Liverpool Academy Hosts Oasis Aftershow Party - 7th October

On the opening night of the Oasis UK Tour, 7th October, the Official UK Tour DJ Phil Smith will be celebrating the opening night at the Liverpool Academy by doing his Oasis Tour DJ set following the Oasis gig. Plus there's plenty of entertainment beforehand for those who have not been lucky enough to obtain tickets.

We have also heard from his agent Brave Music Agency that Phil may also join Liverpool Academy for the second night too but not confirmed as yet - so watch out for additional tickets going on sale for the 8th October.

The entry will be free for all 7th October Ticket stub holders on a first come first served basis. But buying an advance ticket guarantees admission - so it is advisable to purchase a ticket at £3 as it may sell out.

Tickets are on sale now and priced just £3.00 and can be ordered here.

Russell Brand On 'Dig Out Your Soul'

Friend of the band (and 'Vampire lamp-shade'*) Russell Brand has been adding his unique take on 'Dig Out Your Soul' to some forthcoming TV Adverts. The ever loquacious comedian recorded so many that we thought we'd let you see some of the more amusing ones online.

Excavate yourselves!

* This quote is taken from Noel's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere'. To read the rest of the entry, click here. To register to read them, click here

Source: www.oasisinet.com

New Oasis Photo Exhibition Heading To London

Show will span the band's whole career

A new version of a famous Oasis photo exhibition is heading to London.

Trusted Oasis photographer Jill Furmanovsky first staged the 'Was There Then' exhibition' at the Roundhouse in 1997, the result of three years in the band's inner circle.

To celebrate ten years since the launch of Furmanovsky's influential music photography collective Rockarchive.com, a new version of the exhibition is returning to the same venue.

Logically enough named 'Was There Then Again', the new show will update the collection with pictures from the last decade.

The show will open later this autumn.

Furmanovsky describes the band as: "a rock photographers dream."

She remembers: "The greatest gift and biggest challenge was shooting Noel and Liam, the singer and the songwriter in a mega band. They were brothers in arms, polar opposites in personality, working through their difficult relationship. I was a Diane Arbus fan, intrigued by family relationships, the Gallaghers were a gift to me."

Furmanovsky is also showcasing Rockarchive.com material featuring the likes of The Clash, Bob Dylan and The Who at an exhibition in London's Carnaby Street this October.

Source: www.nme.com

Pic: Jill Furmanovsky/rockarchive.com

The Wit And Wisdom Of Noel And Liam Gallagher

Noel Gallagher recently bemoaned the poor quality of questions posed to him by journalists. "The amount of interviews where someone's come in, out the tape recorder on and go, 'So tell me about the new album?' It's like, is that the best you can come up with? You tell me about your fucking coffee table – what's to say about it?"

Pic: Jill Furmanovsky/rockarchive.com

Full 30 Picture Photo Gallery on NME here

Source: www.nme.com

Oasis Song The Turning 'Rips Off' Cliff Richard's Devil Woman

Oasis appear to have taken inspiration from the intro to Cliff Richard’s Devil Woman for The Turning, a track on their new album - and that will be no surprise to followers of the Mancunian magpies.

Noel Gallagher has previously admitted plagiarising Burt Bacharach classic This Guy’s In Love With You for Half The World Away – better known at the theme music for The Royle Family.

Monty Python sideman Neil Innes eventually received a co-writing credit for Whatever after his record company’s lawyers pointed out its incredible similarity to Innes’ How Sweet To Be An Idiot.

Early Oasis stomper Cigarettes And Alcohol channelled T-Rex’s Get It On, while later single Lyla bore a frightening resemblance to Neighbours actor Craig McLachlan’s Mona.

And it’s even been suggested that some Oasis songs might sound a bit like The Beatles!

But don’t just take our word for it. Here’s the Cliff ‘classic’ here.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Win Tickets To See Oasis & A Limited Edition Goodie Bag!!!

When tickets for Oasis' upcoming UK arena tour went on sale back in August, every single show sold out within a matter of minutes.

With the brilliant single 'Shock of the Lightning' released this week and Oasis' best album since 1995, 'Dig Out Your Soul', hitting the shelves on Monday, those who missed out on tickets are kicking themselves.

Luckily for you we have a pair of tickets to the band's Sheffield Arena show on October 10!

