TRL's Top Awkward Moments

MTV's famed TRL show, a teenyboppers wet dream, is going off the air after a long successful run.

Only makes sense that Liam Gallagher tops their most awkward moments list!

Source: Via YouTube

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary from oasisinet.com

Bonjour.

That gig in Paris was the last of the tour. That's it now for a couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to a break. Me and Gem are on the Eurostar heading back to London. Liam and the increasingly odd Andy Bell have stayed in Paris for the day. Pity no one told them it's Armistice day. Everything's shut!

Saw Sting in our hotel last night. STING!!! Crikey, wonder what he was up to?

There's a man on this train who's just pulled out a rather large book called "101 Great Breads"!! Wow..he must be a chef of some description, eh?

We've made it through the Channel Tunnel. It's actually sunny. Unbelieveable. It'll piss down for the next 2 weeks though, I guarantee it.

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Stars Noel & Liam Gallagher Plan To Buy Own Jet

Oasis rockers Noel and Liam Gallagher are hoping to buy their own private jet after getting the bug on their latest tour.

The brothers have enjoyed flitting from city to city in a luxurious hired jet since embarking on their recent UK and European tour - and Noel even flew home via private plane for one night in between his gigs in Aberdeen.

Now, despite the recession, Noel has decided that he wants one of his own - and is asking his accountants to look at the figures. He revealed: "We're making serious enquiries as to how much one of these jets cost. We think with a bit of creative accounting we could probably afford one."

He cheekily added: "We've christened ours 'The Credit-Crunch'. It's the only way to fly."

Noel is not the first celebrity to hanker after a plane of his own - he joins the ranks of Tom Cruise, John Travolta and P Diddy who each have a plane or three of their own.

Westlife are said to have splashed out £4million on a jet four years ago after growing tired with the expense of private charters and David Beckham is considering purchasing a £7million plane of his own so he can travel between his European soccer commitments and US-based family.

The prices can vary between £4million for a Gulfstream or Learjet to £150million for a top of the range plane. Those who charter a private jet include Simon Cowell, who pays up to £6750 an hour.

In recent days Noel and Liam have used a jet to fly from Cologne to Copenhagen then Milan to Paris - and that's before they even set wing in Mexico, the US, western Europe and UK and Ireland in the New Year.

But perhaps Noel should heed a word of caution from P Diddy who claims that the state of the economy is so bad he can't even afford the fuel to put in the plane he partially owns.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Interview For The Dave Fanning Show

The Dave Fanning Show had a special interview with Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher last night.

Oasis have just released their new album 'Dig Out Your Soul' and will play Slane next year.

Click here to listen again, Noel joins the show after 7 minutes.

Source: www.rte.ie

Pictures From Oasis In Paris And Copenhagen

Some photos sent in via email from site visitor Chelo who made the trip to Paris from Madrid, Spain for Monday's show.

Visit the Fan Archive (here) for more pictures from the gig and other gigs from the tour so far submitted by fans.

Also some great photos from Copenhagen by Lasse Dearman can be found here.

Stereophonics 'Not Recording Christmas Single With Joe Calzaghe And Oasis'

They deny reports...

Stereophonics have denied that they are recording a song with Oasis and the champion boxers Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe.

Various tabloid reports have claimed that the collaborators planned to release 'Hi Ho Hatton' as a Christmas single.

However, Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones told the BBC that the band would be playing no part in the track.

"My mother told me about that, she phoned me up and she said it's in the paper... I know Joe but I haven't seen him for a few years,” he said.

“We used to play charity football matches together but I don't know where that story's come from."

Bassist Richard Jones added: "We were going to go over to New York and play a gig for all Calzaghe's fans in Madison Square Gardens or somewhere like that.

“It didn't come together, so maybe somebody put two and two together and came back with sixteen."

Source: www.gigwise.com

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel Gallagher's tour diary on oasisinet.com

That gig in Copenhagen was pretty good after all. A deceptively sweaty little number.

A journalist who hadn't spoke to me since '94 at the Hultsfred Festival accused me of stealing her bag DURING an interview!! Not guilty, your honour. Another insisted that I owed them money! INSISTED!! I have no recollection of ever meeting either of these people.

Stayed up half the bastard night to watch that Joe Calzaghe fight. What a lump of shit that was. I've had better fights with r-kid.

