Music Retail Makes A Stand Against Economic ills

Music retail is making a defiant stand against the economic turmoil with first-week sales of the new Oasis album continuing the momentum of a hugely-encouraging start to quarter four.

The band’s Big Brother/Sony BMG album Dig Out Your Soul opened with one of the biggest first-day sales of the year, shifting nearly 90,000 units, and finished with a total of 200,866 units to debut yesterday (Sunday) at number one.

Its success swiftly follows the Kings of Leon album Only By The Night, released by Hand Me Down/ Columbia, opening with 220,879 sales two weeks ago and needing little more than a fortnight to accelerate into the Top 10 biggest sellers of the year. “What the Kings of Leon and Oasis albums show is that if you make a great record, there’s plenty of people out there who will want to buy music and if there are any casualties in Q4 the records aren’t quite good enough,” says Sony BMG chairman and CEO Ged Doherty.

Big Brother general manager Emma Greengrass says sales of the new Oasis album have so far exceeded expectations with an opening-week figure of 180,000 sales originally projected.

“We’ve had a good build-up in the summer with the remix at clubs and the single has done well at radio,” she says. “We had some disappointment with promo because of Noel’s accident in Canada, but it doesn’t seem to have affected things for us.”

“The Oasis start is phenomenal,” adds Doherty. “Big Brother has done a tremendous job and the sales are up on the last Oasis album.”

Source: www.musicweek.com

A list of the fastest selling albums in the UK, can be found here.

Noel Is Tuned In For The Blues!

Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher has revealed he likes to keep up with the latest City gossip - by watching Channel M.

The Blues fan, who grew up in Burnage, watches the Manchester-based station - part of the Guardian Media Group, which includes the Manchester Evening News - from his London home on satellite TV.

Gallagher, 41, is a regular viewer of the City Debate Show, in which presenter Jimmy Wagg discusses the latest Blues-related stories with journalists and former players.

He also watches the channel's United Debate Show - but likes to have a pop at the former Reds stars who appear on it.

Gallagher revealed his viewing habits during a radio interview with Xfm presenter Clint Boon.

He said that it was through Channel M's music shows that he discovered Oldham band Twisted Wheel, who are currently on tour with Oasis.

Gallagher said: "I like Twisted Wheel. I've seen them on Channel M. I watch the City Debate Show. Then I watch the United Debate Show, and laugh.

"I shout furiously at all the United players on the telly: `What are you talking about?'"

Channel M bosses are delighted that such a high-profile Blues fan watches the show.

A spokesman for the station said: "The City Debate Show has built up a cult following since it was first launched in August last year.

"Plenty of City legends have paid a visit to the URBIS studio - Mike Summerbee, Gary Owen and Andy Hinchcliffe are just some of the big names to appear.

"It's great that Noel has been watching, as well as staying tuned to see what's happening in the red half!"

The City Debate Show goes out on Channel M on Mondays at 7pm with MEN sports editor Peter Spencer and City legend Tony Book on tonight's show. You can also see clips on this website from this evening.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Oasis Stay Healthy For Posterity

Gem Archer from Oasis has said the band watches their health so they can still rock when they're in their nineties.

Talking about Liam's new-found love of eating healthily and getting an early night, guitarist Gem said: "We've got a responsibility to keep it together, and it's not even for the thousands of people coming to see us. "If we're going to put ourselves in line with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and The Kinks and The Who, Led Zeppelin - the pantheon of great British rock n roll - then you can't let the side down."

He added that the band were "not like Sting" and that they still enjoyed night's at Liam's after the pub, listening to their new album - of which the band are all very proud.

"In the past, if you'd been out with Liam [Gallagher] at night and you ended up back at his house after the pub had shut, he'd play you the new album 15 times, but this time around, you might get it 30 times. That says it all," he said.

Source: www.musicnews.virginmedia.com

Sergeant Get Nod For Oasis Support Slot

SERGEANT haven't released their debut album yet, but that hasn't stopped the Glenrothes band from being picked as support for Oasis and The Fratellis.

