Another New York Busking Video

Oasis "The Turning" performed September 12th on Times Square New York City.

Performance by Theo Eastwind. Theoeastwind.com

The performance part of pre release promotions by BBH and NYC & Company for Oasis' Dig out your soul" release on October 7th 2008.

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Liam From Oasis Loves Shopping, Moisturiser And Meeting Fans - It's Noel Who's The Grumpy One

I was working with Oasis as a producer and ideas man on their sixth album. Liam and Noel were working separately on their own songs and I was assigned to Liam, the charismatic frontman.

It was one lunchtime, very early on in our relationship, that he told me, out of the blue: 'Me and our kid never speak. Never.'

'So how do you get things done?' I asked. He told me the management sorted out all the arrangements.

'In fact, I've only been round our kid's gaff once,' he said. 'I hardly know him. We're so different.'

I looked around the table to gauge the sentiment. Nobody was saying a thing.

Having worked before with brothers in a band, I knew that this must be rubbish. I simply shrugged, said 'OK' and left it at that.

Right answer. A friend of the Gallaghers told me later that Noel and Liam often say this to team members, just to see if they will criticise the absent brother behind his back. It's a test.

'Fall for it and the chances are you'll be frozen out,' I was told.

My music career began when I signed a music publishing deal aged 14. At 19, I released my debut album on Virgin and since then I have worked with many successful bands on both sides of the Atlantic in a variety of roles, from playing keyboards and percussion to songwriting and production.

In 2002, after All Saints broke up, Nicole and Natalie Appleton made an album called Everything's Eventual which featured a cover of my song M.W.A.

When they performed it for an MTV Special being shot at the Brixton Academy, they invited me along. Nicole was Liam's partner and the mother of his young son Gene.

'Liam would like to meet you after the show,' she told me.

I knew all about Oasis, of course. Who didn't? They were one of the most successful and critically acclaimed British rock bands for years, but the Gallagher brothers - Liam and his older sibling Noel - who led them trailed havoc and chaos in their wake.

They were fiercely loyal to each other but also seemed to be constantly feuding. Woe betide anyone who fell foul of them.

They were rarely out of the headlines because of their wild antics.

However, after the brilliant start to their career, the last couple of albums had faltered.

I knew their next was the final one of the band's five-album deal with Sony. It was a make-or-break album. If it tanked, so would their ability to negotiate a decent position for themselves for the next decade of their career.

In the industry, a whispering campaign was in full swing. Oasis had 'lost their edge'. They were 'too rich' to make great rock records. The future of the band was on a knife-edge.

So it was with some trepidation that I rapped on the Appletons' dressing-room door on the evening of their MTV show.

Heidi from SugaBabes opened the door and a bank of cigarette smoke rolled out into the corridor.

Through the fug I could just about make out a room full of people. Liam was in the far corner holding court with a couple of acolytes.

Taller than I thought he would be, he wore a dapper navy pea coat, cords and, of course, the trademark tinted round glasses; very Lennonesque. Both he and Noel were Beatles fanatics. Nic introduced me.

'Hi Pete, man. That's a top tune, that M.W.A. Mad,' he enthused. 'Mega. Top,' he added.

From the off, we got on famously and we spent most of the evening talking shop. Liam sang me parts of his new songs. I suggested some production ideas.

He asked if I would go to the studio and try some of them out. They were looking for someone to collaborate with, he said.

Oasis were a famously tight unit so I wondered aloud how that would work.

'We put on white coats, like scientists,' grinned Liam. 'Walk about with clipboards writing down all the settings you use. Take all your ideas and move on.'

I liked his brazenness. As a jobbing producer/songwriter, people pay me to assist them in creating their artistic vision. If Liam or anyone else wanted to write down my methods, that was fine by me - so long as they were paying. A date was set.

Oasis had a long-term lease on Wheeler End, a wonderful facility in Buckinghamshire. It is a magnificent coach house, set in eight acres with accommodation for band and crew, with a studio attached.

My plan was to rehearse a version of The Beatles' Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey. This would give everyone - apart from Noel, who wasn't there - the opportunity to see if we could work together.

On arrival in the studio, I plonked myself down in the high-backed, faux leather swivel chair in front of the mixing desk.

There was a sharp intake of breath from Jan 'Stan' Kybert, the engineer. 'I wouldn't let Noel ever catch you sitting in that chair,' he warned. 'He'll fire you.'

