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Chat com Noel Gallagher

(22/04/05) Noel Gallagher Interview

GC Gary Crowley
NG Noel Gallagher

GC Good evening, good afternoon and good morning to all our web-wide audience. My name is Gary Crowley and I?m very pleased to say that I?ve been joined this evening by one Noel Gallagher from Oasis. Good evening, and we are here for this very, very special, this exclusive live and on-demand Web cast to celebrate the tenth anniversary of oasisinet.com in association with Real Networks and MTV. Now, the Web cast is now live, so please do send in your questions via this dedicated Micro site and we?re going to do our very, very best over the next couple of hours to get Noel to answer as many as possible.

Now, I?ve been told, Noel, that we?ve had something like 5,000 questions already sent in from all around the world?

NG Whoo-hoo.

GC ?we?re going to begin with a question from Japan. Are you ready?

NG Yeah.

GC Okay, hold on. This one comes from Sukiyaki, Noel, who wants to know which band do you think has the coolest name in the world, excluding Oasis?

NG I always thought Stone Roses is a pretty good name.

GC What was it about that that appealed?

NG I don?t know. It was just quite inspiring at the time. I think they have said in the past it?s something hard and something soft, you know. They liked the juxtaposition between the two things apparently, or John Squire did, but I don?t know, it?s just kind of a cool name, the Stone Roses and, well, the Rolling Stones is probably the best name of all time now, I think.

GC I?m going to ask you about the, you know, the name Oasis as well, just in case people watching this don?t know as well, what?s the real story about how you came upon that? Was it a poster?

NG The real story is really, really dull, so can I tell you a blatant lie?

GC Yeah, go on.

NG It was?

GC Dress it up a bit.

NG ?yeah, there was?there was a market in Manchester called the Underground Market, which is underneath, can?t remember what the street?s called, but, anyway, and in the Underground Market was a stall called Oasis that used to sell, like, real cool trainers and a kind of clothing, kind of 80s casual football clothing, so I?m saying we got the name from there, but the actual real story is appalling. But it?s an appalling name.

GC I mean, Sukiyaki from Japan also says I personally think Velvet Underground is the coolest as well, which brings us nicely to one of the tracks on the forthcoming album, Don?t Believe the Truth, because I think it?s the song Mucky Fingers?

NG Mucky Fingers.

GC ?which has got a real kind of sort of driving Velvet score to it, hasn?t it?

NG Yeah. Yeah. Well, we were?we were in?we were in the dressing room, I think it was in Italy, one night, on the last tour, and me and Gem, Gem?s not a Velvet Underground fan and I was kind of playing him stuff and going, not having that? And he?s going, I?m not having that. I put another one on and said you?re not having that? And he?s going, no; I think we got to Waiting for the Man, and I went, you?re having that, though, aren?t you? And he?s going, not really in his voice, and I think the conversation went something like they would have been better with Bob Dillon singing and a kind of light bulb went on and I was, like, well, I?ve got a tune, actually, you know. It was kind of?I had the tune Mucky Fingers; I didn?t have the lyrics or the melody or anything and I kind of changed the beat to go with Waiting for the Man, and sang it in the style of Bob Dillon to create some kind of rapping lyrics, maybe, I don?t know, but that?s how that came about.

GC Well, people have got that to look forward to when the album is released. What?s coming through your head at the moment, Noel? You know, I mean you?re currently rehearsing?

NG At the moment [laughs].

GC ?not right at this very moment but just kind of sort of generally, I mean what?s kind of sort of going through your head, you know, just before the release of a new album and also, you know, a world tour as well?

NG We?ve got?I think we?ve got six or eight gigs before the record comes out and I think?I?m kind of wishing?I?m kind of wishing that the album would be out before those gigs because we can?t play too many of the new songs at those gigs so they?ll be all over the internet in the morning, so I?m kind of wishing we could play some more news songs at these first bunch of gigs because they all sound really, really great. Actually the new ones are making the older ones sound a bit?a bit old for once, we?ve never had that before and it would be nice if Liam manages to turn up; once would be handy, twice would be great, every day would be?would be amazing. And apart from that, just kind of?just kind of want to get out and do a gig now?

GC Itching to get going?

NG ?yeah, and play some of the new songs and see how it goes, really.

GC Yeah.

NG And, of course, we?ve only ever two gigs with Zack so it?s all?we all need to get out on the road, man, and kind of, you know, start doing it, really, as opposed to?because we?ve been in the studio for three, well, not three years solid, but we?ve been in the studio for a couple of years and now rehearsing for about a month; it?s time we started to go out and face the public, I think.

GC Okay, well, we?re going over to Thomas from Brazil who?s emailed in with a question for you, Noel. Noel, he wants to know do you plan on coming to Brazil in 2005 or 2006?

NG I?I?ve got a sheet of paper at home which has got all these really, really nice colour coordinated blocks and one of them does, indeed, say South America. I couldn?t tell you when and I couldn?t tell you where but I?d have thought if we go to South America, well, we better had be going to Brazil if we?re going to South America.

GC Have you played there in the past, out of interest?

NG We?ve played there, I think, twice, and, yeah, it?s always been quite scary actually; it?s a pretty tough place, you know, and we went?we went?we played San Paolo which is hardcore, absolutely frightening, and we played in Rio and I just remember, you know, the Copa Cabana Beach and all the kids playing football and going up to see that big statue of Liam, or was it Jesus? I don?t know, I can?t remember, on top of that hill, going up there for the day with a hangover, frightening. No, it?s a beautiful place.

GC Michael from Birmingham just emailed in now and he says I read that you watch Coldplay play the other night here in London, what did you think?

NG I?ve got to say I don?t remember too much about it because I was?I was fucking twatted by the end of it but?

GC Twatted as in a bit merry?

NG I was a bit?a bit drunk.

GC Had a few beers.

NG I?m thinking it was great. We had?we had a good night because, I mean, we?ve kind of known them for a bit and I think we had a bit of a drink in the dressing room with them but I?m thinking it was great. I can?t remember too much about it, to be honest. I remember it, I remember Chris Martin jumping out of the crowd and climbing up, all the way up to the balcony and giving me a big kiss in between one, well, during one of the songs, actually.

GC That?s nice, isn?t it? Talking of?of Coldplaying, I?m sure there?s a lot of people, you know, eagerly anticipating the release of their new album as well. Who are the bands who you kind of consider as your peers now, I mean who are the bands that?that you kind of measure Oasis against?

NG I was talking about this the other day to someone. We kind of?the bands that we came through with, none of them are around any more. The only?the only?the only one bad who are kind of connected to us because they?they kind of desperately kind of tagged on to us are Blur but they?re not around any more so I kind of?we?re kind of peerless in a way because all that Coldplay and all the like Travis and all that, they came after us and U2 were, of course, ten years in front of us so there isn?t really?there isn?t really anyone.

GC U2, I guess, you know, they had such a history, you know, before you guys?

NG Yeah?

GC ?anyway, didn?t they?

NG ?but they?re?but they?re kind of peers in new orders, you know what I mean? We haven?t, I don?t think there?s anybody that stuck it out as long as we did. It?s?it?s?I don?t know whether that?s cool or not, is it? I don?t know.

GC Well, let?s go back to the questions because they?re coming in thick and fast as well and I?m very interested to?to know the answers to this one. Scott has emailed in from Scotland now and he wants to know what?s your favourite Paul Weller song and why.

NG It?s a song called Hung Up, which I don?t believe is on any album. I think it was just an interim single between Wild Wood and Stanley Road. It?s got these two chords in that I could never play and he showed me how to play them one day and these weird Paul Weller chords, like this mad?one you can play with your thumb and that finger, which is virtually impossible but I don?t?I don?t know what the song, if I was to pick one, it would be that one but I think my favourite period of his is kind of that Heavy Soul, but, I mean, that?that trilogy of albums, Stanley Road, Wild Wood and Heavy Soul, are amazing but actually there?s a new tune that he?s got coming out soon called From the Floorboards Up which you may have been talking about before, it?s amazing and anybody who?s a Weller fan, it?s the best thing he?s done for years; don?t tell him I said that because he will go off his head.

GC Right, back to the question. Nathan from Ontario has emailed in now and he wants to know, he?s wondering if you guys are planning on playing a lot of the old stuff on the forthcoming world tour and he says thanks a lot, Oasis are the best band in the world.

NG Thank you very much. I think we?re going to be doing, let?s see, one, two, three, four, five six ; we?re going to be doing eight off that album, which is the new one, and probably about 10 or 11 old ones and a cover so, yeah, you know.

GC What?s your criteria for?for choosing the set as well? I mean, you know, you?re up to your sixth album?album now, aren?t you?

NG Yeah.

GC So, I mean, how do you kind of?how do you guys go about, you know, deciding, you know which?

NG It?s difficult.

GC ?which songs, yeah?

NG It?s difficult.

GC ?I would imagine it would be.

NG We tried this time to try and bin off some of the ones that we?ve always done Supersonic for like however long it is we?ve been going, since 1964 or summit, and Acquiesce we?ve never done a gig without Acquiesce but we?re trying to kind of get rid of that and do some more of the B sides because the ones from 94 and 95 are so famous as B sides that it?s about time we dusted them off really. But it?s difficult, a lot of it kind of depends on Liam because it?s all right the rest of the band going, oh, that?s great to play, but, you know, Liam?s got an appalling memory and he just goes I don?t even know what the words are, you know, but we kind, we?re getting there with the new set. It?s not?it?s not bang on yet but it will be in a few weeks.

GC And what about this cover version as well? I mean can you tell us what that?s going to be or is that going to be a surprise?

NG What, for?for the tour?

GC For the tour.

NG No, we?re going?we?re going to stick with My Generation because it?s actually been in the Who for the last ten years and?

GC So he?s used to playing it.

NG ?but not only that, he plays it like?like I?ve never seen it played before. He plays like Keith Moon, so when we?we were going?we were going to do summit else but, I don?t know, we just?we?My Generation kind fits us. It?s like we always used to do Mine and the Walrus for ten years and that kind of fitted; My Generation fits where we?re at but saying that, we might not do one because if it?s a toss up between a song by the Who and a song off the new album, then we?ll probably do a song off the new album.

GC Let?s talk about Zack?s style key.

NG Let?s talk about Sack?s style key.

GC being the bands drummer as well because I?m fascinated to?to?to know this, I mean, I first interviewed you, you know, a fair few years ago now, back in the mid 90s?

NG Made your career actually, didn?t it?

GC ?would you have believed that you would have, you know, one of the Beatle?s sons playing in your band?

NG No.

GC Tell us how that all happened.

NG Well, we?we parted ways with Alan and we had actually for the Death in Vegas sessions, we had another friend of ours called Terry Kirkbride who actually drums Mucky Fingers on the record, and he drummed on all the stuff in Cornwall but we?d already asked Zack would he do the tour because our little mate, Terry, we love him to bits, but he?s a fairly chaotic kind of character and he, you know, not that he?s unreliable or anything but he?s the kind of guy that would probably get lost on tour somewhere, you know, in Brazil or somewhere, he?d go out and you?d never see him again.

GC Sound like Richard Garner.

NG Yeah, and so we?we kind of already asked Zak would he do the tour with us and he said yeah, and then once the sessions were scrapped in Cornwall, we said to Zak, look, we?we?ve binned all this recording off now, for playing some stuff on the record because we don?t want to get half way round the world and you?re playing on a song live that you didn?t play on the record and it sounds better, so you might as well come and play on the record. And he said, well, I?m kind of with the Who for another two months so we said, all right, well, we?ll have a two month break and we?ll go and write some more songs, which is the problem anyway with the Death of Vegas session, we didn?t have the tunes, and?and he finished off doing his stuff with the Who and we kind of went back and done some more writing and down he came, and that was it and, you know, he?s in.

GC And what?s be brought to the band as well?

NG Well, I?I?m probably not the best person to ask. It?s probably better to ask someone who?s actually bought and listens to the?to the albums. It?d be handing if somebody would tell me because to me he?s great but I, you know, his drumming on the record is fantastic, I mean it speaks for itself, but, you know, a drummer?s a drummer, isn?t he? So I don?t know, it?s not for to say whether he?s better than Alan or not or better than Terry, you know what I mean, it?s for someone else to say but he?s?he?s?he?s a very, very funny cool guy.