The four-piece will warm up the crowd for Oasis on their sold-out Scottish dates at Aberdeen's ECC and Glasgow's SECC in November.

They will also lend The Fratellis a hand on their British tour, which kicks off in Preston on November 24.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Pictures Of Oasis From 'Rockin' On' Japanese Magazine

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

Arigatou gozaimasu to Chiaki

More Oasis Fan Renditions Of New Songs From YouTube

(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady Youtube user Aristocadama from Brazil.



The Shock of the Lightning by ciarank69 from Ireland.



The Turning by Thomas Allan from Germany



Bag It Up by The Rolex Band from Spain


You, the fans, are encouraged to interpret the new tracks in your own personal style on whichever instruments you please and Big Brother Recordings have put together a very special prize for the best entry. A lucky winner will be personally chosen by the band and will win a unique VIP experience to the Oasis gig of their choice anywhere in the world, including travel and accommodation.

Visit www.oasisinet.com/digoutyoursoulsongs for more details...

Chicago Sun Times Critic Belittles Dig Out Your Soul

Oasis, "Dig Out Your Soul" (Reprise) 1 and 1/2 Stars

Q. What's the difference between Oasis and Lenny Kravitz?

A. A Mancunian accent.

Wait, that's a bit unfair: America's hippie-dippy retro-rocker never wrote a classic-rock rip-off/homage as powerful as those on "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?," the 1995 album that, it has long since become clear, is the best main man Noel Gallagher will ever give us. But neither Noel nor Lenny is the least bit concerned with stretching his artistic horizons.

"It's a working-class thing ... I'm not an experimenter," Noel said in one recent Gallagherism, while in another, he noted, "I'm trying salmon, that's as far as my interest in new things goes."

Fair enough, mate. But if that's the case, why the heck should we bother to buy your seventh album of alleged new material?

Blatantly unoriginal or not, if Noel could continue to deliver singles as mindlessly catchy as "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova," Oasis would still be a guilty but genuine pleasure 17 years after it emerged during the heyday of Britpop and alternative rock. But "Dig Out Your Soul" is a plodding and lazy disc, with the rhythms too enervated to rise above the bombast of the wall of guitars, the melodic drones not nearly melodic enough and Noel contributing a mere six of the 11 tunes. (Brother Liam's three are, as has often been the case, eminently dismissible; the same is true of Gem Archer's sitar-decorated "To Be Where There's Life" and, sadly, "The Nature of Reality" by bassist Andy Bell, who proved as guitarist and co-leader of the late, great Ride that he was capable of infinitely better than this tossed-off blues stomper.)

What does that leave us? Well, we can assert that "Dig Out Your Soul" is a (slightly) better disc than the other three Oasis has given us in the new millennium, but that certainly is damning with faint praise. We can play the laughable lyrics game. ("Love is a litany, a magical mystery"; "Gotta get me a doctor with a remedy / I'm gonna take a walk with the Monkey Man!"; "I hear your soul song singing from a fire in the sky.") Or we can count the references to the boys' heroes. (The riff from the Doors' "Five to One" pilfered for "Waiting for the Rapture"; the John Lennon sample in "I'm Outta Time"; the "White Album" vibe of "(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady"; the "Dear Prudence" coda in "The Turning.")

Im Outta Time - Oasis

Then again, we could just admit it isn't worth the effort, since Oasis itself clearly can't be bothered to break a sweat on our behalf.

Source: www.suntimes.com

Oasis - MTV Live - Wembley Arena Advert

Just a reminder that Oasis live at Wembley Arena will be shown by MTV One UK on Thursday 16th October 2008 and repeated on TMF UK on Saturday 18th October.

