Noel making a joke of himself

NEW YORK - (photo in Milan). Once again, and again... what a smart idiot. Now, like children do, he's telling on purpose the opposite of what Liam says, also about musicians, so his opinions sound FAKE, not honest as people say. Noel sure has nothing to do and pays attention to what Liam says. After he defamed Liam for years in the press, he knows Liam has a bad press and now tells the opposite of Liam.
The media darling Noel Gallagher is an arse licker and is now resulting ridiculous to the real Noel of ages ago... he now wants haters and all the people he attacked and insulted, to like him. Hilarious, the list is very long... for example he should start from his own fans he insulted not long ago... And still, now he attacked Arcade Fire (and mocked Smashing Pumpkins), even saying "How arrogant are these people..." ...said by the most arrogant man on earth. Still he wants to sound humble, now saying oh what a shitty year, knowing that he won Man of the Year Award, Asshole of the Year Award, etc. all prizes without people voting.
He sounds stupid when he complains about double albums, it shows how money driven he is.
But yeah, never watching 2 hours films then eh?
Also, I remember he used to say he wanted to publish double albums... and until not long ago, the first "solo" album had to be immediately followed by another one... yes, after 4 years. He didn't find enough songs to copy. Also, he argued with other people (wasn't it Liam arguing with everybody?)
He slammed the new Arcade Fire album without hearing it.... typical Noel.
He's in clear difficulty without a real band and his target is always "breaking America"... it's his main obsession, and he will never succeed, not even belonging to the illuminati... of course his blinded fans say: he doesn't care about America...
as when he did everything for that with his first album (recorded in Los Angeles, stealing band name and lyrics from American bands, making American-style videos, with American actresses, etc. even saying he wants to be the American president) ...resulting 28th in their chart. Mission : failed.
Now of course he said he wants to record the new album in New York. And that he hasn't recorded anything yet... of course, first he should find other Oasis discarded material co-written with Gem, just like Noel's first "solo" album...
His jealousy for musicians who have a lot of hits, still burns burns burns... that's also why he hates John Lennon, the Beach Boys, etc. etc.
The amazing thing is that a lot of people find him funny... really weird sense of humour around the world. Probably because the people are generally not very smart... and laugh for nothing.
He's funny just in the sense that he's a joke...
And they even call him HONEST ahahaha yeah that's really funny.
He also said he's keeping the High Lying Smurfs name 'cause it's a fucking good name... sure it is.
And while talking, "...It’s kind of like going back to what alternative music was before Oasis ruined everything by being massive.”
did he mean Liam's massive band (forming, naming and fronting Oasis), as the other week Noel said Noel was never in Oasis... (which Noel?) ...nah Noel was NOT a "founding member of Oasis"... he just FOUND them (as he found and used the songs by the Real People...)
His blinded fans still say : he's never in the press ahaha
I noticed his fans hate Beady Eye in an ignorant way... without knowing not even about Noel, can you imagine their knowledge of Liam. Also, attacking Liam under Noel's interviews.
Strange, this is the first time there wasn't "no Oasis reunion not even for starving children". It would have been the 10000 time.
Some people don't even know that many journalists are PAID to write certain things...

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2013 best & worst

MILAN - video, I think there won't be anything else to add.

album of the year: BE, by Beady Eye (the Japanese bonus edition, with Off at the next exit and Evil eye)

photo of the year: Cara Delevingne in Milan with ambulance (quite meaningful)

hairstyle of the year: Cara's Oasis fringe @ Milan woman fashion week

paparazzi missions of the year: Monica Bellucci, Kate Moss, Kakà, Mario Balotelli

night of the year: McLaren @ Just Cavalli

goal of the year: Balotelli vs Brazil and even Brazilians getting mad for him (but the best one was his goal vs Cagliari, disallowed not because of Mario)

flop of the year: McLaren (the car, not the bikes, winning the difficult Giro d'Italia-Tour of Italy with Nibali & stages with Mark Cavendish. Pretty Green-Oasis mod fan Wiggins struggling :(

bastard acts of the year: Platini & Blatter (winning this every year), doing everything for France (irregular goals and changing rules). Also, totally irregular win of Brazil in the other Brazil-Italy, at the Confederations Cup. And the usual Barcelona helped by referees.
+Vettel

loss of the year: Maria de Villota, Stefano Borgonovo, Nelson Mandela (and Beckham)

2014 is ready... (World Cup, gigs, Senna, Sony McLaren and maybe Led Zeppelin reforming)

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Beady Eye Christmas session

LONDON - Absolute radio

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Beady Eye replacing Blur

Beady Eye first time in Australia and New Zealand. Big Day Out organisers have made good on their promise and an intriguing Britpop subplot has emerged, replacing British headliner Blur with three new acts including Liam Gallagher's new band Beady Eye.
Many fans joked that the festival bosses should try to get Oasis to reform after Blur suddenly quit the festival (did they learn from their fake friend Noel Gallagher... tirapacchi!)
Popular American alternative metallers Deftones and theatrical Swedish garage band The Hives join the line-up, but the biggest new name is Beady Eye.
new Big Day Out co-promoter AJ Maddah has signed Beady Eye for their first Australian shows in January.
Blur and Oasis played out an at times fractious battle in the media for supremacy of the Britpop movement over 20 years, with Oasis compared to the Rolling Stones and Blur to The Beatles.
One can imagine Liam Gallagher, one of rock's great loudmouths, taunting Blur's frontman Damon Albarn that he will finish what Blur couldn't — electrify the fans at the 2014 Big Day Out.
Pearl Jam and Canadian indie band Arcade Fire will also play at the festival.

17 January - Auckland, New Zealand
19 January - Carrara
24 January - Flemington
26 January - Sydney
31 January - Adelaide
2 February - Claremont

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Blatter saving France +"giornalai"

MILANO - Brazil 2014 World Cup new official ball, called Brazuca, by Adidas.

"nice" change for the World Cup draw on 6 December:
to save Uefa president Platini's FRANCE, not only they qualified thanks to the referee (again) against Ukraine, but also they put them in the European pot (despite being 9 teams instead of 8 and France having the worst ranking) and leaving the African pot with 7, with another draw for that one, so Italy and other European teams could have like Brazil or Spain (or Germany or Argentina) with Holland (or England) in the same group. Those bastards think all the people are ignorant and don't understand...
the usual bastard Blatter...

Adesso fanno pure vedere in tv le riunioni private dei giornalisti, per mettersi d'accordo a dire più boiate. Ma sì, vantiamocene pure.
Sono le persone che attaccano quotidianamente Balotelli (e poi dicono: basta difendere Balotelli!! ...ma chi??), se non sono loro a condannare il razzismo, chi altro può farlo visto che in giro è pieno di imbecilli.
E invece no, intellettualeggiano e raccontano i "se" e i "ma", eh ma tanto all'estero fanno anche questo e quest'altro... ah beh allora... Così ci sarà sempre il razzismo in Italia.
Come al solito insopportabile dalle 4 alle 5 del pomeriggio su TopCalcio24, l'interista Gianluca Rossi, dove spara stronzate a raffica, atteggiandosi come Il Più Intelligente Del Mondo. Però ha detto che non dobbiamo dare retta ai giornalisti (quindi neanche a lui?). E poi durante questo spazio che "era" dedicato all'Inter (hanno capito che non ce la fa) finisce sempre a parlare del Milan, perchè rosica rosica ROSSica... "ma tanto lui scherza eh"...
Sull'argentino Spolli che ha insultato Balotelli: "eh ma in Argentina se ne dicono di tutti i colori..."

Ha pure avuto un lapsus freudiano: "stiamo facendo tanto per i razzisti...ehm..razzismo"... ovviamente attaccando ancora Balotelli, e non credendogli.
Lo chiamano gli ignoranti che non sanno neanche parlare in italiano e gli fanno i complimenti, "tu sì che sei un vero giornalista"... ah sicuro...
"il colore della pelle in Italia non è più un problema"... boiata della giornata. E' quando mette il MA nei suoi discorsi (pieni di "però") che è ancora un problema...

I discorsi di queste persone, che hanno studiato e sono laureati, sono di un'ignoranza da manuale, camuffata da saccenteria. Ci sono cose sbagliate in ogni santa cosa che dicono, a volte sembra proprio che neanche seguano il calcio, che è il loro "lavoro"... sì, vengono anche pagati bene. Essere incompetenti nel proprio lavoro è tipico degli italiani...
Figuriamoci quelli che non hanno studiato allora...
finito lui, arriva un altro interista, il "piacione" Piacentini falso modesto: "io non devo insegnare nulla, però..." e fa l'antropologicamente superiore. Ma chi è poi questo qui? un attore?

interista Musmarra idem, "ma ci mancherebbe altro che ci mettiamo a difendere Balotelli"... non sia mai.

juventino Chirico pessimo, si comporta come un bambino e odia Balotelli a morte. Poi tifa la Nazionale.

C'è questa coalizione interista-juventina (da comiche) per far fronte persino a questo debole Milan, da soli non ce la fanno. L'unico tra gli interisti che è migliorato è Garioni, imparziale e serio.

Stanno anche criticando la multa perchè 12.000 bambini juventini gridavano merda, perchè "tanto i bambini sono naif...Lo fanno a cuor leggero"... ah crescono in quel modo naif a cuor leggero...

Boban (vedi alcuni post precedenti) ovviamente non è capace di fare l'allenatore, e segue la scia dei giornalai.

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Beady Eye back to Italy

TREZZO-UPON-ADDA (lol) not Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon :) - Christmas gift to the fans. They will play near Milan, @ Live Club in Trezzo sull'Adda (for those protesting / mocking about that, I remind them "bands" like Negramaro, Modà (who??), Jovanotti, etc. play @ San Siro, so nowadays it's quite a shame to play in big stadia. Now you have Oasis playing in your room, so stop moaning), the day after Valentine's day on Saturday 15 February, the day dedicated to singles aha (and Rome the next day). Tickets from 4 December, clicking here. More info soon.

10 February - Coliseum de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
12 - La Riviera, Madrid, Spain
13 - Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
15 - Live Club, Trezzo sull'Adda, Italy
16 - Orion, Rome, Italy
18 - X-tra, Zürich, Switzerland
19 - Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland
21 - Rockhal, Esch Alzette, Luxembourg
22 - Essigfabrik, Köln, Germany
24 - Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
25 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
27 - Bataclan, Paris, france

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Beady Eye XFM bootleg

XFM radio session to download here, photos by Peccinotti

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Beady Eye for the Philippines

LONDON - while stupid Noel Gallagher (the media darling blah blah blah) quoted the Philippines when repeating "no Oasis reunion" for the 10000th time, "not even for starving children", etc. (see some posts ago), and he also didn't do anything for Japan, a host of bands including Beady Eye, Muse and Foals have donated special items to the Help 13 auction to raise money to help the survivors of the typhoon in the Philippines.
Among the list of items up for sale over the coming weeks include signed items by Suede and Pulled Apart By Horses as well as an exclusive collection of original artwork, collectible prints, signed singles and merchandise. The first auction begins today (November 29) and all money raised will go to the Oxfam Philippines Appeal.
Help Auction 13 was set up by Rebecca Vincent, a tattoo artist, who originally wanted to collect pieces from fellow artists and auction them off. Her husband, Pulled Apart By Horses drummer Lee Vincent suggested asking friends in bands to help too, which is when she enlisted the help of film-maker Charlotte Knight, who has worked with numerous bands.
"After the horrific effects of the recent typhoon in the Philippines, we called on friends and colleagues in the world of art and music to donate items and the response has been astounding," Rebecca Vincent said. "More people are getting in touch every day and the list of donations is growing and growing."
Pulled Apart By Horses' singer James Brown said: "Help Auction are helping people in this world that need help fast and now. So, to support something like this is beyond important to us and should also be for you."

