Noel Gallagher: Mancini Right Manager For Manchester City

Manchester City celebrity fan Noel Gallagher says Roberto Mancini is the right manager for the club.

The Oasis frontman is particularly impressed by Mancini's man-management.

Noel told Absolute Radio: "I think there’s a bit of both, you know, there’s a lot of money at Chelsea and they didn’t win anything last season, well they did the season before, but I think he’s spent really, really well, and I think he knows what he wants, and I think to have won the FA Cup last season, they had such a great season with a band of players who were, if you believe the press, at each other’s throats all the time, means he’s got some kind of man management skills, but I like him."

Source: http://www.tribalfootball.com

Beady Eye To Have Soundcheck Parties In Japan

Beady Eye's official Japanese site has reported that the band will have soundcheck parties before the gigs in Japan next month.

For more details click here or here.

Noel Gallagher: My Night On The Booze With Paul Gascoigne And His Parrot

Noel Gallagher has revealed how he went boozing with Rangers legend Paul Gascoigne – and a Parrot.

The former Oasis star revealed he often met Gazza for drinking sessions when he played at Ibrox.

And the songwriter recalled one bizarre night involving the England international and a feathered friend.

Gallagher said: “We met Gascoigne. He used to come when he was playing for Rangers. We had a few nights out with him.

“I remember one with him and, no word of a lie, a parrot. Don’t ask what happened, but there was a swimming pool involved.

“We were all wasted. It was when Rangers were signing loads of Italian players and they were all coming to the gigs. I think we were just in the bar havin’ it and Gascoigne was there smoking loads of cigars.

“I went, ‘Are you playing tomorrow?’ and he went, ‘Yep’. I thought, f****** hell.
“Players like Gascoigne are a one-off. If Gazza was playing now, he would be on £140-150 grand a week. I’m sure there would be all sorts of clauses in that contract, so I don’t think the likes of Gazza would survive in the modern game.

“Gazza wasn’t really an athlete, he was a force of nature.”

Gallagher often met star players from both sides of the Old Firm divide while touring with Oasis.

He was introduced to many of the Scottish game’s biggest names by former Creation Records founder and diehard Rangers fan Alan McGee.

Gallagher – who releases his debut solo single next week – admitted he had an affection for Celtic and hailed the fiery Old Firm atmosphere.

The Manchester City fanatic told Sky Sports Soccer Saturday show about his love for the Hoops.

But he admitted that following the Hoops caused problems at home with Scottish wife and Bluenose Sara MacDonald.

He said: “That’s an Irish thing. I used to love watching the Old Firm games in the Eighties. Then about 11 years ago, we ramped it up a bit in our house when I met my wife. She’s a staunch Rangers fan.

“It was like: ‘Right, let’s f****** get this on then’. Only recently have Celtic been on equal terms with that mob.

“I’ve been to Celtic Park and heard the entire crowd sing Roll With It before the game. It really was spine-tingling.

“I was at Martin O’Neill’s first Old Firm game as manager when Celtic won 6-2. Henrik Larsson scored a couple and it was honestly the best game of football I’ve ever been to.
“I would say to any football fan, no matter who you support and if you can get tickets, go to an Old Firm game at Celtic Park. Unbelievable.”

Gallagher believes the Old Firm derby even beats the bitter rivalry between Manchester City and Manchester United.

He added: “Well, I’m from Manchester and there is no love lost in those games. It’s on a par with the Old Firm.

“But Celtic Park is huge and it’s a lot more colourful.

“The Manchester derby, the Poznan (a dance adopted from a Polish side by City fans) is a spectacle now but we have only just got that.

“Up at Celtic Park, when they all sing with the scarves going up, it really is something else.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Noel Gallagher To Play At The Olympics Opening Ceremony?

Noel Gallagher is reported to be among the acts who are lined up to perform at the opening of the 2012 Olympics in London.

Noel Gallagher told Sky Sports that he's been invited to the opening ceremony. When questioned if he had been given the offer to play the songwriter said "I'm not allowed to say, but I'll be there. I might go along with the kids. It looks like it might be a laugh".

Noel has reportedly been at the top of organisers wish-list of acts to perform at the opening ceremony of the prestigious sporting event. Coldplay, Muse, and Blur frontman Damon Albarn are also said to be in the running to join a star-studded line-up at the launch of the event in July next year.

