Manchester City-Inter Milan 3-0, Balotelli's revenge

DUBLIN - First match for Mario against his ex hated team. This image could be from Manchester derby, as Sneijder could join United soon.
It could even be at least 5-0, as the referee didn't concede 2 other goals, one was clearly regular. But it ended as the last Milan derby eh eh.
City’s preparations for the new season continued in fine style when they beat Inter Milan in Dublin.
Goal just either side of half time from Balotelli and Dzeko put City ahead, and Adam Johnson added a third at the death, but David Silva pulled the strings with a superb display. The win also gave City the Dublin Super Cup.
Roberto Mancini’s team selection indicated a serious approach to the game, with more than one eye on being in the right place for next week’s Community Shield derby at Wembley. Not surprisingly it was a completely different starting eleven to the one that had walked out to face the Airtricity Irish XI just over 24 hours earlier.
There was a welcome return for Yaya Toure after the worrying ankle injury that had blighted his North American tour, but Gael Clichy missed out because of the after-effects of the blow to the head he took in LA and there was to be no role for Sergio Aguero.
In sharp contrast to Saturday’s lethargic fare, there was a lively start to proceedings when City had the ball in the net within seconds of the start. Silva rolled it past Soares but the lurking presence of Mario Balotelli ruled the ‘goal’ offside.
The enigmatic Italian continued to be in the thick of it in the early stages, going over with a flying header shortly after the offside decision, and then drawing a fine save out of Soares from point-blank range. Between these chances David Silva showed off his wonderful talent with a run in from the right that briefly threatened to match his superb goal at Bloomfield Road last autumn.
18 minutes in and it was Edin Dzeko’s turn to see a goal chalked off, harshly judged offside when Aleks Kolarov was crossing from the left. The Bosnian striker stung Soares’ palms on the half hour, the chance coming from yet more fine work from Silva.
Inter’s keeper was in action again just before the break, tipping a Balotelli effort over the bar, and getting a playful boot to the backside from his former team mate for his pains.
But it was Mario who had the last laugh seconds later when he put City into a deserved lead, nodding home the corner that Soares had conceded.

City extended their lead just after the resumption, Edin Dzeko latching onto a sublime pass from Silva and then clinically despatching the ball past the Inter keeper. After a quiet time of it his previous pre-season outings, it was a timely boost for the striker’s confidence.
Joe Hart had a quiet afternoon but was alert enough to pull off a brilliant reaction save when the ball deflected off Chivu at a free kick. He was clawing the air seconds later when Stankovic went just wide with a volley from long range.
There were few alarms at either end after that, with Adam Johnson tapping in a simple third in injury time after fine work from Shaun Wright-Phillips. David Silva was deservedly named man of the match.
Performances in pre-season games can occasionally look disjointed as teams get back to full match fitness and look to sterner tests ahead, but it was not the case at the Aviva Stadium for City. The Blues were confident and comfortable, and they look in great shape ahead of the challenge of United next Sunday.
Inter will play the derby the day before for the Italian SuperCup vs AC Milan.

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Button still speeding, Vettel overrated

BUDAPEST - At his 200th Grand Prix, Jenson Button won the Hugarian race, a bit wet as his first win in Formula 1, Hungary 2006.
I had told you: sack Lewis Hamilton. The only great driver is Button, all the others were driving more on the grass as lawnmowers... You can see the great driver when the conditions are difficult (not a case that Senna was great under the rain), and this season Button also won an impossible Canada GP. Today's mixed conditions are even worse. And his strategies are always different and perfect.
As I said time ago, Vettel is so overrated... now you can see he was always winning thanks to the car.
I was happy that Lewis won last week in Germany, but as usual he has no fair play and got a "drivethrough" penalty when he could win and it would have been a double for McLaren.
Now one month of holidays for the drivers, as Beady Eye :).
- 40 days to Monza, can't wait.

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Quadrophenia 3rd video

BRIGHTON - One for a Sunday breakfast ;), video+slideshow dedicated to Noel Gallagher blaming Pretty Green. My bed in the country house at the end, rooarrrrr lol. Strange that Liam hasn't launched anything in his leopard skin yet... maybe he wants to be the only one prettygreener with those shoes. He's the leader, the Ace Face. Stay tuned... ;)

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Noel Gallagher loves the books about the Nazi period

Let's go on with the "top 5", now books. I knew, as Manchester City fans have a Nazi as idol (the German goalkeeper Trautmann), the Gallaghers are two Nazis, lol joking. Also because it seems (but just seems) they hate everyone. Liam with his military clothes, tattoo and Elvis philosophy accused of nazism, Noel with all his opinions about politics against communists, environmentalists, pacifists. The last main Oasis video, "The shock of the lightining" had German iron crosses, that are used in videos and videogames to mean a swastika.

"Elvis and the Memphis mafia" - Allana Nash, Billy Smith, Marty Laker and Lamar Fike

"This is a product of Elvis's childhood friends sitting around and reminiscing on everything from high school in Memphis to Elvis traveling around the fairgrounds and doing the hayrides, through to Vegas and up to his death. He had a pet chimp. They trained it to look up girl' skirts. Then Elvis got bored of the chimp and they put him outside in a cage. The chimp froze to death".

"Agent Zigzag" - Ben Macintyre

"Eddie Chapman is a low-level crook in 30s London he goes to Jersey to rob a hotel, is caught, and gets put in nick just as the Nazis invade. The Nazis discover this guy is an explosives expert, so they train him up and out on a mission to blow up a factory in England. In the end he becomes a double agent and goes back to Germany, dining at the top table with the Nazis, and this is just a shitkicker from South London. I love books about that period. It was only 50, 60 years ago that there was a proper war on".
[Noel, it wasn't 50 years ago, but at least almost 70]. Nazi period even in Noel's favourite films.

"Life" - Keith Richards

"I never bought into the myth of Keith Richards. All right, he's done a bit of gear and written a few tunes. That's what we do, we're fucking rock stars. But I've got to say, after reading this, what an absolute dude. His take on music is incredible. How he's got all his faculties together to remember half the shit is beyond me but he went right up in my estimations. I don't like the way he's always having a go at Mick Jagger though. People do have a pop at Jagger and I don't know why, because he's great. Look at the words to 'Sympathy For The Devil'. That is heavy shit".

"One minute to midnight" - Michael Dobbs

"This is an hour-by-hour account of the 48 hours leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it's staggering. At midnight, nuclear war was going to start. Kennedy woke up the next morning and realised that there were good people on the Russian side as well. The army were pushing Kennedy towards war, and likewise with Khrushchev, and it very nearly happened".

"Shakey" - Jimmy McDonough

"There's a quote in it that changed my life, he's asked why he's been in Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and all these other bands and he replies, "No one band is big enough to hold what I've got." At the time of reading it, I felt like that. In the last few years of Oasis I was only writing half the album, so I put out 15 songs in 10 years. I must have written 60 a year. I kept going back to that quote. Here's this guy that does whatever he wants. No one will ever be like Neil Young.

My top 5 books, briefly:

"Look back in anger" - John Osborne

One from theatre. I wrote a post about this. Full of unforgettable quotes, also about myself :)

"The picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde

This one too, full of unforgettable quotes. Also, reminds me of myself "staying young" :).

