Noel Gallagher On 'Who Built The Moon?', Songwriting, Blondie, Kanye West, Oasis And More

"I don't want anybody to know who I am. I genuinely have no desire for anybody to ask me how I feel." Noel Gallagher says this about 45 minutes into my attempt to talk to him about who he is and how he feels.

He doesn't say it in an accusatory way; he doesn't sound annoyed. He is trying to explain what works for him as a songwriter — that there's a necessary distance between who he is and what he writes.

As he sings in one of the newest songs by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, "Be careful what you wish for / Be careful what you dream / They'll let you sing your songs, son / But they'll never hear you scream."

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Noel Gallagher On 'Who Built The Moon?' Oasis, Liam, Parka Monkeys And More

While countless nostalgic Britpop aficionados still yearn for the day when Oasis’s Gallagher brothers will once again share a stage — and even younger sibling Liam, who released his debut album As You Were in October, seems more interested in getting back with Oasis than pursuing his own solo career.

Noel Gallagher isn’t looking back, in anger or otherwise. Instead, he’s releasing his most forward-thinking, adventurous, and ambitious album yet, Who Built the Moon?, out Nov. 24.

A kaleidoscopic, four-years-in-the-making project produced by electronic artist/DJ/film composer David Holmes and drawing inspiration from French jazz, psychedelic pop, soul, disco, ambient music, Brian Eno, and even Kanye West, it sounds like nothing the 50-year-old Mancunian rock idol has recorded before. It doesn’t sound like Oasis, at least.

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How Kanye West Influenced Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher has spoken to www.rollingstone.com and discussed how Kanye West influenced 'Who Built The Moon?' album opener "Fort Knox,".

He said "On the day that Kanye released that track 'Fade,' it fuckin' blew my mind," he says. "And I go into the studio and I'm going, 'Wow, have you fuckin' heard this Kanye track?' ... I've always loved that track by him called 'Power.'" Holmes suggested he write a track like that. "And I'm like, 'What? fuckin joking, are ya? I'm no rapper.' He had the idea of, 'Let's pretend we're doing a track for Kanye and we're going to send to him.' And as it was going along, I was going, 'This is amazing. He's not getting this.' So the reason why there's no singing on it is we had this idea we were going to send it to Kanye and then [throws middle finger in air] fuck him."

Noel Gallagher On 'Who Built The Moon?', Kanye West And More

Liam Gallagher On 'As You Were', Oasis, Noel, U2, Kanye West And More

It might not have seemed like it during the champagne-and-cocaine supernova of his Brit-pop Nineties – back when a given night might find him detained by police on a ferry to Amsterdam, tossed out of Abbey Road Studios mid-session, or skipping an Oasis gig to go house-shopping – but Liam Gallagher was always thinking long-term. Or at least he was always thinking. Take his habitual onstage pose: arms clasped behind his back, every part of him immobile save for his lips. "I knew for a fact I was gonna live forever," he says now, having made it to a lean, fiery 45.

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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.”

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Noel Gallagher On Oasis, Liam, Donald Trump And More

Noel Gallagher took over the famed Capitol Records studio in Los Angeles Thursday night to play a packed house five songs off his upcoming High Flying Birds album “Who Built the Moon?” out Nov. 24.

But of course questions during the Q&A quickly turned to Oasis and the band’s 25th Anniversary of their first album “Definitely Maybe” which is coming up in two years.

Why is that number significant? It means they can be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Gallagher explained he’s already been contacted by the organisation and told them straight up “it’s not gonna happen.” Normally, of course, bands get together to both perform and accept the award but he told the audience he would not attend if they got inducted. On whether he thought Oasis deserved to be honoured: “Well, I certainly think I do.”

Yes the Gallagher brothers continue to take jabs at each other every chance they get. With Liam posting these two tweets after hearing some of Noel’s new record.

In response to the tweets Noel proclaimed total “indifference.” As to whether he had heard Liam’s new material due out next week. He said he’d heard the single. And repeated his go-to line of total “indifference.”

During the hilarious discussion with media, fans and record execs, Noel was also asked about President Donald Trump. He told the audience he had to be careful what he said, because he already has a tough time getting into the country. He added that Trump was an “interesting individual” and “unique.”

Out of the five songs we heard, one of the songs is sure to create a lot of buzz – the opener to the “Who Built The Moon?” album, “Fort Knox” – a moody, kind of psychedelic trip in which Noel doesn’t even really sing.

He explained it was actually influenced by Kanye West’s “Fade”. Noel had run into the studio saying how much he loved it after hearing it for the first time. In fact Noel actually wanted to send “Fort Knox” for Kanye to use as his own. But once it was done Noel said he realized, “It was just too fu***** good” so he kept it for himself.