We're flying to Milan today for about an hour to do some TV show or other then back on the jet and head for Paris. We're making serious enquiries as to how much one of these private jets cost. We think with a bit of creative accounting we could probably afford one. We've christened ours "The Credit-Crunch?" It's the only way to fly, y'know?

Never get enough time to stay in Copenhagen. It looks like it might be a fun-place. We'll never know. Pity.

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Ryan Adams: 'I Never Miss Oasis'

Ryan Adams and his band The Cardinals are back with a new album Cardinology. He spoke to Newsbeat about his tenth studio LP and his love for Oasis.

How did you find recording your new album?

Neal Casal (The Cardinals guitarist): This album was one of the best we've made because our line-up has really solidified now.

It felt like we could really stretch out and be a band and it felt like we were making free music for ourselves.

We had a blast and I think that comes straight through in the grooves. It was a very unfettered recording process and we had a free rein on this album.

Ryan: This is the last record we have under Lost Highway so we can go off and do our own thing.
You recently supported Oasis on their US tour. How was that?

Ryan: That's a band I don't miss. That is a band I buy tickets for and I go and see. If Oasis are playing New York I'm at that concert. I'm in the line with everyone else.

It was a perfect day for me supporting them because I was like, 'Damn I get to play some music and I get to watch Oasis and I'm getting paid for it'.

Did you hear that your cover of Wonderwall was recently credited to you and not Oasis on The X Factor?

Ryan: I know I heard about that. When somebody told me I just laughed.

You almost collaborated with Noel Gallagher live for that track once. Is there any chance of that ever happening?

Ryan: No absolutely not. If I ever did it would have to be a pretty decent amount of money so I could say to these guys, 'Go and buy a helicopter'.

You had a bad accident in 2004. (The singer fell offstage and broke his left wrist at the former Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool). How difficult a period was that for you?

Ryan: I had to re-learn how to pick up a pencil and re-learn how to move a finger. There were massive holes in my arm and I had to get it sewn back on.

It was awful, I was in a lot of pain. But a lot of time has passed since then and I don't usually think about it until someone else brings it up. It seems very incidental to me now.

Did it get to the point that it was so bad that you almost had to quit music?

Ryan: I think quite the opposite happened. When it healed up The Cardinals were born and I made a solo album. In fact I made three albums in one year.

Lost Highway are in the process of putting together an anthology of your work for release. How do you feel about that?

I don't plan to participate in that. They can provide an anthology of the stuff that was done on Lost Highway, good luck with that. But the fans already have it.

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals are currently touring the UK.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Oasis Tickets Still On Sale

Tickets are still available for Oasis's Stadium Tour in 2009, performing at Wembley, London, Heaton Park, Manchester and more...

Whats more they will be joined by Kasabian and The Enemy on all UK dates!

Click here for more information.

Alessandro Del Piero Gets Shirty With Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher received a surprise gift while appearing on Italian TV – a signed footie shirt from Juventus hitman and Oasis mega-fan Alessandro Del Piero.

The striker is an avid supporter of the Gallagher gang and even appeared in a video for their single Lord Don’t Slow Me Down.

The Manc rockers were in Milan performing on an Italian chatshow when they were given their gift by host Fabio Fazio.

Del Piero even rang in to natter away to his rock hero, prompting Man City fan Noel, to joke he would stick his new jersey up on eBay.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Oasis In Paris Setlist

Tonights setlist from the Bataclan, Paris, France.

Fuckin' In The Bushes
Rock 'n' Roll Star
Lyla
The Shock Of The Lightning
Cigarettes & Alcohol
The Meaning Of Soul
To Be Where There's Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
Ain't Got Nothin'
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

Oasis' next planned show is in Mexico City on the 26th of November.

Did you go to tonights gig or future gigs or even past gigs?

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

Bonehead Don’t Look Back In Anger

Having spent much of the last eight years moonlighting with various bands - most notably recording a clutch of demos with half of The Smiths in his basement home studio - this month Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs jumps Hadrian's wall for a rare gig in Glasgow. Dave Kerr tracked him down to speak frankly about past glories, life after Oasis and what he makes of the Gallagher's post-millennial output.

You've been recording with Moondog One [formed with Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke in 2001], but otherwise maintained a pretty low profile in the years since you split from Oasis, what's been keeping you occupied in recent times?

