York, and played the classic Don't Go Away.
Check out Pretty Green's Capsule collection for Autumn Winter ’15 it's inspired by the Northern Soul movement that emerged in Britain in the late 1960’s. Fueled by the upbeat sounds of Black American soul music and the fast tempo beats of Tamla Motown, the Northern Soul scene exploded with new dance moves and fashions.
Below is a short interview with Liam Gallagher that was recorded in Italy, when asked what he's doing in Varese he said "I've come to buy a race horse and pizza".
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Click here to vote for Noel Gallagher at this years Q Awards, he's been nominated for 'Best Album', 'Best Solo Artist' and the 'Best Act In The World Today' categories.
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Click here and here to see a number of pictures of Noel Gallagher and his wife Sara at the London launch of Casamigos Tequila and Cindy Crawford's book 'Becoming'.
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