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Beady Eye @ Chatty Man

LONDON - @ Alan Carr, other songs added to the previous post @ Xfm. They will play @ Rockhal in Luxembourg, 21 February, Amsterdam 25 (Paradiso), Paris 27 (Le Bataclan), this means the tour continues, as Liam anticipated

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Beady Eye @ XFM radio (other songs added)

LONDON - First time live: Off at the next exit. More to add soon.
Liam revealed that 2014 would see Beady Eye continue to tour their second album, BE (21 February in Luxembourg, 25 Amsterdam, 27 Paris).
"We've got a Christmas break as from Wednesday. We're kept in the dark about what's going on next year. Which is nice, I guess. We just want to do gigs, you know what I mean? We want to get out there playing. Play this album to people, cos we think it's cool."
Speaking to the XFM Evening Show, Gallagher discussed his opinions on streaming music over purchasing the physical product, saying that he has always preferred listening to his favourite albums on vinyl, during a discussion prior to Beady Eye's XFM Presents with Ford SYNC session, with Danielle Perry.
Revealing that he has record players "coming out of my ears", Liam went on to add: "Listening to it on vinyl is always for me. I don't even know what Spotify is. The first vinyl I ever bought, it really changed my life, got me into music was the Stone Roses album. I remember I bought it in Mr Sifters in Burnage. And then I bought a Greggs pasty right after it. And a big bag of weed. I know exactly what I did that day."

Beady Eye's Christmas session next 4 December at 8pm (UK time) on Absolute Radio

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Milan loves Rangers

MILAN - After the charity game between Rangers and AC Milan last year (with Mark Hateley, Pretty Green fan, he played for both),
then this September at the San Siro stadium (Milan 2-0), AC Milan fans showed to Celtic a banner that read:

"Rangers no surrender"... so the other day in Glasgow (0-3 Milan) their fans showed "pazza Inter amala"...
Just the other day, a Celtic rude fan annoyed us.
He was also Inter fan, living in Milan... he also said he hates Italian girls... of course, you can never win a Milan girl if you're not from Milan...
After all of this... and being Noel Gallagher a Celtic fan and Manchester City fake fan... (see previous post)  

Glasgow Rangers forever :)
(also, Oasis "president" Alan McGee and Noel's wife favourite club)

Hateley goal, Milan-Inter 2-1 (1984), I remember this as if it was yesterday... 30 years ago.
Depeche Mode, by the way: Liam tweeted: "Dave Gahan LEGEND. LG x"

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Noel Gallagher-Milan 0-3

GLASGOW - ironic, as Noel hates John Lennon... even a team now in crisis as AC Milan (change in the management-staff going on) won easily against fanboy Noel Gallagher's club (Manchester City fake fan) in Scotland, after Milan 2-0 at the San Siro.
Their manager Lennon before the game said at home nobody beats them... lol (they also won vs Barcelona last year).
Goals by Kakà, even Zapata again aha, Mario Balotelli.
Dedicated to stupid Boban (see previous post).

Altro spandimerda interista, stavolta Musmarra (di solito è Gianluca Rossi, che finisce sempre a parlare del Milan), proprio oggi ha detto che i milanisti non si impegnano (invece proprio adesso si stanno impegnando di più, partita col Genoa compresa). E aveva persino da ridire sui "colleghi Mediaset" (colleghi nei suoi sogni).
Gli interisti invece a metà settimana si impegnano a giocare a briscola.

L'idiota Boban, tra le varie boiate, ha detto che Balotelli porterebbe le borse a Van Basten, Weah, Shevchenko... è quello che ha fatto Boban...
Guarda caso non fa l'allenatore ma viene pagato in televisione per dire stronzate, sono quelle le persone da prendere a schiaffi. Sapesse almeno fare il suo lavoro... ha dimostrato ancora una volta la sua ignoranza in materia.
Come se poi essere più ricchi significasse essere migliori, e come se Balotelli dovesse essere più grande del Milan. Non lo sarà mai nessuno.
Ha ragione però, smettiamola di parlare di questo Balotelli... smettiamola di parlarne male! è un odio quotidiano.
Belli anche i suoi commenti sulla vita di Mario... avremmo voluto vedere Boban da bambino abbandonato, adottato, con gravi problemi di salute, cresciuto in un paese razzista come l'Italia, ecc. Di sicuro è Boban che non sta facendo nulla nella sua vita.
Tipico croato razzista, come quelli che all'ultimo Italia-Croazia a Euro 2012 hanno tirato banane.

Bruno Longhi, l'interista ormai rimbambito che tra le varie spalmate di merda ha dato dello schifoso a De Jong e Milan, ha detto che il gruppo del Milan, a differenza di quello della Juventus, era facile... eh beh certo, invece pareggiare contro il Copenhagen (chiiii??) è difficilissimo...

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Boban racist hate on Balotelli

MILAN - As if being richer meant being better... I'd expect an opinion like this from multi-millionaire Noel Gallagher... oh but according to his fans, he's poor. They even said he's never in the media ahahaha totally blinded. That's why they don't know anything about him, they don't even see all the DAILY bullshit about him.

ex Croatian player Boban said people should stop talking about Balotelli AND he talked shit about him. Wow that's rare, nobody ever did eh... in a typical way from Balotelli haters, that is : an ignorant way.
He said Balotelli never did ANYTHING in his whole LIFE and was always on the bench in all the teams he played for, and even added that physical violence should be necessary against him.
"He would carry the bags for Van Basten, Shevchenko, Weah..." ...that's what Boban did.
He also said Balotelli will always be smaller than Milan and Milan greater than him, and Kakà is richer than him.

as if Balotelli should be greater than Milan... NOBODY will ever be. These haters are also Berlusconi haters... so, being Berlusconi richer than them, is he better than them?

I'd love Boban had the same life Mario had... abandoned, adopted, with serious health problems, and being of a different race in a country historically of white people, etc.

sure Balotelli was on the bench when Manchester City won the historic derby vs United at the Old Trafford 1-6... (the "why always me" t-shirt, with the first 2 goals by him and deciding the game)
or when he was "man of the match" in the first cup won in 35 years.
Or with his final assist at the last minute for the first league won in 44 years.
etc.

wow Balotelli was on the bench at Euro 2012 when Italy surprisingly (not because of history, we always win against them, but because of Germany that was stronger as often) defeated Germany with his 2 goals,
or when made them qualify for the World Cup.

in Italy, Inter won some league and cup also thanks to Balotelli final goals...
and AC Milan without Balotelli goals wouldn't even be in Champions League...

and sorry if it's still "few", but he's still young.

the problem of these "expert" people, usually journalists (in Italy an Inter fan called Gianluca Rossi saying daily bullshit, also inventing that his mother is English and he doesn't even follow the Premier League) is that they don't follow all the leagues and their knowledge is reduced.

now you can see why Boban is no manager but he's on tv... saying bullshit.
Football fans hardly remember about him as a player.

Croatian fans are famous for being racist... (often Italians too) ...see also the last Italy-Croatia at Euro 2012, with racial abuse from their supporters, and even throwing bananas to Balotelli... that's the kind of people Boban agrees with

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Noel Hitler: no Oasis reunion in the Philippines

NEW YORK - Noel's fans even said there's nothing about him in the media ahahaha totally blinded... yeah, like: DAILY bullshit... see it's normal they don't know anything about him, they don't even see what he says.
....blasting in the Philippines is part of the jinx Hitler Noel Gallagher's sensitive ways, together with wishing to catch Aids and die to Blur, John Lennon was an idiot, no Oasis reunion "not even for starving children", insulting his own fans who made him a multi-millionaire, etc. What an idiot. Godlike genius (without people voting) of my ass, brains not behind the band... the ass.
It isn’t the most sensitive way to describe such a thing there, in light of recent typhoon-related events. Oasis concerts are the least of their concerns. They won't be holding concerts for some time.

Noel is as boring as Red Bull's Vettel... winning not really because he's the best (it's an opinion... selling more than Beady Eye doesn't make him better... Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber sell much more than Noel), but because part of a system where everybody could win in his place, made of a team (aka: management, media, journalists, etc.) continuously repeating the same things. The people who are fans of them don't even realise about this, they're slave of the system.
Also, Noel is arrogant, as Vettel is too... read Noel's latest interview.
Sure that double L of Red Bull could suggest you they're part of the iLLuminati... you remember Noel meeting Richard Branson with Virigin's Brawn winning both the world titles in the FIRST and ONLY season in F1... VERY STRANGE, Penny Lane...

Ooh this is a big news... yes ladies and gentlemen, Noel repeated for the 10000 time "no Oasis reunion" (bullshit like that is on EVERY website around - even in America -, ...THAT is the nauseating thing)
it was like 2 months the media darling was not repeating that...
Quite hilarious said by the one who left them 3 times (September 1994 - summer 2000 - 2009) and planned split and reunion years ago, talking about a "5 year break"... They will obviously reform someday, as Noel repeated he's interested in money only...
Always to sound as the invincible one, the big man who doesn't need anyone...
well he needs a singer, a band, etc.
The people who are no Oasis fans, so they're no Noel blinded fans, realised about this thing continuously repeating WEEKLY... The smart liar wants Oasis haters to like him... (already promoting his new album, with the "no Oasis" story, that is another big lie, and he knows). He IS an Oasis hater...
Usually his totally blinded fans say : he never said no Oasis reunion ........... Or they say they ask him very often... nah nah how naive, they didn't understand anything of the media darling...

It's unbelievable how his lies remain forever in the heads of the people, they still believe he refused to play at the Olympics because he doesn't need the money or some other reason to sound cool, as "they asked him to mime so he refused". He was NOT going to be paid, THAT's why he refused.
Liam did NOT mime (there are seriously Noel's fans who think he did... he didn't sing super-well that night, so it was easy to see). At least at the Olympics they know Noel is no singer.

And these things especially from Noel's new fankids who have never even seen Oasis live.

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World Cup 2014 fans

MILAN - video: song by Beady Eye, sexy girls and qualified teams for the World Cup Brazil 2014, draw on 6 December 2013. 

The World Cup was made by Milan artist Silvio Gazzaniga (AC Milan fan). 

Italian managers @ 2014 World Cup: Prandelli (Italy), Capello (Russia, ex England), Zaccheroni (Japan).

"nice" change for the draw on 6 December:
to save Uefa president Platini's FRANCE, not only they qualified thanks to the referee (again), but also they put them in the European pot (despite being 9 teams instead of 8 and France having the worst ranking) and leaving the African pot with 7, with another draw for that one, so Italy and other teams could have like Brazil and Holland (or England) in the same group.
bastard Blatter

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Beady Eye in London

LONDON - @ Hammersmith Apollo. 

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Beady Eye in Portsmouth

PORTSMOUTH - @ Guildhall. Let's see if there will be lying Noel's blinded journalists "reviewing" here too.

