The 50 Best Gigs Of All Time

01 - Jim Hendrix @ Monterey Pop Festival 1967
02 - The Beatles @ Hammersmith Odeon, 1964
03 - The Sex Pistols @ Lesser Free Trade Hall 1976
04 - Bob Marley and the Wailers @ The Luceum, London 1975
05 - David Bowie @ Wembley Empire Pool 1976
06 - Pink Floyd @ The Roundhouse, 1966
07 - Arctic Monkeys @ Sheffield, 2005
08 - Roxy Music @ Newport Country Club, 1972
09 - The White Stripes @ The 100 Club, 2001
10 - The Clash @ New York, 1979
11 - Tinariwen @ Tin Esako, Mali 2001
12 - The Who @ Coventry 1967
13 - The Strokes @ Philadelphia 2002
14 - The Rolling Stones @ MSG, New York 1972
15 - AC/DC @ Hammersmith 1976
16 - REM @ Austin 1981
17 - U2 @ Sarajevo 1997
18 - The Band @ TRAH, London 1971
19 - The Jam @ Brighton, 1982
20 - Little Feat @ The Rainbow Theatre, 1975
21 - Jeff Buckley @ 12 Bar, London 1994
22 - Bruce Springsteen @ Wembley 1992
23 - The Ramones @ The Roundhouse 1976
24 - Spiritualized @ Eden Project, 2002
25 - New Order @ Charing Cross, London, 1981
26 - Bob Dylan @ Lincoln, Nebraska 2006
27 - Deep Purple @ Twickenham, June 1970
28 - My Bloody Valentine @ Exeter 1992
29 - Neil Young and Crazy Horse @ Hammersmith, 1976
30 - Public Enemy @ Hammersmith 1987
31 - Weather Report @ Ronnie Scott's London 1972
32 - Thin Lizzy @ Glasgow, 1976
33 - Radiohead @ Glastonbury 1997
34 - Happy Mondays @ Rio De Janeiro, 1991
35 - Chic @ Hammersmith 1979
36 - The Smiths @ Glasgow 1985
37 - Aphex Twin @ New York 1997
38 - Primal Scream & The Jesus & Mary Chain @ Glasgow 1998
39 - The Cramps @ Memphis 1979
40 - Kraftwerk @ Brixton, 2004
41 - Townes Van Zandt @ New York 1968
42 - The Flaming Lips @ Pontins, Camber Sands 1999
43 - Van Morrison @ Brighton 2006
44 - Devo @ Philadelphia 1981
45 - The Libertines @ London, 2003 (The flat)
46 - Led Zeppelin @ Detroit, 1969
47 - Arcade Fire @ Astroia 2005
48 - Nirvana @ Chicago 1993
49 - Guns and Roses @ Washington 1991
50 - Oasis @ Maine Road, 1996

Source: Uncut Magazine

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Jonny Wilkinson "I'm One Of Oasis's Biggest Fans"

As a rugby player, he's the perfectionist who can't stop practising. But as a pianist, he's happy simply to fool around with his brother in their home studio. The World Cup-winner can play all right, just don't ask him to sing ...

How did you come to take up music?

I asked my older brother, Mark, to buy me a guitar for my birthday in 2003. It was around six months before the World Cup and I started playing because the pressure was building and I needed a release. When I began practising, I was convinced my fingers would never master it, that I hadn't got an ear for music, I hadn't got any rhythm. But it's a skill that can be learnt. I don't have a musical ear - which is why I don't sing - but I now have an understanding of how music works. That helped me to move on to the piano; I started reading about how to form chords and scales and now I can pick out a tune.

What music do you like listening to?

My tastes are quite mainstream. I like Arctic Monkeys and Razorlight, and a bit of old-school rap. I enjoy the music I used to listen to on my parents' old records: Dire Straits, the Beatles, all that. And I'm one of Oasis's biggest fans. They're never going to lose it - they're timeless. I haven't been to many concerts or gigs, but I went to see them in Newcastle once.

