This Feeling
A well known haunt of well known faces, and where to see future next big things in advance.
What's Going On At This Feeling This Weekend?
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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Noel Gallagher
Later today Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will headline Rock N Roll Circus in Sheffield.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Sheffield
Later today Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will headline Rock N Roll Circus in Sheffield.
As You Were
Liam Albums
Liam Gallagher
As You Were
01: Wall Of Glass
02: Bold
03: Greedy Soul
04: Paper Crown
05: For What It's Worth
06: When I'm In Need
07: You Better Run
08: I Get By
09: Chinatown
10: Come Back to Me
11: Universal Gleam
12: I've All I Need
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
13: Doesn't Have To Be That Way
14: All My People/All Mankind
15: I Never Wanna Be Like You
Japanese edition bonus tracks
16: For What It's Worth (live at Air Studios)
17: Greedy Soul (live at Air Studios)
18: Paper Crown (live at Air Studios)
Release Date: October 6th 2017
Highest UK Chart Position: Number 1
Musicians
Liam Gallagher – lead vocals (all tracks), acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 3, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Greg Kurstin – bass, drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, percussion, mellotron, piano, organ, tanpura (tracks 1, 4, 10, 13)
Dan Grech-Marguerat – programming (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Davey Badiuk – programming (tracks 2, 3, 11, 12, 14)
Mike Moore – electric guitar (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11–13, 15), bass (track 5)
Dan McDougall – drums, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards (tracks 2–9, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Martin Slattery – keyboards, saxophone (tracks 2, 3, 5–7, 11, 12, 14)
Ben Edwards – trumpet (tracks 3, 6–8, 11)
Mark Brown – saxophone (tracks 3, 6–8, 11)
Mike Kearsey – trombone (tracks 3, 6–8, 11)
Sally Herbert – violin, string arrangement (tracks 2, 5, 6, 11, 14), brass arrangement (tracks 3, 6–8, 11)
Ian Burdge – cello (tracks 2, 5, 6, 11, 14)
Rachel Robson – viola (tracks 5, 6, 11, 14)
Tom Pigott Smith – violin (tracks 6, 11, 14)
Andrew Wyatt – acoustic guitar (track 4), drum programming, piano, bass, synth, additional guitar, production (track 9), backing vocals (track 1)
Drew McConnell – bass (track 8)
Jay Mehler – acoustic guitar, electric guitar (track 8)
Christian Madden – keyboards (track 8)
Michael Tighe – acoustic guitar (track 9)
Bridget Sarai – backing vocals (track 1)
Vicky Akintola – backing vocals (2, 3, 6, 7, 11)
Production
Greg Kurstin – production, engineering (tracks 1, 4, 10, 13), mixing (track 10)
Dan Grech-Marguerat – production, engineering (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11, 12, 14, 15), mixing (track 15)
Andrew Wyatt – production (track 9)
Iain Archer – original song production (tracks 2, 6)
Dan McDougall – original demo production (track 15)
Alex Pasco – engineering (tracks 1, 4, 10, 13)
Julian Burg – engineering (tracks 1, 4, 10, 13)
Ben Mclusky – engineering (track 9), engineering assistance (tracks 2, 3, 5–7, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Joseph Rogers – engineering (track 9)
Joe Rodgers – engineering (track 15)
Joel Davies – engineering assistance (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Charles Haydon Hicks – engineering assistance (tracks 2, 3, 5–8, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Matt Mysko – engineering assistance (track 8)
Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (tracks 1–9, 11–14)
Richard Woodcraft – brass section recording (track 11)
Julian Simmons – brass section recording (track 11)
Brian Lucey – mastering (all tracks)
John Lennon- In Spirit (all tracks)
Design
Liam Gallagher – art direction, design
Hedi Slimane – cover shot, photography
Richard Welland – art direction, design
Pixie Higson – photography commissioning
As You Were is the debut solo studio album from Liam Gallagher. It was released on October 6th 2017 by Warner Bros. Records. A critical and commercial success, the album debuted at number one in the UK, outselling the rest of the top 1ten of the UK Albums Chart combined and achieving gold certification in its first week.