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Alan against London

HAY-ON-WYE - Former Creation records boss Alan McGee, the man who signed Oasis and was responsible for one of the greatest music labels in rock ‘n’ roll history, is telling the story of his incredible life with the publication of his autobiography, Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label (with Noel and not Liam on the cover... Oasis was LIAM's band, formed, named and fronted by him. Not going to buy this book).
It’s a riveting, rollercoaster of a read documenting incredible highs as Oasis became the biggest band in the world and crushing lows as the Glaswegian’s life fell apart due to drink and drugs.
However, it was Wales that would became his great redeemer and McGee’s sanctuary from the excesses of the music industry.
Buying a house in Hay-on-Wye in 1997, initially as a holiday retreat, the music mogul moved to the Welsh countryside for good five years ago, desperate to escape London with his wife Kate and their daughter Charlie.
“I think I was going past McCartneys the estate agents in Hay-on-Wye and I saw this gaff,” says McGee, recounting the story of how the border town first cast its spell.
“Now I don’t know if it was a rock ‘n’ roll message being sent because of the name of the estate agent but I’d prefer to say it was all down to Led Zeppelin if I’m honest.
“ I remember when I was 15 and Led Zepplein were walking over the hills in Wales and had these big houses. I thought to myself if I ever make it I want one of them.
“No matter what happens, I’ll never move from here. There’s a ley line under us, Strata Florida, which runs straight through the house, all the way from Glastonbury to Aberystwyth Castle, with us in the middle.”
Describing life in Powys as a spiritual rehab, McGee says he spent five years reading, watching films and bringing up his daughter, happily isolated from the rat race.
The rest was recuperative in every sense because after five years he was ready to re-immerse himself in the music industry, but on his own terms.”
The 53-year-old, who also launched the careers of Primal Scream, Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Super Furry Animals amongst others, announced his long-awaited return to the music industry this year with 359 Records – a joint collaboration with long-standing independent label Cherry Red, run from his Powys base.
“The best thing I ever did was going away for five years. Where I live is completely spiritual. I can sit in my room, look at the Black Mountains, and I can just decide should I or should I not go and do this or go and do that?
"I find in London that everything is like a bumrush every single time. It’s just too much."
“We split to Wales because London is such a me-me-me culture,” he adds. “It got so boring.
"You come down here and people are actually nice. You don’t usually meet people in London who are actually nice.
"Everyone has got an agenda. Me and the missus were in London for too long. Plus my daughter was around six or seven and I thought ‘I really don’t want her to become Londonised’.
“I think I’m averse to London,” he adds. “It eats your soul. It’s not people’s fault, it’s just there’s no spirituality in London.
"There may be creativity, but there’s no spirituality. People are on the breadline, and they’re just used up as a resource.
"People just end up using each other, you know, eating each other, it’s a kind of cannibalism. It freaks me out. All I ever want to do in London is get in and get out of it.
“With the technology now, it means you can run everything from home. I’ve got the book out, I’ve got a record company, a publishing company and two films all coming out, and I’m running it from my bedroom in Wales.
“The bottom line is, if I can do it on a Blackberry and a computer, anyone can do it – because I’m not that bright. You’ve got to have the confidence, but once you go after it and do it, then you realise you can do it.”
The reborn music mogul has never been busier. In addition to his autobiography and 359 Music, his first film as producer, Kubricks, has secured a distribution deal and he will be making an appearance in the forthcoming music industry comedy Svengali, which stars Welsh actor Johnny Owen and Sherlock star Martin Freeman.
McGee, who DJs regularly around the world, will be returning to one of his favourite Welsh haunts – the Mountain Ash Inn pub in Mountain Ash – next Saturday for another 359 Music night, after launching the label in Wales back in September.
Being introduced to landlord Tony Rivers through mutual acquaintances, the former Creation Records man admits it’s a place he loves.
“I just came and DJed one Sunday night and there were about 200 of them singing Oasis songs,” he laughs. “I had a blast so I kept coming back.
“When we started the label I said we would come back here and do a 359 Music night, because I like it here. I don’t think this part of the world gets the publicity it deserves. I think too many people see it as a backwater and a forgotten part of Britain.
“When we said we’re going to do the launch in Mountain Ash, people were saying to me ‘well where is it?’
But I love it, it’s this little rock ‘n’ roll haven in the middle of the valleys with posters of The Smiths and Sex Pistols on the wall it’s unlike any pub you will ever see.”

Bill Clinton bunks up

These days I don't travel nearly as much. I'm a family man, and I like the quiet of Wales. People comes to see us.
Bill Clinton came to stay once. I was going to do a gig in New York in May 2001, and on AOL messenger Peter Florence, the director of Hay Festival, said, 'Hi Alan, what are you doing next weekend?'
When I said I was in Amaerica, the next question was, 'Can Bill Clinton stay in your house?' I told (my wife) Kate, and she was very excited. 'What! Of course he can.'
I didn't particularly want Bill Clinton to saty at my house. American presidents, I know what their game is. Clinton's no different to the others, he's just really eloquent. But if Kate wanted it, that's okay: Clinton could stay.
The irony of all ironies was that Kate, who thought she was going to get to hang out with Clinton, wasn't even allowed to stay in her own house! She got kicked out and had to stay with Peter Florence's mum!
That was the end of being a hotel for the literature festival.

Courtney Love

She's been to stay at my house in Wales. She's a keen horse rider.
You can ride out of my place for miles into the countryside. She lost a £40,000 bracelet when she fell off her horse up there and asked me to send out a search party. There's no way we would have found it. For all I know, there's still a £40,000 bracelet up the hill.

Plant and Page

I've many of my heroes through becoming well known in music. I used to see Robert Plant wandering around. In 2005 he phoned me up and asked me to DJ his son's wedding.
Well, you don't get more flattering offers than that, and I showed up at the wedding in Robert's place down the road. Jimmy Page had just got sober and was wandering around. Jimmy Page is a god to me.
I remember putting Lola by The Kinks on as the first song and seeing Jimmy and Robert head to the dance floor and start dancing together, that was the absolute highlight of my DJing career!

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French thieves...again

PARIS - Noel Gallagher tried to be a jinx again with his evil eye (see list), saying England would have qualified only thanks to play-offs, but they did without.
To add to the list: he was born in 1967, since then England didn't win any cup anymore.

By the way, Noel Gallagher so it's about thieves... Lupin @ World Cup qualification, France-Ukraine 3-0 (after the 0-2), goal in offside + red card that wasn't, another help for france. Like at the last World Cup, qualified thanks to a Henry's hand vs Milan's Trapattoni Ireland... Oh wait: Uefa president Platini is French...

"nice" change for the draw on 6 December:
to save france, not only they qualified thanks to the referee, but also they put them in the European pot (despite being 9 teams instead of 8 and France having the worst ranking) and leaving the African pot with 7, with another draw for that one, so Italy and other teams could have like Brazil and Holland (or England) in the same group.
bastard Blatter

oh Sweden and Denmark out of the World Cup, after what they did to Italy in 2004 (biscotto)...so sorry eh.

friendly @ Wembley : England-Germany 0-1. I wonder how England can (often) lose against ze Germanz.

Nel frattempo in questi giorni: Inter-Chiasso 0-1, Thohir porta bene...

"chi non salta rossonero è"... e non salta.
Giornalisti (giornalai) interisti che mettono sullo stesso piano la comunicazione dell'espertone quarantenne in Indonesia, con il macello in Italia... le matte risate. Con una competenza calcistica da tifoso medio sul divano... rimanendo a Giacartone.

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Beady Eye in Wolverhampton feat. Noel's "journalists"

WOLVERHAMPTON - @ Civic Hall. When you see unreal stuff about Beady Eye, it comes from jealous, lying Noel's blinded fankids. This band is no media darling like Noel Gallagher and obviously the desperate "journalist" (with no future written today) Becky Woods needs to defame them to feel cool behind a computer. That's typical and boring. Here's her series of bullshit:

where were the women?? 

the complete lack of audience participation??

he doesn't say a word??

there's no sing-a-long with the crowd?? 

there's no thank yous for the support?? [he even tweets them and Liam's "cheers" is even typical... he even shakes his hand with some, unlike scaredy cat Noel scared of fans]

there's not even a hello?? 

Eh? 

funny, then they posted a series of photos showing girls and women. They should be sure to send people with eyes and ears for their "reviews", 'cause she wasn't even there and they even pay her.
Also, for her ignorance, songs performed by 4/5 of Oasis, including the singer, founder, frontman, is hardly a cover... It's a cover when you do Noel's sad versions, that will never sound as Oasis.
She was clearly in love with Liam Gallagher and he obviously refused her, 'cause she's ugly.

If they need I've got a story about her... 

One over-zealous fan

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Liam @ Italian restaurant, the future's bright

MANCHESTER - Gig review added to the previous post.
Restaurant where Balotelli used to go:
The future's bright, the future's orange for Liam Gallagher - who stepped out in Manchester in these bright tangerine trousers (Led Zeppelin song :).
Liam had whisked his new girlfriend, Debbie Gwyther, to Manchester's celeb haunt Italian restaurant San Carlo on Sunday night, after his homecoming gig the previous night with his band Beady Eye at Manchester Academy.
And Liam was clearly king of romance at the King Street West eaterie, splashing out on lobster and cocktails for his dinner date.
My mole tells me: "Liam looked really relaxed and happily posed for photos inside the restaurant with fans.
"He looked like he was enjoying his lobster.
"As he was leaving he was such a gentleman though, he held open the door for a group of girls who were leaving at the same time."
The Burnage boy was clad in those bright trousers as well as a trademark furlined parka jacket as he left the venue with Debbie, who chose a demure black outfit topped off with an on-trend burgundy fedora.

Liam began dating his former personal assistant after the breakdown of his marriage to All Saints star Nicole Appleton earlier this year, after allegations he fathered a lovechild with an American journalist.
Former Oasis star Liam certainly made quite a weekend of it back in his home city.
For on Friday he was spotted strolling around the Christmas Markets, checking out the festive treats on Albert Square, Brazennose Street and on Spinningfields.
His weekend of Manc fun certainly seemed to meet with Liam's approval.
For he posted on his official twitter account: "Manchester top of the league."
Naturally, he couldn't have been speaking about the football for a change...

To the email readers: post about Alan's book added.

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Beady Eye in Manchester +review

MANCHESTER - Bonehead said "It was a special moment for me, probably my best feeling on a stage ever". 

There's a poster on the Manchester Academy’s Hall of Fame which marks Oasis’ appearance at the venue on their way to world domination. 

In those heady days of 1994, Liam Gallagher probably never thought he’d end up back here climbing the ladder with his new outfit, Beady Eye.

But although Oasis may be over, and the venues may be smaller, the cult of Liam lives on.

The excitement of having the Burnage boy back in town, and on his own patch, is palpable, and he delivers a masterclass in how to work a crowd.

As he strides out on stage with his stereotypical swagger, hundreds of adoring fans crush to the front. The fact he just stands and stares only works them into more of a frenzy.

But what will have pleased him most was the joyous reaction to the opening song of the night, Flick of the Finger, from their latest album BE.

The psychedelic Soul Love and Second Bite of the Apple are similarly well-received, before the punchy Iz Rite and Shine a Light allow him to show off his trademark snarl.

This may be the Liam show, but the musicianship on display from the rest of the band, particularly guitarists Andy Bell and Gem Archer, is impressive and gives Liam a platform to shine.

The night takes a nostalgic turn when former Oasis guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs appears on stage for an acoustic version of Live Forever.

‘Help us out if you know the words’ Liam says, and the crowd duly obliges.

A full-throttle Cigarettes & Alcohol sparks beer-throwing bedlam before more mellow sing-alongs to The Roller and Bring the Light.

A surprise cover of The Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter wraps up a triumphant homecoming for Liam, before the sweaty masses pour out into the night.
***** 5 stars

Liam: "Manchester top of the league LG x".

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Beady Eye in Newcastle

NEWCASTLE - O2 Academy.

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Beady Eye in Leeds

LEEDS - O2 Academy, more to add soon. Who needs an Oasis reunion

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musicians I've seen live

MILAN - New compilation : bands, concerts I've seen (maybe I forgot some). Some of them were in festivals, so I didn't go for them (some are a shame, lol)
Some others I've seen them more than one time, Oasis many times.

