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Noel Gallagher photographed on Feb. 11, 2016 in London. Noel Gallagher on His New Album, Controversy in His Career & The 'Magic Trick of Joy and Togetherness' by Colin Stutz November 27, 2017, 5:47pm EST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
"I think the world is too big for a mere mortal of a North Korean idiot to end, or Donald Trump or anything like that. I'm not a doomsday merchant at all." At this point in Noel Gallagher's career -- with nine albums to his credit as Oasis' founding songwriter and guitarist and High Flying Birds mastermind -- one would be forgiven for expecting more of the same from here on out. That's more of the same impeccable uplifting guitar-based songwriting that's been the foundation of his career and has earned him a position as a British rock icon (thanks in part to his braggadocious attitude, contentious familial relationships and outspoken nature), but more of the same nevertheless. Instead, however, Gallagher has prepared arguably his most compositionally interesting and experimental album to date, with 11 tracks of psychedelic pop rock on Who Built the Moon?, which was released Friday and marks Gallagher's most successfully experimental album to date.
Who Built the Moon? owes much to its producer, David Holmes, who pushed Gallagher to take a new approach to his songwriting. Gallagher had been a fan of Holmes' work as a solo musician and in film scoring previously and, after meeting backstage at a festival with Primal Scream, he approached the producer in 2014 with the batch of songs that would wind up making up his sophomore album under the Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds title, Chasing Yesterday. But Holmes turned down the project, saying he'd feel like a fraud working on already finished material where -- more or less -- all that was left was to press record. But, he told Gallagher, if he wanted to work on something new, he was game, instructing the singer-songwriter to come in without any material and they'd start from scratch.
Those sessions birthed Who Built the Moon? over the course of about three years, where the two would get together when Gallagher wasn't touring and trade ideas back and forth, building up and deconstructing songs based around riffs and pulling vibes from often obscure musical influences. The two would swap out different elements to build what became a heavy collection of maximalist psychedelic pop-rock that now exists as a true evolution of Gallagher's musical impulses without feeling uncharacteristic, retaining a tone of the songwriter's dreamy optimism throughout.
READ MORE Noel Gallagher Brushes Off Suggestion That He Coordinated Album Release Dates With Liam "It was a fascinating way to work because you never quite knew what the f--- was going on," Gallagher tells Billboard. "You'd write half a song, then a year later come back to it and you'd say, 'What's going on here?' 'Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I did a thing on this and I kind of shifted...' 'Amazing.' Because I come from the organic school of songwriting, which is to sit, play and work it out. His idea was more like pop art: 'Let's try this. Let's try that. That's not working.' It was a very interesting way to work."
Billboard spoke with Gallagher about those sessions recording Who Built the Moon?, his Oasis classic "Don't Look Back in Anger" becoming an anthem of healing for his hometown of Manchester, the public conflicts that have followed his career and more. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
Three years is a long time to work on an album. I know it wasn't continuous, but what was yours and David's working relationship like during that time?
When I think about it the actual amount of time spent in the studio -- the two of us together -- wasn't a great deal of time at all because the initial spark of the idea, which might have been like a minute's worth of music, then he'd go back off to Belfast to do whatever he was doing and I was on tour. Kicking it around, playing with it, writing, and then we'd come back to the studio and he'd say, "What have you done?" And I'd say, "Well, I've done this." He'd say, "I like that bit... Not sure about that bit." And then just build up from there.
As a solo artist and throughout your career, does this feel like one of the more collaborative experiences you've had?
It's the only time I've ever done it like this. Ever. I mean, I've been in situations where producers will say, "Try it in a different key." But really, once the song is written and you've [worked] with it for a year, it's not gonna change that much. There won't be no radical, like, "Let's take the verse of that song and the verse of that song and sync it together and see what happens." There's none of that. It might be, "Try it faster or try it slower or try it in a different vibe on drums," but no really radical ideas. The only reason that it works is because if I've written a song over a year and become attached to it, then I know what I want it to sound like. Whereas, if it's something coming out of nothing, it's usually David's ideas that are kind of driving it. I'm kind of writing, he's kind of pushing it in the direction, so I'm not attached to any music because it's happening in front of you.
Is this something that you want to go for again?
There's a decision to make. It's kind of like, "It's so f---ing good, do we try and do it again?" I was thinking about it the other night. We haven't spoke about it. We've got a lot of stuff left over that, with a bit more work, could become great songs. But I was thinking about this the other night, thinking, Well, the fact that it is so good justifies going in and doing another one. Whether we beat it or not is irrelevant. Just got to give it a go and see what happens. So it's kind of like -- I think the desire is there. Just a case of timing now and what do we do and how do we do it? That kind of thing. Me, personally, I would find it better the second time because now I know how he works and the language that he uses and he'll know what I'm capable of and I know what he's capable of. So it'd probably be, in theory, it could be better.
READ MORE Noel Gallagher Says His Cat Is More Rock 'N' Roll Than Radiohead You mentioned before that Kanye West's "Power" influenced the opening track "Fort Knox." What other artists were influencing your work here?