On top of the tickets the lucky winner will also get a tote bag, a badge, playing cards, a cigarette amp (all are ultra-limited edition) and a 7'' of the single 'Shock of the Lightning'.

For details click here.

Source: www.gigwise.com

'Liam's The Last Person I'd Go For A Drink With'

Noel Gallagher is talking about fame. And he, more than most, should be qualified to discuss the subject.

After all, this is the man who, as one of Oasis's fighting Gallagher brothers, has spent a good part of the past 15 years having, not just his music dissected, but pretty much every word he's uttered and every deed he's done scrutinised as well. Particularly in Britain where, depending on whom you talk to, he is regarded as a) something of a national treasure, or b) as that dodgy uncle who can be counted on to make inappropriate remarks at weddings. Whatever your take, one thing Noel Gallagher can never be called is bland.

"I've never had a problem with fame. If anything, I enjoy being famous. It's a f- - -ing great thing," the 41-year-old says with a shrug. "I've always seen it as part of the job. There's no way you can be successful in music and be anonymous - that's mental. You cannot be in a rock'n'roll band and be anonymous. Unless you're in Kraftwerk or something like that. Liam doesn't deal with it very well - do you know what I mean?"

Indeed, Liam Gallagher told Britain's The Times recently that Noel "loves being famous. He adores it. I don't think about it. I don't do what famous people do. I don't go to famousy events. As long as I'm in a band and making music and playing gigs, I couldn't give a f- - -."

Of course, Noel's perceptions on the whole business of celebrity may have changed slightly since our conversation, just weeks before he was being poleaxed - and breaking a few ribs in the process - on stage by a 47-year-old Canadian "fan". (Though if you've seen the YouTube footage - which has been viewed by more than a million people already - you'll see Liam raise his fist, think about jumping in for a second, only to finally back away. Back in the '90s, during those legendary drug-fuelled days, chances are, the younger Gallagher would most probably have thumped the stage invader. Repeatedly.)

Of course, things have changed markedly for both Gallaghers. These days, Noel is dad to nine-month-old Donovan (with long-time girlfriend Sara MacDonald) and eight-year-old daughter Anais (with ex-wife Meg Mathews), while Liam is a father of two boys - one with an ex-wife (Patsy Kensit), one with his present wife (Nicole Appleton), and a daughter from a brief relationship with Pete Doherty's ex (Lisa Moorish). They are no longer the rabble-rousing brothers of the mid-'90s who took as many drugs as they could while somehow producing two of the greatest British rock albums ever - Definitely Maybe and (What's The Story?) Morning Glory. And they've managed to stay enduringly popular (influential British music paper NME had a countdown to their new album's release on its website) despite a spate of albums that are considered to have never reached the heights, commercially or critically, as the first two.

Their new album, Dig Out Your Soul, might finally change perceptions of Oasis as being some sort of Beatles rip-off. For the first time, they've put away the guitars - well, sort of - and embraced a trippier, Stone Roses-type feel. Lyrically, Noel has also turned inward, with religion and spirituality common themes on the album.

"The strange thing is, is that the lyrics are all quite similar - they all mention God, and Jesus, and the f- - -ing light and the rapture, and angels," Noel says. "And that's happened very much by coincidence because none of us write together and none of us discuss what we're writing about - that would make us like Radiohead."

But if you ask Noel whether he's stepped out of his comfort zone with Dig Out Your Soul, he rejects the idea immediately.

"I can't stand it when bands say, you know, on this album we really stepped out of our comfort zone. What does that mean? This is not a f- - -ing game. This is soul, man. It's about humanity. It's not a test. People who went to university are always trying to get themselves out of their comfort zone and I always say, 'I'm working class. It's taken me 15 years to build a comfort zone and I'm not getting out of it for no f- - -er.' "

Noel was born in Burnage, a fairly rough area of Manchester, the middle child of Irish parents, Peggy and Thomas Gallagher. He had a fractious relationship with his alcoholic father, whom he says regularly beat him and his older brother Paul. Today, he's nonplussed about the beatings he took as a child and says that that sort of thing was "common" around his area. "We just got on with it," he says.

Peggy divorced her husband when her sons were barely out of their teens and today none of the sons have any contact with their dad. When asked whether he finds it hard to leave his own family for long stretches on the road, Noel shakes his head.

