Stereophonics cancel tour dates with Oasis

 

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From the official Stereophonics website:

 

Regrettably due to a family illness, Stereophonics have had to cancel their run of European dates they were scheduled to play with Oasis.....

...We were really looking forward to the tour, Oasis are a great band and we hope to be able to share the stage with them again sometime down the road.

 

 

Following dates cancelled:

 

Oslo 25th Jan

Stockholm 26th Jan

Lille 28th Jan

Grenoble 30th Jan

Vienna 1st Feb

Winterthur 2nd Feb

Toulouse 4th Feb

Florence 6th Feb

Rome 7th Feb

Arctic Monkeys learnt guitar off Oasis chord books

 

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Arctic Monkeys have revealed that they learnt to play guitar through Oasis chord books and the James Bond theme tune.

 

Frontman Alex Turner says that he only got an acoustic guitar back in the summer of 2001 and could only play two chords.

 

That Christmas he got an electric guitar and starting practising with Jamie Cook (Cookie).

 

He told the Star: “Cookie could play the James Bond theme but I could never get him interested in being in a band at the time.

 

“Then he got Oasis chord books and learned them, but only chords. None of us were good enough to do solos but I got into it.

 

“I got James Bond sorted, then wanted to move on and that.”

 

Showing his young age, speaking about the albums that influenced him when he was younger, Alex said: “‘Be Here Now’ was a big record, but we weren’t old enough for the first two Oasis albums.”

 

source: entertainmentwise.com

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Oasis snag 5 NME award nominations

 

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THE Gallagher family will be celebrating after Oasis bagged five nominations for this year's NME Awards.

 

But newcomers the Arctic Monkeys could steal the show after grabbing four nominations - despite the fact that the band's debut album is only released this week.

 

The Kaiser Chiefs, from Leeds, will be vying for five awards - Best British Band, Best Live Band, Best Album, Best Track and Best Video - with bad boys Oasis.

 

The band, which started out recording in drummer Nick Hodgson's bedroom in 2003, are the only act to receive six nominations in the 50-year history of the awards.

 

Their sixth NME nomination is for Best Music DVD, for the track Enjoyment.

 

The awards are also good news for Liam and Noel Gallagher following Oasis's 2005 comeback album Don't Believe The Truth.

 

Brits

 

The band are said to be snubbing the Brits after receiving only two nominations for next month's awards.

 

The Kaiser Chiefs, who until recently were involved in a feud with Oasis, got five Brit nominations.

 

Arctic Monkeys

 

Sheffield-band the Arctic Monkeys have become a phenomenon after rocketing to success with I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor last year.

 

The band are nominated for four awards - Best British Band, Best New Band, Best Live Band and Best Track.

 

Franz Ferdinand are up for five awards - British Band, Live Band, Album, Track and Video, following the release of their second album You Could Have It So Much Better.

 

The Best New Band category will be a battle between British bands Arctic Monkeys, Editors, The Magic Numbers, and Maximo Park, and quirky Americans We Are Scientists.

 

Maximo Park

 

This year's Godlike Genius Award goes to Ian Brown, the former frontman of the Stone Roses, and a driving force behind the original Manchester movement.

 

Kaiser Chiefs' drummer Hodgson said: "Obviously we're very pleased. It's great to be up for the Best Album and Best Live Band awards. I hope people vote for us because we've never won anything we've been nominated for before."

 

NME associate editor Dan Silver said: "This year's ShockWaves NME Awards nominations reflect what has been an exceptional 12 months for rock music.

 

"When the Kaiser Chiefs and Bloc Party performed at last year's ceremony, they were relative unknowns; this year both will return as conquering heroes.

 

"And with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Maximo Park and We Are Scientists all showing strongly, that cycle looks set to continue in 2006."

