Oasis Trivia

I’m currently reading Wikipedia’s article on Noel Gallagher. There’s so much interesting trivia that I have to get it down somewhere. If you’re not a big Oasis fan then I guess the post is gonna be boring for you.

1) He was a frequent guest on The Russell Brand Show on BBC Radio 2, appearing on almost every show, leading Brand to dub him an unofficial "Co presenter".

2) Johnny Depp is a friend of his, he played slide guitar on the Oasis song Fade In-Out and gave Noel the guitar he often uses with the letter “P” on it.

3) In 2008 it was announced that Gallagher would sell his Ibiza home located near fellow musician James Blunt, "saying that he can’t stand living there in the knowledge that Blunt is nearby making terrible music".

4) Gallagher has often been accused by critics of plagiarising the music of his heroes, but he has maintained outright homages in his music are his intention. In a 1996 Guitar World interview, he described himself as "a fan who writes songs" and stated, "I'm not saying, 'I'm the greatest songwriter in the world. Listen to me.' Usually, I'm saying, 'Theseare the greatest songwriters in the world. And I'm gonna put them all in this song"'. His response to critics about the topic of "blatantly pinching riffs" was, "No, I don't feel guilty. But you feel pissed off because you didn't do it first."

5) Noel has said he sometimes does not understand his own lyrics, commenting in 2005 that "when I'm halfway through 'Don't Look Back in Anger' I say to myself. 'I still don't know what these words mean!'"

5) Zak Starkey, previous drummer for Gallagher's heroes The Who and Johnny Marr, and son of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, replaced longtime Oasis drummer Alan White during the recording sessions for Don't Believe the Truth. The loss of their longtime drummer prompted Gallagher to comment, in a 2005 interview, that he puts Oasis' trouble with drummers, in part, to the fact that he is himself a talented drummer, saying "I get a lot of stick for it, but I'm the best drummer in the group."

6) Noel has been outspoken about his political views on several occasions. Most notably when he visited Tony Blair at No.10 Downing Street in 1997. In an interview in 1997 when he was asked about why he visited Blair he replied -"I’ve taken a lot of flack for going to No.10 Downing Street but the thing about that is, I never considered myself a rebel anyway. I wasn’t going there representing the ‘Indie community’. I wasn’t representing anyone. I was going there for me. You have to understand that from when I went to school and from when I was born all we ever knew was conservative, Tory, right-wing government. What people don’t mention is, they say ‘He went to meet Tony Blair.’ No. I went to meet the LABOUR prime minister. Our parents always drummed into us that the Labour Party was for the people and the Tory Party was not. I went to meet the Labour prime minister. Full stop.”

7) “I’d been unemployed all my life. It was a big deal for me when he [Tony Blair] got in. Now David Cameron is no different than our Tony Blair and Gordon Brown is no different than our David Cameron. They’re all cut from the same cloth and it annoys me that the biggest political icon in the last 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher, and she's a dick. Someone who tried to destroy the working class. It freaks me out. So I don’t really think there’s anything left to vote for. I believe that I, as a person, can only change things once every 5 years and that’s by voting, and my point is that even casting that vote means that the same guy gets in, the only difference is one has a red tie and the other has a blue one. That’s all it means, so I think that I should start the Gallagher Party.”

All taken from Wiki. Wiki is surprisingly reliable for music-related articles though.

Had a pretty good day, took cab home from school with Jink, Adel and Jing Yan. Pretty weird. Hung out with Jing Yan for a short while after when I had to go to the doctor to get medicine.

Managed to get the SGC stuff done, it was pretty tough trying to come up with a lot of crap to describe myself. Its largely a load of bull though. Reading NME now, the one with Muse on the cover. I love Matt Bellamy! He’s probably one of the few guys I would say is sexy. HAHA. Its a good day for music! Got The Envy (formerly Crowned King) songs from Natalie, listened to some Led Zeppelin and AC/DC, got Panic! at the Disco’s new song (yes the ! in their name is back!), Muse’s new song, listened to La Roux, and downloaded The Killers’ Sam’s Town and Evanescence’s Fallen (really old I know).

Kay, off to slack around some more. Perhaps I’ll rehearse another IOC recording again.