Despite the growing popularity and influence of Spotify on the music industry, there are still a few bands holding out on the music streaming service. Slowly but surely though, the ‘hold-outs’ are coming to an end. Most recently Pink Floyd ‘unlocked’ their entire back catalogue on Spotify once their track ‘Wish You Were Here’ had…
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds album review [rating:3/5] Right then, we finally get to hear what the solo album from arguably the best songwriter of his generation sounds like, and the initial reaction is one of…… disappointment. Not because the album is particularly bad – you just get the feeling with this first effort from…
Liam Gallagher seldom Tweets, but when he does it tends to mean something. This evening he has taken that to a new level – sparking fresh hopes of an Oasis reunion. Liam started about an hour ago with this: O — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 24, 2014 Followed by this: A — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher)…
Back when the Noel-curated line-up for this years Teenage Cancer Trust shows was announced, it was suggested the former Oasis man could share a stage with his one time Britpop enemies Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon – and that’s exactly what happened at the Royal Albert Hall last night. Watch the fan-shot video of Noel,…
So yeah, that ‘Chasing The Sun’ announcement from a couple of weeks ago was a bit underwhelming – but today we’ve found out there’s more to this whole 20th anniversary thing than just a bunch of reissues. ‘Chasing The Sun: Oasis 1993 – 1997’ is a free exhibition running from 11-22 April at Londonnewcastle Project Space…
I had the idea to do a post about the best acoustic guitar songs and thought it would be fun to try and put together a list of my favourites. As soon as I started though, the ‘fun’ turned to despair as I had to start choosing which classics to include and which to leave…
You hear about it all the time in celebrity news: bands that are fighting or arguing. These reports are usually accompanied by rumours of whether or not they’ll break up. For the most part the band members work things out and continue with their careers. But sometimes years of infighting forces a band to implode…
After 15 years at the top, the Manchester legends release their swan-song – a 27-song tour through their biggest hits. But is it really needed? It’s been almost a year since the UK’s biggest band finally imploded on that fateful night in Paris. Since then, thoughts have naturally turned to the Gallagher brothers’ first output…
YouTube has been the catalyst for the biggest shift in the way we consume music. No longer are we satisfied with the sterile, nicely packaged singles and albums our favourite pop stars hand down to us – we want to see them up close and personal outside of their PR bubble. To that end we…
As befits a man as eminently quotable as Noel Gallagher, the Oasis man has weighed in on the current reunion rumours by saying quite matter-of-factly that ‘it definitely won’t happen’. Noel made the statement while appearing on Andy Goldstein’s talkSPORT radio show, where he also revealed he has a second solo album in the works,…