GC Back to the questions. Eric in the Netherlands now wants to know what?s your favourite song on Don?t Believe the Truth and why?

NG Um. [Sighs.]

GC That?s a tough one for you.

NG Yeah, let me have a look what?s on it.

GC Shall we tell people you?ve written what is it, four, five songs?

NG I?ve written five.

GC Five, Liam?s written three?

NG Liam?s written one, two, three, yeah; Gem?s written one and Andy?s written two. My favourite, see some days when I get up it?s Mucky fingers because it?s having it, and then others days it?s the Importance of Being Idle because it?s the bollocks and then some days it?s Part of the Queue because it?s so different and then, I don?t know, if you was asking me which one would I listen to now, I would probably say Mucky Fingers because I?ve had a beer.

GC Okay, and I mean for people who?ve yet to hear that, what?s?wha?what?s the vibe of that one?

NG Mucky Fingers? It?s the Velvet Underground slash Bob Dillon one.

GC Donna from Las Vegas now wants to know, I?m anxiously awaiting the new album and also the tour in the States as well. On the American tour, are you planning on playing in Las Vegas?

NG Yes.

GC You?ve played there before, haven?t you?

NG Yeah, it?s great. I love Las Vegas. Have you been there?

GC No, I haven?t. What?s good about it?

NG It?s mad. Well, there?s a 40 foot Coca Cola bottle in the middle of the Strip, say no more. It?s mental, well, it?s Las Vegas, it?s mental, there?s a?you have to go there.

GC Where did you guys?did you guys play the Hard Rock Café?

NG We played the Hard Rock Café?

GC Right.

NG ?maybe two or three times, I think. I think we?ve done it twice on our own and once with the Black Crows. It was actually?it?s actually mad there because you?d think it?d be loads of tourists, you know, but it?s not, there is actually?there?s actually a community there and one of our gigs is where Brandon from the Killers formed the band, the Killers, apparently. He was watching me do Don?t Look Back in Anger. Thank you very much.

GC Jolie, in Finland, are you guys going to tour Scandinavia?

NG For sure. Yeah. I don?t?

GC When?s it going to happen?

NG Yeah, yeah, I don?t know when though.

GC Well, she also says I?m from Finland so it would be great if you could come here but Sweden isn?t bad at all.

NG I went to Finland once, right? The only place I?ve ever been in the world where I was drinking a bottle of lager and it looked back on the?on the thingy and it had, you know see these?these, what are they, graphic signs on the back them, had a skull and crossbones and a flammable logo.

GC You liked that? That appealed?

NG Well, wouldn?t you? Flammable lager.

GC Does Andy still live in Sweden?

NG Andy lives in?just outside Stockholm, I think.

GC Right.

NG Yeah, he kind of spends half the year in darkness and the other half of the year in light. It?s casually driving him insane, I think.

GC Let?s talk about Andy and Gem, if we can, I mean they?ve both been in the band for, you know, a good a couple of years now?

NG Since 99, it?s six years now.

GC Is it really that far back?

NG Yeah.

GC Right, I mean how have their roles sort of, you know, evolved in the band? I mean how would you sort of say?

NG Well, they?re at?they?re at a point now where even, like even on the last record, they were contributing songs because Gem had a song on there and Andy had one but I think they?re at a point now where they can?they now actually can contribute more ideas as well and?and?and have more of an opinion on the direction of the band and the direction of the record, which is great because on?on Heaven Chemistry, you know, Gem kind of stuck to playing guitar and Andy kind of stuck being base but now if I?m playing a bit of one Gem?s songs and it?s not right, he?s kind of got the confidence now to say you?re not playing it right, give it here, you know. The same with Andy, so they?re not only contributing the songs as well, they kind of, it?s more of?it?s more of a band ethic really.

GC And are they kind of turning you on to new stuff as well, Liam as well? I mean I kind of have this sort of picture of you guys, you know, continuously kind of playing records to each other.

NG The best record I?ve heard in the last five years, I got off Andy about?about two weeks ago and it?s a compilation by Sonic Boom who used to be in Space Men Three?

GC Space Men Three.

NG ?and I think it?s a compilation of all his favourite records. It?s?I can?t?I don?t what it?s called.

GC So it?s various artists?

NG Yeah, it?s great, it?s fantastic. Andy?s?Andy?s, what?s he into at the moment? He?s into?he?s banging about the Brian Jones? Town Massacre the other day in the back of the van.

GC There?s a film, a documentary, coming out about them isn?t there?

NG Yeah, they?they, well, they supported us years ago and then they kind of turned into the Dandy Warhols but apparently they?re the bollocks.

GC Yeah, well, the film?s meant to be very good as well. Simon in Cape Town now wants to know will Oasis ever come to South Africa.

NG Might go on me holidays.

GC [Laughs.] What about the band?

NG I don?t know. It?s on?on that sheet of paper with all the really beautiful blocked colours on it, it doesn?t say Africa, south or otherwise, but I?d have to speak to my manager. I?d love to go. Does anybody know any nice hotels?

GC What is your criteria for, you know, choosing the places that you do visit on tour?

NG Well, we don?t, you know, there?s experts that do that, you know. We?ve got people who?who work all that stuff out, you know. I mean if it was up to us, you know, we?d be playing all the?all the tourist hotspots of the world, you know, and you wouldn?t be going, you know, places like Cleveland, for instance, but we?ve got experts that deal with that. We don?t really get that?I mean we?we?d be able to say, well, we?re not going there, you know, like Baghdad, something like that, you know, if somebody said there?s a gig in Baghdad, probably say, oh, that?s full of Americans, I?m not going there. But we don?t?we don?t really say, oh, we have to but I?d love to go and play in?see I?ve never played in?I?ve never played in Vienna. I?d love to go to Vienna and I?d love to play in Russia but that always falls on deaf ears.

GC Okay, we?re talking of playing live. Leego from Brazil wants to know what is the best thing about being in a band and travelling around the world.

NG Well, that answers its own question. It?s travelling round the world, really. I think the great?

GC Do you get a chance to?to?to take time out from all the travelling and actually get to see places?

NG Not really. Not?not?not on tour because we?re usually besieged in the hotels and especially South America and Italy. Italy particularly, it?s quite mental and Japan and that, but we?ve?I?ve not really a sightseeing person. I mean go?I kind of take a?a?long breaks in between albums and I kind of go and go on holiday with me missis and that and do all that but while we?re on tour, I?m always working, doing stuff like this and radio sessions and generally keeping the flame alive while Liam and that are sat by the pool sipping Banana Daiquiris.

GC What about when you?re?when you?re actually travelling as well? I mean, you know, kind of sort of paint a picture of what, you know, what you all do. I mean are you listening to music, are you reading books, you know, how do you kind of sort of, you know, while away the time because, you know, travelling, the actual physical side of travelling and of being in the band, it must do your head in, mustn?t it?

NG On?on a aeroplane, you kind of hope that the tour manager?she kind of holds up the plane tickets like this and if you?ve drawn the short straw you?re sat beside Liam and?and, I mean, luckily enough, you may laugh, but it?s true, on my requirements it?s like must not be sat anywhere near Mr L Gallagher and I think Gem?Gem and Whitey used to always draw that short straw because, you know, Liam likes?he likes a drop of juice on an aeroplane and he can get quite rowdy. Other than that, it?s just kind of slink into your seat, pull the collar up, put your shades on, put your headphones and just hope that you?re not going to get arrested at the end of it because Liam can be pretty rowdy on an aircraft, I?ve got to say.

GC Donna from Silverstone here in the UK, what do you like doing best to relax, to chill out?

NG Watching football. I watch an extraordinary amount of television. I love it. It?s great.

GC And what about your beloved Manchester City? How would you?what?s your sort of reaction to their progress?

NG Well, we?ve been in?

GC ?in the season?

NG We?ve been in mid?mid table obscurity for a few seasons. I?m hoping we go down next season because I?m?I?m getting fucking bored with not being involved in a promotion or a relegation so I?m quite sick of being like 16th in the league like Aston Villa or summit.

GC You want that excitement?

NG Yeah, who wants to be Charlton? Nobody.

GC You spoke a little bit earlier about, you know, not wanting to sit next to Liam?

NG It?s horrible, I tell you.

GC ?the travelling is concerned, what about your relationship over the years as well? Is that kind of sort saying, you know, as it always was really, up and down?

NG Well, you done our first ever interview, right, and it?s the same?it was the same then as it is now. It?s just?it?you know, some days it?s great, some days?it verges between Abbot and Costello, Simon and Garfunkel, you know, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and John and Paul.

GC What?s it today?

NG Today? I don?t know. He kind of turned up for rehearsals for about 15 minutes and left so it was kind of, he just kind of whisked himself off into the?into the distance, flapped his cape and off he went.

GC I mean we talked a little bit earlier on about, you know, the fact that he?s written three songs for the new album, Don?t Believe the Truth; how do you feel that?that he?s maturing as a song writer?

NG He?s got?well, the?the jump in class from Little James to Songbird was amazing because Songbird is such?such a great song and it?s really, really simple and the jump again in class from Songbird to God Thinks I?m Able and the meaning is massive so he?s getting there but you?ve got to kind of whisper, let?s whisper it between me, you and the rest of the world, you know, because he can get a bit big headed, you know. But he?s doing great. I mean I love his?love his songs, you know, and that?s probably the biggest compliment I can pay him.

GC And?and how does he, you know, go about, you know, letting you know and the rest of the band about, you know, that he?s got a song ready?

NG How does he go about?

GC Yeah, because I?ve got to tell this story. I mean I bumped into him last summer?

NG Did he sing it to you? Cool, yeah, that?s what he does.

GC Tell people the story because this is what he does.

NG If?if he?regardless of whether he?s got a guitar or anything, it doesn?t matter, he?ll?he?ll pick up an ashtray and play it to you on the ashtray and sing in your ear as loud as possible.

GC And not just once.

NG No, no, no, no, like 20 times until basically until the kind of taxi comes and you say, look, I?ve got to go, it?s five in the morning, I?ve got to get off but he kind of beats you over the head with it for months and months and months until you record it and a lot of his songs?a lot of his songs are shit but a lot, like, three, four, five of them every will be great. There?s another couple that didn?t make it at the album which I think are going to be B sides off the singles, which are as good as anything on there, not just this song, they?re as good as anything else on there but because of the sequencing and stuff like that, they kind of didn?t fit but he?s?he?s doing really well. I mean Gem helps him a lot; by that I don?t mean he writes bits for him, but Gem kind of sorts and works?works out with him what he wants to do but he?s doing great.

GC And what?s it like for you having effectively for some writers in the band now, you know, it?s obviously, you know, to an extent, I would imagine sort of taken the pressure off you.

NG I think Liam?Liam, the best quote is Liam?s and he said it?s, you know, a jet?a jet plane is better having four engines than one. Just makes it a lot easier and it means that I don?t have to write 16 songs for an album and pick from 16. It?s like I can concentrate on doing five or six. It just makes it better. It would be difficult, I think, if everybody else?s songs weren?t as good as the ones of mine that kind of get shoved off and all that, but they are, they?re fantastic, you know. I mean I kind of get the final say anyway so I pick their best and I pick my best. It?s all good. It?s all good.

GC And, you know, for people, you know, for people watching this, Noel, who?who have yet to?to hear the album, I mean how would you sort of, you know, kind of sort of describe it; Oasis, you know six albums down the line, where does this one find you?

NG I think that for people who are not Oasis fans or who kind of think we?re all right, I think they?ll think it?s a very, very good album but I think for the fans who?ve been with us since 1994, they?ll?they?ll know it?s very, very special.

GC Tell us about the recording of this album, if you can, Noel, because you?ve taken a couple of run ups for the recording of this album, haven?t you?

NG Yeah.

GC Why didn?t it work, you know, the first couple of times?