It has since been certified platinum in the UK. It also achieved the highest single-week vinyl sales in twenty years, with 16,000. In part for his work on the album, producer Greg Kurstin also won the 2018 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
Background
The album was announced in June 2017 with the release of the single Wall Of Glass. Gallagher also revealed that he would launch his first solo tour of the United States and Canada to support the album's release. Once he completed the lyrics, Liam told NME that he cried his eyes out and thought 'I'm back'. The album's title comes from the sign-off Gallagher often used for his Twitter posts.
Gallagher worked with producers Greg Kurstin, Andrew Wyatt and Dan Grech-Marguerat on the album, with Kurstin producing the tracks Wall Of Glass, Paper Crown, Come Back To Me' and Doesn't Have To Be That Way, Wyatt producing 'Chinatown', and Grech-Marguerat producing the remaining tracks.
Critical reception
As You Were received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 71, based on twenty four reviews.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic was highly positive about the record in his four-star review, saying, As You Were doesn't sound retro even though it is, in essence, a throwback to a throwback -- a re-articulation of Liam's '90s obsession with the '60s. That production does Gallagher a favor but so does Kurstin's presence as a co-songwriter, helping to rein in Liam's wandering ear and sharpen his melodies. Ranging from the icy onslaught of Wall Of Glass to the stark swirl of Chinatown this is his best record in nearly a decade, and they add up to an album that illustrates exactly who Liam Gallagher is as an artist. Now in his middle age, he's a richer, nuanced singer than he was during Oasis's heyday, yet he's retained his charisma and, unlike his brother, he favors color and fire in his records, elements that not only enhance this fine collection of songs but make this the best post-Oasis album from either Gallagher to date."
Halina Watts from the Daily Mirror was also very positive towards the record, scoring the album five stars and saying, "As You Were is the legendary rocker at his very best" and that the album was "well worth the wait". She went on to describe Chinatown as a "catchy uplifting poem to the capital" and For What It's Worth and Paper Crown as "fantastic ballads". Watts rounded off the review by saying, "Bring on album two".
Commercial performance
The album was released in numerous formats, from digital versions to vinyl, CD, and a "special box set" that includes a colorized vinyl record, an "exclusive seven-inch, hardback book and an art print by Klaus Voormann, the artist behind the Beatles Revolver album cover. The track listing was revealed by Gallagher with the release of the album's second single Chinatown.
As You Were sold over 103,000 units in its first week in the United Kingdom,
At the time of it's release it was the ninth-fastest selling debut of the decade in the UK. In 2018, the album was certified Platinum with sales of over 300,000 units in the UK. In the United States, it opened at number thirty on the Billboard 200 with 15,000 album-equivalent units, including 14,000 traditional sales.
This marked a successful comeback for Gallagher, as both Beady Eye albums had failed to reach number one in the UK, and their second album had failed to chart at all in the US.
Oasis
On August 31st 1994 Oasis played at The Tivoli in Buckley, Wales.
Watch some footage from the gig below that was included on the Definitely Maybe documentary that was released on DVD.
On This Day In Oasis History...
On August 31st 1994 Oasis played at The Tivoli in Buckley, Wales.
Watch some footage from the gig below that was included on the Definitely Maybe documentary that was released on DVD.
It has now been twenty nine years since the release of Oasis' debut album Definitely Maybe being released.
A few days after the release of the album I finally got to watch the band live for the first time at the Tivoli in Buckley..
My Mum being the absolute legend she was offered to drive me and my friend up from South Wales and straight back home again after the concert. I still remember the excitement and anticipation of waking up on the morning of the gig knowing I was finally going to see one of the best and most talked about British bands in years.