I like the classics, I would have hundreds to add, also from the theatre of Shakespeare, or "The betrothed" (I promessi sposi), the main Italian love story from Milan and the North of Italy, a story that is in our culture. Very complicated and long book.

I had read them mainly because of school, so when you must read a book, usually you don't like it. It's not as when you read for pleasure.

"The Da Vinci Code" - Dan Brown

Ok many people don't like it, they can say what they want but I really appreciated it. Even if they say there are some wrong, invented things, it's interesting and involving. The evening I finished to read this book, the Pope died.
There are many sarcastic quotes against the french :).
Even Noel read it, a few years ago said he read only 2 "normal" books in his life, by Dan Brown, and the rest about music.

"Nelson, the man who defeated Napoleon" - Terry Coleman

One about my favourite character in history, the English hero. Although suffering from seasickness, he defeated my least favourite character in history, the french thief and criminal. Who also stole so much art especially in the North of Italy.

I chose history, but I'd like to add something from philosophy, by Schopenhauer.

"Getting high: the adventures of Oasis" - Paolo Hewitt

I wrote a post about this. One about music, and it must be this funny one by Paolo of Italian origins.

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Beady Eye have the balls, Noel falsetto. Win Liam shirt. Fabregas @ AC Milan

MILAN - AC Milan secretly reached an agreement for Cesc Fabregas, official in a few days. Kakà a week later. Balotelli maybe. Man City: Aguero official, Nasri in a few days. Cesc we can. 

Noel Gallagher sings in falsetto... a word recalling the lies he tells. Falsetto is a bit gay, isn't it, lol. Beady Eye have the balls: win a Manchester City shirt by Umbro signed by Liam: click here and spot the ball. 

Not only has Noel Jesus Gallagher the "Godlike fucking genius" copied the name of his band & album "High Flying Birds" from a Jefferson Airplane song. Not only the music of his "new" single is almost a cover of The importance of being idle. The lyrics of The Death of You and Me are a bit similar to Summer in the City by the Lovin' Spoonful. Usual little bitch.

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21 August: Beady Eye special edition

PARIS - Some days ago you have read my post about the "curse of 21 August" (same 1997 Be Here Now day). On 21 August I'm not buying Noel's boring single but Beady Eye Special Edition: album+dvd with the live from Paris and official videos of the singles

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Record Store Day live and City blues

Former AC Milan Beckham was probably telling him to join Mario's favourite AC Milan. 

Maybe he's a disaster on purpose 'cause he wants to leave? 

3 songs, two from Beady Eye's Record Store Day live. Nutella, Mario Balotelli, Saint Mark church (the first name of Manchester City), Pretty Green and much more. Maybe it's the end of Mario @ City, England would miss him

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Noel picks his favourite 5 films

HOLLYWOOD MILANO :) - Do you remember the 1995 (Oasis top era) book (then film) by Nick Hornby, "High fidelity", with the characters always picking their "5 favourites".
Noel picked the 5 cinematic experiences that blew his mind, and then books and music that define the man (I will post more about a series of top 5).

These are the films, and the reason Noel picked them.

"The good the bad and the ugly" (1966, the film that Oasis were watching on the first album Definitely Maybe, spaghetti western by Sergio Leone, music by Ennio Morricone, inspiring melodies to Noel, especially in the "2004 era"... and today)

"There's a great scene when Clint Eastwood's character leaves Tuco (Eli Wallach), the little guy to die in the desert. Tuco gets a gun and follows him through the desert, picking up his cigar stubs to keep track. It's epic, brilliantly written, the story is great, and they all end up in a graveyard in a three-way shoot off. It looks good as well, Clint Eastwood wears three outfits in the entire film and I'd wear them all. I'd save the poncho for Glastonbury".

video I made with an orchestra playing Masterplan and images from the film.

"All we know is that we don't know how its gonna be" :)

The 2nd part of the central part is too joyful. The tension, the rest is ok. I'll try again :), using the original instrumental

Pulp fiction (1994)

"There are so many great moments of great dialogue in that film. The sign of great art is what happens afterwards, and this film changed everything. Even the black suit and the black tie look came back in, and before that only waiters wore it. The beginning is the end, but you don't realise at first".

Star wars (1977)

"Not the silly edition with the fucking dinosaurs in it, the original. I was ten when this came out, and I still believe that galaxy is going on somewhere, a long, long time ago and far, far away. And even now it looks state of the art. You know it's a big guy from Cornwall in a furry gorilla suit, but it doesn't really matter. It deals with the most basic premise of good vs evil and someone got to rescue the girl, but you've got to admire someone with the vision to invent an entire language. It blew my mind, and I can't wait for it to blow my son's mind. Then I'll be able to say to him "wait until you find out who his Luke Skywalker's Dad is". That will bend his head. Fuck Blade Runner. Blade Runner is Radiohead. Star Wars is Oasis."

The Rutles: all you need is cash (1978)

You can't go on tour without The Rutles. The Beatles story is fantastic because Neil Innes took the piss out of it. It's the British Spinal Tap, and the songs Ouch! I Must Be In Love, Cheese And Onions - are all fucking great".

Downfall (2004)

"This is the story of the last days of Hilter, and I love the black nihilism of it all. They're all staying to the bitter end, and it is the end of their world. We've been in the end of relationships, the end of tours, and the end of bands. But they know this is the end of their entire way of life and they're all going to die. They are dead. Best of all is the YouTube parody in which Hitler's going mad because Oasis have split up and he had tickets to the concert."

I'm not a huge fan of cinema, but here are my top 5 films (I've already wrote some posts about almost all of them)

1) I'd pick everything by Hitchcock. So many, but if I have to choose one, let's say Rear window

2) Quadrophenia

3) Blow up (by Michelangelo Antonioni)

4) Zabriskie Point (by Antonioni)

5) As fifth... difficult, so I choose 5 other films :). I'd pick Tarantino as Noel, but he chose that, so I don't :).

Cast away, La dolce vita (by Federico Fellini), Fight Club, Almost famous... or maybe some spaghetti western. I also like very much Contact and that funny Coming to America

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Beckham defends Balotelli: he thought it was offside

LOS ANGELES - Back from the USA, some City players are against Mario and so Mancini gave him his car (with driver, Mancini wouldn't let him drive :) to separate Mario from the team on the bus. The transfer to AC Milan is closer.

David Beckham has told Manchester City bad boy Mario Balotelli: Just stick the ball in the net from now on.
Balotelli, 20, was hauled off by boss Roberto Mancini after stunning his team-mates with his showboating antics during a pre-season friendly against LA Galaxy.
The controversial Italian was off target with an outrageous back-heel after racing clean through on goal.
His elaborate strike enraged Mancini and Balotelli's claim that he believed he was offside fell on deaf ears with his manager.
Beckham has sympathy for the young stiker but insists he would be wise to tuck the ball away no matter what in the future.
Galaxy midfielder Becks said: "I've watched it back and, from his mannerisms, I believe he thought he was offside.
"In defence of Mario, I genuinely believe he thought it was offside. But it doesn't matter whether you think it was offside or not.
"There are a lot of young kids watching these teams and great players who come out here.
"You have to be professional and score the goal, regardless of whether or not it counts.

