Noel Gallagher for Adidas

Noel Gallagher makes a cameo in this brand new Adidas advert. It is one of the first public appearances he's made since the Oasis split last year. Other stars that appear in the advert are Agyness Deyn, David Beckham, Snoop Dogg and a wealth of others....

Noel is set to play the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs in London on March 25th and 26th where he'll be joined by Mani (Stone Roses/Primal Scream) as well as the Crouch End Festival Chorus and Wired Strings. Support will be provided by The Courteeners on the 25th and Plan B on the 26th. Limited tickets still available.

Also, Noel's brother Liam has already been in the studio with his new band. It's reported that the band will be releasing a single before the end of the year. I'm personally looking forward to hearing Liam's new material, while being aware that it won't be Oasis, or a replacement for them. I guess we'll find out...

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YouTube Friday

Because sometimes you don't need a reason....my current YouTube favourites:


Great video of Brasilian brotherly duo, The Soundscapes, performing "Here's When" in NYC.



A track from Nikki Sudden's beautiful set at the Cake Shop in NYC. The chilling "Death is Hanging Over Me", filmed roughly 40 hours before he passed away after a Knitting Factory gig. :( R.I.P. Nikki. ♥



Glasgow band and my labelmates, The Dirty Cuts, from their Nice'n'Sleazy's performance in January. Some of the shadowly figures may be one of my friends and I dancing around. Haha.



This song is quite pretty!




I originally saw this on the Oasis Dig Out Your Soul DVD and so glad it's on YouTube. Noel Gallagher never fails to make me laugh here...

Pretty Green Launch Party

Richard Ashcroft and Liam Gallagher

On Saturday, 7 November, Liam Gallagher hosted the official launch party of his clothing line, Pretty Green, in London. Guests included The Prodigy, Richard Ashcroft, Kasabian, Heidi Range (from Sugababes), TV presenter Dave Berry, and of course Liam's wife, Nicole Appleton.



Keith Flint (The Prodigy) and Liam


Kasabian


Keith Flint and Maxim (The Prodigy)


More images at the source: prettygreen.com

The Gallagher Brothers' Future Plans

Following the break-up of (one of my favourite bands) Oasis in August, last
week the NME reported that Noel Gallagher has confirmed plans for a solo album, quoting “I’ve actually got a backlog of songs that are slowly building up. The thing about a solo record is the time to do one is between Oasis world tours because you’d have a good couple of years, But it takes me so long to write the songs that eventually I run out of time (before Oasis begins again), but I’ve got a backlog now of about four or five songs which are probably too far in the past as far as the band in concerned, but which could work on my record... it's coming.”

Now this week there's reports that younger brother Liam has plans to start a
new band in 2010. Liam stated, "I'm always going to miss Oasis. It was my
f***ing thing, you know what I mean? It's who I am. But it's only a name.
I'm still who I am and I can go and do something else. I've got music in me.
I'll never leave it behind but we'll see where it goes. It might be s**t but
you don't know until you try." Then Liam told The Scotsman newspaper: "For now, I'll be relaxing at home, just getting out of music for a bit and then I'm going to start up something maybe after January, do something different, see where it goes. But I'll be having a breather from the music for a bit without a doubt."

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As a long-time fan, I'm looking forward to both Noel and Liam's projects.
With Noel's support of more underground bands (Amorphous Androgynous, for instance) his solo album, with all his different influences and music acquaintances, could turn out to be quite interesting. Also, Liam is still arguably one of the best rock'n'roll frontmen of the past 20 years, so there's no question that whatever band he puts together, it's going to have a lot of that rock'n'roll swagger that Oasis fans love.

But for now we just have our old Oasis albums, wondering about the future, and of course, Liam's own line of designer clothes.

Download:
Oasis - Listen Up (Live from MTV Unplugged).mp3


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