I’ve been doing a lot of work for a band from Manchester called The Vortex, they had a single out last week and I played on that. So I’ve been doing a lot of gigs with them, like a semi-permanent member of the band as it were. They’re really good, really enjoying playing with them. Alan McGee’s just latched onto them; we just played Death Disco - McGee’s club down in London – four weeks ago. He’s still quite in touch and thinks they can do something, so he’s gonna book them non-stop from January to June of next year to big them up and see what goes.

You say semi-permanent -- would you entertain the idea of touring with a band fulltime again?

Not really, no; I’m still playing guitar at home and whatever, doing stuff just myself but I met up with these lads and just love the whole attitude, they’re sort of like Primal Scream with Denise Johnson. They’ve a girl called Jaxx on backing vocals who’s just joined and she’s really lifted them up. When they asked me if I’d play on the record I jumped at the chance. Then they asked if I’d like to come up onstage and thought ‘yeah, love to’. Their whole approach really caught my eye and my ear. The atmosphere of the gigs reminds me of the feeling I had about Oasis in the early days, so I’m really enjoying that.”

Speaking of those early days, Definitely Maybe took the band to dizzy heights - literally overnight - and Oasis are probably one of the last bands to have that happen on such a huge scale before the advent of the internet. A lot fans and pundits often refer to that era as Oasis’s artistic pinnacle. How would you describe the experience, in retrospect?

It was difficult, because we really were just a bunch of kids who’d come off the streets and had been offered a record deal then chucked in the studio. To be put in a situation like that in the studio, it was all new to us; we didn’t know what we were doing. We knew what we wanted; we wanted somebody to capture the sound of us as we were on stage. We had trouble because we had the wrong record producer [Dave Batchelor – one-time boom operator for Return of the Jedi - his only remaining cut from the sessions would be Slide Away]. He wasn’t capturing us the way he should. It was pretty sore at times, but eventually we got that right, we got the right people in [Stone Roses sound technician Mark Coyle and Verve producer Owen Morris] and we did it. It was heads down and full on, 24-7 recording, we were absolutely lapping it up, loved it.

Did Noel really just waltz in and start pouring out the classics?

When Noel first came into the band, he came in just to jam really. We were just a four piece and he came in armed with all the songs. The first song he ever played us was Live Forever, and we were just like ‘Wow, where’d you get that?’ And he said ‘Words, music, finished. Here you go; there are the chords…do it.’ Song’s done. He came ready equipped with the first album and plenty more, it was pretty amazing really.

Besides the songs, the cocksure bravado of the Brothers Gallagher quickly made the band a household name, but behind the scenes did you really believe that so much success could be had with three chords and an attitude?

I don’t think any of us thought we could have had so much success. It was quite obvious to us after a few months of rehearsing – before we’d even played any gigs - that we were going to do something, but we never thought we were going to dominate the music scene as we did. If somebody had said ‘in just a couple of years you’re going to be headlining two nights at Knebworth to quarter of a million people’, we’d have been like ‘nah, surely not’. But there we were and we did it. It’s all beyond my expectations.

Post-Knebworth – on the streets of Manchester - you must’ve felt a bit like Rocky Balboa returning home after finally beating Apollo Creed, no?

It was a bit mad. But even now I get nothing but absolute respect off people. For the part of Oasis that I belonged to, people still have absolute maximum respect for that and anywhere you go, clubs, pubs, streets, shops – wherever – people always walk up, shake your hand and pat you on the back and say ‘thanks for what you did, you made it for me’. It’s all nice and positive.

Noel infamously left the band during your first big American tour, what went through your head at that time?

We thought that was it, I think we played the Whiskey in Los Angeles and the morning after that Noel upped, left and went to Vegas. We didn’t know where he was. We lost him for a few weeks and any messages we did get back when we found him were ‘I’m not coming back’. So we just thought that was it, ‘brief but beautiful, what’s going to happen next?’ We were bunkered up in a hotel in Los Angeles, we called it the war bunker and were like ‘right, let’s try and put a search party out for Noel, let’s find him, he’s somewhere in the world.’ Scary, it was. Anyway, he came back and the rest’s history.

The circumstances of your departure from Oasis have always been a bit of mystery. There were dozens of tabloid stories, of course – I remember one that suggested you and [former Oasis bassist] Guigs poured wine over Liam [who was understood to be teetotal at the time] while he was asleep when the band was in France, and that this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. What really went wrong?

