Oasis - Going To California

Oasis have flown out to Los Angeles to finish recording their seventh studio album with Producer David Sardy. Once recordings are complete, they will stay in L.A. to mix the album.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Creation Records Founder To Be Guest At Exclusive Evening

The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance has announced that they will host an exclusive event with Creation Records founder, Alan McGee.

One of the music industry’s most influential men, McGee is most notable for founding the music label, Creation Records under which, he signed and managed such huge acts as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and The Libertines. His best-known success story however, is Oasis, who he signed to Creation in the 1990’s.

After the closure of Creation Records, Alan immediately founded a new label called Poptones, which has had success with the Hives, the Charlatans and Dirty Pretty Things, each of which is managed by Alan McGee Management. He also runs an international club night called Death Disco, which has residencies in New York, Budapest and Los Angeles, and travels Europe with his close friend and musical client, Tim Burgess of The Charlatans on DJ tours every year.

Established almost a quarter of a century ago, the institute has been developing and delivering cutting-edge courses to students of contemporary music for longer than any other UK-based school. Originally known as the Guitar Institute, it now offers a range of professional courses including a three-year degree, a fully funded one-year diploma, a specialist one year higher diploma, plus a wide portfolio of part-time courses designed to meet a variety of training needs. Past and present institute students can be found everywhere, touring with the likes of Katie Melua and Moby, playing with bands like Radiohead and Babyshambles and artists like K. T. Tunstall and Beverley Knight, and also working as teachers all over the world.

The event will take place on Tuesday the 19th of February, from 7.00pm to 9.00pm. For information on how to reserve a place, contact the Institute directly, on 020 7328 0222 or enquiries@icmp.uk.com.

Source: www.mi-pro.co.uk

The High Notes Of Oasis

Hits turning kids into booze 'n drug fiends

Kids are bombarded with an upending stream of music glamorising drugs and booze.

Researchers say one pop hit in every three, encourages fans to copy their idols' high-octane antics.

Out of 279 songs-examined in a university only four had lyrics with an anti-drug message.

Songs such as Cigarettes And Alcohol by Oasis and Rehab by Amy Winehouse 24, are picked out by setting a bad example.

But rap hits - including 50 Cent's Disco Inferno and Afroman's Because I Got High - are the worst offenders, with four out of every five songs including references to drugs and/or booze.

Country and Western is in second place with 37% with R&B and hip-hop on 20%, rock 14% and pop 9%.

Researchers said the lyrics of current Top 10 hit Rock Star, by Canadian group Nickelback, were a prime prime example of how songs glamorised drugs.

The chorus goes: "Cause we all just wanna be big rock stars, live in hilltop houses driving 15 cars. The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap, we'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat."

Brian Primark of Americas University of Pittsburgh, who led the research,said: "The media affects health behaviour, Tabacco in movies, for example, is now known to lead to smoking.

"Adolescents are exposed to two-and-a-half hours of music a day. It's good for us to know this exposure is there, so that we can talk to kids about it and say what we think is correct."

Peter Stoker of the UK's National Drug Prevention alliance, agreed music was likely to encourage drug and alcohol use.

He said "Most young people are mad keen on music. It doesn't surprise that the majority of these references are positive or neutral.

"The More you hear about something in a positive way, the more likely you are to give it a try."

The worst Offenders

Cigarettes And Alcohol - Oasis
Because I Got High - Afroman
Ebeneezer Good - The Shamen
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
Golden Brown - The Stranglers
Sorted For Es And Wizz - Pulp
Rehab - Amywine House
Gin And Juice - Snoop Dogg
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Rock Star - Nickelback
Disco Inferno - 50 Cent
Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash

Source: Daily Star Newspaper

Oasis Director To Release First Feature Film In April

The director of Oasis' road movie 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' is to release his first feature film in April.

Bailie Walsh's movie, 'Flashbacks Of A Fool', stars James Bond actor Daniel Craig as an ageing movie star reliving his troubled youth in 1970s Britain.

Other actors involved in the film include Daniel Craig, Helen McCrory, Olivia Williams, Emilia Fox, Harry Eden, Lily Allen's brother Alfie Owen-Allen and US rapper EVE.