Noel Gallagher's Big Fat X-cuse

Noel Gallagher finally convinced Simon Cowell to stop bugging him about a role on the X Factor by saying he would only put through fat people and "midgets".

The ex-Oasis star said he had been repeatedly offered a job on the telly talent show by boss Simon because the media mogul wanted him to act as the programme's "alpha male".

Guitarist Noel, 44, said he finally put Simon off by warning the reality chief he would deliberately put through odd acts if he took a place on the show's judging panel.

He told Manchester radio station Key 103: "[Simon Cowell] was saying we're going to revamp the show... and he was saying that we need somebody to - how he put it - be the alpha male.

"He said, 'Basically somebody to replace me', and I was like 'What you mean have all the kids round my house in the back garden and saying to big lunatics 'I've made my decision and I can only take three...'

"No, that's not going to happen in my house, the missus would kick off for a start and I've got a four-year-old lad who's on a power trip at the minute and he'd be like, 'You're rubbish, shut up'."

The musician added: "He's a nice guy but I was like, 'You don't want me on there', and he was saying we do, and I was saying you really don't want me on there, because I will just put through obese people... or midgets."

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Interview To Be Broadcast Later Today

Don't forget that an interview with Noel Gallagher, will broadcast on 'Rock 'N' Roll Football Live' on Absolute Radio later this afternoon.

The show starts at 1.30pm (UK time), listen to the show online at www.absoluteradio.co.uk

On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from the 20th of August 2005, when Oasis played at the V Festival in Chelmsford, England.

Beady Eye Roll Into Belfast

Beady Eye will play at the Belsonic Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland today (August 20th).

If you are going to the show, and you are able to scan your ticket or send in pictures email them to us @ scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will do my best to get them on the site.

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Liam Gallagher: I’m V Sick

There is no better medicine than a can of the black stuff when symptoms of a stinking sore throat start to tickle the back of your tongue.

And here's Liam Gallagher at 3am, in a cold Staffordshire field, doing a bit of self-medicating - swigging from a tin of Guinness with fans. This snap was taken only hours before he disappointed thousands of Oasis fans by pulling out of V Festival in Chelmsford back in 2009.

He must have been really poorly.

One of the fans, who asked not to be named, told Bizarre: "After the gig in Staffordshire, Noel headed down to London. But Liam, other band members and his close friends stayed and had a party in his trailer.

"Liam had quite a few beers. He left at 3am to carry on elsewhere.

"He didn't seem to have anything wrong with his voice."

The Beady Eye singer yesterday launched a High Court writ against his big brother for suggesting in his press conference last month that Liam pulled out of the gig because of a hangover. Liam insisted it was down to laryngitis - and he had a doctor's note to prove it.

And as Liam fires off legal letters accusing Noel of going beyond "rock-and-roll banter" - he has dished out more insults for his older brother in the next issue of Q Magazine.

He said: "He blew it. He could have said, I was a dick, he was a dick, that's life, it's 2011, here's my f***ing record'.

"Listen, our Kid's a mouthy **** too. He said we had a year to come up with a band name and came up with Beady Eye.

"He had three and came up with the High Flying Turds.

"I don't know who dressed him but he looks like something out of Westlife."

To handle all this nonsense, Liam has appointed the PR firm Heather Mills used in her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney. And I thought he was The Beatles' biggest fan.

The only winner in this spat is the lawyers.

They'll be laughing all the way to the bank...

The picture can be seen here.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Listen/Download Noel Gallagher's Interview From BRMB

Click here to listen/download an interview with Noel Gallagher that was broadcast earlier today on the Jo And Sparky show.

Liam Gallagher Signs New Lease On City Centre Pretty Green Store

Liam Gallagher has signed a permanent lease on his Glasgow clothes store which will see the boutique remain a fixture on the city’s shopping map for at least another five years.

Liam opened the first Scottish branch of his menswear chain, Pretty Green, in Ingram Street last December and demand for his designs has prompted him to extend the lease.

In other Pretty Green news the Manchester store that was looted last week is now back open for business.

Noel Gallagher Promises Solo Love Songs

Noel Gallagher ''couldn't really sing songs about love'' when he was in ''macho'' rock band Oasis.

Noel Gallagher "couldn't really sing songs about love" in Oasis.

The band's former guitarist couldn't let his true feeling show being in a "macho" rock band, but promises his new project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, will have a number of more tender moments, which he has been stockpiling since he was in the group - which broke up in 2009.