NG The first time?the first time with Richard and Tim and that from Death in Vegas, we didn?t have the songs, you know. We were down in Cornwall and the vibe was great and everybody was getting on but it kind of transpired that we didn?t?we didn?t have the right material and we?we kind of just went back to the drawing board but the album was always in motion, it was always going somewhere, we never got to a point where we thought it was finished and then listened back to it and thought, oh, no, that?s shit, we?ve got to scrap it. We were only ever half way through it and thought the songs aren?t right, and the second time we went to do it, we didn?t have a producer and that caused a bit of friction and I was kind of left in the producer?s chair which I didn?t really want to do from the outset and then by the time we got to recording in the States with Mr Sardy, we had the plot. We had all the songs and, you know, he even insisted we go to America, which we weren?t too happy initially but it all worked out well in the end.

GC What was it about Dave Sardy that?that appealed to him as a producer because I think you?ve, you know, said before that, you know, I mean do you feel that Oasis need a referee in the studio?

NG Yeah. I do now. Now there?s four song writers, yeah, because I don?t?I wouldn?t?I don?t like being in the position and it might be just me being a bit paranoid, I kind of wouldn?t like to be in the chair saying, well, today we?re going to do one of my songs and I don?t know, there just needs to be somebody who is independent and who?s looking at it for what it is, for a record, you know. It?s like, you know, if Liam was in the producer?s chair, it would all be Liam?s songs. It just?it works, you know, well, it worked this time any how.

GC Let?s ask another question that?s been emailed in and they?re coming through thick and fast, so keep them coming in, folks. JD from Rochester in Michigan in the good old US of A, wants to know what is your usual method, Noel, of song writing, i.e. is lyrics before music; music before lyrics or a whiskey before both?

NG Yeah, I don?t do whiskey. It?s always tasted horrible to me. I used?I used to?I used to write a lot when I was younger, when I was drunk and off me head, but not any more and it?s always?it?s always the chords first. It?s always the chords and the melody at the same time and the words almost come last and it?s a real struggle for me to write words.

GC Why?

NG Don?t know, I?m just?I?m not a wordsmith, you know.

GC Do you find yourself kind of going back, you know, continuously, honing all the time, tinkling?

NG Yeah, yeah, rewriting and rewriting, yeah, there?s?and there?s always, even now there?s?there?s?you know, I?on Mucky Fingers, for instance, the?the chorus, if there?s any people out there you?ll understand when you hear it, kind of goes, it?s all mine, I laboured for months over that because for a month it was it?s all right and that didn?t feel right and it was this and then it was that, then it was this. I spent months getting one word right in one line before I commit a song to tape. I mean it?s just the way I am and I don?t really like writing?writing lyrics. I mean if I could get somebody else to do it for me, that?d be great. So if Morris is listening.

GC Well, talking of Morris that brings us nicely to our next question.

NG You?ve not got a question off him, have you?

GC We haven?t actually, but it kind of sort of, well, he comes from Manchester anyway, but Bob from the Netherlands wants to know, Noel, are you proud of being from Manchester?

NG Yeah.

GC Why?

NG Well, it?s what gave me my sense of cynicism. It?s what gave me my sense of style, my sense of humour, my sense of pride in being working class, it gave me my absolute and utter and undeminishing loathing for Manchester United and it?s nice to have a lot of cousins in Liverpool. I like that because I love the Scousers. Yeah, and my mam still lives there and I love her as well.

GC And looking forward to playing there of course later on this summer?

NG Yeah.

GC Is that always special?

NG No, it?s a pain in the fucking arse. It?s like?

GC Advise your words.

NG ?because, well, like London?s home now and Manchester?s home and we?ve got loads of family up there and loads of friends down here and home town gigs are just a pain in the arse because everyone?s get to get in and everybody wants to see you and it?s, you know, your phone?s always going, oh, I?m outside, I can?t get in. It?s like you should have bought a fucking ticket then, shouldn?t you? And anyway, mam, shouldn?t you be in bed?

GC Michael from somewhere in England wants to know do you prefer playing larger venues or smaller ones? That?s an interesting question because you?re going to be doing some very small gigs for ?..

NG Yeah.

GC ?here in London next month, aren?t you?

NG Well, the big ones, it?s like a mass celebration, it?s?it?s a real, real spectacle, it?s amazing and that?s great because the sheer volume of people and to be on that stage, because although?although the kids are in the crowd and they see the band, I got to tell you, from the other side of the stage, it?s amazing because the kids are looking at five people and a keyboard player, you know, we?re looking at 70,000 people, all the banners and all that and you?hearing them sing is just summit special but, on the other hand, saying that, you know, a gig indoors in the dark with the roof on, it?s just?the sheer volume and the feeling that you get from those gigs are pretty special as well. I mean I kind of like them both really.

GC I mean do you like having a roof on you, you know, and that kind of sort of energy, that kind of pent up thing?

NG Yeah?

GC ?almost about to explode?

NG Yeah, yeah, it?s all like hot and sweaty and it?s great and all, and you can see, you know, you can see the kids and that?s brilliant.

GC Demaris from Brazil wants to know where did you take the inspiration for the song, Morning Glory, and also Sad Song as well?

NG Morning Glory was written around about the time of Definitely Maybe, and it started off its title was a song, it was called Blue, and I think the opening line was, first time I ever said this, it went, ha?

GC Go on, go on, stop teasing us.

NG ?it went I left my life in blue, there?s nothing anyone else can do; and it was fucking horrible, and Morning Glory came out of drink and drugs. I wrote it and I re-wrote it in?in a hotel room not too dissimilar to this and it was about?it was kind of, I don?t know, it kind of describes life as a young, you know, like when you?re walking on the street and you?ve got your Walkman on and, you know, dancing to your favourite tune, you know, it?s brilliant. It?s one we?ll be playing on the tour but I don?t know where the actual inspiration come from, writing, I don?t know, I was drunk.

GC I know you?re a big, you know, you?re a massive music fan and?and, you know, you?ve always listened to new stuff as well, but what do you get, and I?m always interested to know this from people, but what do you get, you know, being able to write a song, you know, what does kind it sort of give you, you know, that feeling? That obviously, yeah.

NG Get money.

GC In the bank.

NG It?s?it?s what I do, you know. I?I?I don?t really want to?I?ve never been one for sitting down and analysing it because then it?ll just take the magic out of it for me. I was given a gift, not by fucking God, by somebody, it?s in the genes of my family, although from what I can make out, me and Liam were the only?the first two musicians in our family, but it comes from somewhere and it being kind of Irish descent has a lot to do with that, and it?s a magical thing for me. I?I?I kind of?I really?I?m really lucky to be a song writer, in a?in a fairly successful band and have a lot of fans and stuff but it means the world to me and it?s something that I?ll carry on doing until I can literally not hold a pen in my hand any more, you know. It?s just magic, it?s magic.

GC Have you ever had a writer?s block at all or?

NG Not?I?ve had?I?ve had writer?s block in the sense that I?ve written a lot of shit songs, you know, but I kind of?

GC You get through it?

NG ?yeah, you?ve just got to write yourself through it, you know, you?ve got, I mean everybody has got shit songs in them and everybody?s got great, well, not everybody, but, you know, song writers, and I think the trick is?is if it?s not happening, is just write them but don?t play them to anybody, just?you gotta get them out of your system; everybody?s got a B and O in them, you know, everybody?s got a low points and high points, you know, and you never appreciate?you never appreciate when you?re up, you know, until you?re down. You never appreciate when you?re down until you?re up, you know, so.

GC Very wise words, and that leads into the video for Lyla, which we?d like to show to people and then we?ll talk some more after this.

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GC Oasis and the new single, the forthcoming single, that?s Lyla. I?m Gary Crowley, if you?ve just joined us, this is Noel Gallagher from Oasis and I hope you enjoy this very special exclusive live and on-demand Web cast to celebrate the tenth anniversary of oasisinet.com in association with Real Networks and MTV and don?t worry, if you have missed the past half hour or however long it has been, of this web cast, you will be able to see it in its entirety as a video on-demand as from tomorrow and that?s going to stay online all the way through until June the 24th and we?ve already had over something like 6,000 questions emailed in but please keep them coming in via the box on the right of the video window and we?re going to do our very best to get as many answered as possible over the next couple of hours. Because you?ve got nothing to do this evening, Mr Gallagher, have you?

NG I?m at a loose end; my missis has gone out to a party so I?m here all night.

GC Okay, right, well, unfortunately I?ve got to be somewhere a little bit?a little bit later but we?ll certainly be here for a good couple of hours.

NG You?you can get off, I?ll just stay here.

GC Leave you there, okay.

NG I can fiddle with that there. I?ll be all right.

GC Let?s talk about the video if we can.

NG Let?s talk about the video director.

GC Okay.

NG Yeah.

GC Who he?

NG He is called Tim Q, kind of mentally disturbed, I think. Some of his treatments that he sent in are all involved, just people dressing very, very strangely and we were kind of like, yeah, all right, we?ll go with it then as long as we look good and the?the?the?the inspiration was possibly the rock and roll circus, it kind of turned into a rock and roll brothel in the end and we were kind of a bit?kind of, yeah, but it was a good day out, you know, and we got to play live in it and it was good crack. We all got drunk in the end and we all remained great friends. But he has since been fired. [Laughs.]

GC And the video director, he?s worked with the likes of the Prodigy in the past, hasn?t he?

NG He?s done the?the Prodge and stuff for, what?s the fucking mental band? Muse, he?s done some stuff for them. He?s, you know, he?s a real, I mean, you know, he?s done a great job so, I mean I?m still?I still can?t work videos out at all, I don?t know when I?m doing them, I don?t know whether I like it when I see it back, I?I initially hate it and then everybody sees it and says it looks great, apart from Paul Weller who phones up and goes what?s the fucking video all about and fucking scissor sisters?

GC Like only he can. Back to the?the screen, the questions are coming in thick and fast, keep them coming in and I?ll ask Noel for you. This one comes from Laurence in Ireland, where did Stop the Clocks go? Now I?m assuming that is a song.

NG Yeah.

GC So is it?was it called Stop the Clocks or where does it stop?

NG No, it?s called Stop the Clocks and it was written right at the end of Heathen Chemistry. In fact, it was written while Liam was doing the vocals for Stop Crying Your Heart Out, and the whole kind of album, it was kind of based round that song, something, it was kind of based round that song, it was kind of a long champagne super nova thing. It?s got fantastic lyrics and it?s a great?it?s a great vibe but we?I?I felt that we never really got the correct version. We?ve got about six or seven versions of it and not one of them really kind of got?kind of just sat in the pocket for me so it?s?it?s there, it?s on the back burner, it?ll be, I mean originally the album was going to be called Stop the Clocks, which would have been a great title, but it kind of, because these songs were so new, that kind of then kind of began to feel very old, you know, because it was written in 2001, or summit, so, but it?ll come out eventually, you know.

GC Well, you mentioned that, you know, the song was, what, written, recorded initially round about the time of Heathen Chemistry. I?m fascinated to know what you thought of that album?

NG It was great.

GC ?yeah, I mean I?

NG No, that?s good. I actually thought it was, you know, it?s a great album until you hear this one and then you hear this one and you think, wow, fucking hell, it?s?it?s kind of gone somewhere else again. I mean Heathen Chemistry was brilliant because to go out and play that on the road last, whenever it was, three years ago, after a kind of album that wasn?t really well received in Standing on the Shoulder of Giants was a real, it was a real shot in the arm for us, you know, and there?s some great songs in it. I think?I think that?ll kind of stand the test of time, that album, as well.

GC Nicola from Italy has emailed in, Noel, and wants to know what is your favourite song? It?s a tough one that one, isn?t it?

NG What, Oasis song or?

GC Well, why don?t we do by somebody else first of all and then do your favourite Oasis song. I mean that?s a tough call, that one. Good one, though, Nicola, I like that, I wouldn?t have asked that one.

NG My favourite Oasis song, I think, today, probably Mucky Fingers, we said that already, haven?t we? By somebody else, I don?t know. What have I been listening to recently? It would have been that Sonic Boom album this morning and the best song off that was a song by the Staple Singers, the Staple Sisters, the Staple Singers?

GC The Staple Singers, yeah.

NG ?and it was called?.

GC And so gospelly thing.

NG Yeah, and it?s called the Last Time, which if I?m not very much mistaken the Rolling Stones ripped off completely for their song, This Will be the Last Song.

GC One of my favourite Stone singles ever, that?s?

NG Well, they?re?.their singles between that year, whenever it was, 65, 68, have you got them box sets of the singers?