Stone Roses, Expatriate, Beach Boys (California girls ;), Paolo Nutini, Litfiba, Ennio Morricone, Le Vibrazioni, Lenny Kravitz, Cesare Cremonini, Glasvegas, Burt Bacharach, Stereophonics, Aerosmith, The Clash - Mick Jones, Suede, Simply Red, Keane, Smashing Pumpkins, The Thrills, Phil Collins, Alex Britti, Velvet (Tokyo eyes ;), The Kooks, Groove Armada, Kasabian, Gianluca Grignani, Pino Daniele, The Verve - Richard Ashcroft, Amy Macdonald, Florence & The Machine, The Coral, The Seahorses, Echo & the Bunnymen, Oasis, Paul Weller, Led Zeppelin - Robert Plant, Jet, Beady Eye, Franz Ferdinand, Dire Straits - Mark Knopfler, Elton John, Macy Gray, Paul McCartney (Beatles), Ian Brown, Deep Purple, The Smiths - Johnny Marr, The Hacienda, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Jovanotti, Eros Ramazzotti, Samuele Bersani, Tiromancino, Alan Sorrenti, Marina Rei, The Black Crowes, Carmen Consoli, Elisa, Coldplay, Tom McRae, Carly Connor, Marlene Kuntz (song feat. Skin of Skunk Anansie), The Stands, Idlewild, The Rakes, Twisted wheel, Marcilo Agro e il duo Maravilha [with a song saying : now fuck off, lol]

many memories, and I'm proud I've seen some of the best music in history.
Some I would never go again, as Coldplay. I'm happy I've seen some musicians Noel hates (Keane, Simply Red, Elton John, Phil Collins, etc.), well he hates everybody.
+ I met also the mods leader Sting ;) and gave him a cd with a letter, just like to Liam :)
As also Paul McCartney, I gave an invitation to a literature prize of a friend.
meetings with Liam, Richard Ashcroft, Paul Weller, Paolo Nutini, Ennio Morricone, etc. are long stories ;)

The last song is by an Italian duo (Kings of Convenience style) supporting Oasis in Milan 2005 (the first gig that year, anticipating the album), we didn't like them because they made music for sleeping so all the people insulted them... that's probably when they wrote that song, it seems serious but says "and now, go fuck yourselves all... since the beginning we fucking didn't like you, you've got shite faces" ahaha they were not that bad, after all.

Expatriate, we've seen them @ the "would have been" Oasis last gig ever (Milano 2009, the second gig), but live they're not so good, we expected more... for example that Noel didn't leave the band 2 days before... (for the 3rd time) ...should have expected from the scaredy cat.

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media darling woman

GLASGOW - This shit gets more interest than his music. Better said: it's because of this shit that his music gets interest...
The fake woman, who betrayed Noel Gallagher (the godlike-genius-without-people-voting) with Liam (paparazzi photos in 2005, real reason of the Oasis split, since then the brothers didn't talk anymore) and married the lying smurf for the money, won the "most stylish woman" at the Scottish Style Awards at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. The multi-millionaire midget, always wearing the same clothes and trousers since the 2001-2004 Oasis sessions (where he also got the songs for his "solo" album, co-written with Gem) now transferred his illuminati media darling powers to the fake woman too. Without people voting.
But the most hilarious thing is the media calling him "rocker".
Sara said: “It’s fantastic to have an excuse to come home for a brilliant night out and I was proud even to be nominated."
Well, for excuses and lies, she has a fake man teaching her at home...

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Beady Eye in Glasgow

GLASGOW - Barrowlands. "I wanna thank every1 who went to the gig last night in Glasgow that is what I signed up for keep the faith and beware of darkness LG x Glasgow top of the league LG x "





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Beady Eye mix

1 Flick of The Finger 

2 Dreaming Of Some Space 

3 White Smoke 

4 Soon Comes Tomorrow 

5 Don't Brother Me 

6 Soul Love 

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Gem speaks +acoustic

DUBLIN - Gem Archer has talked for the first time about the injuries which caused Beady Eye to cancel performances in Belgium, Japan and at V Festival this summer.

Talking to Nme ahead of the band's show at Dublin Olympia last night (November 7), the first of their autumn Ireland and UK tour, a now-fully recovered Archer recounted how he slipped at home in August and fractured his skull, leading to a week in hospital. He said: "The odd thing is I can't remember falling, or much after it. It was pretty serious, shall we say, and there are a lot of people affected by it, but it seems we're through it. My wife, certainly, and the kids… It was something I wouldn't wish on anybody. I almost feel I missed it all, but they didn't – they went through it and it was horrible."
He continued: "The second fall, two weeks after the first, I've since found out, isn't that uncommon for people who've fractured their skull. Once you've had that, there is the chance of falling again and breaking an arm and/or a leg. At least I didn't do both. It's one of those things. You could think yourself into a corner with these things, worrying, but I'm not one of those guys. I've never broken a bone in my body before this summer, and now I know what it feels like. I'd hate to repeat it. And when I speak to my mam and she's worried, I just have to say 'It could happen again but I'm still here'."
Thankfully now Archer is recovered and says he's "match fit" ahead of the tour starting. He said: "I am fine. In some ways more than fine. There are slight things I see differently, which is always a bonus in life. The weird thing is when I have my guitar strapped on I feel better than ever and walk around without even thinking about what I'm doing. When I don't have it on…there are certain parts of the day when I should have my guitar on to help me. But I am definitely match fit for these gigs."
"Whether I'm completely recovered, that's a different thing. For me, completely recovered would mean being able to run down the street faster than my son and I can't yet, but maybe those days are over anyway?"
He also promised Beady Eye's setlist would be different from the band's shows earlier this year, saying: "We've rehearsed enough stuff to change it up. We'll see, I don't know what tonight's setlist is, we'll see how the soundcheck goes, but we do have a few permutations. Even just for the band's sake it's good to change things and put new songs in, and then there are a lot of people who have already seen us this year."
Finally, he talked of Jon Brookes tribute concert organised by The Charlatans which took place at the Royal Albert Hall in October. On the night former Oasis guitartist Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs stepped in to replace Archer, who watched from the side of the stage.
He said: "It wasn't frustrating, it was weird for everyone else but me, I think. I loved it, and there's no way I could've done it anyway. To see them step up, and Bonehead get up like that, was a bit of a moment."


Liam Gallagher's band are going to play the Ford SYNC studios in Leicester Square, London in front of just 30 winners. The session takes place on November 25.
Danielle Perry announced the news on The XFM Evening Show last night, with help from guitarist Gem Archer.
"It will be stripped down but not too naked. It's acoustic guitars but it's all the keyboards and the sounds and a little bit of precussion but Liam's voice," he said of the performance.
"That's kind of how we approached this album as well. We recorded with Liam singing with the band and if the vocal's a keeper - which nine times out of ten it was - then we just built around that
"It's not just going to be me and Liam or Andy and Liam... it's the band. You say intimate, and I think that's a great idea. There is something to be said for playing quiet."
You'll be able to win tickets on The XFM Evening Show and on xfm.co.uk from Monday.
Beady Eye played their first show back since guitarist Gem Archer fractured his skull in Dublin last night.
The band covered Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones during their set at the Olympia.

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Beady Eye @ Olympia

DUBLIN - covering Rolling Stones "Gimme shelter".



Cigarettes & alcohol



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referees helping Barcelona

BARCELONA - Already happened, especially @ Camp Nou, referees seem scared...
A penalty given as gift (Neymar is a diver, as usual, and winked his eye at Messi after the penalty...) and goal in offside against AC Milan... nice one, as always, referees helping Barcelona without needing it. It's obvious that they're already stronger.
Same old story, nothing new... it's even boring.
Meanwhile, Inter was playing cards.

punishment: Messi injured until 2014.

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Alan's book

LONDON - Indie music legend Alan McGee hopes to repeat that mid-Nineties success with a new label and a slew of promising artists. Thanks to technology, he can run his record label from his country home in Wales.
“We were coming out of acid house and people wanted personality again and people wanted rock and roll again," says the 53-year-old Glaswegian, who is returned to the music industry 10 years after turning his back on it.
"Oasis were the first bad boy rock and roll band that had personality so that’s why they made it. I signed them to the label, I was never their manager but they had the right manager and it worked."
Creation Records was one of the key labels of the mid-Eighties indie movement. Founded in 1984, early releases featured artists including Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Jasmine Minks and The Loft.
But it was Oasis that really catapulted the label into the limelight as the nation went crazy for Noel and Liam Gallagher's bad boy attitude and rock and roll antics.
"They sold seven million Definitely Maybes and they went on to sell 21 million Morning Glorys so we went from being in the fourth division to being in the first division," he says.
"But having said that we had some good bands and put out some great records, we just never had the commercial success.
"When you have a label and you get just one band like Oasis, that’s a moment of fucking genius. I don’t mean I’m a genius - no one is a genius in the music business, you just put out records - but what I’m trying to say is that’s a moment of genius because you can’t expect that. If that happens then rock and roll!"
In McGee's upcoming book Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label [Noel and not Liam on the cover?? aaarghhh... not buying it... Oasis was Liam's band, formed, named and fronted by him], released on November 7, he is described as, "a charismatic Glaswegian who partied just as hard as any of the acts on his notoriously hedonistic label, he became an infamous character in the world of music."
McGee is the first to admit that he was difficult at times and gleefully recounts the details of those party years before he fled the increasingly corporate ethos of the music industry in 1999.
"The old Alan McGee in the Eighties and Nineties probably wouldn’t make it in this climate," he says. "The only reason that I fit in with this climate now is because I’ve gotten older and more mellow. I never used to be mellow, I used to be a nightmare."
He acknowledges today's up-and-coming musicians face a very different world.
"The music industry has changed since I’ve been away," he says. "It used to be 50 per cent music and 50 per cent attitude but it’s so much harder for a band to make it now. It’s 40 per cent music and 60 per cent attitude.
"Music is less important now than having the right attitude to make it. The people that are making it now must be made of steel, they must have platinum characters.
"Twenty years ago you could be mental and a drug addict but it’s got so hard to make it that you’ll never make it. The attitude has never been more important. That’s what I’ve learnt in the first six months of being back in the music business," he adds.

McGee is refreshingly honest about the future. "It’s going great but what we don’t know is if anyone buys records any more but we’re going to find out," he laughs.
"We live in completely different times and we’re only in the first realms of technology. Before long there’s gonna be a tipping point, we’re either gonna be controlling the computers or they’re gonna be controlling us. We’re gonna merge with computers."
Yet he has fully embraced the power of social media. "I think it’s hugely important," he says. "That’s huge that you can just send it to me on Facebook. And If I like it, I’ll contact the person.
"If someone really wants to get music to me, I do my 359 music night in Liverpool. Come to a gig and give me a physical CD if you don’t want to send me a MP3, or send me a MP3. It's simple."
We have yet to see if within this batch of young talent McGee's spotted another Liam or Noel Gallagher, an artist who McGee credits as having the head for success as well as the drive.
"I met him 20 years ago. He would make any situation work, he would be on Facebook working at it. He’d be on instagram. He’s 47 now, he doesn’t need to do any of that, but the guy I met 20 years ago he would be working it all over the place."

who? Noel Gallagher? he even said the internet is responsible for the decline of society... even "it's the internet's fault for everything" (and videogames responsible for violence... sure, who is not playing some "shoot'em up" - excuse me the 80s term - and then goes out for some massacre?)
ah it was just another of Noel's lies... I see.

McGee may be internet-savvy but that doesn't mean he's embraced everything about today's music industry.
For wannabe musicians taking the X Factor route, McGee can't think of anything worse.
"I think it’s karaoke. We live in a karaoke culture, I think it’s inauthentic. The public gets what the public wants, if they like X Factor then they fucking deserve it.
"We’re living in times where someone picks your clothes, picks your songs, tells you what to say – it’s not authentic. People are puppets, musical puppets."
The advice that McGee gives to singer/songwriters who would rather give up their guitar than sell their soul to X Factor is simple: it's all about having the right attitude.
"Music’s been so devalued that people don’t even buy it any more unless you’re in the top, the little part of the pyramid," McGee says.
"You need to write songs but fuck me you need to get your attitude right, 'cause if you’ve got the right attitude you will win.
"Write songs, play every gig you get offered and learn your craft because that’s what music is."

