Not seen a thread like this on here for a while! Thanks for the info. Looking forward to more build up & new music very soon.

I do think he will just drop a single out of nowhere though with very little promo.

Not likely to be anything like hardcore then is it.

The real issue is Dave Sardy is a backwards thinking producer. Noel is already hardwired that way musically (although he listens to a diverse range of music). For once I'd like Noel to have a producer looking towards the stars. Dreaming big.

One would think that if they're deciding between an October or November release, then they would have narrowed down their release window to one or two weeks. So late October or early November. We got our first airplay for the Death of You and Me on June 25th and the release on August 19th, so about a three week difference. Makes it seem like we'll be hearing radio play sometime between the very beginning of October or the middle of October. So, 3-5 weeks from now.

I think I need to be given an apology as well, don't you agree hasseg? 

It's primarily a problem with Noel, but Noel takes on Sardy because he knows he's a wet blanket when it comes to pushing an artist. Who has he produced? Pub bands like Jet that's it.

There's plenty of evidence that Noel does have the ability to experiment with different sounds - we've all heard it, and to me anyway, I love all his brief dalliances with electronic music.

One of my favourite songs from Noel post 1997 is Alone On The Rope. It's genuinely brilliant, offering a glimpse of his songwriting versatility in giving us a gloomy, moody and dark tune that can match up to his peers who offer similar like Radiohead and U2. In fact, I always thought that tune would fit well on Standing on the Shoulders of Giant. Taken a lot more time and with tunes of a similar quality, that could have been the album to show Oasis could alter the mood of their music. But he could still have gone further with that song - electronic music often provides a sinister undercurrent which reinforces the message of the song. Imagine bands like Massive Attack without that style of production - it would take a lot of menace away from the songs personally.

That's my belief that Noel can experiment - his tunes have the fundamental aspects of a good tune, it's just adding layers to it personally. He wouldn't be polishing a turd, because it was never a turd in the first place! Some may dislike Amorphous Androgynous, but that's different as they basically cut up Noel songs and what's left of the original tune is barely there. I'm not asking for Noel to cut up his songs.

Noel has said 'why leave your comfort zone when that's where I'm comfy' or words to that effect. But if you stay in your comfort zone for too long, you get cramp in your arse. It literally becomes a pain in the arse. At best, it's pleasant but there's no getting away from the fact it does get boring.

Fair play to Noel - he does have a greater vision for experimenting than the rest of Beady Eye. The most interesting cut from Dig Out Your Soul is Falling Down (another song which would have sounded great with electronic beats - the pace and rhythym of that song makes it ideal for that treatment personally). What I do not mean by 'experimenting' though is Beatles knock offs from their experimental phase 1966 onwards, which was what we got from the Beady Eye members on the same album.

Suprised we haven't any fake titles for the new single yet!

Yeah, where are the title rumours? I'm disappointed!

The new single will be called "I Am The Badger".

I hope it won't all be 3 chord acoustic guitar stuff. That gets boring very quickly.