"You know, I saw my dad every day and look how that turned out. My kids understand - well, my daughter does - that dad's got to go to work. I've just had two years off. My son's only nine months old, so he doesn't f- - -ing know anyway, but my daughter understands that I'm not going to be around much for a year-and-a-half, but after that year-and-a-half I'm going to be around for two years. And they've got a wealthy dad. They'll get nice cars on their 17th birthdays," he says, laughing.

Noel says parenthood this time around is a vastly different experience. When Anais was born, he says, he and Mathews were coming to the end of a marriage that had begun at the height of Britpop and all of the madness that had ensued with the period. (Noel says that when he and his wife gave up drugs, they discovered they had "nothing to talk about".)

"It's great - it's nice to have a boy, to have a son and heir. He's a great lad. Really, really good natured. It's going to be nice, because my daughter is obsessed with ponies and all that girl stuff, and I'm a bit like, 'OK, whatever,' " he says, throwing his hands up. "It'll be nice to have a lad if he's into football and, hopefully, music. It would be great to pass the guitars on to somebody, because I don't think my daughter's that interested. She prefers the computer and Girls Aloud."

In fact, Noel says he often has to get his daughter's help for technological advice. "She just gets on the computer, and goes, tap, tap, tap. I don't know what the f- - - she's doing."

He's not big on downloading individual tunes online, either. "All the soul's gone out of it, you know? Imagine if The White Album came out now: 'Oh, I'll just take tracks one, two, seven, and nine.' F- - - off."

Noel says that songwriting as a craft still holds as much sway over him as it ever did and he even finds his output more prolific than it was a decade ago. Thanks to wealth and fame, the subject of his lyrics, he says, has changed markedly, though.

"When I was in my 20s and writing Definitely Maybe, to me that was my entire life. It was just based around this guitar that I had and writing songs. And I had nothing else in my life. I had no money, I didn't have a wife or kids, I had no baggage. It was just me against the world. You fast forward 15 years and you've got kids and money, so you're writing from a different perspective, so in that sense, it changes."

Of course, with songwriting duties now shared among the band - guitarist Gem Archer chipped in with a couple on Dig Out Your Soul, as did bassist Andy Bell. Liam contributed three songs.

"I find it difficult to talk about his songs because every time I do, he's like, 'That's not f- - -ing what it's about', so he can speak for himself," Noel says, sighing.

In fact, Noel says he doesn't understand the fascination people - and particularly the media - have over his relationship with his brother. He says he doesn't think their constant bickering and arguments are anything unusual at all.

"Me and Liam can say disgracefully hurtful things to one another and the other guys in the band will be going, 'F- - -ing hell,' " he says, "But imagine being in a professional relationship with your brother and trying to share the limelight for 15 years. It would drive you f- - -ing insane.

"As much as we don't get on, we don't not get on. He's my brother, that's where it ends. He's the last person in the world I'd go for a drink with - the last person. Seriously. If there was Armageddon tomorrow and I was walking through the nuclear waste of the planet and I saw him coming towards me in the distance, I'd be like, 'Couldn't it have not been someone else? Did it have to be you?' And he would think the same thing."

Noel says outside of music, football - specifically, Manchester City - remains his passion, but then adds, surprisingly, that his mate Ringo Starr is doing his best to get him to step back and smell the roses. Literally. "I saw him not too long ago and I was asking him what he was doing in England - because he lives in LA - and he says," doing a spot-on impersonation of Starr, " 'I always come back to England for the Chelsea Flower Show - have you ever been to the Chelsea Flower Show?'

"And I'm going, 'Well, no, I haven't.' So I say, 'Why do you go there for?' And he looks at me, like really surprised, and says, 'To see the flowers.'

He's like, 'You should really go and see the flowers. They're beautiful.'

And I thought, 'What a f- - -ing hippie,' and then I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll check it out next year.' You know, he is a f- - -ing Beatle, after all."

Source: www.smh.com.au

Oasis Premium Tickets On Sale Now!

If you missed out on Oasis tickets the first time round (well, they did sell out in under an hour...), Seetickets have just made a limited number of Premium Packages available for their sold out UK tour.

These special limited packages include a top price reserved seat for the show of your choice, a limited edition Oasis tote bag, an Oasis tour programme and £10 off the limited collectors edition of the Dig Out Your Soul box set available online from oasisinet.com.

To get your hands on one of the hottest tickets in town, simply click here.

