The Oasis/Noel Gallagher/Beady Eye Thread!!

[SolidSnake]

Keane is now a gay band?

OASIS ARE THE ULTIMATE GAY BAND

[inthisriver]

Keane is now a gay band?

OASIS ARE THE ULTIMATE GAY BAND

:rofl-lol:

WTF?

[Marky]

Ive seen those 3 before, apparently the 1st picture they were fucking out of it, and they were giving it the 'I fucking love you man' and hugging.

The second, Noel was fucking out of it, and the bloke was walking him along.

As for the 3rd...

And yeah, I read those stories in an issue of NME with loads of Oasis pictures.

[Randy Lahey]

NME Oasis Article http://live4ever.proboards48.com/index.cgi...mp;thread=47951

scroll down the page and you'll see the scan.

[Marky]

live4ever = fantastic forum

And Im getting NME!

[SolidSnake]

Oasis are now gradually getting bigger and bigger after every album, even in the US. Didnt they sell out Madison Square Garden and The Holywood Bowl in a few hours last time around? and now a record world tour....They're probably the biggest artistically active/relevant Rock N Roll band in the world.

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OASIS will kick off a massive world tour in October.

due to announce their plans in the next few weeks - A source revealed: “The tour is bigger than anything the band have done before.

“They will be on the road for more than a year — possibly pushing 18 months.

“The dates could easily run into three figures and will take them around the world.

“It is on the kind of scale you would expect from THE ROLLING STONES.

[arnold layne]

Oh the intensity!

[SolidSnake]

Oh the intensity!

the intensity? what intensity?

sarcasm does not suit you.

[arnold layne]

I wasn't being sarcastic, lighten up. I wanna hear this album just as much as markyboy101 does.

[Marky]

I wasn't being sarcastic, lighten up. I wanna hear this album just as much as markyboy101 does.

[Marky]

From NME.com

Jay-Z raps about Oasis' Noel Gallagher Glastonbury spat

Read what the rapper had to say about the guitarist

Jay-Z has rapped about Oasis' Noel Gallagher live on stage - dissing the guitarist and mocking his hit, 'Wonderwall'.

The rapper delivered the lines during a show at New York's Madison Square Garden last night (August 6).

During the show Jay-Z rapped: "That bloke from Oasis said I couldn't play guitar/Somebody should have told him I'm a fuckin' rock star".

He then reprised a line from Oasis' 1995 hit 'Wonderwall', rapping, "Today is gonna be the day that I'm gonna throw it back to you".

You can watch Jay-Z's Gallager-baiting rap by clicking on the video below.

A public spat has blown up between the pair since Noel Gallagher said Jay-Z was \"wrong\" for Glastonbury earlier this year. Jay-Z then opened his headline slot on June 28 this year with a cover of 'Wonderwall'.

However speaking in this week's issue of NME, out now, Gallagher played down any feud.

"I wasn't saying I was better than Jay-Z as a person or rock was greater than hip-hop," he said. "I said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong, and now all this [media furore]."

Gallagher also claimed that Jay-Z liked 'Wonderwall', despite his mock version, and claimed 'Wonderwall' is always the last song of the night at the star's restaurant in New York. Gallagher added: "I'll have a beer with him one day and it will be fine."

To read the full interview with Noel Gallagher get the new issue of NME, on sale now.

That bloke from Oasis.

Let it die man! Glastonbury was weeks ago!

[Gallagher Rose]

Jay Z is just an emotional bitch..Noel broke his heart, poor bitch...

[DirtyDeeds]

Oasis are now gradually getting bigger and bigger after every album, even in the US. Didnt they sell out Madison Square Garden and The Holywood Bowl in a few hours last time around?

I'm sure New York and the surrounding areas have enough British people in them to fill a basketball arena. Seems plausible.

Oasis remains the soccer of music. It's boring and America still doesn't give a shit!

[Marky]

Oasis are now gradually getting bigger and bigger after every album, even in the US. Didnt they sell out Madison Square Garden and The Holywood Bowl in a few hours last time around?

I'm sure New York and the surrounding areas have enough British people in them to fill a basketball arena. Seems plausible.

Oasis remains the soccer of music. It's boring and America still doesn't give a shit!

Of course. Just tell that to Madison Square garden, and near enough every other arena that sold out Oasis tickets in the US.

