On This Day In Oasis History...

Let There Be Love" is a song on the British rock band Oasis' sixth album, Don't Believe the Truth. Written by Noel Gallagher, it is the second Oasis song to feature Liam and Noel on lead vocals, the first being the B-Side "Acquiesce". It was released on November 28, 2005 as the third single from the album in the UK, and the second single in the US. It reached number two in the UK charts, capping a very successful year for the band. Many critics cited this song as proof that Oasis had returned to form we had seen in the mid-90's.

A demo for the track was recorded during demo sessions for Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. A bootleg of these demo sessions was leaked onto the Internet in early 2000. This track was given the unofficial title "It's A Crime" on many bootlegs as the track was unknown and unreferenced anywhere before then. The album version of the song is structurally almost exactly as the same as the demo with a slight change in melody in the part that Noel sings. The lyrics to the chorus remains intact, but the verses and bridge have totally rewritten lyrics.



















The single version of the song omits the second verse and chorus.



A second, Noel-sung demo was released on the "Let There Be Love" DVD single. It has the same lyrics as the album version, and in fact the album version takes some elements from the demo such as the piano. It was probably recorded sometime in 2003 or 2004, prior to the main Don't Believe the Truth recording sessions.

The video is a montage of some of Oasis' live shows during the summer of 2005 including clips of the gigs at Hampden Park and the City of Manchester Stadium. The clips don't actually show the band playing 'Let There Be Love'.

The song has only been played live once, on an Italian radio show in late 2005.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Gig In Milan To Be Broadcast Live Tonight

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play a sold out gig at the Alcatraz in Milan, Italy later today.

You can listen to the gig on RTL 102.5 from 21:00 (local time) and fans in Italy will also be able to watch it live on RADIOVISION on chanel 36 on terrestrial and 750 on Sky.

Click on the button on the right saying "guarda la radiovisione"

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In Milan

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Alcatraz in Milan, Italy later today (November 28th).

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.

You can also tweet us pictures and updates @scyhodotcom

Liam Gallagher On Beady Eye, Oasis And Brother Noel

Liam Gallagher didn't waste any time starting a new band when Oasis called it quits after one last brawl with his brother Noel backstage in Paris in 2009. "It took about four beers," he says, confidence unscathed. Beady Eye (which also includes Oasis guitarists Andy Bell and Gem Archer and drummer Chris Sharrock) released its first album, "Different Gear, Still Speeding," earlier this year. The group plays Friday at the Regency Ballroom.

Q: You're playing clubs again. Is it hard going back after you performed in every major arena in the world with Oasis?

A: Not at all. I would much rather be in Oasis, but that wasn't to be. I'm not going to stop making music just because Noel isn't going to be in a band with me. I've already been in one of the biggest bands in the world. Some of the times are good and some are s-. It's all about being happy, and I'm having a good time right now being in Beady Eye.

Q: How is the new stuff going over live? "Bring the Light" must sound like the apocalypse.

A: It's like the Pistols with a piano.

Q: You're not playing any Oasis songs. Isn't it a bit like Paul McCartney going out and just playing "Pipes of Peace"?

A: I could if I wanted to play it, but we started out this band saying we're not going to play those songs. We're going to stick with it. It's a lot more than can be said by Noel Gallagher. He'll never know if people are coming to hear him or Oasis. We're getting people who want to see Beady Eye. That, to me, is success.

Q: Do you regret that you and Noel can't work things out?

A: No, I don't want to work anything out. He took the ball and left. The reason we split up is I'm not on his payroll. He could sack everyone else in the band, but he couldn't do that with me. I told him how f- it was and the only way for him to go was leaving the band. So he left. I don't miss being in a band with Noel. I actually like who I am and what I stand for. He's a bit of a social chameleon. He wouldn't look out of place in Coldplay's band.

Q: What are your ambitions this time around? Do you want Beady Eye to play Knebworth in five years?

A: I want to make Beady Eye as big as possible. I want to turn on kids in Uruguay, L.A. and Manchester. I'm not taking my foot off the gas. {sbox}

Beady Eye: 9 p.m. Fri. $40-$50. The Regency Ballroom 1290 Sutter St., S.F. (415) 673-5716. www.theregencyballroom.com.

Source: www.sfgate.com

Noel Gallagher On Jose Mourinho And David Silva

Below is a short interview with Noel Gallagher, who talks about David Silva and Jose Mourinho.

Please note the interview is in Spanish.



Thanks to frjdoasisfan

On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from November 27th, 2000, when Noel Gallagher joined 'The Who' on stage at The Royal Albert Hall in London.

Kelly Jones, Eddie Vedder and Paul Weller also joined The Who on stage for a once-in-a-lifetime performance for the benefit of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

For more on the work by the Teenage Cancer Trust visit www.teenagecancertrust.org.

Video: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Madrid

Below are a number of videos from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the La Riviera in Madrid, Spain.

Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Madrid

Click here and here for a number of pictures from yesterdays Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the La Riviera in Madrid, Spain USA.