GC Yeah, definitely. Who are the, I mean, you know, apart from?from Lennon and McCartney, which I guess would be an obvious, you know, thing for you to say, [coughs] who else of the song writers that you aspire to, Noel?

NG Jagger and Richard?s, .I feel sorry for them in a way because they?re kind of always in the shadow of the Beatles and if you take, see, to me you can?t have the Beatles without the Stones, you know, and the tee shirts that people wear and the badges they wear should say the Beatles and the Stones, you know, because they?re?they?re kind of one and the same thing to me. The Stones defined everything about the 60s, possibly even more so than the Beatles, I think. There?d be them, the Sex Pistols, Lee Mathers, and Absolute?Absolute Inspiration to me, still to this day, John Squire and Ian Brown. The Bee Gees, funnily enough, but let me just round that off by saying not that fucking shit like Jive Talking or Staying Alive or that fucking Medallion Man, rubbish.

GC Saturday Night Fever.

NG It?s like 60?66 to 69, they?re the bollocks, [unclear] was going check out their albums, man, there?s an album called Idea and one called Horizontal, and I can?t remember any of the rest.

GC Have you met any of the Bee Gees on your travels?

NG No, I?d love to, I?d love to meet the ones that are still alive. I?I?honestly they were massive, massive, massive, I think there?s only Oasis in the whole world who were massive Bee Gees fans, but not after 69, not that disco fucking nonsense, not that.

GC And what about?

NG And they?re from Manchester.

GC Yes, of course, yeah, originally they were, that?s right, yeah, before going over to Australia, wasn?t it?

NG Mmm.

GC It was Australia. And what about, you know, the kind of new crop of bands as well? I mean, you know, who?s kind of sort of exciting you now, Noel, and making you feel like a fan?

NG The Libs when they were going were great.

GC This is the Libertines?

NG Although I got, I kind of got them after the fact, which is a shame, although I did go and see them when they were happening. I?ve been to see Baby Sambles, they haven?t had a record out so I was kind of there to see the spectacle of the New Anti-Hero, his first gig out after coming out of nick, which was great.

GC What?what do you make of, you know, what he?s been going through in the past year?

NG I think?I think, well, I think he?s one of the last great Bohemians, man, he?s living his life like he wants to live it and fuck everybody else. If he?s going to change, and, you know, who?s?so he?s a junkie and all that but that?s nobody else?s business, I suppose, but, I tell you what he does need to do, is he needs to make a great album because then it will?it will kind of put all the other stuff that he gets up to, the super models and the heroin and all that nonsense, it will put that completely in the shade. If he makes a great album, his place is assured in the room, but I?Razorlight, I went to see them; I think they?re fantastic. Kasabian are the absolute bollocks, the Killers are great, can I talk about bands that I don?t like? I fucking loathe the Bravery, I hate them. Block Party, fucking hate them.

GC Who?s this new band you were enthusing about just before we came on air? Yetti, I think they?re called.

NG Yeah, John?John who used to play base in the Libertines has got a band called Yetti and they?re mega, they?re like?kind of like the La?s the Loss meets the Kinks on a Rainy Day in King?s Cross on Pro Plus.

GC Whoever?s tucking that record should put that on the sticker on the back.

NG Yes, really.

GC Let?s go back to the questions that are coming from all over the world. This one comes from Andrew in Doncaster and says, Noel, Hendrix or Dylan, who do you think had the most influence during the1960s?

NG Dylan.

GC Are you a big Dylan fan?

NG I am. I?m not a?I?m not a?I?m not a great Hendricks fan, I?ve got to say. I don?t?I don?t?I think he wrote?I think he wrote maybe like half a dozen good tunes and he was a great guitarist, blah, blah, blah. I think his band were great but Dylan is? Dylan is the fucking man, end of story. Him?him and Neil Young. When I grew up, when I was a kid, when I grew up, I used to say I want to be Bob Dylan or Neil Young. Noel Young, in fact, I used to say.

GC Noel Young. Jonathan from London wants to know any chance; and this is an interesting question, any chance of you guys covering Ace of Spades by Motorhead? I reckon it would sound top.

NG I wouldn?t have thought so in the very near future but it?s a great?it?s a great tune.

GC You could hear Liam singing that, couldn?t you?

NG That would be brilliant on the tour, wouldn?t it? Yes, it talks about gambling and boozing, doesn?t it? Make a mental note of that. Who sent that in?

GC That?s from Jonathan in London, yeah.

NG Ace of Spades, you never know.

GC Here?s another good one, Tom, I think it is who?s emailed in from Holland, who would you like to collaborate with in the near future? Actually, before you answer that one, Noel, of course, you know, a little while back you got to work and write with a hero of yours, Ian Brown from the Stone Roses?

NG Yeah.

GC ?didn?t you?

NG Yeah.

GC Good fun, enjoyable?

NG Good fun? He?s off his head, man, he?s completely mental, yeah. It was good fun. I kind of went on tour with him as well, which was great, when he?s doing all the Rose?s tunes and that. But Ian?s?Ian?s, you know, Ian?s a proper warrior and I?ve had some good times in the studio with him, really, ha, ha, funny times as well because he?s fucking barking but, yeah, and the tune came out great, you know, and it was?it was good to?it was good to finally get, like, you know, the Oasis Stone Rose?s hybrid on record. It?s good.

GC What made them so special, you know, to you and?and Liam and, you know, well, the music scene, I mean, you know, they kind of sort of turned it upside down, didn?t they?

NG What?

GC ?back in the late 80s?

NG ?I was too young for the Pistols and the Jam were not from where I was from. The next one in line?in?in?in the lineage of Band of the People was Smiths and Morrissey was just so unique that he was just like, I wouldn?t say an odd character, but he was a unique character so you couldn?t actually aspire to be Morrissey. I remember?I remember the Stone Roses walking out on stage one night and me just going, that?s it, that?s it right there, that?s it with Jackson Pollock guitars and?and I seen them early on when they were?they weren?t how the classic image that we know with them now but even then they looked cool, you know, and I just remember being at a gig thinking Sally Cinnamon thinking that?s it, I can do that, you know, I can?t do Morrissey and I can?t do Johnny Marr because they were kind fucking too cosmic for me. Johnny especially and Morrissey was too great a lyricist but the Stone Roses were summit that you could actually, you could reach out and touch that and be that, do you know what I mean? And that?and that?s not to demean it in any way.

GC Do you feel that they fulfilled, you know, the potential that they had? I mean, you know, they left behind, you know, one classic album but, you know, what do you think, you know, they could have done if?

NG They?ve got unfinished business, haven?t they? It?s a shame that it ended like it did but they shouldn?t?they shouldn?t?they shouldn?t have carried on after Rennie really because Rennie was kind of key to that group but to answer that guy?s question I?d love to collaborate with Kofe Anan quite soon because the world?s in a fucking tough spot, man, and that kind of man, you know, sort it out, I think. Or the new pope. [Click, click.]

GC Yeah. We heard that, what was that joke that somebody said? If the last pope was called John Paul, the next one should be George Ringo.

[Laughter.]

GC Anyway, upwards and onwards. Bee from Venezuela, wants to know do you feel that writing lyrics has become easier or harder for you as time passes?

NG The whole thing of being in a band should, on paper, get easier the more that you do it, but it actually gets more difficult, which is why this album has taken so long to do. And for whatever reason it is, I couldn?t tell you but it just gets more difficult to do it. It?s like, I suppose, you present a radio show and people who write or people who are creative in any way, the more you do it, the more difficult it gets; that?s why painters chop their ears off and that?s why Kirk committed suicide, you know, it just gets more difficult but I think?I think the rewards are greater the more records that you do because it?s really easy to write two great albums, well, it?s not really easy, you know, fucking, but I know Marks in this set you?ll never do it, but, you know, it just gets more difficult to kind of push yourself and I can?t?well, when you get a lot of success as well, the drive maybe goes a little bit and once you?ve been round the world 20 times, it?s like [coughs] LA again.

GC So what drives you on, then, I mean, you know, you?you?you sort of, you know, you?ve made some great albums, you know, you?ve sold shit loads of records and, you know, recording breaking gigs, what kind of sort of keeps you going? Have you made that perfect record yet as far as you?re concerned?

NG Yeah, Definitely Maybe was pretty near to perfect as you?re going to get either?whichever way you want to look at this fortunately or unfortunately; it was our first attempt at making music so we started 10 out of 10 and it?s like you can only go one way from there really. [Coughs.] I think I?m quite happy with the way band?s gone. There?s been ups and downs but the new record I?m really proud of but I?I think if I ever thought I?d made the perfect record I?d pack it in but to answer the question what drives the band, [coughs] it?s Liam really. Liam is?if it was left to me, then I?d just be getting in the mood to follow up Morning Glory now. Liam is the one person in the band who gets mega mega impatient if he?s?if he?s not been arrested for two or three months for clouting a photographer.

GC And what about that enthusiasm to get in the studio as well? I think Dave Sardy who?s, you know, produced, you know, the new album, Don?t Believe the Truth, and I think Zak says as well that, you know, that they?re kind of amazed with that?that sort of drive, that?that energy that you guys have?have got to, you know, to kind of get into the studio and get busy.

NG Well, to?to initially fire up the engines of the band, I?m always a bit reluctant to do that, you know, because once you?ve had a few months off and you?re kind of sat?sat on the beach in Mexico, you know, sipping Pina Coladas thinking, daff, fucking can?t be arsed with all that nonsense, you know what I mean? Interviews, web casts?

GC [Laughs] you love it.

NG Yeah, and, you know, but once?once you kind of get into it, you know, I love being in the studio Dave Sardi, he?d never worked with a band like us before because he used to get there at twelve o?clock every day and we?d all be sat there waiting for him and going, what fucking time do you call this, fat arse? And he kept trying to get there to beat and, you know, he says in one of the interviews that he?s done, kept saying, fuck, I?m going to beat those fuckers out there and he got one, he got there one day at half eleven and he was soul destroyed to hear Liam strumming Songbird as he walked through the studio, good morning, Dave. What?s up? Are you here like at fucking five o?clock but, I mean, you know once we start working and once you?ve got a record to do we like?we like get in there and I love being in there. I mean could squeeze another six months out of Don?t Believe the Truth, easy.

GC A question here from Westo who?s emailed in from the Cayman Islands; wants to know, Noel, who is your favourite Beatle and what is your favourite Beatle song?

NG My favourite Beatle is Ringo, obviously, because we?re going to get to him quite soon, he always was. He was the genius in that band. Forget the other two, what are they called? And what?s the last bit?

GC And your favourite Beatle song.

NG My favourite Beatle song is Ticket to Ride or I?m the Walrus.

GC What do you like about Ticket to Ride?

NG I don?t know. I?ve always liked that song.

GC Yeah.

NG Or She Loves You, because I love that song as well.

GC Well, I?ve heard She Loves You too many times but Ticket to Ride?

NG Yeah.

GC ?still sounds so heavy.

NG Amazing.

GC Yeah.

NG And I?m the Walrus because I can still put that on and listen to it on headphones now and still hear something that I?ve never heard before and I must have listened to it a million and one times, but I don?t really have a favourite Beatle because it was the Beatles, wasn?t it, you know?

GC And talking?

NG Pete the Beat.

GC Talking of the Beatles, you weren?t there but I understand when the band were recording the album?

NG Oh, yeah.

GC ?at Capital Studios in Los Angeles, Paul McCartney was in next door, wasn?t he?

NG Well, I?I was?

GC Tell us the story.

NG Well, they?they flew out a week earlier than me?

GC This is the band, the rest of the band?

NG Yeah because I?d got?I?d got?I?d got the flu after being on the road with Ian Brown funnily enough, and?so they went out a week early. So when I got there, Liam?s, hey, you?ll never guess who was in here the other day, fucking McCartney. I?m going, really, was he? So he gets out this photograph, there?s Gem and there?s Zak, Macca, and our Liam on the end, like that, and I?m going you two-faced little fucker and he?s going what? And I was like that. You are on record as saying you were going to play golf off his head on fucking Primrose Hill, you called him a lesbian, you know what I mean? You loathe Paul McCartney and there you are with your arm round him. Like that. I said you two-faced twat. He?s just like that, he?s a fucking geezer, McCartney, what, I?ve never slagged off Paul McCartney. I was like do you want me to go and get the press cuttings? You know. But, yeah, people are?