As well as Oasis, Walsh has previously worked with Kylie Minogue, New Order, Spiritualized and Massive Attack

'Flashbacks Of A Fool' is out on April 14.

What's Going On At Oasis And Kasabain's Favourite Club Night?

Saturday February, 16 2008 at This Feeling featuring Chris Helme (Seahorses), Gerard Starkie (Witness), The Krak and more!...

For tickets and more information click here

On This Day In Oasis History...

"Songbird" is a song by British rock band Oasis, from their fifth studio album Heathen Chemistry. It was released as the fourth single from that album on 3 February 2003 and peaked at #3 in the UK charts. Being written by lead singer Liam Gallagher, it was the first time the band had released a single not written by his brother Noel.

Upon joining Oasis in the early nineties, Noel Gallagher claimed sole-songwriting responsibilities, and allowing little-to-no leeway from the rest of the band. He openly mocked the songwriting output of Liam and Bonehead, who had been in charge of Oasis' songwriting prior to his joining and had written a handful of tracks such as "Take Me" and an acoustic number titled "Life In Vain". Liam elaborated on the situation in 1994, after the release of Definitely Maybe saying "Noel won't let me (write), but I can't really write anyway... In the future if I started writing top tunes, I still don't think he'd be up for it... I know for a fact, even if he was going dry, he wouldn't play my songs... I'm not happy with that, but that's the way it is innit?".

However, after Oasis' third album Be Here Now received a cold reception from music critics, Noel began to loosen his control and allowed Liam to contribute songs. Though his first effort, "Little James" which appeared on Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, was criticised for being too simple and childlike (in particular, rhyming "plasticine" with "trampoline"), Songbird was fairly well received, despite only being based around two simple chords (G + Em7).

The song, written for Liam's long term girlfriend Nicole Appleton, was seen as a surprising break away from Liam's "Hard-Man" image. He explained this away saying "I like beautiful things...It's not all dark in Liam World. I take me shades off every now and again and have a look at the world and see some nice things."

The simplistic video was filmed in Regent's Park in London, and featured Liam playing an acoustic guitar under a tree, and also being chased by a dog.

Songbird is the shortest running Oasis single, at 2:07.

The song is included on Oasis' 2006 'best-of' album Stop The Clocks.

Source: Wikipedia

The View And Athlete To Play Versus Cancer 08

Athlete and The View have been added to the line-up for Versus Cancer 08.

Following more weeks of speculation and rumour about the Versus Cancer line up, the organisers have now announced yet more acts added to the line-up.

Athlete and The View will join The Fratellis, legendary Manchester acts The Happy Mondays, the Inspiral Carpets and New York’s finest the Fun Lovin’ Criminals at the event.

Also on the bill will be the January winners of Xfm Manchester's Uploaded competition for new and emerging talent.

Versus Cancer returns for the third time at the Arena in Manchester on February 23, with this batch of bands the first confirmations of an eagerly awaited line up, with more big name announcements promised in the coming weeks.

The charity, which raises money for cancer research, awareness and support groups are hoping to hit their £1 million target this year, and the February gig marks the first of their 2008 programme of events.

Source: www.xfmmanchester.co.uk

Tickets are still available for this years show by visiting www.versuscancer.org for more info...

A Collection Of Early Oasis Fanzines Appear On Ebay

For sale on ebay is a collection of rare Oasis fanzines from the early days of the band in 1994-1995.

The auction includes issues 1-6 of Lasagne which was the original Oasis fanzine. Plus issues 1-4 of Definitely Oasis, plus issue 1 of Cloudburst which even comes with an Oasis tea bag.

They include interviews,guitar tabs for Definitely Maybe, Morning Glory and all early B-Sides,lyrics,early gig reviews,rare pics and loads of fascinating reading from the early days.

They have been kept in immaculate condition since 1994, in smoke free environment.

The auction is for the complete set of 11 fanzines in total. They were bought mail order at the time from classified ads in music magazines as NME & Q etc.

Q Icons Gallery

Oasis – by Simon Halfon Taken in South London, 1999, as the band rehearsed for a short US tour.

Hosted by Cancer Research UK and proudly supported by Q, the annual Sound & Vision event brings together some of the biggest names in music and photography for a unique exhibition and auction.