Both start at 21:00 (9:00pm)

Source: Via YouYube

Top 10 Selling Albums In The UK This Week

10: Duffy - Rockferry
09: Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs - Bootleg Series - Vol 8
08: Andrew Johnston - One Voice
07: Bette Midler - The Best Bette
06: Ne-Yo -Year Of The Gentleman
05: James Morrison - Songs For You Truths For Me
04: Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
03: Will Young - Let It Go
02: Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
01: Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul

Stop The Clocks is also back in the Album Charts at number thirty five on this weeks chart.

Also 'The Shock Of The Lightning' fell thirteen places in the singles chart to number sixteen.

Source: Official Chart Show

Oasis In Sheffield Day Two New Pictures And Setlist

Fuckin' In The Bushes
Rock N Roll Star
Lyla
The Shock Of The Lightning
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Meaning Of Soul
To Be Where There's Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
Ain't Got Nothing
The Importance Of Being Idle
I`m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Don't Look Back In Anger
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus

Pictures thanks to Whooper...

Oasis In Sheffield Last Night Videos

The Shock Of Lightning



I'm Outta Time



Waiting For The Rapture



Ain't Got Nothing

Videos from last night's Oasis show in Sheffield.

Did you go to last nights gig or future gigs or even past gigs?

Send in your pictures to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will add them to tour archive.

Source: Via Youtube

Oasis Line Up Massive Manchester Homecoming Gig At Heaton Park

Get ready to Roll With It as I have super exclusive Oasis news about the band's much anticipated homecoming gig.

My spies tell me Liam and Noel Gallagher are in talks to play the massive Heaton Park in Manchester (famous for Radio 1's One Big Sunday event) next summer. The boys are hoping to sell 100,000 tickets for the gig - and frankly I just can't wait.

One of my moles told me: "The band are really excited about the whole project. It will be their biggest gig since Knebworth."

Meanwhile it looks like Liam, pictured yesterday, is already getting into Supersonic shape.

On a walk with wife Nicole Appleton and her All Saints bandmate Melanie Blatt and their tiny dogs, the rocker's legs didn't look half bad in shorts. Just a shame he decided to wear girly tights.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Oasis 'Dig Out Your Soul' Tour Archive Update

The first pictures from visitors to the site have started arriving in my inbox, from the UK Arena tour.

Thanks to the people who have sent in pictures so far, and I hope it continues for the full tour.

I will add all the pictures I recieve here, as and when I get them.

Did you go to last nights gig or future gigs or even past gigs?

Send in your pictures to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will add them to tour archive.

Oasis Takeover MTV

Liam Gallagher and Andy Bell from Oasis pick videos for MTV2 videos are not included just their commentary.



Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer pick videos for MTV2 videos are not included just their commentary.

Source: Via YouTube

Noel Gallagher On TalkSPORT

Noel Gallagher on TalkSPORT earlier today.

Source: Via YouTube

New Noel Gallagher Interview

Noel Gallagher from Oasis tells of his love for Sheffield band the Arctic Monkeys ahead of a gig in the city.

Click here to watch the interview.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Last Night's Oasis Setlist From Sheffield

F**kin' In The Bushes
Rock 'N' Roll Star
Lyla
The Shock Of The Lightning
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Meaning Of Soul
To Be Where There's Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
Ain't Got Nothing
The Importance Of Being Idle
I'm Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Don't Look Back In Anger
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus

Did you go to last nights gig or future gigs or even past gigs?

Send in your pictures to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will add them to tour archive.

Oasis Nearly Split

Noel tells 6 Music how close they came during hard years for the band
10 October 2008 - Noel Gallagher has been telling 6 Music how Oasis nearly split up during a difficult period at the end of the 90's.

Speaking to Steve Lamacq, the guitarist revealed that the band had nearly thrown the towel in and gone under a different name.

He said: "We had a serious discussion after Bonehead and Guigsy left: 'Should we fold this now and just go under a different name?' We were seriously thinking about it.

"But your manager gets you at a moment of weakness when you're hungover and says:

'You've built this thing up after ten years and you're just going to throw it away and start again?' And we were like, 'No, we're just thinking about it.'"