He told The Sun newspaper: "Oasis were a very macho rock band and you couldn't really sing songs about love. But I never shied away from writing those songs - they were just piling up. For 'If I Had a Gun', I'd like the listener to think about the person they love the most. It could be your mum, girlfriend or wife.

"This album has a more human sound, whereas Oasis was about the primal energy. It was in-your-face, like a football match set to music. But this, I would really like people to stop and listen."

Noel also thinks the first two Oasis albums were the best, as he wrote all the tracks on them, rather than in the group's later history when his brother, singer Liam, bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer all contributed tracks.

He added: "In a band with different writers and styles, the album will always be disjointed and never as coherent as '(What's the Story) Morning Glory' where you can tell the same person has written all the songs."

Oasis split after a huge fight between Liam and Noel in Paris, and while Noel has been working on his High Flying Birds project, Liam and the other former members of Oasis have formed Beady Eye.

Source: www.tourdates.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Wanted Fatboy Slim To Remix New Track

Noel Gallagher has revealed he wanted Fatboy Slim to remix a version of new solo track ‘AKA…What a Life!‘, but was turned down by the dance DJ as he believed it is already ‘great’.

Noel was speaking to The Sun newspaper ahead of the release of debut solo single ‘The Death Of You and Me‘ next week, and discussed the inspiration behind ‘AKA…What a Life’, which is said to evoke his 90s collaborations with The Chemical Brothers.

“I asked Fatboy Slim to remix the song because I ******* love him,” Noel explains. “But he said he couldn’t do anything with it as it’s great.”

“I was thinking of the piano from Rhythim Is Rhythim‘s ‘Strings Of Life‘. It was very acid house to begin with and so I was thinking of giving it to someone. I thought about Madonna then Sara said, ‘Don’t be daft, Madonna won’t sing it. When are you likely to see Madonna?’ So that spoiled it.”

“It took me back to the Hacienda where, for three years from 1988 to 1990, I practically lived. I loved it and I wanted something to remind me of it.”
“But I still wasn’t sure so I played it to our office and all the girls loved it. Once girls like it, you’re on to a winner. The song’s easily up there with the best things I’ve ever done.”



Source: www.live4ever.uk.com

Gallery: Beady Eye At The 'Frequency Festival' In Austria

Click here for a number of pictures from Beady Eye's gig yesterday at the Frequency Festival in St. Polten, Austria.

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Noel Gallagher's On Two Tracks On The New Paul Weller Album

It's been reported by the October edition of Q Magazine that Paul Weller's new album, will feature Noel Gallagher playing guitar two tracks.

One track is a psyche rocker "The Attic [which] hurtles through at a swift one minute 30 seconds".

More details to follow...

Noel Gallagher: I Wanted Madonna To Sing Track Off My New Album

Noel Gallagher has revealed that he originally wanted to give a song that appears on his forthcoming album to Madonna.

The track, 'AKA...What A Life', a dance song, is one of the highlights of the former Oasis guitarist's debut solo album, 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'.

In an interview with The Sun, Gallagher said he considered giving the song to Madonna initially, but that his wife Sara MacDonald advised him against it.

“It was very acid house to begin with and so I was thinking of giving it to someone,” Gallagher said.

“I thought about Madonna then Sara said, 'Don't be daft, Madonna won't sing it. When are you likely to see Madonna?' So that spoiled it.”

Gallagher also revealed that he asked Fatboy Slim to remix the song but he turned it down because he couldn't do anything to the song.

“The song's easily up there with the best things I've ever done,” Gallagher added.

'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' is released in October.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Noel Gallagher Offers To Rinse Wayne Rooney's Hair Implant, Phil Neville, Gazza And A Parrot And More

An offer to blue rinse Wayne Rooney's hair implant? A Soccer Saturday job application? Gazza and a parrot? Ahead of Monday's release of his debut solo single, Noel Gallagher exclusively holds court.

Let's face it. It is not every day you are halfway through writing a preview for a Europa League play-off between Hearts and Tottenham when your phone rings and Noel Gallagher is on the other end.

But on Thursday morning skysports.com had the privilege of a half-hour conversation with the most influential and prominent man in British music in the last 20 years, and it was not a disappointment.

Noel, formerly the brains and brilliance of Oasis before a now infamous bust-up with younger brother and frontman, Liam, in Paris, is a hero to millions and is of course now embarking on a solo career. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' debut single, 'The Death of You and Me' is released on Monday.