'Don't kid a kidder,' I joked, but Stan wasn't laughing. 'Liam, am I right or am I right?' he said.

Both Liam and Oasis's guitarist Colin 'Gem' Archer nodded. I assumed they were winding me up.

We had fun messing about with the Beatles number and the following week Liam invited my girlfriend Bella and me to see him perform with Noel at a charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

The gig went well until Richard Ashcroft, playing an acoustic version of The Drugs Don't Work, forgot the words.

Liam sauntered on to the stage to riotous applause and sang the song faultlessly. 'That was great,' said Bella, as he walked off the stage, smiling.

'Thanks, love,' he said. 'I had to do it last year too, 'cos he forgot the f****** words then as well.'

He introduced me to Noel, smartly dressed in a blue suit and button-down plaid shirt. We chatted for about 20 geeky minutes about his extensive collection of microphones and vintage studio equipment.

I got the feeling he was weighing me up. Apparently this was the first time he had considered a collaborative recommendation from Liam.

I passed the test. Ignition, Oasis's management, called a couple of days later and outlined what was required of me.

I was to help Liam record his songs at Wheeler End, while Noel would work separately in London. I was to assist Liam's development as a songwriter - previously Noel had been the creative heart of the band - and generally, as Liam put it: 'Sprinkle some of that mad s*** that you do on our stuff.'

It was made clear that once the band was ready, I would hand over the reins to another production outfit that would conjure up the final product from the demos that Noel and I had produced.

A week later, on a sunny spring day in 2003, I met Liam and Gem at Paddington Station.

I was surprised that Liam was happy to travel on public transport, with all the other passengers gawping at him.

Just because he was the singer in Oasis, he explained, didn't mean he was going to take limos everywhere 'like a f****** ponce'. He liked going about his life like any normal person, 'because that's what I am'.

'It's weird,' he said, 'but when I'm hung over I like talking to people. Signing autographs, having me picture taken with fans is mega - especially when I've had a mad one the night before.'

However, while he was more than happy to indulge fans, he loathed the paparazzi.

'It's one thing talking to people but another when some git with a telephoto lens comes and sticks it in my son's face, when I'm pushing his pram,' he said.

'I mean, the guy has a telephoto f****** lens. Why can't he f*** off down the street and take a picture from there?' I couldn't fault his logic.

Once at Wheeler End, we got down to work straight away. Liam played about a dozen of his songs and we picked a shortlist to start working on.

Over the next few months we tried out a lot of sonic ideas: playing riffs over Liam's songs, learning to play them backwards, reversing the tape. The guys liked these new ways of doing things.

The first time we recorded Liam's vocals, I was alarmed. It sounded as though someone was mutilating a bull. Gem noted my concern.

'Don't worry,' he said. 'It's always like this for the first 20 minutes and then he'll get it.'

Sure enough, after 20 minutes we heard the transformation. It was as if someone had thrown a switch.

In terms of direction, Liam responded to four simple commands: higher/ lower, louder/quieter. Because he inhabits the songs, he doesn't require loads of technical direction. He would nail it in a couple of takes.

One afternoon Liam described the difference between him and Noel. He picked up a pack of cards. 'Imagine our kid and me are playing cards, poker, OK? This is me . . . waaayhaaay!' Assuming an expression of doe-eyed openness, he spread his cards and turned them towards me.

'But our kid, right, he does this.' Liam did a hilarious impression of a suspicious, narrow-eyed Noel clasping his cards close to his chest.

'That's him, he doesn't trust anyone, the miserable b*****. That's how we're different. I love everyone but our kid ... '

I cut him off, not wanting to be drawn into the sibling rivalry that seemed to lie at the heart of their relationship. 'The tension of opposites,' I said. 'If you were both the same, the band wouldn't work.'

'Exactly,' Liam replied. Then, as an afterthought: 'But he's still a funny one, our kid.'

Once in a while we would take the morning off and go into the nearest town, Marlow. Liam loves to shop.

On one occasion, two white-haired old ladies tottered up to Liam. 'Hello, dear, which one are you then?' asked one, sweetly. 'The one that effs and blinds and smashes things up, or the nice one?'

This tickled Liam. 'I'm the nice one, love.'

'Would you mind signing this for my grandson?' she asked, proffering a copy of the local newspaper.

Liam was charm personified. He laughed, he joked, he signed everything, chatting happily all the while, about the grandson, the weather, the shocking shortcomings of various local trading establishments.

'Hang on a minute, love,' he said. 'You've got a camera there. Hey, Pete, take a photo of us, will you?'