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the last of a dying breed

SAINT COLUMBAN-UPON-LAMBRO - The dawn this morning at 6:10am. Enough of people blind-idolising Noel around. In an old room we found some radios of my gradma from the '50s. Appropriate for Beady Eye's Bring the light '50s piano sound

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the USA defend Balotelli: he makes football fun

LOS ANGELES - It's never boring with them: I totally love characters as Liam Gallagher and Mario Balotelli, they're quite similar (they don't give a shit, lol) and all the people are SO JEALOUS about them. It's their victory. Just read the comments around the websites, full of insults. And it's always said they still have to grow up (stay young and invincible!!), but I think it's someone else who needs to grow up, tabloids telling lies and people insulting. They're biased so whatever Mario does, it's wrong.

I noticed the American press defended Mario, good. He clearly thought to be in offside and his gesture clearly wasn't to kid the people. Besides, it was just a friendly match. But for the tabloids it's so much better to build a scandal. If it was that idiot called Cristiano Ronaldo doing that, everybody would have gone: oh he tried a magic trick!

But, the argument Mario had with Mancini, makes him closer to a transfer to his favourite team AC Milan.

It took just a few seconds for Mario Balotelli's latest bizarre act to go viral. He swiftly trended on Twitter as links to the now-famous video clip peppered timelines across the globe. I duly clicked, watched, chortled. Then Tweeted on it myself. But when the dust had settled, though, there appeared to be quite the animosity towards the Manchester City striker for his actions. Why?
In a friendly match against LA Galaxy on Sunday, Balotelli, signed from Inter Milan for £24 million last summer, found himself clean through on goal, his side leading 1-0 after he had scored from the penalty spot. But, instead of putting his laces through the chance, he opted for an audacious pirouette, before backheeling the ball a few yards wide of the target. His team-mate, Edin Dzeko, who lurked just to his right, threw his arms up in disgust; City boss Roberto Mancini, meanwhile, got angry.
A bronzed Mancini pointed immediately in Balotelli's direction before waving a left hand at substitute James Milner. Minutes later, Balotelli trudged off, Milner replacing him. A verbal exchange then took place between Mancini and his Italian compatriot, with the latter seemingly indicating that he thought he was offside, hence the languid skill. Then, petulantly, he turned his back on his coach, strutting towards the bench whilst uttering under his breath. Mancini half-heartedly stalked him. A textbook throwing of a bottle then followed by Balotelli.
I am not defending 20-year-old Balotelli's reaction, he behaved like a brat and such a strop sends a poor message to the children watching. But doesn't Mancini, who worked with the attacker at Inter, know Balotelli well enough to anticipate he would have responded in such a way to being hooked? It may have got Mancini's goat, but why not wait until the interval to replace him, therefore quelling the media furore that would inevitably follow? Instead of talking about Uruguay's Copa America final win - a record-breaking 15th South American title - the footballing masses were chatting all things 'Super Mario' on Sunday evening. Then, of course, Mancini's press conference was dominated by it.
Speaking after the game, which City eventually won 7-6 on penalties following a 1-1 draw in normal time, Mancini said: "I hope this is a lesson for him. In football you always need to be professional, always serious and in this moment he wasn't professional. If you are serious, you can play 90 minutes. If not, you can come and sit by me on the bench. Mario is young, I want to help him and that is the end of it. To take him off after 30 minutes is enough punishment. It won't have been easy for him but it has to be a lesson."
But serious is dull. Let us remember that City were criticised last season for at times being uninspiring. Ironing out this type of expression is not beneficial to the game, nor the supporter. Football needs its characters, and Balotelli is a mighty one. Petulance should be rid from football, but the dare to be daring must stay. The innovators, the characters, the expressive - they make football what it is: fun.
Imagine if the effort had gone in, then Mancini would have been in quite the pickle. One chap Tweeted: "It is certainly an insult that he tried it. Very disgraceful and distasteful. Good for Mancini taking him out." This I can't comprehend, yet it seems the majority view.
During a period when the lead story is usually some quotes from a player's agent telling us all the top clubs in the world want him, Balotelli's act was a comforting reminder of the sport's ability to entertain.
But the lasting concern from the incident is the message that hauling off of a player who attempted something different sends to youngsters. Punishment for experimentation produces a fear of failure. This has been England's problem for goodness knows how many years. If this was globally engrained we wouldn't have the Blanco 'bunny hop', Johan Cruyff's copyrighted turn or that daft seal dribble Kerlon does.
Ultimately, we should make consider whether his spin really was "disgraceful" or "insulting". He didn't flick a V-sign at the crowd, or spit in an opponent's face. He just did something a little bit different. And that is what Mario Balotelli is all about.

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LA Galaxy-Manchester City, Balotelli show

LOS ANGELES - He's always the protagonist. Scored the goal and then had to go out.

Furious Roberto Mancini hauled off Mario Balotelli for an outrageous bit of showboating.
The Italian bad boy had already put City ahead with a cheekily taken penalty.
But he then wasted an easy chance to double the visitors' lead, as he was sent clean through by David Silva on the half-hour.
Instead of applying a simple finish, he tried an extravagant pirouette and backheel and saw his weak effort dribble wide of a post.
It drew loud boos from the home crowd and clearly annoyed Mancini, who immediately told sub James Milner to take over.
The pair exchanged angry words when Balotelli made his way off, with the 20-year-old apparently claiming he thought he was offside.
Mancini said: "I hope this is a lesson for him
In football you always need to be professional, always serious, and he wasn't.
"He needs to understand his behaviour has to be good in every game, not just in a semi-final or final."
Overall, it suggests this could be another eventful season for the former Inter Milan star, who joined City for £23million last summer and regularly found himself in bother.
Yet early in the game he had looked in the mood to make some headlines of the right kind as City got off to a bright start.
Micah Richards was felled by Bryan Jordan in the box and Balotelli sent the keeper the wrong way from the spot. Then he let himself down again, with local commentators suggesting he had lacked respect for Galaxy and the event.
David Beckham had been subbed by the time Galaxy levelled with a dipping volley from sub Mike Magee early in the second half.
England's goalkeeper Joe Hart saved two spot-kicks in the shoot-out to decide the match before blasting in the winner himself as City edged it 7-6.

LA Galaxy-Manchester City 6-7 (1-1, goals: Balotelli, Magee)

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Beady Eye in Firenze bootleg

FLORENCE - Audio not dvd, download: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 (email me for the password). 

Oh and about the "Noel doesn't even know that Beady Eye singles are vinyls..." etc., I was ironic, he surely knows everything. He's just a smart liar, says he does't listen then he suddenly knows everything, etc. He feigned to be shocked and sorry about Beady Eye's "failure" (he's just happy) 'cause he wants to appear as a hero. And he blamed Liam, Andy, Pretty Green, everyone, even my cat. While on the contrary Liam took his part of blame. Not to say that I'm a liar 'cause I'm Gemini (and Liam is a terrible Virgo, could be much worse), but Noel is Gemini too and he's got a sort of double personality...

