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Written By: Noel Gallagher (except track 7 by Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/Moy and track 15 by Neil Young

Directed By: Dick Carruthers

The Band: Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell, Alan White

Recorded At: Live at Wembley Stadium on Friday July 21st 2000

01: F**kin' In The Bushes (intro tape) – 3:04

02: Go Let It Out – 5:32

03: Who Feels Love? – 5:59

04: Supersonic – 4:30

05: Shakermaker – 5:13

06: Acquiesce – 4:18

07: Step Out  – 4:05

08: Gas Panic! – 8:01

09: Roll With It – 4:43

10: Stand By Me – 5:49

11:Wonderwall – 4:46

12: Cigarettes & Alcohol – 6:52

13: Don't Look Back In Anger – 5:27

14: Live Forever – 5:09

15: Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) – 3:45

As well as the whole show the DVD features the following: 45-minute documentary shot in and around Wembley by Grant Gee including backstage interviews and fans footage. Multicamera angles on the track "Cigarettes & Alcohol". Live screen films for "Go Let It Out", "Supersonic", "Live Forever" and "Rock 'n' Roll Star". Complete Discography (inc. international releases) with audio clips and artwork. Dolby 5.0 stereo sound. 'Tambourine' icon: click it and it takes you to and from the documentary in real time. A first for a non-film release. The VHS features the whole show and a 20-minute documentary (entitled "Mad Fer It") featuring exclusive interviews with Liam and Noel Gallagher. This documentary is unique to the VHS format.

Blast From The Past: Liam Gallagher

On May 25th 2018 Liam Gallagher released 'I've All I Need' from his debut album 'As You Were' as a single.

Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds released the 'She Taught Me To Fly' single on May 25th 2018.

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Another Review Of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 'Council Skies'

Another 🌟🌟🌟🌟 review this time from the Rolling Stone for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Council Skies album.

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Noel Gallagher On Oasis, Manchester City, Arsenal And More

 
Noel Gallagher joined Simon Jordan and Jim White on talkSPORT this afternoon, watch the interview in full below..

Noel Gallagher German Rolling Stone Ships In A Few Days With An Exclusive Vinyl

The German Rolling Stone issue #06/23 will come with an exclusive Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 7"- vinyl single.

A-side: Dead To The World

B-side: Pretty Boy

Out in two days you can order it worldwide here.

Noel Gallagher Is On The Cover Of Sound & Recording Magazine In Japan

Noel Gallagher is on the cover of Japanese Sound & Recording that is on sale now.

Read Noel Gallagher's Interview With The Big Issue In Full

Noel Gallagher looks back (not in anger) on the upbringing that shaped him. And he has a thing or two to say about living in Britain today.

Read the interview in full on The Big Issue website here.

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Noel Gallagher On Council Skies, Ireland, Springsteen, Paul McCartney And More

Below are a number of quotes from Noel Gallagher's interview with the Independent in Ireland.

On the album Council Skies: “The whole thing was written in lock-down and it was a very reflective time – not just for me, for everybody,” he says. “Artists were probably the people who navigated that the best, because you can articulate it in some way. Although none of the songs are about lockdown, because what the f**k can you write about?” he laughs. “There’s nothing happening.”

“But because there was nothing to look forward to , I was reflecting on how... obviously, I had a lot of personal stuff going on and it was a time to sit and reflect and think: ‘How did we get here?’

On Easy Now: “It is one of my best songs, a great song. Fans are going to freak out when I play it live,” he says of the song with Lennon-esque lines like “Soon your future will appear/There’s nothing left for you to fear” and “I’ll wait for you I swear/Your destination comes without a fare. When I’m writing – and I write songs that sound, for want of a better word ‘Oasisy’ – I usually get as far as the chorus and go ‘it’s just a shit version of ‘Supersonic’, I can’t be arsed’, and I’ll just bin it off. 

He added: "But with that particular song I got to the chorus and I was like: ‘Oh, hello – this is as good as ‘Little by Little’. This has got the same shape as ‘The Masterplan’. ‘Easy Now’ is a song about strangers passing and you never know their name. Roger Waters had the same theme for Dark Side of the Moon. My mate, a guitar engineer played on it. I said to him: ‘Make it sound like ‘Comfortably Numb’ by Pink Floyd.’”

Memories of his summer breaks in Ireland “Where my mum is from – out in the west – is very, very rural. Great when you’re a small child and you’re around animals and when they’re cutting turf. It was all farms and fishing. They were great times. When I go down to Mayo it’s still the same, it’s still the country. My mum comes from a big family, seven sisters, and in the six weeks of school holidays everyone used to go back to my gran’s house, which she wasn’t too pleased about, and they all had at least three kids each.

“So there was always a load of kids at her house. There was never less than eight kids of our age. It was just like a big holiday camp, really. It was great. You’d be in the pub most nights – not drinking, because everyone went to the pub. You’d be sat playing pool, eating crisps, and drinking red lemonade.”

Did he use his time with Springsteen to look for songwriting advice? “I don’t really know enough about his music, really, to get into it with him. Bono, on the other hand – he sends me demos all the time and vice versa. I sent him a few things when I was writing this album. He was the first person to say: ‘You’re on the way. You’re going there. And you should go there.’ I knew what he meant by that. He was saying to me: ‘Say it. What I’ve learned from meeting people like Springsteen and McCartney is they’re just normal guys like you who don’t really know what they’re doing. But they’re challenging something or other.