I got the shot of the wild man of rock, beaming broadly, arms around two adoring new fans.

When they finally ambled off - Ooh, isn't he lovely?' - I looked at Liam, grinning.

'What?' he said. 'I couldn't let them go just signing a scrappy newspaper, could I? I mean anyone could've autographed that, any local scally.'

Then there was the chair incident that happened when Noel came to see how we were getting on. He had promised to come before but hadn't shown up and I could see Liam, who was keen to show his brother how well he was doing, was irritated.

However, another date was set and on the allotted morning I was sitting in the producer's chair working the mixing desk. Liam, Gem and Stan were all in the studio.

Noel and Oasis manager Marcus Russell were due at 11am and there was tension in the air. How was it that Liam, 'our kid', was completing his songs and recording them to a standard that surpassed previous Wheeler End recordings? Noel had to find out.

At 11.20am we heard car wheels crunching over the drive. Noel and Marcus walked in. Noel smiled and said: 'Just carry on. Let's hear what you're up to.'

Then all conversation stopped and the temperature of the room dropped. I looked up. All eyes were on me. There was nowhere for Noel to sit - because I was on his special chair.

I'd forgotten Stan's dire warning. Marcus was glaring at me. Gem looked away. Stan suddenly found something deeply interesting on the computer screen.

When the ground failed to open up and swallow me, I slowly got up and left the studio to go to the bathroom. Outside the studio I found a three-legged milking stool and carried it inside.

Sure enough, Noel was sitting in the 'special chair', nodding his head in time with the music.

I gingerly placed the stool next to him and crumpled my 6ft 3in frame on to it. I was now sitting way below everyone's sightline. Each time a new song was ready for Noel to hear, I reached my arms above my head up to the desk to work the controls. Noel didn't bat an eyelid.

After we finished listening to the new songs, Marcus asked me some pertinent questions, which I answered, still hunched up on this tiny stool like a naughty schoolboy. Finally, Marcus stood and said: 'Well done, boys.'

I stood and Noel shook my hand and said 'Mega,' and left. 'Mega' is Noel-speak for 'Excellent work, chaps, I'm very pleased.' After that Liam's confidence seemed to rocket.

The next time Noel came, I made sure I left the chair empty. 'Aren't you going to sit down?' Noel asked, pointing to 'his' chair.

'No, I'm fine.' 'Really,' he said. 'It's cool.' He didn't fire me.

Indeed, on another occasion, when Noel asked what I thought of the songs we had recorded so far, I told him the truth. I told him that I didn't hear any singles, I didn't hear any of those era-defining anthems that the band were known for.

He glared at me. Here comes an argument, I thought.

'You're the only c*** around here that tells me the truth,' he finally said to me, while looking pointedly at Liam.

'Write some more songs,' I said. 'Yeah,' said Noel with resignation.

In September we went to Wheeler End to finish Liam's songs. This would be the last recording session.

The mood had changed, as had the weather. After a brilliant summer, it now rained continuously.

The first piece of information I was given upon arriving at Wheeler End was that Whitey (drummer Alan White) was gone.

Noel was there while we worked. The more he was around, the more my role diminished. It was a smooth takeover leaving everyone happy. 'We had a great time this summer, didn't we?' said Liam one day on the phone.

We certainly did. I'd spent nine months with the band and Liam had revealed himself to be a gentleman. Considerate, funny and amenable at all times. A joy to be with.

It would be another 18 months before the track list for what was to become Don't Believe The Truth was finalised. There were many more recording sessions in New York and Los Angeles.

This was Oasis's most difficult album to make, a rite-of-passage album marking the transition from youth to maturity as a band.

It was released in May 2005 to great critical acclaim and went on to sell around six million copies worldwide. I hope their new album, Dig Out Your Soul, does even better.

• Dig Out Your Soul will be released by Big Brother on October 6.

She flashed her knickers - and he fled

Liam and I were in Marlow one day when we walked past a pretty Anglo-African girl. She ran after Liam and asked for his autograph, which he gave her.

A few minutes later we bumped into her again. 'Oh, hi,' she said, affecting surprise.

Every few minutes after that we'd see her scurrying up the opposite side of the street, only to reappear in front of us.

Then, cornering us, she did a Marilyn Monroe. It was a windy day and she was wearing a skirt that she artfully allowed to billow up, exposing a microscopic G-string and a fine pair of legs. She stood there gazing longingly at Liam.