I'm shocked when I read around the typical Noel's fans (who don't seem to know much about him, they're just "blinded by what the idolise"...) writing nonsense as: "beady eye ROCKING?????? for god sake.... liam is a brainless monkey. like you. The guy its almost 40 !!!!!!!!! need to grown up NOW.. OASIS IS DEAD monkey boy"... even in anonymous comments when they don't know anything of the other people speaking, so the "like you", "monkey boy", etc. make even less sense.

You're clearly 100% jealous. Noel said he's not doing rock. Just accept it. Hard to accept it for people thinking he's God, the voice, the brains, the everything.

The guy "its" 44 !!!!!!!!! HE's the one who needs to grow up NOW, 'cause lies are told by children.
Oasis are Beady Eye, brainless monkey.

Beatles or Stones? for the gloomy music there's Noel eh eh

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Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), Oasis cover video

LONDON - Fred Perry fashion range launch, secret gig 10/2010, Oasis' Don't Look Back In Anger cover. 

with Paul Weller, respect for a great voice

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Beady Eye World Cafe session + Andy's 2 deejay sets

LONDON - At Buddha studios, download it here (4 songs+interview). And here are 2 other deejay sets: 

"I'm coming up!"
The collection of tunes is designed to be played loud before a night out 

The Pretty Things 'All Light Up'
Bo Diddley 'Elephant Man'
The Velvet Underground 'I'm Beginning To See The Light'
The Beatles 'The Word'
Maps 'You Don't Know Her Name'
Broadcast 'Pendulum'
Sarah Webster Fabio 'Work It Out'
J Dilla 'Light My Fire'
Steely Dan 'Do It Again'
Yamasuki 'Yama Yama'
The Five Gentlemen 'Dis-Nous Dylan'
Fat Mattress 'How Can I Live?'
Beastie Boys 'Non Stop Disco Powerpack'
Stone Roses 'Fools Gold'
Rolling Stones 'Sympathy For the Devil'
Sebastien Tellier 'La Ritournelle'

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"Drifting"

Andy has told us he's particularly pleased with this mix and describes it as 'Morning-after music'.

Simon and Garfunkel 'Scarborough Fair'
Dion 'Purple Haze'
Nick Drake 'At The Chime Of A City Clock'
Tim Hardin 'Misty Roses'
Tommy Graham 'Sahajiya'
David Crosby 'Laughing'
Richie Havens 'Follow'
Scott Walker 'Duchess'
Karen Dalton 'How Did The Feeling Feel To You?'
Judee Sill 'Crayon Angels'
Vashti Bunyan 'Winter Is Blue'
The Rolling Stones 'Play With Fire'
The Chocolate Watchband 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'
Tim Buckley 'Buzzin Fly'
Patti Smith 'Hey Joe (Intro)'
Ryan Adams 'Amy'
Love 'The Red Telephone'
Jimi Hendrix 'Drifting'
Fleetwood Mac 'Albatross'

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Liam about City

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magic spells standing the test of time

GRAZZANO VISCONTI - A medieval town "standing the test of time" :). Another "40 minute ride, you drive it and I spend it looking out my window", "standing at the deep blue sky, and you say the driver, just drive" :). At 0:55 the same pattern & colours of "Three ring circus" :), "incantesimi" means "magic spells" and the Italian flag worn by Liam @ Milan gig, "like an Italian lover", lol. The village is called Grazzano Visconti (with a castle), the "food's the bollocks" :). The river is Po, the longest in Italy.

The photo with UK-Sweden-Belgium-Italy flags is outside a new swimming pool here (they're thermal baths, a spa). Stop @ Great Britain :). On the other side there are Germany-france lol-Spain-Holland flags

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5 summer songs 2011

MOON - Miles Kane feat. Noel Gallagher "My fantasy" (I know Miles not with Agyness anymore...she would say "yea" :), Beady Eye "In the bubble with a bullet", Glasvegas "The world is yours", The Relays "Under different stars", Beady Eye "Blue Moon" (complete, fading)

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Beady Eye @ Melt festival bootleg and jealous fans

GRÄFENHAINICHEN - Liam singing good. Listen to Sons of the Stage, great ending. Download part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 . Usual rules: selling is forbidden. 

I've heard Noel's fans saying that Beady Eye are shite and they "don't rock"... ah! jealous as fuck. It's because Noel said he's not doing rock in the new albums, so they're having inferiority complexes. 

And if you look around internet, all the websites, also non-Oasis, support Noel in a ridiculous way, as if (only) what he says is Gospel. It's clear that people who only see "God Noel" and attack Liam, they're jealous and stuck in an old idea where Noel does everything, which is unreal.

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Beady Eye stadium and videogame

MANCHESTER - With the song by Beady Eye and Liam Gallagher @ City stadium. It's starting to feel like Blue Moon on here, but here's another story about Manchester City.
The club has teamed up with the sports video game company, Electronic Arts Inc., as its new partner.
The deal was announced at EA’s campus in British Columbia as part of City’s summer tour activity in Canada and is unprecedented in both its scale and scope within the computer game industry.
As part of the agreement, dedicated MCFC virtual content will be distributed through the club and EA SPORTS’ digital channels, including MCFC match simulations prior to the fixtures and unique visuals of the City stars in action.
For the first time in the studio's history, it has created a virtual kit launch which means supporters can now watch the team play in the new home kit and score a goal for the very first time this season.
The video, which is currently one of the first FIFA 12 gameplay edits available, was designed especially for City , showcasing the club’s stars and plugging the UK release of FIFA12, which happens on the 30th September 2011.
EA SPORTS will also be investing in dedicated experiential gaming areas, in around the Etihad Stadium, City Square and the family zone within the concourse.
Nick Harford, football business lead at EA SPORTS, said: “We are delighted to be entering into a dynamic new partnership with Manchester City. Through this agreement, EA SPORTS will invest in the creation of bespoke content and experiences that bring Manchester City fans across the globe closer to the team they love.”

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Kate Holmes: I can't compete with Pretty Green but I want to create some kinky fashions

