Charity Raffle Raising Funds For 'The Christie Foundation'

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Enter here to win this guitar and support a great cause for £5.00 per ticket.

Limited edition 1 of 15 UK made guitars, with the proceeds going to The Christie Foundation who took care of Tim’s friend and founding member of Oasis, Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs.

The Christie Foundation are the largest single site cancer centre in Europe, treating more than 60,000 patients a year.

The limited edition How High Guitar was inspired by Tim Burgess's ‘How High’ jacket. It is simple and elegant with a touch of flair, yet classic at heart.

The distinct yellow body coupled with black hardware and pickups reflect the How High jacket styling perfectly.

This guitar has house-wound, wide field single coil pickups. They’re wound with 42 gauge copper and Alnico 5 magnets. Cloud 9 Guitars have combined these elements with the great tone of the Grandis body wood and a maple neck and fingerboard to give a unique, versatile tone. The edge bevels lend a crisp detail to the the aesthetics of the guitar. It’s the perfect combination for this classic design.

Comes with hard case and certificate of authenticity signed by Tim Burgess.

We are incredibly pleased and proud to help Tim Burgess by providing the Gear Giveaway platform to raise money for The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.

www.christie.nhs.uk

Live Draw to be held on 12th May 8pm on our Facebook page.

This competition is open to international customers. Please note - any local duties and / or taxes will be covered by the competition prize providers.

ROSELLAS Are Heading To This Feeling 'By The Sea'

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2023 is shaping up to be the year that Rosellas take their local hero status across the country. They started the year in style by landing on Louder Than War and XS Manchester’s ones to watch lists, and they followed a pre-match performance at Manchester City v Arsenal by quickly selling out their biggest headline show to date at Manchester Academy 3. 

What’s more, Rosellas have the tunes to make their ambitions a reality, as they today prove with the release of their new single ‘Hideaway’. The track represents their second release with This Feeling Records after last year’s ‘Switch Off’ received Radio X airplay from John Kennedy. 

‘Hideaway’ is a statement of intent for the year ahead as the Rosellas raise the bar in every way. Epic in scale and destined for the biggest stages, ‘Hideaway’ sees the band merging their soaring rock ‘n’ roll hooks and defiant attitude with their tightest musicianship to date, especially as the track’s final sprawling guitar solo evokes the style of the great John Squire. The song was written by the band and produced by Oliver Shillito. 

Rosellas commented, “We’re excited to up the ante and share our next single ‘Hideaway’ with you all. You can expect hard-hitting, beat driven rock ‘n’ roll with an anthemic chorus, born to be sung by stadium-size crowds. After selling out our Manchester Academy show within a matter of a few weeks, we’re making sure that we debut ‘Hideaway’ across the UK on our tour finishing in Manchester to celebrate the new era of Rosellas. It’s immense.” 



The band’s upcoming festival dates are also taking shape with Stockton Calling, The Great Escape and This Feeling By The Sea so far confirmed. 

For fans of Inhaler, DMA’S and The View, Rosellas add a fresh contemporary edges to classic indie-rock influences, a mix that has seen them stand-out during shows with new generation artists such as Planet, The K’s and Andrew Cushin as well as timeless bands including Black Grape and Starsailor, plus festivals which have included the Isle of Wight, Truck, Y Not?, Neighbourhood Festival, Liverpool Sound City and Rewired. 

Frontman Drew Selby and rhythm guitarist Euan Mail met on a late night train back from a Blossoms gig and their immediate connection lead to them forming a band with Drew’s friends Luis Sullivan (keys, backing vocals) and Ollie Appleby (bass), while drummer Mark Zanker completed the line-up after knowing Luis through the The Royal Northern College of Music. Sharing influences including Shack, The Smiths, Oasis and Stone  Roses, Rosellas’ own independent releases established a reputation as next wave contenders before signing with This Feeling Records last year.  

Check out the release on Spotify here and this weeks events and more at This Feeling at thisfeeling.co.uk

On This Day In Oasis History...

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On April 13th 1994 Oasis played at the Lomax in Liverpool, England.

Watch footage of 'Cigarettes & Alcohol' below..



On April 13th 1996 Oasis played at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, USA.

Listen to a bootleg of the gig in the link below.

Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher

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On April 13th 2015 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Zepp Nagoya in Nagoya, Japan.