 

Nominations in full:

 

Best British Band supported by ShockWaves

Arctic Monkeys

Bloc Party

Franz Ferdinand

Kaiser Chiefs

Oasis

 

Best International Band supported by T4

Arcade Fire

Foo Fighters

Green Day

The Killers

The Strokes

 

Best Solo Artist supported by E4

Antony And The Johnsons

Richard Ashcroft

Ian Brown

Graham Coxon

Kanye West

 

Best New Band supported by Radio 1

Arctic Monkeys

Editors

Magic Numbers

Maximo Park

We Are Scientists

 

Best Live Band supported by Carling

Arctic Monkeys

Franz Ferdinand

Green Day

Kaiser Chiefs

Oasis

 

Best Album supported by HMVBabyshambles

Bloc Party

Franz Ferdinand

Kaiser Chiefs

Oasis

 

Best Track

I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys

F*** Forever - Babyshambles

Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

The Importance Of Being Idle - Oasis

 

Best Video supported by MTV2

Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

D.A.R.E - Gorillaz

I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

The Importance Of Being Idle - Oasis

Juicebox - The Strokes

 

Best Event supported by lastminute.com

Carling Weekend

Glastonbury

Live 8

T In The Park

 

source: manchesteronline.co.uk

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Liam joins Richard Ashcroft on stage

 

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The Electric Ballroom, London

 

WHEN Richard Ashcroft joined Chris Martin on stage during Live8, the Coldplay frontman hailed him as ‘the best singer in the world’.

 

His soaring rendition of 90s anthem Bittersweet Symphony was an undisputed highlight and reminded everyone why The Verve were one of the most important bands of that decade.

 

Now going solo, the singer is still producing equally anthemic songs, many of which he belted out during his magnificent performance at London’s Electric Ballroom last night.

 

Strutting on stage to the Oasis classic Cast No Shadow – a song pal Noel Gallagher wrote about him – Richard Ashcroft embodies all that is iconic about Britpop.

 

He has the trademark swagger, the shaggy haircut, the indie-rock clothes and that all-important voice.

 

Launching straight into sublime new tracks Music Is Power and Keys To The World, the singer proved his songwriting hasn’t become complacent.

 

Unsurprisingly, classic Verve hits like History, Sonnet and Lucky Man got the biggest cheers.

 

And a guest appearance from Liam Gallagher during Drugs Don’t Work received rapturous applause.

 

The Oasis star came to Ashcroft’s rescue when he couldn’t remember the order of the song and had to stop/start the performance three times.

 

Other highlights included awesome renditions of Ashcroft’s solo hits A Song For The Lovers, Check The Meaning and his soaring new single Break The Night With Colour.

 

With a back catalogue of hits that includes corkers like Drugs Don’t Work and Bittersweet Symphony, Richard Ashcroft is under no pressure.

 

He could sell-out venues across the country based on nostalgia alone.

 

But as his fantastic new album and electric live show proves, he won’t need to rely on that for a while yet.

 

source: SUN

 

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Does someone have "Part of the Queue" for me? I just got Golden Brown from The Stranglers and I heard there is some resemblance to this song.

 

Would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

there isnt really

anyone here been to lille yesterday?

Noel's latest take on Liam and babies

 

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Noel Gallagher has gone on another rant where his targets are children and his little brother.

 

Speaking to a Norwegian newspaper, Noel said of his bruv: "Liam is not a good person. No one is funnier than him, but he's evil.

 

"When he walks into a room everything freezes."

 

He then shifted attention to kids saying that he can?t stand ankle biters.

 

The father of five year old Anais, blathered: ?They're fucking idiots...they're small, noisy, smelly, small, devil brats. They take too much time and they cry all the time," reports The Sun.

 

He also claims that people turn boring once they have children, saying: "Many people become so boring when they get kids, they seem to want to take over the house you live in.

 

"You have to be quiet when the babies are asleep... fuck that! It's my house and I am the boss in my house."

