Noel Gallagher joins talkSPORT to look ahead to a potential title-winning weekend for Man City and claims if Yaya Toure scores the goal which wins the league he could go on to become City's best player ever.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are confirmed to headline Jersey Live on Sunday 2nd September. Other acts playing at the festival include Primal Scream, Chase & Status and Professor Green. You can find all the details about the Festival HERE!
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have also announced that Folks will be supporting them at their sold out Edinburgh Castle show on 17th July. For more information on Folks and to download a song by the band head over HERE!
Manchester City are within touching distance of their first league championship in 44 years. Roberto Mancini's men know a victory against relegation-threatened QPR on Sunday should be enough to pip United to the title.
Liam Gallagher
I WILL move back to Manchester if City win the title. I got back from Disneyland with the kids and we got beat by Arsenal so we were eight points behind and I was getting loads of grief from United fans in Disneyland. Even Daffy Duck is a secret Red I think, he was having a pop, so I thought it was well and truly over then.
Ricky Hatton
IT will be the biggest day of my football life. Ever since I've been a fan we've had to watch the enemy down the road win everything. It's been a living nightmare for City supporters. I don't want to speak too soon because the wheels can always come off. We've just got to get our noses over the finishing line. If we can't beat QPR at home on the last day to win the title then we don't deserve it.
From Noel Gallagher's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' tour diary.
Yes comrades.
So . . . Paraguay? Holy shit-balls what a crazy country!! We'll get to the gig in a bit but first let me take you on a little journey from the hotel to the soundcheck. 40 minutes it took and honest to God you've never seen anything like it . . . well I haven't anyway.
So . . . we set off in a convoy of sorts. 3 vans, security guards armed to the teeth in unmarked cars, police in off road vehicles sirens wailing and some on motorbikes which looked like they may have been brand spanking new at some point in the 80's . . . closely followed by crazy fans in a separate convoy of private cars and taxis; It quickly turned into some kind of stunt driving chase scene from a James Bond movie. The faster we went the faster these kids went. Each time we hit traffic (quite literally I might add!) and slowed down to a crawl these kids jumped out of their cars and surrounded mine banging on the roof and waving random memorabilia like they were some kind of religious artifacts. At one point we were hurtling up some kind of dual carriageway and a fucking cow just appeared in the middle of the road . . . A FUCKING REAL COW . . . just casually out for a stroll!!! We skidded right up to it's gloriously gormless bonce as it give us that look that cows do and mooed at us as if to say . . . "watch your speed gringo!"
On we went at various points I seen:
A fully functioning gym just "there" at the side of the road.
Brand new-shrink wrapped-office furniture just stacked up in the middle of a flooded street.
A LOT of broken down motorbikes.
A herd of chickens . . . in the middle of the road (probably looking for the cow).
A seemingly endless army of young men at traffic lights holding out bunches of bananas (for sale presumably).
Big houses, little houses, bombed out houses and half built houses no-one could be arsed finishing.
A city of tents.
Something what looked like a car repair work-shop/pet shop!!
And to cap it all somebody transporting a horse on the back of a truck . . . not a wagon . . . a little truck . . . not in a horse box, oh no, just standing on the back of a little truck with some lad holding onto it's mane!!! All this while travelling over pot-holes the size of swimming pools!! (It's probably fair to say you won't be seeing Morrissey anytime soon!!).
The time was 2:30 in the afternoon. God help us all when it goes dark I thought to myself.
The gig itself was HUGE. Another 10,000!! It was held at a jockey club race track thing. As night fell and the dust was being kicked up and the floodlights were on it looked like something out of Apocalypse Now, or apocalypse yesterday . . . whatever . . . it was cool as fuck!!
Now, as we know these South Americans love a banner and of course there were the usual marriage proposals and paternity claims etc,etc . . . but this next one has to go down as the weirdest one yet . . . here goes:
IF I HAD A GUN I'D SHOOT A HOLE INTO THE FRUITS BACKSTAGE!!!
What the holy fuck is that supposed to mean? Surely they didn't mean my band??
