Noel Gallagher Misses Gem Archer

Noel Gallagher misses working with Gem Archer but says he'll only fully realise his Oasis bandmates are not with him anymore when he goes on the road.

Noel Gallagher will only realise he is not with his Oasis bandmates anymore when he goes on the road.

The guitarist quit the group in August 2009 due to tensions with his brother Liam - who went on to form Beady Eye with the other members of Oasis, Gem Archer, Chris Sharrock and Andy Bell - and particularly misses working with Gem, but says the actuality of the split still hasn't hit him.

Noel - who is now fronting Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - said: "I miss Gem. We used to be a f***ing great team, we did all my demos together. He's a brilliant guitarist and bass player and if anything was unfinished he would say, 'We can make this better'.

"It's only going to dawn on me that the others aren't there when I'm standing in the corridor waiting to go on for the first gig. Then you might feel it.

"I haven't done a gig without Gem for how long, that will be weird."

Gem joined Oasis as rhythm guitarist in 1999 and played with the band until their split in 2009.

Liam has since been very vocal about the fact their split is final, and didn't even attend Noel's wedding.

He has said of Noel: "Him and me are over and done with. This is the real deal.

"I'd like to think we grow up to be friends later on but I've no time for that just yet. The way I view Oasis now is that's it like having a child from a previous relationship."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Beady Eye Chats With MTV News

MTV News chats with Beady Eye about music, touring, and the infamous Oasis brother fued.

The Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have always been a little… competitive? But with the release of Noel’s solo single this week, MTV News caught up with Liam and his band Beady Eye to talk about music, touring… and of course, his infamous sibling.

Beady Eye (which is made up of all members from Oasis, minus Noel) made their first appearance as a band in Glasgow in March, we asked the band what that experience was like.

“Yeah, I think you shit. But as soon as you get onstage, you’re not [nervous] through the whole gig, as soon as your guitar starts and you dodge your first couple bottles [you’re fine]… then you can start showing off” joked Liam

The band’s new album is called Different Gear, Still Speeding which some believe is a reference to the absense of his brother who left Oasis in 2009 and left a message on the bands official site claiming he was “bullied” out of the group.

We asked the band if they saw the statement, or how that experience played out.

Liam said: “I see it [the statement] everyday when I wake up… I just know he lies. Noel wasn’t bullied out of the band. And then he writes a statement like that saying ‘Oh, I’ve been bullied out of the band’ and management and all that, and two days later, the people he reckons bullied him, and the people that weren’t listening to his little sob story, were around at his house having tea on his lawn. I’m just disappointed for him, and his fans…. I have my days [bad days] but Noel Gallagher can be a little b*tch when he wants to be”

We reminded the guys that when Oasis fuirst started they said they wanted to be the “biggest, best band in the world”. We asked what they hoped for Beady Eye.

“Same thing. Without a doubt. Do you want a band to be second best?”

For the full chat with Beady Eye, watch the video here.

Source: MTV Canada

Special Edition Of Beady Eye's 'Different Gear Still Speeding' Available In Japan In August

Google Translate isn't very clear, but a deluxe version of 'Different Gear Still Speeding' will be released in Japan on August 24th. It include an bonus DVD featuring all the promo videos and footage from Beady Eye's show in Paris back in March.

More Info On Noel Gallagher's Flying Birds

These are the people who will make up the Flying Birds, when they hit the road in October...

David 'Macca' Donald
Guitar

He let slip that he'd joined up back in January, during an interview to promote The Sand Band's debut album.

He has also played guitar for 'The Coral', when Bill Ryder-Jones left mid Tour.

He has also played on Richard Ashcroft's solo material.

Mikey Rowe
Keyboards

In his recent Press conference Noel said that Mikey had played with Oasis on the Be Here Now tour, in fact his live appearances go back to Maine Road and Knebworth, where he played harmonica. He also appeared on both 'Be Here Now' and 'Heathen Chemistry'

Russell Pritchard
Bass

Former Zuton who Noel says "just called me up one afternoon and said, 'Have you got a bass player?" Russell was the last to join the Flying Birds.

Jeremy Stacey
Drummer

Twin brother of longtime Noel associate Paul 'Strangeboy' Stacey who has contributed to a number of Oasis records. The pair were in a 90's band together called 'The Lemon Trees' that group featured Guy Chambers who co-wrote a number of songs with Robbie Williams.

