Oasis Schedule Update 8/3

This section features anything upcoming that is Oasis in the next year.

August 2008
15th Shock of Lightening Radio Debut BBC 6Music 8:15AM GMT

17th August BBC Radio 6Music 1pm - 2pm: Noel Gallagher takes Julie Cullen track by track of the new record.

26^th Seattle WA Gig
28^th Vancouver Gig
29th Edmonton Gig
30th Calgary

September 2008

(RUMORED) Q magazine Double issues of Liam and Noel
UNCUT Magazine: Liam and Noel on the cover.

1st Winnipeg Gig
4th Ottawa Gig
5th Montreal Gig
7th Vfest Toronto Gig
9th London, ON Gig

29th "The Shock of Lightening" single released


October 2008
6th "Dig Out Your Soul" album released!

November 2008
26th Mexico City Gig 28th Guadalajara Gig 29th Monterrey Gig
*This section will be updated regularly*

Eight Weeks of Oasis

In honor of Oasis’ up coming new album The Oasis Fan Guide will be featuring a different Oasis album each week starting August 17.

Week 1 August 17-23 : Definitely Maybe
Week 2 August 24-30: (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Week 3 August 31-Sept 6: Be Here Now
Week 4 September 7-13: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Week 5 September 14-20: Heathen Chemistry
Week 6 September 21-27 Don’t Believe the Truth
Week 7 Sept 28-Oct 4: The Master plan, Familiar to Millions, Stop the Clocks
Week 8 October 5-11: Dig Out Your Soul

Sunday: History of album
Monday: What to watch, and listen to
Tuesday: Fashion
Wednesday: Articles from the period
Thursday: Photos from period
Friday: You Tube Videos
Saturday: Mad fer it things to do

Dig Out Your Soul week will be a bit different, I am just going to go with my gut that week. Week 2 will be a bit weird as well, as OFG is going to Seattle and Vancouver (but is bringing her laptop!).

Top 10 Signs that You’re a Too Excited about Dig Out Your Soul

1. Every morning before eating breakfast you search four forums and a news site.

2. You have take Rosetta Stone "Latin" out of the library to keep up with The Riddler on Live4ever.

3. You get violently angry if someone posts a fake article or link to or about the new album.

4. You have examined the album cover in Photoshop, trying to get every detail.

5. You Facebook, Myspace messages are filled with talk of the new album.

6. You have already taken Oct 6 or 7 from work or school. Well because its like a holiday!
7. You have preordered the album already.

8. You nearly passed out when you heard the "Falling Down" remix.

9. You tired to burn the small clip of Shock of Lightening so you could listen to it more than once, (alright 50 times).

10. You have thought about getting the newish verison of the Oasis logo tattooed somewhere on your body.

Dig Out Your Soul Cover Art Examined

What is going on in this cover??! DOYS is proving to be one of Oasis' most intriguing cover. What is it all about? The Oasis Fan Guide will take a shot at it!

Thoughts on the cover: I personally think that the cover looks like an Apocalypse Now yard sale.

1. This is a RECORD MACHINE
Yet "I wanna Live in my Record Machine" does NOT appear on the track listing. This is not your 1960's record player, this player looks like its bordering on 1930s to 1940s

2. Frontier Graveyard:
I found a photo of a Graveyard in Mexico that looks like this, ingore the old guy! :) Fans have said that graveyard could be referring to the track "To Be Where There's life" and possible "I'm Outta Time"

3, 4, 5. Soldiers LOTS OF THEM:
#3 is a Samurai Solider, #4 1940s World War II solider #5 1700-1800 "Red Coat" British Soldiers. All the soldiers appear to be in the acts of war, 3 and 4 you can't actually see where they are, but they appear to be in action. #5 are clearly on the attack, maybe they are coming to dig out your soul? The most obvious song to point out would be "Soldier On"

6 & 7 The Butterflies:
There are two. In Chinese culture 2 butterflies mean love. But I think the butterflies could stand for metamorphosis, this album from the word on the street is very different, maybe this is a symbol of Oasis emerging from a cocoon? Some of fans have said that #6; the downward butterfly ending toward the "atomic blast" could mean "The Butterfly Effect" and no I do not mean the movie. The butterfly effect is the theory that basically anything can effect anything, the tiniest differences and changes of a butterfly wing can effect things like tornados . I like to think the butterfly moving downward towards the blast represents the little changes anyone can do, can effect the big picture.

8. Face in the cloud:
Its a lawn gnome! LOL

9. Astronaut:
Maybe Oasis is discovering new universes! I am stretching it I know!

10. Bitten Apple:
Shot at the Beatles?

11. Price Tags:
Supports my Apocalypse Now yard sale theory.

12. Upside Down Waterfall:
Reference to the track "The Nature of Reality"? Check out the creepy "rock" next to the waterfall.