The singer-songwriter is also well known as a football fanatic and so there was surely no better time to have a chat. On the agenda: Noel's beloved Manchester City. Burying the hatchet with Gary Neville. Hair advice for Wayne Rooney. A night on tiles with Paul Gascoigne and a parrot in Glasgow. A job application for Soccer Saturday. A coded message about the 2012 Olympics.

So, Noel, a 4-0 win over Swansea on Monday and Sergio Aguero doesn't look a bad player, does he?
I'm not sure about him, you know... He might take a while to settle in... I was excited about the season anyway before I even saw him play. Even if we hadn't have bought him, I would still have been looking forward to a very exciting season, because I think we're very close. But, saying that, to play like he did on Monday, when he's supposedly not very fit, is a statement. It's great. It's money well spent already. We paid £38million, he is already worth £40m. Not a bad investment.

What about Carlos Tevez? It looks like he's now going to be staying?
Well, you know, not that I'm a spokesperson for anyone, but I've been telling anybody that was going to listen that he's not going anywhere. He has been for sale since January, effectively, and if anyone was going to buy him, they would have by now. The season has started. They're not just suddenly going to stump up £50m on a Saturday night. The good thing about Tevez, you know he can't give anything less than 100 per cent when he's playing. Even if he gives 75%, that's pretty much more than other players' 100%. D'you know what I mean?

You said in the past that you would like to play guitar with Tevez. Does that still stand?
Oh yeah! He's still an absolute legend. If he doesn't like Manchester, fine. At least he has been very open and honest. He hasn't been snidey about it. He's saying he wants to leave, and that's fine. The club have said he can leave for this amount of money and everybody's cards are on the table. If nobody buys him, he's not going anywhere. So, he's still my mate. I still love him. I'll still cheer him when he walks out on the pitch, no question. I think most City fans will. I don't think his name will get booed, no way.

It looks like you're going to sign Samir Nasri. Will he get in the City team?
We're going for the Quad' aren't we. We can't play all the players every week. At the moment, if David Silva gets injured, we're f****d, because we don't have a spare creative player. I think it (signing Nasri) is a brilliant move, because, with the Champions League, there are big chunks of the season when you're playing Sunday-Wednesday-Sunday. I think it's a great move for him and a brilliant buy for us. If he (Roberto Mancini) is going all out for steamrolling teams, he can play Silva and Nasri. If I was Gareth Barry, I'd be a bit worried!

You said at the World Cup that City chief executive Garry Cook showed you all the club's transfers on a napkin at a lunch. Who else will City be signing?
Oh, yeah, you mean last year? Hahaha. I can't remember. I was absolutely... I was wasted. I drank so much champagne, well, you know, it was the World Cup finals. I was hammered. I can't remember who was on the napkin. I think most of them that were on it have been signed.

Obviously you're a diehard City fan. How did it happen? How did you avoid supporting Manchester United?
I often wonder this. My parents are Irish and, being Irish, we have about 108 cousins. They're all, to a man, Man United fans apart from me, our Liam, and our Paul (eldest Gallagher brother). I have no idea. My dad, this used to happen a lot in the Sixties and Seventies, used to go and see City and United in Manchester. He took us to my first game, which was City against Newcastle in 1974. Of course, you go into school the next day and once your allegiance is declared, that's it. The end. Luckily my dad never took us to Old Trafford. He took us to Maine Road. For years I resented it. When United were winning Trebles and the Champions League, I was thinking, 'Why!? Why did he do that?'. Then, Sheikh took over and I was like, 'Thank the Lord. I knew one day my faith would be repaid'.

I once saw a dodgy American TV biography on Oasis, which claimed the floodlights from Maine Road lit up the bedroom you shared with Liam as a kid. True or false?
No, no, no. I could see them from my bedroom. We used to have the tallest floodlights in the country. Don't know if anyone knows that. It used to be on the honours board. The lights were quite a way off in the distance, but when City were playing a midweek game you could see them. But they never used to shine into the bedroom, no. Hahaha.

Thirteen years ago this week, City lost 3-0 at Fulham in what is now League One. It has been a bit of a rollercoaster, hasn't it?
Is that right? I remember the play-off final against Gillingham. I remember going to a game away at Wycombe on some God awful night. Freezing, raining, and we are at Wycombe Wanderers' ground. I mean, I've got a bigger house than their ground. I get more people in my back garden than they get in their ground. I remember thinking, 'This is s***e'. We drew 1-1 to go 11th in the second division. In hindsight, you look back and think, 'F**king hell that was bad'. But at the time it was like a little adventure. It was like going on a mad camping holiday. It was like, 'We know this is a bit s**t. We know we should be staying in the top hotels. But we'll just get on with it'. It was alright. It was fun going places like York. York!? F**king hell.