Despite the temptation, he says the new blood in the band soon helped them get their priorities right:

"When Gem and Andy joined they were like: 'F*ck that, we want to be in 'Oasis'! We don't want to be in 'Sweaty Bogeys' or anything like that…!' And it was like: 'You've got a point!'"

But despite the decision to keep going, Noel says that whole period was a real low point for the band.

He said: "There were years of a real total lack of inspiration; Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, that whole period. In my defense, Creation was collapsing around our ears, Bonehead and Guigsy were thinking about leaving, although we didn't know it at the time.

"The fact that we were all getting divorced, that we made a record anyway is quite staggering."

According to Noel, the band was in one big comedown from the hedonism and success of their early years, but didn't have the sense to stop and take stock:

"We had kind off come out of that whole thing with the 90s, I was trying to get off drugs and everyone was doing different things and everyone was becoming distant from each other. I think we put records out because we didn't know what to do.

"We really should have gone away after Knebworth and done what U2 did after the Joshua Tree. To be that you've got to be cool. We were all addicted to the attention and the mania and the egos.

"After Knebworth everyone was like: 'What are you going to do?'. Like an idiot you say: 'We're going to come back next year and do five nights!' But what we should have done was gone away and had a long holiday and analyse this.

"But it's all part of the story."

You can listen again to Steve Lamacq's interview with Noel, as well as other interviews with Liam, Gem and Andy Bell in the links below.

Hear Liam's interview
Hear Andy's interview
Hear Gem's interview
Hear Noel's interview

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Happy Birthday To Us

Today stopcryingyourheartout.com is four years old, thanks to everyone from the for corners of the globe that visit and who have contributed site in the last four years.

The following places have still to visit us, but listing them in the post my get me a few more countries for my Neo Counter.

Ascension Island, Afghanistan, Anguilla, Angola, Antarctica, American Samoa, Aland Islands, Burundi, Benin, Brunei, Bahamas, Bhutan, Bouvet Island, Belize, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Cameroon, Christmas Island, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Gabon, Grenada, Guernsey, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Haiti, Isle of Man, British Indian Ocean Territory, Iraq, Jersey, Kiribati, Comoros, Saint Kitts and Nevis, North Korea, Laos, Saint Lucia, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Marshall Islands, Mali, Northern Mariana Islands, Mauritania, Montserrat, Maldives, Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Norfolk Island, Nauru, Niue, French Polynesia,Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Pitcairn Islands, Palestine, Palau, Seychelles, Saint Helena, Svalbard and Jan Mayen islands, Sierra Leone, San Marino, Somalia, Suriname, São Tomé and Príncipe, El Salvador, Swaziland, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, French Southern Territories, Togo, Tajikistan, Tokelau, East Timor, Turkmenistan, Tonga, East Timor, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vatican City, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Mayotte, Zambia & Zimbabwe.

Thanks for visiting the site over the last four years...

Liam Gallagher's Wonder Wheel

It was a night out on his home turf that really took off for Liam Gallagher.

The Oasis frontman went for a spin on Manchester’s big wheel in Exchange Square on a day off from the band’s UK tour.

And the feat of engineering struck a chord with the gobby singer who said: “What a machine. It’s great for Manchester.”

Generous Liam then handed a homeless man a crisp £50 note before finishing his night off at The Wellington pub in the city centre.

Meanwhile, his brother Noel revealed yesterday he came close to disbanding the group when Bonehead and Guigsy left in 1999.

He considered calling it a day for good during recording sessions for the album Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants

Speaking to Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music, Noel said: “We had a serious discussion after Bonehead and Guigsy left.

“‘Should we fold this now...just go under a different name?’”

Noel also revealed he halted plans for a West End show based on the band, adding: “Someone has floated the idea of an Oasis musical called Live Forever – Oasis The Musical.

“Ludicrous!”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

More pictures of Liam & Noel out and about in Manchester can be found here and here.