GC told the story?

NG ?see now, the thing is, right, if Paul McCartney would have walked into that studio and our Liam with a five iron, fucking head right across the studio, I?d have a lot more respect for Liam because I?d be like, well, at least you meant it, you know, but, didn?t no. All right, Paul.

GC Is it?

NG Fucking?I fucking love Blackbird.

GC Isn?t there also another story that when Macca was in the studio he was, you know, rifling through the CDs?

NG Well, what, because?because they?re, I obviously wasn?t there but we were in Capital Studios and some kid from the office come down, Capital Records is upstairs, and they?d just re-issued loads of John Lennon CDs and he brought down a box and I seen the box and it was literally, where?s the camera? [Inaudible.] And there must have been 20 John Lennon, there?s all like acoustic albums and bits of live stuff and all that and apparently McCartney comes in and he?s?the band are all sat there and they?they caught him kind of looking through the box and he went off and he just went fucking none of mine here?

[Laughter.]

GC Right, Cathy from Weston-Super-Mare, are you as hard as you make out?

NG I don?t make out I?m really?do I make out I?m hard? Well, you know me, I?m not?I?m not that hard but who?s it? Is that a girl?

GC Yeah. Cathy.

NG Well, I?ll kick your fucking arse anyway, love, let?s put it that way.

GC [Laughs.]

NG Where are you from? Weston-Super-Mare.

GC Weston-Super-Mare.

NG If you ever see me in Weston-Super-Mare, love, cross the fucking street.

GC Kelvin from Wales wants to know will you tour Wales this year.

NG I think we?re playing Cardiff for our sins. Yeah, I think we?re playing; I don?t know when though, whatever your name is, and I don?t think it?s going to be at the Millennium Stadium. Somebody has mentioned the word Cardiff to me, well, our manger?s Welsh as everybody knows so he always likes to get us down there so he can dig up the fucking money?s he buried in the valleys somewhere, all the publishing advance from B&L, no doubt.

GC Claudio from Brazil?s emailed in. Lot of emails coming from Brazil.

NG We were massive in Brazil.

GC Yeah.

NG Huge.

GC Let?s get out there. What did you think of Ryan Adams?s cover of Wonderwall.

NG I love it. Absolutely beautiful. Love it. Amazing. It should?it should have been in the film and won an Oscar. Great. I love him. He?s cool as fuck. And Liam loves it as well which is equally as amazing as the song being great but, yeah, I love it to bits.

GC Would you ever write for anybody else specifically? I mean I know you?ve co-written with, obviously, with Liam? I mean would you ever kind of sort of, you know, see someone on the TV or hear somebody and I think I wouldn?t mind writing them a song?

NG If I had a song lying about and somebody to use it and it was unreleased, I wouldn?t mind that?

GC You?ve got Stopping Clocks at the moment.

NG ?but I don?t, yeah, but I don?t know?I don?t know whether I?ve ever kind of looked at, you know, Baby Spice and gone yeah?

GC Fucking do something with her.

NG ?do summit with her or fucking Mel Cee, gone like that, yeah, Cigarettes and Alcohol get on this, I got a new one called fucking Shandy and Chris?s.

GC Right. Gary from Stevenage, ever thought of coming back to Knebworth?

NG No. No. We should have?we should have done?we should have done the seven nights we could have when we done it but I don?t?I don?t think, no, because then it would make that gig not?it?s like we?d never do a Main Road again or we?d never do Loch Lomond or we?d never do the Water Rats because then it would?because I always?I always have this thing with kids in the street and they go, oh, I seen you at Earl?s Court and you go, when? What time, you know? Because we played it like three or four times and I can only liken the gigs now to or I can only realise what gigs they?re talking about when they say who supported us. So I kind of wish we?d only done Earl?s Court the once as well, you know what I mean? But, yeah, probably?probably not, I wouldn?t have thought, unless it?s for some silly benefit.

GC What memories of that?that weekend at Knebworth?

NG Um. [Sighs.]

GC I mean any kind of sort of, you know, clear cut defining ones that sort of, you know, stick in your mind?

NG Yeah, yeah, rocking out on stage and getting quite carried away with the moment because they were the biggest ever, everything was the biggest ever, you know, and the most ever, and I kind of walking out on stage and shouting and it?s all the bootlegs, you know, me getting carried away and screaming this is history, this is history, and Liam, the fucking cunt, down the mike went, I thought it was Knebworth.

GC He said what?

NG Thought it was Knebworth, not, where?s history, you know, and that?s kind of the one?that?s kind of the one defining thing that sticks out but apart from that it was just, it was great. John?s play Champagne Supernova with John Squire was pretty special. It was all?it was all good crack at the time, you know.

GC And what about coming on stage, you know, coming out on stage, Noel, as well because when you looked out on stage at Network?

NG Well?

GC ?it went on forever?

NG Yeah.

GC ?but if you looked to the sides, it went on forever as well.

NG Yeah. The only thing I?ve ever experienced like that was Rocking Rio when we done that and it was the same thing, you kind of looked and you can?t see?you can?t see the back of the gig and you look out to the side and it goes on for as far as you can see and I just remember thinking what are all these people doing here? You know, because we?we hadn?t actually been paid at that time. None of the money that we?d ever earned had come through from any of the two big albums that we?d had and all the equipment now was pretty shit and I remember just, I didn?t even have a guitar tuner, I had one?one, like delay pedal, and, you know, bands usually get to play like knebworth, you know, it?s usually quite slick. I mean we were all fucking idiots from Manchester, even all the crew, it?s from Manchester, what the fuck are we doing? And I?ve seen some of the footage now and the stage set, it?s appalling. It?s absolutely appalling but I wish we were doing it next week actually now, you know, now we know a little bit more, do you know what I mean? Actually one of the cool things about doing Madison Square Gardens after 12 years of kind of banging your head against the wall in America, it?s like we can kind of look it now and think, right, you know, this is going to be great, let?s fucking do summit special instead of just being like 20-odd and bowing up there, you know, and just having it on stage, you know. But it was?it was good, man.

GC I mean the tickets, I understand, for the American, you know, leg of the world tour, you know, sold out very, very quickly?

NG Yeah.

GC ?you know, but?but when you guys have gone out there in the past, you know, the wheels off the wagon seemed to sort of fall off somewhat, don?t they?

NG Yeah.

GC I mean any kind of sort of thoughts as to, you know, what it is about America that things can sometimes go decidedly pear shaped?

NG Well, I don?t know whether people know this, the people who kind of?not many people get to tour America, right. And between New York and Los Angeles there?s nothing, it, you know, on a Wednesday in Omaha, you know, when, you know, Oasis are coming to town, there?s fuck all to do apart from sit on the tour bus and get drunk and argue. And it?s kind of always been a bit dull for us. New York?s great and Los Angeles is great and Vegas is great and San Francisco, all like the big major cities but we were doing a gig in Albuquerque one night; I?ve only ever heard that in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, do you know what I mean? Albuquerque? What the fuck? What am I? I?m from Burnage what am I?I bet I?m the only person in Burnage ever to have been in Albuquerque.

GC [Laughs.]

NG Seriously. And I would have grafitted the wall somewhere if I didn?t think I?d have got shot by one of the fucking rangers but you?ve got too much time on your hands in America and?because you don?t tour on a bus anywhere else apart from in America and there?s like 13 of you on a bus that sleeps 13 and?

GC It?s cabin fever.

NG ?yeah, and you all get drunk and it?s, you know, you calling my shoe a lesbian? Shoes, puffs, that kind of thing. But, you know, as we?as we got?as we?ve got older I think the Black Crow?s tour we done was great because we didn?t have an album to promote so we were just doing it for the sake of it and that was great. The last time we toured there with a Soundtrack Of Our Lives it was great. We didn?t go to the West Coast because Liam got his teeth smashed in. Go Germany. And this time will be great, I think, you know, we?ve gone through our phases of being silly little boys out there insulting everybody that we meet, I think, I hope.

GC Philippe from Brazil wants to know, Noel, where do you find the inspiration to write songs as well?

NG From wherever really, I don?t know. Listening to other people?s music, I think Keith Richards has the best take on it, you know, it?s like he who hath the best record collection, he writes the best music. It?s kind of like that. I mean you only get good music from listening to good music and it?s as simple as that. I refer you to the answer of my learned friend, Mr Richards.

GC What about a song like the Importance of Being Idle on the new album? What was the inspiration for that one?

NG It was?it was in one of the month breaks that we had in between recording and being quite inspired by my own lack of interest in the whole process of where it was going because I never?I never like panic in those kind of situations because you don?t kind of get anywhere, usually, if you panic and make snap decisions or knee jerk reactions to things, we always end up making the wrong decision. I was kind of like, let?s just chill, fuck out, man, and it?ll be finished when it?s finished. And that was kind of it, you know, and there is a book called the Importance of Being Idle, it has all these quotes from geniuses down the years about what it is to be an idle man and having nothing to do is probably the best job in the world and I was kind of inspired by that and thinking this is?this doing nothing, it?s fucking great. Brilliant. I?m going to, from now on until next March probably, I?m going to be flat out every day, you know, so, I was kind of enjoying that time sitting down watching telly.

GC Well, that brings us nicely to?to our next email which comes from Jeff from Tadley in Hampshire, who said if Oasis hadn?t have got signed, Noel, what job do you think you would have been doing now?

NG I?d still be a roadie, I think. I?d?I used?I was quite happy being a roadie. I would have done that.

GC What did you like about it?

NG Och, it was just like being in a band but you?re not in a band, you?re not famous, you know, there?s plenty of drink, drugs and, you know, all the other things that go with?associated with being in a group but you don?t have to have your photograph taken, you don?t have to do web chats.

GC But am I right in saying that because, of course, you know, you famously worked with the Inspiral Carpets [?] for a little while as well.

NG Mmm.

GC But didn?t you used to if one of the band couldn?t make an interview?

NG Yeah.

GC ?you would get?

GC I used to do fucking phoners for Clint Boone when he was out shopping. He?d be off out buying fucking naff shirts and he?d like do these interviews for him. I remember doing one, Clint?Clint was a real aficionado on 60?s psychedelic garage music and he was?he had an interview with some guy who was an expert on it and it slowly dawned on this guy as the interview was going on, I knew fuck all about 60?s psychedelic garages. I thought they was just garages that were painted funny.

GC Sebastian from Ontario says Noel, I?m going to be at the show in Toronto?

NG So will I. I?ll be there.

GC ?I was wondering?

NG See you there.

GC ?I was wondering if you could fit in the Master Plan into your set list. Any thoughts?

NG It?s a bit long and it?s a bit slow and in a?in a word, no, Sebastian, I don?t think, maybe, but, no.

GC He also says here, by the way, Oasis is all rock and roll has left, keep up the great work. Who are the bands who are coming through who, you know, have the potential to sort of, you know, challenge you guys, do you think?

NG Razorlight.

GC Were you a fan up until going to see them live?

NG I got?I bought their album. I?the?there?s a track, the Golden Touch, is that what it?s called? I think that?s what it?s called, I love that, I thought that was brilliant, and Stumble and Fall is my favourite song by Razor, I think it?s fantastic but I always kind of reserve judgement on bands until you go and see them live because a lot?a lot of albums are quite misleading, you know. I?ve been to see?I?ve bought albums by bands and I?ve been to see them and it was fucking shocking. But, yeah, I bought the record and I was interested enough to go and see them live and it kind of?it kind of nailed it for me going to see them.

GC And is he good, the?the singer? I mean is he a character, is he??

NG Oh, he?s absolutely convinced of his own immortality. He was?he was saying to me, he said, after the gig, I said it?s great and he said I don?t, what did he say? He said I don?t need your compliments, I need your advice, man.

GC [Laughs.]

NG So I kind of put my beer down and went so what do I do, Johnnie, let?s hear it, and he said what do I do when I get to Nebworth? You know, and I was like, well, I don?t know, you know, give us a ring when you?ve sold it out, you know, but he?s convinced he?s going to be the biggest star in the world. I kind of see a little bit of me in him when I?

GC Yeah?

NG Yeah.