You've been a bit critical of Gary Neville in the past. What did you make of him as a TV pundit on Sky?
D'you know what? I'm not being sarcastic here. I like him. I have always liked him. He is like the pantomime villain for City fans. I have always given him a bit of stick and he gives me a bit of stick. That's great. I've never met him, but I'm told by his mates that he's quite funny. I like him as a pundit and I'll tell you why, because he has only just finished playing and his words carry more weight than the likes of Alan Shearer or Alan Hansen or Andy Gray or any of that lot. When Neville was going on about Aguero's second goal and was saying how difficult it was, he would know. He has trained with (Cristiano) Ronaldo. He has worked under (Sir Alex) Ferguson. He has played with Rooney. He has played for England. He should have captained England, actually, he missed his calling. Neville looked quite uncomfortable when he was stood up on TV, but I like him. He'll get better at it and I congratulate him.

What about the other pundits? Are you a Soccer Saturday fan?
Yeah, yeah, I watch it all. I don't watch Football Focus anymore, but I watch Soccer Saturday. I'm addicted to that gig. It's one of the greatest things ever on television.

You would be great as a TV pundit. Ever fancied giving it a go?
I hereby throw my hat in the ring. I would love to sit in between Tommo (Phil Thompson) and particularly (Paul) Merson, because he hates City. I would love to sit next to Merson and flick him on the ear every now and again. When he is going on, I'd go, 'Have that'. But, yeah, I love Soccer Saturday. And The Sunday Supplement. I'd be great on that as well. I would love to say to Brian Woolnough, 'You look exactly like one of my aunties'. He does!

I have dug out a copy of NME from 2001. You had a bit of a rant about media-trained footballers. Do you still think that's a problem? Has the game lost its soul?
Well, you don't know, because Stan Bowles was never interviewed live on the television and neither was George Best or all those great players in the Sixties and Seventies. Footballers these days have got to be quite bland. They can't really say what they think. I mean, they do now on twitter, don't they, and they get slagged off a bit. But they do trot out the cliches. Those post-match interviews are a bit stale and dull, really.

Have you got many footballer mates?
Rio (Ferdinand), Jamie Carragher, Jamie Redknapp, Nigel De Jong - I keep bumping into him in hotels. Tevez - obviously - Patrick Vieira...

Has Rooney sent you any more guitars to sign? You had the last one, which Coleen wanted to give him as a birthday present, sprayed blue then you wrote the lyrics to 'Blue Moon' over the top and called him 'Spongebob'.
Has he f**k. I think his missus learnt her lesson. I'll sign Wayne Rooney's hairpiece if he wants to send it down. I'll spray paint it blue for him and send it back. Rooney wanted the guitar for his birthday! How dare he.

Here's a strange one for you. Is it true that you stayed at Graeme Le Saux's house in Jersey during a break from Oasis in the Nineties?
No. I met him on a high street in Jersey once, that's it.

Okay, well, you're famously friends with Alessandro Del Piero. How did that happen?
There's a guy who used to work for Sony records in Italy. He used to look after Oasis and do out promo. His best mate was Del Piero. Oddly enough, Del Piero was putting out a compilation album on Sony in Italy. If you can get your head around that? Del Piero was an Oasis fan and he came backstage at one of the shows. It went from there. We kept in touch and I went to the 2006 World Cup with him when Italy won it. It was great. When City played Juventus in Turin last season, we were in Juventus' dressing room afterwards with the Italian players. It smelt magnificent. IT SMELT MAGNIFCIENT.

What about your early experiences of football? The Oasis song 'Round Are Way' (sic) refers to 25-a-side park football before it gets dark. What inspired that song?
We used to have a park 'round our way called Erwood Road and we used to play 25-a-side on the bowling green, because the grass was cut really short. We used to get chased off by the park-keepers and all of that. But playing on bowling greens, God, it's like it's only one level down from the World Cup final. We used to play until it was dark. Then if the game had finished 22-22 or something, you used to carry on the next night. Those were the best days, man. Jumpers for goalposts and all that. Brilliant.

What position did you play when you were younger?