GLASGOW - The wife of legendary Scots music guru Alan McGee has swapped record labels for fashion labels by launching a clothing line with a kinky twist.
Former indie star Kate Holmes has created Client - named after her band of the same name - and runs the brand from the secluded mansion she shares with the former Creation records boss, in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.
The 40-year-old hopes women and men will get a kick out of the outfits - inspired by 1940s workwear - that have already won over the likes of underwear model Pixie Geldof and movie star Rhys Ifans.
It's clearly been a long-term passion - as some of the clothes look very similar to those she wore in Client during the 90s.
Describing the new line, she explained: "I am trying to bring workwear into playwear so that what you wear to work you can also wear out that evening. You can work in a bank and wear my Stalin Secretary office dress that is sexy despite looking quite straight.
"It has a little split in red and underneath you can wear your stockings and feel a little kinky at work. That is an area of clothing people have forgotten about. It is fetishistic in a normal way.
"I hope staff in banks wear my clothes, as well as people who work in galleries. It's not just aimed at trendies in London. Anybody can wear them up to size 16."
Kate and McGee fell in love in 1994, after he saw her band Frazier Chorus on TV and asked his label publicist to set up a blind date.
"When he came out of his rehab, he saw me on telly and asked if the press officer would sort out a blind date," Kate recalled."He took me to an art gallery, chatted about paintings and I thought, 'Oh my God. He's really interesting'. It was just after the first Oasis album, before they got big, and I thought Alan was really gentle and generous and fascinating."
The couple became inseparable and found themselves at the heart of a Britpop revolution deemed so influential that, in 1997, newly elected Prime Minister Tony Blair invited Kate and Alan for cocktails at 10 Downing Street.
"We went to the cocktail party at No10. It was really funny. I got so drunk on champagne because I don't drink very much," Kate admitted.
"I was in a band called Sirens at the time and I had this Groove Rider remix. I was trying to talk to Tony Blair about drum and bass music. He looked at me and I stuffed the CD in his hand [this one seems me with Liam lol - Marco]. I think he thought I was bonkers but was too polite to say, 'Get that woman out of my face'.
"I was so drunk, I ended up going to dinner with Damien Hirst and Keith Allen. It was mad. But we were on the periphery because Alan had been in rehab and couldn't go back into that."
Aware that she is following in the footsteps of Liam Gallagher, who has established his Pretty Green line of fashion, Kate said: "I can't compete with Liam. I am just a baby compared to him because he has his shops and everything.
"It is interesting that so many rock people are getting into clothes. Liam has done really well.
"For Oasis fans who like that look, the clothes are well made and Pretty Green is well marketed. I say to him, congratulations. But I don't move in the same circles as the Gallaghers.
"Noel is still in touch with Alan. They text each other."
Kate, who was wedded to Alan in 1998, added: "My clothes are all a bit vintage. It is what you would wear if you were Kraftwerk, but you were a woman.
"You might wear a dress called Madam Mao that from the front looks like something Chairman Mao would wear, but at the back there is a zip that goes right over your bum that I'm sure your boss would love to rip the zip down and bend you over the photocopier.
"The clothes have an edge to them but they aren't showing off your breasts or your bum because it is what you don't see that makes it sexy. I have a Remade line as well, which is vintage and sustainable "My favourite era in the world is the forties. I loved the clothes and everything. I have vintage nurse outfits that are beautiful - You could wear them to work."
Kate is determined to make sure all her clothes are of the highest quality. She has refused to have the outfits made in Chinese or East European sweat shops, opting instead for British manufacturers.
"I am just now launching properly after working on the Client fashion line for three years," she explained.
"The production has been a nightmare and I want to keep everything in Britain from now on. I have seen the factories in Shanghai with my own eyes, but I think we should make the clothes here where factories are competing hard with these places where a dress costs £2 and people are not being paid a decent wage. At least in Britain, it is not being made in a sweat shop."
She added: "People look at me and say I am bonkers to think about starting this during a recession but Alan started Creation during a recession. Alan was king of Britpop.
"He is retired and does what he wants. I admire him for that. He has an amazing legacy. But I have something to prove for myself. If I could sell them online and break even I'd be really happy because money from the band Client has gone straight back into it.
"Pixie Geldof likes the jackets and has the T-shirts. Rhys Ifans wore my jacket in Hollywood every day. I ask friends to wear it but it's hard as people like Pixie get given Dolce & Gabbana every day.
"But Alan has one style. He loves his Paul Smith coats and hats he gets from Piccadilly and his Gucci shoes. He buys shoes every three years. He is frugal with his clothes. He buys good quality and it lasts for ages."
Check out the Client line at clientlondon.com

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today's activity: bubbles

SAINT COLUMBAN-UPON-LAMBRO - Song of the Summer.

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song of the summer 2011

SAINT COLUMBAN-UPON-LAMBRO - Of course blue ice, and Pattie Boyd hat :). Proper country song for the countryside. Do you remember, the bubbles were in that video of mine inside the Football English pub when AC Milan was about to win the league. Gem: "The rolla is that friend who’s bulletproof and invincible, he can sort you out". 

lyrics: 

Waking up in dreamland, rolling out the bed 

cannot take anymore, if I had any left 

mindless conversation, there's nothing just quite like 

 first thing in the morning, 'bout what we did last night 

well we was looking for trouble, in our bubble, me and you! 

Burning up on re-entry, where you send me I'm bulletproof 

do what we wanna do!

You make a contribution, to where you're supposed to be 

if it's not you then it's not me... 

We do what we want! oh yeah

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AC Milan for Fabregas: “I love San Siro"

MILAN - “San Siro stadium is magic, I fell in love with it. It seduced me, it’s massive and extraordinary”. Words of love said by the Spanish midfielder some time ago about the “Scala football theatre”.
Barcelona just bought Sanchez from Italian Udinese, they don't have so much money to spend now for other big players. Arsenal’s ridiculous french manager Wenger (the other day he got angry with Mancini ‘cause Roberto spoke about Nasri, he even said it’s forbidden in football rules!) he can't stand Barcelona, he argued (oh this is new) with them some time ago, he won't give them Fabregas. The mistake made by Barcelona was not speaking directly to Arsenal, that's what Milan is doing... If he moves, it'll be AC Milan. It would be quite a miracle by Milan chief Galliani, not only for the huge price (Milan would also give them back the french Flamini, too aggressive player) but also because Fabregas would like to join his former team Barcelona where he grew as a player. Manchester City's also interested. Of course he wants to go away from a team as Arsenal never winning anything. AC Milan and Arsenal have the sponsor Fly Emirates in common and this would help the transfer.

“Fuck Wenger and his socialist football”. 

(Noel Gallagher)

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Beady Eye @ Hultsfred festival

HULTSFRED - In Sweden. Something new: rain :)

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rain to sunshine, Beady Eye rock

BERN — From Heidi: rain turned to sunshine on the last afternoon of the Gurten Festival Sunday, as Liam Gallagher, Beady Eye’s hard-rocking front man, charged through songs from their new album.
Former Oasis frontman Gallagher and his band took advantage of the timely change in weather, lifting the packed crowd with Four Letter Word, Beatles and Stones then rattled off Millionaire and The Roller — their updates on classic British rock.
The audience sang along, and band camarderie was strong — drummer Chris Sharrock threw a drumstick high in the air, and caught it without missing a beat on Three Ring Circus, and similar antics from guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell — all former Oasis members — helped lift the crowd.
The brothers’ well-known antics and rivalry finally broke up the band, but at one time Oasis considered itself — and perhaps was — the biggest in the world.
But no one yelled for an Oasis’ song Sunday, and there was a sense in the crowd that maybe they were seeing the beginnings of another great British band.
“You’re beautiful!” Gallagher told an enthusiastic sea of faces, just before their last song in their hourlong set.
The four-day Gurten Festival, atop the hilltop of the Gurten overlooking the Swiss capital and the Bernese Alps, began Thursday and ended Sunday. A small train takes festival-goers up and down the hill, and attracts thousands of music lovers each year.
This year’s festival also featured the Arctic Monkeys, who played later Sunday, Jamiroquai, Kasabian and dozens of other popular bands. More about it soon. Beady Eye are now "on holidays" for 1 month, ready to come to Italy.

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Brian: Coldplay are shite, fuck off :)

CARDIFF - So he thinks the same as me, Alan McGee and Liam Gallagher :). Not Noel, eh eh. Some of the things in this interview here were already said, but it's always nice to read them.

With Brian I used to speak in Spanish language :), he was learning quite well. 