'Time to split,' he said, and we made good our escape.

It was the general consensus that Nic had calmed Liam down and I never saw him so much as look at another woman. He and Nic seemed a perfect match.

During a break in the Oasis recording sessions, I produced an Appletons track at a London studio. Liam turned up with his children. He seemed an excellent dad, tactile and gentle but firm.

He sat patiently in the studio for hours with Nic while I put the song together.

We taped Liam to the ceiling

I wouldn't say that the night we taped Liam to the ceiling was wholly typical of my summer with Oasis, but it is one of my fondest memories.

We were larking about in the Wheeler End studio after another hard day's recording, and it is fair to say that drink had been taken by most of those present. There was Liam; Alan 'Whitey' White, the drummer; Jason, the technician; Stan, the engineer; and myself.

For reasons that escape me now, we grabbed Liam, hoisted him up to the beam running the length of the studio and bound him to it with gaffer tape. He hung there like some sort of monstrous cocoon while we laughed until we were almost sick.

The conversation that followed went like this: 'How long shall we leave him up there? All night?'

'Do you think he's safe?' 'Yeah, that tape is pretty strong.' Meanwhile Liam wasn't making a sound. 'He's awfully quiet up there.'

'Come on, we'd better cut him down,' declared Jason after a while.

It proved to be a lot harder unravelling him than it was putting him up there. Once he was down, Liam looked at us, waited a beat and said: 'I really enjoyed that.'

I'm a dodgy geezer, he's a metrosexual

When my girlfriend Bella arrived at Wheeler End one day carrying loads of presents for me, Liam wished me a happy birthday.

I explained that as I was born on December 24, my parents celebrated my 'half-birthday' in June, so my birthday and Christmas did not just blend into one. Liam found this hilarious.

'Here, Gem, you heard this? It's Pete's "half-birthday". He's always on the make, a right dodgy geezer. He's a bloody Scouser. It's a Scouse birthday.'

He took 15 of us out to dinner to celebrate what he insisted on calling my 'Scouse birthday'.

For Liam's son Gene's birthday, which was only a few weeks after mine, I called Nic to find out what to get him.

'Gene loves trucks and cars,' she told me. And if I wanted to give Liam a present? 'There's a Space NK in Marlow, get him something from there.'

So, the hard man of rock moisturises, I thought. I bought him a gift bag. Enough goodies for any closet metrosexual.

Source: www.mailonsunday.co.uk

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Oasis 'Dig Out Your Soul' Review

4 out of 5 Stars

Nearly 15 years since they first swaggered and sneered their way into the public consciousness, the Gallaghers still polarise opinion like no other. Mere mention of Oasis in a blog prompts hundreds of posts, many asking why people are still interested. The answer is simple. As bona fide rock stars, no one else has come along and, as Rio Ferdinand would put it, 'taken up the mantelpiece'. Which leaves them slightly adrift and peerless. They remain, as Alan McGee said, 'too young to be the Stones and too old to be part of that whole Libertines thing'.

Last time out, Liam declared: 'I carry madness, everywhere I go', but of late, the rock'n'roll star seems somewhat tamed and sober, getting up at 6am to go running on Hampstead Heath before dropping off the kids at school. On Definitely Maybe, the young Gallagher sang about strawberries and cream and 'lassaagnnnya'. This month, he revealed his recipe for steaming salmon in soy sauce, and how the gastropub near his second home in Henley-on-Thames is owned by Antony Worrall Thompson. He still peppers most sentences with the F-word, but now also appears on The F Word, joking with Gordon Ramsay.

Noel, meanwhile, seems to be enjoying a second youth, appearing on Radio 1's breakfast show recently, evidently still drunk, having fallen out of a rock bar in Soho only an hour or so previously.

Their last album, 2005's Don't Believe the Truth, marked a long-awaited return to form and the basics that made us take notice all those years ago. This time around, Noel set out to write 'music that had more of a groove', which he has, but occasionally at the expense of the song. Since 2000's Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, Oasis have always come back with a no-nonsense call to arms - 'Go Let it Out', 'The Hindu Times', 'Lyla' - and there's no change here. Lead single 'The Shock of the Lightning' is a propulsive, heads-down rocker, full of those trademark non sequiturs Noel reaches for when there are many things he would like to say but doesn't know how. It's also one of the few obvious singles on the album.