[ffrankwhite]

"I wasn't saying I was better than Jay-Z as a person or rock was greater than hip-hop," he said. "I said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong, and now all this [media furore]."

i might be setting myself up to look like the most weird psychotic fanboy interview memorising little shitheel this side of the Eminem song Stan but that, that what Noel said is almost a direct quote of John Lennon:

"i wasn't saying that we were better or greater than Jesus as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I said what i said and it was wrong or it was taken wrong and now its all this"

its from there

[Marky]

"I wasn't saying I was better than Jay-Z as a person or rock was greater than hip-hop," he said. "I said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong, and now all this [media furore]."

i might be setting myself up to look like the most weird psychotic fanboy interview memorising little shitheel this side of the Eminem song Stan but that, that what Noel said is almost a direct quote of John Lennon:

"i wasn't saying that we were better or greater than Jesus as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I said what i said and it was wrong or it was taken wrong and now its all this"

its from there

Someone in the NME article commented that exact point. He does love the Beatles, bless him!

In other Oasis news

Ex-Oasis man launches new band

Zak Starkey make Penguins a family affair

Former Oasis drummer Zak Starkey launched his new band Penguins at an intimate gig for close friends - and invited NME.COM along to witness it.

The son of Ringo Starr, who is currently touring sticksman with The Who, has been writing songs with his girlfriend, Penguins lead singer Sharna Liguz, and impressed the gathered crowd road testing a set of harmonica infused pop-rockers.

Much like Oasis, Penguins is a family affair and Zak was joined on stage by his daughter Tatia, who also plays in London outfit Belakiss, on bass.

Playing to a packed out Saint Moritz in central London on one of the hottest days of the year, the band's debut show went sweatily but smoothly. apart from a few dud starts at the beginning of tracks.

The quartet even mixed up their own tracks, such as 'Jet Engines' and 'Space Invader', with some covers including 'Swamp Snake' by Seventies rockers The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

Speaking to NME.COM after the show Starkey said, "It was great. It was packed, great vibe, audience participation, alcoholism, paranoia, laughs, tears, bullshit, snot and bad jokes - and that was just the front row!!

"The first night of many more good times to come, here's hoping. Penguins is about having a good time, and that's what we're doing."

There are no confirmed plans for any record releases as yet.

[Zeppelin]

Oasis are now gradually getting bigger and bigger after every album, even in the US. Didnt they sell out Madison Square Garden and The Holywood Bowl in a few hours last time around?

I'm sure New York and the surrounding areas have enough British people in them to fill a basketball arena. Seems plausible.

Oasis remains the soccer of music. It's boring and America still doesn't give a shit!

This.

[Randy Lahey]

"I wasn't saying I was better than Jay-Z as a person or rock was greater than hip-hop," he said. "I said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong, and now all this [media furore]."

i might be setting myself up to look like the most weird psychotic fanboy interview memorising little shitheel this side of the Eminem song Stan but that, that what Noel said is almost a direct quote of John Lennon:

"i wasn't saying that we were better or greater than Jesus as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I said what i said and it was wrong or it was taken wrong and now its all this"

its from there

It was meant as a joke. Noel even apparently said it using a fake Liverpool accent.

[ffrankwhite]

"I wasn't saying I was better than Jay-Z as a person or rock was greater than hip-hop," he said. "I said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong, and now all this [media furore]."

i might be setting myself up to look like the most weird psychotic fanboy interview memorising little shitheel this side of the Eminem song Stan but that, that what Noel said is almost a direct quote of John Lennon:

"i wasn't saying that we were better or greater than Jesus as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I said what i said and it was wrong or it was taken wrong and now its all this"

its from there

It was meant as a joke. Noel even apparently said it using a fake Liverpool accent.

yeah i wasnt saying it was plaguarism or anything, just an observation

[wasted]

Noel thinks he's John Lennon half the time, the other half he thinks he's Paul McCartney.

America doesn't like Oasis much, but they love Amy Winehouse. Go figure.

Edited August 9, 2008 by wasted

[Marky]

Liam Gallagher's Uncyclopedia Page

Liam John Lennon William John Paul George Ringo I am the Beatles Gallagher is the lead singer for the popular Liverpudlian band, Ogaysis.

[SolidSnake]

New Liam interview from the Times, great read. You can only admire his passion for music.