McGee has returned with 359 Music, a label he co-founded earlier this year. He's already released four records and signed acts including 15-year-old John Lennon McCullagh and Canadian singer/songwriter Tess Parks.
John Lennon McCullagh released his record North South Divide last month after Alan saw him perform in a pub.
"I met him when he was 14 because I went to a pub to DJ and help his dad. Little John got up on stage and absolutely smashed it. So I said if I ever got a record label, I'd like to sign him. I don’t know what it is but kids are becoming super talented really young."
359 Music's second release was It's Not About War from Chris Grant, who McGee met six years ago. "I knew about Chris Grant from MySpace in 2007 and I knew about Pete Mcloud, I met him in LA in 2008," he says.
With Mcloud's record Rolling Stone out today, McGee's now looking forward to introducing music lovers to Gun Club Cemetery, a rock 'n' roll three-piece releasing their self-titled album in a week's time.
Canadian singer Tess Parks' Blood Hot is out on on November 18. "I met Tess Parks on a film set because she was doing some acting work," McGee says. "She reminded me of a younger Courtney Love."

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Liam's girlfriend encourages Oasis reunion

LONDON - Liam Gallagher’s live-in mistress Debbie Gwyther is encouraging an Oasis reunion. The star's girlfriend is attempting to get Liam's relationship with estranged brother Noel back on track.
Foxy brunette Debbie, 31, who used to manage his band Beady Eye [and was NOT sacked because she was seen with Liam as tabloids said... she left the job before and was in Ibiza in a personal capacity], is helping to negotiate a big comeback for Manc rock icons Oasis – who sold over 70 million albums – as Liam faces a series of costly legal battles.
But savvy Debs reckons a three-date Oasis reunion, as soon as next year, could help solve Liam’s money woes.
She has been getting him to communicate with Noel, 46, who quit Oasis four years ago after a backstage bust-up in Paris, via their third brother Paul.
I’m told: “Debbie is working hard to bring back Oasis by regularly negotiating between the brothers. She gets on well with Paul and he’s keen to bring his family back together.
“Debbie is helping Liam with his career and feels a reunion, with three dates in surprise venues, is a workable target. Liam trusts her implicitly and has agreed to seriously consider it.”
Dad-of-four Liam, said to be worth £40million, is facing a divorce from his third wife, ex-All Saints singer Nicole Appleton, who he split from in July after the love child ­allegations surfaced.
Liam has even consulted his mega-pricey London lawyer about getting his two beloved dachshunds, Ruby Tuesday and Brigitte Bardot, back from Nicole, 38, who is mother to son Gene, 12.
Just last month Paul spoke about his brothers’ lengthy feud, and hinted at a reunion, saying: “They have unfinished business. I think Noel regrets walking out the way he did. I’ve got a funny feeling something might happen in the future. All it takes is two guys to say, ‘You know what, I’m sorry, but I love you.’ It’s not hard. It’s easy.”
Their exasperated mother Peggy has also scolded Noel and Liam over their antics, pleading with the pair to settle their differences amicably.
Last night Liam’s spokesman declined to comment when contacted about the possibility of a band reunion but it sounds like there’s Definitely Maybe a reason for Oasis fans to celebrate. Champagne Supernova, anyone?

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interview with Andy

DUBLIN - To say that it’s been a turbulent time for Beady Eye over the last few months is a bit of an understatement.
While the world was busy focusing on the break up of Liam Gallagher’s marriage amid a love-child scandal, the band members were hoping that Gem Archer would survive.
After falling down the stairs at home Archer then managed to break his leg just by standing on it.
Just this week Archer was well enough to set foot back in the rehearsal studio, hopefully putting an end to Beady Eye’s bad times just before their two Dublin gigs at the Olympia on Thursday and Friday.
And Andy Bell for one is glad to be back concentrating on the music.
He said: “Yesterday was his first day and he is actually very heartwarming thing to see the guy playing his guitar again.
“He’s really missed it and we have missed him playing and rehearsing. It’s briolliant to have him back, it has been a weird summer, you know?”
“I have never had someone close to me to go through head trauma and a broken leg too - you learn a lot because you are constantly asking questions and finding out the progress. You become like a mini doctor or something.
“Everything is great and he has grown a proper beard while he has been out of action. He looks cool.”
Andy said that being in Oasis meant the Beady Eye band members have already been well prepared to expect the unexpected.
He revealed: “Everything seemed to go mental for a while for Liam and Gem but we’re all pretty used to drama - the Oasis years gave us a bit of an immunity to drama in a way.
“In the middle of one of those times you do tend to go into yourself and hunker down, get through it and come out the other side.
“Gem had his accident on August 1 when we were all still on holiday. We all scooted back from our holidays to London to see him as at that time it seemed pretty serious. I was really scared so I wanted to get straight down there.
“Since then we have been day by day, week by week and then before we knew it two or three months had gone by. We started thinking about band things two or three weeks ago as we had dropped everything to concentrate on what’s really important.
“But yesterday it felt like things were back to normal, everyone is on good form and doing great.
“It’s a good time to be in the band.”
Some of Andy’s fans might be a bit disappointed to hear that as the regular rumours of a Ride reunion have not yet proved fruitful.
But he insists that some day he and Mark Gardener, Steve Queralt and Loz Tolbert will reform - not just now though.
Andy said: “It’s not something I am planning to do in the next while because I like to do one thing at a time. That’s how I work as a person - I kind of do one thing and move onto the next when its done.”
In fact, the Ride lads do go for the odd pint together as everything that happened way back when is water under the bridge.
Andy said: “We are all pals - the argument that broke the band up, if you compare that to an Oasis scale it’s like they had three of them a day! But that was a different time, a whole lifetime ago and all those disagreements are all patched up now.
“They are all my oldest friends, me, Mark and Steve were all at school together. I met Mark when he was 12 or 13 in the playground when he was body-popping on a bit of lino. I was really small kid with glasses and a guitar.
“And then the Smiths came out and then suddenly the speccy kid with the guitar became the cool guy. Mark wanted to learn guitar and I taught him and that’s how we became mates. And when you’re friends for that long you stay friends.”
So does this apply to Noel Gallagher too then?
Andy said: “It definitely applies to Noel - I’ve got a lot of affection for the guy, he is so talented and brilliant to be in a band with.
“Anything that went down between me and Noel was never anything serious. His problem was with Liam and Liam’s problem was with him. I have seen Noel since and the two of us are cool. I am completely cool with him and hopefully he is cool with me.”
Andy Bell recently married a Dublin girl and spends a lot of time there so as a special treat there are two Beady Eye aftershows going on in Dublin.
Paul Gallagher and Andy’s brother-in-law Arveene will be the DJs for the nights - the Thursday will be at the Grand Social and the second is at an undisclosed venue which will be announced next week. And Andy reckons the band will be in attendance.
He said: “I do a bit of DJing myself so you never know - I love Dublin, I spend a lot of time there and from a band point of view we played the Olympia last time and we were really good gigs.
“We’re looking forward to coming back.”

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Formula 1 compilation

MONZA - songs compilation, Australian AC/DC, Beady Eye from Different gear still speeding, Pavarotti, Rammstein (for Hitler Noel), legendary driver Nuvolari, Russians, Oasis, Brazilian Garota de Ipanema, etc. only a few GPs missing.

and of course this one from Sky F1, Alistair Griffin, Just drive

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football songs compilation

MILAN - I met her in a crowded room, where people go to drink away their gloom... Music compilation with pub and football songs, also for the World Cup (1990-1998-2010), and Liam Gallagher singing My sweet Lord for Jon Brookes @ Charlatans night with Bonehead, Rolling Stones singing in Italian language Con le mie lacrime, version of As tears go by (live @ San Siro 2006, Italy world champion), Oasis, Blur, Beady Eye cover Manchester City's Blue Moon, Glasvegas from Glasgow, Kasabian from Leicester (Goal soundtrack), Richard Ashcroft's United Nations of Sound, Stone Roses (This is the one, Manchester United), Queen, New Order (World in motion), Liverpool anthem You'll never walk alone, the Champions League anthem, England anthem God save the Queen, Terry Venables covering Elvis Presley (If I can dream), Lightning Seeds (Three Lions), one of AC Milan anthems, a bit of Mario Balotelli song, etc.

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recensioni BE dei Noel fans

MILANO - Leggendo le recensioni (quelle negative, per farsi due risate) del nuovo album dei Beady Eye su iTunes (che influenzano chi acquista), viene fuori il popolino italiano nella sua ignoranza, qui nelle vesti dei blinded fan accecati di Noel Gallagher. Recensiamo le recensioni.

C'è rezzaulo87 (Rezzaulo, quello che l'ha preso nel buco del culo), età: 7 anni nel 1994 quando esistevano i veri Oasis, che "recensisce" l'album con 4 parole: "no noel no party"... [1 stella] ...ah perchè tra l'altro Noel da solista è celebre per fare musica da party eh... sì, per una festa di pensionati.
Lo stesso Noel ha detto che non fa più rock (ma si sa che gli italioti non capiscono molto l'inglese).
Notare la data della recensione: 30 aprile, quindi 40 giorni prima dell'uscita, senza neanche ascoltarlo. Accecato.
Poi si scopre che questo ha dato 5 stelle a Zucchero e molto heavy metal e videogiochi (se ti vede il tuo idolo Noel, anti-heavy metal, ti insulta pesantemente, come fa di solito coi suoi fan). Ma come, non sai che, secondo Noel, i videogiochi sono responsabili della violenza? Chi non si fa una partita a qualche "sparatutto" (scusate il termine anni '80) e poi va in strada a fare qualche strage?

"robertoderoma" (sì, Roberto de' Roma) vuole essere più originale e copia (imparando quindi dal suo idolo Noel) "No noel no party! Delusione totale!!" [1 stella]
Data: 11 giugno (uscita in Italia), quindi sicuramente dopo averlo ascoltato molto eh... Eiaculatore precoce.
Questo invece ha recensito il Tutto Città (5 stelle), non sia mai che si perda... e 2 stelle a Gianna Nannini, 3 a Katy Perry, addirittura 5 ai Maroon 5 (fossero Maroon 6, le stelle erano 6), quindi tutti superiori ai Beady Eye. Questi si fanno pure chiamare "fan degli Oasis"... [album Maroon: "ne è valsa la pena aspettare tanti anni"... sicuramente. Album Perry: "io vorrei comprarlo sto album a volte itunes fa cose strane"... decisamente]
Un vero esperto di musica.

