Articles tagged: noel-gallagher

Photo of Noel GALLAGHER and OASIS, Noel Gallagher performing live onstage

"Some of the very best songwriting is about doing special things with simple parts – Noel Gallagher's work is frequently a prime example": Here are 4 chords from his classic Oasis songs

By Charlie Griffiths published

I'm feeling supersonic, give me F#m11/C#

Noel Gallagher performs on stage at the Melbourne Big Day Out at Flemington Race Course on 29th January 2012 in Melbourne, Australia

"To be honest, I don't consider myself a guitarist, so I don't sit around and think about the whole thing too much": Noel Gallagher explains his songwriter mindset in our classic interview

By Joe Bosso published

"I don't dwell on the whole aspect of guitar technique and stuff. I'm a songwriter" – Oasis chief and High Flying Bird told us in 2011

Oasis live onstage in 1994: Noel Gallagher is in the foreground, Liam on the mic

“A call came into the office from Radio One, saying the band had just gone to Number 1 in the album charts”: Oasis celebrate 30 years of Supersonic with raucous live version from ’94 show at Belfast’s Limelight

By Jonathan Horsley published

Oasis's set on 4 September 1994 captured a band on a steep trajectory and was surely worth the £6.75 ticket price and then some. Check out the video for the live version now

Noel Gallagher of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds performs at The Lighthouse on March 17, 2024 in Poole, England

"I think it’s time to make a defiant rock record": Noel Gallagher says he's scrapped his planned acoustic album but he's already got the cover art and title for the next one

By Rob Laing published

"Acoustic tunes tend to be quite down"

Noel Gallagher of British rock group Oasis live at the Astoria in London, 19th August 1994

“It was the tune that changed everything” for Noel Gallagher and Oasis, with his greatest guitar solo – but it turns out that Live Forever got a serious guitar edit in the control room

By Matt Frost published

"It was essentially the same solo that’s on the finished version Noel always plays live, but when it went high on the second half all I could think of was Slash in leather kecks with a wind machine on the Grand Canyon"

Liam and Noel Gallagher in 1994

The Oasis song Liam hated because it was "reggae": "I remember Our Kid saying 'Why are you writing reggae songs?' And I was like, there speaks a man that has never heard reggae"

By Rob Laing published

A songwriter in peak form, a singer and band who hated it, and the song that became bigger than anyone could have imagined

The singer Liam Gallagher during a performance on the third day of the Mad Cool 2023 festival, which opens in Villaverde Alto, on July 8, 2023, in Madrid, Spain. Liam Gallagher is an English singer, songwriter, critic and musician, known for having been the lead singer of Oasis and Beady Eye, the group that integrated some members of Oasis after their separation? Mad Cool 2023 is the most important music festival in Madrid and one of the most important nationally. This year, it premieres new location and enclosure: 185,000 square meters that are located in Villaverde and has eight stages. Since its birth in 2016, Mad Cool has climbed steps to become one of the Spanish festival events with the most ambitious lineup. (

"We put an offer on the table for an Oasis thing… and he said no" – but is Liam Gallagher now playing the long game with a Noel reunion?

By Rob Laing published

He confirms brother Noel turned down an offer to reunite for Definitely Maybe's 30th anniversary – "It'll happen when it happens, it's not in our hands anymore"

Noel Gallagher Custom Les Pauls

"The one that Johnny gave me in 1994 was always one of my favourite guitars - it carries a lot of history": Gibson and Noel Gallagher reveal strictly-limited run of 20 hand-signed Les Paul Customs

By Will Groves published

All proceeds will go to the Teenage Charity Trust

Noel Gallagher of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds performs at OVO Arena Wembley on December 14, 2023 in London, England.

"I’ve had to take all the electronic equipment out of the studio": Noel Gallagher confirms he's making an acoustic guitar album and pokes fun at Liam's new single with John Squire

By Rob Laing published

"I'm doing it for the fans really," he says, and two songs set to be included are already online in demo form

Noel Gallagher performing with Oasis for MTV Unplugged in 1996

"Even before we got to the day of the show, there was a ‘concern’… a concern with Liam" – the story behind the farce and the glory of Oasis’s infamous 1996 MTV Unplugged performance

By Neil Crossley published

Riding high after playing to 250,000 people at Knebworth, Oasis set about rehearsing for a very different kind of show – an intimate MTV Unplugged performance from the Royal Festival Hall. But within days, it was clear all was not going to plan…