Oasis: "We Used Toy Instruments To Record 'Dig Out Your Soul''

It looked hilarious' says Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher has revealed that the sitar used on 'Dig Out Your Soul' album track 'To Be Where There's Life' cost just £12.50.

The Oasis guitarist joked that the instrument wasn't even a genuine sitar - it was a child's toy.

Speaking on Oasis' new 'Gold & Silver & Sunshine - The Making of 'Dig Out Your Soul'' documentary, Gallagher said of the sitar: "You know it's not a real one? It's a toy electric one, a plastic one.

"They're shaped like a sitar, and they've got a speaker on the front. You switch it on and you pick the key, and you leave it there!"

Speaking about the techniques used to record the instrument during Oasis' time in the famous Abbey Road studios in north London, Gallagher explained: "We had it in The Beatles' echo chamber, which is like this tiled room where they’ve got all the reverbs.

"It looked hilarious. In this really famous room is this little tiny plastic sitar with this massive mic that's worth about £50,000. And the sitar's worth about £12.50..."

Source: www.nme.com

Oasis Are Back

Paul from Oasis tribute band Oasish popped into the GMTV studios this morning for a quick chat with John Stapleton about the bands new album.

Click here to watch the video and here for more information on Oasish.

Upcoming Bonehead Shows And New Pictures

Upcoming Shows

Oct 31 2008: The Mill, Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Mansfield
Nov 01 2008: Brixton Jamm, Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. DJ set after show. London
Nov 03 2008: Crawdaddy, Dublin
Nov 04 2008: Cleeres Kilkenny
Nov 05 2008: Forum Ireland, Waterford
Nov 06 2008: The Crane Galway, Galway
Nov 07 2008: The Thatch Tullamore
Nov 08 2008: Spirit: Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Carlisle, Northwest
Nov 12 2008: TBC Liverpool, Northwest
Nov 14 2008: The Attic. Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Accrington, Northwest
Nov 15 2008: The Ironworks. Live acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Oswestry.
Nov 21 2008: Carling Academy 2. Newcastle, Northeast
Nov 22 2008: Pivo Pivo. Live Acoustic set with Pete Macleod. Glasgow.
Dec 05 2008: The Studio @ The Roundhouse. D.j. Set. Plus The Vortex, Big Arm and Domino Bones playing live London, South

For more information on Bonehead and what he's up to visit his official myspace page here.

Photos taken at Kro Bar in Heaton Moor, Stockport by Damian Morgan for more information visit www.brave-music-agency.co.uk

Thanks to Damian Morgan

Oasis Returns To Denmark

Oasisinet is pleased to announce Oasis' return to Denmark. The band will be performing at Copenhagen's Falkoner Theatre on Saturday 8th November. It will mark the first time the band have performed in the country since their gig at Valby Hallen on 21st October 2005.

Tickets for the show go on sale at 10am on October 6th through http://www.billetlugen.dk, (+45) 70 263 267 and at Fona Shops nationwide.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Offer Stage To Local Band At Echo Arena

An unknown Liverpool band was invited by Oasis superstar Noel Gallagher to play in front of sell-out crowds at the ECHO arena.

The Sixteen Tonnes, who have never played for an audience bigger than a few hundred people, were handpicked by Gallagher to appear when the UK tour starts in Liverpool on Tuesday.

The guitarist and songwriter phoned singer Danny Roberts, who also plays guitar and harmonica for his band, and asked what the three-piece had planned for October.

The Sixteen Tonnes, also made up of bassist Anthony Foley, 25, of Hoylake, and drummer Danny Rogers, 22, of Aigburth, will now play at the 10,600-seater arena on October 7 and 8.

Roberts, 28, of Liverpool city centre, said: “I got a phone call from Noel about two months ago. He asked what we were up to and if we would be up for doing the shows in Liverpool.

“He was not sure of the date at first, but asked if we would be ready for October. I found out the first night would be my birthday.

“I probably would have gone to watch the gig, but now we are supporting them. It is mad – Noel is the guy who inspired me to pick up a guitar.”

Oasis will play in Liverpool to promote their new album, Dig Out Your Soul.

The rockers have always had close links with the city, the home of their heroes, The Beatles.

Roberts, a former Alsop high pupil, got to know Gallagher through his previous band, blues guitar duo The Hokum Clones.

He said: “I know what he is like about Liverpool. He loves The Beatles and comes to town a lot to see local bands.

“Noel is a proper down-to-earth guy.

Source: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

What's The Story Morning... Jogging?

Because it's Pop Montreal, and because I feel like it, and because it's not every day that you get to sit down face to face with, as a friend so succinctly said, one of "The World's Greatest Living Englishmen," this week's instalment will skew towards topics musical. Namely, Liam Gallagher of Oasis, once (self) described as the greatest rock band on the planet. And for a time they probably weren't wrong.