David has got the most f---ing incredible record collection. Once a month, for about a week, he goes on record-buying expeditions across Europe. He has record dealers -- f---in' cosmic shit -- and he'll come back and send me CDs of, like, 100 tracks. So, it's all obscure shit from the '60s and the '70s and '50s even, and I'm thinking, where does all this music come from? Why haven't I heard it? I mean, I've got a lot of f---ing music. I've got a lot of records and I've got a lot of things I've collected, and he stills plays me stuff and I'm like, "Who the f---'s this?" He's into it. The most obvious things are Can directly influenced "It's a Beautiful World," you know, Blondie and New Order directly influenced "She Taught Me How to Fly." Ennio Morricone stuff, French psychedelic pop... I couldn't tell you any of it. I'm listening to this going, "This is f---ing great, who is it?" No idea. No idea. Couldn't tell you. It's stuff you can't even Shazam. This is like deep record dealership and some of it's really, really f---ing good.
The way this album is mixed, there's so much going on but your vocals are a lot lower than your other work. Why's that?
Yeah, well that's a stylistic thing. All the records that I like -- like The Stones, for instance, you can't hear what Mick Jagger's f---ing saying. So you really have to f---ing listen and you're engaged immediately. It was always the fight in Oasis. Liam was always, "Turn the vocals up! … You can't hear the lyrics." I [was like], "I don't want them to hear the f---ing lyrics. I want them to listen to the whole thing." It's usually a constant battle between the singer and the songwriter. I find a lot of music, the vocals are too f---ing loud. Just too loud. Maybe it's because I'm a guitarist, but I drive the people at my record label to destruction when they'll say, "Is there a vocal-up mix?" I'm like, "This is it." And they're like, "F---, it's a bit quiet." And even when I go back to the studio and have to turn the vocals up, it doesn't sound right. The balance is not right. To me, that's just a stylistic thing.
I don't want to make it easy for people. I haven't put the lyrics on this album for the first time ever -- of any album I've ever done. I've got people saying, "Why not?" Because I'm not going to make it easy for people. I want them to sit and listen to it and think, "What is he f---ing saying?" Although, I know it'll drive me mad at gigs when people are singing the wrong lyrics. ... I think it's too easy for people now to listen to music. The way music sounds now these days is easy to f---ing listen to; there's no challenge in it anymore. Even rock music, even Dave Grohl's shouting. You know exactly what he's going on about even if you don't know what he's going on about, you can hear it.
Do you think about that stuff much? How people are going to listen to your music? People talk about it being a singles culture, but obviously you put something together that very much feels like an album.
Well I think you've got to be aware of the musical landscape, but ultimately you've got to please yourself. You have to be, "This is what I do," which is why I like to cross-fade tracks because if some little f---ing asshole is gonna go buy it on its own, then I'm gonna ruin the end of it for him because it cost me a lot of money and a lot of time to sequence this album and you're gonna pick out two tracks? Well, I'm gonna f--- up the intro and the outro for you. F--- you.
On "It's a Beautiful World," there's a woman speaking in French at the end. What is she saying?
The last line of what she says is, "Kiss your friends goodbye, it's only the end of the world." Something like that. If I could change one thing, I'd get her to go back in and change that line and say, "It's not the end of the world." Or kind of put some hope at the end of it. I didn't realize it until it was way too late. I'm not the end of the world kind of guy. I don't believe in the apocalypse. I think the world is too big for a mere mortal of a North Korean idiot to end, or Donald Trump or anything like that. I'm not a doomsday merchant at all. Unfortunately Charlotte, this French woman, is. FEATURED NEWS Grammy Watch: The 10 Biggest Questions About Tomorrow's Nominations
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Does that bother you that it's on there?
No.
It's interesting of your music that you rarely -- if ever -- write sad songs. Meanwhile there's the singer-songwriter cliche that goes the other way around, like some artists can only write when they're depressed. Why is that?
Because it's easy. It's easy to write sad songs. It's very difficult pulling off this magic trick of joy and togetherness. And, you know, Oasis had it, where you go to an Oasis gig, you feel good about yourself. U2 have got this thing where, if you go to one of their gigs, not only do you feel good about yourself, but you feel good about the next person too. It's difficult to do, which is why many people don't want to f---ing try to do it because it can be really cheesy.
I find that I do it better accidentally than if I'm trying to... You know, if I was to sit down tomorrow and say, "There's too much f---ing pain in the world, I'm gonna write a song about the beauty of life." It would cheesy as f---, but accidentally somehow it seeped into this. I'm not happier now than I've been in the last 10 years, but these backing tracks and the tunes were coming out so up and there's a lot of hope in the records that it's just kind of what I was writing. I can pull that trick off accidentally -- without even knowing.
I was wondering about the We Are Manchester show that you did this summer, re-opening the arena after the terrorist bombing there in May. That's your hometown, and your Oasis song "Don't Look Back in Anger" became an anthem for the city after the attack. What was that experience like for you?