Noel Gallagher: Leaving Oasis Is Like Quitting Drugs

The Oasis legend has compared the wrench of leaving the band behind him and kicking off his solo career to giving up drugs.

Noel Gallagher is now fronting his new project Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds after quitting Oasis and admits there is less pressure on the band members. Speaking about his new group in Q Magazine, Noel says: “They’re a collective more than a band. Anyone can join and anyone can leave.

“I was sat in bed one night before I got my band together. I said to my wife, ‘It’s just dawned on me, I’ve got to find five other people. I won’t know their wives or girlfriends or mates and I’ve got to share a tour bus with them. It’s like giving up drugs and moving on to a new circle of friends.”

And it seems finding the right people for his “collective” proved to be something of a dilemma. Noel adds: “I had two options, you either get a load of kids in and then you end up looking like Bryan Ferry. Or you don’t and you have mates – but then I don’t know many 44-year-olds that aren’t bald. But it fell in to place nicely. It’s the noble thing to do. Bands are for the young.”

This is just a major pain in the b*******. But I’m getting used to the idea

Being the star attraction in his band also proved to be a stumbling block for Noel. He reminisced about the days of Oasis when he could blend in to the background.

“I’ve been in a band with a great front man and I was a great guitarist and backing vocalist who chirped in with the odd funny quip. It was perfect. This is just a major pain in the b*******. But I’m getting used to the idea.”

Source: www.express.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Will Be A Guest On The XFM Breakfast Next Tuesday

It's been reported that Noel Gallagher will be a guest on the XFM breakfast show with Danny Wallace on Tuesday morning between 06:30 and 10:00 (UK TIME).

Listen to the show here.

Noel Gallagher Thinks These Book Are Staggering

Noel Gallagher has picked the five books that blew his mind, for the current issue of Mojo. In the 16-page MOJO exclusive Will Hodgkinson speaks to the former Oasis songwriter about his return to recording, his new album, the end of his old band, that fateful night in Paris and the essential films, books and music that define the man.

ELVIS AND THE MEMPHIS MAFIA
Allana Nash, Billy Smith, Marty Laker and Lamar Fike

"This is a product of Elvis's childhood friends sitting around and reminiscing on everything from high school in Memphis to Elvis traveling around the fairgrounds and doing the hayrides, through to Vegas and up to his death. He had a pet chimp. They trained it to look up girl' skirts. Then Elvis got bored of the chimp and they put him outside in a cage. The chimp froze to death".

AGENT ZIGZAG
Ben Macintrye

"Eddie Chapman is a low-level crook in 30s London he goes to Jersey to rob a hotel, is caught, and gets put in nick just as the Nazis invade. The Nazis discover this guy is an explosives expert , so they train him up and out on a mission to blow up a factory in England. In the end he becomes a double agent and goes back to Germany, dining at the top table with the Nazis, and this is just a shitkicker from South London. I love books about that period. It was only 50, 60 years ago that there was a proper war on".

LIFE
Keith Richards

"I never bought into the myth of Keith Richards. All right, he's done a bit of gear and written a few tunes. That's what we do, we're f**king rock stars. But I've got to say, after reading this, what an absolute dude. His take on music is incredible. How he's got all his faculties together to remember half the shit is beyond me but he went right up in my estimations. I don't like the way he's always having a go at Mick Jagger though. People do have a pop at Jagger and I don't know why, because he's great. Look at the words to 'Sympathy For The Devil'. That is heavy shit".

ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT
MICHAEL DOBBS

"This is an hour-by-hour account of the 48 hours leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it's staggering. At midnight, nuclear war was going to start. Kennedy woke up the next morning and realised that there were good people on the Russian side as well. The army were pushing Kennedy towards war, and likewise with Khrushchev, and it very nearly happened".

SHAKEY
Jimmy McDonough

"There's a quote in it that changed my life, he's asked why he's been in Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and all these other bands and he replies, "No one band is big enough to hold what I've got." At the time of reading it, I felt like that. In the last few years of Oasis I was only writing half the album, so I put out 15 songs in 10 years. I must have written 60 a year. I kept going back to that quote. Here's this guy that does whatever he wants. No one will ever be like Neil Young.