Thanks to AG

Noel Gallagher's Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere (Vol.2) Part Thirteen

Yes comrades…

So, where were we?

That last gig in San Francisco was mega. It might even have been the best one so far!! Almighty atmosphere. Thanks to everyone for coming out.

Been back in London the last few days. Great to see The Mighty I… Bunny Dread… Irie Nancy and that blimmin' cat.

Jet lag's a killer though. Was up at 4am every night since I got back. Been catching up on the football though so every cloud, eh?

Did that Jools Holland programme for the 1st time in 16 years last Tuesday… SIXTEEN YEARS!!!!! That's outrageous, I cannot believe it's been that long. We was on with them Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bjork and a load of other people I'd never heard of. It was good though. I enjoyed being back.

You find me in Madrid. Dunno what this hotel is called but it's very modern and very hi-tech. Had to get a guy to come up to my room last night to show me how to work the fuckin' remote control for the bastard telly!!! Don't laugh, you would've struggled with it too.

Some fans outside the hotel before were not much older than my 11 year old daughter!! Proper kids… A bit disconcerting to say the least.

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

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On This Day In Oasis History...

The video below is from a semi-acoustic performance by Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer as part of a special season of gigs from London's Union Chapel, recorded on November 26th 2006.

Video: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds On 'Later... With Jools Holland'

Below are a number of videos from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds on 'Later... With Jools Holland.

Watch them perform 'AKA... What A Life!', 'If I Had A Gun...' and 'The Death Of You And Me' (with a 3-piece brass section).

Noel also joins Jools at the piano for an interview, fans in the UK can watch the full show on the BBC iPlayer.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In Madrid

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Royce Hall in Madrid, Spain later today (November 26th).

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.

You can also tweet us pictures and updates @scyhodotcom

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Start Their European Tour Tomorrow

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds begin their sold out European tour in the Spanish city of Madrid tomorrow.

The tour takes in cities across Europe including Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and France, including Noel's first performance at the legendary Melkweg in Amsterdam.

Full details follow:

26.11.2011 MADRID - LA RIVIERA - SOLD OUT
28.11.2011 MILAN - ALCATRAZ - SOLD OUT
30.11.2011 AMSTERDAM - MELKWEG - SOLD OUT

01.12.2011 BRUSSELS - ANCIENNE BELGIQUE - SOLD OUT
03.12.2011 COPENHAGEN - DR KONCERTSALEN - SOLD OUT
04.12.2011 COLOGNE - PALLADIUM - SOLD OUT
06.12.2011 PARIS - CASINO DE PARIS - SOLD OUT

If you are going to any of the shows, and you are able to scan your ticket or send in pictures email them to us @ scyhodotcom@gmail.com.

You can also tweet us pictures and updates @scyhodotcom

On This Day In Oasis History...

The videos below are from November 26th 2006, when Noel Gallagher was interviewed by legendary interviewer Michael Parkinson.

Also on November 26th 2000, Noel was interviewed by Ant & Dec for CDUK click here to watch the interview.

Watch Noel Gallagher's Interview From MTV

Click here, here, here, here, here and here to watch Noel Gallagher's interview with MTV that was posted the other day but could only be viewed by people from the US.

Thanks to mmario

Watch Noel Gallagher's Interview From MTV

Click here, here, here, here, here and here to watch Noel Gallagher's interview with MTV that was posted the other day but could only be viewed by people from the US.

Thanks to mmario

Watch Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Perform Three Songs On 'Later... With Jools Holland'

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds perform 'AKA... What A Life!', 'If I Had A Gun...' and 'The Death Of You And Me' (with a 3-piece brass section) tonight on UK's 'Later... With Jools Holland'. Noel also joins Jools at the piano for an interview.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bjork, Gillian Welch, Michael Kiwanuka and Spector also feature on the show.

Check it out from 23:50 on BBC2 (UK Only)

Noel Gallagher Is On His Own

You once said the only reason you weren’t crazy was that “it’s only solo artists who go mad.” Two years ago you left Oasis and just recently released “High Flying Birds,” your solo debut. Have you turned into a narcissistic lunatic?

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He’s mad as custard. But George Michael and Robbie Williams don’t have kids, so it is all about them. Last night I had to leave to go to play a show in London, and I’m covered in spit from a 1-year- old boy. I don’t feel like Jimmy Page at that point.

Compared with Liam, you were considered the reasonable, sane Gallagher brother. Why did both of the other former Oasis members join your brother’s band, Beady Eye?

I never said to them, ‘‘I’m leaving, and if you want to come with me, come.’’ Liam being Liam bullied them into starting a band that night. It’s like Lyndon Johnson being sworn in on the airplane on the way back from Dallas before the body is even cold.

You have always been proud of Oasis. How many bands in history were better?

Quite a few I’d say. We’re definitely in the Top 20, though.

You once put yourself in the Top 10, just ahead of the Smiths.

That list was compiled under the influence of alcohol, and we had probably just done a really good gig that night. I think we were at 7.

