Support Acts For Oasis In Germany

Twisted Wheel will be supporting Oasis in Germany next month in Hamburg, Berlin & Dusseldorf on the bands 2009 European Tour.

Source: www.tickets.de

Soul Survivors

Fans who have waited more than a dozen years for Oasis to land in London will finally get their wish.

Battered but determined, Oasis plays JLC Monday night.

Oasis will be delving deeply into the Dig Out Your Soul songbook when the British rock band makes its long-awaited London debut at the John Labatt Centre on Monday.
Oasis bassist Andy Bell said fans are likely to hear seven or eight "Soul" songs from the band's 2008 album in the set list.

Among the candidates are I'm Outta Time (the new single), Waiting for the Rapture, Falling Down and I Ain't Got Nothing.

"There's a fair number of the songs," Bell said in a recent interview from Britain.
Monday's date was set after the band's Noel Gallagher was attacked onstage at a Toronto outdoor concert. A Sept. 9 date at the downtown London arena was postponed. Fans who had waited more than a dozen years for Oasis to land in London have had to wait three more months as the rocker recovered and the tour was rescheduled.

In the past, spectacular blowups involving Gallagher, the band's chief songwriter, and his brother Liam, its singer, have derailed several public appearances and tours. Noel quit the band following an onstage row in 1994, Liam backed out of a U.S. tour in 1996, and Noel walked out on a European tour in 2000.

"Every time," Bell said patiently when asked if he is questioned about those Oasis-plosions.

He was still feeling the shock of the Toronto attack during The Free Press interview.

"Who is going to get it?" Bell recalled thinking about what might happen next.
That concern has ebbed, fortunately, as Oasis has returned to the road with U.S. rocker Ryan Adams.

But Bell can now expect to hear years of questions about the attack because he was a witness to a moment of rock infamy that was seen around the world on YouTube.

Gallagher told his bandmates, "I'm going on," after Oasis had halted its set and left the stage as the attacker was taken away. Bell said he and guitarist Gem Archer had been saying they both thought the concert was finished.

Oasis returned to the stage to play a few more songs at the Toronto concert before Gallagher began to look over at his bandmates. "He was starting to hurt," Bell said. The band stopped its concert and Gallagher was taken to hospital.
"I don't think Noel knew what was going on," said Bell as Gallagher was in shock for those first minutes.

Gallagher's own recollections suggest he was in shock.

"I remember being hit really hard, I didn't see him come onstage or get led off, I just got hit," Gallagher told an Australian newspaper.

After realizing no knives were involved in the attack, Gallagher shunned medical advice to go directly to hospital and continued playing after a short break.

"I had an almighty pain in my side. I was being silly. It got to the point where I went 'F--- it, I can't do this' and got taken straight to hospital."

The assailant, Daniel Sullivan, 47, was charged with assault. Gallagher refused to comment specifically on the incident with charges pending, but took his own shots.
"He's 47 and got three children, if you can believe that," Gallagher said. "He's obviously gone through a midlife crisis. I wouldn't get in and analyze it too deeply, that's for a lawyer to do.

I don't know why people do things like that."

Other comments suggest Gallagher's trademark way with a quotation is already fully recovered.

"We've got enough security guards as it is," Gallagher said. "If they had been doing their f---ing job properly instead of playing air guitar, I'd be alright."

Oasis landed on the radar of music listeners in 1994 after being signed to Britain's Creation Records. The Manchester band featured the Gallaghers. Bell and Archer arrived in 1999.

Definitely Maybe entered the British charts at No. 1 and became the fastest-selling debut in British history. Songs like Supersonic, Shakermaker and Live Forever would go on to help define the sound of the mid-1990s on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bell said Oasis thanks the many fans who have sent wishes for Gallagher's recovery.

Source: London Free Press

Oasis Christmas Decorations

To find out how to make these easy to make Oasis Christmas decorations click here.

Source: theoasisfanguide.blogspot.com

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

It seems like I'm saying this a lot recently, but - fuck me - there's nothing going on at the minute. NOTHING.

Played Detroit last night. Got a day off today (in Detroit). It's a Sunday. Utterly soul-destroyingly dull. So dull in fact that I actually bought something off that ebay last night. A vintage Gibson organ. Very fuckin' cool. Gotta go and pick it up today at some fella's house. Thinking on..that should be quite exciting! Going to a real American person's actual house? Well, there's fuck-all else to do.

I'm currently watching some of that American Football. The New York Jets-V-The Buffalo Bills, in fact. I like it. I'm one of the few Mancunians who actually understand it. It's a very simple game made extremely complicated by mathematics. For example, it's currently 14-3 to the Jets. It's 14.26 in the 2nd. The Jets have the ball on the 22 and it's 3rd down and 8. Erm..sorry?