I was expecting it to be like that, so I had probably prepared myself for it, but you find yourself in this really... "Don't Look Back in Anger" was always, it was a huge colossal song anyway. But it was a song, to me, that song was always about and is always gonna be about, you know, Sally is this woman of a certain age who has watched her life maybe drift by, but she's raising a glass to it. She's got no regrets. And now in Manchester it will be forever this song of open defiance and of looking forward into the future. But you're kind of onstage thinking, as a songwriter, you live for these moments where an entire room is hanging on every word of the song and it has such deep meaning that you're thinking, this is amazing. And on the other end, you're wishing this wasn't happening at all. So you're kind of in this war with yourself, thinking this is great and thinking this f---ing is so tragic as well. So forever now in Manchester it will have that connotation attached to it and it's an incredible thing that people rallied around that song and took something from the words in that song.
I don't know if you've seen the thing on the telly -- well, I was actually watching it live. When the girl started singing it, it was kind of like a real f---ing heavy moment. And then you're thinking, well, it is an amazing thing -- 'cause it's an extraordinary song for this reason -- that everyone's in their own thoughts and this girl decides the crowd needed bringing together. She decides to sing this song and that square is not full of what we would consider to be Oasis fans, which is f---ing soccer guys. It's full of people from all over the world and all walks of life and they all instinctively knew the words. I was like, whoa. D'you know what I mean? Like, wow. I do tend to think about these things, and I was thinking, what was happening in Paris that night when I wrote it? How did that thing fall out of the sky and land in my lap? Because I have no recollection of writing it because I was drunk. It's like a real magical thing, d'you know what I mean? Forever tinged with sadness, but such is life.
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Yeah, and if we ever thought, we're all... And when I say "we," as in all of us music nerds, and to us music is the most important of the art forms. Acting's great and painting's good and all that f---ing shit, but music rules and all that. If we ever doubted it, then that particular moment was like, music is special, it does bring people together and it has deep meaning.
That is exactly how I felt watching it too. What else can bring people together in a moment like that?
People can get up or politicians can get up and say these words of, "We will stand f---ing strong!" and all that kind of shit, but it's affectively f---ing meaningless. But a song brings everybody together. And even if people probably didn't even realize why they were singing it. My kids were blown away. They were like, "Wow, they're singing your song!"
There has been a lot of drama in your career. I was reminded recently of the Oasis/Blur rivalry from back in the day, and it struck a chord in relation to the way you and your brother Liam have released records within a couple months from each other this year [Liam's As You Were was released Oct. 6] and he's been talking about you in the press and tweeting about you more than usual, it seems. And those are just some of the big rivalries, there have been others. Do you reflect on how all that has affected your career or personal life?
That's been a significant part of it. I can say none of it was instigated by me. We didn't instigate the Britpop thing.
Was that made up by the media?
No. Blur -- they were determined to have this chart showdown and we were sick of moving our stuff to accommodate that. So we were just like, "F---, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen." With Liam now, yeah, it's like -- I mean, if he's comfortable doing what he's doing, then what can you do? Because I'm kind of sitting doing my f---ing thing. The irony is he's over there doing my thing too. You know what I mean? Just kind of like, be f---ing happy I'm allowing you to do my f---ing thing. It's a relentless -- I don't know what it is.
It just so happened that these two albums came out at the same time. It's gonna be a thing again.
Yeah, for the people. Not for me, I've got to say. I have not heard -- I've heard "Wall of Glass" off his record, but what I've got in an hour in the studio will beat whatever he'll do in two years. So if there's anything on his record that remotely beats the first 30 seconds of my album, I will be -- I'll take my hat off to him. I don't think anybody's moving stuff around, but mine's ready to go and his is ready to go and there we go. And I guess it will be interesting for people at the NME, they seem to be driving it. I don't give a fuck. I know the record that I'm putting out is as good as it's gonna get, so that's all that matters to me. When you look back on all of Oasis and what I've done as a songwriter, the Blur thing, it's a footnote. This thing that's going on now will be a footnote. It doesn't affect the songs when you play them. It's very unnecessary, though. It's like a minor irritant, like, please go away.
Speaking of Blur, you recently teamed up with Damon Albarn for the Gorillaz song "We Got the Power." Of course, you've worked with Paul Weller and Johnny Marr in the past and on Who Built the Moon? -- are there any other artists you'd like to collaborate with in the future? Maybe a supergroup?
I'm completely open to offers. I'd love to do a supergroup. Funnily enough, when Pharrell... He still is one of the biggest stars in the world, but when he did "Get Lucky" and f---ing "Happy" came out, we were at an awards ceremony -- I was with my wife and he was with his wife -- and he kind of said, "You know, whenever you're ready, give me a call. We'll have to do some stuff." And I'm kind of laughing, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah...." We're walking off and my wife's going, "So you're just going to f---ing leave it at that?" And I'm like, "He doesn't mean that." She goes, "You're a f---ing idiot." I'd love to work with him. As good as "Get Lucky" and "Happy" are, that song "Freedom" -- it's f---ing over. He's the king, I love him to bits.