Source: www.ents24.com

Gem: Oasis Can Go On Until Their 90's

Oasis could outdo the Rolling Stones and continue to rock into their nineties.
While Mick Jagger and Co are still going strong in their sixties, Gem Archer of Oasis reckons his band could keeping going longer because Liam Gallagher doesn't move on stage.

The 41-year old guitarist laughed: "Liam invented Stillism. There's no jogging around on stage like Mick Jagger in this band, so we could be doing that until we're 90."

Once the wild boys of Britpop, Oasis have quietened down, with Liam telling of his love for cooking salmon, jogging and early nights.

Gem admitted all the band were into fitness, but was keen to emphasise: "We're not like Sting or anything. "I was one of those guys who could eat rubbish all day and didn't know what hangovers were. "But I don't want to be 50 and doubled up.

"If we're going to put ourselves in line with The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, The Who and Led Zeppelin, we can't let the side down."

Liam, big brother Noel, Gem and bass player Andy Bell release new single The Shock Of The Lightning this week and seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, on Monday.

Despite their new quiet lifestyles, Oasis have been making headlines. Noel is still nursing three broken ribs after being knocked over on stage by a fan in Toronto. Their UK tour includes four sold-out Scots dates - Aberdeen Exhibition Centre on November 1 and 2 and Glasgow SECC on the 4 and 5 - and Noel will play through the pain.

Dig Out Your Soul is a massive return to form for a band who failed to match the initial success of their first two albums.

Alan McGee, who discovered Oasis at Glasgow's King Tut's, claims it is as good as other rock legends' seventh albums, The Beatles' Revolver and the Stones' Beggar's Banquet.

Gem said: "The cliche is that bands can't wait to get away from their music once it's recorded, but I nearly listened to it again last night.

"In the past, if you'd been out with Liam and ended up back at his after the pub shut, he'd play you the new album 15 times. But this time around, you might get it 30 times. That says it all."
It's Gem's third album as a member of Oasis. He and ex-Ride guitarist Andy joined in 1999 after the departure of Paul Arthurs and Paul McGuigan. While Noel has always been chief songwriter, this album has three songs by Liam, one by Gem and one by Andy.

Durham-born Gem's tune, To Be Where There's Life, began as a jam with his 12-year-old son.
Considering Noel's track record includes Live Forever, Wonderwall and Acquiesce, competing with him for space on an album can't be easy.

But Gem, real name Colin, says he thrives on the competition and thinks it's healthy for the band.
"The very fact Noel is even asking what songs I've got is incredible," said Gem, "even though he's the guy who wrote three songs just while we were in Abbey Road.

"That's a bit galling, but come on, it's Noel. Everyone can fluke one good song, but he's written a lot of very, very good songs."

The highlight of the album is Falling Down and Gem said: "It was one of the ones Noel demo'd by himself in Abbey Road, the night before we recorded it properly.

"Not only is it one of the best songs he's written, but the production is mega."

It all bodes well for the band's first British tour since 2006 which kicks off in Liverpool on Tuesday. Gem said: "I love playing live, but we're playing in Britain, indoors, to the perfect number of people for it still to be intimate. It's going to be insane."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Noel Blasts Amy

Oasis star Noel Gallagher pulls no punches in this sensational interview, taking a pop at all his chart rivals.

He blasts Amy Winehouse as a “waste” and charity pop concerts as “bullshit”.

Noel, 41, does not spare his brother Liam, 36, either – he gets mocked for wearing make-up and dying his hair.

Here, Noel speaks exclusively to the Daily Star on the eve of the release of his band’s comeback album, Dig Out Your Soul.

And he is clearly a man who loves to Look Back In Anger...

Hellraiser Noel Gallagher has lived the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle to the full – and survived to tell the tale.

He quit using cocaine 10 years ago.

And he has no respect for the likes of Amy Winehouse, 25, whose descent into drugs has left her a wreck.

Noel says: “She’s got an undeniably great voice, but there’s plenty of great singers in the world. It astonishes me that fame seems to hit those kind of people hard.

“They kind of pull down the shutters and become drug addicts because they can’t deal with it. So f*** her. There’s no point wasting words on people like that. They have no respect for themselves so why should people have respect for them?”

Oasis have always refused to join in charity gigs such as Live 8 and Live Earth. And Noel criticises bands who do.