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Official Oasis Calandar 2009

The 2009 Official Oasis Calendar, is in stores now and has been designed by the sleeve designer Julian House.

The calendar will be available from Amazon at £7.44, and various other Calendar stockists.

No Fuss Noel Gallagher: 'I Just Get Up There And I Do It'

After an attack by a hooligan in September, you might expect the Oasis guitarist to be more careful than usual when he plays London, Ont., tonight. Then again, he's not one to worry, Brad Wheeler writes

Before sitting down with him, if I had to describe Noel Gallagher.

I might have said something like "quotable British rock star" or "the talent half of the battling Oasis brothers" or "the bushy-browed Wonderwall writer."

I would probably have added that he fancies a pub session now and again, that he's a blokey football fan, that he picks the Beatles over the Stones, and that even though he's the band's guitarist he's a far better singer than his testy sibling Liam.

After meeting with Gallagher though, "unfussy, polite and unworried" would be attached to the full assessment. And, sure, I'd stick with "bushy-browed."

On the morning before Oasis played Toronto's Virgin Festival in September, Gallagher tended to the media.

The Manchester superstars were talking up their seventh studio album (the blues-stomping, psychedelic Dig Out Your Soul), and the headlining festival set on the city's Olympic Island would showcase the new material. "I have no idea who puts that stage up, or where those lights come from or how it all works," said

Gallagher, no micromanager. "It's not something I sit and analyze. Somebody else organizes it, and they point me to the stage. I just get up there and I do it. And I go get drunk and do it again the next day."

Until I mentioned it, nobody had told Gallagher that Liam wouldn't be fulfilling his share of interviews that day. "Oh, is he not feeling well," he asked, his voice dripping with something other than sympathy. "Well, he better be brilliant tonight hadn't he?"

Gallagher suspected his younger brother, bunked at another hotel, had over-socialized the night before. As it turned out, it would be Noel's condition, not Liam's, that mattered.

As we all know now, Oasis's performance was wrecked outrageously by a hooligan who violently charged Noel from behind on stage, sending the guitarist tumbling awkwardly into a bank of stage monitors, damaging his ribs in the process. It was a brutish, shocking incident, as YouTube videos show so clearly. After an interlude, the band finished its set in a subdued manner. A few gigs were cancelled as a wincing Gallagher recuperated.

The band has since resumed performing, including a concert tonight at the John Labatt Centre in London, Ont., where, you might imagine, the slapdash Gallagher will pay more attention to security details than usual.

When Gallagher referred to being pointed to the stage, he was responding to a question on the rock 'n' roll grind, and the balance of family and professional life. He finds it easier than you might imagine to deal with the double routines, choosing to separate them, rather than straddle the divide.

"On the last night of the last tour, the very next day, when I get back to England, I'm just the guy who's got two kids then," Gallagher, 41, explains. "I spend time doing the things you would imagine a dad with a young family does."

And then, after a year or two of puttering, dad puts his songwriting hat on, which is the initial step back into the rowdy music life. Eventually an album is written, recorded and released, and then the pipes call. "My family knows," says Gallagher, dressed sensibly in jeans and a windbreaker. "Like now, for instance, I'm in a band and I'm on the road. And that's the way it's going to be for the next two years."

That's the way it has been since 1994, with the release of Oasis's breakthrough debut Definitely Maybe, continuing with the fellow mega-selling (What's the Story) Morning Glory in 1995 and Be Here Now in 1997. Asked about the pressure to produce material that measures up to those early albums, Gallagher says he doesn't feel it, that any monetary concerns were taken care of with Morning Glory. "If I wanted to take five years off after this record, I could do it easily."

If Oasis, notorious for its wild ways and sibling rivalry, were to break up, Gallagher still wouldn't fret. "If the worst was going to come, I can always pick up an acoustic guitar and do a gig anywhere in London," he says, not to boast. "I could sell out Albert Hall like that," he says with a dry snap of his fingers. (Okay, now he's boasting a little bit.) Noel did tour without Liam while promoting the band's rockumentary Lord Don't Slow Me Down in 2006, and he recently said he wouldn't mind seeing the four band members pursue their own projects after the current Oasis tour.

As of now, after a slate of European dates in January and a Japan tour to follow, Oasis is scheduled to launch its biggest-ever tour of open-air stadiums in Britain in the summer, closing with a pair of concerts at Wembley Stadium in July.

