Gallagher Brother Blasts Oasis Greatest Hits Compilation

Oasis star Liam Gallagher is furious with his brother and bandmate Noel for "missing out" some of the rockers' best tracks on their newly released greatest hits collection. Stop The Clocks is tipped to be a huge festive hit in the UK but Oasis frontman Liam wishes he'd had more input in the content. He fumes, "I think Noel's missed a few. "I'd have put on Rockin' Chair, D'You Know What I Mean? I would have put some off Be Here Now. "If he didn't like the record (Be Here Now) that much, he shouldn't have put the f**king record out in the first place. I don't know what's up with him but it's a top record, man, and I'm proud of it - it's just a little bit long."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

It's Official, Westlife Are Better Than Oasis

William Hill have closed the book on which Album will be number 1 this weekend having been inundated with bets on Westlife.

William Hill have hardly taken a bet on the other big bands. Oasis started as the 1/12 favourites to win and drifted out to 8/1 conversely Westlife starting at 6/1 and finishing at 1/20 on favourites!

"We could not have got this more wrong and have be whopped by Westlife, Oasis is a dirty word in our office," said William Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams.

Source: www.casinotimes.co.uk

Barlow Joins Oasis/Westlife Debate

Gary Barlow has joined the current chart debate, backing Oasis to win the album battle against Westlife.

The Take That singer reportedly told The Sun, "I just don't get the whole Westlife thing. I don't understand who would go out and buy their records.

"I haven't got it and I won't be buying it, but I have got the Oasis album. I'm definitely backing Oasis over them."

The comments come after Sir Elton John and Simon Cowell both expressed their support for Westlife earlier this week.

The latest midweek sales figures show that Westlife's Love album is slightly out-selling the Oasis greatest hits collection Stop The Clocks.

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

The World According To Noel

Noel Gallagher isn't backward in sharing his opinions about, well, everything. Here's what's been on his mind.

We're talking about the new best-of Stop the Clocks. Have you got a favourite Oasis song?
Not really a favourite, no. If I was to pick one I was to listen to right this very second it would be either The Importance of Being Idle or Supersonic.

Have you got a song then that you think is the best song you've written?

You can't . . . I don't think you can really say that. Fifty million people would say Wonderwall, I would say Live Forever but then again Liam would say something else. It's all opinion and conjecture, isn't it.

When you write a song like Wonderwall or Supersonic do you have that feeling once you get to the end of it, `Yeah, that's pretty good'?

I did with Live Forever. Supersonic was done in such a rush I still . . . when I listen to that song now I still think it's amazing. The Importance of Being Idle, when I finished that I thought it was amazing. I went out and celebrated that night.

You can feel it?

I've written many, many great songs, obviously but I've also written a few stinkers, you know what I mean so when the good ones come along I know. Some of the songs take you by suprise. Some songs you write and you think, "Hmm, that's alright'" and then loads of people go, "Wow, that's amazing." Like Lyla for instance, I thought, `well that's pretty good and then when people heard it they were going, `F***ing hell that's incredible' and I'm like, `Really?'... of course it is, I wrote it.

But that must be part of the fun as well. To take albums on the road and see which songs people really respond to live?

That's all part of the creative process. I've written some things that I thought were monumental and then people have heard it and gone, "Gnah, that's alright". You never quite know. But there certain songs that come along where you go, `F***in' hell. That is fantastic.'

Was it always frustrating that Acquiesce never got onto an album?

Not really. Frustrating for other people. Not me. I never understood what people were, "Oh this should have been a single." Well, why wasn't it then? I don't remember people at the time clambering for it to be a single. It's a great song and all that, but it's not like it's been brushed under the carpet and forgotten about. The cream always rises to the top.

Because a lot of the talk at the minute is going to be about the best-of, is it difficult or interesting for you to start thinking about the early days all over again?

You know it's not difficult because everytime we put an album out people always compare it to Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory so it seems to be I've been talking about the past forever. It's like same sh**, different day for me.

Does it feel then that the best-of might get rid of a bit of that then? Once the best-of is out you will be able to start again.

I don't know. Oasis and particularly Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory had such an impact on people around the world that maybe I wouldn't want people to stop talking about that. I don't know.

The best-of is the end of your contract with Sony BMG. So now you're looking for another record company?