Liam Gallagher on celebrity, fatherhood and hating Coldplay

Liam Gallagher prefers being a stay-at-home dad these days, but he’s not lost his rock’n’roll swagger

Liam Gallagher says he and his brother “are two totally different people and the sooner people realise that the less we can go on about it”. Fair enough, but, having interviewed Noel several years ago, I can report the Gallagher boys have more in common than being in the same band and having the same mum and dad: extreme candour, for one thing. You asked Noel a question, you got a straight answer. If anything, his kid brother is even more straight-talking. Also (and I didn’t think this could be possible), Liam swears even more.

When I ask Liam what he thinks the public thinks of him, for instance, he says: “Loudmouth blagging gobshite from Manchester…and they’d be totally correct.” Or here he is on the subject of Wayne Rooney’s wedding to Coleen McLoughlin, which had taken place, and subsequently appeared in OK! magazine, not long before we met. “You’ve got this kid who’s fucking 19 [22] or whatever the fuck he is, who 20 minutes ago was playing for Everton, having a five million pound wedding! How do you fucking grasp that?”

“All right,” Liam continues, “he earned his fucking money, do what you want, but I couldn’t live with meself. That to me is just fucking ridiculous. There’s ways of doing it. In fact, what did mine cost? I got married at Marylebone station, er, Marylebone registry office. In and out, no fucking about, it cost £18. Reception over the road, it was nice, we drank champagne, but I’ve still got a lid on it.”

Would anything have induced him to sell the photographs? “Absolutely fucking nothing. It smells funny, it doesn’t sit right. I’d have to be well and truly fucking desperate. I’d have to be homeless. It’s like, haven’t you got e-fucking-nough, you little ****? I find that hard to fucking take. But that’s famous people for yer. When they’re not on the fucking telly they want to be in a fucking magazine and when they’re not in a magazine they want to be on a fucking bottle of water. It’s like, fucking chill the fuck out, you can’t do one fucking job right let alone fucking trying to do fucking five, you *****!”

It’s not just footballers “spending 100 grand on fucking Rolexes” that Liam objects to; he doesn’t have much time, any time, for celebrities per se. “I’m not one of them that walks around town like I’m the king of London. If I need to get milk I go out and get milk, but most of the time I’m indoors.” Noel, he says, “loves being famous. He adores it. I don’t think about it. I don’t do what famous people do. I don’t go to famous-y events. As long as I’m in a band and making music and playing gigs, I couldn’t give a fuck.”

Oasis are soon to release their seventh studio album. “We should have made more, we should be on our tenth or summat,” thinks Liam. “We don’t struggle for songs.” Besides Noel’s output, Liam now writes as well, contributing three (one good, one bad, one indifferent, in my opinion) of 11 tracks on the new album. What’s I’m Outta Time (the good one) about, I ask. “Ain’t got a clue, man. Didn’t sit down to write about being out of time, in time, on fucking time, it wrote itself.” He finds melodies easy, he says, but “I find it hard with words”.

He can be inarticulate in person, too, yet he is one of those people, like John Prescott, whose meaning is crystal clear despite verbal infelicity. Oasis’s publicists are nervous at letting Liam loose in a full-blown one-on-one. He is uncompromising. He doesn’t try to be your friend. His conversational style is combative. He gives an answer, then juts his chin up and stares you out with those unblinking blue eyes. Liam doesn’t trouble with the usual niceties of shifting product either. “Buy it [the new record] or don’t fucking buy it, I’m not mithered either way.”

We’re in a photographic studio in East London, sitting on facing sofas, the publicity team out of sight behind a wall but in earshot. The biggest surprise comes right at the outset. Liam, now 35, is off the fags, off the booze, off “the other stuff” (cocaine) as well. He’s been off them for nine days at any rate. And he has taken up jogging. “Not jogging, man, running. Get up early, live right on the heath [Hampstead], pair of trainers on and away I go. Beautiful.” (I’m going to edit out most of the expletives from here on, I’m sure you’ve got the general idea.)

He covers ten miles in an hour and a half. (That’s a shade over 6.5mph which, sorry Liam, is jogging, not running, speed. But well done anyway.) He comes home, walks his kids to school, has a bath, chills out, watches TV, does “whatever’s on the menu for the day”. When we met, that meant rehearsals for the new tour (now under way in Canada), hence his abstemiousness.