Short Review Of Noel Gallagher's 'What A Life'

Now we're off into another place entirely. And that place - there's no other way to describe it - is the disco. What A Life! has a pounding piano reminiscent of early house music, and the four-to-the-fall beat that belongs under a gliterball. It's in a cloak of acid rock too, with squealing guitars and Sympathy For The Devil-style whoo-hoos.

Source: Mojo Magazine

Short Review Of Noel Gallagher's 'If I Had A Gun'

An emotional Ballard, touches of Wonderwall in it's arm-waving sense of togetherness and ode-to-a-loverlyrics like, "If I had the time, I'd stop the world and make you mine/And everyday would be the same for you." It's an affecting songs people will get married to, and buried to.

Source: Mojo Magazine

Noel Gallagher Stunned At Unfinished Tracks On Youtube

Noel Gallagher has vowed to join the digital age and learn about modern technology after discovering fans were finishing his half-written songs and posting them online.

The former Oasis star likes to work on ideas for new tracks during concert soundchecks, and he had no idea onlookers were secretly recording him.

He later found out the bootleg tapes of his embryonic songs had been posted on YouTube.com - and was stunned to see fans had been completing the tracks for him.

Gallagher tells Mojo magazine, "Some were written on the last (Oasis) tour, when I used to feel them out by getting my acoustic guitar and strumming them after soundcheck, because you sound like Jesus in a big arena. A year later someone comes up to me and says: 'Have you got a song called If I Had A Gun?'. (I said) 'Yes... why?' There wasn't even a demo of this.

"Turns out some kids have been taping the soundchecks on mobile phones and posting them up on the internet. I haven't got a computer and I'm completely oblivious to it all, so I check it out and there are kids on YouTube finishing them off! I'm thinking, 'They're covering my songs before I've written them?'. I need to keep an eye on this s**t."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Video: Liam Gallagher Calls Brother Noel A Little Bitch

MTV Canada's Sharlene Chiu sat down with Beady Eye's Liam Gallagher. When asked about his brother Noel leaving Oasis, Liam got heated and called Noel a little bitch!

Noel Gallagher's New Single Climbs YouTube Charts

The video for the new single from former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher has accumulated over 253,000 views in 24 hours, currently making it the tenth most watched video on July 26.

The video titled "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - The Death of You and Me"debuted on YouTube on July 25 and as of 10:45 GMT July 26 had attracted 253,772 views and was ranked tenth in YouTube's "most watched today" chart.

"The Death of You and Me" is the first single from Noel Gallagher's new album Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, which will be available on October 17.

Following the breakup of Oasis, Noel's brother, singer Liam Gallagher also chose to continue his music career by forming the band Beady Eye, which incorporated former bandmates Andy Bell, Gem Archer and Chris Sharrock.

Source: www.musicrooms.net

Noel Gallagher: ‘I’m Not a Guitarist, I’m a Songwriter’

Ex-Oasis kingpin Noel Gallagher has spoken about his forthcoming solo album, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

Interviewed by the U.K.’s Mojo magazine, Noel also lifts the lid on the physical battles with singer/brother Liam that split Oasis in 2009.

“There was a bit of kung-fu,” says Noel, who says the band finally split when Liam threw a plum (yes, the soft fruit) and then swung a guitar at Noel’s head. “It could have taken my face off,” says Noel, “so I may have smashed it to bits.”

Of his High Flying Birds album, due in October, Noel Gallagher says he hasn’t tried to write songs any differently. “I never think about how a song compares to other stuff, as long as I’m getting across what I’m trying to. Singers think about what they’re singing. I’m not a singer. Guitarists think about what they’re playing. I’m not a guitarist… I’m a songwriter.

“That’s actually the biggest change. I don’t have to tell someone what the song’s about. In that sense, it’s easier.”

Noel Gallagher also talked about his first solo single, “People Who Will Be (The Death of You and Me).”

“People think it was a conscious decision to say: ‘Right, I’m going to do something different.’ But this is just what came out. It’s my favorite song on the album because when the brass kicks in you are in New Orleans.”

Source: www.gibson.com

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Liam Gallagher Left 'Creepy' Messages For Noel

Liam Gallagher left a series of "weird and creepy" messages on his brother Noel's voicemail as Oasis fell apart.

The pair haven't spoken since the Wonderwall hitmakers split following a backstage bust-up at a gig in Paris, France in 2009.
Noel Gallagher recently insisted Liam sparked the spat by demanding to advertise his fashion range in Oasis tour programmes - and now he's accused the singer of attempting to unnerve him with late-night phone messages.