13. One Brown Eye:
Could this be Gem's ? He is the only member of Oasis with brown eyes. Could this be a reference to the 3rd eye? The third eye is often associated with visions, clairvoyance, precognition, and out-of-body experiences.

14. The Hidden Clock: Many think that this is a reference to Stop the Clocks and that the track will be hidden on the album.

15. Atomic Blast: I feel like this a reference to the sound of the album. If you have ever seen Oasis live you will know what I mean :D

Preparing for Tour Season

August 26, 2008 Oasis WILL play Seattle beginning their 7th World Tour (8 if you count the Brotherly Love Tour). While most of the tour dates have not been released here are some tips as the Canadian Tour approaches.

Passports: If you are planning to cross borders make sure you have a updated passport. If you are a American crossing Canadian borders you can get through with a Driver's license and a birth Certificate, but as for June 2009 you will have to have a passport or a passport card. Please check you countries passport laws before you go (WAY BEFORE YOU GO).

Transportation: If you are taking your car an oil change doesn't hurt. Make sure your car "papers" are up to date. If you are flying, renting a car, taking a train, BOOK now if you haven't already! Don't leave things up to the last minute!


Keep everything in order: If your going to more that one gig things can get messy! Keep a file folder, or pocket folder with everything in it. Imagine getting to the Canadian border and finding you left your Oasis tickets in your desk drawer at HOME in NEW YORK? *shutters*. It might sound a bit OCD, but check and recheck BEFORE YOU GO!

Have a plan: Having a plan always makes everything go a lot soother, it doesn't hurt!

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Falling Down Info

A remix of new Oasis track "Falling Down" was played July 11, 2008 at 5pm on the Edge 102 in Toronto by DJ Bookie:

Lyrics: (special thanks to SCYHO.com)

A setting sun that blows my mind
Is falling down on all that I've ever known
Time to kiss the world goodbye
Falling down on all that I've ever known
Is all that I've ever known.
Is all that I've ever known.
Is all that Cry and scream... it makes no sound
Calling out to all that I've ever known
Here am I, lost and found Calling out to all
A setting sun That blows my mind
Time to kiss the world goodbye
We live a dying dream
If you know what I mean
A setting sun that blows my mind
Now we'll kiss the world goodbye


Notes: THIS IS A REMIX by the Chemical Brothers (CONFIRMED). This is not a the album versions. Various sources on forums say that the song has "Been heavily chopped" and "basically they used only the vocals and piano" and the album version "Has a groovy drum beat". ALL UNCONFIRMED SOURCES.

OFG notes: OMG what an exciting day! At first I was a bit put off by the "dancey beat", but the remix sounds very much like the Chem Brothers NOT Oasis. Anyone listening for first time..listen to vocals, lyrics and piano, THATS Oasis :D Enjoy!! Its beginning!! :D

ATTENTION OASIS FANS!

OFG is looking for Oasis fans "Showing their Oasis!" We are looking for photos of Oasisy rooms, your Oasis collection, Car plates, fans being mad fer it, even just stories of fans and Oasis! OFG is looking to create a archive or section (depends on how much we get) of Oasis fans being Oasis fans! Please email OFG at jlzoasis@gmail.com

August Mojo 2008 Noel Interview

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Mojo August 2008

By Lawrence Watson

It's May 29, 2008. In other words its Noel Gallagher's 41st birthday a date he shares with G.K. Chesterton, John F. Kennedy, Can's Irmin Schmidt and Franci Rossi of Status Quo. Daughter Anais has brought him the new Portishead album and MOJO knowing his penchant for 60s psych, has rustled up a copy of The Beau Brummels Bradley's Barn. Ensconsed in his managers's London, office, yards from a traffic incident that made headlines days before Gallagher halted a car, its handbrake off as it rolled down the road towards a bust junction), He;s fighting-weight and with a seventh oasis studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, Slated to succed a late September single (the Noel-written, Liam-sung The Shock of Lightening), he;s already straining at the leash. "It could have been out by now" Noel grumbles "but we decided to keep June, July and August free to support England in the European Championships, and of course look what fucking happened" Next week he heads to Liverpool to consult with oasis' latest (is fourth) drummer. Unable to commit to the bands touring schedule- Which begins in Canada in August-Zak Starkey is now out of the picture. F0rmer Icicle Works, World Party, La's and (more controversially as we shall see) Robbie Williams trapsman Chris Sharrock is the beneficary. Meanwhile, Gallagher's getting to grips with the shifting realties of releasing an album in 2008. "There's five different versions of the fucker!" He boggles "There's a cheap digital one, theres a digital one thats slightly more expensive, there's a physical on in the shops, then there a deluxe one , then there's a super deluxe one which has everything on it. What happened to the days when you just went and said , Can I buy the new oasis album please? And a guy went to a rack and put it in a bag and he went (turns up his nose) 'It's not all that'" Luckily, something never change. And one of those is the ability of Noel Gallagher to talk the hind hinds legs off a Queen Anne chair. So without further ado...