 

source : contactmusic.com

 

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No plans for EP in 2006 after all

 

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Noel Gallagher speaking to Musiklandet (out takes)

 

Noel: I never think in terms of marketing and strategies for Oasis, after this tour which will go into March I'm going for a vacation away from music and all that until the sun stops shining. Then we'll see when I'll start writing songs again.

 

Noel: Of course I have periods in my life when I don't write songs. I always write music but can take long breaks in my lyric writing. I don't think I've written a single lyric in over a year because we didn't use the studio time that we were going to use, I guess those songs will wait for the next album.

 

Q: Was it the EP "Boy With The Blues" that you were planning to record during the holidays?

Noel: Yeah, it was the ambition but it didn't end up that way.

 

Q: When can we expext a new album?

Noel: Like I said earlier, there's probably not gonna be any recording done during 2006. After this tour I'm going to rest, spend some time with my family, drink a ot of tea and smoke a lot of cigarettes.

 

Noel: Honestly, and this is not what you want to hear, I don't have any long reaching plans for Oasis right now. Later this evening I'm going to eat because i'm starving right now and then I'm looking forward to the gig tonight and then we have a day off on Friday, those are my plans for Oasis right now......

 

source: Musiklandet

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Liam's fitness craze causing troubles

 

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LIAM GALLAGHER has been driving his posh neighbours potty – pounding along on his new running machine.

 

The thundering racket caused by the OASIS frontman’s fitness regime has left residents in London’s trendy Primrose Hill up in arms.

 

Liam has been sweating out the lager and fighting the flab by putting in the miles on his treadmill.

 

But neighbours are going barmy because the heavyweight hellraiser sounds more like a stampeding herd of buffalo than a lean middle-distance runner.

 

And following complaints to the local council he could be served with a noise abatement order if he keeps shaking the (Wonder)walls.

 

One resident living underneath Liam’s flat told me the star’s jogging even caused her light bulbs to fall out. She said: “Since Liam moved in our lives have been made hell.

 

“Just before Christmas he bought himself the machine and the noise has been unbearable. When he gets on it the walls start to shake.

 

“You can hear everything. There is the constant thud of him jogging. Sometimes it has got so bad that bulbs have fallen out of my chandelier.”

 

The neighbour has become so fed up she has written to Camden Council to demand action. She added: “I have tried to talk to Liam but nothing has happened.

 

“When he moved in I thought it might be noisy with him playing the guitar.

 

“I never thought I would have to listen to him keeping fit on a running machine.

 

“It is not very rock and roll but it is making our lives a nightmare all the same.

 

“He spends hours each week on the machine, and it’s so loud you can barely hear yourself think.”

 

Liam treated himself to the machine after he and fiancée NICOLE APPLETON moved in last August with son Gene.

 

The family decided to quit their last pad — a £2million townhouse in Hampstead — after becoming sick of hardcore fans of the band camping outside their front door day and night.

 

source: The Sun

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^ :lol: :lol: :lol: hilarious!

Noel and Gem guests on BBC Radio 2

 

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Noel and Gem will be guests on the Dermot O'Leary show, BBC Radio 2 (88-91 FM or online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2) this Sat 11th Feb from 5pm. Noel and Gem will be speaking to Dermot and playing some acoustic tracks.

 

source: Oasisinet

Double standards ?

 

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OASIS have landed a £1million US ad deal — despite blasting White Stripes for taking advertisers’ cash.

 

Their single All Around The World is being used by telecoms firm AT&T.

 

It comes after Noel Gallagher said Stripes star Jack White had “sold out” by writing a Coca-Cola jingle.

 

Noel said: “I don’t believe in adverts. Jack White ceases to be in the club.”

 

Oasis refused to comment last night.

 

source: The Sun

just to refresh everyones minds

 

the best there was, the best there is, the best there ever will be!

 

just to refresh everyones minds

 

the best there was, the best there is, the best there ever will be!

 

 

That's right!!!!!! They are the Best!!!!!!

just to refresh everyones minds

 

the best there was, the best there is, the best there ever will be!

 

 

Hell Yeah!