C'è il vero esperto, Prince65, che quindi di anni dovrebbe averne 48, oppure, se è fan di Noel, ne ha 65 (oppure 6 oppure 5, i suoi fankids), che dice "nulla di innovativo e di rock come aveva preannunciato Liam...insomma noiso" (noiso nell'analfabetismo-dislessia tipica di Noel e dei suoi fan, sta per "noioso"). Questo è uno di quelli che confonde Liam con altri, dall'identità ignota.
Data sempre 11 giugno.
Poi si scopre che questo ha dato 5 stelle all'album di Jovanotti, dicendo "bellissino" [attenzione: non "bellissimo"] e "buna musica" [attenzione: non "buona"].

un certo (wts)mg dice: "Se non è diventato un fallito Liam lo deve solo a suo fratello che per 20 anni lo ha sopportato,facendogli cantare pezzi favolosi che Liam stesso non avrebbe mai immaginato...ora che il genio non c è piu [notare la precisione di apostrofi e accenti] viene fuori tutta la vena creativa del piccolo dei Gallagher che non ha fatto niente per vent'anni...e si vede chiaramente...Oasis is only Noel Gallagher!"
E nonostante tutto ciò, gli dà 4 stelle su 5 ahaha
Da tipico fan di Noel, ignora la storia degli Oasis. Innanzitutto, il disoccupato fallito era Noel, che solo più tardi entrò a far parte degli Oasis, formati da Liam (ai quali diede anche il nome, non fu Noel), quindi, per dirla "alla fan di Noel": no Liam no party.
Se non è rimasto un fallito, Noel lo deve a Liam e ai Real People, i Griffiths, dai quali ha scopiazzato il primo materiale, che coincidentalmente, guarda caso, è l'unico valido... Per non parlare ancora di tutti gli altri scopiazzamenti a destra e a manca.
Beh "chiaramente" eh Liam non ha mai fatto niente, Noel è famoso per essere la miglior voce rock degli anni 90 eh... un vero frontman ahaha Oasis is (sarebbe "are", plurale, era un gruppo, non un solista) talmente only Noel Gallagher che proprio l'altro giorno ha detto di non averne mai fatto davvero parte, ed è chiaro che li ha sempre odiati, pure lasciandoli 3 volte.
Per la cronaca, il numero di canzoni pubblicate scritte da Liam è una trentina, non proprio poche.
Poi mi ricordo che i primi anni, per essere conosciuti, l'attrazione delle ragazze per Liam era fondamentale, Noel era orrendo. Noel ha usato Liam (litigi compresi). Vi potrà sembrare una cosa da "boyband" ma ha funzionato così. Moltissime persone sono venute a conoscenza degli Oasis grazie a Liam, il "bad boy".
Liam "piccolo Gallagher" fa abbastanza ridere, si vede che questo non li ha mai incontrati, essendo Noel "alto" come il suo idolo Berlusconi.
Certo però "ora che il genio non c'è più" si può dire forte... non c'è più nè negli Oasis, nè da solista, avendo dovuto ricorrere a materiale scartato dalle sessioni del 2001 e 2004, scritto con Gem.
Gli anni di "sopportazione" non sono proprio 20 ma 15, al massimo 17 contando i 2 prima del debutto Definitely Maybe.
Lo stesso utente ha dato 5 stelle al nuovo album dei Keane (se ti vede il tuo idolo Noel ti insulta pesantemente), 3 a Katy Perry, confermando che questi sono ragazzini, "io penso che la sua musica sia spazzatura,ma comunque da noi Katy [la sua amica eh] avrà sempre 5 stelle perchè è troppo bona [ah beh allora...] Complimenti al papà e alla mamma".
Ma sì, facciamoci anche una sega.

Sasynos (11 giugno) dice che è "una noia mortale dall'inizio alla fine. Banalità allo stato puro. Bocciato" (1 stella), poi ne dà 3 ad Annalisa, che proprio ora scopro essere una di "Amici"...

Un altro negativo, L'originAlex, poi ne dà 5 ai Green Day (ancora, se ti sente il tuo idolo Noel... sono quelli che odia di più)
e dice che l'album solista di Noel è quello "delle conferme"... ah sicuro, conferma che è un pigrone, furbacchione, falsone, ecc. e la definisce "opera di inediti"... non proprio, visto che lo stesso Noel ha trovato diverse canzoni che erano da anni su YouTube...

C'è quello che con gli Oasis non c'entra niente, nome: Diabolika-mente, "un inno alla noia inascoltabile basta ritirati nn si può ascoltare una lagna simile davvero pessimo nn è musica questa"

Tutto qui? dai potete fare di meglio.
Poi ovviamente c'è una serie di recensioni positive e 5 stelle.
I fan di Noel sono quelli che lo definiscono genio, Dio, ecc. (pure eletto "godlike genius": ma attenzione: senza gente che lo ha votato...) il famoso "brains behind the band", cervello dietro la band, evidentemente perchè loro sono provvisti di poco cervello, e quindi hanno bisogno di quella guida illuminante... o meglio: degli illuminati.
Avranno buone possibilità di diventare ultra-miliardari, che possono permettersi di insultare chiunque, permettersi di rubare musica ovunque (tanto è talmente ricco che ancora la sta pagando), permettersi di insultare i propri fan senza i quali non sarebbe diventato straricco, permettersi di augurare di prendere l'Aids e morire (ai Blur), tanto quella rivalità era proprio tra i principali motivi per cui il media darling Noel è famoso (i tabloid, come lui ha ammesso), permettersi di non volere un ricongiungimento degli Oasis "nemmeno per i bambini che muoiono di fame", quando invece i fan lo vogliono, ecc. ecc. con la serie di boiate di Noel modello per i giovani...

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Noel Hitler says he was never in Oasis

LONDON - As anticipated days ago with my photo of the hand, Beady Eye's new single Iz rite, 25 November with (Northern) Soul Love, here is the artwork.

About the other day's post, Noel against books. The media darling has a problem with "truth"... and so he comes out with issues involving "truth"... to sound as the real man who tells the truth only eh...
now many people know he told a thousand lies, but of course non-Oasis fans don't follow all he says, and maybe just heard Liam singing "your lying" referred to Noel.
He is already a fake character, and so he can't recognise the truth. Sure drugs damaged his brain. His lies are fiction. That's why he wants to read about "things that really happened" only, while we live in a real world already.
Here is the confirmation that he's no artist.
He sufferes from inferiority complexes towards all the musicians he copied from, that's why he's so bitter about fiction.

Noel's interview is even more idiotic... he always hated Oasis (and left them 3 times), that was LIAM's band, formed by Liam, name given by Liam, fronted by Liam, etc.
"I'm a loner. A lone wolf. I'd have made a brilliant assassin. Sniper. Sitting in a tree for four months on the off chance. I enjoyed being in a group. But I was never a part of it. I was always off to one side."
And still obsessed with Nazism (his favourite fiction books), and the interviewer even says "so, as with Hitler, books are out"... Noel Hitler Gallagher.
I've written a novel.
Noel: "What was it about?"
About a guy who sees a girl...
N: "Here we go. Already the shittest book of all time."
...and he finds her camera and...
N: "But you know that doesn't happen in real life! You know that never happens!"
it does happen. Not to him hating everyone.
And once again the tabloid story of Liam riding the dog... to paint him as an idiot for the media. Old boring scheme for the media darling Noel. Oh he likes that fiction. That was not true, denied by the people working there. Why there's no photo? usually tabloids have pics for everything..

Noel blamed Beady Eye for no reformation of Oasis.
ah! shameless bastard.
"Disappointed that an Oasis reunion seems no closer? Noel Gallagher recently told NME that whenever he meets his former bandmates, they're "too busy talking about fucking Temples and Jagwar Ma" to discuss a reformation."
didn't he repeat "no Oasis reunion" in every way a thousand times, "not even for starving children"...
also, he usually does not meet his former bandmates...

It's probably the first time I read so many comments against Noel (usually they're for Liam, even under articles about Noel), usually the media darling protected by the illuminati could say the biggest bullshit, wishing to catch Aids and die, not doing reunions "not even for starving children", being bigger than Jesus, etc. and everybody goes: "godlike genius"... "brains behind the band"... (when they don't think it was Liam saying those bullshit...)
Noel suffers from inferiority complexes, he wants to be bigger but should concentrate on not being inferior.
So many against him probably because they're not his blinded fans...
Noel is not entitled to his opinion about something he clearly doesn't know. He just shows to be silly.
Why should all the people care about this media darling talking about coconuts. He clearly has not read enough books and has an ignorant opinion.
Also, fights with Liam were fiction from tabloids. Noel really became famous thanks to fiction. A night he was drunk he admitted his "masterplan" was to become successful through media stories instead of music...

Read carefully, there are many funny or interesting ones:

So does this mean all the events portrayed in Oasis songs actually happened? There was an actual champagne supernova in the sky? (7 minutes)

You mean there really is a wonderwall? fuck the Wall of China, I'll go see that on my holidays instead.

What the Fuck is a Magic Pie...?

Personally I find lyrics like "walking down the hall faster than a cannon ball", and "up in the sky, flying high, eating chips and pie...tell me why?" to be a waste of time.
I made-up the last set of lyrics, but it is the sort of drivel this moron would have written at some point.

hope he's not reading this - your lyrics might turn up on the next album

it's either mid life crisis or he's got a record coming out soon or both

Someone who can't enjoy fiction because it "isn't fucking true" is just displaying a lack of imagination. Judging by his lyrics down the years I'm guessing this is Noel's problem. Shame that.

He never was big on imagination.

It might explain why his lyrics are so utterly shite. Lucky busker that he is.

Wow, he's an even bigger twat than his brother!

Now that was obvious years ago!

It's like saying all people from Manchester are a waste of time. What annoys me is when others try to make more of his opinion than it is or deserves.

So called lyricist derides creative writing. What a twat. I guess it explains his horrendous buggering of the English language in many of his retarded "choons". Next question, why do so many Oasis fans turn into whining shits at the merest whiff of criticism?

i fucked him once back in 1992... he's a lazy crap, boring shag.... wish I'd brought a book to read

Given that he actually does make a living writing 'songs', and most writers of fiction don't make a living, his comments come over as not only ignorant but bullying.

Who the hell is Noel Gallagher? Never heard of him. Did he win a Nobel Prize? Never mind. I don't have time for such gibberish - too busy re-reading Alice Munro's books.

OH YEAH....what someone says about the Cuban missile crisis is all "true" what an absolute c%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%k. This is the mentality we are dealing with...an ignoramus from some street in Burnage enlightening us about what is true or not!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah..I forgot "history" is ;all true isnt it??? it;s written by God????????????? Not humans????????

He just shouldn't be famous any more, he is of no cultural value

What an intellect! I don't know why we have to get in the gutter with this nasty little, worthless turd.

What a deeply unpleasant and stupid little man he is.

He's supposed to be a creative artist. What kind of a creative artist is it who thinks 'truth' only resides in facts?

noel's position in the world is built on made up stories out of his own imagination

[in fact, it's quite hilarious from one as Noel who became famous - according to his "masterplan" too - thanks to the media, the tabloid stories... that are clearly fiction, unless you live in the UK and believe them...]

Gallagher has the thuggish mental IQ of a demented slug. Tabloid interest only for footballers and their equally moronic supporters.

here is nothing valid, intelligent or enlightening about condemning storytelling, which is only ever 'not true' in the most literal of readings, and which is as fundamental to human beings as speaking.

What's the point of the human imagination if you don't use it? It's the ability to imagine things which haven't 'actually happened' which distinguishes us from animals.

if all humans were like Noel, i.e. haters of the imaginative mental life, i think the human race would have made little progress, as science relies not just on recording how the world is, but also imagining how it might be and then locating evidence which supports that theory

If he's such a serious person and into reading political books then why does he write such meaningless shit lyrics!

I once met a bloke in the pub who explained that he didn't like a certain sci fi film because 'it just couldn't happen'. Evidently, this unfortunate psychological condition is as common as stupid people are.

I pity him. I'm studying Ancient History, so I can quite happily be reading fiction, while also reading several non-fiction titles. Reading fiction and non-fiction are two different skills. Reading one doesn't make you better or smarter than someone else.

The idea that literature must be true in order to have any meaning or serve any purpose is the really odd point he makes. Actually, that's kind of his only point I suppose.

Judging from his work, I wouldn't say Gallagher has the broadest musical palette. If his creative interests had been more expansive, might his music have been less derivative?

If he feels so strongly about it why not try writing some songs about "Things that actually happened" rather than knocking out more meaningless drivel full of ripped off riffs and lyrics that have already been done to death by far more talented performers.
It would make a refreshing change.

I suspect his attitude is the predominant one for those who read one or 2 books a year or less.

[in fact Noel was reading that book he names, also some years ago...]