Watch a number of videos from the set below.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds released the ‘Wait And Return EP’ exclusively for Record Store Day UK on April 13th April 2019. 

The EP was released on limited edition 12” coloured vinyl and featured remixes by The Reflex and Richard Norris.

Liam Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

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Noel Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

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On This Day In Oasis History...

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On April 12th 1996 Oasis played at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, USA.

Listen to a bootleg of the gig below.


Blast From The Past: Beady Eye

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On April 12th 2011 Beady Eye played at the Liverpool Uni Guild Of Students in Liverpool, England.

Watch a number of videos from the set below.

Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher

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On April 12th 2016 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Gasometer in Vienna, Austria.

Watch a dubbed interview and footage from the gig below.

On April 12th 2018 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Zenith in Munich, Germany.

Watch a number of videos from the gig below.

Don't Look Back In Anger

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CD - CRESCD 221 

01: Don't Look Back In Anger
02: Step Out
03: Underneath The Sky
04: Cum On Feel The Noize

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7" - CRE 221


01: Don't Look Back In Anger
02: Step Out

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12" - CRE 221T


01: Don't Look Back In Anger
02: Step Out
03: Underneath The Sky

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Cassette CRECS 221


01: Don't Look Back In Anger
02: Step Out

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Release Date: February 19th 1996

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Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 1

 

Don't Look Back In Anger is a song by Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher. Released as the fourth single on February 19th 1996 from their second album (What's The Story) Morning Glory? The song became the band's second single to reach number one in the UK single charts, where it also went platinum. Don't Look Back In Anger was also the first Oasis single to feature Noel on lead vocals instead of his brother, Liam.

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Music video

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The video for the song, directed by Nigel Dick, features Patrick Macnee, the actor who played John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers, apparently a favourite of the band. While filming the video, drummer Alan White met future wife Liz Atkins. They were married on August 13th 1997 at Studley Priory Hotel, Oxfordshire but later divorced. 

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History

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Noel said of the song, "[It] reminds me of a cross between All The Young Dudes and summat the Beatles might've done." Of the character "Sally" referred to in the song he commented, "I don't actually know anybody called Sally. It's just a word that fitted, y'know, might as well throw a girl's name in there. It's gotta guarantee somebody a shag off a bird called Sally, hasn't it?". Noel claims that the character Lyla, from Oasis' 2005 single is the sister of Sally. In the interview on the DVD released with the special edition of Stop The Clocks, Noel also revealed that a girl approached him and asked him if Sally was the same girl as in The Stone Roses' track "Sally Cinnamon". Noel replied that he'd never thought of that, but thought it was good anyway.

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Noel admits that certain lines from the song are lifted from John Lennon: "I got this tape in the United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He's going on about 'trying to start a revolution from me bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.' I thought 'Thank you, I'll take that'!" "Revolution from me bed" most likely refers to Lennon's infamous bed-ins in 1969, both in the quote and in the song. The piano during the intro of the song highly resembles Lennon's Imagine. Like many other popular songs, the chord progression for both the verse and the chorus are based on the classical piece Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel. The songs only differ slightly at the end of each phrase. Gallagher also admits that he was under the influence of substances when he wrote the song, and to this day he claims he does not know what it means.

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The song has become a favourite at Oasis' live performances. Noel encourages the crowd to sing along and often keeps quiet during the chorus, allowing the fans instead to sing along while he focuses on his guitar playing. The volume of crowd noise that usually descends on the chorus at concerts is easily audible on the rendition of Don't Look Back In Anger on Familiar to Millions. During the Dig Out Your Soul Tour the song has been played acoustically at a slower rate by Noel. Which surprised some fans, but it is still got a great reception and was sung by fans.

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In a 2006 radio interview, Liam Gallagher said that it was he who came up with the line "so Sally can wait" as Noel was struggling with that particular line at the time. Noel confirms this on the bonus DVD, entitled Lock The Box, released with the Stop The Clocks retrospective album. In the interview with Colin Murray, Noel admits, "I was doing it in the sound check and the so Sally bit, I wasn't singing that...and he [Liam] says, 'Are you singing so Sally can wait?' and I said, 'No.' and he said, 'Well you should do.'"