I was good in net. I was good in the Claude Makelele role as well. Seriously.

Only question on this subject, I promise. Liam's band, Beady Eye, have released a copy of 'Blue Moon' for Umbro. Have you heard it?
Oh, with the football kit? Yeah, yeah.

Do you like it?
Yeah, it's all right.

Moving on, you are a Celtic fan as well as City. Why is that?
That's an Irish thing. I used to love watching the Old Firm games in the Eighties. Then about 11 years ago we ramped it up a bit in our house when I met my wife. She's a staunch Rangers fan. It was like, 'Right, let's f**king get this on then'. Only recently have Celtic been on equal terms with that mob (Rangers). I've been to Celtic Park and heard the entire crowd sing 'Roll With It' before the game. It really was spine-tingling. I was at Martin O'Neill's first Old Firm game as manager when Celtic won 5-2. Henrik Larsson scored a hat-trick and it was honestly the best game of football I've ever been to. I would say to any football fan, no matter who you support and if you can get tickets, go to an Old Firm game at Celtic Park. Unbelievable.

How does it rate in comparison with the Manchester derby?
Well, I'm from Manchester and there is no love loss in those games. It's on a par with the Old Firm. But Celtic Park is huge and it's a lot more colourful. The Manchester derby, The Poznan is a spectacle now, but we have only just got that. Up at Celtic Park, when they all sing with the scarves going up, it really is something else.

Any other memorable matches?
I was at the FA Cup semi-final against United last season. I wouldn't say I enjoyed a single second of it. It was just too nerve-wracking. The play-off final against Gillingham was a bit of a game. My first ever game, the one against Newcastle, we won 5-1 and Malcolm McDonald scored the one for Newcastle. It was the Bell-Summerbee era and I guess that's when the bug took over. Never look back. I've seen some great games on the television as well. The way Barcelona dismantled United in the Champions League final last season was something else. And the Barcelona-Real Madrid games in the Super Cup have been amazing. What about Jose Mourinho poking that guy in the face?!

What do you think of Mourinho?
I love him. We all love him in England. Everybody hates him all around the world, but we love him. He doesn't give a f**k. The ladies love him because he's swarthy and looks like a pirate. And we love him because he's a bit mad. He talks psychedelic bulls**t half the time and we would all love him as our manager.

Skysports.com spoke to Alan McGee (former Creation records founder who first signed Oasis) a few months ago and he said he used to invite Rangers players to your gigs in Scotland. Any good stories?
We met Gascoigne. He used to come when he was playing for Rangers. We had a few nights out with him. I remember having a night out with him and, no word of a lie, a parrot. Don't ask what happened, but there was a swimming pool involved.

Let's have the full story...
I can't remember. We were all wasted. It was when Rangers were signing loads of Italian players and they were all coming to the gigs. I remember one night, I think we were just in the bar havin' it, and Gascoigne was there smoking loads of cigars. I went, 'Are you playing tomorrow?' and he went, 'Yep'. I thought, 'F**king hell!'.

You don't get stories like that in football very much anymore. Do you miss it?
Players like Gascoigne are one-off. It's such big business these days. If Gazza was playing for City now, at the equivalent, he would be on £140-150grand-a-week. I'm sure there would be all sorts of clauses in that contract, so I don't think the likes of Gazza would survive in the modern game. Gazza wasn't really an athlete, he was a force of nature.

Are you a fan of any other sports? I don't really have you down as a cricket fan?
I do like cricket, yeah. I don't play it. I've been to Lords once to see England-Australia, which was great. When they won The Ashes in 2005 for the first time in years, that was great. They seem to be like young lads now. Back in the day, cricket was played by Geography teachers, like David Gower on Sky and all of that mob. Public School boys. Now, I know Freddie (Flintoff), and it's young lads and you can kind of relate to them. I watch the Ashes. But I've not watched much of this Indian series. I do like tennis as well, yeah, love it. Obviously I don't play it. If I played it, I'd be in hospital in about an hour. But I watch it. (Roger) Federer, (Rafael) Nadal, (Novak) Djokovic and all that lot, it's great. I love watching Wimbledon, it's amazing.

What about the Olympics in London next year? Will you be going?
I've been invited to the opening ceremony. I might take my kids.

I was going to ask about that. Apparently Coldplay are part of the opening ceremony. Did you get any offer?
(Pause) I'm not allowed to say.

Really? Did you turn them down or something else?
I'm not allowed to say. Hahaha. But I'll be there. I might go along with the kids. It looks like it might be a laugh.