He asks: “Global problems are very easily solved by rock stars, are they? They say: ‘Starving people in Africa? Let’s do a gig, that’ll sort it out.’ It’s f***ing bullshit.

“Radiohead can get on their battery-operated pushbikes as long as they like, but they’re pissing in the wind.

“You can’t put a load of rock stars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That’s ludicrous.”

Noel has no kind words to say about chart-toppers Keane, either.

“No matter how hard they try, they’ll always be squares. Even if one of them started injecting heroin into his c**k, people would go: ‘Yeah but your dad was a vicar.’”

You would hardly expect Noel to be a fan of singer James Blunt, 34, either. And you’d be right!

“I’m sure Blunt is just saying he lives in Ibiza for effect,” says Noel.

“I’ve had a house there for 10 years and I haven’t see him once.

“I heard he’s got a nightclub in his house, which is strange, because he doesn’t look like he could take a stiff cocktail.

“But I must say it did make me quite uncomfortable knowing I was there and he was up the road somewhere being sh*t.”

Although he’s pals with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, 31, Noel says the rest of Oasis hate his band.

He admits “I’m not in a band full of Coldplay fans, there’s only me – the others hate them – and U2.

“I think they’re a bit insecure because Coldplay and U2 sell more records than we do. I like them.

“Chris fascinates me, even though he’s proper posh. I don’t think I’d be Gwyneth Paltrow’s cup of tea, though. I swear too much.”

Noel’s legendary rows with his brother have often led to full-scale punch-ups. And they could be heading for another one once Liam reads this.

Noel says: “Liam’s been dyeing his hair for a while and he wears make-up. I’ve seen him wearing eyeliner at parties, looking like a character from A Clock­work Orange.

“And he knows about his moisturisers. I think he’s trying to head off old age, but it’ll catch him.

“Turning 40 doesn’t bother me as I’ve always felt older than I am. I’ve never traded on my good looks like Liam.

“To me, it’s not about the haircut or jawline or belly. I’m known for my songs. I can do that at any age.”

Noel is still recovering after suffering three broken ribs in an onstage attack in Toronto, Canada.

A man ran on stage and shoved him on to an amplifier. But Noel is happy that footage of the incident taken by fans on mobile phones has made him an internet sensation.

“It’s quite exciting being a genuine YouTube superstar! But the painkillers have left me feeling a bit braindead. Sometimes I drift off and I don’t know what I’m talking about.”

He says one bit of footage apparently shows his brother running away, then trying to punch the invader once he is safely in the arms of security.

“Liam got all brave once the security guards turned up,” he says. “I got taken straight to hospital.

“But we’re not going to become one of these American bands with more security guards than musicians on stage. We don’t go in for that Madonna crap.

“We’ve got enough security guards as it is. If they’d been doing their f***ing job properly instead of playing air guitar, I’d be all right.”

Critics say Dig Out Your Soul sees Oasis return to the rocking form they had when they first found fame in 1994.

But don’t expect them to copy Radiohead or Keane and start giving tracks away for free to their fans.

“No one’s getting anything free from me,” says Noel. “If they can find it on the internet and steal it, good luck to them.

“But we’re not going to put it in anybody’s f***ing pocket for free. F*** that."

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

Russell Brand and Noel Gallagher Viddycast

This week, Russell's celebrity co-host was wrinkly rocker, Noel Gallagher. They were joined by Katy Perry and Sarah Silverman.

Click here to listen again or download the podcast (from Tuesday).

Oasis? They're A Joke, Say The Kaiser Chiefs

The return of the Kaiser Chiefs signals the start of an autumn in which many of the big hitters of British rock are gearing up for major releases. After a year that has been largely dominated by soul divas such as Duffy, Adele and Estelle, the next few weeks will see new albums from Oasis, Keane, Razorlight and Snow Patrol.

Chatting over mugs of tea in the bar of their London hotel, though, a clutch of confident Kaisers appear to welcome the competition.

'We know what a lot of other bands are up to, because we read the papers and we're still interested, as fans,' says Nick, 30. 'But we don't worry about them; we do our own thing.'

'We're also going strong while so many other guitar bands have fallen by the wayside,' adds Ricky, also 30. 'People think that we look on other bands as rivals, but we don't. I listen to groups like Bloc Party and the Arctic Monkeys with great interest. They spur me on, especially the Monkeys. They're a great band, and they make us work harder.'