Noel and Gem guests on BBC Radio 2

 

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Noel and Gem will be guests on the Dermot O'Leary show, BBC Radio 2 (88-91 FM or online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2) this Sat 11th Feb from 5pm. Noel and Gem will be speaking to Dermot and playing some acoustic tracks.

 

source: Oasisinet

 

so... that's today and it looks like I won't be at home then. arghs! :/

 

 

edit: hehe, I actually AM at home. *yay*

"Of course we're better than Oasis'

 

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They're the best band in Britain - far better than Oasis. That's how Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson feels about his band.

 

In fact, the singer admits he's so impressed with himself these days, he gets starstruck just looking in the mirror.

 

"It's true," Ricky jokes.

 

"I wakeup in the morning, start shaking and think: 'Oh, my God. I can't believe I'm brushing Ricky Wilson's teeth!'

 

And there will be plenty of shaking going on at the Brit Awards next week, too.

 

Not only are the Kaisers up for five awards, they'll also perform in front of the acts they've grownup idolising. And right now, just the thought of meeting the se stars is giving Ricky the jitters.

 

"I'll have a heart attack at the Brits because it'll be wall-to-wall celebs," he admits.

 

"I do quite like the feeling of shaking when you're talking to them but I know it'll be awful, too."

 

One star he may bump into on the night is Paul Weller, though Ricky was far from impressed by the ageing Mod father's attack on Sting, Queen, U2 and other winners of the Brits lifetime achievement award.

 

"Paul's a bit of an old fuddy-duddy for slagging those people off," says Ricky.

 

"I think if you haven't got anything nice to say...

 

"You shouldn't slag people off just because you don't like their music, when you don't even know them or when you'll bump into them next."

 

Still, Ricky, 27, wouldn't mind meeting Weller, who'll be at the Brits picking up his own lifetime achievement gong.

 

"I'd definitely still be starstruck if I met Paul. His music is great."

 

One band Ricky won't be seeing is Oasis - much to his disappointment.

 

"It's daft that Oasis aren't coming," he says. I like Liam Gallagher. He always says something clever and funny. But he's not the sort of bloke I'd go down the pub with. Whenever I say anything, he disagrees."

 

Liam would no doubt disagree with Ricky's contention that the Kaisers are the better band.

 

Ricky boasts: "Yes, I still think we're the best band in the world. Of course we're better than Oasis. I don't want to come across as big-headed - Oasis are great - but I wouldn't be in a band if it wasn't the best."

 

source: The Sun

Oasis ruleeeeeees for 15 years!

Oasis and Coldplay are two different bands...

 

To say that Coldplay is popular now because of Oasis is like saying Rock and Roll would not exist without Elvis and the Beatles. Of course Coldplay is what it is because of Oasis, but keep in mind that its not like Coldplay rode in on the coattails of Oasis either. Oasis has done nothing more than influence Coldplay, and to be honest Oasis is also the reason for music that currently sucks now, because everyone puts a capo on their guitars and plays Em, C, G, D, and A's because of songs like Wonderwall. And don't get me wrong, Oasis didn't just play these chords, in fact, Oasis is very talented, probably the most talented band of the nineties, but current musicians have take this philosophy of simplicity and conformity, the is no original music outside of bands like Coldplay, the White Stripes, possibly Ben Harper, and a couple other bands........Coldplay is totally different than this, they combine different tunings and totally different music ideas as well as broader, larger than life lyrics.....Both Oasis and Coldplay are original though in what they come up with....Who is better? Well, currently Oasis is more proven, especially considering the success of their newer albums and the fact that Liam and Noel are getting along again...But I really think in another 5 years, Coldplay will be more proven, because Coldplay doesn't do drugs, they don't fuss like 2 brothers, and as long as they don't get too cocky, why aren't they better than Oasis? But just to cap it off, Oasis is definately the best band right now in the past 15 years, and the most important (but like I said, I don't know if that is a good thing), but come on, Coldplay will be just as good if not better the way they are headed right now.

thats well said, i think the break coldplay are taking will either make or break em publically.