Sadly, that's our time up. Good luck with the single on Monday and hope it all goes well.
Try and get me on that Soccer Saturday panel at Sky Sports! Bye.

Source: www.skysports.com

Noel Gallagher Interview To Be Broadcast Later Today

An interview with Noel Gallagher will be broadcast on Friday on the Jo And Sparky show at 6pm (UK Time) on BRMB, listen to it online by visiting www.brmb.co.uk.

A snippet from the interview can be heard here.

Noel Gallagher On Oasis Split, Writing Songs For Madonna And The High Flying Birds

Noel Gallagher is worrying about his first solo tour.

"One of two things is going to happen," he says.

"Around the 12th gig, I'll be sat in the dressing room, dripping with sweat and thinking, 'I'm easily as good as Elvis. Hey, I'm up there with The King!'

"Or, I will be sat in the same dressing room, going, 'This is sh*t and I don't even know why I left Oasis. Why did I leave that band? We were f**king great'."

It has been two years since Noel quit Oasis following a huge bust-up in France involving Noel and younger brother Liam, a thrown plum, a smashed guitar and lots of expletives.

While Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock went on to form Beady Eye with Liam, Noel has spent the last year working on his debut under the moniker Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. He's also been working with psychedelic DJ duo The Amorphous Androgynous, who had remixed the final Oasis single Falling Down.

And as far as his "divorce" from the band goes, Noel, 44, says it all started off pretty harmoniously.

He reveals: "After I quit, we had to fold because we were all partners in various businesses - not businesses like selling oranges off the back of a truck, but a touring company and the record label had to close, which took a while and all the money needed to be split. So there was all that f**king nonsense, but as break-ups go, to be honest it was quite amicable.

"Then Liam started doing interviews and then it was like... hmmm.

"But I still speak to Gem and Sharrock and I've got nothing against anybody else. I like to think they're still my mates. There was a period I thought I could just sit at home. But I'm a songwriter. So I thought I'd make an album, which is going to be no big deal. Then it turns out, this sounds pretty good."

SFTW have joined a bright and breezy Noel at a London studio where he's ready for a day of interviews and photographs.

Looking trim and healthy, in a fitted cream shirt, he jokes with Japanese journalists and poses for pictures with a young fan.

Then taking a seat for the next hour, he gives us his full attention on the story of Noel Gallagher post-Oasis.

"I just never wanted to be a solo artist," he admits, stirring sugar into his cappuccino. "I f**king loved being in Oasis."

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds is the Mancunian singer-songwriter's first solo album even though one was rumoured to be on the cards for years.

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He explains: "I kept being asked by record labels about doing a solo album but I was happy in the band.

"Yes, I'd been writing songs because I am a songwriter but I didn't think they'd get heard. I thought about doing a solo project, y'know, bash out a few songs in the studio, do a few gigs but I wouldn't have done it at the expense of the group.

"Then at the end of the Dig Out Your Soul tour, I thought 'I'm going to do this solo thing' then go back to Oasis.

"2015 marks 20 years since (What's The Story) Morning Glory? and I thought it'd be cool to play the album in full live and make a new Oasis record. It would be a proper celebration of everything we did. But, it was not meant to be."

And so as Noel hid away from the public glare to mourn "the band that was his life", he started working on one of two records which are to be released over the next year, beginning with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, which hits the shops in October. "Coming up with the name High Flying Birds might just be the coolest thought I've ever had," he laughs.

"I was driving past Shepherd's Bush Empire and I thought 'I can't see Noel Gallagher up there'. It's not very Ziggy Stardust. So I was listening to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac then put on Jefferson Airplane's (1974) album Early Flight and there it was, High Flying Bird. Now that's cool isn't it?

"But it's not a band, it's my mates helping me out. I guess in a romantic vision of the future, I will gather together a solid line-up then drop the 'Noel Gallagher' to just be the High Flying Birds. But I might be 65 by then and I'll be more like a low-flying owl!"

Noel wrote the album and played every instrument himself "except the drums and half the keyboards", calling on help from former Oasis keyboardist Mike Rowe, The Lemon Trees drummer Jeremy Stacey, American percussionist Lenny Castro and the Crouch End Festival Chorus and The Wired Strings. He believes this way of working has given him a bit of freedom he'd lost on the last Oasis albums.

"Being in a band is a compromise. Oasis was always, me writing songs and Liam singing them. It's what made us. But circumstances changed.