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Noel was so excited of the potential of the song when he first wrote it, he used an acoustic set to perform a work-in progress version, without the second verse and a few other slight lyrical differences to the finished version, at an Oasis concert at the Sheffield Arena on April 22nd 1995, saying before playing that he'd only written it the previous Tuesday (April 18th 1995) and that he didn't even have a title for it.

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The single cover is an homage to the incident where Ringo Starr briefly left The Beatles during the recording of The White Album after the other three Beatles members successfully persuaded him to return, George Harrison decorated Ringo's drum kit in red, white, and blue flowers to show their appreciation.
 

The B-side Step Out was originally intended for the (What's The Story) Morning Glory? album but was taken off after Stevie Wonder requested 10% of the royalties as the chorus bore a similarity to his hit Uptight (Everything's Alright).

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Oasis became the first act since The Jam to perform two songs on the same showing of Top Of The Pops, performing Don't Look Back In Anger, followed by their cover of Slade's Cum On Feel The Noize, also on the single.

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Noel once admitted, on the Frank Skinner show, to telling Liam that he wanted to sing Wonderwall. On hearing Wonderwall, Liam demanded that he should sing it. Noel reluctantly agreed on the understanding that he could sing the next song on the album Don't Look Back In Anger.

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The song became an anthem of solidarity after the Manchester terrorist attack. Three days after the suicide bomber killed twenty two people at the Manchester arena, people gathered in the city centre to observe a minute of silence in honor of the victims. Following the silence, the crowd started singing this tune in an act of camaraderie.

Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher

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On April 11th 2016 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Zürich X-TRA in Zürich, Switzerland.

Watch highlights from the set below.

Blast From The Past: Beady Eye

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On April 11th 2011 Beady Eye played at Rock City in Nottingham, England.

Watch a number of videos from the set below.

On This Day In Oasis History...

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Twenty seven years ago today on April 11th 1994 Oasis released their debut single 'Supersonic'. 

The CD single included the following tracks.

Supersonic
Take Me Away
I Will Believe
Columbia (white label demo)




Live Forever

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CD - CRESCD 185

01: Live Forever
02: Up In The Sky (Acoustic)
03: Cloudburst
04: Supersonic (Live) 

7" - CRE 185

01: Live Forever
02: Up In The Sky (Acoustic) 

12" - CRE 185T

01: Live Forever
02: Up In The Sky (Acoustic)
03: Cloudburst

Cassette - CRECS 185

01: Live Forever
02: Up In The Sky (Acoustic) ​

Release Date: August 8th 1994

Highest UK Singles Chart Position: 10

Live Forever is a song by  Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher. It was released as the third single from their debut album Definitely Maybe on August 8th 1994, just prior to the album's release.

Gallagher wrote the song in 1991, before he joined Oasis. Inspired by The Rolling Stones' Shine A Light, Live Forever features a basic song structure and lyrics with an optimistic outlook that contrasted with the attitude of the grunge bands popular at the time. The song was the first Oasis single to enter the top ten in the United Kingdom, and gained critical acclaim.

Background and recording

Noel Gallagher wrote Live Forever in 1991, while working for a building company in his hometown of Manchester. After his foot was crushed by a pipe in an accident, he was given a less-strenuous job working in the storeroom, allowing him more time to write songs. One night he was listening to The Rolling Stones' album Exile on Main St. While playing one of his own chord progressions, Gallagher noted that it sounded good against one of the vocal melodies from the album: "It was the bit from Shine A Light that goes [sings], 'May the good lord shine a light on you,'" Gallagher recalled. Gallagher incorporated the melody, changing the line to "Maybe I don’t really want to know". For a period afterwards, that was the only part of the song Gallagher had completed.

The song was later instrumental in helping the band secure their record deal with Creation Records. Reflecting on when he first heard the song, Creation boss Alan McGee recalled "It was probably the single greatest moment I've ever experienced with them."

The demo version of Live Forever begins with an acoustic guitar intro. While recording the album version, the record's producer Owen Morris cut out this intro and replaced it with a drumbeat played by Tony McCarroll. Morris further cut a second section in Noel's guitar solo. Although Gallagher was upset, Morris felt the part had sounded "a bit like f**king Slash from Guns N' Roses".

