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Post by iwantmore on Mar 14, 2011 22:45:33 GMT -5
Success! Something Oasis never managed with DOYS or DBTT really. Beady Eye's The Roller was played on Nova 96.9 yesterday. And its also on JB Hi-fis best sellers list at no.5 (generally a good regard of what people are buying)
So roll on TBGO and we may have some serious success
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Post by BlueJay on Mar 15, 2011 1:48:22 GMT -5
Lyla was played here but that's about it from the last few albums.
The Roller has been getting high rotation on video hits thats for sure. Going to JB to buy DGSS tommorrow, I wonder where it will chart?
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Post by thestellasarecold on Mar 15, 2011 4:49:36 GMT -5
This is encouraging news. I thought all was lost here for any kind of music bearing the Gallagher name...
Are Nova playing The Roller regularly? They did have The Shock of The Lightning on their playlist at one point in 2008 but seemed to drop it like a hot potato. I heard Lyla once on Triple M in 2005 but they seem to hate the Gallaghers these days.
Good to hear its been on Video Hits. The Roller was also played once on Rage at some ungodly hour of the night recently. Those'Too Cool For School yoofs' at Triple J played Bring The Light twice and Beatles and Stones once on Super Request- a band well into their thirties/forties is not really their cup of tea though.
Beady Eye had front page coverage and centre spread in all the Newscorp tabloid liftouts last week including The Herald Sun which is Australia's top selling paper, shite though it is. Even the more elitist broadsheet The Age had Beady Eye as their cover story in the Entertainment Guide. The band also featured in an embarrassingly inept television interview on the top rating breakfast show Sunrise.
This kind of coverage would've reached a big audience and would have to assist sales. Having said that, if you go to the Liberator Records website (the Australian distributor of DGSS), Beady Eye hardly feature prominently. They are not on the homepage and you basically have to look at the band in the 'A-Z' of their roster where there is a modest listing. I bought my copy at JB Hi-Fi where there were only about three copies in the 'Alternative' section; no copies in the 'New Releases' section nor did it have its own little stand. Even Dig Out Your Soul had its own little stand! (filled with unsold copies the day I bought it!)
I'm predicting it will make a mild dent in the ARIA charts (probably mid teens) and then fade into obscurity like Liam's last season aviators. I'd like to be proven wrong though...
John Travolta did it with Qantas- I know Liam will be truly popular in Australia again if he becomes an ambassador for Cathay Pacific Airlines: "I tell you what kids, i'd rather walk!".
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Post by BlueJay on Mar 15, 2011 8:08:34 GMT -5
Yeah, most people here don't know what they're missing, just blatantly ignoring any music from the Gallaghers just because of that Cathay Pacific incident over a decade ago.
Yeah you only need like 2000 copies sold to get into the mid-teens, that should be feasible. Not that any radio stations would take notice.
They have had alot of coverage here thats for sure, and its good to hear that they might be playing at next year's Big Day Out - that is the main source of reaching out to new fans these days, festivals.
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Post by panhead on Mar 15, 2011 20:45:47 GMT -5
The 'I'd Rather Walk' interview that Liam gave after the Cathay Pacific incidence was one of the most hilarious things ive ever seen. Its a funny thing why the Gallaghers go so un-noticed over here in Aus (apart from a couple of months at the end of '95). Aussies are always looking at cutting down the 'tall poppy' I guess. They seem prefer the smelly trainwreck Beth Kitto and similar types over some smart lads playing decent music.
Still, going into JB Hi-Fi in Adelaide on DGSS release day there was no stock and none of the staff even had a clue who Beady Eye were. Hopefully some luck today? They employee the biggest tits in the state at that shop.
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Post by BlueJay on Mar 15, 2011 21:14:00 GMT -5
^^ They have JB Hi-Fi in Adelaide? I didn't think that they even had electricity over there  Jokes! Yeah, they were huge here from 95-97, but three cancelled tours in a row plus that incident doesn't help their marketing potential here that's for sure. They would have it at the main JB stores, I had to go right into the city to get my copy, they didn't have it in any suburban stores. |
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Post by iwantmore on Mar 15, 2011 23:18:59 GMT -5
I'm an Aussie and let me tell you that what people over here like is pure filth.
Rihanna and Lady Gaga are all that we ever hear on the radio.
her latest tune 'Born this Way' isn't even half as good as The Morning Son or KFAD but its probably being played right now over 3 different stations.
People here have no fucking idea.
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Post by thegear on Mar 16, 2011 4:38:59 GMT -5
= Still, going into JB Hi-Fi in Adelaide on DGSS release day there was no stock and none of the staff even had a clue who Beady Eye were. Hopefully some luck today? They employee the biggest tits in the state at that shop. HAHA, I went to the Adelaide JB store on Friday too, and I kid you not, exactly the same thing happened!! I asked a guy who was stacking DVDs should it be on the floor, seeing as it was released on Friday and he said he'd go check, couple of minutes later: 'Na mate come back at midday, the courier just got here with any new stuff', which I took to mean: NO I'm not finding you a copy, just wait till it's on the shelf! So, I eneded up going to another JB on the way home, there were none STILL around 5 ish in the rack, luckily some salesperson (if you can call them that) went and found me one.. All I could think once I got my copy was: I bet this doesn't happen to fucking Gaga fans. |
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Post by BlueJay on Mar 21, 2011 7:48:52 GMT -5
Charted at #18 here in Aus if anyone's insterested.
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