Liam Gallagher invents "Stillism"

The Art of 'Stillism': Liam Gallagher's Iconic Stage Stance

When you think of a quintessential rock and roll frontman, Liam Gallagher’s live posture instantly springs to mind. 

Singing into a mic angled downwards on a tall stand, he leans in aggressively, arms locked firmly behind his back, soldiering through the anthems with absolute menace. 

That's it. 

That's the pose. 

You either have it, or you don't.

There's absolutely no running around from one end of the stage to the other like Axl Rose, and you certainly won't catch him stage diving. He might occasionally throw both arms up at the adoring crowd, shake a tambourine, or grab a pint of lager, but otherwise, he remains a static, captivating force of nature.

But this stance wasn't just struck to look effortlessly cool—though channeling a bit of Johnny Rotten's punk-rock attitude certainly didn't hurt. Behind the swagger lies some serious Oasis vocal lore. Because Liam lacked formal vocal training and didn't use his diaphragm, the trademark posture actually opened his throat up to generate the immense power needed to cut through the band's deafening wall of electric guitars. Leaning into the mic allowed him to project his signature raspy sound, turning his voice into what technicians have described as a "melodic scream".

However, that sheer volume and unique method was a double-edged sword; relying entirely on his throat rather than proper diaphragm support significantly contributed to the deterioration of his voice during the later Oasis years. It was the heavy price paid to sound like a generation-defining rock star.

Former Oasis guitarist Gem Archer accurately dubbed this unmoving, menacing approach "Stillism." He was quoted as saying, "Liam invented Stillism - there's no jogging around on stage like Mick Jagger in this band - so we could be doing that until we're 90."

I'm not exactly sure I want to see Gem's 90-year-old arthritic joints trying to pull out the solo to "Don't Look Back in Anger" from a wheelchair, but here at The Swamp Song, we find it incredibly pleasing to know the spirit of Oasis was built to last forever.

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Liam, still Mad Fer It, at the Brit Awards

Liam Gallagher was back to his best award show punter baiting best when he outraged the Brit Awards by swearing, throwing his trophy in the crowd and appearing to snubbing his brother.

Liam appeared to collect the award for the Brits Album of 30 Years on behalf of Oasis.

Liam appeared onstage briefly to collect the trophy, and thanked the band's line up - apart from his brother Noel, the band's main songwriter and second vocalist. After receiving the award from Jimmy Page, Liam said: "I'd like to thank Bonehead, Guigsy, Alan White ... the best bands in the fucking world live forever." He didn’t mention Noel who wrote the songs for the album and played guitar and sang on the number one hit, Don’t look Back in Anger.

He then threw the microphone and the award into the audience and walked offstage.

Backstage at the event, Liam said: "I don't know if we deserved it because there has been loads of great albums over the last 30 years.

Bless.

'(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' Nominated For Brit Award

'(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' Nominated For Brit Award

Oasis' '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' has been nominated for 2010's 'BRITs Album of 30 Years'. The 14 x platinum album has sold a staggering 14 million copies worldwide, 4.2 of which are in the UK alone.

The number one album marked the band's first UK number one single with 'Some Might Say' as well as live favourites, 'Roll With It', 'Wonderwall', 'Don't Look Back In Anger' and 'Champagne Supernova'. Three of those were number ones.

The BRITs category is open to the top-selling, BRIT-award winning albums of the past 29 years to celebrate the Award's 30th birthday. Fans of the album can vote for it HERE

Click HERE  to view photos from Oasis' past appearances at the BRIT Awards.

Oasis have previously won five BRIT Awards including the award for 'Outstanding Contribution' in 2007.

Can't see Liam and Noel turning up to collect it together if they won eh?

Update. Oasis did win. Only Liam accepted and then thanked the ryhthm section and not Noel.

Liam confirms intention to do solo record

Liam Gallagher says his songs with his new band are better than Oasis
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The 37-year-old singer has been working with every member of Oasis, except brother Noel who quit the group in August, on fresh material and plans to have an album out by July.

He told MTV Italy: "We've been demoing some songs that we've had about, that we've had for a while. Just doing that, on the quiet, not making a big fuss about it.

"After Christmas we might go in the studio and record them and hopefully have an album out in July.
"We'll do it in a different kind of way now. I'll try and reconnect with a new band, new songs, and I'm feeling confident about the songs.

"I'm feeling a million per cent confident that they could be better than Oasis."