GC ?that kind of cocky swagger.

NG Yeah, but he?s got to back it up, you know. He?s got?he?s in a fucking good band, you know, and I was kind of saying to him when you start to play these big places, don?t?don?t ever think that the place is bigger than you or your music because we?we kind of, you know, we were playing arenas before we had a second album out, like big arenas, you know, and I actually always say the band would go fucking hell, you know, look at the size of this place, and I?d say, yeah, but it?s not bigger than the music, you know. This place is too small to play Live Forever, you know, Knebworth was too small to play Champagne Supernova and you?ve?you?ve got to think like that or, I mean we were also the act who even come off stage at Nebworth the second night, somebody saying, well, what now? And we were like, well, there?s got to be a bigger gig somewhere, surely, you know.

GC We?re going to the moon.

NG Yeah. Well, you?ve got to have that and I think he?s kind of got that and I like him for that.

GC Okay. Luciano from Argentina wants to know is there a chance to make a new DVD, a live DVD, as good as Familiar to Millions?

NG Fucking hell, it wouldn?t be difficult.

GC Not a fan of that one.

NG Fucking now way, man. No, it wasn?t?they weren?t?they weren?t the best two nights in the band?s history, I?ve got to say.

GC This is Wembley Stadium of course, isn?t it?

NG Yeah, yeah.

GC Yeah.

NG I can?I can say that safely now knowing that the sales of it?s tailed off somewhat. Of course when it was coming out I was probably saying it?s the best thing ever but, yeah, I haven?t got happy memories of that weekend to be honest. We were in a weird place, yeah, me and Liam?

GC Yeah, because?

NG ?just all of us, it was all weird, you know. Bone and Guigs had left and it, I don?t know about live DVDs, they?re?they?re pretty fucking hit and miss. I?m struggling to think of one that I like, you know. I think?

GC Albums, I think, as well.

NG ?Yeah, I don?t know, a bit weird.

GC Yeah.

NG I think DVDs work or live stuff work well as kind of historical pieces if you buy like?like?because we had like Knebworth filmed by a full film crew and it?s never, ever come out and I?

GC Why?

NG ?well, we kind of sat on it for like maybe, I don?t know, like 20 years? time it?ll be kind of relevant, it?ll be summit to look back on for people?

GC Story to the day, yeah.

NG ?whereas, I mean you could go like the Robbie Williams? route and have it out immediately and cash in on it but it was never about that with us, you know what I mean? That was?that was kind of a moment in history for?for the want of a better word, what became the Brit Pop thing, you know, and all the bands that were on it as well, all were fantastic and I think?I think it was filmed on proper film, not just like fucking Mickey Mouse video cameras, do you know what I mean? And it was all about the fans; I think we had cameramen on trains of people going to the gigs; it?s kind of going to be our little Woodstock.

GC Yeah.

NG But it?s going to be summit to look at when the big tax law comes in when?

GC Save that for the anthology.

NG ?Marcus has disappeared in a fucking cloud of smoke with all the money.

GC Simon from Cape Town, would you do MTV Unplugged again?

NG I would, yeah, I wouldn?t fucking do it with Monkey Boy, though, he fucked it right up for us.

GC Just for people watching this who, you know, might not know the story?

NG Oh, the story?

GC ?there was a lot of?

NG ?the story is this, right, you know, MTV Unplugged said you having it? And we went like that, absolutely. The day of the gig, he turns up, been up all night, [coughs] got a sore throat, funny that, in? it? You know, if you?ve been up all night drinking as smoking and talking absolute arse, that?s funny that, in? it? You?re not able to sing. So anyway, because you can?t cancel it because it?s MTV, we had, you know, we had to go and do it, and then I wasn?t?I?d only just started doing the backing vocals, I?d?I?d have a better collection of songs to do it now, you know. In fact, I?d love to do it. If anybody from MTV Unplugged is listening, I?ll throw my hat in the ring for one, a Christmas Special, maybe.

GC Well, let?s show another video.

NG Right.

GC And, yeah, we?re going to enjoy Oasis and one of the cracking singles from the last album, Hindu times, coming next.

[Video.]

GC Well, for those of you who have just joined us, where have you been? You?re missing some cracking conversation here, not from me, I?m just Gary Crowley, the presenter, but this is Noel Gallagher from Oasis and I hope you?re enjoying this very special exclusive live and on-demand web cast to celebrate the tenth anniversary of oasisinet.com in association with Real Networks and MTV, and keep your questions coming in because we?ve had some absolute crackers so far and don?t worry if you have missed some of the web cast so far because this web cast will be available as video on-demand tomorrow and it?s going to stay online all the way through until June the 24th. I love terms like that, video on-demand. Have you got any idea what that means?

NG No.

GC No, you haven?t.

NG Well, you know, you just go into Block Busters and say give us a copy of Hard Day?s Night, right now or I?ll trash the gaff.

GC [Laughs.] Are you?do?do you email? Do you do email yourself? No. Silly question.

NG No, no, no.

GC Have you had a go at it?

NG No. No.

GC Just what, it doesn?t appeal, or?

NG No, I?m not?I?m not into computers or I-Pods or any of that nonsense. I was the second last person in England to get one of those.

GC I resisted for a long time as well.

NG Yeah, I know, it?s a pain in the arse. I?m not, you know, I?m, I mean call me old fashioned?

GC Old fashioned.

NG ?I mean the telephone always worked for me.

GC Yeah.

NG ?you know, or just shouting.

GC Yeah, very, very loudly. Fernando from Mexico has emailed in and he wants to know, a lot of people want to know, you know, from specific countries, as to whether Oasis are going to be, you know, visiting there or not so what about Mexico?

NG Well, I go to Mexico every year on me holidays.

GC What is it you like about it?

NG I just love it. I love the people, the food and I just love the, it?s got a certain quality to it, you know, that I like and it helps me relax. I love it.

GC Do you get recognised out there at all?

NG Ah, absolutely, I?m an international event. I?m a rock star.

GC Of course you, it?s money in the bank.

NG I go?I go?I go to the Barhar Peninsular, I?ve been there for the last two or three years, they?re fantastic people, I love them dearly. I hope we?re going back this year; we?ve had some great, great gigs in Mexico City. I would hope so, Fernando. Is that his name, Fernando?

GC Jes from Brighton wants to know what did you think of last year?s performance at Glastonbury.

NG I don?t know. I don?t know, I wasn?t there, I was on stage so I don?t know.

GC What was it like for you being on stage? Did you feel as though it was?

NG It was all right?

GC ?connected with the audience?

NG ?it kind of took me a while to recover from Liam walking out of his?his dressing room with his white parka on. I was quite shocked at that.

GC Do you have one of those?

NG A white parka?

GC Mmm.

NG No.

GC Mr Weller?s got one, though, hasn?t he?

NG Say no more.

GC [Laughs.]

NG No, I don?t, and the white parka done it for me but I don?t why it didn?t, I don?t know why it didn?t go down so well; I?m not too sure, I don?t know. Were you there?

GC No. I watched it on the TV.

NG Was it any good?

GC Wasn?t sort of, you know, wasn?t cooking as, you know some gigs that I?ve seen.

NG I think Liam was in a bad mood.

GC Right, and talking of festivals as well, any particular ones that you?re looking forward to playing over the summer across Europe?

NG Well, we?re doing?we?re doing the V Festival and we?re doing some in Germany, some in Italy, I think we?re doing Benicassim They?re all great. Do you know what? Do you know what I really, really like is to...we done one?we done one in Australia last year and we were second on the bill to some band called Powder Finger and I think that?s where we?re at our best, is in?is in a?is in a foreign land just below the headliners because we fucking had it every night, man, we turn them over every night, man, it?s great. But the festivals, the European ones are brilliant. In England there really only is one which is Glastonbury; the other ones are kind of big corporate gigs in a field and everyone?s trying to flog you washing machines and hearing aids and fucking beer mats, you know. And?but I?m not, festivals are all right. The ones in Brazil, not Brazil, the ones in mainland Europe are fantastic. We did one in Germany, we were supporting Ramstein, hey?

GC That?s?they?re quite sort of full on kind of, what, metal, kind of electro?

NG I?m hoping Liam will befriend the singer, whatever his name is, Wolfgang, no doubt.

GC Kim from New York City has emailed in, Noel, and wants to know what are your favourite cities to play in the US and why?

NG New York because it?s the capital of the world.

GC And Madison Square Garden?

NG Yeah. We?re doing that.

GC What does that mean to you, Oasis headlining at Madison Square Garden?

NG It wouldn?t have meant so much back in 95, you know, because we were quite arrogant at that time and we would have, you know, we would have?it was just another gig, but it?s great after all these years, you know, getting a sell-out now, is amazing. I like San Francisco and Vegas is pretty cool. All the major cities are all right, but it?s just kind of a bit of a struggle in America because when we do television over there they can?t understand a word we say and it kind of the radio DJs can be a bit, I don?t know, I don?t know, they don?t really get us over there, I don?t think, but?

GC Why do you think that is? What, because of, you know, the thing, I guess certainly as far as the UK is concerned, you know, that?that arrogance, that sort of swagger has always, you know, kind of sort of appealed to?to a lot of people, do they kind of sort of feel as though maybe you are too arrogant over there?

NG Well, I don?t?the arrogant, that label has never quite sat comfortably with me because?

GC Not arrogance though but maybe that kind of cockiness which?which I love, I think, you know, people, you know, that?

NG Well, I don?t?I don?t?I don?t know. They, maybe they?re used to dealing with American bands who are quite grateful, you know, that people are playing their record on the radio and that they?re stocking your record in their record shops. We?re kind of the opposite of that, you know.

GC You don?t tug your forelock and play the game?

NG Well, no, no, no, no, no, they should be grateful that they?re playing our record, you know, and that?that?that we?re coming to their town, not the other fucking way round. But we may have suffered from that in the past but we?ll give it another go and see how it goes.

GC I can always remember being in Los Angeles with Simon Halfon who does your sleeve designs and?

NG That was the first night we met, was it? Was it the first time I met you?

GC No, this is?this is in Los Angeles, this is in LA.

NG Right.

GC And I remember in a car and coming up to the traffic lights and we were listening to K Rock?

NG Right.

GC ?and Wonderwall came on and, you know, we looked at the people to the left of us and they had a convertible and they were singing along to the song?

NG Right.

GC ?and it was, you know, I mean I?d interviewed a few?a couple of times by that?that sort of point but it just?it was really exciting, it was like, God, you know, it?s kind of sort of, it?s making inroads here.

NG Yeah, well, apparently, the new?the new single is doing quite well out there on the radio. I mean I met [unclear] just been out there and he called me up and said, he heard it?he heard it twice in one day in America. Whoo hoo.

GC Alvaro from Spain wants to know which do you think are the bands that have influenced Oasis during the last few years.

NG Maybe?maybe Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club and Kings of Leon.

GC What is it about the Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club that?that you like so much?

NG Well, the name for starters.

GC You like the name?

NG Any?any?

GC Interviewed them on a radio show.

NG Well, now, I won?t then, the name just is?that first record is bollocks. I don?t know whether they?ve had a direct influence on the?on the music, you know, but, yeah, that one song, Whatever Happened to my Rock and Roll and the Kings of Leon?s first album and the Strokes? first EP were amazing. For me, personally, Leon just loathes everyone. The rest of the band, I don?t know.

GC And Soundtrack of their Lives area band that have always been favourites of yours, aren?t they?

NG Yeah, probably?probably my favourite band of the last two to three years.

GC Why?

NG Well, every time I see them on stage, I kind of think I hope that?s how I look when I play guitar and I look back at the footage and I?m barely tapping my foot, you know, and Ian and Mateus and Everett, they?re all giving it the windmills and all that, I love all that. I wish I was in that band.

GC Why can?t...why?why?why don?t you guys do that then?

NG I?ve got, well, personally, I?ve got a bad back, you know, but?

GC Is that what you?re putting it down to?

NG It?s true, I?ve got a bad back. But I don?t know, I don?t know. I?m just not?I?m?I just concentrate too much on what I?m playing. I suppose you?ve got be a natural at that, you know, to do the old Mack Shall Mind you, we?ve got Zak in the group now and he?he can Mack Shall

GC With the best of them, definitely.