Main Image: Noel Gallagher photographed on Feb. 11, 2016 in London. John Phillips/Getty Images COMMENTS © 2017 Billboard. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use Privacy Policy About Our Ads Advertising Billboard.com is a member of Billboard Music, a division of Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group
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Post by jxing on Nov 28, 2017 13:12:15 GMT -5
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Post by jxing on Nov 28, 2017 13:00:11 GMT -5
I feel the same about mustaches.🤣
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Post by jxing on Nov 27, 2017 19:31:46 GMT -5
Have fun and have a drink for me😕 why arnt you going!?!? Health reasons😕
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Post by jxing on Nov 27, 2017 18:23:20 GMT -5
torontosun.com/entertainment/music/noel-gallagher-not-even-remotely-curious-about-liams-solo-careerNoel Gallagher 'not even remotely curious' about Liam's solo career Jane Stevenson More from Jane Stevenson Published: November 27, 2017 Updated: November 27, 2017 2:53 PM EST Filed Under: Toronto SUN Entertainment Music Noel Gallagher may not want to reform ‘90s Britpop group Oasis, but he’s willing to take SOME former band members back into the fold. Just not his baby brother and lead vocalist Liam, obviously, with whom he remains estranged since Oasis’ 2009 breakup. “Not a fan of the singer,” Gallagher says nonchalantly when asked if he’s listened to Liam’s new solo album, As You Were. “I’m not even remotely curious.” Still, for the expansive-sounding Who Built The Moon?, the just-released third disc from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Gallagher welcomed back one-time Oasis drummer Chris Sharrock and guitarist Gem Archer to play on the record. The two musicians had more recently performed with Liam’s band Beady Eye, which broke up in 2014. “Well, they came crawling back on their hands and knees,” joked Gallagher, who plays Toronto’s Sony Centre on Feb. 20 in one of two NGHFB Canadian dates. “And they were saying, ‘Please forgive us for going to the dark side.’ And I said, ‘You know what?’ I’m going to give you one f—ing last chance.’’” We caught up with Gallagher, 50, down the line from New York City. You didn’t really give Gem and Chris a hard time about working with Liam did you? The truth of it is that Beady Eye had split up about, well, like a year before and I was looking to shake things up a bit anyway in the band. And just said, ‘Would you fancy getting on board?’ And they said, ‘F—ing yes please.’ And that was it. You’ve had a woman playing scissors with you and someone at one of Liam’s shows showed up with a potato peeler? Will you counter? No. I believe the potato peeler was a joke right? So not funny to you? Not particularly, no. And how did someone who plays scissors end up with you? Charlotte Marionneau is in a band called Le Volume Courbe, and she’s the singer and she also plays the scissors. As far as I’m aware, she’s the world’s first one and only scissors player. And she asked if she could play them in my band and I said, ‘Yeah, why not?’ This whole thing is revolutionary. Is that your wife Sara MacDonald with her back to us on the cover of the new NGHFB record? That’s right yeah. That was shot in a basement flat and the background I have no idea where that was shot but the guy who did my artwork happens to be my postman. He shot that. Can you explain? Well, the original cover was a picture that we cut out of the National Geographic magazine from the late ‘50s. And it was a picture of woman in Havana but we couldn’t use the picture so had to try and recreate it. So we used my wife as the model because she happened to be sat cross the f—ing kitchen table from me when I came up with the idea. And the guy who did my art work, and the whole campaign, is my postman. Really? Yep. I played him the record and he would go off on his rounds and would listen to it and then he would say, ‘I think we should do something like this.’ He’s got a natural eye. He’s about to become a professional artist. He’s a f—ing genius but he didn’t know it at the time. I believed in him. Has he quit his day job then? Not just yet. He’s just had a baby girl and I think he’s going to try to juggle the two for a while. The new record, produced by soundtrack composer David Holmes in his native Belfast, is definitely a departure which you’ve described as “cosmic pop.” What were the two of you listening to? I’ve got to put a playlist together one day for some f—ing s—y website somewhere and probably put on all the tracks that we did listen to. But everything from Kanye (West) to obscure bubblegum pop like Ice Cream to Blondie to film soundtracks to French f—ing pop. Where did Paul Weller and Johnny Marr, who play organ and guitar, on Holy Mountain and If Love is the Law, respectively, play? They came to London. In the case of Paul, Paul insisted he play on Holy Mountain. In the case of Johnny, I gotten to the dead end with the song that he’s on and I needed some guitar thing that I couldn’t come up with and I called him and said, ‘Can you come and help me out?’ And he was gracious enough to stop what he was doing and get on a train. Was your Narcos-themed 50th birthday party earlier this year as much as fun as the pictures looked and do you feel any different at a half-century? (Jokes) I can’t remember. I guess I do (feel 50). I’m not sure what 50 is supposed to feel like. I feel good. I look f—ing great. Twitter: @janecstevenson JStevenson@postmedia.com — ‘It was very scary spring and summer’ Noel Gallagher spoke his mind on the recent spate of terrorist attacks in England: Given what happened at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, where the Oasis song, Don’t Look Back in Anger, became an anthem in the aftermath, is beefed up concert security including metal detectors just a way of life now? It’s a depressing thought, but yeah. I’ve got to say, particularly in England, our political leaders seem powerless to do anything about it. European f—ing law dictates that these people have the right to practise extremism in our country and there’s nothing you can f—ing do about it. Do you feel vulnerable given the frequency of terrorist attacks in England? It was very scary spring and summer we had. Yeah, it was dreadful, dreadful times. And you know, this is not the last time it’s going to f—ing happen. It’s going to keep happening until somebody has the balls to do something radical. Has that made you personally make any changes in how you get around? I get more sad and angry but I still have to take public transport because I don’t drive. And I get worried about my daughter (Anais). She’s 17. She lives her life on public transport and it’s all random. And when she kisses me goodbye and she’s going off to take the tube it could be the last time I ever f—ing see her. -Jane Stevenson
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Post by jxing on Nov 27, 2017 13:15:53 GMT -5
How is he doing in the U.S.? Who knows. I haven’t seen it in any Best Buy’s or targets. Not many other places actually sell physical albums. He still gotta rely on iTunes and streams which is a major hurdle for him it seems. Same here. I ordered from amazon.