All that was a load of crap. Basically, what it was, when we’d come to record Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, we’d rented the biggest château you’ve ever seen in the south of France and brought in all our equipment and set up our own studio there. It should’ve been fun, it should’ve been brilliant, and it wasn’t. I got the feeling that no one was enjoying it, the atmosphere wasn’t good and to me, personally, to go on and finish the album then go out and tour it for a year and a half, I wouldn’t have been true to the band. I wouldn’t have been giving 100%, and you can’t be part of that band if you’re giving something slightly less than that, which I would have been doing. So I walked, it was time to go. I look back and I had the best time of my life playing with that band but the last thing I was going to do was lie to any of those lads and pretend I was enjoying it. The whole buzz had just fallen then, but I’m sure it’s back now for the band, it seems to be.

Any regrets?

No, it’s a long time ago. People always talk about ‘what if?’ but it was a long time ago. The first year was a bit odd, it was a bit like being at home, getting back to normality, walking the streets and getting used to that really. Then people stopped asking questions in the street and accepted the fact that I’d left. It was especially odd when Andy and Gem joined and they started touring again, but there were no regrets for sure. I look back at all the good times. I only ever look back positively. I made the decision and it wasn’t one I made lightly.

I couldn’t get you on the phone and not ask you this question: The new Oasis album isn’t long out, what do you make of it?

Yeah, I really like the album. I went to see them in Birmingham the other night and it was brilliant. I think they’ve gone back to their roots, with a little twist, back to what you’d expect Oasis to come out with. It’s really direct, there’s a lot of power and to watch them doing it on stage the other night and see the energy coming out was just incredible.

And the direction they've taken since the ‘classic’ lineup dissolved?

I think they’ve finally found it again. I’m always going to be Oasis’ number one fan but I’m also going to be Oasis’ number one critic. I’m always going to say ‘you’re never going to catch that energy and that rawness that we had on Definitely Maybe’, and even the two after that but especially Definitely Maybe. I’m always going to say it’s not quite Definitely Maybe and it never is going to be – because that is the album.

You could see it the other night in the crowd reaction, as soon as they launched into Supersonic, Rock ’n’ Roll Star, Cigarettes and Alcohol – the crowd went ballistic. And it’s like, there you go. Some of the albums in-between it were like ‘yeah, alright, but not quite’. But, again, I’m always going to love them but I’m always going to hate them as well. It’s difficult for me to say.

Didn't you need a disguise to get into the gig without incident?

I got mobbed the minute I drove in, it was probably a bad move but I thought ‘I’ve got to get down there’. They got me a parking pass so I wasn’t going to be in with the kids but they spotted me coming in and I got battered to say the least. It was alright though; it was all well-natured.

So you’re all on good terms?

Yeah, it’s difficult to meet up; they’re in London, I’m in Manchester but I’ve been out for a drink or 10 with Liam and half the band, which is alright. I actually played Death Disco a few years back with a band called The Seers and Liam turned up to watch us. I played a gig not last year but the one before for Manchester versus Cancer at the big Arena here, I was in [Electric Milk] band with big Gaz Whelan of the Happy Mondays, we opened up and Noel was headlining. We met up there and that was all cool.

Do you think Oasis could be the new Stones – will they ever relent?

It really is Noel and Liam, isn’t it? Whoever comes and goes in-between, I think there’ll still be them. I think they’ll be around till they drop, I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to stop – no way.

In terms of what the future holds, you’re playing with [Glaswegian singer/songwriter] Pete MacLeod at the minute, which seems a little bit obscure given that he’s based in Los Angeles. How did that come about?

He’s a good friend of McGee’s. He’s really into his stuff. I just got a call through saying that ‘this guy Pete MacLeod’s coming over to the UK for a few acoustic gigs, and would you be interested in jumping on stage and joining him for a couple of numbers?’ I had a listen, really liked it and he agreed to come over to do two or three gigs in the UK, but two or three gigs has since turned into four weeks touring, which is great. There’s a bit of a demand and it’s all evolved from that phone call.

Is there a recording collaboration on the cards too?

We don’t know what’s going to happen; we’ll see how we work together.

Source: www.theskinny.co.uk

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary from oasisinet.com

That gig in Cologne last night was the most underwhelming experience of my recent life.

Let me explain. It was a gig for competition winners. 600 of 'em.

SIX HUNDRED!! I've done rehearsals with more people in attendance. All of these next few shows are re-scheduled from 3 months ago. We had to cancel them because of the incident in Toronto.

Little gigs are not for me. I find them boring and pointless. Give me the spectacle of a stadium gig any day of week. 60,000, that's where it's at for me.