My manager deals with all that kind of thing. We don't have to deal with any of that sh**. Far too complicated for me. I remember looking at a record contract once and it just looked like what I imagine the script for Lord of the Rings would have looked like. I was reading it, going, "What does...? What? What the...? What does that word mean?" It was like one of those scenes from Star Wars where an android is reading out the technical difficulties on one of the space ships in the desert. And you're just like, "I don't know what that means." I thought this is all about making records, isn't it? It's all forthwith and hereforth and I hereby degree that those forsooth, "What?"

So people just need to tell you when to start writing songs and when to book into the studio.
I'm a huge rockstar, point me in the way of the drum riser. That'll do me.

I read an interview where you said the 90 seconds where you walk from the backstage of a stadium to the stage are the best moments you can get.

Walking from the wings to your microphone is an incredible high, and it's an incredible re-affirmation of what you do. It's such a communal... people have said to me, "Well, is it better than drugs?". Well, it is because drugs is a selfish personal thing. If you're taking drugs with a whole lot of people, you can all take the same drug but it effects you in different ways. But when you experience something like that, this very communal thing with 60,000 or 70,000 people it's quite special. It's not something to be taken lightly. If you're going into it thinking it's a f***ing walk in the park...

The more you do it, the more you learn how to handle it. To me, I never used to get nervous, do you know what I mean? I was always a little on edge before going onstage. But now I just love it. It's almost like you can conduct an orchestra when you're up there.

What a lot of people don't understand, when they're starting up, they go, "Oh, I'd be petrified to get up there" and I always say to them, "The thing about it is ... all the people looking at you, they want you to be there. You should never go out on a stage and feel I'm not worthy to be in this stadium. The state of mind you've always got to be in is I'm bigger than this stadium and these people want me to be bigger than this stadium. So even if I don't feel like I'm bigger than this stadium I've got to act like I'm bigger than this stadium or let somebody else do it. I've never understood these wimpy rockstars who get stage fright. Go and get another job then.
When you can command an audience of that size elsewhere in the world, why come to Australia when the reality is you'll only play to 5000-10,000 people when you could be playing to 60,000 elsewhere?

That's a good question ... the weather?

The first time we came to Australia we didn't have a very good time at all, we were in the wrong place mentally and we were all heavily into drugs. It was a f***in' crazy time. We were having a great time but the music and all that suffered so we didn't go back for awhile. I guess ever since then ... well, let's put it this way. You speak English. We've kind of got the same cultural references. I can order room service pretty easy in Australia. It gets a bit difficult in Japan. You say, `No, I asked for sugar, man. Not lobster.' That kind of thing.

Australia traditionally has loved its music, it's rock'n'roll. Who wouldn't want to go there? My very good friend Paul Weller, I keep saying to him, "Everytime I go there, man, they keep asking me when you're going to go there.' And he's like, `Well, it's a bit far isn't it?" And I'm like, "Well, f***ing hell, it's a bit far. They do have airplanes now you know. No-one's requiring you to drive there."

Are you worried about the reception you're going to get next time you come down here after your comments about the Socceroos?

What did I say?

I believe you said, you wanted to "kick Tim Cahill in the bollocks" and that the Socceroos had a "sh*t name."

That's rubbish. Socceroos. That's f****n' nonsense. And explain to me this ... you know Tim Cahill? Everytime he scores a goal he goes and boxes the corner flag, that's ridiculous.

He's being the Boxing Kangaroo.

F***ing boxing Socceroo. What a tit.

It's no different to British players DJing when they score goals.

Yes it is. Well, they're idiots as well. Listen... can you print this? All footballers are f***ing idiots. Start from that rationale. They're all idiots. All of them. They're moronic. They can't dress, they're into shit music, they've got sh*t hairdos, they've got ugly wives and they've got stupid kids.

That's alright then, if you're bagging all footballers.

Oh, totally. I do think Australians are that good at cricket and rugby, what are you playing football for?

You'll never win the world cup. That's for sure. But then neither will England so I don't know what I'm going on about.

England are shit and all. And don't get me wrong, I went to the World Cup in summer and all those English footballers are f***in' knobheads.

Are you going to come out here to catch some of the Ashes?

No, cause I'm kind of busy doing the promotion for this.

It'll be interesting, very, very interesting. You ... you lot have to win it really, don't you? Cause it was bad last time. Old f***ing Glenn McGrath saying you were going to whip us five-nil but it didn't quite turn out like that, did it.

I'm looking forward to that and the Rugby World Cup. It's going to be good man. Do you think you'll win the Rugby World Cup?

I'm from the Southern States so we don't really play Rubgy down here.