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Post by jxing on Nov 27, 2017 13:09:40 GMT -5
*Go to website for video* Noel Gallagher Recalls Hilarious Jerry Seinfeld Meeting www.rollingstone.com/music/news/noel-gallagher-recalls-hilarious-jerry-seinfeld-meeting-w511908Noel Gallagher Recalls Hilarious Jerry Seinfeld Meeting High Flying Birds mastermind shares story of meeting his comedy idol Noel Gallagher shared a hilarious story about meeting Jerry Seinfeld during a listening party for his new High Flying Birds LP, 'Who Built the Moon?' By Rolling Stone 18 minutes ago Noel Gallagher has never been afraid to publicly bash his least favorite entertainers – from his brother Liam to Radiohead to most contemporary pop artists. But he's equally effusive about his favorite performers, including Jerry Seinfeld. Speaking to Rolling Stone last month at an Los Angeles listening party for his new High Flying Birds LP, Who Built the Moon?, the singer-songwriter – and devoted Seinfeld fan – shared a hilarious story about meeting the stand-up icon as a birthday surprise. RELATED Noel Gallagher on Oasis Rumors, Manchester Pride "I'm in the middle of mixing [Who Built the Moon?], and it's coming up to my birthday in May," he says in the clip. "It's a Friday, so I say to the engineer, 'I'll see ya Monday.' And he says, 'Oh, we're not in Monday, Tuesday.' I say, 'Why not?' He says, 'I've been told not to come in.' I say, 'Who the fuck told you not to come in? I run the fucking record label – who told you not to come in?' And he says, 'You'll have to speak to someone at your office.' So I call my office, and I'm like, 'What's going on with the studio?' They're like, 'Well, you better speak to your wife?' I'm like, 'What the fuck's it got to do with her?'" After consulting with his wife, Sara MacDonald, Gallagher learned he'd be traveling to New York for a mystery gift that she promised would "blow [his] mind." At first, Gallagher wasn't enthused. "I fucking hate surprises," he says. "I cannot handle it. I can't handle it. I go insane if I don't know what the fuck's going on." With the "tension building," a driver transported Gallagher and MacDonald uptown past the Dakota Building, John Lennon's former residence. "Maybe she's taking me to see fucking John Lennon's house," Gallagher recalls thinking. "That would be amazing." Instead, they arrived at the Beacon Theatre, where "two guys in suits" greeted the couple and escorted them to their seats. When Seinfeld strode onstage, Gallagher's jaw dropped. "I've never seen him [perform]," he says. "The funniest thing ever, one of the greatest nights. I'm crying laughing. It's unbelievable. Not only that, after the show, [my wife] said, 'And we're now gonna go meet him.'" RELATED Liam Gallagher vs. Noel Gallagher: Oasis Brothers' Beef History Gallagher and MacDonald ended up sharing an elevator with Seinfeld and the comedian's wife, Jessica – leading to an awkward, sitcom-worthy exchange that could pass for a Seinfeld B-story. "Jerry Seinfeld comes in and says, 'Hey,'" Gallagher recalls. "I'm like, 'No fucking way.' He went, 'Great to see ya.' And his wife went, 'Jerry, this is the guy from London. It's his birthday! I told you!' Jerry's going, 'I don't think you did.' She goes, 'Jerry, I told you – it's his birthday!' He was going, 'No, you didn't tell me.' I said to Sara, 'We're in a scene from Seinfeld. It's fucking unbelievable.'" Back in Seinfeld's dressing room, the comedian "pretended he knew who [Gallagher] was for 45 minutes." But the singer admits he "didn't fucking care" either way. Gallagher gushed to Rolling Stone about his Seinfeld fandom in 2015, calling the acclaimed sitcom "still the best thing that's ever been filmed." "It reminds me of the Nineties — good times," he said. "I was the only person in England who was watching it! That's a fact. Certainly the only person in Manchester who watched it. I identify with Jerry. When I met my wife 15 years ago, she'd never seen it, and I was like, "If we're going to be together, you've got to be into this shit, because this is important." Luckily, she fuckin' loves it." Elsewhere in his Rolling Stone listening party interview, Gallagher talked about the influence of Kanye West and French spoken word on his latest LP.
