After Gem played with Noel again, quite a few here has talked about how cool it would be if he joined the HFB. We've also argued and discussed many times what we think about the current line-up: is the guitarist good enough, what we think of the drummer and etc. So I figured that it would be really cool to see what line-up people would prefer. Not just your preferred guitarist and so on, but the whole band in total. Write about how you think the band look like. Here's my suggestion (also recycling a little bit of the stuff I've written in two different threads after Gem and Noel's performance together):


Dream lineup for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds:

Noel on lead vocals, rythm and lead guitar.
Come on. Goes without saying. It's his band.

Gem on lead and rythm guitar.
Gem is a brilliant guitar player and a nice guy. He goes really well together with Noel, and those two complement each other. They could switch back and forth doing lead and rythm, but Gem could still do much (or most?) of the lead stuff to let Noel focus on singing well. Tim Smith is a nice guy and a good guitarist, but like someone said earlier, his playing is to generic. Gem's playing is an attraction in itself. He definitely has his own style. You can also see this in the way he plays rythm guitar, the emphasis on the upstrokes in the performance of Listen Up (I think it was) for example. But his guitar solos is also very good. He has great "feeling" in his playing, and elevates the songs he plays on. He's not just a technically good guitar player like Andy. I'm not sure that Noel letting Gem do quite a bit of the lead guitar stuff live with oasis just had to do with laziness and practical reasons (making it easier for him to focus more on the singing), that's of course some of the explaination, but I think Noel also really saw Gem as a great lead guitarist.
They would be great together if they were to play permanently in a band together again. Also Gem is a cool looking mo'fo.

Russell on bass guitar and backing vocals
He has already shown that he does a great job at both.
 
Terry Kirkbride on drums
Stacey was a good studio drummer on CY, but when playing live he's way too heavy handed. Doesn't seem to have the gentle touch that for example Alan Smith and Chris Sharrock has. Chris would be optimal as he can play both the faster and harder stuff, but also the gentler songs. Still, adding two former oasis members would just create a lot of tiresome questions from the press asking Noel if oasis was reuniting or calling the band "oasis without liam", so that's not really an option. Terry drummed on both WPTWOTWOMS (christ, that's way too long to write, even as an abbreviation), which is a favorite of mine, Mucky Fingers and SAHITS. He has also played with Noel and Gem live, and they're always great together like we saw in the Lincs FM gig. So he can do both the normal electric full-band drumming, and he's a good percussionist on acoustic stuff as well.

Keyboards ?
Suggestions? Not sure what I think about Mike Rowe's style, but don't know who else I would get for the band either.

Now let's hear your suggestions .