Source: etcanada.com

Liam Gallagher Is Not Sure If Oasis Will Ever Get Back Together

Liam Gallagher has claimed if Oasis got back together they would put the likes of Kanye West and X Factor winners “to bed”.

Donning his traditional parka jacket and waving the standard two-finger salute to photographers, the Oasis frontman also revealed he misses his estranged brother Noel.

The 44-year-old was in London’s Leicester Square for a special first screening of a new documentary called Supersonic which details the band’s meteoric rise to stardom.

Speaking to the Press Association, the Mancunian said he is “not sure if Oasis will ever get back together”, adding: “You will have to ask the little man.

“I am ready to go, my bags are packed, we shouldn’t have split up – you know what I mean?

“For someone to ruin my Oasis career to further his own, we have got to get past that a little bit.”

Asked if he missed his brother, who he has been at loggerheads with since 2009, the long-haired Britpop icon said: “Yeah, without a doubt.”

Liam also said Oasis were not the greatest band ever, adding: “We were one of them – definitely. And we still are.

“If we got back tomorrow it would be business as usual. Regardless of whether we are living in a Kanye world or a f***ing X Factor world, we’d put them all to bed I think.”

Supersonic documents the formation and rise of Oasis, from their council-estate beginnings to their record-breaking performance at Knebworth.

Created by some of the team from award-winning documentaries such as Amy and Senna, the film provides unprecedented access to the band.

Following the group through the early 90s, the documentary includes commentary from family and unseen archive material.

Liam said the two-hour film “brought back memories” and that overall he is “quite happy with it”.

He added: “I like it, it is raw, it’s not flash – it’s good. I like the bits I’m in.”

An avid football fan, particularly as a diehard Manchester City supporter, reacting to the Daily Telegraph’s probe into alleged football corruption, which resulted in former England manager Sam Allardyce leaving the role by “mutual agreement”, he said it was “pure greed”.

Pressed on who he would like to see fill the position, he said he “isn’t a big England fan”, adding: “Gotta be English man, I think – Gareth Southgate, why not.”

Director Mat Whitecross, the man also behind Road to Guantanamo, said he “grew up with the band” and was a “massive fan”, admitting it was “amazing” to work with the brothers.

“Given the fact they have fallen out and they didn’t want to speak to each other, actually from a filmmaking perspective it was probably better because it meant we could interview them separately,” he added.

Revealing it was “difficult” to get hold of some of the earlier footage, he also said it was “hard” obtaining film from their first year.

He added: “Luckily, for whatever reason, every time there was a particular incident, whether it was their visit to Japan or when they tried to break America and blew it all up because of drugs, for some reason someone just happened by chance to have recorded that night.”

The documentary is out on general release from October 7 in 380 cinemas across the UK and Ireland.

Source: www.yorkpress.co.uk

Liam Gallagher Compared To Kanye West Following Another Rant On Twitter

Former Oasis rocker Liam Gallagher has launched into another expletive-laden rant on Twitter – leaving fans scratching their heads.

Liam, who last week exploded into a tirade after watching the Brits, has been at it again – prompting baffled fans to wonder if he’s “doing a Kanye” in reference to rapper Kanye West who is known for his Twitter outpourings.

Last night he started off by tweeting about the Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg fight, describing Bury boxer Quigg as a “Rock n Roll star” in reference to one of the Manchester band’s famous songs.

Then this morning he turned his attention to The Verve front man Richard Ashcroft, quoting from their massive hit Lucky Man and tweeting: “Ashcroft gives power get up you bunch of lazy tarts.”

He followed this with “kill the squares”, “big up Dave Malik”, “pass me down the wine” and finally “Still a **** bruv.”

His tweets caused one fan to tweet in reply: “get back to sleep its sunday x” and another quipped: “LG chill out wie the tweets man ur no Kanye.”

Another pointed out: “Liam Gallagher is doing what’s known in Twitterland as a ‘Kanye’ this morning.”

After the Brits on Wednesday Liam was looking back in anger as he passed his opinion on the annual ceremony, condemning the music industry in an expletive-laden tirade, asking: “Where do I ******* start?” before blasting: “Music in the UK has been abducted by massive ***** THE END” signing off with a kiss and his initials LG.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Wants To Lick Pep Guardiola's Face

The legendary singer-songwriter and die-hard Blues fan is clearly overjoyed that Pep has been announced as the new Manchester City manager.

He’s proving to be a very popular choice as the next Manchester City boss.

And you perhaps won’t find a fan more adoring than Manchester music legend Noel Gallagher , who has gone as far as to say he wants to lick Pep Guardiola’s face.

The Oasis singer-songwriter and guitarist - and his wife Sara MacDonald- are clearly overjoyed that Pep has agreed a three-year contract to become City manager in the summer.

