Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher
On February 28th 2012 Noel Gallagher played a stunning acoustic set at Glasgow's 'Grand Ole Opry' in Glasgow, Scotland.
The setlist included songs from his debut album and a number of Oasis classics.
Blast From The Past: Beady Eye
On February 28th 2011 Beady Eye released their debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'.
The album entered the UK Album Chart at number three, and to date has spent nineteen weeks on the chart.
Listen to the full session below.
On This Day In Oasis History...
On February 28th 2000 Oasis released the 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants' album.
The album topped the charts in the UK, Ireland and in Italy.
Noel Gallagher On His New Album, Oasis And More
This year Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will release a new album called Council Skies, he discusses this album and more during KINK IN TOUCH with KINK DJ Jasper Leijdens.
Listen to the interview by clicking here.
Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher
On February 27th 2016 an interview with Noel Gallagher by Jamie Carragher was broadcast on Sky Sports.Watch the interview below.
Blast From The Past: Liam Gallagher
On February 27th 2018 Liam Gallagher played at the Gran Teatro Geox in Padova, Italy.
Watch a number of videos from the set below.
Tickets For Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Dublin Go On Sale Friday
Blast From The Past: Noel Gallagher
On February 26th 2012 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played at the O2 Arena in London.
The gig was broadcast in various cinemas and released in October 2012.
On This Day In Oasis History...
On February 26th 2001 Noel Gallagher presented the BRIT Award for 'Outstanding Contribution To Music' at The BRIT Awards to U2.
Blood Records Limited Edition Drop: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds ‘Council Skies’
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ forthcoming album ‘Council Skies’ gets exclusively pressed to black and white ‘corona’ effect LP via Blood Records, hand-numbered to order and limited to 5,000 copies.
‘Council Skies’ sees Noel Gallagher reclaiming his past and paying homage to his Mancunian roots. His most varied and accomplished solo record to date, Noel’s fourth solo studio album is a record framed by confidence, risk-taking, surefooted creative freedom, and great emotional depth.
The record was recorded at Noel’s own Lone Star Sound Recording Studios in London, with the album’s lusciously orchestrated strings recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios and includes recent singles Easy Now and Pretty Boy. Produced by Noel with long-time collaborator Paul ‘Strangeboy’ Stacey, the album also features performances from Johnny Marr on three tracks, including recent single ‘Pretty Boy’. ‘Council Skies’ takes its title from a book by revered northern illustrator and friend of Noel, artist Pete McKee. It covers themes of youthful yearning, and unbridled ambition.
Speaking of the album, Noel says: “It’s going back to the beginning. Daydreaming, looking up at the sky and wondering about what life could be … that’s as true to me now as it was in the early ‘90s. When I was growing up in poverty and unemployment, music took me out of that,” he says. “Top of the Pops on TV transformed your Thursday night into this fantasy world, and that’s what I think music should be. I want my music to be elevating and transforming in some way.”
Last summer Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds headlined a host of outdoor live shows culminating in a career-spanning performance at Glastonbury's Pyramid stage to one of the weekend’s biggest crowds. UK live dates for this summer have recently been announced – details below - with more headline shows to follow before the end of the year.
Click here for details.
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On This Day In Oasis History...
On February 24th 1996 Oasis played at the American Theater in St Louis, USA.Watch the gig in full below.
Watch a number of videos from the set below.
Blast From The Past: Beady Eye
On February 23rd 2011 Beady Eye played a session for Radio 1 at Maida Vale.Watch the band play 'Four Letter Word' and 'The Roller' below.
Listen Back To Noel Gallagher On BBC Radio 2
Jo chats to music legend Noel Gallagher about the next album to come from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
Rising to fame with the rock band Oasis, Noel Gallagher has written ten UK number one albums and won six Brit awards.
Since Oasis’ split in 2009, Noel has returned with his project Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2011, followed by Chasing Yesterday in 2015, and Who Built the Moon? in 2017. Their fourth album is due in June, and will be the first album Noel has recorded in his own studio Lone Star. So far, we have heard singles Pretty Boy, released in October of last year, and Easy Now, released last month.
Noel drops by to tell Jo all about his process, influences and journey. He also plays us some tracks from his favourite artists.
Listen back here.
Noel Gallagher On Working On Council Skies, The Cure, Pet Shop Boys And More
Parts of an interview with Noel Gallagher taken from the new issue of MOJO that is on sale now.
On the new High Flying Birds album Council Skies: "It's quite reflective but it's not nostalgic. Maybe 'Easy Now' which sounds quite Oasis-y. But the songs have a certain up-and-down mood to them. 'Pretty Boy's' a f*ucking party tune. It's my fourth studio album and it's encompasses, I think everything I've done in the last 13 years."
"I wrote it on acoustic guitar, which is what I would do in the past. It was the position David Holmes took me out of when I was writing stood up at a f*cking synthesizer on 'Who Built The Moon?' All that stuff was so far away from what I'm known for... The best songs I've written have always been inclusive and about 'us' rather than 'me' you know."
On The Cure remix of (Pretty Boy) and the Pet Shop Boys remix of (Think Of A Number): "To my ear, 'Pretty Boy' sounds like a cross between The Cure and The Cult, an era of alternative music which I f*cking love. I was fucking so blown away that (Robert Smith) got involved. I went to see the Pet Shop Boys at Glastonbury, f*cking amazing. I thought he track was very '80s, and they'd just done a remix for Weller, and they agreed to do it. It's quite the thing, let me tell you."
On if he feels like he is defending something with 'Council Skies': "I feel sometimes, that I'm defending my right to make music that's not f*cking indie rock and to jump around artistically. You feel like when you're making 'Pretty Boy' or 'Black Star Dancing', you have to justify why you're doing it, because people want you to rewrite f*cking 'Don't Look Back In Anger' 14 times on an album."'
On Having his own recording studio: "I'm the last f*cking songwriter in the world to get his own studio, it's taken me 'til I'm 5o f*cking five."