With a back catalogue that stands up to anyone’s in the history of cover art and a roll call of bands including Oasis, the Super Furry Animals, The Verve, Suede and the Ruthless Rap Assassins, Brian Cannon the founder of legendary design label, Microdot Creative, is one of the finest creative minds of the past 20 years. He’s also a fucking riot.
Interviews can be a pain in the arse, but when I got the choice to either go to Noel Gallagher’s press conference last Wednesday and listen to entertainment journalists and tabloid hacks ask the same old questions, or interview Brian on the blower from Wigan, there was only one choice.
As a 16-year old kid in a shitty Shropshire town, Definitely Maybe kicked the stuffing out of me musically, it ended the dirge of grunge, sent lads everywhere to hairdressers and sports shops and spawned a thousand piss-poor bands under the Britpop moniker, so the chance to interview the bloke who conceptualised the iconic cover was not one to be missed.
Microdot, named after the lighter-flint looking version of LSD that some idiots used to put under their eyelids, is 21 this year and I talked to Brian fresh off a trip to Cardiff to work with various members of the Super Furry Animals who are doing solo projects. We spoke about his new career as a university lecturer, how he’d love to work with the Arctic Monkeys, how any kid with a Mac can now knock out a logo for £75 and why Beyonce was fucking amazing at Glastonbury. That, of course, and the Oasis juggernaut, Coldplay being shite, Noel’s solo projects and how he’s moving with the times…

Meeting Noel Gallagher…

It’s true, I met him because of a pair of trainers. When I graduated in 1988 I moved to London immediately, then I got into house music and was travelling back every Friday afternoon to Manchester to go to the Hacienda. So I thought ‘fuck it,’ if I was there all the time I may as well move there, so I moved back. The scene was just remarkable. So I got an office in an old cotton mill that had been broken up into little business units. Mine was £20 a week and had no windows in it, which is a bit of a drawback if you’re doing visual stuff, but it was cheap as chips. I didn’t have a computer, I had a photocopier and a drawing board and that was it. And I was doing the early Verve stuff, I’d seen this guy knocking around. You take it for granted now that everyone wears adidas and what have you but back then it was a rarity and mainly ex-football hooligans, or current football hooligans for that matter, I’d been into the football for a while and it was exclusive for that group of people.
I was in Rome on holiday with me Mum in 1991 or 92 and I bought these Adidas indoor supers. I’d seen this bloke knocking around the building, but you’d walk around and I’d clock him and he’d clock me, both too cool for school to say hello. Anyway one day I was in the lift and he gets in and I had the trainers on, which you couldn’t get in England. First thing he said to me was ‘where the fuck did you get those trainers from?’ And that’s how we got chatting. He asked me what I did, I told him, he said ‘who’ve you done?’ so I told him I’d done a couple of Verve singles by that point and he said ‘no way, I think they’re really good.’ Then as he got out of the lift he says ‘I’m in a band and when, not if, when we get signed I want you to do the artwork,’ and that were it and he was good to his word.

Seeing Oasis live for the first time…

The first time I saw Oasis, and I think I’ve seen them play something like 70 times, was at the Hop and Grape bar at Manchester Uni, probably holds about 300 people. Noel had been fucking mithering me to come and watch them but you know what it’s like, we’d become friends by this point and if a mate of yours plays in a band your like ‘they’re bound to be shit aren’t they?’ He was cool but I thought they’d be shit, all bands are shit except for a handful over the past 20 years or whatever, and I was worried about what I’d say if they were shit. But I went along and they were amazing. I was with Marcus Russell (manager) and Johnny Marr who Marcus had persuaded to come. It was super early on this and there was no looking back after that, I became the biggest walking advert for Oasis that you had ever seen, people thought I had gone mad. I was just ranting ‘this band are fucking brilliant they’ll be bigger than Led Zeppelin,’ and people were like ‘what the fuck are you going on about?’
The live show was like a fucking juggernaut coming into the room it were just ace. Before they showed their arses in public they were rehearsing 7 nights a week they really put a shift in. All of them are really nice blokes, Tony gets a hard time but I got on really well with him, all of the time we used to have a laugh, just constantly laughing. A lot of bands these days, and this really pisses me off, they’ve just been signed and they think the world owes them a living and they just turn into knobheads. You’ve got to remember that before Oasis Bonehead who was the eldest was a fucking plasterer. He knew how lucky he was, he woke up every morning and just went ‘Yesssss’ because he didn’t have to plaster walls anymore. They just knew it was a gifted situation they were in and they were gonna grab it with both hands. It was just an amazing phenomenon to be involved with.

Creating the Oasis logo…

The first meeting I ever had with them as a band took place backstage at a gig at Sheffield uni, I believe they were supporting the BMX Bandits! Fucking hell, the BMX Bandits supported by Oasis. Any road, like I said I never normally referred to other sleeves when I was doing a sleeve because you run the risk of becoming derivative or doing pastiches which I’m not about. But on this occasion, because it was the first time I’d met them and wasn’t sure what they were about, I took a load of books with me of classic album covers and classic rock photography and they liked a lot of the early Stones albums like Out of Our Heads. But more importantly they used to have the Decca logo on the front, and it hit me like a ton of bricks in the meeting that it would look ace with Oasis like that on it. Everyone knows it as the definitive Oasis logo and it started to go all downhill when they changed it.

The Definitely Maybe cover…

I don’t remember much about the conversation for Definitely Maybe, we decided it was going to be a band shot and did it at Bonehead’s house. I saw on some website recently that some idiot in some debate about Oasis’ artwork said ‘I hate that cover’ and my first thought was ‘nobhead’ because it’s ace, it’s like someone saying that they don’t like The Beatles, get a fucking grip mate. So I asked him why, and he said ‘it’s so aspirational.’ Which it isn’t, the inference was that these guys were shitkickers from Manchester and they all live in slums and they’ve had their picture taken in this posh flat. That was offensive in the extreme. The idea was that it wasn’t posed but it was, we spent weeks before the shoot with me sitting in every position and being photographed to build up a composition.

On getting The Verve to use Oasis as a support band in 1994…

It was my idea, you can fucking print this, it was all down to me, this is rock and roll history. You’ve heard of the famous Oasis swirl cassette, there’s only ten in existence, the last one went for £2500 on ebay. Noel gave me one but I can’t find the cassette, but I suppose the box would be worth a fair bit. On that Verve tour I drove round in a Renault 5 playing the cassette to David Haliwell the Verve’s manager. And he said this is amazing, and I told Richard that he needed to have them supporting and I introduced them. That tour was something else, no separate dressing rooms, we all just mucked in. They played one in Edinburgh and the power went and the crowd was getting restless and Bonehead went out and played the spoons singing she’ll be coming round the mountain.

The Rock And Roll Lifestyle…

Do you know what, I say this a lot. There’s some things I can’t reveal and wouldn’t. There’s a cracking story about Noel at a fancy dress party at Ronnie Wood’s house, I can’t tell you the rest, not that Noel would give a shit but… fucking hell. We were all so normal and down to earth and what we got up to was no different than what you and your mates got up to. There was a lot of boozing, a lot of cocaine knocking about and a lot of laughing. It was just a fucking piss up, just having a laugh, they were that open about it that there aren’t really any hidden stories, we took drugs, so fucking what. Noel said it all when he said it was as normal as having a cup of tea because it was. We got pissed, got hammered and had a laugh. Nobody was raping virgins or slaughtering animals, it was just so exciting knowing that you were part of something that would be remembered forever. It’s a good job I didn’t know then what I do now it would’ve driven me round the bend. We weren’t blasé about it though, we knew it was super super special and we were all very privileged to be there.