One group with whom Ricky and his bandmates have had a more fractious relationship are Oasis. Noel Gallagher has made a string of disparaging remarks about the quintet, recently claiming in a Radio 1 interview that he never liked them, despite the fact that he 'did drugs for 18 years'.

The Kaisers themselves dismiss Noel's barbs with typically bluff Yorkshire humour, while pointing out - quite reasonably - that he insults them only to whip up support for his own records.

Guitarist Andrew 'Whitey' White says that the band can brush off Gallagher's jibes as long as they are delivered with a touch of wit.

'He's come out with some pretty uncomplimentary things, but he's also an extremely funny man. He said we were the new Freddie And The Dreamers. So I took a look at Freddie And The Dreamers on YouTube and I have to agree: we are a bit like them.'

'Noel hasn't said anything I'd find offensive,' adds Nick. 'I bumped into him at King's Cross Station recently and it was all fine. It's like a boxing match. We punch each other and then we shake hands and hug at the end. We just don't meet the next night to talk about the fight.'

Read the full interview here.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Rolling Stone's Hate Affair With Oasis Continues

From the fine folks that gave Paris Hilton's album 'Paris' 3 stars I present you with another shit review of an Oasis record ......

Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis, 2 and 1/2 Stars out of 5

From the beginning, Oasis' greatest strength and most glaring weakness has been shamelessness — the belief that no classic-rock riff is too timeworn, no Beatles allusion too banal to merit blasting out at top volume. At its best, this brutish approach has produced some transcendent music ("Live Forever," "Wonderwall"), but as years have passed and gray hair has sprouted in the Gallagher brothers' moptops, the self-parody has often seemed less charming than wearying. Oasis' latest is heavier on groove than normal, and there are a couple of gripping moments, especially Liam's stately, Lennonesque ballad "I'm Outta Time." But for the most part, Dig Out Your Soul is an almost comically generic Oasis release, from its preponderance of plodding midtempo rockers ("Bag It Up," "Waiting for the Rapture") to the vaguely Indian raga-flavored psychedelic anthems ("To Be Where There's Life"). Then there's the issue of Liam's "philosophizing" — he's entered the Maharishi phase of his Beatles worship, clogging songs with beatitudes like "Space and time and here and now/Are only in your mind." Got that?

Click here to read some comments left by Oasis fans.

Source: www.rollingstone.com

Another Dig Out Your Soul Review

Finally. The new Oasis album is here. And it rocks!

For those of you less enthused by the artsy-fartsy, t-shirt-and-tie, skin-tight jeans-wearing "indie" bands dominating the UK scene of late, new Oasis album, Dig Out Your Soul, is just what the doctor ordered. Yes mates, Rock n Roll is f*#king back!

In the early 90s, Oasis stormed the stage , so to speak, kicking aside the English shoe-gazing bands of the time, taking over from where the grunge era left off. They did so with great rock songs, celebrating life, rather than singing about how sh*tty everything is.

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios and mixed in Los Angeles by producer Dave Sardy, Dig Out Your Soul sees a return to those happier times, packaged with better musicianship from a band that is clearly very confident in what they're doing - as they should be.

The opening track "Bag it Up," introduces Liam's classic snarling vocals set to a stomping beat that "throws the kitchen sink" at their recent (more subtle) sound.

"The Shock of the Lightning" and "Waiting for the Rapture," mix the old fashioned Oasis formula with a more mature, groove based, and, at times, bluesy rock ‘n roll sound.

Noel Gallagher's track "Falling Down," already re-mixed by the Chemical Brothers, is destined to be a classic with it's simplicity, soulful vocals, and psychedelic lyrics.

High Quality. There's no other word for the production and arrangements throughout the album. Liam Gallagher's voice at times is pure genius, mixing up the classic rock n' roll vocals with a softer approach when needed.

"I'm Outta Time," is the only ballad on the album. Give this one time, because once it gets inside your head, you just can't help but admire the deceptive brilliance!

Dig Out Your Soul will grow on you, with Noel Gallagher's songwriting beaming with the enthusiasm of the glory days of Definitely Maybe, their critically acclaimed debut LP.

Liam Gallagher's three tracks are immediate and simple. Gem Archer (guitarist) and Andy Bell (Bass) offer insightful lyrics set to a heavy and groove-based sound. Songwriting chief Noel Gallagher's tracks are by far the best.