The band broke-up last summer after Liam's older brother Noel quit following a backstage fight before a concert in Paris, France, which saw them smash up each other's guitars.

However, Liam believes his guitarist sibling used the fight as an excuse to leave so he could work on his own solo project.

He explained in an interview with Italian radio station Radio Deejay: "To be quite honest, I think Noel wanted out.

"We had an argument - but we've had bigger ones, about more important people. Basically, I think he wanted out, wanted something different, but he hadn't got the b******s to tell the band or the fans."

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Liam Talks Oasis Spilt

Liam Gallagher has spoken publicly about the future of the Oasis for the first time since his brother Noel quit in August this year, and although he admits Oasis are over he plans to continue making music with the remaining members - guitarist Gem Archer, bassist Andy Bell and drummer Chris Sharrock.

He said: "Oasis are no longer. I think we all know that. So that's done. Without a doubt. And it's a shame, but that's life. We had a good run at it. The thing about Oasis is, no one ended it for us, we ended Oasis. Which was kind of cool. I'm thinking of what my next step is musically, which is all my mind's on.

"It's not all for the worst because Noel can do his thing and I can do mine. People will be able to buy his records. People will be able to buy our records. So everyone's happy."

The 37-year-old rocker - who has an eight-year-old son, Gene, with his wife  Nicole Appleton, and two other children from previous relationships - added to Britain's The Times newspaper: "We've always had a lot of fun on tour. I've always had a lot of fun. That's why it was never hard work for me. It was a joy and it was always a bit of a bummer when the tour ended. You know, it was great.

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Well, I want Oasis to party like it's 1995

Like a Cassandra to his own Trojan war, it might just be that last year Liam Gallagher saw the events of the past few weeks advancing over the horizon and felt unmoved to avert them. If, as sources close to the band suggest, the rest of Oasis plan to continue beyond Noel Gallagher’s departure, then the Liam-penned final tune on last year’s Dig Out Your Soul will assume some prescience. “Who’s to say/You were right/And I was wrong?/Soldier on.” Would they dare to, though? What kind of an ego would it take to continue Oasis without their songwriter Noel Gallagher, the man who gave them Live Forever, Wonderwall and Supersonic?

There’s no shortage of anecdotal mater-ial to suggest that Liam has succumbed to many of the clichés that surround the pampered rock frontman. Own dressing room? Check. Boutique clothing range? Check. Personal security guard? Check. From here, it would be natural to infer a gulf that has Noel and the rest of Oasis on one side and Liam — who has long since relinquished even the need to be present at soundchecks — on the other. And yet it’s worth noting that — in the wake of the fight that nixed their appearance at Friday’s Paris en Seine festival — Liam and his wife Nicole Appleton high-tailed it to Lake Como in Italy with the Oasis bassist Andy Bell and his girlfriend in tow. According to one insider: “People are scared of Liam. And if he wants to carry on the band, Andy and [guitarist] Gem Archer will probably go along with it.” In the statement released hours after the Paris altercation, Noel pronounced himself disappointed with the “lack of support and understanding from my management and bandmates that left me with no other option than to seek pastures new”.

The history of brothers in bands — from the Bee Gees to the Kinks — is dotted with recriminations and subsequent reconciliations. Oasis have had their fair share, most seriously in Barcelona nine years ago, when Liam goaded his brother by casting doubt on the legitimacy of Noel’s daughter Anaïs. Wasn’t there every reason, then, to assume that these latest wounds would also heal? Their mother Peggy seems to think so. “They love each other,” she says. “They’ve had fights before and got over it.”

Mothers often know best, but mothers are also rarely able to view their children’s spats as, well, anything more than children’s spats. In the wake of Oasis’s no-show at the V Festival — attributed to Liam’s laryngitis — the singer had seemed similarly keen to play down rumours that the band’s future was in jeopardy. Bypassing the spellchecking software on his phone, he issued a reassuring tweet to his fans: “The voice may of disappeared, but I’m still here ... I’m gutted your gutted what can I say f*** all at the moment.”

Friends of the guitarist, however, were left with an altogether graver picture. Noel told friends that Oasis would never play a British show again, the implication being that if they could just see out their remaining European festival shows, he could walk away quietly. If Oasis had fulfilled the Paris obligation, they would have had just one more show left to play.