Take us through the Phases of this record...
Well, we had 66 songs for the last album and we had shit loads left over. I remember saying out of those 66, 11 were good and seven were really great. So I was counting on them being the core of the next record, but it didn't quite turn out like that.

What Happened? Well, we ended up sitting around for a year and and by the time it came round to recording those seven songs, they sounded like B-sides to me. I thought we should do something new. the completely by chance, dead quickly, I wrote three songs over the space of a week, and cos Paul Weller was in our studio, I demoed them in Gem's bedroom.

This was when? This was last summer. We had to finished the tunes before Gem's kids got home from school at 10 to five. So these demos were really rushed and they were pretty sparse. There were no backing vocals, no acoustic guitars... Of course, when we played them to Dave Sardy, he was going "its fucking Genius! I love the bare-bones quality!" And I was looking at Gem going, "I'd have put trumpets on it, but your kids were knocking at the door..."

Describe those songs to me. If they're like any of my previous songs, they're like Columbia, in the sense that they're kind of trancey and groovy. I don't like to use that word, but the rhythms are quite strong, and I suggested to the others that if they had any songs like that lying around they should bring them in. Liam obviously fucking freaked out cos he always hates new directions.

You recorded a lot of it in Abbey Road, but I thought you were banned from there....
Well, we got booted out of there during the sessions for Be Here Now cos we were blasting out Beatles records at four in the morning. We were sitting in the dark playing all the albums in order in the main room through the PA speakers, and we were all doing loads of drugs. there were a couple of spotlights on. We were going (whispers)...Lennon done it there! Thats where he fucking done it" The next day, they were like, "You can carry this on in...another country"

But they had you back....
Well, as fate decreed, U2 were booking in there with Rick Rubin. I was like "U2? U2 have to have a fucking six-hour meeting whether to get tea or coffee in the rehearal room! They are not coming in here any time in the next five years." The guy from Abbey Road was like "I've got it block-booked fr the exact time you want it" We actually went down to Abbey Road with a bag of money and said "We can pay for the studio now!"

So did the idea to keep it simple go out of window in the end?
Yea, there's too many multi-instrumentalist in this band to do anything minimal. Anyways, I don't like concepts following around records,that's the Brian Eno curse. I think lots of bands fall down on that- they get the concept first. Travis, for instance...poor lads. Those kinda of bands always end up with fucking Brian Eno pulling out a deck of cards, saying,"Play it like its orange....

So if it's not a stripped back album, what are the song like? The three initial tracks I did at Gem's were in a dropped tuning, all in the same key. One of them sounds like The Stooges Doing Fools Gold. One of them sounds like Strawberry Fields on really fucking cheap bad acid. Another one started off sounding like a strummy, A-minor, very plaintive love song, but when we were doing it at Gem's I was like, Fuck it and it ended up like The Doors' Peace Frog, with this heavy two-note riff. The other four -which I wrote one weekend Sarah went up to Scotland to take the little lad up to see the grandparents-Were also in the vein of real deep-sounding fucking rocks songs. When I was out in LA, i bumped into one of the guys from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and he said "How's the record?" And I said "I'll tell you how good it is-there's not one fucking single on it." Liam throws in the obligatory fucking lighter-in-the-air, John Lennon moment, called I'm Outta Time, but it kinda needed that to break it up. Tellingly, every girl thats heard it has just gone (pulls face, laughter).

On a Radio 1 show last year, you played Aphrodite's Child and a Pretty Things songs...
Yeah, Baron Saturday. [Kasabian's] Serge [Pizzorno] played me that song one night and the minutes I heard it I was like "Fucking hell, I'm writing a song like that fucking tomorrow." I went home, got the guitar and that was it. I can't tell you what the title is.

Go on, be a devil...
Oh all right. Its called Bag it Up, and its the opening track on the album. But I was fucking devastated when I came home with the finished thing. I stuck it on and the missus goes "Bag It Up? Its that a song by Geri Halliwell?" I'm straight on the internet and sure enough. I was like "You've ruined my entire fucking year."