Now, we don't really give a piss whether or not you like these brooding, hard-living, stage-fighting brothers (god knows they sure don't). The Gallaghers are in fact rockstars, the last of a dying breed, who, time and time again, have the ability to write classic songs. And you can't argue with genius.

Liam Gallagher said it best himself: "If you like, it buy it. It you don't, then don't." Simple as that.

Source: la2day.com

Win A Limited Edition Oasis Goodie Bag!

ilikemusic has one, very special, limited edition Oasis Goodie Bag to give away! The goodie bag includes a tote bag, pin badge, cigarette amp, playing cards and a 7" of the single The Shock Of The Lightning!

Click here to enter the competion.

Source: ilikemusic.co.uk

Win An Amazing Oasis Collector's Item - A Super Deluxe Boxset.

For the first time ever, Oasis are releasing a collectors edition box set of their new record (RKIDBOX51R). A strictly limited quantity of these box sets will be available through the band's web site at www.oasisinet.com and at selected retail stores.

The superbly packaged set (weighing in at a hefty 3.7 kilos) is the only place fans can get all the songs, remixes and audio visual material recorded for Dig Out Your Soul. It includes:

- The album on CD
- Bonus track CD with 9 tracks and remixes
- DVD featuring 40 mins of footage including exclusive behind the scenes making of the album and video for 'The Shock Of The Lightning'
- 4 x heavy weight vinyl records containing the album and bonus tracks
- Deluxe 24 page hardback book
- Mp3 download of the album (oasisinet only)

Fans can see the boxset on YouTube www.youtube.com/oasisinetofficial Plus the band have signed 20 copies of the boxset which will be sold at random from Oasisinet.com.

CLOSING DATE: Thursday 30th October 2008

Source: www.skysports.com

Tickets Still On Sale For The Oasis UK Tour

Tickets are still available from seetickets for the following Oasis UK Arena shows

Sheffield Arena 10/10/2008
National Indoor Arena 13&14/10/2008
Wembley Arena 17/10/2008
Odyssey Arena, Belfast 29&30/10/2008

For more information click here

Source: www.seetickets.com

Liam Gallagher's Dyeing Secret

Noel Gallagher has lifted the lid on brother Liam’s beauty secrets — and claimed he dyes his hair.

Noel said: “Liam’s been dyeing his hair for a while. And he wears make-up. I’ve seen him in eyeliner at parties looking like something from A Clockwork Orange.

“And he knows about his moisturiser. I think he’s trying to head off old age but it’ll catch him.”

Noel, on the other hand, reckons he’s happy to grow old gracefully.

“It doesn’t bother me. I guess because I’ve never traded on my good looks like Liam.”

After revealing Liam’s little secret, Noel also felt the need to confess one of his guilty pleasures — Coldplay.

Speaking to Absolute Radio’s Christian O’Connell yesterday, he said: “I like Coldplay. I struggle though ’cos I’m in a band with three other guys who hate Coldplay.

“The trouble is when I try to defend them I’m like, ‘Listen, this song sounds like The Beatles’ then Viva La Vida comes on and that sounds like bloody Annie Lennox Walking On Broken Glass! I can’t defend them.”

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Times Review Of Oasis' Dig Out Your Soul

Pete Paphides

4 stars out of 5

There’s something oddly reassuring about Liam Gallagher’s inability to be anything other than his unswerving absolute self. Asked recently if Oasis had considered putting out their new album as a free download, the monobrowed singer revealed his neophobia in a way that only he could. Eccentrically. “Look, I’m trying salmon, that’s as far as my interest in new things goes,” he declaimed impatiently.

Two days ago, then, when all of the new album appeared (albeit in a non-downloadable form) on their MySpace page, you suspect that Liam may not have even been aware of the fact – less still his brother. Noel’s mistrust of progress has pretty much informed Oasis’s lack of it over the last decade.

While their two most notable rock contemporaries, Thom Yorke and Damon Albarn, have shed skin after skin to keep themselves artistically relevant, Oasis have merely turned up the volume, lowered their heads and peddled workmanlike Brit rock. As Noel Gallagher has confessed, he may never write another Live Forever or Wonderwall. But when your band is a Grateful Dead for the new Labour years then your fanbase will continue to be here now for you, through good times and bad.