Some very funny Euro dancing going on in the hotel bar afterwards. There is no greater sight than the euro dancer in full flow.

We're off to Copenhagen today. On the Oasis private jet-plane. I love Copenhagen. Can't wait. It's another low-key gig. There'll be at least a 1,000 people there though. I might even get excited.

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis On Italian TV

Source: Via YouTube

Oasis In Paris Tonight Live On The Radio

There will be a special Oasis this evening Monday 10 November, from 8 to 10 PM (UK Time) on French radio France Inter.

They will broadcast the Bataclan concert live from Paris.

www.radiofrance.fr

For the streaming, you’ll have to click on "Ecoutez le direct"

Source: Mr Monobrow

DIRECT LINK HERE

http://players.tv-radio.com/metafichiers/france_inter_mp3-128k.m3u

Look Back At Oasis

Reliving the "Glory," 13 years later

Many have written Oasis off as simply a Beatles rip-off, while others have called the Manchester-based group the quintessential Britpop band. Their second studio album "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" certainly helped to establish them as not only a best-selling band but also iconic figures at the forefront of the second coming of the British invasion. The 1995 album proved to listeners that the Gallagher brothers' music could be clear and focused after their debut album "Definitely Maybe," which had more swaggering chords and a much rawer sound.

"(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" was a huge and enduring success, selling more than 18 million copies worldwide and charting as the third biggest-selling album in U.K. history, after Queen's "Greatest Hits" and The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

Much success is owed to the band's single, "Wonderwall," which can best be described as a bittersweet hybrid between a beautiful Beatles love song and a pop hit tailored to the angst of the 1990s music industry.

Often characterized by avid fans as the archetypal Oasis song, the 90s ballad has exquisitely-written lyrics ("Because maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me, and after all, you're my wonderwall") accompanied by melancholy violin, soft guitar chords, and well-placed cymbal crashes.

The British group's most popular song brought back the concept of a simple love song, supplementing it with the poignancy of the decade, and listening to it brings back memories of the Britpop era.

The CD's classic pop-inspired lyrics are not always that deep and hardly subtle (fingers point toward "She's Electric," which has somewhat nonsensical lyrics but a popular appeal), but compared to modern pop's vapid lyrics, they're well written for their genre and often desirably to the point.

A personal favorite is "Some Might Say," a song with ingenious guitar chords and simple yet insightful lyrics, "Some might say that sunshine follows thunder/ Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine/ Some might say that we should never ponder on our thoughts today 'cause they will sway over time."

Another favorite is "Don't Look Back in Anger," a song that can very easily be mistaken for a Beatles hit with its adept sense of timing and loud vocals. According to Pops and Scratches, a music news site, even Noel, the elder brother Gallagher, principal songwriter, lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and lead vocalist on "Don't Look Back in Anger," admitted in his Manchester snarl, "[It] reminds me of a cross between "All the Young Dudes" and summat the Beatles might've done."

The CD's closing track, "Champagne Supernova" endured as a No. 1 radio hit in spite of many believing it was too long at seven and a half minutes. The mellow indie anthem spent five weeks as Billboard Modern Rock Tracks' number-one single.

The lyrics ("How many special people change? How many lives are living strange"), the soft drum beat and sound effects of water flowing all evoke feelings of nostalgia and fear of change in a world where people quickly lose their innocence and base their interactions with one another on social class.

The song is about a simple desire for unity and forgiveness, and a hope to maintain friendships that might be lost as people's values change.

The quality of Oasis' music was often overshadowed by disputes between the brothers Gallagher, Liam and Noel, and frequent comparisons to the Beatles, but their 1995 album "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" not only helped to bring Oasis to wider fame but also established a new genre called Britpop, which would influence later British groups, including Coldplay.

Source: www.ndsmcobserver.com

Three New Oasis Songs On Guitar Hero: World Tour

'Bag it Up,' 'Waiting for the Rapture' and Hit Single 'The Shock of the Lightning' to arrive in November; Full Album Available in 2009

Gamers looking to shred, drum and wail away to the new sounds of beloved, multi-platinum UK rock band, Oasis, need not wait much longer as music from the band's critically acclaimed Dig Out Your Soul album will soon be available for download in Activision Publishing, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero® World Tour.