Had a nice little (I say little but it was perfectly adequate) bra slung onstage too!! Always a treat. One side of it was a sequined Paraguayan flag . . . the other a sequinned Union Jack!! And in that wonderful moment our two great nations had never been closer.
That – comrades - is the power of music (and probably a little bit of alcohol) right there.
Mixing two tracks together and calling it a mash-up is so old hat - especially since Glee started doing it on a weekly basis on US TV.
So it's down to professional mash-up merchants DJs From Mars to rescue the art, mixing Oasis, AC/DC and Skrillex vs Knife Party into one enormous remix monster.
The mix begins inconspicuously enough, with Liam Gallagher's 'Wonderwall' blending perfectly with AC/DC's 'Back In Black' guitar backing. However, with dubstep and dance masters Skrillex and Knife Party's 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' in the mix as well - things change pretty damn quickly. Toss in a line from Blackstreet's 'No Diggity' and you have one of the most unexpectedly brilliant mixes of 2012 so far.
The Gallagher brothers have never sounded like this before.
Listen to DJs From Mars' 'Back To Wonderwall' mash-up below.
Click here, here, here, here, here and here for a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert in Espaco Das Americas in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos has launched a scathing Twitter attack on Oasis calling them 'f***ing boring'.
He made his comments after being quizzed during an online Q & A session with fans on the social networking site.
Asked by one fan clarinesadira if he had 'any advice for future musicians', he replied: 'Never cover Oasis. Never forget your friends. Always have a laugh.'
Another follower javierfib asked him why and the rocker said: 'Ach. Nothing personal. Just because everyone does. And they're so f***ing boring.'
Liam Gallagher-owned fashion retailer Pretty Green is joining forces with record label Universal Music UK to open pop-up virtual record stores in its shop windows.
All 10 Pretty Green stores will install the 24 hour virtual vinyl shops from May 24 to June 10.
Pretty Green brand director Nigel Grant said: “As music is a large part of Pretty Green’s heritage the collaboration with Universal Music and Simply Tap is in perfect synergy with our brand values.
“Through our label we strive to bring style, culture and music from past decades firmly into the future.”
The partnership will use mobile checkout app Simply Tap, designed by Sir Stuart Rose-backed venture Money Mobile Network.
Shoppers who are signed up to Simply Tap will be able to buy vinyl by taking a picture of the album cover in the shop window or by scanning a QR code.
Records are then posted to the shopper’s registered delivery address.
The vinyl stores will sell 12 classic titles, including Ian Brown’s The Greatest and The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street.
Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds conquered the crowd at his first ever concert in Asuncion, Paraguay. Fans at the Jockey Club venue were treated to an array of new songs and some oldies from Oasis' back catalogue.
From Noel Gallagher's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' tour diary.
Yes comrades . . . so . . . Buenos Aires?
Fucking great show. It always is in that place. It never disappoints. Big crowd, about 10,000!! Just like the old days (man)!!
The gig itself was out doors right beside a busy railway line and quite near an airport AND it was a full moon! At times it was like playing inside a mad video game. My favourite banner read: NOEL . . . ADOPT ME PLEASE!!!! Funny that innit? They love a banner down here let me tell you. Now the gig was being filmed and will probably make it onto Youtube at some point. Please look out for what can only be described as an "interesting" version of "Supersonic" . . . it started quite badly . . . stopped . . . started again . . . didn't get much better until it died a sorry death. The best bit though and I do hope this comes across on the footage is right at the very end just at the point where I go into the very last chord . . . there's a dramatic pause . . . and right on cue a train passes and honks it's horn . . . very discordant and very loud!! It was maybe the greatest review of a performance in the history of all music.
Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds concert at the Jockey Club in Asuncion, Paraguay yesterday.
(It’s Good) To Be Free Mucky Fingers Everybody’s On The Run Dream On If I Had A Gun The Good Rebal The Death Of You And Me Freaky Teeth Supersonic (I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine AKA... What A Life! Talk Tonight Solder Boys And Jesus Freaks AKA... Broken Arrow Half The World Away (Stranded On) The Wrong Beach Let The Lord Shine A Light Whatever Little By Little Don’t Look Back In Anger