Which is something of a mixed blessing. On the cement-footed Don’t Believe the Truth in 2005, Noel Gallagher sounded like a man who could use a little pressure to raise his game. But Dig Out Your Soul suggests that Oasis may be dipping their toes into experimental waters, and enjoying the sensation.

What the online move this week illustrates is that someone somewhere believes that Oasis have produced some music to rival those high-water marks. They’re not wrong. Noel Gallagher is no longer possessive about appearing in the credits of every Oasis song. Liam turns in an unprecedented three contributions, while the bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer chip in with one apiece. And somewhere amid the relative seclusion of his rural retreat, Noel’s writing appears to have acquired a renewed sense of urgency.

There’s very little on Dig Out Your Soul that’s as adventurous even as trying salmon for the first time. That said, there are moments where you feel like flinging your arms around the Gallaghers for the modest innovations: the hypnotically sluggish rhythm that pushes along Liam’s stoned vocoder vocal on Get Off Your High Horse Lady; the demonic swamp rock of Waiting for the Rapture, executed with febrile intensity.

It’s an album that maintains an irresistible atmospheric pull for sustained periods – and that’s an advance on anything the band have offered this decade. Certainly, they’ve written nothing that sounds quite like The Turning, a moody five-minute beauty that moves from a tentative electric piano and climaxes with a nocturnal FM rock climax.

At this stage, an Oasis album that totally divests itself of all Beatles influences is asking a bit much. Gem Archer’s sole compositional contribution, To Be Where There’s Life, charges along on a bassline, played by Bell, that may push Paul McCartney’s eyebrows up into the realms of physical implausibility. Falling Down deploys an identical rhythm to the one invented by Ringo Starr on Rain, but it’s being played by Ringo’s son Zak Starkey. More importantly, it sits at the centre of another Oasis song that corresponds to little else in their canon – a rain-lashed, nocturnal hymn to uncertainty and vulnerability.

Of course, vulnerability isn’t something on which the older Gallagher has a monopoly. But the brothers’ ways of showing it couldn’t have been more different. On the rare occasions that Noel has sung Wonderwall it has sounded like a 2am cry for help. The reason Oasis became a social phenomenon, though, was because Liam could sing the same lyrics and sound like a man who could punch a hole through a door to prove how f***king sensitive he is.

But Wonderwall was a long time ago. And if Liam was the same person that he was in 1995, he surely couldn’t have sustained a quiet family life with Nicole Appleton over the years. It’s a view lent some weight by I’m Outta Time. Like every song that Liam will ever write, the John Lennon influence is unavoidable. But, over the course of his most tender vocal to date, he sounds oddly, movingly enraptured. Another first.

Relaxed as Noel is, three Liam classics on one album might have been a bit much to stomach. So it may be no accident that the other two Liam songs aren’t quite up to the same standard. Of Ain’t Got Nothin’ and Soldier On, one was a discarded song unearthed only at the last minute. But which one? Surely the former, a Who-style sonic dust-up of minimal melodic traction?

Actually, it’s the far superior Soldier On. Here, Liam’s reflective paean to perseverance oscillates soberly between a single titular mantra and bursts of keening melodica from Noel, until both dissipate, as if to leave room for closing credits. Could you really have been listening to the best Oasis album since Definitely Maybe? Maybe not definitely. But definitely more than maybe.

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Oasis: New Album Review

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

Rating ***

Seven albums in and we’re all hoping, somehow, maybe, that 14 years on from their colossal debut Definitely Maybe and its follow-up (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? the Gallaghers plus the other two have made an album worthy of their god-like status.

In fact, maintaining such eminence seems a bit preposterous because none of the four albums that followed was worthy of a band often hailed as big as The Beatles.

Dig Out Your Soul has moments to shout: “Hooray, they’re back on track”. Bag It Up is a classic Gallagher anthem, and The Turning is big on atmospherics, dreamy pianos and soulful vocals.

Falling Down is another highlight, with Noel on vocals again. Packed with emotion, it’s the album’s best track. The Beatles-y I’m Outta Time is Liam’s predictable but admirable offering and includes a sample of John Lennon’s final interview.

ut we are disappointed once more. (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady has promise but instead heaves along like a weary pack mule.

And Andy Bell’s The Nature Of Reality drags on as does Gem Archer’s droner To Be Where’s There’s Life.

When will Oasis reinvent the wheel and give us an album we’d rather listen to than their Greatest Hits? JS

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