Composition and lyrics

Live Forever is in the key of G major and is based on a G-D-Am7-C-D chord progression, with the G chord becoming an Em during the prechorus. The song has no proper distinction between the verses or chorus section (with only a falsetto refrain of "You and I are gonna live forever" marking off sections), and the vocal melody only consists of a few notes. The simplistic arrangement of the song "meant the song never resolved."

The song begins with a voice whistling briefly and saying "Oh yeah", followed by a drum beat that plays unaccompanied for a few measures. An intermingling of the main guitar line, piano notes, and Liam Gallagher's vocals then enter. Each verse begins with Liam singing the phrase "Maybe/I don't really wanna know/How your garden grows/'Cause I just wanna fly", and each verse ends with the falsetto refrain. A guitar solo appears after the second refrain of "You and I are gonna live forever". After the third verse and refrain section, Liam Gallagher repeats the line "Gonna live forever!" four times with "ache in his voice", followed by one final guitar solo.

Reception

Live Forever was released on August 8th 1994 as the band's third single, a month before the release of their debut album Definitely Maybe. The song had been part of the band's set for longer than a year at that point, and had amassed so many mentions in reviews of the group that "its release [as a single] had long seemed inevitable." In its review of the single, NME found the track to be an improvement over Oasis' previous singles, concluding, "Basically, what thus far looked like obnoxious Manc arrogance suddenly looks like sheer effortlessness. A terrific record."

While Oasis' first two singles, Supersonic and Shakermaker, were modestly received, it was Live Forever that "got the world's attention. Live Forever became Oasis' first top ten hit, reaching number ten on the UK Singles Charts in 1994.

In 1995, the song became the band's first chart success in the United States, reaching number two and ten on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, respectively. Noel Gallagher commented on the praise given to the song: "People said to me after Live Forever, 'Where are you gonna go after that?' And I was like, I don't think it's that good. I think it's a f**king good song, but I think I can do better."

The track has garnered additional acclaim years after its release. In 2006, Live Forever was named the greatest song of all time in a poll released by Q; the song had ranked ninth in a similar Q poll three years before.In 2007, Live Forever placed number one in the NME and XFM poll of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever. The song was selected by Noel Gallagher for inclusion on Oasis' compilation album Stop The Clocks in 2006.

Music videos

Two music videos were made for Live Forever for British and American airplay. The original video, directed by Carlos Grasso, features unusual imagery such as Liam Gallagher sitting on a chair affixed to a wall, and a number of scenes are devoted to the band burying drummer Tony McCarroll alive. Some of the UK version of the promotional video was filmed at the Strawberry Fields memorial, the area of New York City's Central Park dedicated to John Lennon—the single cover features 251 Menlove Avenue, the childhood home of Lennon. The American video, directed by Nick Egan, features the band playing in an office with pictures of Sid Vicious, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan, and Bobby Moore on the wall. Both videos are included on the 2004 Definitely Maybe DVD.

Oasis Dominate Radio X 'Best Of British' Chart

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Live Forever by Oasis has been named as Radio X Best Of British 2023.

There were also songs from Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in the Chart. Check out the list in full here.

99: Oasis - Little By Little
96: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - If I Had  A Gun
94: Oasis - Cast No Shadow
90: Oasis - Rock 'N' Roll Star
87: Oasis - Half The World Away
82: Liam Gallagher - Once
75: Oasis - Some Might Say
69: Oasis - Whatever
57: Liam Gallagher - Everything's Electric
47: Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
45: Oasis - Morning Glory
34: Oasis - Supersonic
33: Oasis - Acquiesce
27: Oasis - Wonderwall
21: - Oasis - The Masterplan
11: Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
07: Oasis - Champagne Supernova
02: Oasis - Slide Away
01: Oasis - Live Forever

Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher

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On April 10th 2012 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played the first of two nights at the Teatro Metropólitan in Mexico City, Mexico.

Watch highlights from the first night below.


On April 10th 2018 Noel Gallagher appeared on 'The Jim Jefferies Show' watch the interview below.

On This Day In Oasis History...

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On April 10th 1996 Oasis played at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada.

The band left the stage after six songs after fans threw coins and shoes at them.

Listen to he gig below.

Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher

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On April 9th 2015 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.

Watch a number of videos from the set below.

On April 9th 2016 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Sant Jordi Club in Barcelona, Spain.

Watch a number of videos from the set below.

On April 9th 2018 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the Mitsubishi Electric Halle in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Listen to a recording of the gig below.

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