Oh really, Do you play boomerangs and all that lot?

We play Australian Rules Football.

* See, now that's f***in' insane. That is insane.

It's a great spectator sport.

It's stupid. Men in really tight shorts and vests, c'mon.

Have you been to a live game?

Are you insane? How would I have been to an Australian Rules ... do you know why it's called Australian Rules?

Because we only play it in Australia.

Because you only f***ing play it in Australia.

What about when you've been out here on tour?

Listen, I'm too busy getting drunk and talking about the Beatles.

You can do that at the football

Nooooo. I'm not having that. That's wrong. That's like saying Sumo wrestling, ain't it brilliant... if you're Japanese it is. It bears no relation to the rest of the planet. It's like baseball. What a load of sh** that is. Each to their own I guess.

No plans to tour here any time soon, then?

I guess when we put a new record out whenever that'll be. It'll be on the map.

Have you started thinking about a new record?
Not really. We only really got back off that tour, it only finished in March. And I don't really need to be hanging out with my brother. Once every three years and only for one year at a time.
You also have another brother Paul, what does he do?

He gets on my nerves, is what he does.

You're the oldest?

No, I'm the middle. Our Paul, what does our Paul do? He keeps the Oasis archive. If you asked him where were the band playing on the 29th of August 1992? He could tell you in an instant. He could even tell you what clothes I was wearing. He's an encyclopedia of all that irrelevant bullsh**. Good lad though.

Thanks for your time, Noel. I think you need to check out a bit of Australian Rules Football next time you're in Australia.

And you need to get a life, love. See you in a bit.

Source: www.news.com.au

Gum Might Say

You think of Oasis and you think of big tunes, punch-ups and massive drug usage.

The tunes are all present and correct on current chart-assaulting greatest hits album Stop The Clocks, and the brothers are still scrapping – so that just leaves the drugs.

Luckily, a certain Mr Noel Gallagher isn’t shy when it comes to talking about the illicit produce that helped fuel his most creative years.

And – despite being off the naughty stuff for more than eight years – the big Manc only has good things to say about narcotics.

Even though his teeth started falling out and he found people he hated sitting in his front room.

In fact, he takes great pleasure in ripping the mickey out of today’s crop of rockers for failing to handle their nose candy without seeking out help.

Noel, 39, says: “You read all these stories now of rock stars going into rehab. Someone must take them to one side at some point and say: ‘Look, I think you’re going off the rails and you might want to go to The Priory or something.’

“To start with we were off the rails before we got a record deal! That’s the difference between the working classes and the middle classes.

“The middle classes experiment with drugs and the working classes just get stuck in. Forget experimenting with them, let’s just get them done.”

And get them done he did.

“We kind of arrived in London hammered,” he confesses.

“We were just out of it and like ‘let’s ’ave it!’ It’s never been a problem for me and Liam.

“It fascinates me that out of all the people we hung out with the only two people who haven’t been in rehab is me and Liam.

“Why would you go to a hospital to pay somebody four grand an hour to tell you things that really you should already know yourself?”

Certainly, Noel had the strength to leave that tempting powder behind him without the help of men in white coats.

He explains: “I’m free of drugs, now, eight-and-a-half years. When you say that to people you sort of half expect a round of applause but I don’t think there should be anything like that.

“Where we come from in Manchester, that was just the done thing and I’ve never had a problem with it.

“The only thing that is bad about drugs is that you drink more and that eventually messes you up, I think.

“If there were gold medals for taking drugs for England then I’d have won a sh*t load!

“I did enjoy it but it kind of got to the point where I’d done them all and that was it, there was none left and I just thought: ‘Can’t be arsed any more.’

“How it’s been portrayed in the past is that I kind of just stood up at a party and went: ‘And this shall be my last line, after this there will be no more!’

“We were at a party one night and then I got up one day and thought: ‘I can’t be bothered today.’

“Then one day turned into a week and that turned into a month, then that into a year – I kind of then just enjoyed not being out of it all the time.

“As that state of mind took hold I would go out with the people I was surrounded with at the time, I’d be sitting there thinking: ‘I don’t even like you, your bird’s an idiot. What you doing in my front room? Get out of here.’

“In the end everybody kind of left the party, if you like, and left to get on with life I guess.

“You’ve got to be strong-willed to say it and vanity also plays a big part in my life – my teeth were falling out and all sorts!

“Nobody wants to look like a weirdo, you know what I mean? You don’t look good and everything was revolved around getting hammered.