Gallagher has his music career and his domestic life, the two rarely meeting, even though Oasis typically breaks for a week for every three on the road. "I'll still be in rock-star mode," he says, referring to the monthly furloughs. "You can't be all things to all people all the time. You can't be on the road and try to be a good dad and a responsible adult."

Irresponsibility these days, as Gallagher tells it, runs mostly to drinking and related capers - "there's nothing else to do" - but not to the heavier stuff. "I've done all that," he admits, with a wave of his hand. "It would be quite sad if I was into drugs. I mean, what would you have done if your parents were into drugs when you were growing up?"

I had no answer, but I suspected Robert Downey Jr., in town at the time for the Toronto International Film Festival, might. Before I could suggest we ask the actor about all this, Gallagher, whose morning glory used to be cocaine, continues with what might wryly pass for a public-service announcement to school children. "There comes a point when you've got to grow up, you know what I mean? I'll leave the drug-taking to the youth, and get on with it."

If Gallagher isn't indulging in hallucinogens himself, Dig Out Your Soul is awash with psychedelic moods, starting off with the acid-rocked Bag It Up, with lines about freaks rising up through the floor and heebie-jeebies in hidden sacks. Gallagher describes it as "the Pretty Things vs. Pink Floyd on glue"; I would counter with "the White Stripes take a Magical Mystery Tour." Beatles influences abound elsewhere, from a guitar riff scalped from Helter Skelter, to a taped John Lennon spoken-word clip, to the Revolver-era existentialism of To Be Where There's Life.

On the whole, it's the most produced album the band has put out, with fade-ins, fade-outs and lavish, hazy textures. For all of that, the group's leader takes little responsibility. "It was great fun, but I'm not one for experimenting," says Gallagher, who does not own a computer (or even a driver's licence, for that matter). "I don't really have the time to sit around all day and make things sound like airplanes taking off. I'm not interested in effects pedals or anything like that, but, luckily for me, other people are."

Gallagher acknowledges and dismisses the material's spiritual bent in one fell swoop, pointing out that the lyrics of Waiting for the Rapture, The Nature of Reality and the album-closing mantra of Soldier On were written independently by himself, bassist Andy Bell and Liam, respectively. "We seem to have made a record with the most cohesive thread to it, and yet it all happened by accident.

"If I were to go away and write an album that I thought had a common thread to it," Gallagher continues, "for one, I'd pick the wrong thread, and two, I'd lose it after about three songs."

Non-conceptualist Gallagher acknowledges Dig Out Your Soul isn't the style of record Oasis fans have come to expect. He guesses the next album will be more "song-y" and melodic. "I write rock 'n' roll pop music that tends to be accessible to a lot of people," he says. "When I pick up the guitar, I'm not trying to challenge myself and write space jazz or anything like that."

Nor would anyone wish him to. Oasis fans would settle for a wistful singalong like Don't Look Back in Anger or the grand ballad Wonderwall. They'll probably come, either on a solo album or the next record from Oasis, don't worry. Gallagher himself isn't.

Oasis plays the John Labatt Centre in London, Ont., tonight at 7.

Attack aftermath

Noel Gallagher doesn't look back in anger. The concert tonight by England's Oasis in London, Ont., makes up for a show postponed from September, after the rock-star guitarist was attacked on stage at Toronto's Virgin Festival. Recovered from the blindsided assault, Gallagher recently commented on the incident publicly, saying that he actually didn't remember much about it. "I was just playing away in my own little world. I had my back turned, and the next thing I know it was total chaos all of a sudden."

Gallagher insisted he had no hang-over effects from the attack, physically ("It was two months with three broken ribs and five bruised ones") or mentally ("I'm not that fragile upstairs"). The alleged assailant, Daniel Sullivan, a father of three from Pickering, Ont., is scheduled to be in a Toronto court for a hearing tomorrow.

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

Kid Rock Is Keen To Work With Oasis

Kid Rock, 37, is keen to work with Oasis. The All Summer Long singer said: "They make good music and I love their attitudes."

Source: Daily Star

Support Acts For Oasis In France

12/01/2009: Nantes - Twisted Wheel
30/01/2009: Lille - Twisted Wheel
31/01/2009: Bordeaux - Twisted Wheel

17/02/2009: Toulouse - Free Peace
18/02/2009: Marseille - Free Peace
03/03/2009: Paris - POPB Bercy + Guest

Source: www.alias-production.fr

Chart Update

I'm Outta Time has left the The Official UK Singles Chart this week, after entering the charts last week at number 12.

Dig Out Your Soul is at number 27 on The Official UK Album Chart this week.