So what happened at Rock en Seine to tip Noel over the edge? Despite occupying the neighbouring dressing room, the New York band Vampire Weekend have kept their counsel, merely hinting at the weirdness of coming off stage following a triumphant set to encounter ugly scenes. The Scottish singer-songwriter Amy McDonald was less discreet: “Oasis cancelled again, with one minute to stage time! Liam smashed Noel’s guitar, huuuge fight!”

Speaking to The Times, a source close to Noel said: “The problems began even before Liam arrived in Paris. He travelled separately from the band, as he does these days, on Eurostar. By the time he got to the venue he was his usual confrontational self. He said things about Noel’s family and made pointed personal insinuations about Sara [MacDonald, Noel’s partner].” What we now also know is that the guitar smashing involved an acoustic guitar given to Liam by Appleton, to which Noel laid waste before walking away.

In any band of Oasis’s stature there are usually systems in place to stop the build-up of tensions. If pre-gig drinking has the potential to become an issue, management and the security staff employed by them can ensure that group members make it onstage in a state of relative sobriety. In the days when Liam Gallagher was merely the frontman with Oasis, such matters would have been dealt with by the group’s management company, Ignition. In 2009, however, things have ceased to be as simple. Accompanying Gallagher on Eurostar was Stevie Allen, Liam’s personal security guard and the business partner with whom the singer set up his clothing line Pretty Green. As anyone who has kept up with Liam’s Twitter updates this year will know, the singer’s enthusiasm for Pretty Green seems, at times, to have eclipsed his enthusiasm for his band.

Sources close to Noel say that he is furious at what he sees as Liam’s willingness to use the goodwill earned by Oasis’s music to sell clothes. The confusion between Liam’s band and brand was further heightened by the singer’s recent interview with NME, arranged through the PR he uses for Pretty Green. Parading various garments on his label, Liam confirmed that the pair were no longer on speaking terms, alleging: “It takes more than blood to be my brother.”

Others have questioned the wisdom of a band with Oasis’s fractious history committing to a ten-month world tour — not least because of issues around the recording of Dig Out Your Soul that were still not resolved before its release. After eight weeks of sessions at Abbey Road studios, Liam had yet to record a single vocal. Speaking to Q magazine, Noel revealed that Liam waited until mixing for the album commenced in LA before recording his vocals. Even then, halfway though the fortnight-long stay in LA, Liam fled to London, saying he had “some business to attend to”. This, it turns out, was his wedding to Appleton, to which none of his bandmates had been invited. As a result, Noel told Q, the band were forced to shelve two album tracks, including “an epic, Champagne Supernova song with backwards Are You Experienced-type rhythms” and a 50-piece choir. Anything but contrite, Liam tweeted: “A 50-piece choir on it ... more like 50 shit guitar solos on it.”

And that’s the way it’s been with the Gallaghers this year. “He’s constantly going on about how much soul he’s got,” Noel said. “I assume Bob Marley had soul ... I don’t see Bob Marley at the Rainbow [the scene of the famous Wailers concert in 1977] wailing about the colour of the napkins in his dressing room.”

Paul Rees, the editor of Q, remembers being struck by the way that, throughtout their interview, Noel kept bringing the subject around to his brother. “He seemed so tired,” Rees says. “People who have seen them on tour this year have noticed that he seems to be going through the motions.”

Beneath the weariness, however, is hurt. “He’s never seen my little lad [one year-old Donovan]. Just pictures,” Noel confided (a claim strenuously refuted by Liam). “If you were in the circle of people that we are in, you wouldn’t have him in the house if he spoke to you the way he speaks to me and my family.”

One bone of contention appears to be MacDonald herself, who Liam is said to have consistently sought to antagonise. “At the Brits in 2007 Liam snatched her glass of wine and allowed it to smash at her feet,” one insider alleges. And the source of the acrimony? “They move in different circles. Sara knows journalists and people in the media. He sees her as sleeping with the enemy. Liam seems to prefer celebrities. He’s friends with Gok Wan and Holly Willoughby. Noel, meanwhile, prefers the company of musicians.”

Rees echoes the sentiments: “Noel has always been keen to broaden his musical horizons — perhaps more than Oasis would allow at times.” The man who discoverer Oasis, Alan McGee, reckons it’ll be less than five years before the brothers end up on the same stage together. Friends of Noel suggest that ten years is a more realistic assessment. But If Liam’s ego has spiralled out of control, Noel may want to stop and consider whether he inadvertently had a hand in the process. Seven years ago, when his younger brother brought his maiden songwriting effort Little James to the table, Noel encouraged him to write more. Now, with three creditable efforts on Dig Out Your Soul, it’s conceivable that Liam — who, lest we forget, started Oasis without his brother — feels bold enough to carry the burden of their reputation.