“I don’t want this to sound like ‘my drugs hell’ because it wasn’t hell, it was fantastic and I had some of the most monumental nights out and monumental nights in ever.”

Noel grew up in Burnage, south Manchester, and was a regular truant with his brother Liam, allegedly breaking into cars and stealing bicycles.

As a teenager he taught himself to play guitar and also had his first brushes with narcotics before he became a roadie with indie band Inspiral Carpets.

There he began to experiment with Class A drugs on a regular basis and returning from an American tour in 1992 he formed a band called Rain.

They eventually became Oasis when Liam went on vocals. The rest is rock ’n’ roll history.

Noel adds: “I wrote some of the best songs, met some of the greatest people in some of the greatest parties … man.

“It just came to the point where it was like: ‘I can’t be bothered any more, it’s too much.’”

He may be nearly 40, and settled down with his missus Sara MacDonald, 31, but Noel’s still regularly scrapping with his brother Liam, 34, who he affectionately calls “Our Kid”.

He jokes that they row because “I’m better looking than him, obviously”, but admits even when they are warring, deep down they still have feelings for each other.

He says: “I guess because there is a lot of pressure being in a big group we kind of fall out on a regular basis but it’s not anything that’s ever put the band in danger.

“The only people that suffer really are the people that happen to be in the band at that point – there’s been hundreds of them in the past.

“I think that maybe, how can I put it, we don’t like authority figures very much, me and Liam.

“I guess because everyone in the band kind of directs everything towards me because I am, for want of a better word, seen as the leader – I think Liam sort of rebels against that. I think that causes friction between us.

“But put it this way, if he was getting his head kicked right now I would probably join in to save him and if I was getting mine, he would probably join in to save me. I can’t say any fairer than that.”

Both brothers are particularly protective of their mum Peggy, who brought them up single-handedly when their dad walked out on them in the early Eighties.

But they didn’t exactly splash the cash when the millions started rolling in from sales of albums Definitely Maybe and (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?

Noel says: “When all the money started rolling in we were like, ‘Of course you’re going to leave now, aren’t you?’

“She was like: ‘I’m not moving anywhere.’ All of her sisters, she’s got seven or eight, live within a two-mile radius of each other.

“The one thing that we got her was a new garden gate! Seriously, it never had a latch on it so when it was windy it would bang all night.

“Her bedroom was at the front, and she said ‘If you’re going to get me one thing get me a f***ing garden gate’.

“You should have seen this garden gate at the time because it’s not much now. It was mega – had this big gold number five on it.”

Noel Gallagher appears on Parkinson on ITV1 tomorrow night at 10.50pm.

Source: Daily Star

The Razz: Noel Loves Westlife

Noel Gallagher last night shocked his fans by claiming Westlife are better than The Beatles.
Speaking after the showing of the Oasis documentary, Lord Don't Slow Me Down, at Glasgow Science Centre, Noel described the Irish boy band's new single as "genius".

He also spoke of his love of Paul Weller and meeting Neil Young and Burt Bacharach. Noel, who is staying in Edinburgh for the next week, also said he was looking forward to taking a break from touring next year.

Promising he'll be back in the future, he added: "I'd go insane.

"I can't work with our kid more than once every three years.

"He gets on my t**s."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Celts Hit Right Note With Noel

Oasis star Noel Gallagher told last night how he had a spring in his step after Celtic beat Man United 1-0.

Manchester City fan Noel said the victory was all the sweeter because his Scots girlfriend Sara MacDonald is a Rangers supporter.

Noel said: "It was a f***ing sensational score. I was sat on the sofa at home with Sara, and she was devastated.

"I would be lying if I said the words 'Get in there, you f***ing dancer" didn't pass through my head.

"Forget the goal. It was the penalty save I liked more than anything."

Noel claimed he'd rather be a rocker than a football player despite his love of Man City.

He was speaking after new Oasis documentary Lord Don't Slow Me Down was shown at the Glasgow Science Centre.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Gallagher: 'Robbie Williams Will Kill Himself'

Noel Gallagher is convinced British pop star Robbie Williams will kill himself, and the Oasis guitarist would happily load the gun for his longtime rival. The Wonderwall guitarist has no sympathy for Angels singer Williams, who he believes will turn to suicide because of his battles with depression. He says, "I'd put the bullet in the gun as he's eventually going to do it himself as he is a grossly unhappy person."

Source: www.contactmusic.com