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

Nothing doing here, kids. Went shopping yesterday. For guitars. Didn't buy any. I've already got all the good ones.

Went for a Chinese. They had a freshly boiled frog on the menu!! Boiled frog? YUMMY!!

We're in Chicago, by the way (but you knew that anyway).

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Deserted Palace No Place For Oasis

"Tonight," Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher sneered into the microphone at the Palace of Auburn Hills Saturday night, "I'm a rock and roll star."

That he certainly is. Gallagher was put on this planet for the express purpose of being a rock and roll star, and he remains a fascinating, antagonistic, combustible presence on stage. But within the confines of a more-than-half-empty arena -- the reported attendance for Saturday's concert was 6,200, but it looked to be even less than that -- do we need to shift the definition of what constitutes a rock and roll star?

The economy has certainly taken a toll on local rock and roll shows; the black curtains that section off the upper deck have become a fixture at shows at the Palace. But even at the height of its popularity in the mid-90s, Oasis couldn't sell out the Palace, so why was it playing the venue now?

The empty seats dampened the mood in the room, and Oasis didn't go out of its way to heighten the crowd's spirits. The band members tend to be rather aloof on stage -- guitarist Gem Archer and bassist Andy Bell pretty much just stand there, as does Noel Gallagher, the band's songwriter and leader -- so eyes tend to fix on Liam, who seems ready to storm off the stage at any given moment. He creates an odd dynamic with the audience, whether blankly staring down members of the crowd or proudly standing with his back to them, but damn if he doesn't do it with iconic style. To paraphrase M.I.A., no one on the corner's got swagger like Liam.

Even that tends to wear thin, however, and it wasn't enough to carry the show through the laborious sections of Oasis' one hour, 45-minute set. While new song "Shock of the Lightning" fits in with the band's most explosive material -- it will likely remain a fixture long after touring behind the band's current album "Dig Out Your Soul" is finished -- other new offerings dragged, including "I'm Outta Time" and "Waiting for the Rapture."

The opening suite of "Rock & Roll Star," "Lyla," "Shock of the Lightning" and "Cigarettes and Alcohol" kicked off the evening on a high, but the band droned its way through sluggish renditions of "Morning Glory," "Supersonic" and the crowd favorite "Wonderwall." Luckily, "Champagne Supernova" cut through the clutter, soaring to the great highs it does on record, while closer "I Am the Walrus" -- an Oasis standby for years and years -- delivered in typical fashion.

The brothers Gallagher were in amiable spirits, with Noel lightly chiding a fan for throwing a shoe on stage and Liam pantomiming sexual acts to several crowd members. But you couldn't shake the feeling the show would have played better in a smaller setting, as Oasis' arena days seem to have long since expired.

Openers Ryan Adams and the Cardinals were, too, dwarfed by the size of the Palace, though the band's electrifying one-hour set hit all the right notes. Half the material came from the band's recent "Cardinology," and the set shifted comfortably from bluesy country ("Two") to swirling rock (a ramped-up "Off Broadway").

Adams, who is as famously testy on stage as the evening's headliners, joked around with guitarist Neal Casal, with the free-flowing conversation ranging from Journey's Steve Perry to a 1989 Cinderella show at the Palace to the days when the Detroit Pistons were known as the Bad Boys.

Source: www.detnews.com

Oasis In Detroit Setlist

Last nights setlist from the Palace Of Auburn Hills, Detroit, USA.

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

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Next stop London, CANADA...

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

Nothing to say today. Nothing happened. We're in Chicago. It's equally as cold as Minneapolis.

We did catch up with some old friends yesterday though. Them being The Black Crowes. We toured with them in 2002 (I think). They were playing across the street. Good to see Chris. He's a lord.

That's it. Fuck all y'all. I'm going back to bed.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis A Bit Too British

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne doesn’t understand the appeal of British bands like Oasis and Arctic Monkeys.

The American rocker, 47, who is in the UK to promote his band’s sci-fi film Christmas On Mars, doesn’t feel his countrymen can relate to the northern lads.

He told me: “I’ve never got Arctic Monkeys – they seem too much like a British thing to me.

“They’re like Oasis whereby Americans can’t really relate to them.

“Lots of British people like it but not for me, and I don’t like Razorlight or Duffy much either.

“I prefer Radiohead – they deserve to win a Grammy.

“And I’m still a fan of Amy Winehouse but hope she doesn’t become too much of a drug addict.”

Christmas On Mars premieres at the Barbican in London tomorrow.