“Last week me voice was a bag o’shite, I had to have a word with meself. I want this to be a success, I want this to be great, I thought I’m going to have to tone it down a bit. Load of big fat lines, load of cigarettes, staying up late talking the same shit you talked the night before and the night before that, that’s not good for it [his voice]. It’s not a big deal. I’ve got willpower.” When his voice is good, he says, “no one can touch me”. (Many would agree.) “And when it’s bad, it’s a bit better than Pete Doherty’s.”

When he does drink, he says, he might “do a bottle of tequila in a couple of hours, no problem. The good stuff, Patrón.” Doesn’t that make him ill? “No, I feel all right. Red wine I can’t handle, just want to batter everyone. On tequila, I’m Bob Monkhouse. I’m a good drinker, but it’s dominos, isn’t it? Get pissed, smoke, do the other…”

I ask if he’s mellowed with age. “I can still go pound for pound with any clown at any time,” he says. “I’m not on about fighting, I can still have it drinking or whatever. But yeah, I’ve mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay. I don’t hate them. I don’t wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and they don’t look like they’re having a good time.” Liam doesn’t like any contemporary bands. “Not interested. I play the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Pistols. Maybe a bit of the Roses. Don’t like modern bands. Topman music, innit?”

These days, he says, “Family’s the most important thing. The kids are just the bollocks, I enjoy their company more than some idiot in a band or some actor. That’s how I’ve changed. Years ago I was in the pub.” Did he always want to be a dad? “No, not really. Just wanted to get off me tits and do music, but once you get your missus pregnant, you’ve got to step up to the plate.”

He has two boys, Lennon, almost 9, who lives with his mum, Liam’s ex-wife Patsy Kensit, and Gene, just 7, who lives with Liam and his second wife, Nicole Appleton of All Saints. The boys attend the same school. Private or state? “Private.” Was that an issue for him? “Not at all. Not a-fucking tall. They’ve got every right to be there as much as some banker’s son. When I pick me kid up, I feel amazing.” Liam left his own school, Catholic, all-boys, at 15. “Had no time for it. Got a job creosoting fences. Fifty quid a week.”

I mention that when I had interviewed Noel, he said he worried he wasn’t a good dad to Anais, then 2, his daughter by Meg Mathews. “He shouldn’t get hung up about it,” says Uncle Liam. “She’s only 8. If any bad days have gone down you make it up to her, don’t you?” As for his own paternal ability: “I’m the bollocks at being a dad. I’m top. We have a lot of fun.” Who’s stricter, him or Nicole? “Me. I’m the bad cop, she’s the good cop. I’m not Hitler, but they’re getting older, they make a mess, they tidy it up.” What if they swear? “I give ’em a medal! Nah, they don’t swear.”

He and his wife don’t go out much, he says. “Done all that, seen it, didn’t like it.” Did you get anything out of it? “Might have had a couple of lines out of it, couple of scraps, lot of earache.” If he and his wife do venture forth, they usually take Gene with them. “Go out at 6, out of there by 7.” Babysitters are not an issue. “Nicole’s mam is round the corner.” The Gallaghers do not employ a nanny. “Don’t need one.”

Liam’s own mother is still in Burnage, the suburb of Manchester where the Gallaghers grew up. He phones her every day. “I enjoy speaking to her.” He offered to buy her a new house. “She said, ‘What would I move for? You can get us a new gate.’ Noel bought her a little cottage in Ireland. She goes there a bit.” Despite his Irish roots, Liam considers himself typically English. “I hate that plastic Paddy thing. I’m into the English thing, music, football, clothes.”

The brothers’ estranged father lives in the house they grew up in. Liam was closer to his dad than were Noel or the eldest boy Paul (“He never beat me up, he beat the other two up”) but even so, he has no contact. “Not interested. Not angry, not sad, just nish.” Have his father’s shortcomings made him try harder as a dad himself? “Nah. I think you’ve got to do it right, not because he didn’t, but because they deserve it. I don’t dwell on it.”

Liam and Nicole have a second home in Henley-on-Thames. “Try to get there every weekend. Watch TV, play with the kids, sit in the garden, get in the pool, get out of the pool, go for a run, normal stuff.” How have the good people of Henley reacted to his arrival? “This lady walked past, she said, ‘You’re the coolest person I’ve seen in Henley since George Harrison.’ They’re pretty much the same as us really, they get a bad rap.” His house in Henley has its own bar, but he only stocks it with booze for special occasions.