He added “Honestly, bar John Lennon and Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, I think I’ve met everyone else. They’re all just chipping away, tripping to write a f**king tune. The great thing about Get Back [the eight-hour 2021 documentary by Peter Jackson on the making of The Beatles’ 1970 album Let It Be] when it came out was: all these people who’ve never written a song and don’t know what it’s like could see. They think you sit down and go, ‘OK, I’m now going to write ‘Hey Jude’. And of course it’s not like that. It’s good to see Paul McCartney just hammering away at an idea of ‘Get Back’. He knows he’s got it but he doesn’t know what it is.”

On playing with Paul McCartney at his daughters Stella's birthday: “We played a few Beatles’ songs together. It was f**king far-out. It was a lovely summer night. The moon was a perfect crescent. He said to me: ‘Noelo’ – he calls me Noelo – ‘look at the moon. Look at the shape of the moon. Do you know that’s where the French got the term croissant from?’ I was thinking that’s not true. I said: ‘Is it?’ He said: ‘I don’t know. It’s a Macca truth.’”

How does he feel about the former Labour leader Tony Blair now? Does he think he is a war criminal? : “No,” he says, without hesitation. “I do not. I wish he’d stand again. I’d vote for him. He was the only one that ever spoke any sense to me. Not me personally, but politically. Everything now has gone back to the extremes. He seemed to dance on the fine line of uniting everyone politically and therefore united the country. I know it was a difficult time when it was the 1990s and the internet had just been invented and the economy went through the roof. But still, it was some dance that he did.

He added “Even during the pandemic he was the only one who spoke any sense about the vaccination when he said: ‘If it’s young people are spreading, let’s vaccinate them first. Don’t lock them all up if they’re at a party. Vaccinate them all.’ So, I don’t think he’s a war criminal. You know as well as I do that Britain is always going to stand with America through thick and thin. If America says jump, Britain says: ‘How high?’”

Another Review Of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies

From the new issue of MOJO 

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies

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For a good while now, Noel Gallagher seems to have been keen to leave his acoustic guitar locked in its case. Arguably, the highlight of his last album, 2017's Who Built the Moon?, was strummy ballad Dead In The Water, recorded live in a Dublin radio studio and hidden away as a bonus track, like a slightly shameful secret, after his experiments with glammy stomp and trip-hop.

Gallagher's subsequent three EPs released between 2019-20 seemed to reinforce the point that he was determined to push back against what he was best at. The disco rock moves of Black Star Dancing and This Is The Place were a bit like someone deciding to put on a Hawaiian shirt that didn't really suit them. Advance warning that this iffy period might be over came last year with the release of the demoes of two songs from Council Skies: the strident guitar pop of We're Gonna Get There In The End and the almost Champagne Supernova-esque Trying to Find A World That's Been and Gone.

 The lyric of the latter informs the overarching sentiments of Council Skies. In the year he turns 56, Gallagher is both acknowledging that many of the places of his past are either shuttered-up or demolished -- notably, the album cover features a Moss Side roundabout that marks the place where Manchester City's Maine Road ground once stood -- while at the same time recalling his youthful early-'90s thrills of facing an unknown and possibly brilliant future.

 Easy Now, with its balladeering verses bursting into singalong choruses, is stirring stuff, and highlights the inherent empathy contained within many of his best songs. A message for a troubled individual, or someone being left behind, its standout hook, "I'll be there/I'll wait for you, I swear" contains a power that will be manifestly multiplied by huge crowds singing it back at its writer.

Elsewhere, Gallagher further spotlights his newfound love for The Cure (that first surfaced with Who's Built the Moon?'s It's a Beautiful World) in the propulsive, A Forest-like Pretty Boy, which has already been remixed and rendered even more Cure-like by Robert Smith, who half-timed the tempo from Seventeen Seconds to Disintegration.

Along the way, there are stylistic diversions that are more subtle: the soul rhythm and gospel vocal support of I'm Not Giving Up Tonight; the Prince-like (specifically Raspberry Beret) shapes of Open The Door, See What You Find. Best of all is the lovely Dead To The World, with its jazzy chords and '60s filmic strings (which even Liam, on Twitter, grudgingly acknowledged with a backhanded compliment, "How can such a mean spirited little man write such a beautiful song?").

All in all, then, Council Skies is very much a creative success. It's the sound of Noel Gallagher pushing onwards, while once again playing to his strengths.

Thanks to theyknowwhatimean on the L4E forums

Blast From The Past: Liam Gallagher

Liam Gallagher appeared on The Jools Holland Show on May 21st 2022, watch a number of videos from his appearance below.

Watch Noel Gallagher's Appearance On The Late Late Show

You can watch Noel Gallagher's appearance on The Late Late Show from Friday on the RTE player in the link below.

Click here to watch it and skip to 1:12:00:40 for the interview.

Review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Council Skies'

Big brother triumphs by reminding everyone he knows how to write giant tunes. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Click here to read the review from Record Collector.

Noel Gallagher On A Night Out With Bono And Shane MacGowan

Noel Gallagher was a guest on The Late Late Show in Ireland yesterday, below is a short clip of the interview.

As soon as I find more I will post it.

On This Day In Oasis History...

On May 20th 2001 Oasis played at the New World Music Theater in Chicago, USA.

Listen to a bootleg of the gig below.



On May 20th 2005 Oasis Oasis appeared on The Late Late Show in Dublin, Ireland.

Watch a superb acoustic version of 'Guess God Thinks I'm Abel' and an interview with Liam Gallagher below.

On This Day In Oasis History...

On May 19th 2000 Oasis played at the Plasa De Toros La Cubierta De Leganes in Leganes, Spain.

Watch a video of the band playing 'Who Feels Love?' below.



On May 19th 2001 Oasis played at the Xcel Energy Center in Minnesota, USA.

Listen to the bootleg of the gig below.