Part 1 :
www.oasisgeneration.se/bandet/noel-gallagher/oasisgenerations-intervju-med-noel-gallagher-del-1/Part 2 :
www.oasisgeneration.se/bandet/noel-gallagher/del-2-om-soloalbum-ill-definitely-start-on-one-when-this-tour-is-finished/Part 3 :
J: Would you consider releasing sort of a boxset at the end of the Oasis career?
N: Oh, that would proberbly be when I die! When I won't be around to take the glory for it!
J: Including songs like Colour My life?
N: Oh you know all that stuff back from the early days! I havn't heard those songs for years! Yeah, they're kinda funky, right?
J: Mmm, Take Me, great tune...
N: You know that Liam wrote that one...?
J: Yup
N: Ehm, I havn't heard those songs for a long long long long time. I would have thought for that particular period that some elements would have made it on to Definitely Maybe, there might be guitar riffs or little bits of melodies that made it on to Definitely Maybe. Yeah.. But I think things like this would be more interesting for you than for me.
J: Hehe, Maybe.
N småskrattandes: I'd say possibly.
J: We got one question concerning Liam but I think we're not gonna ask that one.
N: Mmm...
J: We can take the last question perhaps 'cos we start running out of time.
N: It doesn't mather, ask the questions you want. ...
J: Ah, that's really nice.
J: There is a short song on Lord don't slow me down...
N: I know the one you're talkign about. It's called God Help Us All, at least that is the title I got for it. It's maybe half the first verse and no chorus.
J: It's really nice.
N: There is fookin really god! But you know one can't force these things, going back to my first point you know. One day it will fall out of the sky. And there we go...
J: But you played it on some kind of soundcheck, right?
N: Yeah, I play loads of new songs on soundchecks. Just hoping that something will...
J: So you play different songs on the soundchecks compared to what you perform live?
N: Yeah, pretty much every day. We're kind of jamming and stuff... Fuck around... I play these songs a lot, particular songs that I've got bits of, bits of ideas just hoping that something will fall out of the sky while I'm playing it. You know, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't...
J: You wrote a song called "C'mon it's alright!". That was supposed to be on this album.
N: A fucking great song with a 50-piece choir on it! But unfortunately the fuckin' Liam decided to go and get married so we didn't finish it.
J: Can you tell us anything more about this song?
N: Ehm, what can I tell you...?
J: What is it like?
N: It's a bit like Hello I guess... Of Morning Glory
J: Was it supposed to be the first single?
N: Could have been, very catchy... It's great! It's really really great. I'm really pleased... But we didn't even get to mix it because fuckface went off, pissed of for a week. So we didn't bother.
But that was that one and it was another one, I think it might be a version of it on the Internet, called "I Wanna Live in a Dream in my Record Machine". It's not a very good title though. And that is also amazing, that is also very... It's like Champagne Supernova I guess. But again, [Noel sänker rösten] you know... Fuckface(?) is out of my control.
J: There are a number of rumored titles and songs that you've spoken about in interviews. I'm gonna mention a few here, maybe you could tell us a bit about them or if they just are a rumour.
N: Fair with me
J: Sing if the song is worth singin'
N: Yeup, that was... What was that called!? Yeah, it has no words. Yeah. It's good though. Sounds like, no words, it's a melody but no words...
J: Sounds like?
N: Well, it's an instrumental version of it in my house with me playing all the instruments. It sounds like I'd say, I'm gonna give you Oasis songs 'cos that what you'll be more familiar with. It sounds like Fade Away.
J: Nice.
N: It would be, if it would be finished.
J: Don't be down
N: Don't be down, yeah, that is finished, that is done. I havn't recorded it though. It's kind of [Noel viskar], It's kind of an old ballad, one for grannies. [Noel ler]
I don't really like writing songs like that anymore, you know. I get a bit bored of writing songs like that. I could write songs like that for ever and ever and ever but they don't do it for me anymore. I could do Stop Crying Your Heart out and fuckin' you know... Stand by Me and things like that. I could write six of them now but they don't really appeal to me.
So it is kind of like that, slow and long and... It's good though!
J: I stand Alone.
N: I stand Alone... No, I havn't heard that one.
J: I think you've talked about that one in an interview.
N: I stand Alone...!? [Noel veckar pannan]
J: Flagweaver.
N: A flagweaver!