The die-hard Blues fan posted a photo of the coach on his Instagram page with the message: “I see you baby!!!

“Be warned Mr.Pep both me and Sara are Very much looking forward to licking your face next season..”

In December Noel also made his feelings clear about the new City badge – saying he loves it so much he would have it tattooed on his back.

In a video tweeted by the club the Manchester he said: “This new badge represents what Manchester City is.

“I for one, I’m going to leave these offices, and go straight to a tattoo parlour and I’m going to get a massive one tattooed on my back. That’s how good it is.”

Then he showed his love for the new badge again by posing with a giant version of the crest , made from sand, on a sunshine family break.

The Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds frontman seems to be in a typically ouspoken mood at the moment because he’s been putting rap superstar Kanye West in his place after Yeezy boasted to his 18 million Twitter followers about his new album Waves.

Kanye tweeted: "So happy to be finished with the best album of all time" and he went on “This is not album of the year. This is album of the life.”

And Noel hit back on his Instagram page: “So Kanye thinks he’s made the best album of all time?

“You might sell more Mr.Kanye but NGHFB will be better..FACT!”

Well that told him.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Is In The Studio And Working On His Third Album

Noel Gallagher has shared a photo of himself in the studio working on his third solo album.

The former Oasis star posted a pic of a brass section in the recording studio to his Instragram account, featuring a cheeky comment referencing Kanye West!

Gallagher wrote: “So Kanye thinks he’s made the best album of all time? You might sell more Mr.Kanye but NGHFB will be better..FACT!”

Source: www.electric-banana.co.uk

Noel Gallagher, Ed Sheeran And Blur Lead Q Award Nominees

Old Britpop battles will be reignited at the Q Awards as both Blur and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds go head to head for two awards.

Both bands are up for Best Album and Best Act in the World Today at the award show in London on October 19.

Former Oasis frontman Gallagher joins Ed Sheeran, Florence + The Machine and Foals in leading the nominations, with three apiece.

Gallagher and Sheeran are also in the running for Best Solo Artist, alongside Kanye West, Taylor Swift and Sam Smith.

Smith, who has penned the theme song for new Bond film Spectre, won in last year’s Best New Act category, which this year features Jess Glynne, James Bay and Years & Years.

Absolute Radio DJ Christian O’Connell will return to host the awards for the second year in a row.

Voting is open to the public in seven categories – including best new act, best album, best solo artist and best video – at www.Qthemusic.com/Q/Awards.

Source: www.bt.com

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Noel Gallagher On T In The Park, Oasis, Kanye West, Coldplay, Primal Scream, David Guetta And More

Festival veteran Gallagher will close this year's T in the Park on Sunday and has been as outspoken as ever ahead of his trip north.

Noel Gallagher is likely to be disappointed in Saturday’s main stage headliner at T in the Park – because he thought Avicii was the name of his local restaurant.

Noel’s band High Flying Birds will close Scotland’s biggest music festival on Sunday’s main stage.
But he had never heard of the Swedish superstar DJ who’ll take that spot 24 hours before him.
“You can have Avicii, whoever that is,” Noel said. “All I’ve heard is his name.

“I thought it was a restaurant around where I live if I’m being honest. Is it a band or is it a guy? Is it like a David Guetta thing? I mean, holy s**tballs. I’m just glad I won’t be there to see that.”

The former Oasis rocker also joked the picturesque Strathallan site could be transformed into something resembling a warzone by the time he closes the festival on Sunday night.

“It’s going to be like World War I by the time I get there,” he said.
“But I’m looking forward to it.

“T in the Park is f***ing great.

“I love that festival.”

The British rock legend, who is married to Edinburgh-born PR boss Sara MacDonald, played the first ever T in the Park with Oasis back in 1994, in the King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut tent.

Oasis returned to headline the main stage in 2002 and a decade later Noel made his T debut with his own band, High Flying Birds.

He also surprised fans when he joined Paul Weller on the main stage in 2001.

“I’ve seen some great gigs there including Stereophonics,” Noel said.

“I went up there once to hang out with Sara for the weekend when she was working at the festival.

“I remember being with Sara watching Coldplay and the two of us looking at each other and thinking, that band are going to be f***ing massive.

“Paul Weller was doing his acoustic thing.

“He blagged me to get up and do a few songs with him.

“The two of us were f**ing roaring drunk onstage. It was funny.”

He added: “A music festival nowadays reflects everybody’s iPod. You look and ask yourself, is this line up on shuffle or what?

“It doesn’t make any sense, but that’s the modern world.

“In the 60s, everybody was of a certain way of thinking.

“Now musical thought is so fragmented.”

Noel, 48, will be playing songs from both the self-titled High Flying Birds album and follow-up Chasing Yesterday, as well as solo material and choice tracks from his time with Oasis.