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Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher To Host BBC Radio 1 Show

Radio. Established 1967
Radio 1 Legends
Monday 17 to Thursday 20 September
9.00-10.00pm BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 celebrates 40 years of bringing the best new music to its young audience with a series of programmes in which the biggest names in music host their own show for a night. The network, which was established in 1967, has invited the biggest and the best from the music world to play the tunes that inspired them and, in some way, led them to make music themselves.

Confirmed so far for this week are two artists who have contributed in a massive way to UK music – Arctic Monkeys (who host Wednesday evening's show) and the mighty Noel Gallagher, from Oasis, who takes control on Thursday. More Legends will be announced nearer the time.

Thanks to Mr Monobrow for the information.

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In This Months Uncut Magazine

In this month's Uncut, our writers, friends and favourite musicians reminisce about their favourite gigs.

The October issue, onsale now, features our best 50 - including Jimi, U2, The Band and Oasis - with rare photos from the shows too.

Source: www.uncut.co.uk

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Kooks Star: 'Noel Gallahger Is Too Rich To Write'

Oasis star Noel Gallagher is too rich to write chart-topping songs, according to The Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard.

Pritchard wants to compose as much material as he can, before his band become too successful - because he believes wealth sapped Gallagher's creativity.

He says, "He wrote all the songs before he got big. You can't write about having a s**t time when you're living in a mansion."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

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A Plea By Liam And Noel

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And The Mercury Nominees Are...

The View: Hats Off To The Buskers

The indie rock scene is bursting at the seams but these boys have the best tunes since the Arctics. Everyday concerns turned into hits.

SFTW quizzes singer Kyle Falconer:

Describe the place you grew up in.

We’re all from a place called Dryburgh in Dundee. People think we had a really hard time growing up but it was just a normal housing scheme.

We’d just drink cider, kick footballs and hang around on the steps. We were always in trouble, climbing on roofs, that sort of thing.

Why did you get into making music?

We all used to play together when we were at school. We never had any intention of making money — we just did it because we enjoyed it.

We used to play Beatles and Oasis covers and it went from there really.

How did you get your break?

This has become a bit of a legend now. We were just standing outside the Babyshambles tour bus when they played Dundee and we asked Pete Doherty if he’d listen to our demo.

I was stuttering, I couldn’t even work the CD player. Pete passed on the demos to label boss James Endeacott and he signed us when he started his new label 1965.

In a nutshell, describe your album.

Well, we did the album with Owen Morris who produced Oasis’s Definitely Maybe. We were playing at 1965’s launch party and Owen turned up p****d.

Two days later he said he wanted to do our album. We write songs about what we know. We’re a band for people to hold on to.

How did you feel about being nominated?

It’s all a bit new to me, I’ve never really followed any kind of awards before but I’m really grateful to be nominated. It’s flattering.

What would it mean to win?

We haven’t thought about it, but it would be great to win it. It’s one of those prizes that’s actually about the music rather than everything else that goes on around bands.

Which other nominees do you admire most?

We really like Arctic Monkeys. Great songs and the right attitude.

Which musician, alive or dead, would you most like to meet?

We like loads of old stuff, bands like The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, The Clash. It would be great to have met bands like that.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Hospice Gets An All-Star Boost

Rock stars Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller and Ian Brown's efforts means East Lancashire Hospice is set to share in a £250,000 bonanza.

The Park Lee Road hospice is one of a number of beneficiaries from an all-star gathering arranged by former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke.

Other stars involved in the March 2007 Versus Cancer concert included The Charlatans and Peter Hook, Former Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School pupil Nova Rehman helped to pull together the star-packed event, which included partial reunions of both the Stone Roses and The Smiths.

Nova's sister and father were both diagnosed with cancer within a short space of time, inspiring the Blackburn music impresario to master-mind the concert for the Great Northern Aid Trust.

The former owner of Nelson-based Phantom Power production company, Nova now manages Rourke and has a host of music contacts.

East Lancs Hospice will use its share from the concert's proceeds to buy a new hoist to move patients.

Source: www.blackburncitizen.co.uk

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