Guitarist Gem Archer and bassist Andy Bell contribute a song each - the hypnotic 'To be Where There's Life' and the rockier 'The Nature of Reality' - but they do nothing to challenge Noel's title of The Chief when it comes to songwriting. If anyone is going to do that, it's now clear it's Liam, who has come a long way since 'Little James'. The other clear single is his 'I'm Outta Time', a Lennon-esque (shocker) piano-led ballad, showing his new, more reflective side as he reveals how he strives to 'give myself some peace of mind ... you know it's getting hard to fly'.

The Beatles influences are ever-present - from the 'Dear Prudence' guitar at the end of 'The Turning' to the 'Give Peace a Chance' clap and stomp of '(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady' - but they're now borrowing more freely from the canon: the dirty guitar on 'Waiting For the Rapture' from the Doors' 'Five to One', the Who on Liam's 'Ain't Got Nothin" and even, er, Pink Floyd on opener 'Bag it Up'. Overall, they have eschewed the immediacy, bolshiness and classic pop songs for slightly wider ranging influences, from drone to acid rock.

You could say that if Definitely Maybe was their Stone Roses, Dig Out Your Soul is their Second Coming. It won't win them any new fans, but those that believed the truth last time will dig this.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel Gallagher's Tour Diary on www.oasisinet.com

Waking up in NYC knowing you're pretty much spending the day in bed is a fucker, let me tell you. Doctor's orders though. It's too much. There's shit going on out there that I need to be getting involved in and instead I'm laid up watching BBC America. I like Top Gear. Cash In The Attic's fuckin' ridiculous. And as for that David Dickinson on Bargain Hunt? He's on acid, right? Or maybe it's these pain-killers?

Read Q Magazine today. The new one. There's 2 covers. One with Joan of Arc on and one with Albert Steptoe on. I fuckin' love David Bailey but how DOES he do that?? It's a fuckin' monster piece. Slightly over the top though. Nice to see so many people saying nice things about us and all.

Went for some acupuncture earlier. Doc says it might help with straightening myself up. Can't see it but I'll try anything to make the gig happen. The guy's not a miracle worker. He is a funny little Chinese man though. He greeted me by saying, "Come in, don't worry, be happy!" KILL ME NOW!!! Didn't work. Still feel pretty sitff. I'm walking like an old man. The NYC gig's not gonna happen. Sorry 'bout that.

Best start thinking about packing up and going home, I guess. Yet another North American trip ends in chaos. If I believed in God, I'd begin to think he had it in for us.

To be continued...

GD

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Oasis With Subway Performers In New York City

Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer & Andy Bell spend some time with Subway Performers In Manhattan.

Click here to see some more great pictures, the street musicians where taught the music and lyrics by Oasis and then spread out to the streets and subways of New York City.

If you recorded a video of any of the performances, TheMusic.FM encourages you to visit youtube.com/group/oasisnyc and click “add a video” (while logged in to your youtube account) and add your video to our group!

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Oasis Fans Rush For Tickets In Paris

Tickets for Oasis' next show were on sale this morning September 13th at the Bataclan in Paris (France) for their concert at the end of the month (September 30th).

Price: 39 euros

1000 tickets were on sale at noon (1200 capacity), the queue was impressive going around the block.

Source: rockerparis.blogspot.com

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New York City Street Musicians Play New Oasis Songs

The British rock band teaches eclectic artists their music and lyrics to promote the new album.

Source: New York Post

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Pictures Of Liam Gallagher From 'Rockin' On' Japanese Magazine

Taken from the October 2008 issue of Rockin' On magazine from Japan.

Arigatou gozaimasu to Chiaki

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German FHM Magazine Review Of Dig Out Your Soul

The German version of FHM have given the new Oasis album five stars and is the album of the month.

Translated by Ballack

'There will be a completely new sound' Noel Gallagher said about the new album.

But in fact, the eleven tracks do not sound that different at all, because oasis are still oasis.

Big-mouthed and megalomaniac, and that´s how it should be.

The good thing about 'Dig Out Your Soul' is, that you're familiar with what's going on.

Noel writes the lyrics, brother Liam sings, straight Rock 'N' Roll.

The first single is called 'The Shock Of The Lightning'.

That one alongside with 'bag it UP' and 'falling down' is definitely the song with the biggest 'recognition value' (most catchy i guess).

The album was produced by Dave Sardy, an expert in working with difficult artists.

Instead of, working against each other, he made the band work as one team and thus deliver a good album.

Oasis found their soul, which they had lost to the 'drug devil'.

At last and about time too!