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure I read he's a Led Zeppelin fan somewhere. Half of their songs wouldn't exist without the influence of Tolkien and in turn Zep have influenced rock and brit poprock etc etc. I wonder if he feels they wasted their time. Sounds like an "I'm still here you guys, being controversial" reminder.

Well, the DSM-V (used to diagnose psychiatric problems) might be considered fiction, but I think he might check it out and see if medical intervention wouldn't help him a wee bit. Half the things you read today thinking it is non-fiction ends up being 60% fictitious anyway. Remember when there were only 7 planets, 8 planets, and all of a sudden 9- only to find out the 9th wasn't really a planet anyway? I suppose every song he sings is completely true- like the Bible or something. If so, that's called a messianic complex (page 597 or thereabouts). Whatever. You know, that scowl might have a biological source rather than a psychological one. Being on the road so much can be very constipating.

This is the guy who doesn't like black people playing at Glastonbury. Wanker.

Obviously he doesn't see the irony of singing songs about stuff that never happened for a living.

It would have been good if he had said the reverse: Noel Gallagher says reading factual things is 'a waste of fucking time'...

HE IS A MODERN Moronnnnnnnnnnn for the masses// HE WOULD NOT KNOW ARTTTTTTTTTTTTTT if it SHAT in his not very pleasant face

Noel Gallagher can read?

I am surprised that he can actually read.

What else would you expect from a pathetic moron who probably can't read or write?

[he's dyslexic and admitted he can't even read music...]

SORRY JUST REALISES he is dyslexic too, everyone forgot??? he doesnt know how to read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST ANOTHER 90S LADDISH moron to stop people thinking about politics and real life...fiction INSPIRES US.....Why even give this small cranium space in a paper as good as this???????????????

(Noel had named films like Star Wars as his favourites, "Noel Gallagher: these films changed my life")

No difficulty in suspending disbelief for Star Wars then Noel! LOL What a complete and utter tool!

I seem to remember an interview with the tosser when he was raving about Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. He said it was great...ha ha!

(yes, for years, he said Dan Brown's two most popular books are the only books he read in his life...)

Ignore the comedy idiot

Noel Gallagher has the brain of a guinea fowl.

This man sounds like an angry, resentful simpleton

By this logic I guess he doesn't like art unless it's a still life, photograph, or landscape. For an artist to not 'get' creativity is double narrow minded.

Given the somewhat derivative nature of music, his lack of understanding of the creative imagination is no surprise.

I bet he likes a good movie though? .......something Guy Ritchie I would think......bet thats easy for him.....bubble gum for the mind......proof, as if we needed it, that Noel's brain is as slack as his jaw and his talent.

He's voicing an opinion i've heard from a lot of men with limited education but with a taste for pop culture and technology who've dabbled with a bit of politics and history. I don't share his opinion, just hope he finds a mate one day who can interest him in some fiction he likes and can relate to. He's certainly going to be pissed off when he finds out that most historical stories are fiction!

what a twat! If he cared about facts, he wouldn't have become an "artist". Music is fabrication of sounds, some of which are unnatural (synthesiser/keyboard). We do look down on these muppets, and we should continue to do so. Becoming rich on junior level rhyming doesn't mean you can flap that trap on the rare occasions that you're not rat-arsed!

The whole point is to waste your time pleasantly.

as opposed to listening to Gallagher's naff Beatles tribute act.

Not as much 'a waste of fucking time' as listening to his second rate second rate Beatles rip-offs.

A bigger waste of time is cover versions and you've done plenty of them. Its like rewriting a novel that's already been wrote.

It's not too surprising . Perhaps he should make the initial effort without prejudice , to read a great work of fiction. How can he know whether his life would be enriched by taking that step , or not ? It might make him a better song-writer . Surely he's not content to have only written 3 really good songs ? There can be no expression without impression , after all .

the stupid one: "Noel makes a valid and interesting point. I have read so much fiction over the years and a great many of the classics of English literature".

Except I doubt Noel has spent years reading a great many of the classics of English literature before formulating his nuanced opinion.

Noel should read some Hemingway, I suspect he's enjoy it.

he's got to spend a few days reading George Orwell's 1984 to see why he's wrong....

What a shame for Mr Gallagher. There's some rather decent fiction out there, and it's not that hard to find.

but apparently too hard to read. Poor lad.

The biggest piece of fiction ever was that Gallagher is a songwriter

Ooooooooo.... another controversial and pointless opinion of the no longer relevant Noel Gallagher.

I have grown to like Noel, but he does come out with some stupid shit sometimes.

This guy is a fucking idiot

GQ icon of the year. Planet earth's tool of the century.

making such a statement publicly just reveals how much of Neanderthal the man is

I wonder if he has yet to figure out that adding "fucking" to every other space between words doesn't make his crap argument any more valid.

Perhaps if he read more quality fiction, he might improve his vocabulary beyond the f-bomb.

Funny, I've always found him and his puny Beatles pastiches a waste of time. And take note, no need for expletives.

Tell him I read for what's true in literature -- how it can keep the past more 'alive' than most histories often corrupted by ideological assumptions

following through on this heathen logic, l your songs are 'fiction' Noel. So we will just stop listening to them - they are equally a waste of fucking time. Unless you write a song that deals with the Cuban missile crisis of course

Wow, that's really kind of sad when you think about it. He's basically admitting he doesn't have any imagination

There's more truth in fiction than in history books Noel. You sad twat

Aahh! Now we know why he's so dull and predictable.

Noel is looking increasingly like fictional puppet chauffer Parker out of Thunderbirds

Noel does this to make people think he's interesting. I'm so angry a newpaper like this can publish the thoughts of a moron!

Was there ever a time when Noel's kind of comment would sail by unnoticed, rather than be featured in a national newspaper? Y'know, I think there was...

Some people's opinions are far more valid and credible than other peoples opinions. Noel's opinion on fiction has little value given his knowledge on the the subject

If someone doesn't like reading novels then that's fair enough but to make out there's something intrinsically wrong with written fiction as an idea, particularly for the reason he gives, is completely stupid. And saying there's something 'middle class' about it only makes things worse. He sounds like someone who's got issues with his own dislike of reading novels.

Hasn't he got rid of all his anger yet? I hope his children are happier than him.

This shows he's just as much of a moron as I always thought he was.....

Some singer from the 90s says something, and there's an article about it. For what it's worth, I'd like to say that his haircut looks like that of a Lego-man clip-on hair. Were I famous there would be an article about what I just wrote.

ahahaha or Playmobil hair

His haircut's a feat of excellence compared to his last record, though. What hasn't deserted him is his ability to handle the press.

dreams and fiction make the future man

I love it when multi-millionaire lame-ass rock stars pretend to speak for 'the people.' Noel needs to climb out of his own bum and have a look around.

Well as pastimes go, reading fiction is cheaper than doing coke, and it doesn't turn you into an obnoxious dickhead.

What a horribly ill informed, prejudiced assumption to make.

A true jerk, and loudmouth. Needs to go back to Germany

life is here to be enjoyed, and that is made difficult if one goes about wondering how "useful" anything is.

THIS guy has NO point. My point is this. BEING AN ARTIST. Who is he??? He is Nobody from south Manchester....who was a made-man in the 90s to fill the void of vacuous MUSICK.
Here are some REAL ARTISTS -- Borges. Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Garcia Marquez. Mario Benedetti, Graham Greene, Anthony Burgess ( a REAL MANCUNIAN), Saramago, Dickens, Chinhua Achebe, Camus. This TALENTLESS pub -rock -hack ISN'T FIT to lick their boots........

What he said was fiction. or was it? The truth must come out. Or should it? What is the truth? In 1973 a teacher told me that by the year 2000 we would all retire by 40 and be travelling everywhere by hovercraft. Instead we are wearing extra jumpers. All writing is fiction. even if its fact. because 99 percent of facts are opinion backed up by theory and research. The world was flat once. fact.

This is a bit obvious isn't it ? Chavs don't like literature ? Whatever next ? How about getting Noel to talk about pies or trainers ? Something the peasants can understand. Chavs hate English culture which is why they refuse to speak it properly. In the old days , he would have been employed in a workhouse with very little time to discuss Milton or Shakespeare and would have enjoyed a more fruitful existence spending his time dreaming of domestic violence and getting drunk.

I think these views are actually offensive to so called "working class" people. Is a person from a more economically deprived background also looking down on others if they pick up a novel? Does Noel actually want working class people not to read just so this false, simplistic stereotype can be maintained? Knob.

I write those factual books he likes... did he think they are not written by writers? I also write fiction. Where does that leave me? Sometimes 'fucking putting myself a tiny little bit above the rest' and sometimes not? What a twat.

most fiction has a grounding in fact. Take Animal Farm or The Count of Monte Cristo. When you read Oliver Twist or Huck Finn you're immersed in the era; or The Catcher in the Rye, you're feeling what you might not otherwise have felt in your life. I don't know much, but I know he's an idiot.

Says the man who slags off One Direction, Rhianna and just about everyone else in the pop industry. It seems like folk who pick up a guitar and try to sound like The Beatles think they know more about music than everyone else. They're "cool" whilst everyone else isn't.

Does this man's twattery know no limits? Because he wrote a few one-dimensional pop tunes years ago he's given press space? Why?

The fact that Noel Gallagher is ALREADY a fictional character probably means that - on the principle of double negatives cancelling each other out - fictional writing has no effect on him. For Noel, the real world is a work of fiction - hence his response to factual prose.

"According to the Bookseller's Cathy Retzenbrink, Gallagher has identified an "incredibly serious point"..." No he hasn't... Don't encourage the cretin; this is a bloke who espouses 'the truth' but writes about Champagne supernovas in the sky.

Maybe his next screed will be against films, because, you know, most of Spiderman and X-Men requires a "suspension in belief in reality" as well. Then he could proceed to dismiss theatre, and a large portion of whatever is written online on blogs and such. So poorly referenced and sourced, most of it! Then he could go through the annals of rock and roll, and dispense with Led Zeppelin, who were inspired by Tolkien, and David Bowie, who pretended to be Ziggy Stardust, etc. What a refreshingly clean and truthful culture would be left after Gallagher's purge! (ironic)

How charmingly naive of him to think that non-fiction books tell him the truth... And maybe one day he will ponder that he might get more of a feeling for the truth and reality of our human condition after reading a few novels...

Rejecting fiction in favour of facts is like refusing to eat oranges in favour of apples. They are different kinds of information. Neither is "better" than the other.

Anyway, what makes Gallagher think that the facts he holds to be so superior to fiction are objectively true and the interpretation of these facts by historians is necessarily definitive? Historical "facts" are disproven, reinterpreted and reassessed, often in light of new research, all the time.

Some of the best historians write with the techniques of storytellers and novelists.

The best novels teach us about the failings and follies of mankind. This knowledge surely informs and improves our understanding of factual universe - it doesn't detract from it.

he's completely wrong here. And I mean completely. Anthropologists who've studied the rise of empathy in society have all noticed the big jump of empathy along with the rise of literacy and fictional books. If people practice seeing the world from another person's point of view, as in stories, it is easier for them to do so in real life. Fictional books could be a major contributor to the rise and rise of kindness and empathy, and so the opposite of 'a waste of time'.

To say something like this, being a public figure, means he is an ignorant and a malevolent little mind. Ignorant because fiction is almost everything we read, from the Bible to Freud's theories, from The Quran to Greek mythology, all is fiction. We need fiction to make sense of our lives, to learn what is to be a hero, a coward, a villain, what is to be mad, why wrath can cause us to lose everything, why sometimes we need revenge... It teaches us to be human. Chemistry can tell us how the atoms interact with each other, History to learn how things happened according to some points of view. Fiction is a way to defeat Chaos, to make sense.
He is also malevolent because a statement like this can give some children and some childish men an excuse for not growing up an excuse to avoid learning about themselves, about life and its multiple and deep truths.
He is obviously a petty man, and if he has children, that I don't know, I pity those children, they are being raised by a child, not by a man.
Maybe he just needs to be in the news and saying something so stupid is a way to give his slovenly figure a new touch of negligence. Little minds work that way...