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

Versus Cancer: Massive Christmas Party

Christmas Party! 18th December 2008

Moho Live, Tib Street, Manchester, next to Afflecks Palace

Room 1

Starsailor

The Vortex (feat Bonehead)
Working For a Nuclear Free City
the 66

DJ's
Radio Republic with Martin Coogan and Phil Beckett
Dermo Northside, Terry Christian, Elliot Eastwick, Natalie-Eve, Michelle Hussey, Gareth Brooks & Little Red

Room 2

SA Promotions presents:

Karima Francis
The Jesse Rose Trip
Jersey Budd

DJ's
Hed Kandi with David Dunne and Andy Daniels
K Klass
Jason Herd
2 Kinky with Nick Hussey

Comedians
Vince Atta, Steve Edge, Dave Bishop

8 till very late indeed.

Tickets: £5, door £7

For more details go to www.versuscancer.org

Oasis In Chicago Setlist

Last nights setlist from The Allstate Arena, Chicago, USA.

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

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

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Next stop Detroit...

Dig Out Your Soul Songbook - And The Winner's Are...

Back in September Big Brother Recordings and NME ran a competition for fans to submit their versions of 'The Shock Of The Lightning', 'Bag It Up', 'The Turning' and '(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady'.

The competition had a great array of entries which can be viewed here!

After going through all the entries, Oasis picked The Outs' version of 'Bag It Up' as their favourite. Noel said, "The Outs are our winners, they did a top job on 'Bag It Up'. Their version really got to the heart of the track. Nice one." Big Brother Recordings will now be flying The Outs to the gig of their choice which they have decided will be at Wembley Stadium next year.

The Outs proved to be a very popular band with NME Editor Conor McNicholas also choosing their version of 'Bag It Up' as his favourite. The band will be receiving a copy of the 'Dig Out Your Soul' Box Set.

The runner up is João Ribeiro from Portugal whose version of 'Bag It Up' clocked up over 12,000 views by the end of the competition. João has won tickets to see Oasis play in Lisbon on their largest-ever European tour at the start of next year. He has also won an X-Box, Plasma TV Screen and copy of the Guitar Hero 4 World Tour.

Oasis, Big Brother Recordings and NME would like to thank all the fans for their entries and urge them all to keep picking up those instruments and learning your favourite songs - that's how all the best bands start!

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Vote For Oasis At The Shockwaves NME Awards 2009

The Shockwaves NME Awards are back and only your votes can decide the winners.

Vote now to decide the nomination shortlists to be unveiled in January.

You'll also be entered to win tickets to the Awards ceremony in London and the NME Big Gig, headlined by The Cure.

Click here to cast your vote for Oasis.

Oasis Tour Fan Archive Update

I have recieved even more pictures from visitors to the site, from all over the world.

Are you planning on going to future Oasis gigs or even been to past gigs?Send in your pictures to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will add them to tour archive.

We still have a few gigs missing, so any photos you have please send them in...

Visit the album and check out all the photos by clicking here.

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

So..Minneapolis? An arctic wasteland more like. Fuck living here!! Have these people not heard of California? You think it's cold in England?! It's colder than Thatcher's soul (if that's at all possible).

Stayed in last night. Endlessly flickin' round on the telly. I found THE most ludicrous programme I think I've ever seen. It was on a channel called Spike TV. And the programme was called "Manswers". Which - if I'm not very much mistaken - is a show that answers the questions American men are asking. "Manswers". Get it? Ok.

What follows is TRUE. It's what I saw and I hadn't been drinking.

1. What's the most powerful handgun available on the market? (There was a few to choose from and their power was demonstrated by birds with big tits in bikinis firing them in slow motion!! It looked and sounded like a spoof trailer for a Quentin Tarantino movie. Fuckin' mental yet, strangely compelling!)

2. How can you survive being hit by a car? (Apparently there IS a technique which was demonstrated by a trained stuntman (not in a bikini) and I was told NOT to try it at home!! What? Not even a little practice?)

3. How would big boobs bounce on the moon?!!! (An "expert" actually explained that they (the boobs) would react in the same way as they would if they were underwater! FUCKIN' LUDICROUS!!)

4. What's faster - a man or his sperm? (To demonstrate this they had a midget in a white all-in-one Lycra body suit on a running machine. He signified the sperm, I think?)

5. What's the horniest animal in the jungle? (You simply HAVE to know, don't you? Thinking on...maybe I'd been spiked with acid).

Fuckin' ludicrous the lot of it. Gimme Seinfeld any day.

In a bit.

GD.

PS. The Bonobo Chimpanzee is the horniest animal in the jungle (just in case you were wondering).

Source: www.oasisinet.com