Featuring "Bag it Up," "Waiting for the Rapture" and the hit first single "The Shock of the Lightning" from the band's seventh studio album, the Oasis Track Pack will be available on November 6th for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. In addition, the three tracks will be released as single downloadable songs for both the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3. The Dig Out Your Soul album, in its entirety or via individual singles, will be available for download in 2009.

Source: Youtube & kotaku.com

Top 20 Selling Albums In The UK This Week

01: Girls Aloud -Out Of Control
02: Pink - Funhouse
03: Enrique Iglesias - Greatest Hits
04: Razorlight - Slipway Fires
05: Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
06: Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
07: Celine Dion - My Love - The Essential Collection
08: Status Quo - Pictures - 40 Years Of Hits
09: AC/DC - Black Ice
10: Sash - The Best Of
11: Cliff Richard - 50th Anniversary Album
12: Andrea Bocelli - Incanto
13: Will Young - Let It Go
14: Katherine Jenkins - Sacred Arias
15: Daniel O'Donnell - Country Boy
16: Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
17: Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
18: Scouting For Girls - Scouting For Girls
19: Keane - Perfect Symmetry
20: Bette Midler - The Best Bette

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Liam Gallagher Gifts His Jacket To Support Act Sergeant

Liam Gallagher was so impressed with Scots support act Sergeant that he gave frontman Nick Mercer the jacket off his back.

The Manc star wore a custom-made, one-off leather bomber at the gigs in Aberdeen and Glasgow before presenting it to Nick as a thank you for his band's performances.

Our backstage source said: "The guys got talking about clothes in the Oasis dressing room after Tuesday's show and Liam complimented Sergeant's outfits. Nick asked Liam about the leather jacket - Liam went and got it and told him to try it on. He then said it suited Nick and told him to keep it. Nick couldn't believe it."

Sergeant - who play Dundee's Doghouse tonight and Glasgow's Arches on Saturday - are delighted at how well the shows went.

Our source said: "Noel asked them to the dressing room and they sat around all night. They had a night to remember."

Source: www.sundaymail.co.uk

Ricky Hatton And Oasis To Fight Joe Calzaghe And Stereophonics For Xmas No1

Joe Calzaghe is taking on Ricky Hatton for a last fight ... to be Christmas No 1.

The gloves will come off when the two boxing champs go head-to-head in the pop charts.

Calzaghe 37 - who last night took on Roy Jones Jnr in a light heavy weight showdown in New York before retiring from the ring - is pulling no punches in his quest for a record knock-out.

Welsh hit rockers the Stereophonics will help him record the track.

But it could be a close fight. Mancunian Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton, 30, has called on Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher to help him claim the top spot with Hi Ho Ricky Hatton, a take on the 1967 hit Hi Ho Silver Lining.

And welterweight Hatton, who has won a string of world titles, is hoping to get Manchester City football team involved.

Calzaghe is getting his model girlfriend Jo-Emma, 27, to be a backing dancer.

And his boxing coach and songwriting dad Enzo, 60, is coming up with the words.

A source said: "It's going to be a real sing-along track to get everyone in the party mood.

"Jo-Emma is the secret weapon - she's the real glamour behind the single, which the Gallagher brothers can't match."

Enzo has said: "I was brought up in music. All we used to do in Italy was play football, box or sing all day. Boxing is a stressful world and my remedy is music." A friend of the family said: "This is going to be a light-hearted way to celebrate the end of Joe's career.

"They're not going for that soppy stuff you normally hear at Christmas - the Calzaghes have got a great sense of humour so they'll make sure it's a laugh.

"Joe was the unbeaten champ for 11 years and I reckon he's going to carry on his form in the music world. The family hopes it will be a chart-topper."

The competition from Ricky won't bother Calzaghe, who is also bringing out a DVD about growing up in the South Wales valleys in time for Christmas - Joe Calzaghe: My Life Story.

The source said: "He's never been worried about getting beaten by other boxers and he's not going to start now.

"He's approached this song with as much passion as his boxing. It will be a huge hit."

Tale Of The Tape

RICKY, 30

Has Oasis brothers Liam and Noel in his corner.

Hopes to get Manchester City squad on side.

Blackpool comedian Joey Blower writing the lyrics.

JOE, 37

Welsh megastars Stereophonics in his corner.

Glam girlfriend Jo-Emma in the video.

Coach & songwriting dad Enzo coming up with the lyrics.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Congratulations to Joe Calzaghe who won on points in the early hours of this morning against Roy Jones Jr and remains undefeated after 46 professional fights.