I ask Liam if he still feels working class. He pauses. “I’m not one of them that harp on about it like Billy Bragg. I was born on a council estate, we had no money, me mam and dad split up. Now I live in a nice area, kids go to private school, few quid in me pocket, so what? I am what I am. I’m just me. I’m not a flash **** if that’s what you’re saying. And I’m not the other one, whatever that is.” Middle class? “Right. The kids are middle class though, I suppose.”

I say when I asked Steven Gerrard the same question last year, about class, he got shirty. Liam’s interest picks up. “Oh aye, Gerrard got shirty, did he? Did I get shirty then?” Not especially, I reply, and, dropping another name, tell him how Paul Weller described resisting his partner’s attempts to lure him to middle-class dinner parties. “Well, he should have a working-class party, shouldn’t he?” says Liam. “Invite all of them, they won’t come again, will they? ’Cos apparently we’re scum.”

Kids and clothing aside, a lot of our conversation is about what Liam doesn’t like or doesn’t do. He has a Mini and a Range Rover but doesn’t drive, has never learnt. He doesn’t read, apart from to his children. “It’s Grizzly Dad today, about a dad that turns into a bear. Don’t like Dr Seuss, too smart.” He hasn’t got the patience for other books, “and it’s a form of people telling you how it is, isn’t it? I like to make my own mind up.” He doesn’t want to make new friends. “Quite happy with what I’ve got.”

He tends to go to the same pub. “Read the paper, have a beer, someone says ‘Mind if I join you?’, I might shoot the breeze, depends what mood I’m in.” He doesn’t go back to Manchester much, has stopped going to Man City, “just get mithered. Noel goes. He likes signing autographs.” He doesn’t socialise with his brother. “All we need to do is make music together.”

He’s tried golf a few times – “Bit of exercise, spliff, whack fuck out of the balls, beer afterwards, it’s good” – but doesn’t sound as if he’ll be taking it up regularly. Still, if he hadn’t made it as a rock star, he’d have fancied a job “cutting grass on a golf course. Nice and chilled. Outdoors, not inside, walls and that.”

He isn’t interested in politics, although he’ll watch Prime Minister’s Questions. “I like the noises they make.” When his brother went to Downing Street to meet Blair in 1997, he isn’t sure whether he was invited or not, but “I wouldn’t have gone.” He’s lost interest in feuding with other bands. “I’m cool with Damon [Albarn]. That was only a bit of a laugh.” How about Robbie Williams? “Funny how he says a couple of things then moves to LA, know what I mean? Gives it all that and packs his bags.”

He insists he is “a passionate man”, however, and there are three other subjects he becomes passionate about. One is the paparazzi. “See me coming out of a pub with five million birds, charlied out me head, they’ve every right to take a picture. Get in my way when I’m going about me business, freak my kid out, then they get a slap.”

Another is being in Oasis. “We’ve no competition, none at all.” He knows many people, including all critics and his own brother, think the band’s form dipped after the first two electrifying albums, but he isn’t having it. “Just ’cos Noel and a couple of divvy journalists think that doesn’t mean it’s right. I think all our records are great.”

And the other subject is religion. “I don’t pray and I don’t go to church but I’m intrigued by it, I dig it. I’m into the idea that there could be a God and aliens and reincarnation and some geezer years ago turning water into wine. I don’t believe when you die, you die. All the beautiful people who have been and gone, Lennon, Hendrix, they’re somewhere else, man. Whether it’s here or whether it’s there, they’re doing some musical thingummyjig. They got to be somewhere else, haven’t they? I’d like it if everyone were all right at the end of it.”

And shortly after that, Liam, by now a little late to pick his son up, bounces to his feet. He’s taking his lad to the cinema, or, as he puts it, “I’m off to fucking ’ave it with Kung Fu Panda.” Does it feel strange, I ask, to do a big interview for The Times? “No,” he says, staring coolly back, “it’s about fucking time.”

The new Oasis single The Shock of the Lightning is released on September 29, and the album Dig Out Your Soul a week later on October 6, both on their Big Brother label

[Pico]

“I’m off to fucking ’ave it with Kung Fu Panda.”

[kevdo242]

Their early stuff is okay, but stuff like Lord Don't Slow Me Down don't appeal to me whatsoever. Not to mention the air of unwarranted self-importance that surrounds the Gallaghers.

[wasted]

Oasis/Verve to Tour the World?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJjD29c33rY