Tickets to the event, which takes place Thursday 28 February, are strictly limited and can be applied for on the ticket telephone hotline: 0970 242 7095.

For more information click here. All money raised on the night will help fund Cancer Research UK’s pioneering research.

To mark Sound & Vision 2008, here’s a selection of the most striking images included in the exhibition.

Including Bruce Springsteen, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Jim Morrison, The Doors, Johnny Cash, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Thom Yorke, Radiohead and many more.

Source: www.q4music.com

Have You Registered For Glastonbury Tickets Yet?

As music fans sign up for Glastonbury from today, NME.COM celebrate some of the festival's most memorable moments.

Liam Gallagher of Oasis at Glastonbury Festival in 1995. They joined PJ Harvey, The Cure and Page & Plant at a festival that saw 80,000 descend on Worthy Farm.

Pic: www.musicuk.co.uk

Click here to view more great images...

Source: www.nme.com

Liam Gallagher Out & About In Beverly Hills

There are only a couple cans of Red Stripe and a few million quid separating Liam Gallagher and TV’s best-loved scoundrel Frank Gallagher.

Oasis frontman Liam was out and about in Beverly Hills sporting the same shaggy hair as boozy, tax-dodging Shameless rogue Frank.

But although Liam is a little more clean-shaven than Frank, played by actor David Threlfall, the proud Manc pair have more in common than just their love of alcohol and cigarettes.

They both enjoy nowt more than to let fly with an abusive rant.

Which Liam will no doubt dish out if he hears that he is being compared with his fellow Manc scally.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Oasis' Mark On British Music

Albums Of The '90s

Four- Basildon boys conquered America, indie rock discovered ecstasy and Britpop reigned.

The 20th Century went out with a bang.

Definitely Maybe - Oasis

Picking up where The Stone Roses left off, Definitely Maybe was the sound of provincial dreams becoming reality. "You're the outcast,you're the underclass, but you don't care, cos you're living fast," sang Liam Gallagher on Bring It On Down, articulating the realities of the downtrodden everywhere.

The biggest-selling debut album at that point, it proved that if you sang, "Tonight, I'm a rock 'n' roll star" loud enough, then you really could be.

Hail From: - Burnage, Greater Manchester
Most British Moment: Gallagher's brilliantly untutored drawl - one part John Lennon, one part John Lydon.
See Also: Stereophonics - Word Gets Around

Other albums mentioned

Violator - Depeche Mode
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Screamadelcia - Primal Scream
Parklife - Blur
Music For The Jilted Generation - Prodigy
Dummy - Portishead
OK Computer - Radiohead
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Different Class - Pulp

Tracks Of The '90s

Enter Britpop, big ballads and - oh yes! Bollywood

Live Forever - Oasis

Noel Gallagher penned this hymn to communality in 1991, a bleak year in John Major's recession - hit Britain, while working alone in a builders yard storeroom.

Live Forever forged a vision of transcendence that was both universal and homegrown: it's key line, "We'll see things they'll never see," was rooted in the great British phenomenon of ecstasy culture.

Most British Moment: The opening line, inspired by Gallagher's childhood memories of waiting around, bored, on his dad's allotment.

Other tracks mentioned

Angels - Robbie Williams
Unfinished Symphany - Massive Attack
Park Life - Blur
Common People - Pulp
Firestarter - The Prodigy
A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
Brimfull Of Asha - Cornershop
Born Slippy (Nuxx) - Underworld

Source: Q Magazine

Click here to cast you vote for the Best Ever British Album

Interview With Alan McGee

Alan McGee interviewed by Selina Scott in 1997, Alan talks about Oasis, Primal Scream, Hurricane #1, Super Furry Animals, Teenage Fanclub, Creation and more...

Visit Alan's MySpace page here

Would You Like To Be A Part Of The Oasis Podcast?

They are looking for contributors to help out with the show. If you'd like to record a segment for the show, or would be interested in co-hosting a episode or two, drop them a line at theoasispodcast@l4eradio.com

Or if you just want to hear yourself on the "radio", you can leave a voicemail at 1-302-47OASIS. If you have Skype, you can reach the show at user name live4everpodcast. You can leave a message about anything!