NG Yeah.

GC Bob from Holland wants to know what is your favourite Oasis album and why? Is it always the latest one or?

NG No, I?if I?ve got to pick one, let?s?let?s disregard this one for a minute, I?d probably say Definitely Maybe because of what it meant to people because, you know, ten years after it, 11 years now even, people are still going on about it and it?s still kind of benchmark. It will always be, any band that?s coming out with a debut album, if it isn?t as good as that, then it isn?t the best debut album of all time. And I still, even when we play some of the songs off that that we?ve been rehearsing today, like Rock and Roll Star and Cigarettes and Alcohol, this still amazes me. If I had to pick one, it would be that, really.

GC Surprised in?in a good way by the phenomenal success of the Definitely Maybe DVD?

NG Not?not really because it is good, you know, it?s a great album, and the kind of stories behind all those songs are great and the interviews are really funny and [coughs] all the characters that were involved with us back in the day, like Mark Coyle and Owen Morris and Alan McGee and all that, it was?it was?it was a really, really, really special time, you know. And added to that it was the first thing that we ever done and we?we fucking hit the nail on the head so perfectly, it?s unbelievable.

GC But it did take you a couple of attempts to record that album?

NG Yeah.

GC ?as well, didn?t it?

NG Well, we?we, I mean I?ve still never seen Oasis live. I?ve never been in a room and watched us. And every time we?we?d kind of done the record and people were going it?s not as good as you are live and it?s got to be that good and we were, we kind of didn?t know what they were going on about. We?I remember one night completely washing my hands of it and saying I don?t anything more to do with it, you know. I?I hadn?t had an album out and I was really frustrated with it all already. And Owen Morris appeared on the scene and the rest is a complete mystery to me.

GC Right, and Stocky from Oldham wants to know what?s your least favourite Oasis song.

NG Roll With It. Round Our Way, Whatever. They kind of stick in the throat a lot actually.

GC How long does it take you to get sick of a song, I mean, is it sometimes?

NG Usually about the length of listening to it after I?ve recorded it. Roll With It, well, I think they were very of their time, I heard Round Our Way the other night on?on a TV programme.

GC Isn?t it used as the theme for a TV programme or?

NG Yeah, it was?it was telly, it wasn?t a theme tune. No, it was in a film, wasn?t it? I think the Life Less Ordinary with Ian McGregor, it?s appalling rubbish.

GC Robbie from Burnley wants to know does the return of the old logo signify anything. Good question.

NG Yeah, well, I kind of wish we?d never changed it in the first place. Round about the time of Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, I was obsessed with re-inventing the band. [Laughs] and I thought the logo would do that, if we changed the log?

GC All change.

NG Yeah, it would be great but, no, I was sick of the other one really but I mean that?that?s kind of our logo, do you know what I mean, and we kind of toyed with the other one for a bit and it?s a bit?it?s a bit posh, and it?s a bit new and we?re not.

GC Kiara, I think it is, is he now from Milan? He says, hello, Noel?

NG Hello.

GC ?don?t you think that Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and your experiment of doing psychedelic music has been under-valued?

NG In?in respect of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, I think the lyrics I wrote for all those songs are fantastic and I think the Fucking In the Bushes, Got Let it Out, Gas Panic, Where Did It All Go Wrong, are great. I just don?t think it sustained itself as an album really. We didn?t?I didn?t?that was my last?that was my last hurrah as the main song writer, you know, and it?s?it?s kind of?it?s been getting better since then. I?d kind of lost all enthusiasm for writing music; the workload was becoming too much for me and I was kind of at a?creatively I was kind of at a low ebb. Saying that, I demoed in those sessions for Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, I demoed a song called Little By Little [coughs] which everybody at the time was saying has got to be on the album and I don?t know why I decided to do this but something inside me told me to save it for the next record and I think I was right in doing that because that kind of added to a turning point with Heathen Chemistry because, I mean, Stop Crying Your Heart Out and Little By Little, and, what?s Liam?s song, Songbird, and that kind of made that album kind of pretty special, I think.

GC So I guess it makes it a much more sort of, you know, competitive camp now really, doesn?t it, having four song writers in the band? I mean who do you?who do you listen to as far as, you know, criticism is concerned? I mean are you a good, do you accept that or?easily?

NG I?my?my first port of call for a second opinion?s always Gem. Liam?s got a great set of ears regardless of what I might, you know, I?ve got my issues with that boy, God only knows, but he?s got a great set of ears and if summit?s great and he says it?s great, then you know that, you know, I mean he?s?he?s not?he calls a spade a spade, Liam, if it?s shit, he?ll tell you it?s shit, not unlike our good friend, Mr Weller, who?s called me on more than one occasion at four in the morning, I?ve just heard your fucking new demo, it?s fucking shit. Like, thanks.

GC What do you say when he says that?

NG I refer to him the Band Aid single and Live Aid and I picture him running through the forest with a spear with a loin cloth?

GC [Laughs.]

NG ? give us a ring when you have got breakfast.

GC And what about your music and also your lyrics as well, Kiara wants to know? I mean do you feel that they?ve become more mature?

NG I don?t?I don?t know?I don?t?I mean you only know, I think you only find out things about yourself and about what you do by listening to other people so she would have to?she would have to tell me. I?I kind of do what I do and I do it through pure instinct and feel. [Coughs.] I don?t contrive anything. The only time I ever tried to contrive anything was to reinvent the sound of the band when Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, and failed miserably. Other than that I just do what I feel is right and sometimes, you know, sometimes you get it right and sometimes you get it wrong, you know, but I?I?it?s never contrived; it?s always just this is what I feel is right.

GC Have you surprised yourselves with this album, do you think?

NG I surprised myself with my songs. They came out not like the finished versions that you hear, I?m not surprised at the recordings of them are so?so great. When I was writing?when I was writing them, I was kind of?I was really, really impressed, especially with the Importance of Being Idle and Mucky?and Part of the Queue because they?re kind of a departure for me. Surprise is not?is not?is not a word but I?m proud more than anything that I kind of managed to get a way from the flag waving, you know, anthems.

GC But having said that, I mean, you know, Let There Be Love.

NG Well, that?s eight years old, that song.

GC Is it?

NG That was written?that was written for Standing on the Shoulder of Giants as well and never?it?s kind of in the same ballpark now as Stop the Clocks is. I was never quite happy with it and then I decided to put it on the back burner and then I wrote another middle eight and then I wrote some more words and then I fiddled about with it a bit until we got it right so like Stop the Clocks will probably, if it takes eight years, it?ll take eight years but when it?when it?s out, it?ll be perfect.

GC But you initially were a little bit reluctant to put Let There Be Love on the album.

NG Yeah, I didn?t?I didn?t?I didn?t feel the album needed it but Dave Sardy, it was great working with Dave because he?and American?s perspective on what we do is very different from our own and he was saying, you know, when I listen to Oasis albums I want a song like that, I want that epic anthem, you know, with the strings and all that and I was going I?m kind of bored with that and he was going you?re a fucking idiot, and I was going, I?ll fight you if you call me an idiot again. He was going you?re a fucking idiot, man, and he kind of?I said, right, well, I?ll go with it and we?we kind of went with him really and he led us down a certain path with it and it came out great and I take my hat off to him.

GC Can we talk about touring as well because how long are you going to be away for this year?

NG We?re going to be, I think, initially til January and probably til March.

GC Right, and what about readjusting to?to sort of life after being on the road?

NG It takes me about two weeks.

GC Is?is that right?

NG Total, yeah. I mean I see it for what it is, you know, I love?I love being on the road and I love travelling the world and I love?I love all that side of it but I?m not?you read this stories of people in bands and they can?t get their heads round going back to normal life?

GC Yeah.

NG ?I love it, you know, it takes me literally a fortnight and I?m back there, man, I?m, well, not even a fortnight, you know. I?m?I really value my normal, for want of a better word, life and I kind of really value my?my professional?my professional life too and I kind of don?t mix the term. When I switch off, I switch off, I?m not Noel from Oasis and, you know, I?m?I?m just a geezer.

GC A geezer. Isabella from Rio wants to know what do you think about the British music scene now these days. Is it inspiring?

NG Yeah. I mean I think we touched on that already with things like the Libertines and Kasabian and all that lot.

GC Because you?re an ardent?you?re and ardent gig goer you, aren?t you?

NG Yeah, well, I can?t?pubs I like going to but, you know, you?re generally getting your photograph taken by idiots with their fucking this going on. All that nonsense. And discos, I?m too old now for that and the music?s too loud and it?s shit but going to see a gig is great every?once the band comes on, everybody?s kind of looking that way and they?re there to see the band and you can kind of slink in at the back and remind yourself why you do it, you know. Yeah, I love going to gigs.

GC James from Luton wants to know, Noel, why do you stick to the same set list every night of the tour? You have so many great songs; why not do different sets every night?
Ha, ha, ha.

NG Can?t be asked. I don?t know. I think it?s, I don?t know, I kind of?if I was?if I was a fan of a band and I went to see my favourite band in Manchester and found out that?I remember going to see the Smiths once and they didn?t play This Charming Man and then I read a review of the night after and they played it and I though you fucking wankers, I?m not having that, so it might be?it might not be a conscious decision to do that but we feel that?that?that no one town or no one country is more special than the other and we kind of?we kind of like playing the same thing every night because then people get the same feeling and you can judge where you?re at, you know, as opposed to fannying about doing different songs and?and that, but he must have been to a lot of gigs then.

GC When you are on stage, Noel, as well, I mean what kind of things are going through your head? I mean are you able to sort of, you know, step back and enjoy the moment, you know, the kind of madness going on around you or are you sort of, you know, too busy thinking about, you know?

NG Well, some of the?

GC ?so low and Liam?s just trod on me toes and?

NG Well, the, ha, ha, ha, the songs that are easy to play, you can kind of?you kind of step out of the bubble, if you like, and you?re in?you?re in?you?re in the gig with the?with the rest of the fans and then the songs that require a bit more concentration, you know, there might as well be nobody else in the stadium. Well, it depends really. It depends where you are. Some nights you breeze through gigs and it?s great and you kind of enjoy it and then some nights they?re kind of a bit of a struggle and?and you don?t enjoy it and then there are the ones in between where some songs you may be play a few bum notes, I mean everybody that?s come to see me play Live Forever for the past five years will know that I still can?t get that guitar solo right, you know, which?that starts to make me laugh now. But it just depends really, you know. I don?t?I don?t?they kind of all follow the same pattern.

GC Yeah. Scott from Scotland, if Liam decided to leave Oasis, would you continue?

NG No. I mean I?d continue doing what I do but Oasis is?is his. I mean he started the band and he names the band, thanks for that, and, yeah, if he was?if he was to leave, what would he do though? If got put in, you know, if he got put in nick for two years, probably got and start another band.

GC I mean never a dull moment when you guys are around, you know, I mean you?re kind of sort of, you know, relationship, I mean when it does kind of sort of explode and sort of, you know, bubble over, I mean who?s the first person to sort of give?give in? So sort of, you know, you know, wave the?

NG Wave the white flag?

GC Yeah, the flag, yeah. And say I?m sorry.

NG Oh, sorry. It?s never a word that?s ever been used.

GC Never, ever? Really, never?

NG Neither one of us have ever apologised. You see what happens is I?ll kind of back down because I?m not really into confrontations. I?ll kind of back down and then behind his back, just surreptitiously go behind his back and get my own way anyway.

GC When was the last time that you came to sort of fisticuffs with you two?

NG In Barcelona. And for all the people out there, I fucking leathered him. Of all the people that I?m actually in quite a unique position that, you know, lots of people would like to see him cowering in the corner with his head smashed in, fucking in there. He knows who the governor is in this group.

GC Hesham from Pakistan has emailed in, are you ever going to do a solo album, Noel? That?s a good question. Thought about it?

