Oasis leader Noel Gallagher was clobbered on stage at this weekend’s V Festival. The attack happened about a minute into playing the the title track from their album What’s the Story Morning Glory. Noel’s spokesperson said in a statement that the guitarist fell “heavily” on his monitor speakers and was taken to hospital after the show where he was examined for a “suspected fractured rib and ligament damage,” reported the NME.
Watch video of the attack:
Official streams of the new Oasis single: “Shock of the Lightning” (Windows, QT), from Dig Out Your Soul, due October 7 on Big Brother/Warner Brothers.
Sounds a lot like something from 1997’s Be Here Now, which I guess is a mixed bag.
What I liked about Don’t Believe the Truth (2005) was that the band finally incorporated some vintage production to support their vintage influences. They finally got comfortable with sounding like the bands they were emulating. This might be a return to the bombastic, sometimes bloated, production of their earlier albums, which may please pub rockin’ waterheads but not the more discerning fans who generally dismiss Oasis as less than the sum of their idols.
MP3: Oasis – “Falling Down” (Chemical Brothers remix)
Trailer: Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul
Previously: Oasis – Lord Don’t Slow Me Down (DVD), New Oasis Video – Lord Don’t Slow Me Down, Noel Gallagher interview.
Jake has long bemoaned the fact that British singers all sound like pansies. [Specifically, English singers -ed.] It’s his main argument for abandoning a genre that once fueled his music collection and has led to hilarious arguments at countless bars with me and Loftus. But is the Old Man right?
MuchMusic has a list of the The 10 Fiercest British Frontmen Of The Past Decade and I gotta say, there’s a fair amount of dandy-ism on display and maybe only one dude I definitely wouldn’t fight in an alley (Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, who I am sure would fight dirty to protect his hair).
Seven sissies I could stomp and three dudes I would not fight after the jump.
The NME (quoting The Sun today) reports that Zak Starkey has quit Oasis after a falling out with Noel Gallagher. The newspaper quotes a source close to the band as saying: “There have been arguments with Noel Gallagher and general disagreements.”
Starkey unofficially joined Oasis in 2004, replacing drummer Alan White and is credited on two albums, Don’t Believe the Truth and an upcoming studio album set for release this year.
Starkey’s membership in Oasis remained unofficial supposedly because of prior commitments to The Who and to leave open the possibility of working with Johnny Marr’s The Healers again. Seems old Zak likes to keep his options open, which isn’t such a bad idea if your main paycheck is signed by a Gallagher brother.
Previously on GLONO: Oasis – Lord Don’t Slow Me Down (DVD)
Oasis – Lord Don’t Slow Me Down (Sony Music) The British big mouths come back with a tasty tour diary documenting their 2005 tour in support of Don’t Believe the Truth and prove there’s more to them than fights and outrageous press quotes.
We understand, you know. Oasis fans know why you don’t like the band. We know that they’re all attitude and that their music veers awfully close to parody of classic British bands of yesteryear. We get that the Gallagher brothers’ drama and arrogance wears thin on most people. Yes, we get it. We just think you’re being uptight dicks about it.
Lord Don’t Slow Me Down is the concert diary of the band’s 2005 world tour supporting their sixth studio album, Don’t Believe the Truth. The film is marketed as a documentary but it’s hardly that. If you had never heard of Oasis before seeing the movie you’d never know after watching it that the only remaining founding members are Noel and Liam Gallagher, that they were instrumental in a massive British music resurgence in the mid-1990s, that they helped get Tony Blair elected as Prime Minister (and then subsequently snubbed), or that this tour was for an album that ranks as one of their best since their 1995 breakout, What’s the Story Morning Glory, which catapulted the band to enormous success and established them as the rock and roll stars they live up to every day. All you’d know after watching the film is that Oasis is a band of British mush mouths who have a lot of fans and are clearly bored with the media trappings that are required to support a world tour in this day and age.
People love ’em, people hate ’em. Take a side. I know which one I’m on.
Oasis – Lord Don’t Slow Me Down
A great return to the vintage Oasis pub rock that sloshed beer and stomped boots in the late 90s. I love when they cut loose with the Big Rock.
Noel Gallagher once again proves he’s still the best interview in the business: “I don’t give a fuck about Radiohead and all that indie nonsense. I was brought up on the top 10. Slade, T.Rex, David Bowie. If you’re not in the charts, you don’t exist. BMX Bandits? Four people are listening to it in Hull. I went in there to get Phil Collins’ severed head in my fridge by the end of the decade.”
Oasis’ greatest hits compilation Stop the Clocks, comes out November 21. The Guardian points out that only ten of Oasis’s 22 UK hits are included, the remaining eight songs are album cuts and b-sides.
And 14 of the 18 tracks were released in 1994 or 1995. Why? “Because those songs were written in my 20s. All I had in the world was a guitar and a Dictaphone. When you’re young, you write about being young and shagging and drugs and drinking. You can’t do that when you’re 39.”
Previously: Oasis and the Black Crowes? Together?
BBC Timeline: Blur v Oasis after Britpop.
Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop
Remember the 90s? No? Well, put down that Modest Mouse CD, Sally, and I’ll tell you all about it. They were heady times. The economy was rocking, and so was the White House. While the market was going up, Monica was going down and we were all having a laugh while Republicans tried to dismantle democracy in America. Yes, we were all gleefully hoodwinked by the early volleys of a culture war that is just now taking its toll.
Continue reading Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop
“What Is Sexy?” Victoria’s Secret asks us, as Oasis’ raunchy “Hung In A Bad Place” crunches in the background. But the question in rhetorical. Reality and Wal-Mart models don’t sell pricey underthings. Victoria’s Secret answers its own question, representing ‘sexy’ as a woman lounging in a strobe-lit airplane hangar, wearing little more than her bare essentials and a pair of stiletto heels. The ad might as well pry your eyes open with toothpicks and punch you in the face with boobs and butts. Much like the Gallagher brothers, subtlety isn’t one of Victoria’s strongest character traits.
But today is Halloween, not Valentine’s Day. Which makes us wonder: what is scary?