I remember getting to the venue and hearing accents from all over the UK as we waited in the queue, there was a television reporter from Granada interviewing fans about the band. We eventually got in and the staff of the venue were taking tickets from people as they were entering the venue (we will get into that later on in the post).
The place was absolutely packed you couldn't move, we decided between us to get as close as we possibly could to the stage. We hadn't payed £6 plus booking fees to just stand around at the back. I grabbed her hand and we made our way slowly through the crowd until we found a good vantage point not far from the front.
The band eventually came on and the place erupted, out walked Liam, Noel. Bonehead, Guigsy and Tony. We were in front of Liam and Bonehead in what can only be described as a mosh pit we bounced around singing and dancing and having the time of our lives for around a hour.
From what I remember from the setlist the band played Supersonic, Shakermaker, Cigarettes & Alcohol, Live Forever, Slide Away, Columbia, Digsy's Dinner and I Am The Walrus
The songs are not in order and a few are missing it was 29 years ago.
I'm pretty sure they also played Fade Away, during Supersonic someone threw something at Liam and he offered to fight whoever threw it (I believe it was a pint), Evan Dando was on the stage at one point with a woman dancing. It was an absolutely brilliant concert, it lived up to all my expectations and more.
We left the venue after grabbing a handful of tickets each and a poster to remember the gig from the box/ticket office and headed back to my Mum who had been waiting not far away in her car, my hair was a mess, my voice had gone I was sweating and aching all over.
All of the hype, stories and madness that followed the band around in the early days is rightfully now part of the Oasis folklore. The one thing that often gets overlooked from those early days is how tight the original line-up of that band was, it really was something magical to witness and to be a part of.
On August 31st 1996 Oasis played at the Molson Park in Toronto, Canada.
Listen to a bootleg of the gig below.
Noel Gallagher
Setlist, Video And Pictures: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Hull
Below is the setlist, video and pictures of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Connexin Live in Hull.
Setlist
Pretty Boy
Council Skies
Open The Door, See What You Find
We're Gonna Get There In The End
Easy Now
You Know We Can't Go Back
We're On Our Way Now
In The Heat Of The Moment
If I Had A Gun...
AKA... What A Life!
Dead In The Water
Going Nowhere
The Importance Of Being Idle
The Masterplan
Half The World Away
Little By Little
Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Live Forever
Don't Look Back In Anger
Oasis
On August 30th 1994 Oasis played an acoustic set at the Marble Arch Virgin Megastore in London.
On This Day In Oasis History...
On August 30th 1994 Oasis played an acoustic set at the Marble Arch Virgin Megastore in London.
Listen to a recording of the set and watch some footage below.
Noel Gallagher
Later today Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Connexin Live in Hull.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Hull
Later today Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Connexin Live in Hull.
Noel Gallagher
LIVE AT WYTHENSHAWE PARK, MANCHESTER
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Live From Wythenshawe Park, Manchester - Available To Stream September 21st!
LIVE AT WYTHENSHAWE PARK, MANCHESTER
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Liam GOasis
On August 29th 1994 Oasis released their debut album 'Definitely Maybe'.It became the UK's fastest-selling debut album of all time, with 86,000 copies shifted in the first week alone – a record the band held until 2006.
On August 29th 1995 Oasis played the seventh and final date of their tour of Japan at the Imperial Hall in Osaka, Japan.
Listen to a bootleg of the gig in the below.
On August 29th 2008 Oasis played at Rexall Place in Edmonton, Canada.
Watch a number of videos from the set below.
On This Day In Oasis History...
On August 29th 1994 Oasis released their debut album 'Definitely Maybe'.It became the UK's fastest-selling debut album of all time, with 86,000 copies shifted in the first week alone – a record the band held until 2006.
On August 29th 1995 Oasis played the seventh and final date of their tour of Japan at the Imperial Hall in Osaka, Japan.
Listen to a bootleg of the gig in the below.
On August 29th 2008 Oasis played at Rexall Place in Edmonton, Canada.
Watch a number of videos from the set below.
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