I preferred the intimacy of the small gigs but Maine Rd was ace, the second night in particular. I was e’d off my face in the top tier of The Kippax and nearly fell out. Knebworth was too big, and Loch Lomond. The Cork gig was good but that is because of the crowd. It all blurs into one, not cos I was off my head all the time but there was so many gigs. I loved the start, when it was all just kicking off, there was a real buzz and we were like a secret little gang.

Putting a Rolls Royce in a swimming pool…

The Be Here Now album, which incidentally a lot of people slag off including Noel, is a fucking great record. The original idea was to shoot the individual band members at any location in the world of their choice to make a composite image. Noel wanted to go to the mountain from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Guigs wanted to go to Jamaica but we changed our minds in the end, nothing to do with budget mind, we could’ve have done anything we wanted. Bonehead wanted to be shot next to a pool with a Rolls Royce in it to hark back to the Keith Moon story which never actually happened, so that was that and we set about finding a location that would let us put a car in their swimming pool. Despite what people think that wasn’t done digitally, that car is in that pool. It was scrapped with no engine and it cost us a grand. And all the props around the pool have no meaning whatsoever, I just took Liam and Noel down to a BBC props warehouse in White City and they picked loads of random stuff, it was total nonsense. It’s a sign of what was going on at the time, people say it was over-produced or whatever but it’s Be Here Now for fuck’s sake. It’s bollocks, it’s Oasis’ last great album…

On stopping working with Oasis…

There was no fall out, I worked again on the 10 year anniversary of Definitely Maybe DVD. It was a crazy time, half the band had left, Guigs had gone, everyone’s head was up their arse, Noel and Liam were falling out and Noel wanted to go in a new direction. I didn’t have a god given right to do it, Robert Freeman did four or five Beatles albums and didn’t do the rest, that’s the way it goes. As it happens it was probably best I didn’t do the others. Oasis was the best time of my life and I’ll always look back on it with incredible fondness and it certainly didn’t do my career any harm. No hard feelings, no animosity, no fallout.

On current bands…

I’d love to work with the Arctic Monkeys. They carry the torch, it goes all the way back to the Pistols, then The Smiths, then the Roses and Mondays, then Oasis and now it’s the Arctic Monkeys, I’d love to work with them, stick that in, they might get in touch. Apart from that, there’s a young band from Wigan called GlassHeads who I think are brilliant. Theres another band who I like called The Suzuki’s who are like a british Nirvana without being maudlin. And I thought Beyonce was ace at Glastonbury, what a fucking performance. But I can’t be arsed with Coldplay, middle-class kids who try so hard to be cool, defacing pianos and guitars. Just fuck off.

On Noel’s album

Noel’s a genius songwriter and you don’t lose a talent like that. I haven’t heard any of the stuff but I hope it’s really, really, really good because if it is it will be ace and loads of people will get onto it. He’s an amazing person, top bloke to work for, genius songwriter and I’m expecting great things. But when you’ve got Definitely Maybe as a yardstick it’s difficult isn’t it?

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former Oasis boss wife’s fashion brand rivals Pretty Green

CARDIFF - Photo: looking a bit like air hostesses, the High Flying Birds :).
If you want to ask her something, tell me 'cause soon or later we'll do another interview.
While her husband was basking in the glory of his part in revolutionising British music, Mrs Alan McGee, aka Kate Holmes [also appearing in the recent Upside Down film about Creation Records history], was quietly setting up an empire that could do the same for British fashion. Sally Williams caught up with her.
Back in the ’90s, Creation Records was the name behind Brit Pop, famously launching the career of Oasis.
Kate Holmes, the wife of label boss Alan McGee, was there while the band were at their peak – but now she’s making her own history on a very different arena.
The 40-year-old runs her own fashion business, Client, from Hay-on-Wye, where the couple live in a secluded mansion.
And her customer base now includes an eclectic mix of famous faces from actor Rhys Ifans, socialite Pixie Geldof and politician Kirsty Williams AM.
Client is a metamorphosis of the mum-of-one’s old band of the same name who began touring in the early Noughties.
The band – Kate and former Dubstar lead singer Sarah Blackwood – were originally known only as Client A and Client B with their faces hidden on any publicity photos.
“I wrote to Martin Gore of Depeche Mode back in 2003 asking if we could be their support act on a couple of dates on their tour and he said ‘Yes’,” says Kate, who played keyboards.
“And we ended up being invited to travel on their private jet and play 15 dates.
“We toured Russia and went on to make four albums and tour the world, from Mexico to China.
“We were affectionately known as the ‘Pet Shop Girls’ although our material was quite dark.”
The band released a single, Pornography, with former Libertines co-frontman and Dirty Pretty Things frontman Carl Barat, and it reached number 22 in the UK charts.
But while they were big in Germany, they never reached “beyond Barfly-level” over here thanks, Kate believes, to the music press not taking to what she describes as an underground cult band and she finally became jaded with her rock lifestyle.
“I’d had enough of not getting enough sleep and of life backstage,” she says.
“It was at that point that I decided to turn our band into a brand.”
She put all the money she made from the band into turning Client into the fashion, film and music business that it is today – but is at pains to make it clear that she has always been “totally self-funded”.
“I didn’t want people to know I was married to Alan otherwise we would have become ‘McGee’s Mrs and that bird from Dubstar’,” she reveals.
“The only help we had from Alan was that he gave us confidence – we were signed to Mute Records.”
She created her unisex lifestyle brand to target the Eastern European market – all firmly based in Wales and the UK.
“Manufacturing at a factory in London is more expensive but it is really important for me to keep the brand British and sustainable – not use cheap sweatshops abroad.”
Kate, whose grandmother was Welsh, moved to Wales when she was 11 and attended King Henry VIII School in Abergavenny before studying at Sussex University.
She met Alan in the late 1990s when Oasis were topping the charts with hits like Wonderwall and Live Forever.
“His press officer, a mutual friend, said Alan wanted to take me out to dinner because he had seen my band on the TV and fancied me,” she says.
“I thought, ‘Spoil me, why not?’
“I was charmed by this Scottish man with an infectious enthusiasm.
“The relationship was a slow burner and we dined out for four months before Alan said. ‘I really want this to work’ and so we went for it.”
Kate was also with Alan, along with Oasis’ Noel Gallagher and his then partner Meg Mathews, Lenny Henry, Anita Roddick and Tony Robinson at 10 Downing Street on July 30, 1997, to congratulate the new Prime Minister Tony Blair on his election victory.
When former USA President Bill Clinton made his headline-grabbing appearance at the Hay Festival in 2001, where he famously described the event as the ‘Woodstock of the mind’, he stayed at Alan and Kate’s house.
“We weren’t allowed to be here when he arrived and his stay was called Operation Ron – I still have the placard written in pen and ink,” she says.
“He had six members of staff and they left loads of rubbish and pizzas and after they left we couldn’t make any calls out because the telephone line had been hooked up to the Pentagon!”
The clothes are available from clientlondon.com

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Beady Eye new song: In the Bubble with a Bullet

NOTTINGHAM - And today it's another yeeeeeaaaahhhhhhhhhh - released on 18 July on vinyl.
Love Beady Eye! now sounding country and western spaghetti with the Blue Moon whistling.
So, according to that research, the conservatives will appreciate ahaha (Berlusconi's people of freedom included :)

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win Beady Eye in Italy: calling the pretty kids Beady Eye by the end of the year :)

PADOVA - It's all about Y :). Here's the usual competition for the next gig in Italy and this is the poster.