NG Yeah, I?d love. When?when that?when that subject is always brought up, people?people kind of substitute the word album for career, or Liam especially does. I?d love to do a solo record. I?ve done?I?ve done?I?ve done kind of things, well, with Ian and stuff like that but I?I?d love to do?I?d love to. I don?t know when I?d kind of get the time to get round to it because by the time I get off the end of this tour, I?ll probably be sick of it and sick of Liam and sick of the rest of the band and then I kind of think, right, well, I?ll have three months off and then by the time that?s finished I?ll be mad for getting back in the shoot, I mean, because I do miss them a lot. But, it?ll happen sooner or later, hopefully?hopefully sooner rather than later but probably later rather than sooner. But probably not at all

GC Let?s talk about the band?s, you know, kind of individually, and what, you know, they each bring to?to Oasis as well. Let?s start with?with I think you called him Wing Commander Bell, Andy.

NG Andy B.

GC What does Andy B, yeah, bring to the group?

NG Andy B, even though he?s not?he?s not got the base playing gene because he?he?s?he was a guitarist, he?s kind of slipped into the Derek Small?s kind of luke warm water, you know, to mine and Liam?s Nigel Tufnell and whatever the other idiot?s name was, he?s kind of?he doesn?t say much, Andy, but what he does say is quite?is quite concise and to the point, you know, and you kind of like hang on a minute, hang on a minute, Andy?s got summit to say. What did you say, wise old fox? Gem, I love Gem. If any one man ever deserved to be in a band like Oasis, it?s him. He?s just fucking totally, totally into it. His life works backwards from the band.

GC Did you know him well before?

NG Yeah.

GC ?you did?

NG Yeah.

GC Just hanging out?

NG Well, no, because we?we were all on Creation.

GC Of course you were, yeah.

NG And I was?I was?I was a big fan of Heavy Stereo actually and he used to come round to my house and stuff. I used to go to his gigs and they supported us a few times and?

GC What?s a couple of their singles? Chinese?

NG Chinese Burns, great. Their first four singles before that record come out?

GC What was the very first single?

NG Smiler.

GC Yes.

NG Was it? Smiler?

GC I can remember interviewing them in?outside a guitar shop in Denmark Street actually, funnily enough, where I first interviewed you and Liam.

NG He?s a good guy, Gem, I love him. Liam, he just brings the noise, you know, he?s just, it?s Liam, in? it? Zak, he?s just a fucking great drummer, he?s?he?s?he?s kind of like his dad, the new boy, but not?not in the sense that, you know, I mean he?s kind of, I think he may even be the oldest, I don?t know, but Zak?s really cool as well. He doesn?t kind of say a lot, you know, but he?s a great kid and who else is in the band? That?s it, in? it? Me.

GC Yeah, what do you bring?

NG Me? I bring everything else. I mean if, you know, if it wasn?t for me, we wouldn?t be here, would we?

GC We?re big in Japan tonight, Noel. Yushoko from Japan wants to know if you were a teenager back in 1964, Noel, which style you would choose. Would you be a mod or a rock and roll?

NG I?d be a mod.

GC He says emphatically.

NG Sorry, I?m still a mod. I always have been a mod, I think. Paul Weller actually one of the first things he said to me was, because he was going on?when I first ever met him in?in?I think it was then called the Town and Country Club, it?s now called The Forum, one of the first ever London gigs we?d done, and he was insisting that we were mods. And I was insisting we weren?t and I kind of look back now and he was claiming us for himself. It was like you fucking act, you?re a mod. And he wasn?t actually, he wasn?t actually, he was just?he was kind of?he was insisting, he wasn?t telling me, he was insisting you?re a mod and you belong to me and that?s the end of it. I said I?m not a mod, I?m a scally; you?re not a fucking scally, you?re a mod. Scally. Mod. Scally. Mod. Scally. Mod. Mod. Mally. Scod.

GC Eshen from Ontario wants to know, I?m in a band, So Niduss. What do you think of the name?

NG Rubbish.

GC N-I-D-US, So Nidus, with his brother. I write the songs and sometimes I want to effing kill him. Can you give me some tips about getting along? This could be the start of a column for you in a newspaper. Dear Noel.

NG Yeah. Ask Noel. Any tips for getting along with your brother in a band. Depends who?s?depends who?s the most intelligent. I?d have thought the guy that writes the songs has probably got the upper hand in that department, just play with his fucking mind, psychologically crush him until he doesn?t know his arse from his elbow and then kick him out of the group and get your sister in.

GC Huh, I mean you and Liam, I mean, you know, you?ve obviously experienced so much together, does he surprise you as a person sometimes?

NG As a person?

GC Yeah.

NG Every day of the week. Every day of the week. Well, once you?once you think you?ve got him nailed then, you know, it?s like the Paul McCartney thing, for instance, you know. But although I can sit and be reverend about Liam and like, you know, have a crack and all that, you know, he?s my brother and that?s basically what our relationship boils down to so I don?t have to think he?s a geezer, I don?t have to think he?s great, I don?t have to think he?s a twat, you know, he?s our kid, end of story, you know, and?

GC Do you like it when people are having a go at him? Do you stick up for him?

NG No, no, no, I?m the only person in England who?s allowed to have a go at him. Anybody else will get a slap off me, you know, I?m the only person who?s allowed to call him a cunt.

GC Because it?s a bit?

NG Family, in? it?

GC You certainly do?

NG Are they going to?are they going to write that down?

GC I don?t know. Hopefully maybe perhaps there might be some sort of delayed reaction. But, no, that kind of sort of goes back to that thing with Lennon and McCartney, doesn?t it? I mean, you know, Lennon used to say?

NG Well, I said to Paul?

GC ?you know, but if anyone slagged Macca off he would?he would sort of always, you know, kind of?

NG Yeah

GC ?he was the only one?

NG Yeah, well, it?s like?it?s like with our records, you know. A lot of people say to me, oh, you?re always dissing your own records but it?s like I?m allowed?I?m allowed to pull them apart but no one else is, you know. But I love Liam and he?his song writing?s?he?s surprised me that he?s?he?s?he?s thrown himself into the song writing and he?s that good, I have to say, he surprised me in that department.

GC Would he have tried back in the early days, those initial sort of rehearsal studios, you know, in Manchester?

NG He wasn?t interested. He absolutely was not interested. He couldn?t play the guitar then. And he isn?t?he?s not?he?s not what you would call a bone fide guitarist, you know, he can?t, I don?t think he can play anybody else?s songs, you know, he can only play his own, I fucking love that about him. I?m quite envious about that, that he?s got his thing for him and it?s for him alone and, but no Bonehead or Guigs nobody was interested until I kind of said, look, you might try getting your fucking finger out, you know, but, you know.

GC And he looks great, as well, doesn?t he? I mean, you know, what?what?what would he be doing if he wasn?t the singer in a band?

NG He?d be chav

GC A chav?

NG Yeah. To all the people around the world?

GC Explain that.

NG You won?t understand what a chav means but I can?t explain it to you either. I don?t know. I don?t know what he?d do. What would he do? I don?t know. I don?t know. I really don?t know.

GC Probably just walk around singing to people.

NG He?d be one of them blokes that hold up them signs on Oxford Street that says Golf Sale. Summit like that. Probably it?d say like Fairy Skateboards, this way.

GC Martin from Glasgow, do you still like coming to play in Scotland and will you be watching the old firm game this weekend?

NG Yes, I?ve got my subscription to Tantha Sports and I?ll be watching the blue noses getting a fucking kicking but actually I?in the unenviable position, my?my missis, Sara, is a staunch Ranger?s supporter and the last old firm game, the other lot won and she was literally leaping up and down in front of the television. You fucking but, yeah, we?re looking forward to Hampden Park and we?re playing?I think we?re playing the Usher Hall in Edinburgh and we always love Scotland because that?s where we got signed and it?s kind of?it?s kind of like our spiritual home really and the best gigs, the best gigs in the world are in Scotland.

GC Yeah, the audiences are phenomenal aren?t they?

NG Amazing, amazing.

GC Yeah. Looking back, you know, over, how many years has it been now, Oasis?

NG Well, we formed in 91 so 91, 2001, three, four five, 13 years.

GC I mean, highlights, you know sort of, I mean again I?m sure this must change all he time, Noel, but, you know, the kind of moments, the magic moments, you know, silly moments that?that kind of sort of are lodged in there that?that, you know, made it all worth while.

NG Writing and recording Supersonic [coughs] and Live Forever, kind of?we kind of went upwards from there. Getting a record, Alan McGee being at King Tuts that night was amazing, getting and signing a record deal, hearing Supersonic on Radio One for the first time. Nebworth, Morning Glory, all?all of it?s been great really, I wouldn?t?you know what, I wouldn?t really change one single thing about it. If I?ve one regret it?s not having a couple of years out after Morning Glory and going straight in to do Be Here Now. We should have kind of gone away for a bit and done a bit of living. Instead we felt invincible, you know, we?we kind of carried on and we wanted to do more and more and more and anybody in their right mind would have?would have taken a couple of years out and gone away and done a bit of living and?but other than that, I think it?s all been, from what I can remember, it?s all been pretty good.

GC And still got that hungust, still enjoying it firing on all cylinders.

NG Yes, back. Yeah, I didn?t?I got to say I didn?t have it round the time of 1998, 99,I couldn?t be arsed, I couldn?t be bothered being in a group. Couldn?t be bothered being in Oasis. Didn?t like?didn?t like?didn?t like where we were at, you know, Creation was coming to an end. Bonehead and Guigs were thinking about leaving, although we didn?t know that at the time, looking back on it now, the signs were quite?were kind of obvious. It was?it was a mopey kind of down period for everybody. But now, ever since Gem and Andy have joined, it?s kind of been going up and up and up.

GC One more last question, Noel, and then we?re going to say good night, Vienna, even though you haven?t been to Vienna yet. Sabrina from Belgium wants to know who is Lila?

NG Lyla is Sally?Sally what?s-her-name? Look Back In Anger. She was Sally Cinnamon from the Stone Roses? song, Sally Cinnamon, and Lyla is her second cousin. That sounds really pretentious, doesn?t it? So I?ll just say it?s just a fucking word, it was actually that song was going to be called Smiler but Gem?Gem?s previous group had a song called Smiler and I didn?t want to get into any litigation with him, poor man, but it was kind of Smiler, Lyla, that?ll do.

GC Sabrina also wants to know, let?s sneak in one more?one more cheeky question, I hear that Liam has plans of starring in a film. Any truth in that?

NG Unless it?s remake of fucking Bugs Bunny Meets the Tasmanian Devil, I don?t know.

GC [Laughs.] Which she seems to know?

NG Go on, then.

GC ?what has she got? She?s got a title down here, the Minana Man.

NG Ha, fucking Banana Man.

GC [Laughs.]

NG I don?t know about the Minana Man.

GC Jordan from Italy, what do you remember about the last concert in Rome in 2002?

NG It was amazing. It was in?it was in?it was in the version of the Wimbledon tennis courts. They?ve got these, these kind of outdoor tennis courts. They were two of the best gigs on that tour and we love going to Italy. We?re massive in Italy and we love the kids there, man, are amazing. If I could be any other race on this world, I?d be an Italian. They?ve always?they always turn up at the gigs on scooters with great shades and great clothes.

GC Very stylish.

NG Oh, they're fucking geezers and even the girls are geezers, which is? that's probably not a good thing but they?re great. Actually a lot of them hang around outside my house and I was really polite and really well dressed and they're quite knowledgeable about the group and really passionate about the group, which I love, and we'll be back in Rome pretty soon, I would have thought.

GC Well, on that note, it just leaves me to say that I have been Gary Crowley and I?ve been joined here at?

NG Have been Gary Crowley, who are you now, then?

GC The last two hours and I've been joined here at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in London by Noel Gallagher from Oasis, I really enjoyed that?

NG And I have been Noel Gallagher.

GC remember, folks, remember?

NG Still am, still am Noel Gallagher.

GC if you missed anything as far as the web cast was concerned, you can see it available as video on-demand from tomorrow and that is going to stay online all the way through until June the 24th. Good luck with the album and also the world tour as well. It's always good to see you, and we're going to end with Cigarettes and Alcohol. Any memories of this?

NG What, the video? Yeah, it was done? I think it was done at the Borderline and it was fucking, what a day, it was just a real good piss up, like all videos should be. Top video. Top man. Great geezer. He was Gary Crowley once in a previous life. I still am Noel Gallagher. Good evening.

GC Let's enjoy it. Okay, thanks for coming by. This is Oasis, Cigarettes and Alcohol. See you next time. Por http://www.mtv.com.br/

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