Noel Gallagher On The Drinking Skills Of Bono, Morrissey And Bobby Gillespie

Noel Gallagher—who recently said he’s lost “a f–king shitload of money” since Oasis split and, in potentially related news, advised One Direction’s Zayn Malik to “f–kin’ get a good accountant because life is very f–kin’ long”—is back with more colorful insights about the rock world.

Rock critic and editor of The Quietus John Doran interviewed Gallagher for Noisey’s The British Masters series and asked him who could drink more: Morrissey, Bono, or Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie. Gallagher responded with a predictably entertaining answer:

Bono, hands down. Bobby don’t drink. Morrissey is good crack. He can drink, and remains—doesn’t really get drunk though—he remains equally as vicious from the f—king minute you meet him until seven hours later. I lighten up once I’ve had a drink. Not Morrissey.

But Bono, he is really f—king brilliant company. I’ve been drinking with him, and I’ve been leaving a bar at 6 in the morning and he’s on the bar singing opera. And he’s got a f—king gig the following night with 70,000 people. And I’m being escorted out like James Brown—f—king pissed.

Source: www.ew.com

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Noel Gallagher On The Art Of Songwriting

The following piece is an extract from the superb book Isle of Noises by Daniel Rachel, a series of in-depth interviews with British musicians about their approach to songwriting. This is just the first half of the interview with Noel and the rest of it is just as good. You can click through and buy the book at the end of the article. It also features interviews with John Lydon, Mick Jones, Madness, Paul Weller, Johnny Marr, Jarvis Cocker, Pet Shop Boys, Laura Marling, Ray Davies, Squeeze, Joan Armatrading and many more. – James Brown

You were once asked but refused to answer this question. Do you recognize the romantic writer in yourself?
I remember that question. Yes, I am romantic. My missus would sit and scoff at this. I can only be romantic when I’m writing songs. I’ve written lots of love songs. I’m fucking shit at remembering birthdays and all that malarkey, buying cards and flowers: absolutely rubbish.

You recognize beauty in simple things, like the weather.

Oh yeah, for five years I was obsessed with the rain. It was raining a lot.

Or shining.

Well, there was sunshine after the rain. Somebody pointed that out to me at the end of the Nineties and said, ‘It’s been raining a lot in your music for the last five years.’ It’s like, ‘I’m from Manchester. It rains. I’m from up north.’

Is it a default when you’re stuck for ideas: rain, shine?

I’m not one of the world’s great thinkers. Damon Albarn said this once in an interview: he can ‘see four black dudes playing cards in a pub in Notting Hill and write a symphony about it’. I could see the same four black dudes and to me it’s just four black dudes playing cards. It’s just how you perceive things in life. I’m not a great reader of books; I’m not a great art lover. What I know is street life and street talk and football and drugs. I was probably the only songwriter in the entire world that hasn’t written a song about 9/11.

It’s unusual for you to write very personally. Did having an abusive father contribute to your reluctance to reveal yourself in song?

All the songs that I like, they’re not written by songwriters pulling the scabs off themselves. All John Lennon’s shit about his mother; I’m not interested in it, doesn’t mean anything to me. All these songs about personal torment, how can it? How can ‘Mother’ mean anything to anybody apart from John Lennon? It can’t, because he’s singing it about his mother, not mine. That’s just my perception of it. It’s never come out in my music ’cause (a) it’s nobody’s fucking business; and (b) it doesn’t make for great music. For instance, ‘Waterloo Sunset’; the sun setting at Waterloo Station belongs to everybody. The abusive father I had belongs to me. I really wouldn’t want to share that or put it into a song. Why waste that three minutes when you could be writing about the sun coming up in the morning?

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Three New Mixes From Beady Eye

We were expecting two new mixes from Andy to lead up to the UK tour in November. However he has been in touch over the weekend to give us this brand new mix - 'What The World Is Waiting For...' - and asked that it be uploaded first.

The other two mixes will also be released in the coming weeks so be sure to keep checking back to www.BeadyEyeMusic.com for all the details.

What The World Is Waiting For... by Beady Eye Music on Mixcloud

This new mix, entitled 'What the World is waiting for...', features the following tracks:

1/ Voices of East Harlem - Oh Yeah!
2/ Young MC - Know How
3/ Jimi Hendrix - Spanish Castle Magic
4/ Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
5/ Bobby Byrd - I Know You Got Soul
6/ Cymande - The Fug
7/ Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
8/ Wayne Smith - Under Me Sleng Teng
9/ Sizzla - Make It Secure
10/ Junior Byles - Fade Away
11/ Aaron Neville - Hercules
12/ Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
13/ Meters - Cissy Strut
14/ Can - I'm So Green
15/ James Brown - Funky Drummer
16/ Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
17/ A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
18/ Hashim - Al Naayfish
19/ Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
20/ Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
21/ The Stone Roses - Simone

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Noel Gallagher Guest Edits Mojo Magazine

Noel has guest edited this month's Mojo Magazine, which is on the shelves now. The magazine also comes with a personally compiled covermount CD titled 'Well... All Right!' which features artists as diverse as Nina Simone, Black Mountain, Yage and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

The magazine has the first in-depth interview with Noel in which he talks about the writing and recording of his debut album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'. He also discusses several tracks which have helped shape his life.

The magazine features articles about poet John Cooper Clarke, Miles Kane, the roots of punk and James Brown which have all received Noel's seal of approval.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com