J: Something like Live Forever, I think you've said...
N: Ah really!?
J: Oh maybe some journalist has made that up.
N: Well I've long time forgot that one! [skratt]
J: Longer.
N: No...
J: Say it
N: No...
J: Singin' in your life
N: Thats a really dreadful title...
J: The good Rebel
N: The good Rebel yeah! That is a real good demo of that! Sounds like, it sounds like Rain by the Beatles crossed with Tambourine man by Bob Dylan!
J: Revivial
N: Revivial... Yeah. That sounds like "We love you" by the Rolling Stones. It doesn't have any words apart from the title. Actually, that might have turned into the Hindu Times.
J: Really?
N: Yeah, could be. Could be now called the Hindu Times.
J: The last title then, A Sad Day in the World.
N: A sad Day in the World... That sounds dreadful...
[Noel kikar ned på mina anteckningar och ser en titel som jag har missat]
N: Does that one say Beetlejuice?
J: Uhm, sorry?
N: Does that say Beetlejuice?
J: This one? Yeah.
N: That's an instrumental...
J: Still havn't turned into...
N: No, havn't turned into anything. I'd say it's a very good title! [skratt]
J: Yeah, I think so as well!
J: When you played Manchester in 2005... The barrier in the front broke down. And when it broke down you had to sort of trying to get people to move back and so on. What did you think at that point, trying to prevent a disaster instead of trying to release hell?
N: Mmm, well you know I didn't think anything. I was told that if we came of stage it would be a fuckin riot. So they said stay on the stage and... kill time.
J: And Liam did that later...
N: He's an arsehole then when situations like that... He's a fuckin' waste of space.
Ehm, I can't remember what I did. I think I told a few jokes or something ridiculus. Yeah... It wasn't a very. It felt like lasted for hours. I was kinda annoyed that I hade to do it, d'yer know what I mean? 'Cos I'm there to play music. I'm not there to fuckin' control the crowd. But I understand that if the band would have come stage it would have been trouble. And the only person they are willing to listen to is me. [skratt]
J: The setlist, you play the same setlist at every gig. I know that you've said that you do this because you want every fan to get sort of the same experince when visiting one of your conserts. But as a musician, do you ever feel bored playing the same...
N: Yeah, uhm, we tend to change it halfway through... We do... The soundchecks that we do we rarely do any songs that are in the setlist to keep a few, I was gonna say fresh but that would make me sound like a hip hopper...
So we might throw a couple in but generally, if it is working... You know the last tour it took four months for us to get the set right. But this one seems to be working well. If I had my way we wouldn't really be doing The Meaning of Soul and Ain't got Nothing on me. I'd rather be doing The Turning and Bag it Up or something like that. But you know that's another argument. I bet you can't guess who is responsible for that? [skratt]
J: The very last question then. Today you're one of the most appreciated songwriters, or the most appreciated songwriter, in the world. Can you see any special factors why you've become this succesfull?
N: No, honestly in my world of arts(?), I don't know and I don't care. And I don't say that in an idealistic way. I just know that people keep turning up to gigs and I know that people like my songs, love them. I don't think there is any middle ground, you either like them or you don't like them. But I don't really wanna know why that is, 'cos if I know why, then... I don't know, I think that would do my head in. If somebody could specifically say it is because of this and this and this, then I would immediately stop doing those things, d'you know what I mean? Or I would do them more and it would be contrived. I don't know why people like, you know I'm flabergasted that people like my words because like I've said I find them on a fuckin' tour bus.
But I understand that there must mean something, but I'm as much of a fan of what I do as you are, d'you know what I mean? [skratt]
It's a magical wonderful thing to me, you know, and I've never really take it for granted. I'm not really one of those popstars that goes out to my way to fascilitate my fans, d'you know what I mean? I not really, I'm just a normal guy just like you, d'you know what I mean? And I don't like fan worship. I don't mind if people ask me for an autograph that's fine, d'you know what I mean? But I don't go "Hey, my fans are the best in the world!". [skratt] 'Cos I don't fuckin know any of them any way. D'you know what I mean? I'm just me and I write these songs and if people get it that's great, and if they don't get it that's fuckin great! D'yer know what I mean? That's equally to me.
But for why, why people are obsessed about them? I have no idea...
J: That's a magical answear to a magic interview.
N: Ah, thank you very much.
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