In a funny way, he may even have a point. In this divorce, Liam may come off surprisingly well — at least in monetary terms. It may not excite the critics, but an Oasis that functions as a travelling jukebox — Britpop’s first heritage act — may play in Liam’s favour. Hard to imagine? Go and see Oasis live and the beery mass you see bellowing the words to Wonderwall bear far greater resemblance to Liam than Noel. Will they mind if Oasis never record another note? Or do they just want to party like it’s 1995?

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Liam to continue as Oasis?

Liam Gallagher insists there is “no way” he will reconcile with his brother Noel.

The Oasis singer told an Italian waiter he will never let his sibling return to the group after the guitarist quit last Friday following a fist fight just minutes before they were due on stage in Paris.

Vincenzo Della Corte – who served the rocker, his wife Nicole Appleton and bandmate Andy Bell at Lake Como’s il Gatto Nero restaurant on Tuesday – said: “I asked him what the future was and he said it was all over and there was no way he would get back with Noel.

“He said that Noel had his style of music and he had his and they would be going their separate ways.”

Despite Liam’s professional turmoil, Vincenzo was amazed by how calm and relaxed the singer was.

He added to Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: “You hear all these stories about Oasis being real rock and rollers but Liam was very polite and very happy to talk.

“There were fans outside and he went out to sign autographs and pose for pictures. He was with them for ages.

“They were having a good time and he didn’t seem at all bothered about the fact he had caused one of the world’s biggest bands to split.”

Liam, 36, seemingly wants to continue to perform as Oasis, while 42-year-old Noel is planning to start recording a solo album.

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Sing a Sad Song...

So I go away for the weekend and Noel Gallagher quits Oasis. I am never leaving the house again in case U2 break up, mid tour.

It appears there was a bit too much Wibbling Rivalry in the band that resurrected rock roll in Great Britannia with Noel Gallagher stating "People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer." He must have felt like he was in a lonely place eh?

Tis a shame really, Don't Believe the Truth and Dig Out Your Soul had proved to the fans that Oasis were a band who had recovered their creative form and were delivering some top songs such as Lyla and I'm Outta Time and Falling Down.

So now we get to await the long wished for, Noel Gallagher solo album. I bet he's got a truck load of songs hidden in a box somewhere. Look for a solo album with a whole lot of Paul Weller on it....

What about Oasis and its three remaining members? I expect the record company will push the greatest hits numbers from know on and maybe release a B-sides album. Liam has become come into his own as a song writer and Gem probably has a few songs up his sleeve. Would a Noelless Oasis album be any good? Maybe time will tell.

Maybe Liam will go solo.... two words, Liam, Ian Brown.

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It's All Over Red Rover

Noel Leaves Oasis, What next?

Lead guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher quit Oasis because he can't work "a day longer" with his brother Liam, according to a statement he posted on the band's website.

The announcement came shortly after the last-minute cancellation of the group's scheduled performance on Friday at the Rock En Seine festival in Paris.

"It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight," Gallagher wrote in a statement. "People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."

In a lengthier statement, Gallagher thanked fans for their commitment to the band.

"I would like to thank all the Oasis fans, all over the world. The last 18 years have been truly, truly amazing (and I hate that word, but today is the one time I'll deem it appropriate). A dream come true. I take with me glorious memories."

He hinted that tension in the band had become unbearable.

"I feel you have the right to know that the level of verbal and violent intimidation towards me, my family, friends and comrades has become intolerable. And the lack of support and understanding from my management and bandmates has left me with no other option than to get me cape and seek pastures new."

Noel's brother and Oasis lead singer/guitarist Liam Gallagher founded the band in 1991 with Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCaroll. Noel joined shortly thereafter and took over as Oasis' lead songwriter.

The Gallagher brothers are the longest-standing members of the band; the rest of the current lineup includes guitarist/keyboardist Colin Archer, bassist Andy Bell and drummer Chris Sharrock.

The British band had performances scheduled Saturday at the Rock Am See Festival in Konstanz, Germany, and Sunday at the I-Day Festival in Milan, Italy, both of which are canceled, according to Gallagher's statement.

"Apologies to all the people who bought tickets for the shows in Paris, Konstanz and Milan," he wrote. No further news on the band's future has been announced.