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Post by jxing on Nov 27, 2017 13:08:31 GMT -5
* go to website for video* www.rollingstone.com/music/news/noel-gallagher-talks-kanye-west-on-new-high-flying-birds-album-w511846News Video Music Politics TV Movies Video Games RS Country RS Hip-Hop More Noel Gallagher Talks Kanye West, French Spoken Word Influence on New Album "As it was going along, I was going, 'This is amazing. He's not getting this,'" Gallagher says of 'Who Built the Moon?' track inspired by "Power" Noel Gallagher explains how a Kanye West song and French spoken word influenced his upcoming High Flying Birds album 'Who Built the Moon?' By Rolling Stone November 15, 2017 When Noel Gallagher first played rough demos to producer David Holmes earlier this year, Holmes told him they sounded like finished versions. "Which was a shock to me because I hadn't even started," Gallagher says. "He said, 'You should finish that record, but if you want to make a record with me, we should do one from scratch.'" RELATED Hear Noel Gallagher's Cinematic New Song 'Fort Knox' The former Oasis guitarist admits that when he first entered Holmes' Belfast studio to begin recording High Flying Birds' upcoming album Who Built the Moon?, Holmes asked him to not come with any songs or even ideas, opting instead for a few guitars and effects pedals. Speaking to Rolling Stone at a Los Angeles listening party last month, Gallagher admits that for 18 months, he and Holmes spent more time talking and absorbing music than recording. "The whole thing was born out of conversation and playing records," he says. "Him saying, 'I think that you should do stuff like this' and he'd play some obscure fuckin' French jazz shit. And I'd be going, 'Wha? Really? Ooh la la.'" The musician would record brief snippets of music before Holmes would stop him occasionally and say, "That sounds a bit like Oasis." "I'd be like, 'Fuckin good, though, right?" Gallagher says. "'Well, yeah, but try something different.' I'd fuck around for another hour-and-a-half and he'd say, 'Starting to sound like High Flying Birds now' and I'd say, 'Equally as fuckin' good, right?' 'No, but try something different.' And eventually, something different would come." Gallagher also discussed how Kanye West influenced album opener "Fort Knox," an ambling, psychedelic instrumental track. "On the day that Kanye released that track 'Fade,' it fuckin' blew my mind," he says. "And I go into the studio and I'm going, 'Wow, have you fuckin' heard this Kanye track?' ... I've always loved that track by him called 'Power.'" Holmes suggested he write a track like that. "And I'm like, 'What? fuckin joking, are ya? I'm no rapper.' He had the idea of, 'Let's pretend we're doing a track for Kanye and we're going to send to him.' And as it was going along, I was going, 'This is amazing. He's not getting this.' So the reason why there's no singing on it is we had this idea we were going to send it to Kanye and then [throws middle finger in air] fuck him." On new song "It's a Beautiful World," Gallagher recruited French singer Charlotte Marionneau to record a spoken word verse. Gallagher wanted "an announcement," but was unable to clear a 1950s French jazz sample of a woman commanding everyone to stay in their seats at a show. They told Marionneau to "say anything." "She's doing her thing in French," he says in the video below. "None of us in the studio can speak French so we don't know what the fuck she's going on about." Marionneau sang a "list of the end of the world." "I was like, 'Aw fuck, I don't really agree with any of that,'" Gallagher, who rewrote some of the lyrics, admits. "The people who were blown away the most was my French record label who were like, 'You know you're going to be really famous in France.' Fantastique."