Their Bell Centre performance Sept. 5 certainly supported that contention, awe-inspiring clinic in classic rock songwriting that it was, and only the third time the Mancunians had set foot in Montreal since their formation in 1991. It followed a phenomenal 1995 private showcase for about 300 folks at the old Club Soda (during which Gallagher never took his eyes off the ceiling or his hands out of his pockets) and an uneven 2002 Molson Centre show that typified the group's malaise at the time.

Oasis could be poised for resurgence - as much as any formerly 50-million-album selling artists are poised for resurgence in the new reality of the music industry - on the strength of their seventh album, Dig Out Your Soul. But has the band embraced the new business?

"Well you'd have to ask my money, I don't do business," says Gallagher unapologetically. "I just go up and do the thing. I sing, man. The minute I start getting involved in business is a damn sad day for rock'n'roll... I don't get involved in none o' that shit."

Gallagher is similarly unperturbed when it comes to illegal file sharing
of their music.

"It doesn't really piss me off. I'd prefer it if they paid for it and all that, but I'm not in it to make money to be quite honest - I'm in it to not be fucking working in a fucking McDonald's, y'know what I mean? ...If people fuckin' sting you for a bit, who gives a fuck? I've got enough money."

Which for some reason reminds me that on the way to the Bell Centre, I was figuring I had a moral obligation to scrap him. Two battle-tested vets from opposing sides of the music tracks in an interview room cage match. And then I got a close-up look at him whilst sitting down, both of us leaning forward on our knees, his face about 12 inches away from mine. Oddly, it was right around then I had an abrupt change of heart. The guy is a monster. And by that I mean in frighteningly top shape, cannons for arms and broad across the back. In short, not the vaporous, coke-eroded beer fart I'd misled myself to believe. And there is a reason for that.

"I've gotten into running, which I never used to do," Gallagher says with something shockingly akin to enthusiasm. "If I've not been drinking, I'll get up at about 6 in the morning and I'll run about fuckin' 10 miles, come back, take the kids to school. That's what I do, man."

Indeed he does. Park-goers on the mountain a few weeks ago would have been treated to an uncommon sight. "I went for a run up to the top of Mont Royal," he says.

While the fitness fanaticism certainly runs counter to popular preconception, so does his assertion that he - who at one time seemed genetically predisposed to bailing on shows - actually loves performing live.

"What? Because I don't walk around with a big sticker on my head sayin', 'I'm having a great night, and are you all having a great night? Woo-hoo! Can I have some fuckin' crowd activities?'" he snaps back.

"There's enough fucking bands going on stage and yapping at the crowd. I wouldn't be there if I weren't having a good time, believe you me. But it's just the way I am, man - I'm not fucking Cliff Richard, and I'm not fucking Dave Grohl. I'm Liam Gallagher and I just want to sing my songs."

And speaking of songs, the new single, The Shock of the Lightning, shows Oasis back in fighting form. "To me it's the Sex Beatles. People used to compare us to The Beatles and The Sex Pistols and I think that song's about as close as you're going to get to that."

It's all Christmas tree and no ornaments.

"It's the meat and veg isn't it? I mean, that's the kind of music we like to make. It's nothing new, it's all been done before, it's simple rock'n'roll music. You either like it or you fuckin' hate it, and I hope it's one or the other and nowhere in between."

While the writing has evolved, Gallagher's distant singing style hasn't changed even minutely from the days when I first saw him at Club Soda. And, to hear him tell it, there's more craft than contempt in his posturing.

"I get a bit more power from my voice [standing that way]. Holding microphones is like fucking bingo calling: 'Hey fuckin' N 60.' It's like, fuck that. That's just the way it is. Plus I'm not a dancer, man - I just don't dance."

At the end of the day, Gallagher comes off as a man at peace, self-satisfied even.

"I am pretty self-satisfied,' he concurs. "I've done okay, I'm cool. I just want to be the biggest band in the world. It's not all about selling records, that's kind of old. I just want people to come and see us and enjoy it and get what we are. And what we are is no-frills. I'm sick of guys jumpin' around with fuckin' makeup on acting like women. It's like, fuck off, just fuckin' nail it."

Source: www.hour.ca

Older But Still Mad For It – And Back On Form

4 Stars Out Of 5

Being an Oasis fan has always drawn parallels with supporting a football team: the laddish chant-along anthems, the Gallagher brothers' Man City affiliation, the ups, downs and serious tensions ever since they became major players in the mid-1990s.

Certainly, the fighting spirit that sealed their status as Britpop's bad boys has long since softened, yet there's enough bracing, melodic energy on their latest single, The Shock Of The Lightning – and this seventh studio album as a whole – to make this album sound like a triumph.