"If the singer's not allowed to put songs on an album it's grim so, for band harmony, I didn't hog it all. So Liam wrote more, I sang more and Andy and Gem started writing and Oasis became something else.

Rehab

"I guess this record is more in the spirit of what Oasis was in the beginning, on the first two albums, except it's me singing all the songs.

"Plus it's easier on your own. You get an idea, something happens, you book a studio, within a day you're in there. You don't have to gather everyone. 'Where's Liam? Oh he's in rehab? Where's Gem, Oh he's fell-walking. You can just get in there and think, 'F**k I've made a dance tune.'" SFTW are treated to some of Noel's songs - Everybody's On The Run, new single The Death Of You And Me and AKA... What A Life! - a pounding dance track reminiscent of his collaborations with The Chemical Brothers.

"I asked Fatboy Slim to remix the song because I f**king love him," reveals Noel. "But he said he couldn't do anything with it as it's great.

"I was thinking of the piano from (classic dance track) Rhythim Is Rhythim's Strings Of Life. It was very acid house to begin with and so I was thinking of giving it to someone. I thought about Madonna then (Noel's wife) Sara said, "Don't be daft, Madonna won't sing it. When are you likely to see Madonna?" So that spoiled it.

"It took me back to the Hacienda where, for three years from 1988 to 1990, I practically lived. I loved it and I wanted something to remind me of it.

"But I still wasn't sure so I played it to our office and all the girls loved it. Once girls like it, you're on to a winner. The song's easily up there with the best things I've ever done." In Oasis, some of Noel's greatest songs were inspired by being young and going out, being on the dole then being a rock 'n' roll star.

He says: "It was amazing. I went from working with the Inspiral Carpets to Madchester then to Camden and Britpop. Then I'm at 10 Downing Street, thinking where the f**k is this going to end? Am I going to get a knighthood? Am I going to end up being the Pope? It was a relief when it all stopped.

"But fans grew up with us and inspirations changed. I was writing about being skint. I couldn't start writing about being wealthy or people would tell you to f**k off."

On the new album, Noel says his inspirations include love, hope and "finding your feet".

Noel says: "Oasis were a very macho rock band and you couldn't really sing songs about love. But I never shied away from writing those songs - they were just piling up. For If I Had a Gun, I'd like the listener to think about the person they love the most. It could be your mum, girlfriend or wife.

"The only conscious decision I made to be different on this record was to release The Death Of You And Me first. People always expect you to come back with a bang and I wanted to come back with a whisper. I'm going to draw people in and go, 'Shhhh, yes, they really are trumpets.

"This album has a more human sound, whereas Oasis was about the primal energy. It was in-your-face, like a football match set to music. But this, I would really like people to stop and listen. That's why I'm playing all-seated venues because the lad swilling beer element has got to go." Proud of his solo effort, Noel says having a definitive narrative and feel all the way through adds to the flow of songs.

He says: "In a band with different writers and styles, the album will always be disjointed and never as coherent as Morning Glory where you can tell the same person has written all the songs.

And the story on this album?

"Well, it starts off with Everybody's On The Run where two people are saying 'Come on we've got to get out of here'.

"Then it goes through all the twists and turns to the middle and says, 'What a life, we are having such a great time'.

"But then you've been on this journey and you're thinking this is not where I want to be. (Stranded On) The Wrong Beach is saying the grass isn't always greener on the other side and maybe what you're running from isn't all that bad.

"That's where Stop The Clocks comes in. I'm saying 'Let's go back to the beginning'."

But Noel is very much looking forward. His album with Amorphous Androgynous duo Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans is due next year.

Noel says: "It's exciting working with these psychedelic wizards. I would send demos and in the studio they'd say, 'Yeah, forget it and play along to this drum loop for ten minutes and let's see what happens.'

"It's coming out next summer. It will be out for the festivals next year. That's if I get this tour right.

"I'm not a frontman. I've got nothing to say and I haven't got any moves. And I never will be as good as Liam. My whole life was Sideshow Bob and I was happy."

And if his mum manages to bang his and Liam's heads together, does he ever see a one-off Oasis reunion in the future?

Noel says: "Well I think it's a f**king shame we won't get to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Morning Glory.

"But Liam is on record as saying the thought of it makes him want to vomit and I don't want to add anything more to that."

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' first single The Death of You And Me is out on Monday followed by the album on October 17.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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