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Post by jxing on Nov 27, 2017 12:40:02 GMT -5
www.google.com/search?q=liam+Gallagher&client=ms-opera-mobile&channel=new 5 SHARES How Noel wished Liam had stayed behind that Wall of Glass BY JOE ENTERTAINMENT | 1 HOUR AGO This is how in 2017, the year of Liam, Noel Gallagher was left frustrated. by Colm Boohig “It used to be professional… why taint the legacy? But now it’s personal. People are coming after my family (on social media) and one particular person has legitimised it. And for that reason, you’ve seen the last of Oasis." Noel Gallagher, 2017. Noel Gallagher has cut a sterner-than-usual figure of late and it has not gone unnoticed among his eagle-eyed congregation. As he releases his third and most experimental album to-date as a solo artist with ‘Who Built the Moon?’, it is the most closely associated and simultaneously disconnected Noel has been with his younger brother since the final days of the iconic band they once shared. Why? Because 2017 has been the year of Liam Gallagher, and this time he’s sticking around. In terms of sibling rivalry, it’s as you were… Thirteen months ago, Liam Gallagher appeared on the red carpet at the London premiere of ‘Supersonic’ – Mat Whitecross’ wonderful Oasis documentary. Shaggy-haired, swagger-filled and brother-taunting (Liam chastised Noel for his absence on the night and lamented Oasis’ split), Liam looked every bit the man from the movie about to be shown, the scenes of which occurred two decades prior. As 2016 came to a close, it seemed like music and Liam had parted ways for good and all that remained was a beloved ’90s pop culture figure. One year on, Liam has revived his career beyond reasonable prediction thanks to his impressive debut solo album, ‘As You Were‘. Advertisement His utterly engrossing engagements with various media and inimitable Twitter musings have only added to his remarkable revival. Liam has emphatically reminded fans from yesteryear what they were missing while also endearing himself to a whole new generation. No mean feat for one year’s work. Back with a swaggering bang His four-year hiatus from public life following the split of Beady Eye, the band he formed which immediately followed the demise of Oasis, left a centre stage-shaped void for Noel to fill and the elder Gallagher duly obliged. The 2010s have seen Noel become a media darling in an increasingly vanilla industry thanks to his natural flair for an amusing anecdote and withering put-down while continuing to create some excellent material as a solo artist. His personality is almost unique in the modern music world, but there remains one man slightly more incongruous, an individual who’s more than capable of stealing the show. It makes Liam’s return all the more fascinating. Noel undoubtedly anticipated Liam’s constant goading and digital taunting, but he surely didn’t expect the walk to go with the talk that ‘As You Were’ has become since its early October release. What started as a hobby to beat the mundanity of home life has seen Liam finally enter the challenging world of songwriting and come out the other side with a very presentable debut record that has stormed the charts. Enlisting the help of producers and writers Greg Kurstin (Adele, Foo Fighters) and Andrew Wyatt (Carl Barat, Bruno Mars), Liam has delivered the triumphant Wall of Glass, the daydreaming Chinatown and the deeply apologetic For What It’s Worth with ‘As You Were’. It rivals anything Oasis put out post ‘Be Here Now’. Advertisement By his own admission, he remains an intermediate songwriter in what he has called his last-chance saloon in the music business. With Liam, however, music has always been merely part of the dance. His lasting appeal is in his continually unrivalled stage presence and frankly hysterical social commentary which he has been sprinkling all over the entertainment world in 2017. His stardust is so appealing to the masses that at times in recent weeks, the 45-year-old Liam has, by comparison, made 50-year-old Noel seem every bit the middle-aged man. While it is very much as-you-were for Liam, it has been a whole new direction for Noel. A Noel like no other before There has never been a more experimental Noel Gallagher record than ‘Who Built the Moon?’ and, depending where you stand on it, you can thank/scorn David Holmes for this reality. Coincidentally, like Liam, he recruited outside help for his latest release by bringing on board the world-renowned Belfast producer. It was only the third time in twenty-five years that Noel has worked with a producer and the very first time that he arrived in the studio without any material prepared. This was at the request of Holmes, who staunchly refused to entertain any chord progression presented by Noel reminiscent of the quintessential Oasis sound. Instead, he was challenged to make an album which resembled his own personal record collection, the result of which is ‘Who Built the Moon?’ – a complete departure from anything previously attempted. The influences on this album range from the mainstream to the downright obscure. For instance, the album’s main track, the unspeakably upbeat Holy Mountain, is a sample from the 1960s cult song The Chewin’ Gum Kid while the psychedelic instrumental Fort Knox is a heart-pounding homage to Kanye West’s Fade. In other words, it’s a long way from The Masterplan at Maine Road. Advertisement Noel has evolved with the times. It’s not quite this century’s version of Blur vs. Oasis, but their contrasting styles are blatantly apparent and it makes for an enthralling musical duel. It has also never been more personal between the pair, as referenced in Noel’s quote at the top of this article. On the one hand, you’ve got Noel – a man of today’s world who recently boasted of boozing with Bono, celebrated his half-century with a nod to Netflix favourite Narcosand had a French woman play the scissors on a live version of his latest single from a new album he claims is revolutionary in 2017 because of its unique positivity. On the other end, you’ve got Liam – an individual stuck in his own time vortex who refuses to mingle with the rich and famous and who, for better or for worse, will never stray from the rock’n’roll that made him famous in the first place. Liam most likely views Noel’s new material as overly-pretentious. Noel probably sees Liam’s singular efforts as sub-standard Oasis fare. They’ll always agree to disagree and we’ll always enjoy their relatably petty sibling squabblings. But there has been a darkness to this 2017 version of the Liam and Noel story. Time flies but it doesn’t always heal Let’s be clear, the animosity between these two is genuine. This year’s nadir came when Liam, via his beloved Twitter page, labelled Noel’s emotional performance at the re-opening of the Manchester Arena following May’s terrorist attack as nothing more than a publicity stunt. Advertisement Liam later claimed that his account had been hacked but such comments have allegedly assisted in the online abuse that Noel’s own family has suffered. The whole episode has prompted Noel to recently suggest that his ‘not well’younger brother should see a psychiatrist. With each passing decade, this very public feud becomes that little bit more difficult to entertain. If this is all a marketing ploy to either drive sales for their respective albums or increase interest in a brotherly reconciliation (although Liam is not completely against the idea), then it surpasses anything attempted by Conor McGregor or Floyd Mayweather ahead of their bombastic August showdown. In truth, relations between the Gallaghers are at best non-existent and at worst, vitriolic. For so long, Noel has had the place to himself. Now Liam is back and has effortlessly rebuilt his popularity to peak Britpop levels. What happens in 2018 is anyone’s guess but Irish music fans will have as good a view as anyone when both men take to the stage in Dublin within a month of one another next summer. In the meantime, the conclusion of 2017 will see the brothers take their epic battle to a new location – the top of the charts. Intrigue to live forever This is the continuing story of Liam and Noel; a pair once so musically formidable and destructive on the same team, now possibly even more threatening to each other on opposite ends of the field. It is the voice of a generation against the mouthpiece of a golden age. It is the poet clashing with the town crier. It is, after all this time, still so absorbing. Will this town be big enough for the two of them in this new era? Well, it certainly wasn’t the last time. 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Post by jxing on Nov 27, 2017 12:36:15 GMT -5
How is he doing in the U.S.?