One more track title and I'll stop pestering you...
There's a song of Liam's called Solider On, Which is a kind of lost and found story. We'd started gathering together tunes that had a certain feeling to them. I was doing the Electric Proms with The Coral, who'd recorded their album at my studio, and it turns out they'd come acros a hard drive in the Pro Tools that said New Oasis Stuff, and they'd a sneaky listen... So [Coral singer] James Skelly, a bit sheepish, asks me "Are you gonna do that tune Soldier On?" now I don't remember it, gen Doesn't remember it, Liam certainly doesn't remember it, but the other lads in The Coral are going " You've gotta record this tune, its fucking boss!" So I ransack this hard drive, can't find a track called Soldier On. So we get to Abbey Road and we're chatting away and Andy Bell goes "Soldier on? Brilliant! I've got a CD of it my bag." Turns out he recorded it with Liam, but Liam still doesn't remember it . "Well" says Andy "you were pretty fuckin pissed" So we stick it on. Like all Liam's songs its got one verse and one chorus just repeated, but its ended up being the last track on the album. It reminds me of a guy walking through sand carrying a big fucking block on his back, and it just goes on for ages. It goes quite dubby at the end, and I play melodica on it, in the reverb chamber that The Beatles used!

Welcome aboard new drummer Chris Sharrock!

Noel G: I have to admit I offered him the gig once before, after Whitey left and Zak was umming and aahing about the gig. Then Zak cam in, one thing led to another and I never called Chris back! So I made sure this time I fucking called him. Liam thought we should have got some 16-year old in. I was like, "You're ludicrous! I'm fucking 40. I'm not playing in a band with some fucking kid who's gonna be marauding through the first class lounge, throwing heroin everywhere. He's never had free crisps before and he's going mental!' No, I said "We need to get some who's our fucking age , who's been on big tours, but Liam's still not happy about Chris Sharrock, because he;s Robbie Williams' drummer. I went home and I thought about it and it was just too much temptation to piss Robbie Williams and Liam off in one phone call"

Typed by Jenny (The Oasis Fan Guide) from sacans from the Stop The Clocks Forum. Special thanks to my mate Tom!

Oasis Recommendations

On the latest podcast of the Russell Brand show on BBC radio, Noel mentioned that he was reading a book called “Hellraisers”. Here a bit about it:

Hellraisers: The Inebriated Life and Times of Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris & Oliver Reed
By Robert Sellers

Amazon Description:
This highly entertaining biography of four charismatic and much loved actors follows them through five decades of boozing, brawling and braggadocio.At their career peaks, these four controversial actors had the whole world at their feet and lived through some of the wildest exploits Hollywood has ever seen. But all that fame had a price; Richard Burton’s liver was shot by the time he was 50, Richard Harris’s film career stalled for over a decade. Peter O’Toole’s drinking almost put him in the grave before his 43rd birthday, and Oliver Reed ended up dying prematurely.This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked — or staggered — off a film set into a pub. It’s a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, drugs, riots and wanton sexual conquests. And yet these piss-artists were seemingly immune from the law. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers.

Link to buy

Dig Out Your Soul Information

I have gathered everything I can find on the new 7th Oasis album "Dig Out Your Soul". The section will be updated as information comes in.

Release Date: October 6, 2008 (UK)
October 7, 2008 (USA)

First Single: The Shock of Lightening; September 29, 2008

Reported Tracks:
1. Get Off Your High Horse (Lady)
2. Stop the Clocks
3. The Shock of Lightening



REPORTED BY www.nrj.fr/

Dig Out Your Soul Track List :

1.Bag It Up
2. The Turning
3. Waiting for the Rapture
4.The Shock of the Lightning
5. I'm Outta Time
6. (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady
7. Falling Down
8. To be Where There's Life
9. Ain't Got Nothin'
10. The Nature of Reality
11. Soldier On

Phillip Sheppard comfrimed to have done the orchestra.

Leaks:
July 1, 2008: FAKE. A poster on the Live4ever.us forum Googled "Dig Out Your Soul" Found this:

Oasis Dig Out Your Soul 2008 torrent download - [ Diese Seite übersetzen ]
1. Juli 2008 ... Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul - 2008.zip, 102.84 MB ... To be able to download , you have to install first a BitTorrent client. ...
www.torrentvalley.com/download_torrent_1187275.html - vor 2 Stunden gefunden

When downloaded the file asked for a password, when cracked the file was the album version of Definitely Maybe.

Noel's Notes: (Anything Noel, or anyone from the band says about the album)

May 1, 2008; Noel on the Edge:
-New album out in September/No date set
-Noel has seven tracks on the album
-The new songs are the "Most current"/"Fresh"

OASIS SCHEDULE

This section features anything upcoming that is Oasis in the next year.

July 2008
1^st Noel appears in the Mojo (August 2008)

10th 5pm EST Toronto Radio Station will play "Falling Down" off the new record.

August 2008
26^th Seattle WA Gig
28^th Vancouver Gig
29th Edmonton Gig
30th Calgary Gig

September 2008
1st Winnipeg Gig
4th Ottawa Gig
5th Montreal Gig
7th Vfest Toronto Gig
9th London, ON Gig
29th "The Shock of Lightening" single released

October 2008
6th "Dig Out Your Soul" album released!

November 2008
26th Mexico City Gig 28th Guadalajara Gig 29th Monterrey Gig

*This section will be updated regularly*