U2: secrets of stadium rock
U2 were in London this weekend, playing two dates at Wembley Stadium. Now, I am well aware that not all rock critics share my enthusiasm for the band (my colleague Michael Deacon awarded the show a...
View ArticleOasis split: it's a family affair
I saw Noel Gallagher a couple of weeks back, and he told me a very funny, unprintable story about some shenanigans which an old Manchester mate tried to involve him in, which ended with Noel delivering...
View ArticleBeady Eye's new track is better than anything on the last Oasis album
Oasis are back. Already, you say? Didn’t they only break up in a state of rancour last year? Well, its not really Oasis. It’s a brand new group called Beady Eye. Allegedly. OK, so they are fronted by...
View ArticleNoel Gallagher regrets the end of Oasis
Noel Gallagher has never really come across as a man who might harbour regrets. Throughout two decades as the leader of Oasis, he conducted himself with a kind of bullish swagger, a sense of...
View ArticleThe continuing saga of the death of Oasis: whodunnit (and who cares)?
Oasis couldn’t stop fighting when they were together, and apparently they can’t stop even when they’re apart. Andy Bell, formerly of Oasis and now guitarist in Beady Eye, has weighed in to the spat...
View ArticleNoel Gallagher's real genius is for insults
The former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher, who now plays in the badly named and even-worse-sounding "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds", has been named this year's "God-like Genius" by the NME. Come...
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