So his efforts at song writing, creating a mood, offering a narrative, a 'live forever' metaphor are all bollocks then... ?

And this dim turd is still relevant because...?

reading fiction is a form of escapism,its better than taking drugs or or indulging in excessive amounts of alcohol

Novels are real life. There is no need to suspense belief because in fact they are more real than real life. This most apparent in the best novels/novelists...Dostoevskij (Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment) and lots like that. This novels are parts of real life selected by the novelist and reproduced in concentrated fashion so that they are more real than real life, more intense.
You've missed out on something in life if you don't get into novels and experience those really amazing ones. Its like having an arm missing.
Go on luuv do give it a try!

even "real-life" writing, i.e; 2 descriptions of the same events can end up totally different and are subject to the person writing, their point of view, their writing style, their politics. So although what happened really happened, the way this is recorded is to some extent subject to a narrative just like a novel.

What a self centered dullard. He must have some new record coming out and needs to make some kind of comment to remind the world about himself.

No one tell him that his songs are works of fiction, it might be too much of a thought paradox for his little mind

I like to read fiction, and I look down on Noel Gallagher.

I read more non-fiction than fiction but I find the idea that non-fiction books are about ""what really happened" more than a little bit naive. Considering that there were some studies that found a pretty strong link between reading fiction and empathic ability, describing them as " a waste of fucking time" seems also ..well..narcissistic.

He's changed his tune.. I remember in the mid 90s in some primary school pamphlet to encourage kids to read more, Mr Noel Gallagher stated how much he loved the Witch, the Lion and the Wardrobe. Unless he's now recategorising this as non-fiction of course.

Presumably he also has no time for any films or TV series that aren't documentary because they also "aren't fucking true"? And presumably he thinks Picasso's paintings are rubbish because the people "didn't fucking look like that"? Did it never occur to him that the reason people like fiction - in whatever form - is because when it's done well it can depict human nature in a way that seems more vivid and convincing than any so-called true story? And he's also pretty naive to think that all so called fact-based books tell "the truth". Many are driven by an agenda and at best show a partial truth. His comments just seem blinkered and ill-thought out, but then it's hardly a great surprise.

Wow.... that's pretty fucking amazing for a guy that's made a career as a musician - a job one might normally think of as a "creative artist". But he simply comes off as a bitter, unimaginative fuck of an ignoramus. Why did he write his own songs? Why didn't he just go down to the fucking music store and pick up sheet music / tabs for songs other people have already written and just play those? Why use your fucking imagination for anything?

Who want's to read about the crap that went on in the world 50 years ago?
Give me a good novel any day of the week

LOL - He's an arse. And if he really thinks fiction is 'a waste of fucking time' it only shows his ignorance. To see no value in fiction only betrays his own shortcomings.

Haha, my suspicions have been confirmed - the man's a moron!

i find non-fiction far less truthful than fiction. Actual events tell us nothing about our lives

I wonder where Noel Gallagher got this weird idea that writing and reading nonfiction involves no narrative imagination whatsoever. I wonder where he got this idea that reality itself is merely about assimilating and reacting to facts. He mentions The Kennedy Tapes. I've read this book; it's basically 300 pages of JFK, McNamara, and Rusk, et al. trying to get inside the heads of the Soviets. It's about powerful men forming an impression of the world based on fragmentary information. It's about the narrative the White House told itself during October 1963. This is pretty devastating for Gallagher's case, I think. Because it says that narrative imagination - the engine of nonfiction - is present in all things. But I dunno. I've probably given this more thought in the 30 seconds it took me type this comment than Gallagher has in his entire life. He's a bit of a dunce, yo.

he didn't write songs, he just went down to the music store and picked up music to copy songs other people had already written

He can read?
Well done Noel, didn't think you'd have it in you!
Now, please fuck off

Perhaps if he read a bit more though he could have expanded his 'fucking' vocabulary a bit.

Well of course reading fiction takes up time but it does have the associated benefit for the reader of expanding the vocabulary pool...

This is a person (not fit to be called a man) who should have a bar of soap pushed into his mouth. The is no call for foul language and even less for a paper to print it.

I think he really does need to read more to expand his pitifully restricted vocabulary. Who knows by expanding his vocabulary and engaging the creative part of his brain, it may improve his song writing and render him suitable to take out in polite society.

Are the useless and stupid comments of this idiot worth a column in your newspaper? They could have been flushed down the toilet or discarded in the dustbin!

How old is he? It was funny with his little snotchy face when he was in his twenties. But now he's old he needs to act his age.

Noel Gallagher can read??? Surely that must be headline worthy news?

I only listen to pop songs that are about real events and people - for everything else they have just used their stupid useless imaginations and made shit up. (ironic)

Shocking that such a shit lyricist feels looked down upon by novelists. (ironic)

Fiction and those who read it should take heart because if he had supported it then we should really start to worry.

If Noel wants to get technical, imagination is the minds ability to run hypothetical 'what if' scenarios. It's a vital tool for human existence.

You can see how he'd come to this conclusion - having heard Oasis' and High Flying Bird's lyrics. Pointless. I've always thought Oasis' songs would have been immeasurably better if you exchanged the lyrics for the instructions to household appliances. I mean then you'd learn something...

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ― Albert Einstein (who worked a lot with facts and stuff, apparently)

Further proof of what an ignoramus this individual is. I must have missed all his songs about real world events. If reading fiction is "a waste of fucking time" then writing it, in the form of 'songs', must be an even bigger "waste of fucking time"

You want to learn about Russia start with War and Peace.

Yawn... I get fed up with the false modesty of guys like Gallagher.

He may as well have said breathing is a waste of time too. What a ridiculous comment to make.

Stupid dumb turd.

Oh Noel, you really should have grown up a bit and moved on from the 'I'm a dickhead' image promotion. Or is there an Oasis comeback tour due (yawn)?

A product of his thoughtless generation. An opportunity to encourage others and what does he do ? Better we don't even give him a platform to express his un-imaginative thoughts.

Noel Gallagher is 75 years old and he's going to have that shit haircut when he's 100. Never adequately pulled off the John Squire look nor the Ian Brown. Noel was relevant for a month in October 1995; now it's like trying to take John Major seriously.

From someone who's made a lot of money writing fiction (songs), he has an irrational, angry disdain for the narrative.
How odd.
Perhaps, like a lot of the other things he does, it's just for attention.

The people who support his comments are probably comfortably well of, middle-class, and feel guilty about it. The rest of us know that this sort of reverse snobbery and anti-intellectualism is what holds the country back. It's telling the working classes to know their place. Become a rock star, or a footballer, but don't embarrass your parents by getting a degree and becoming a doctor or a lawyer, if the first two options don't work out, sign on!

I'm a fan of gallagher but I think he has just embarrassed himself there. Can't beat a bit of Irvin Welsh.

Readin fiction allows you to view the world in a different way. Its value is in its prose and poetry and scope, its carefully chosen word, alliteration and metre. Noel you're missing too much.

the stupid one: "Good ole Noel. He's often misquoted and misrepresented."
The misquoted and misrepresented one is called Liam.
Noel is a media darling, and is painted like God on earth.

What a complete bell end. Wouldn't expect this talentless, moronic spanner to have any sense of imagination (shows in his dirge like, football anthemic Beatles spoofs).
Since when has he been a standard bearer for quality in literature and can he actually read?

Philistine. He doesn't have an imagination, and seems to think fiction is a class issue (?!) Does he not watch fictional films and TV? Or is he above that? And since when do writers think they're better than musicians anyway? I bet most writers would LOVE to be a rock star, given the opportunity!

Reading fiction is fun, and I wouldn't call something that's fun a waste of f**king time. In fact, reading fiction is motherfuckingawesomefun! Go FUCK yourself Gallagher you useless tosser.

Who'd have thunk it - Noel Gallagher will have no truck with this whole imagination malarky. Copying existing material is much more time efficient.

Oh for gods sake, you can half expect Gallagher to come out with this inane drivel but a bookseller pandering to his stupidity is really too much, Reading and books are great, anyone who writes off an entire genre cos he doesn't get it demonstrates nothing more than their own ignorance

I'm more exasperated by the hijacking of "incredibly" as a four-syllable replacement for "really", "very" or "quite". The way bullshitters can seize upon a word and drain it of any meaning is hard to believe.

The problem is when people hold opinions as if it's the right one and other people are wrong as he has done. The problem is when you come out with sweeping statements like 'fiction is a waste of fucking time'. No more so than listening to music Noel.

he looks down on everyone while he is doing it a bit like the writers he was condemning.
I wonder if he has ever in his life once, not been a self serving twat

Also, why not just say, "I prefer nonfiction to fiction" instead of going off on a rant about how your way is the highway and everyone else is a thick twat.

Didn't he once say that he 'had never read a book and was proud of it' or something like that? So, now he's reading. Good stuff. In another ten years, he'll be reading fiction, but saying that the third-person narrator is a waste of time. Little steps.

Perhaps if he had read more books he'd be able to express that more nuanced point instead of crassly dismissing an entire art form with an expletive laden rant. Buffoon.

That's part of the fucking reason why he feels the need to fucking swear every other fucking word. The fucking fuck.

I don't know why he pretends to be a fucking idiot. Unless he isn't pretending.

Why does a man who said he constantly necked drugs as if they were only a cup of tea, pretends to have a beef against unreality?

To paraphrase an old Bill Hicks joke:
'Hey, what you readin' for?
'Well, I read for a lot of reasons; but mainly so I don't end up being as thick as Noel Gallagher'.

The reason he seems to be so bitter about fiction, is that he couldn't hold a lyrical candle to any of his heroes. Be it Lennon and McCartney, Bacharach and David, listen to the White Album and then anything by Oasis. Its like eating at a fine restaurant and then stuffing a lump of coal into your mouth. Perhaps if he read a bit more fiction, his lyrics would improve.

I dunno, maybe it's like the difference between a wank and sex. They can both be very enjoyable, but one is ultimately just a simulation of the other.
If you agree with Noel, you're clearly no Oasis fan today.
The old "I am like Noel" teenage fanboyism...
The new Noel is another person. I dunno, maybe it's like the difference between sex and a wank.
I enjoy sex only. The ultimate Noel is ultimately just a simulation of it

isnt it enough we live in reality, why should we read about it?

The Complete LIES of William Shakespeare, more like.

And with that, Noel concluded the interview by defecating into his hand and hurling it gleefully across the room.

I think selecting him for any prize other than "prize prat" pretty much marks GQ's decline into bankruptcy

And the winner of the Moronic Opinion of the Year award goes to.... Noel Gallagher.

who's that guy anyway?

I look forward to his next non-fiction album, "I'm a Bit of a Twat."

small minded dick

Maybe it's because I choose to read fiction that I don't use the F word like a stroppy little schoolboy.

no, noel, not a "wonderwall."
a person. a person. or at least a good psychiatrist.

Please please stop giving him the oxygen of publicity

Noel...really looking forward to your next album..."Kennedy Tapes, the extended version" or perhaps "The Cuban Missile Wonderwall"

Listening to pop music, a waste of fucking time. I only listen to the "real" sounds of industrial machinery and traffic noise.

this is absolutely hilarious! perhaps we should introduce new laws banning fiction? james joyce? out! chaucer? out! morrissey? out!
also, could someone perhaps clarify for me who this gallagher fellow is? a soccer player, perchance?

It's a failure of imagination not to be able to see the truth in fiction. Or a lack of effort.

Maybe that's the reason his lyrics are so godawful.

It's his loss.


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