Liam Gallagher apparently claimed that Dig Out Your Soul was 'the easiest album we've ever made' - typical Gallagher swagger, but it is true that this is the most easily enjoyable Oasis record for ages, simply because it doesn't strain to rival anything else.

It's just heavily groove-based, chock-full of fuzz guitars and stomping drums on Bag It Up, and surprisingly plaintive on I'm Outta Time.

Oasis have mellowed with age, in the sense that they've become hippies who are still up for a scrap. They'll never be the hippest bucks on the scene again, but they've reached the stage where they're in a league of their own.

Source: www.metro.co.uk

On This Day In Oasis History...

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis, released on October 2 1995. The album went straight to #1 in the UK, selling 347,000 copies in its first week. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? spawned four hit singles in the UK, two of which were #1s. It sold over 19 million copies worldwide, including over 4.3 million copies in the UK, 14x platinum, and is currently the third biggest-selling album in UK chart history. Morning Glory has gone 4x platinum in the United States In addition, the singles "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova" went Gold in the United States.

The album, which was recorded in less than two weeks, contains arguably the band's two most famous songs, "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back in Anger", along with "Champagne Supernova" and their first UK #1 single, "Some Might Say".

In 1997 Morning Glory was named the 5th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q magazine readers placed it at number 8, and in 2000 it achieved the same position in Q's list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. The editors of Q magazine declared it the "album of the decade" in 1999. The readers of Q placed it seventh on the 2006 top 100 greatest albums of all time list. In 2003, the album was ranked number 376 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

History

The success of Morning Glory catapulted Oasis from being a successful Britpop band to being one of the biggest bands in Britain, with substantial international fame, and considerable press coverage in the mainstream and music press. The band played several massive open air concerts in the UK during 1996, which included two nights at Knebworth in front of a combined audience of 250,000 people (125,000 each night), with over 2.5 million applying to buy tickets.

Tracklisting

01: "Hello" (Gallagher/Glitter/Leander) – 3:21
02: "Roll with It" – 4:00
03: "Wonderwall" – 4:19
04: "Don't Look Back in Anger" – 4:48
05: "Hey Now!" – 5:41
06: Untitled (aka "The Swamp Song - Excerpt 1") – 0:43
07: "Some Might Say" – 5:31
08: "Cast No Shadow" – 4:52
09: "She's Electric" – 3:40
10: "Morning Glory" – 5:03
11: Untitled (aka "The Swamp Song - Excerpt 2") – 0:41
12: "Champagne Supernova" – 7:27

Notes:

* Tracks 6 and 11 are officially untitled. In fact, the track listing bears no title whatsoever for these songs, merely a blank space.
* The excerpts from "The Swamp Song" are parts of the instrumental B-side to the "Wonderwall" single.
* The vinyl LP edition of the album features a bonus track, "Bonehead's Bank Holiday". This song appears as the 7th track on the album, immediately after the 43-second untitled track.
* "Step Out" had to be removed from the album at the last minute. The song, sung by Noel, was intended to have been the original track 8 (after "Some Might Say" and before "Cast No Shadow"), but was removed as the chorus was similar to the chorus of Stevie Wonder's 1965 track "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". Wonder's publishing company were alleged to have demanded a substantial amount of royalties from the album which Oasis weren't prepared to pay, so the track was removed, although not before the first promotional copies of the album had been released with "Step Out" included. The track was eventually released as a B-side on Oasis' 1996 single "Don't Look Back in Anger", with an amended song writing credit of 'Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/May', and was included on the live album Familiar to Millions.

Singles



"Some Might Say"
Released: 24 April 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #3 (IRE)



"Roll with It"
Released: 14 August 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #2 (UK), #2 (IRE)



"Morning Glory" (AUS only)
Released: 15 September 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #25 AUS, #24 U.S. Modern Rock Chart



"Wonderwall"
Released: 30 October 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #2 (UK), #8 (U.S.), #1 U.S. Modern Rock Chart (10 Weeks)



"Don't Look Back in Anger"
Released: 19 February 1996
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (IRE), #10 U.S. Modern Rock Chart, #21 (U.S.)



"Champagne Supernova" (AUS and US only)
Released: 13 May 1996
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #26 (AUS), #20 (US), #1 U.S. Modern Rock Chart (5 Weeks)

Miscellanea

"Hello" contains elements of Gary Glitter's "Hello Hello I'm Back Again" as Liam jokingly sings part of the song's chorus when the song begins to fade out.

On the cover of the album a man is seen brandishing what looks to be a vinyl record in its sleeve. This is in fact the master tape for the album. The man in question is Owen Morris, the producer. The photo was taken on Berwick Street in Soho, a London street well known for its independent record shops. The other man is BBC London's Sean Rowley.

Source: Wikipedia