Oasis' most recent album, Dig Out Your Soul, peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 in October.

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Liam Gallagher singing in a hat

Here's the Oasis set list to Heaton Park Night Two June 7 2009

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“He’s like a man with a fork in world of soup.”

Noel Gallagher, songwriter for Oasis, has made a classic call on on his brother Liam, whom he has called “the angriest man you’ll ever meet”. The two are well known for their rivalry with one another, recorded arguments and punch ups were nom du joer in their Britpop heyday.

Noel drops this line of Our Kid:

“He’s like a man with a fork in world of soup.”

At least he didn't say Liam was like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife....

Sauce: The Week

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He got diarrhea in Korea

Liam Gallagher is on Twitter! And he got diarrhea in Korea.

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What makes Liam Gallagher angry, apart from scones?

Q Magazine to Liam Gallagher

"What makes you angry, apart from scones?"

Liam "Oh, I dunno. Just stupid bastards and shit music. Do you know what I mean?"

Pretty honest answer from Liam - taken from the October Q Magazine which featured Oasis and the Dig Out Your Soul propaganda.

* The scones is a reference to when Liam when apoleptic on a airplane once because everyone got a scone but him. Now that's rock and roll, mister ;)

I'm Outta Time Guitar Chords Oasis

I'm Outta Time Guitar Chords Oasis 

Here's the guitar tab to I'm Outta Time from Oasis Dig Out Your Soul album.

It was written by Oasis lead singer Liam and is arguably one of his finest song writing moments.The song  was a tribute to Beatle John Lennon. 

I'm Outta Time Chords

Em Here’s a song G It reminds me of when we were young Am Looking back at all the things we’ve done C You gotta keep on keepin’ on   Em Out to sea G Is the only place I am asleep Am Can get myself some piece of mind C You know it’s getting hard to fly   G If I’m to fall Bm Would you be there to applaud Em Or would you hide behind the law Am Because if I’m to go C In my heart you’ll grow G And that’s where you belong  (solo: base –  Em , G , Am , C - não tenho certza sobre o G )   If I’m to fall  Would you be there to applaud  Or would you hide behind the law  Because if I’m to go  In my heart you’ll grow  And that’s where you belong  If I’m to fall  Would you be there to applaud  Or would you hide behind the law  Because if I’m to go  In my heart you’ll grow  And that’s where you belong   G Yes I’m out of time G F#m I’m out of time Em I’m out of time Am I’m out of time C I’m out of time  Fala do Lennon: G , Em , Am , C (8x cada) 

Chords Played:

Em       022000 Bm7/sus4 x20200 Am       x02210 C        x32010 A7/C#    x42020 G        320033 D/F#     2x0232 G/F#     2x0033

  Intro  Lalalalala…

I'm Outta Time Lyrics Oasis

I'm Outta Time Lyrics Oasis 

Here's the lyrics to I'm Outta Time from Oasis Dig Out Your Soul album.

The song and lyrics are a tribute to John Lennon. It was written by Oasis lead singer Liam and is arguably one of his finest song writing moments.

I'm Outta Time Lyrics

La la la la la x 4

Here's a song
It reminds me of when we were young
Looking back at all the things we've done
You gotta keep on keepin' on

Out to sea
Is the only place I am asleep
Can get myself some piece of mind
You know it's getting hard to fly

If I'm to fall
Would you be there to applaud
Or would you hide behind the law
Because If I am to go
In my heart you grow
And that's where you belong

If I'm to fall
Would you be there to applaud
Or would you hide behind the law
Because If I am to go
In my heart you grow
And that's where you belong

If I'm to fall
Would you be there to applaud
Or would you hide behind the law
Because If I am to go
In my heart you grow
And that's where you belong

Yes I'm out of time
I'm out of time
I'm out of time
I'm out of time
I'm out of time

What is John Lennon saying in Oasis' I'm Outta Time?

Most people have recognised that Oasis are The Beatles' biggest fans, stealing piano riffs and choruses like they were theirs by right. 

But for frontman Liam Gallagher, the obsession with John Lennon bordered on the supernatural. Liam famously claimed that he first got into rock music after being visited by John Lennon's ghost when he was just 16 years old.

 This deep-rooted fixation continued throughout his career, famously culminating in a bizarre encounter with actor Sacha Baron Cohen, where Liam boldly declared himself to be the literal reincarnation of Lennon, jumping up and shouting, "I am John Lennon!".