But sober, you fall out of the Top 10?

I’d probably stay with 7. It would go: the Beatles, the Sex Pistols, the Rolling Stones, the Who. I can never remember 5. Maybe the Kinks. I can’t remember 6, then Oasis.

You’re touring America on your own, which isn’t so different from Oasis’s 1996 tour, which your brother, the lead singer, skipped.

Liam had actually made it to the airport in England, and as I’m getting on the plane he’s getting off because his wife called, saying, ‘‘We need to buy a house.’’ Now, what they were doing for the previous three months is anybody’s guess. Probably picking gnats out of each other’s hair like monkeys. The first gig was a 16,000-seat arena, and the singer’s not turned up. That killed us stone dead in America. We never recovered.

Liam has a reputation for being unpredictable.

This is rock ’n’ roll. Would Johnny Rotten have gotten a house on the eve of an American tour? Keith Richards? John Lennon? You either want it or you don’t, and I wholeheartedly blame him for us never becoming as big in America as we were in England. Admittedly he did buy a nice house.

You’ve said that Oasis’ famously fraught third album, “Be Here Now,” suffered because of the amount of cocaine you guys were doing at the time.

I was so focused on the partying and drug-taking that it was just a case of listening to it and going, Screw it. I should have gone off and done some living with the royalties from ‘‘Morning Glory,’’ yet there we were back in the studio messing around with bass drums. It was just a case of listening to it and going, That will do. At that moment, I needed a drug habit,a chimp, a Rolls-Royce and a top hat and cane.

Aerosmith’s Joe Perry once suggested that cocaine isn’t particularly expensive. What’s expensive are the decisions you make under its influence. Agree?

Oh, yes, yes indeed. I got a £110,000 supercar that was built for myself, and I didn’t even have a driving license. They said it would take about a year and a half to build, and I was thinking, Great, I’ll have easily learned to drive in a year and a half. Like a small dog,I completely forgot about it and started partying with supermodels, and about a year and a half later somebody delivered it to my house, and I had no idea what they were talking about.

You grew up poor. Are you doing anything to prevent your kids from becoming the idle rich?

I don’t give a [expletive] if they don’t have to work. If you didn’t have to work, would you? I’m hoping they’ll be happy.

The most miserable people I know are those who don’t have to work.

My son ain’t going to be miserable because he’s going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED.

A version of this interview appeared in print on November 27, 2011, on page MM14 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: NOEL GALLAGHER IS ON HIS OWN.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Kasabian Wouldn't Ask Noel Gallagher To Join Them

Kasabian wouldn't ask Noel Gallagher to join their band because he would "dictate everything".

Former Oasis guitarist Noel recently said he would have loved to join the 'Days are Forgotten' band if they had asked, but singer Tom Meighan isn't sure his personality would fir with the rest of the group.

He said: "Nah, he'd dictate everything too much. Seriously, he would have been f***ing brilliant, but he has his own thing going on now."

Noel is now frontman of solo project Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, and currently touring the US. He recently admitted he is particularly fussy to tour with, especially when it comes to keeping things clean, saying a stray banana skin "would not last 10 f***ing seconds on my tour bus."

Tom's bandmate, Serge Pizzorno, added while he may not be a good member of Kasabian, they're still good friends with Noel.

He said: "We're good mates, so we could wheel him out no problem."

However, Tom plays down any comparisons between them and Oasis, saying they have the "same spirit," but are very different as bands.

He added to Shortlist magazine: "They were one offs. A phenomenon."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Beady Eye To Play Oasis Songs On Next Time They Tour?

Liam Gallagher says Beady Eye may play Oasis songs when they tour next year.

Beady Eye may play Oasis songs when they next tour.

The group - made up from the remaining members of the 'Don't Look Back in Anger' band after Noel Gallagher left - refused to play any of their former songs since forming and releasing debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding', but singer Liam Gallagher is now reconsidering this position.

He told US radio station Live 105: "The mentality is, Oasis was no longer, we believed, and still believe, in our album, and we're not going to play any old songs and we're going to stick to it until the end of the year.

"And maybe next time we go out, next year, with the new album, we could get a few in there - who knows.

"But I think we've done alright without playing them. I've got no desire to play them at the moment to be quite honest, I've heard them enough. But, you know, maybe next year we might throw a few in there."

Noel - who hasn't spoken to his brother since he walked out of Oasis - has been playing tracks from the band's back catalogue on live dates promoting his new High Flying Birds project, but Liam thinks he has equal claim to perform the songs, even though his brother wrote most of them.

He added: "If I wanted to play them we'd play them, no one's stopping us from playing them, I feel they're my songs as much as Noel's , regardless of whether I wrote them."

Comparing himself to legendary vocalist Elvis Presley, he added: "It's like Elvis, you'd hate the guy who wrote Elvis's songs to be singing them wouldn't you? You wouldn't know what the f**k was going on. If I want to play them, I'll play them."

Source: www.tourdates.co.uk