They received a tremendous response to the first episode, thanks everyone for downloading and listening! .. still not listened to the first episode yet visit l4eradio.com to do so.

Pick The Bands You Want At The Festivals!

Oasis, Foos, the Zeppelin, Panic and even Mika - vote on who you want, and really DON'T want to head up your favourite festivals this summer.

Click here to have your say on nme.com the results will be forwaded on to fesival organisers!

Source: www.nme.com

Greatest Band Of The 90's

10. The Flaming Lips
09. Belle and Sebastian
08. Suede
07. The Happy Mondays
06. Radiohead
05. Wilco
04. The Stone Roses
03. R.E.M.
02. The Verve
01. Oasis

If a band is being judged and understood within the limits of the actual music and songwriting strength, which should obviously be the standards when judging a band, then Oasis is clearly of superlative rank in the history of pop music.

Circumscribed with the 90's itself, there was no songwriter that held the power of song the way Noel Gallagher did. There was no singer that held the vocal power of Liam Gallagher.

There was no band that could be considered as "timeless" in the 90's as Oasis. The amount of good to great songs that lie in Oasis's 90's output is enormous to say the least, so enormous, that some of their good songs seem average compared to their best, and those songs opined as "average" are in most cases, the A-sides of all the lesser bands in the 90's.

How do you define music in the 90's to an alien that flew down to earth and wanted to know about current modes of music? You play "What's the Story Morning Glory" with its massive wall-of-sound guitar space backing vocals so raw yet so mellifluous.

You then go and play "Live Forever" to inculcate the alien with Oasis's ease at defining the 90's with anthemic anodyne, and these are just two great songs within 20-30 more great songs in the Oasis 90's catalogue, and then there are their B-Sides.

What Oasis pass off as "B-sides" would be the best songs for other bands struggling to broach the pop market medium. That a song like "The Masterplan" is a B-side is obfuscating.

That songs like "Underneath the Sky" and "Let's all Make Believe" are left off official albums is astonishing until you're reminded of how great their album songs are too.

Oasis are the most justified band to release a B-Sides record in this history of pop music. Many an Oasis fan would become converted by their B-side album, and all the subsequent B-sides released on new singles.

When Oasis is considered in a typical setting, what is usually covered most is drug interests and in-band fighting which has nothing to do with the music and quality of songwriting.

These accidents while puerily interesting in the moment, will fade away in the aging of a band, and any form of creativity in general. When these "accidents" fade, all that will be left is the band's creative output, and when new generations uncover this desiderate goldmine of songs, Oasis will be fully considered as one of the hallmark bands in this history of pop music.

If the best band of the 90's is to be solely considered by how many great songs are in their repertoire, then Oasis is clearly the greatest band of the 90's.

Source: www.old-wizard.com

Inside This Months Copy Of Q

50 Great Years Of British music starrring The Beatles, Radiohead, Queen, The Clash, Kate Bush, The Libertines, Oasis, Elvis Costello, The Prodigy, The Who, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Amy Winehouse, Blur, The Smiths, Arctic Monkeys, Led Zeppelin, Coldplay, Sex Pistols and Cliff Richard

Source: www.q4music.com

Oasis & Blur Team Up Together To Make Cheese

If only Blur and Oasis had cracked open the Babybels in the Nineties, Britpop’s biggest feud might never have happened.

Now Blur bassist and dairy farmer Alex James, 39, thinks he’s got the perfect whey to bring them together.

The floppy-fringed legend has persuaded his former band’s singer Damon Albarn, 39, to team up with the Gallagher Brothers and create a special stilton for next month’s BRITs.

Elegantly wasted Alex has invited the Mancunian monobrows and old All-Bran to his Cotswolds cheese factory to start work on the smelly olive branch, which they will call A Country Roll (With It).

The bands split music fans by releasing their two singles Country House and Roll With It on the same day in 1995.

But the cheese will be an edible symbol of their new comradeship.

Our gourmand with the Jacobs Cream Crackers said: “Damon and Alex have always been enthusiastic about cheese – it was the glue that held Blur together for so long.

“But it wasn’t until recently that Alex discovered Liam, 35, and Noel, 40, shared their obsession.

“So he had the masterplan of creating something constructive through the medium of cheese, which would mark their maturity.”