Source: German FHM

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Oasis 'Dig Out Your Soul' Previewed Online LISTEN NOW

You can now listen to clips from the new Oasis album Dig Out Your Soul by clicking here.

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Listen To New Oasis Songs Now

The Turning performed by Dagmar



(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady performed by Dagmar



Bag It Up performed by Dagmar



The Shock of the Lightning performed by Dagmar

Oasis have hired buskers to debut some of their new tracks on the streets of New York.

The Manchester rockers announced they would unveil a handful of tracks from their forthcoming album by having street musicians perform them. The songs will be from their highly anticipated album Dig Out Your Soul, which is released in America on 7 October.

Yesterday, Oasis were scheduled to meet several buskers for a private rehearsal after which the street musicians were to take to different parts of the city to perform the new tracks "The Turning", "Bag It Up"', "(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady", and "The Shock Of The Lightning".

The event is a collaborative effort with New York's marketing and tourism organisation and the band's label Warner Bros. The street musicians will perform at locations including subway station platforms at Grand Central, Times Square, Penn Station and Astor Place.

Oasis recently embarked on a new world tour to promote their album but it was disrupted when Noel Gallagher was attacked by a man who invaded the stage midway through their headlining set at the V festival in Toronto. The assailant was wrestled to the floor by security. The band left the stage before later returning to finish their set.

Oasis have also teamed up with the Arts Council and the music magazine, NME, to encourage young people to pick up instruments. Instead of giving away downloads to promote their new album, as Coldplay have done, Oasis will give away a DVD and book featuring the sheet music and lyrics to three new songs with NME. The idea is aimed at promoting the Arts Council's "Take It Away" scheme, which provides interest-free loans for musical instruments.

Readers will be asked to reinterpret three songs without having heard them first. Noel Gallagher, the guitarist who has – in the past – argued that giving music away for nothing devalues it, said: "The gift of music is very special ... and anything that can bring music into a kid's life is an incredible thing."

Aspiring young musicians will be asked to submit their own versions of an Oasis song to a website, with the winning entry gaining the chance to travel to an Oasis gig anywhere in the world.

Earlier in the day Liam Gallagher and Andy Bell showed up at rehearsals to help the street musicians go over the new Oasis tunes . Watch them HERE

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Source: Email from Dagmar, Independent

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Hurt Noel Is Out For Three Weeks

Oasis are in a race against time to play their first UK gig after doctors ordered injured Noel Gallagher to rest for three weeks.

He is in bother after being attacked by a village idiot during the band’s set in Toronto on Sunday.

In his blog Noel apologised to fans then added: “Spent all day in bed suffering from my severe tickling at the hands of that drunken Canadian who, it transpires, is a grown man of 47 years!! (And I thought I was the oldest person at our gigs!)

“In his defence though, he’s probably having one of those mid-life crises things.

“Did get to watch four Seinfelds though. And some American football, so not too dissimilar to a normal day back home.

“Have to get another check-up tomorrow. I’m gonna ask for new bionic ribs.”

The band — due to hit the UK on September 27 — were forced to cancel last night’s gig in New York’s Terminal 5, but Noel assured fans they would return.

It didn’t stop the rest of the boys promoting their new album Dig Out Your Soul.

Yesterday they spent the day teaching four new songs to a group of street musicians who then went into the city to perform them on streets and in subway stations.

They’re good eggs, those boys.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Tickets Still On Sale For Oasis' Shows In Liverpool

Tickets for both nights for Oasis in the Liverpool Echo Arena Liverpool, are still on sale at seetickets.

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Noel Gallagher Interview With Blender

Questions Submitted to Noel Gallagher by fans via Blender Magazine

Dude, Jay-Z did an Oasis song at the Glastonbury Festival this summer after you questioned whether he belonged there. Why don’t Oasis do a version of Jay-Z’s “99 Problems”?
Rosiyoung, Seattle

That’s ridiculous. What did I think of Jay-Z doing “Wonderwall”? It was pretty­ funny. But I’m not sure one should be seen in public with a white Stratocaster.

I’m an aesthetician and I have to wonder: Has a girlfriend ever tried to get you to tweeze your unibrow?
Tanman41, Oxford, MI

I don’t speak to my girlfriends. [Laughs.] No. My eyebrows are wild and free, man.

What was the last gift you gave your brother Liam?
Sweetnsalty, Pullman, WA

I bought him a necklace that John Lennon used to wear, but that was years ago. I’m very difficult to buy for, too. When my birthday comes round, I say to my girlfriend, “Let’s just go out and get drunk.”