The official single artwork for Oasis's "I'm Outta Time"

Taking his dedication a step further, Liam even named his son Lennon in 1999. 

This led to an unforgettable meeting with Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. During a visit to her New York apartment, Yoko told Liam that calling his son Lennon was "a bit of a silly name" and worried the boy would get picked on. Liam cheekily fired back, "No, it's a bit silly being called Yoko isn't it?

 So Lennon it is". Despite the banter, Yoko made him a cup of tea, offered him a go on her piano (which Liam politely declined), and even gifted him a flower that John had worn during a gig with Elton John.

It's no surprise then that Liam penned the Oasis song I'm Outta Time for the 2008 Dig Out Your Soul album with John Lennon completely in mind. 

According to Liam, the track took him a staggering nine years to fully write and complete. As a direct tribute, an interview with the man himself is played in the background of the song's closing moments.

"As Churchill said, it's every Englishman's inalienable right to live where the hell he likes. What's it going to do, vanish? It's not going to be there when I get back?"

This quote is particularly haunting because the audio sample is taken from one of Lennon's very last interviews in 1980, recorded just hours before he was tragically gunned down. 

Liam tells the story that Lennon was bitching about the media fuss he was causing when he decided he wanted to live in America and had applied for a Green card.

The musical arrangement itself wears its Beatles influences proudly on its sleeve. The piano played before the chorus is incredibly similar to the iconic backing chords used in "A Day in the Life" by The Beatles. 

Furthermore, the piano deeply emulates Lennon's popular solo track "Jealous Guy" with its distinctive three-octave jumps in C major. This was a deliberate stylistic change as the track was written by Gallagher as a specific, highly personal tribute to his ultimate idol.

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Oasis with the Crouch End Festival Chorus at the Electric Proms Set List

Oasis with the Crouch End Festival Chorus at the Electric Proms Set List

Oasis have done something fairly different in a concert for once.  Liam's Stillism was still in effect but at the Roundhouse in London, Oasis treated BBC Electric Proms fans to a magnificant show accompanied by the Crouch End Festival Chorus. 

Oasis BBC Electric Proms Set List:

Rock 'N' Roll Star
Lyla
The Shock Of The Lightning
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Meaning Of Soul
To Be Where There's Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
Ain't Got Nothing
The Importance Of Being Idle
I'm Outta Time (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Wonderwall (avec the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Supersonic
Don't Look Back In Anger (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
I Am The Walrus (with the Crouch End Festival Chorus)

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Extra for Experts: Burt Bacharach's BBC Proms Set List  

Google Trends: Noel Gallagher vs Liam Gallagher

So like I'm loving Google trends at the moment and I thought I would apply it to Oasis. Google trends allows you to compare one seaarch term used on google.com with another. Obstentisbly it allows web publishers to fine tune their content. But I'm using it for fun and cos I'm mad fer it.

So who is the most popular search term on google trends? Is it Noel or Liam?

Noel is the blue, Liam the red.



The result shows that in the last year its been fairly close but over time Noel is the winner - he at least has more spikes in searches - proably when he mouths off about Elton John.

Well what about the old Oasis Vs Blur rivalry? using the search terms Oasis Band and Blur Band we get this (Oasis Blue, Blur Red:



Which shows that Blur does not even rate a mention! Sucks to be Damon Albarn eh? Oh wait he's got
Gorillaz and his Clint Eastwood festish at least ;)

Oasis play Facebook

Oasis have taken a plunge and joined Facebook.com. Their official page on the site contains a biography, photos, album discography, 30,000 odd fans as members, concerts ticket sales, videos and links to oasis related sites.

No mention of The Swamp Song on the front page, terribly disappointing, wot wot!.

Some interesting randoms from the bio:

Noel Gallagher was born three days before the release of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper

Liam formed the band. Noel never played in one until he came home from roadying for Inspiral Carpets and managed to persuade the four friends from the original lineup that he should join forces with them.

The first review in Britain’s NME was noncommittal and the second scathing (indeed that whole rock press rewriting the original reviews thing has been amusing - Ed)

Go to the page and read the full bio youyself - its almost poetry. Bet they paid some dude, mega pounds to write. Its so good its almost propaganda.

...when you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

"The worst gak I ever shared was from Dave from Blur and Liam Gallagher. Remember when Liam got let off that possession charge? There was so little coke in his coke. Liam wrote his dealer a thank-you letter. Haha. Bless."

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