He felt the Earl’s Court rock ceremony would be the perfect occasion to showcase their efforts and will offer the mouse food as a dessert alternative at the awards dinner.

Damon is a vegetarian and donated recipes, including Albarn’s Cheesy Garlic Potatoes, to The Vegetarian Society’s menu.

He can’t wait to head to the 200-acre farm to get to work with the other Big Cheeses.

As Alex explained: “From hard drugs to soft cheese! That’s me. From boozy, vegetarian vampire of the Groucho Club, to rural sober family man.

“It’s amazing, the friends you can make, just through cheese. People get very emotional about it.”

We’re sure their stilton will bring a tear to the eye.

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

Damon Albarn Biography Tainted By Outdated Rivalry

Let’s get one thing straight: life has been very, very good to Damon Albarn. Even today, the back catalog of his best-loved band, Blur, plays like a veritable Encyclopedia Cool Britannia ­— a seven-album testament to the cultural high planned by the press, patented by Suede and perfected in Blur —and his is the mockney accent plastered all over it. If Britpop made England cool again, Blur made it count.

In “Damon Albarn: Blur, Gorillaz and Other Fables,” co-authors Martin Roach and David Nolan cover the ways in which, through Blur — and through Damon — the British Empire struck back. In doing so, they have created the most complete evaluation of Albarn’s life and career to date, if not the most insightful one.

“Fables” provides an outstanding entrée into the United Kingdom of the 1990s for fans born in the wrong country or at the wrong time. For those who were re-introduced to the Union Jack by Ginger Spice’s dress instead of Noel’s Epiphone, it’s important to understand that for all intents and purposes, Blur was Britpop. Suede might have been the misnomer’s first patron, Pulp its brightest and Oasis its biggest, but no band belonged to it, and subsequently loathed it, quite like Blur. Which made Albarn the movement’s pretty face.

His band’s formative years included all the shenanigans you might expect from four twenty-somethings who have never held proper jobs: press wars, infighting and over-indulgence — in short, serial chaos. (It’s telling that the most oft-used adjective is “shambolic.”) In “Fables,” all the Blur boxes are ticked: there are the Seymour years, followed by the anti-American years, the anti-Oasis years, the anti-Blair years and the anti-Graham years — in the same order in which Stuart Maconie covered them (in “Blur: 3862 Days: The Official History”), just without the same panache.

The trouble with an unauthorized biography, and with this one in particular, lies in the nature of its construction. Nolan and Roach may know that Albarn is afraid of becoming Sting, but they got that tidbit from recycled NME and Mojo clippings, not from the cover star himself.

Unsurprisingly, Fables also suffers from the generally anti-Mancunian, specifically anti-Gallagher bias both camps tired of 10 years ago. (One band’s members has two eyebrows, the other’s has one — the rest is trivial.) Too many of the book’s pages are spent rehashing the difference between second-to-none and second-to-one.

By page 100, the nostalgia the bio was soaked in starts to grow tired, in the same way the quote about Noel Gallagher wishing “Damon caught AIDS and died” did before it was uttered and subsequently repeated in this book. Add to this an apparent lack of copy editing and any mention of the bankruptcy scare that shook up Maconie’s version, and Blur fans would be better served by bassist Alex James’ autobiography, until such a time as Damon puts down the operas and pens his own.

Source: www.themaneater.com

Oasis Are Nominated For Two NME Awards

Oasis have been nominated in two categories for this years NME Awards 2008.

Best Track
'Fluorescent Adolescent' – Arctic Monkeys
'Flux' – Bloc Party
'Men's Needs' – The Cribs
'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' - Oasis
'Let's Dance To Joy Division' – The Wombats

Best Music DVD
'Up The Shambles' – Babyshambles
'The Song Remains The Same' – Led Zeppelin
'Unplugged In New York' - Nirvana
'Lord Don’t Slow Me Down' - Oasis
'I Told You I Was Trouble' – Amy Winehouse

The awards are now only a few weeks away, on February 28 at their new home, the Indig02 in north Greenwich, London.

Take a look at who is left in each category, and then cast your vote via NME.COM/awardsnominees. Remember and get your votes in by 10am on Monday February 25.

Source: www.nme.com