What was the stupidest thing you bought when you became rich?
Now_im_64, Denver

I had built for me a customized 1967 Mark II Jaguar convertible at a cost of £110,000, and I haven’t got a driving license. It’s useless to me. I ordered this car and thought, By the time they build it, I will have passed my driving test. By the time I got a call saying they were delivering it, I’d forgotten all about it. Outside my house was this fucking £110,000 Jag. I couldn’t even remember ordering it.

How many pints can you handle before you’re on your knees?
Woody2oo4, Durham, U.K.

I can drink all fucking day and night and it doesn’t put a dent in me.

What are the most typically British things about you?
Landon, Keni, Berkshire, U.K.

My sense of humor and my sense of style. We might have shit teeth, but we’ve got better clothes and better music, and that’s the end of that.

What are the three things you do when you check into a hotel room?
Klapadam, Fordoche, LA

I phone home and see how my girlfriend and kids are, then I get in the shower and check out my surroundings. I love hotels. I love being in America when the football season’s on. I’m probably the only Englishman who understands the rules of American football. I was on acid one night when I was a teenager, and I just got it. It was a revelation. Never got baseball, though. Fuck that. It goes on for ­fucking hours.

I’m handing you a gun with four bullets. Do you take out Radiohead or do you take out Coldplay? Setfreesimon, Daytona Beach, FL

I’d take out neither. Chris Martin’s a friend of mine. And I think Radiohead’s guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, is a fucking genius. Every time I see them live they blow me away. But Radiohead are not as good as people think they are. They’ve been making the same record for the last five years, if you ask me.

Why can’t I ever find any good new rock bands? Every time I turn on the radio, it’s nothing but rap. What the fuck is happening?
Mph1978, Amsterdam, NY

There’s still a lot of good rock & roll: Black Mountain are incredible, Mando Diao, a band from North London called the Jim Jones Revue. Unfortunately, we live in the age of rap and R&B. Don’t listen to the radio, that’s my advice.

I’ve read that you and your brother don’t speak to your dad. What was the last straw that made you decide to end the relationship?
Athomepap, Anaheim, CA

He was a violent man, and violence toward my mother was the last straw. We were teenagers. It makes me fervently believe in the cosmic law of karma—little did he know that 15 years from that point, his two sons were going to be in one of the biggest fucking bands ever to come out of England. I sit and chuckle about that sometimes.

What will Amy Winehouse be doing in two years?
Whuddashamey, Munster, IN

Who gives a shit? People like that have got no pride in themselves. My message to her would be: Go make another record, or did the pressure of this one fry your little brain so you became a junkie? I don’t care for fuck-ups.

When will you finally make a solo album?
Pil, Nuuk, Greenland

I’d like for us to do separate projects after this record. We’d all have to agree on it, so it will probably never happen. I’ve got loads of new songs. Somewhat predictably, they’re all brilliant.

I was close to the front at your Arena Newcastle gig on the Don’t Believe the Truth tour. I had a sleeveless Nike vest on. You looked at me funny. Did the top make me look gay?
Marley_Urwin, Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K.

I would have thought so, yeah. Sleeve­less tops are a no-no.

I read you held up a corner shop when you were a kid. What kind of weapon did you have? And what’s a corner shop?
Charleebitez, Janesville, MN

I didn’t “hold up” the corner shop. We don’t do weapons in England. A corner shop is just a grocery store on the corner. Two ladies ran it, and I think we robbed a load of cigarettes and sold them to buy drugs. [Looks guilty.] I got caught.

What’s the most important thing for me to remember if I get into a fight?
TimBoslyce, Richmond, VA

Make sure the other guy’s not carrying a knife. Do I still fight Liam? Yeah. The only way anyone will win is who dies first. When he’s 87 years old, if he dies before me, I’ll say, “See?”

How would your third album, Be Here Now, have turned out if you hadn’t discovered cocaine?
Nathanputtick, Melbourne, Australia

It would have been a lot shorter, and it would have had better lyrics. The royalties were coming in from Morning Glory—we were rich, and we went bananas, doing more drugs than any Colombian. Can I just point out that Be Here Now did sell 9.5 million copies? If any band sells 9.5 million albums this year, I’ll fucking shit in my trousers.