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Post by jxing on Nov 27, 2017 12:27:34 GMT -5
I don't fault him for any of his solo or not- solo comments... its like when peole are in love and stay they're going to stay together forever and then get divorced.
Anyway, this is one of my favorite Noel smash ups.. if you go to the 5:00 He talks about the solo statement and how he says it to mess with Liam.
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Post by jxing on Nov 27, 2017 3:09:07 GMT -5
Sometimes, it's best to step aside when it's your spouse and his family. The wife shouldn't or need to be apart of it. She should be there for support only. Liam and Noel always had issues way before Sara came into the picture. Sara is no saint either. She hasn't been a good aunt to Liam's kids, has she? Liam has tried to be an uncle to Anais. Noel and Sara's two boys most likely not since the boys were too young when the plum was thrown. What are you on about? You sound really bitter. [br Are you referring to my post or someone else?
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 22:07:16 GMT -5
The issue with them " becoming friends or brothers again" is that it would probably only last a very short time. Neither would change. Noel would make fun of Liam and Liam would get pissed and say something inappropriate..
And I don't see them patching things up for Peggy' s sake.. it would be fake. Same thing happened with my mom and her brother, it lasted a couple months after my grandfather passed. Some siblings just don't like each other or get along.
As for sara stepping aside for them to mend fences, never going to happen and why should she. She is his wife and mother to his children.
This was as genuine interview that we're going to get from Noel. At least he acknowledged the role that they both played in their success. Yes, noel needs to take responsibility for his actions but he's never going to do that. I'm just hoping that he stops slagging off us fans... cause I'd like to go to his concert since I'm missing Liam's.
The best Liam can do is to go forward without mentioning Noel or his family and the same for Noel.
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 19:59:23 GMT -5
Love the story about Liam signing his first autograph. You can tell he loves his brother still What!? Well, nice to see u say something nice for once...😉😛
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 19:06:22 GMT -5
That was a great interview.
Im also kinda obsessed with that Djs voice... very soothing.
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U.S. Tour
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 17:21:35 GMT -5
I was going to start a new thread but didn’t want people all besides themselves but who’s all going to the DC show? Let me know so we can fig out how many of us will be there. Can’t wait! Have fun and have a drink for me😕
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 17:19:40 GMT -5
This will be broadcast in a couple of days. It should be very interesting, I hope someone can rip it! Thanks!
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 16:58:28 GMT -5
Great find! letterboxd.com/josephg/film/logan-lucky/1/Second viewing and the movie played better this time around. Still not convinced of why we needed to have that subplot with Seth McFarlane (and his horrible accent), but otherwise it's a very delightful movie with gorgeous cinematography, cool music and fine actors having fun. I feel that movie will fit nicely when I decide that I want to rewatch the Ocean movies again. It would be great if we could get a release of the score, and not just a medley on the soundtrack album. (Useless trivia: Noel Gallagher of Oasis is playing the guitar for this).
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 16:52:19 GMT -5
It was in response to this review that Noel also referenced on his Instagram.
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 16:48:36 GMT -5
Another repeat post that focuses negatively on Noel! Your passive aggressive hatred of him really is getting tiresome. Ffs I didn't write that review or throw his album away.. if I "hated" noel.. I would have no fucking problem admitting or expressing it. And if my postings are getting "tiresom" than don't read them... I think I post more non-bias stuff, like press articles... Which I purchase with my money and share with everyone on here..you ungrateful asshole 🖕
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 15:48:05 GMT -5
How? Never have heard him say or tweet anything insulting about the kids. He did say that Anais looks like Noel with a wig. Whether or not that is an insult is of course up for debate.
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 15:36:04 GMT -5
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 15:34:49 GMT -5
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Post by jxing on Nov 26, 2017 15:26:25 GMT -5
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