Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will play three further shows in addition to their open air shows already announced in Bristol & London’s Kenwood House in June 2020.
BBC Radio 6 6th December at 1730 Listen to the show live here.
Like silly hats, the Queen’s speech and the Dr Who Special Noel’s Noel has become indelibly linked with Christmas at 6 Music. This year Noel Gallagher joins Lammo live in the studio for his annual Christmas address. Expect leftfield sounds and forgotten gems from Noel’s collection, plus the rock legend’s best anecdotes from the year.
It’s an old question when it comes to pop stars and celebrities in general. Not rhetorical at all, but a real procedural, albeit aesthetic conundrum whose answer — either flamboyant or conversely simplified — can often have disastrous long-term results on the career of the said performer. You’ll recall all the terrible stylistic cul de sacs that the truly overrated producer Rick Rubin has pushed his post-Licensed to Ill proteges down, (Pete Yorn, Jake Bugg, and Nicole Atkins, to name a few), with the tepid results sucking out all of the vibrant momenta their music was building at the time. No empathy for the individual artist at all. But no one wants to question his clumsy sonic shifts because he’s, like, a quotation-fingered “genius,” right? And, like, surely he knows best what makes a hit record, right? Wrong. And to paraphrase the always on-point Pink Floyd, “Hey! Rubin! Leave those kids alone!”