Source : Blender

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Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel Gallagher's Tour Diary on www.oasisinet.com

We're traveling to NYC today. Wish we were arriving in different circumstances. The doc says it could take 3 weeks 'til I'm 100% again. Nothing they can give me either. Just gotta grit your teeth and bear it. This gig in NYC is not looking too good. We'll take it day-by-day (if that's alright with you?)

10 hours on the bus. Felt every fuckin' bump. That film Sid and Nancy was on TV. What a ludicrous piece of shit!! I have no doubt it probably launched the career of many a U.S. "punk" band.

Russell's caused a mild shit-storm over here at the MTV awards. There was a phone in on CNN and the title on the screen was: RUSSELL BRAND - BAD HAIR, BAD JOKE. I'd have pissed myself laughing if it didn't hurt so much. Some woman called in saying as an American she didn't like a British guy coming over here, insulting her commander-in-chief!! Very funny. But NOT funny at all. If Chris Rock, for example, says that kind of thing everybody laughs because they think they should, but if it's a man who's dressed up like a vampire's lamp-shade? Well? He was wasted on the shower of God-fearing, corporate hot-dogs anyway.

We've just arrived in the capitol of the world. I'm off to bed.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

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Bid To Win A Rare Signed Oasis Photo

Title: OASIS ABBEY ROAD 2007 ‘To Be Where There’s Life’
Special signed by Oasis Edition: first 4 prints signed by the band to be auctioned for charity
Media: Joiner ‘philm’ by Jill Furmanovsky
Total Edition: 20. Prints 1-4 signed by all 4 members of Oasis to be auctioned for charity.
This print: 2/20
Print size: A1 (59.4cm x 84cm or 23.4" x 33.1")
Framing: Signed print will be unframed.

This ‘joiner’ image by Jill Furmanovsky was made over a period of months in late 2007 while Oasis were recording “Dig Out Your Soul”. It was shot in Studio 2 at Abbey Road and shows the recording progress over the weeks. It has been christened a ‘PHILM’ by Jill because the image is more like a film than a photo. The owner will be able to spend hours looking in corners for details: Noel wheeling a pram (his son Donovan had just been born), Liam running a violin bow over his top lip, sleeping on the couch, and singing in a rigged up tent; producer Dave Sardy surveying the scene from the top of the famous Studio 2 staircase, Andy at the keyboards, Gem on bass and the ghostly of lyrics of 'To Be Where There's Life' floating by. As if that were not enough this is a very special edition of just 20 copies, the first 4 prints having been signed by all four members of the band in order to raise money for charity.

Thanks very much to Oasis for signing this print and deciding on a charity, in this case Noel’s chosen charity is the Teenage Cancer Trust who will receive 70% of all money raised by this auction.

To register click here for more information and enter your bid. Good luck!

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New Memorabilia In Oasis' USA and Canada Store

A number of new Oasis T-Shirts have been added to USA and Canada Oasis Store.

Click here to view the items.

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And The Winners Are?

The winners of the Collectors Edition boxes for 'The Shock Of The Lightning' single are

Jennifer Saad from Montreal, Quebec and Matt Crowley from Peterborough, Ontario.

Thanks to everyone who sent in photos, videos and infomation from the gigs to date, you can visit the photo archive here.

If you have any photos from any of the gigs you would like to be added to the fans archive email them to scyhodotcom@gmail.com.

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Play Xfm's Oasis Beat The Intro Game!

It's Oasis Week on Xfm... The Breakfast Show are giving away tickets to the exclusive Eden Project show and we've got Gallagher Goody Bags on offer if you can master our Beat The Intro game... Are you mad fer it?

Faster than a Canadian stage invader, Xfm's Oasis Week is upon us! Kicking off on Monday, September 15 at 6am, the Xfm Breakfast Show will be giving away tickets to Oasis's exclusive show at The Eden Project. It's the first time that the band have played in Cornwall, giving you the opportunity to watch the Gallaghers in the land of clotted cream and Arthurian legends. Kind of.

And that's not all. We're challenging you to prove your knowledge of Oasisness with our incredible Beat The Intro game. By registering to play, you'll be put into a prize draw to win super-exclusive Oasis Goodie Bag featuring some wondrous limited edition badges, pins, playing cards and a tiny Oasis amplifier the size of a cigarette box.

Play here

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Liam Gallagher & Gem Archer Join Paul Weller On Stage In New York City

Oasis watched Paul Weller's New York gig. Liam Gallagher and Gem Archer joined the Modfather onstage, whilst Noel Gallagher watched from the wings

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