 

but i disagree about the shite of the current bands beeing down to oasis.

 

oasis do music i WANT to hear. it sounds good no matter what, they do it right. these current bands dont and as such their music will never stand the test of time.

 

e.g. the darkness at the brits in 2003...about to rule the world??

in two years we will be in the same place saying, "what happened to the kaiser chiefs"..."who?" :cool:

Noel gives thumbs up for new Kasabian LP

 

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Kasabian have revealed that they are taking a more organic approach with their second album and as of yet it’s “ugly.”

 

Leicester’s finest have ditched sampled beats and looped drums that were the trademark of their eponymous debut, but album is roughly cut at the moment.

 

Frontman Tom Meighan explains: “What we’ve done is become more real. It’s not about the sampled beats anymore, it’s all about real drums.

 

“But don’t worry, the album’s still really fucking ugly. Sometimes even I’m upset by its ugliness.”

 

He continued to The Star: “It’s a proper beast of a record and I can’t wait to get it out there.

 

“But to be honest… the whole album just picks you up and tears through you.

 

“Noel Gallagher’s been in the studio a couple of times for a listen and given it the thumbs up, so you know it must be as good as I’m saying.”

 

source: Gigwise.com

Gem on touring and recording

 

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Guitarist Gem Archer spared some time for a brief phone interview recently from Melbourne, Australia.

 

“Liam said it was one of the Top 5 shows we’ve played. Ever! It was great man, really great. There are certain places in the world where the reception is really great like Glasgow and Melbourne’s like that,” said Gem with much enthusiasm.

 

As noted during this world tour, the setlists have been all about new Oasis material. Well, it took the band close to three years to come out with a new album, and there is no reason to hide behind the old hits. With tunes like Lyla, Turn Up The Sun, A Bell Will Ring, The Importance of Being Idle, Mucky Fingers and more from Don’t Believe The Truth playing a bigger prominence at recent concert sets, Oasis has proven it is more than capable of mixing the rocked up new material with the classics on this tour.

 

To date, the Oasis tour has gone without a hitch. Remember the regular instances of Noel Gallagher quitting in the middle of a tour, the band accident in the United States in 2002 and Liam’s bust-up in Germany in 2003? No such incidents have plagued the band so far. Left with a month, Oasis plans to tour hard before heading into the studio to do another record.

 

Gem, who joined Oasis in 2000 after the recording Standing On The Shoulder of Giants, noted: “Liam wants to go to the studio now. It’s one of those things, you know. We’ve got six albums worth of material but we’re loving it, loving what we do as a band; touring and then it’s back to the studio to record more songs.”

 

Even though the Gallagher brothers are the only original members of the band now, all the current bandmates play a role when it comes to making music, including bassist Andy Bell.

 

“The way we make music is that everybody writes. Either we do a demo together or I do a demo with Noel or Andy will do one in Sweden (it’s where he lives). For this album, producer Dave Sardy picked the songs out and it was a good batch of songs.”

 

For a first time Oasis songwriting credit, Gem provided the standout A Bell Will Ring on the album.

 

It also helps that Noel has got his own studio filled with vintage gear whenever they want to record a track or demo.

 

“When we do a demo, it’s more like a first take and it’s not like a usual demo. For the guitar solo in The Meaning of Soul, it was just one take. When it comes to recording, we do it really quick. A song can take a day and we can record five songs in a week and have a break after that,” revealed the 38-year-old.

 

Gem used a Fender Esquire plugged straight to a Vox AC30 for the record and said that the Fender is his favourite axe.

 

“Noel loves his Gibson ES335 in the studio but live, it’s a different story.”

 

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I haven't read nth of what you're talking about, but i'm happy!!!

On Mrch 10th i'm seeing them!!! :) :) :) :) :) :)

felicidades

 

 

yo no