Noel Gallagher On Tracks From His New Album, A Unfinished Song And More

Noel Gallagher has spoken to The Sunday Times about his new album 'Who Built the Moon?' that is released on November 24th, it's been reported by them that the album is packed with huge choruses and generic sentiments.

And that there are nods to Primal Scream, Doves and Chemical Brothers.

He said his wife Sara, who is “not into guitar music”, was the real test. “If I’m making music, she’ll say, ‘That’s nice.’ But I was playing something new when she burst in to say, ‘It’s amazing!’ I went, ‘Now we’re on to something.’”

As previously reported the opening track of the album, 'Fort Knox', was written imagining that Kanye West was about to put a rap over it.

While It’s a Beautiful World has a bit of French in which a women says something that translates as: “Rest in peace/It’s only the end of the world. The thing is, nobody in the studio spoke French, and they didn’t think to ask what had been said until the lyric sheets were printed. “But then France is a pretty volatile place at the minute”.

“There was a track we didn’t finish that was drawn out of the Paris attacks. And the Nice ones. We were working on it around Brexit, too, and not that I give a shit about that, but, symbolically, we abandoned the French at the time they were under attack. I felt bad for the French.”

“There was a bit on the news after the attacks, about something we put up in space, and it was so fantastic, what humankind had done. The very next day in the news, some shithead who used to work in Lidl was throwing gay men off a roof in Raqqa, and it’s, like, ‘You scumbag.’ The rest of us are discovering the cosmos and you medieval f*****s are throwing gay people. And he used to work in Lidl? In Bury? F****** c***. It’s all going to come out in that song.”

“Well, everything pre-international terrorism was a bit flowery to me,” he replies. “And what annoys me most is you see the mayor [of London] saying, ‘We will not be cowed.’” Gallagher says there’s nothing wrong with being afraid. “I get on the Tube. My eldest is 17. She uses the Tube. My boys are growing up in London and use public transport. I’m frightened.

“Are you going to walk into an attack and die? Or survive with half an arm? Are your kids going to walk into it on a night out? I’m not buying Khan and his ‘London will stand firm’. I live in the centre and it concerns the f*** out of me.”

Read the full interview in The Sunday Times today.

Live Report: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Dublin

Noel Gallagher linked past and present during a 90 minute set at Dublin's 3Arena last night (March 4).

Ireland's largest indoor music venue saw Gallagher and his High Flying Birds playing the same set list as they had 24-hours earlier at Belfast's Odyssey Arena, mixing a handful of early Oasis numbers with tracks from the singer and guitarist's two solo albums.

Support came from Black Rivers, who performed a number of songs from their recently-released self-titled debut LP, including 'The Forest' and 'The Ship'. While the crowd remained mostly static throughout, they did perk up slightly when the band which consists of former Doves members Jez and Andy Williams played two tracks originally recorded by their previous group, 'Rise' and 'Black and White Town'.

"Let's cheer up with 'Black and White Town', a good song," quipped Jez in response to the rather muted crowd. But they were only here to see one man, and directly following the Black Rivers' set, Judy Henske's 1963 track 'High Flying Bird' was played into the venue as though to signal Noel and his band's impending arrival.

Arriving onstage at 9pm with his band and a ten-member choir, which sat directly behind the group facing the crowd, Gallagher opened with two tracks from first solo record 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'. '(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach' and 'Everybody's on the Run' were followed by the first Oasis track of the night, a more acoustic version of 'Definitely Maybe'-era B-side 'Fade Away' the track's wistful tone punctuated here by a series of nostalgic photographs that were projected behind the group.

"What about you Dublin?" Gallagher asked the packed venue. "I don't say this many places, but it's truly great to be back. Thank you very much."

Three tracks from new album 'Chasing Yesterday' followed as the band played 'In the Heat of the Moment', 'Lock All the Doors' and 'Riverman'. Gallagher dedicated 'Lock All The Doors' to "my former right-hand man Bonehead who's out there somewhere" a nod to Oasis founding member Paul Arthurs and introduced a three-piece brass section for 'Riverman'.

"This song contains a saxophone solo. Do not be alarmed," he joked.

Two more Noel solo numbers followed before the crowd were invited to sing along to Oasis single 'Champagne Supernova', which they happily did. "I started playing this tune one day in rehearsals and everyone joined in," revealed Gallagher before opening the track on his acoustic guitar.

While the choir departed the stage after 'Champagne Supernova' (the only track they'd actually been deployed on), the brass section returned for 'Dream On', and there was an amusing moment when an assistant attempted to hand Gallagher the wrong guitar before 'The Dying Of The Light'. "You just can't get the staff," he laughed.

Noel later played back-to-back Oasis tracks a rocking version of 'Shout It Out Loud' and 'Digsy's Dinner' before closing with his new album's final track, 'Ballad of a Mighty I'.

The band re-emerged, however, for a four track encore. 'Alone on the Rope' was followed by a stripped down version of 'Don't Look Back In Anger', which sparked another massive sing along between band and crowd. 'AKA... What a Life!' and Oasis anthem 'The Masterplan' closed the show.

Although 'Chasing Yesterday' was only released on Monday, earlier this week it was reported that Gallagher was already halfway through making his third solo record.

Source: www.nme.com