Yesterday we were saying "Saint Columban-Columbanus, Irish patron saint of motorcyclists". You know that in our Christian religion, every saint 'protects' one or more categories of people or things. The Gallaghers don't really believe in God, they believe to be Gods :), but they wear a Jesus cross and they were born from Christian parents.

This city Padova where Beady Eye will perform the concert, is mainly famous for their patron saint, making some sort of miracles. My father is mad for him (also because the saint has his second name) and every time he loses some item around, he calls the help of this saint, puts a candle in a church (maybe it's the time he needs to remember where he put that thing :), and then every time he finds what he was looking for. A bit crazy, isn't he, lol. And sometimes he even wants to go to Padua, as a pilgrimage (so he could now become a Beady Eye fan :), 'cause it's quite strange they're performing there).

This is the patron saint of : lost objects, poor people, oppressed people, elderly people, pregnant women lol, hungry people, travellers and hostesses lol (the High Flying Birds ahaha), animals, fishermen, the mail, horses, harvest, sailors, American-born people, Brazil, Portugal, sterility, engaged people and marriages lol.

Pregnant women is quite appropriate, 'cause Liam said that people will call 'Beady Eye' their kids by the end of the year :). Of course we don't have to do all the Gallaghers say :) (but why not? :). To call a kid Beady Eye, you should have the guts :) (almost as riding a Beady Eye crocodile :)

What's the name of this famous saint?

a) Saint Anthony

b) Saint Ambrose

c) Saint Andrew

send your answer to marco@oasisblues.com

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Liam: Manchester City fans are known for having a lot of style

MANCHESTER - Noel Gallagher 86,000 Facebook fans (and it's a lot of time that page is there, they took the old fans and changed the profile pic), Beady Eye 151,000 :D.
Manchester City have made their biggest signing of the summer by landing rock star fan Liam Gallagher to launch the new home kit.
The light blue shirt, designed by Umbro, features a soundwave graphic of supporters singing the team's famous anthem Blue Moon.
And Gallagher's band Beady Eye have recorded a special version of the song which mixes into their new single, The Beat Goes On.
Former Oasis singer Gallagher said: 'I've been a City fan since I was a kid so to be involved with the launch of a new kit is colossal. Manchester City fans are known for having a lot of style and the new shirt looks mega. I love the soundwave idea and the Mod-inspired collar looks proper smart.
'Blue Moon is a top tune and has been City's song for as long as I can remember. It's been covered by loads of people but the only good one until now was the one Elvis did. I hope the fans buzz off our version and sing along to it at the stadium.'
David Blanch, senior designer at Umbro, commented: 'You can go anywhere in the world and people will know two things about Manchester: football and music. For the new Manchester City home shirt, we wanted to combine the elements of football and sound in a new and original way.

[not sure about football... the city of Manchester won only 7+1 international trophies in the whole history... 4 of these won by Man Utd in the last 12 years, 6 of them in the last 20 years... how about Milan winning 27 international trophies? It takes 4 Manchester]

'Our starting point was the club's anthem, Blue Moon. When fans are singing Blue Moon, it becomes more than just a song – it's a connection between the fans and the players.
'We went into the Stadium to record a section of the fans singing the song. From this recording, we extracted an audio clip and created a soundwave graphic which is used within the shirt. One of the most powerful ways in which any fan can positively influence a football match is through sound.
'We've harnessed that and made it part of the Manchester City's home kit. This is a truly innovative football strip.'
The new Manchester City home kit for 2011/12 is available for pre-order now and will be on sale from July 22. Visit umbro.com

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Beady Eye Blue Moon new video

MANCHESTER - yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah and wearing Manchester City new shirt at the end.
Manchester United fans will have to wait for Mick Hucknall to release a song with Simpy Red...

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The boat that rocked, radio Oasisblues, harem of girls :)

SAINT COLUMBAN-UPON-LAMBRO (LOL, I'm translating the name) - Yeah today I'm back in that place with the name of Milan river which gave the name to the Mods Lambretta made in Milan (also on the cover of Be Here Now), it's another town with English flag and (Irish) patron saint of motorcyclists.
This is where I stay in Blur's Country house :), very English isn't it, looking at Saint Lawrence falling stars, having barbecues, the food's the bollocks lol, etc.

Do you remember the (home made) Beady Eye video of Bring the Light with images from the film The boat that rocked. Maybe you have seen it, or maybe not 'cause that film was a commercial failure. I liked it, there are some nice scenes and it makes you want to start a radio... today it's possible and free through internet, but I don't know if we could broadcast a lot of copyrighted music. So, for now we continue our boat's journey with the website, but a Radio Oasisblues would be nice. Maybe more than one person would be necessary, to find time and something to say "all day and all of the night" :), the Kinks would say in the film. But I could bring my experiences at Radio 105 and Tele+ tv, and my voice of when I used to sing.

In the film every deejay has his own personality, and one is called Mark, he almost never speaks but girls love him (see photo), but somehow girls love all of them deejays. At the end the others ask him his secret, and he says that is "don't say anything at all"... (which is quite strange for a radio deejay) and "when the tension becomes too much to bear, you finally, finally, you just say: "How about it then?", LOL. Well, he was acting as the mysterious one but maybe was also physically attractive to the girls, anyway this reminds me many years ago when I was very shy and was almost never speaking, I was much more successful with girls than now, sure. In the end, words ruin many things... But I still don't speak too much, I just write :), so there's still a chance to make a girls harem, LOL.

How about it then? :)

($17=£10) The Boat That Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio in North America, I Love Radio Rock in Italy) is a 2009 British comedy film, based on pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s.
Set in 1966 (year of the only World Cup won by England), it tells the story of the fictitious pirate radio station Radio Rock and its crew of eclectic disc jockeys, who broadcast rock and pop music to the United Kingdom from a ship anchored in the North Sea while the British government endeavors to shut them down.
The soundtrack features songs from The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Beach Boys, The Who ("My Generation", covered by Oasis, and "I can see for miles", also in a Pretty Green video), The Moody Blues, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, etc.
The film was a commercial failure at the British box office. It received mixed reviews, with most criticism directed at its muddled storyline and 2¼-hour length. For its North American release it was re-edited to trim its running time by twenty minutes, but was still commercially unsuccessful.
In the film, the government minister (Kenneth Branagh) looks like Hitler, lol.

One of the actors is Rhys Ifans, the famous hilarious "Spike" in Notting Hill and also featuring in Oasis video The importance of being idle.

At the end of the film, among the music albums in history, there's also Oasis' What's the story Morning Glory.

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