The guitarist claims his brother's campaign was so prolific he was forced to change his number - and alleges Liam then targeted his girlfriend instead.

Gallagher tells Mojo magazine, "The tour started and everything was all right, but then the f**king clothing thing started up, and he wanted to advertise in the tour programme. I said no... He hit the f**king roof.

"From then on I would be getting up in the morning and our answering machine would have strange messages from him in the middle of the night. It started off as offensive, then weird, and finally creepy. We changed our number. I'd go in the next day and say, 'What was that all about?' and he'd say, 'I don't know what you're talking about.'

"When we changed our number he started leaving messages on my (girlfriend's) phone. She'd get up in the morning and there would be things like, 'Tell your f**king boyfriend...'. This was insane."

Liam Gallagher declined to comment on his brother's claims.

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Noel Gallagher Talking About The High Flying Birds

Check out an exclusive video of Noel talking about the name The High Flying Birds

Beady Eye To Make First Appearance In Taiwan

Beady Eye are pleased to announce they will be heading to Taipei to make their first appearance in Taiwan.

The band are confirmed to play on the closing night of the Twinkle Rock Festival on 14th September.

Tickets are on sale now through www.taiffon.net

The gig in Taipei will follow Beady Eye's inaugural tour of Japan.

Source: www.beadyeyemusic.com

Noel Gallagher Says Liam Needs Beady Eye Wake-Up Call

Noel Gallagher says someone needs to "waft" his brother Liam with a "wet towel" if he thinks he can eclipse Oasis' success.

The 'Death of You and Me' singer has scoffed at his estranged sibling's boasts his new band, Beady Eye, could become bigger than the super-group they were in together.

When asked what he felt about Liam's comments his new band will be more successful than Oasis, Noel told Q magazine: "Someone needs to lie Liam down and waft him with a wet towel."

The 44-year-old guitarist quit Oasis in August 2009 following a huge backstage fight with Liam, who Noel claims tried to take his "face off" with a guitar during the bust-up.

Despite the turbulent atmosphere in his former band, Noel admits he does "miss" certain things about the group, and says he didn't find it easy choosing which musicians to work with on his new project Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

The musician - who is releasing his solo album of the same name in October - explained: "I had two options: you either get a load of kids in, and then you end up looking like Bryan Ferry. Or you don't and you have mates - but then, I don't know many 44-year-olds that aren't bald. But it fell into place nicely. It's the noble thing to do, bands are for the young."

Source: stv.tv

Noel Gallagher Almost Abandoned New Album

Noel Gallagher almost quit recording his upcoming experimental album after his collaborators forced him to perform endless re-takes.

The former Oasis frontman headed into the studio with British dance duo Amorphous Androgynous to lay down tracks for a psychedelic record to accompany his debut solo release later this year (11).

He was startled by his collaborators Gaz Cobain and Brian Dougans' attention to detail and their habit of recording the same piece of music numerous times - and they almost came to blows as his temper boiled over.

Gallagher tells Mojo magazine, "Gaz Cobain made me record and record, and when he heard something he liked he would film it. Then his colleague Brian Dougans would go off and cut everything up and use a bass line for one track and a drum loop for another.

"I almost called it off on the first day when Gaz made me play the same guitar line for five hours and 10 minutes... On the 27th take we nearly came to blows."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Robbie Williams Wants To Work With Noel Gallagher

British singer Robbie Williams wants to put his longstanding feud with Noel Gallagher behind him for good, by writing music with the former Oasis star.

The Angels hitmaker and the rocker enjoyed a short-lived friendship in the 1990s, but they later fell out and became embroiled in a public feud, in which Gallagher famously branded Williams "the fat dancer from Take That".

Now the singer has made moves to patch up his fragmented relationship with Gallagher, by posting a video of the star's new solo single on his official blog alongside the words, "I know it's pretty redundant, but I'd love to write with him."

Williams, who has reunited with Take That for the first time in 15 years, had reignited the spat earlier this year (11) by taunting the guitarist during a sold-out run of gigs with his band.

The star bragged about performing a series of eight concerts at London's huge Wembley Stadium, saying, "The Rolling Stones have done two nights here. Oasis did three - Take That are here for eight on the trot... Noel Gallagher can lick my a**e."

Source: www.contactmusic.com