Looking back on the music scene when Oasis first played T in the Park, he said: “It’s wrong to say it was better then.

“It’s just this generational thing, though, I thought it was better than.

“Then again I was better then and I was younger then.

“When we were young we were a lot cooler than this generation, let’s put it that way.

“You and I are roughly the same age and the people we liked or that we were brought up listening to, like Joy Division, New Order, Morrissey, Mark E. Smith and Paul Weller, were influenced by people who were also great and slowly but surely the world has watered it down.

“Forget this generation, they’re lost.

“Imagine the next generation. Can you? I can’t.

“I’d rather not.

“My 15-year old daughter, there’s hope for her.

“She asked me about the Stone Roses the other day.

“But my two sons? Lord knows what nonsense they’ll be into.”

Noel believes the problem stems from record companies having too much control.

He added: “Everybody now is signed to major label and they all pander to the radio and everybody sounds the same on the radio.

“Alternative thinking is disappearing. It’s a sad day when people tell me I’m so outspoken and controversial.

“Why, for stating the f***ing obvious?

“There won’t be another music revolution because commerce and big business doesn’t allow revolution.

“It likes the same, the same, the same – Taylor Swift.

“Taylor Swift will still be going in 20 years but she’ll be called something else.

“She won’t be going. It’ll be someone else. But there will never be another Oasis, I can tell you that.
“Never in a million years.

“Five lads from a council estate who wanted to be as big as the Beatles and were big enough to say it. Never.”

NOEL ON KANYE WEST

“He’s nearly as good as me in interviews, but he takes himself too seriously. I’ve never met the guy, right, and Lord knows what he’s like. But I like him. His music is not what I would listen to though I do like Black Skinhead.
“That’s a f***ing great track.”

NOEL ON PRIMAL SCREAM

“If we go back a generation, Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes weren’t trying to do something different.
“They were different themselves.
“They were different people with alternative thought.
“Bobby is always trying to be as good as his heroes.
“So is Innes and Andrew Weatherall.”

NOEL ON BEING AN ELDER STATESMAN OF ROCK

“Do I feel it?
“No, I don’t feel like an elder statesman.
“I’m not the elder statesman as long as Paul Weller is around.
“He’s elder than me.
“Print that. He’ll f**ing hate that.
“I feel like I’m just starting off, if anything.
“I know I have a better set of songs to choose from than, say, George Ezra, but I’ve only put my second album out. So I don’t feel anything like that.”
Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher On Kanye West Playing Glastonbury And More

This morning on 6Music Breakfast, Noel Gallagher chatted with Music News' Matt Everitt about Kanye West at Glastonbury and his role with the Teenage Cancer Trust.


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Noel Gallagher Won't Copy Kanye West

Ahead of his O2 gig tonight, Noel tells XFM that he won't be selling bags of air from his gig like the controversial rapper.

Bags of air, reportedly collected at Kanye West tours, have flooded online auction sites in recent days.

But after joking that it was undoubtedly "hot air", Noel Gallagher has told XFM he won't be following in the footsteps of the rapper.

The gag began when one eBay user posted a joke ad for a bag of air from a Kanye West tour. Although the site took the ad down, more copycat ads have taken its place in recent days.

Noel was joined onstage by Johnny Marr at his Manchester Arena gig last night, with a setlist that included Oasis tracks Champagne Supernova, Don't Look Back In Anger and The Masterplan. Noel plays London's O2 tonight.

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Source: www.xfm.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher Calls Kanye West A F*cking Dumbass And More

Noel Gallagher has said Kanye West is a f*cking dumbass in the current issue of the NME.

He said "I read in the papers this morning that he got onstage at the Grammys, saying to Beck 'You should respect artistry and give Beyonce that award.' That c*nt needs to look up the description of the word 'artistry'. If Beck the player of 14 instruments, is not an artist, then f*ck me. Kanye's a f*cking dumbass."

He added "His interview with Zane Lowe a few years ago was f*cking priceless, but he does have this thing where he thinks he runs the music business. Imagine if he'd got up at the Brits in the 90s. I'd Have knocked him out."

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Noel Gallagher On Liam, Oasis, Beady Eye, Madonna, Kanye West And More

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Noel Gallagher On His New Album, Liam, Kanye West, Beady Eye And More

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Liam Gallagher Blasts Kayne West After Brits Performance

Liam Gallagher took to Twitter earlier today to declare Kanye West “Utter shit” after his performance at the Brit Awards in London.

He then added a second diss “And you’re a million miles away from College Dropout. That’s artistry.” before making a recommendation. Gallagher told Kanye to “check out Lee Mavers,” who’s best known as the singer/guitarist of English pop-rock band the La’s.

Source: www.vanyaland.com

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