Noel Gallagher Confirms He's Writing For A New Monkees Album With Paul Weller

In an exclusive interview with theMusic.com.au this week, Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher confimed rumours he was penning a song with The Jam's Paul Weller, for an upcoming Monkees record.

Gallagher told us, "Yeah, they asked me to write a song and as luck would have it, I happened to have half a song lying around that I’d been writing with Paul Weller over the last couple of months and we sent it to them and they like it and we’ve now gotta go and finish it off, but we didn’t expect them to go and tell fucking the whole world that it was happening because now we have to finish it off."

The record, reportedly titled Good Times!, is due for release on 10 June to coincide with The Monkees' 50th anniversary. All three surviving members, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, are involved.

"I hope the second half’s as good as the first half. But me and Paul are very busy dudes. We’re all-conquering, ageing mods and, you know, it’s fucking hard to find the time sometimes," Gallagher continued.

NME reports that Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard have also been writing for the project, making the record a collaboration between a slew of enigmatic frontmen. Cuomo's song is rumoured to be titled She Makes Me Laugh, while Gibbard is said to have written a track called Me & Magdalena.

Keep an eye on theMusic.com.au for the full interview.

Source: theMusic.com.au

Have Noel Gallagher And Paul Weller Written A Song Together For The New Monkees Album?

Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller have been reportedly working on a new song for The Monkees’ 50th anniversary album, Good Times.

The band recently confirmed that they will be releasing their first album in 20 years. Justus was their last album, released in 1996.

Weezer’s River Cuomo and Death Cab For a Cutie’s Ben Gibbard will appear on the record. Cuomo’s track will be called ‘She Makes Me Laugh’, whilst Gibbard’s track is called ‘Me & Magdalena’.

No more details are yet known about the Gallagher / Weller collaboration for the album, but we hope it’s true.

Good Times will also feature a handful of songs that were written for the Monkees in the 60s that they did not release, including Neil Diamonds ‘Love to Love’, Boyce and Hart’s ‘Whatever’s Right’ and Carole Kng’s ‘Wasn’t Born To Follow’.

The group reformed after a decade-long hiatus in 2011 for a 45th anniversary tour that featured a three-man line up of Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Davy Jones. Jones died of a sudden heart attack the following year, leaving Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork as the only two remaining members.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Noel Gallagher Has Written A Song For 'The Monkees' New Album

The Monkees are celebrating their 50th anniversary by releasing a new album, Good Times!, with songs written by Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Oasis’ Noel Gallagher, Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, Neil Diamond, Carol King, and more.

The Monkees, who started as a television band on the ‘60s TV series of the same name and eventually formed a real band, have been doing reunion tours and albums since the 1980s. Good Times!, which arrives on June 10th, will be the group’s first release since the passing of Davy Jones in 2012 and their last album, 1997’s Justus. The album is produced by Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger.

“I’m not a big music listener outside of Frank Sinatra during martini hour, but I began doing research and I realized that the whole indie rock scene is all about recapturing that 1960s jangly guitar sound of the Monkees, amongst many other groups, of course,” singer Micky Dolenz told Rolling Stone. “One reason we don’t have a final track listing yet is because once we put the word out all these people said they wanted to get involved.”

Founding member Michael Nesmith is not participating. The group has also announced their world tour dates.

Source: flavorwire.com

Noel Gallagher On Jay Z's Streaming Service Tidal

Noel Gallagher has taken aim at Jay Z's streaming service Tidal. saying "I don't sell enough records for that shite."

 Asked by Noisey's John Doran about his throught on the lavish launch Gallagher seemed particularly unimpressed. He took particular exception to Alicia Keys introduction at the New York launch.
"Alicia Keys is up there giving a speech, like something out of the UN," said Gallagher. "I think 'This has got to be fucking bollocks. Nonsense!' I'm not surprised nobody's been bothered with it."

It echoes Gallagher's recent comments he made to Rolling Stone regarding his concerns for the service. "I think ultimately that the spiel they came out with, it was like, "Do these people think they're the fuckin' Avengers? They're going to save the fuckin' [world]." I was speaking to Chris [Martin] the day after, and I said, "Are you after a Nobel Peace Prize? Is that what you're after?" They were like, "We're going to fuckin' save the music business." And I'm just sitting there, thinking [imitates smoking weed] you might want to write a decent chorus for a fuckin' start. Never mind fuckin' royalties and the "power of music." Write a tune. Fuckin' start with that."

Gallagher's comments come in the wake of a number of artists casting doubt on the service. Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard recently said: “I think they totally blew it by bringing out a bunch of millionaires and billionaires and propping them up onstage and then having them all complain about not being paid.” Similarly Billy Corgan cast doubt about how Tidal was marketed as beneficial for all artists. "To try and sell it as an altruistic thing is disingenuous because it's not. He is taking his slice of the pie, which he has every right to do -- he is a powerful man and he works with powerful people....To sell it as altruistic - I don't buy it." My Morning Jacket's Jim James went one step further describing it as 'elitist and weird'.

Noel Gallagher will have a spectacular summer ahead of him including summer headline spots at Latitude Festival, Calling Festival and Summer In The City. He's also would rather that people would stop ask him about the Oasis reunion everyone is expecting.

Source: www.gigwise.com

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In Los Angeles

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at The 22nd Annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, USA later today (December 11th).

You can listen or watch the performance online, details of the show can be found here.

Other acts confirmed for this year's festival include Death Cab For Cutie, Florence & The Machine and Cage The Elephant.

If you are going to the show, and you are able to scan your ticket or send in pictures email them to us @ scyhodotcom@gmail.com.

You can also tweet us pictures and updates @scyhodotcom

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In San Diego

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the 91X Wrex The Halls Festival at the Valley View Casino Cente in San Diego, USA later today (December 10th).

Other acts confirmed for this year's festival include Death Cab For Cutie, Florence & The Machine and Cage The Elephant.

Not to sure at the time of posting if you can listen or watch online, If I come across anything I will post them in a seperate link.

Details of the show can be found here.

If you are going to the show, and you are able to scan your ticket or send in pictures email them to us @ scyhodotcom@gmail.com.

You can also tweet us pictures and updates @scyhodotcom

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds To Play 91X Wrex The Halls, San Diego

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have confirmed they will be playing at this year's 91X Wrex The Halls festival at San Diego's Valley View Casino Center on 10th December.

Other acts confirmed for this year's festival include Death Cab For Cutie, Florence & The Machine and Cage The Elephant.

Tickets for the festival go on sale Friday 4th November but members of www.NoelGallagher.com can apply early through a website pre-sale. Details of the pre-sale will be sent out to US registered fans Wednesday evening for a Thursday morning pre-sale.

If you're not already signed up to the mailing list you can register HERE!

Tickets go on general sale Friday 4th November at 10am (local time) through Ticketmaster.com and all Ticketmaster locations, Valley View Casino Center box office, and charge by phone - 619.224.4171

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

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