Liam Gallagher reveals what he misses most about performing in Oasis with Noel

2023 hasn’t been easy when it comes to the love lives of many celebrity couples.

April is here and it brings with it the promise of brighter days, Easter chocolate and colourful displays of blossom. Or perhaps it will live up to its reputation and give us lots of rain instead.

It's been another busy few weeks in music across the world as well as in Manchester, with everything from announcements of stadium tours to the struggles of grassroots venues.

Despite hailing from over 10,000 miles away in Sydney, Manchester has taken DMAs under its wing. The city has welcomed the indie rock outfit with open arms, and adopted them proudly as one of its own.

APPOINTMENTSB2B streaming company Tuned Global has expanded its team with six new hires in the EMEA region, including the appointment of Jonas Norberg as a new Head Of AI. Norberg, who is also the co-founder of Pacemaker, the DJ mixing app recently acquired by Tuned Global, says: “My mission is to get Tuned Global to use its data and other relevant assets in combination with the latest AI developments to strengthen its platform and grow our customers”.Ticketing platform Dice has appointed Katie Soo as Chief Business Officer.

Sleaford Mods have spoken about the time they met Liam Gallagher, recalling how the run-in felt like “being in a bar in the early noughties”.The Nottingham duo and the former Oasis frontman both opened for Iggy Pop at Release Athens Festival in Greece last summer.“He and [the Mods’] Andrew [Fearn] got on like a house on fire!” vocalist Jason Williamson remembered in an interview with MOJO. “You just wouldn’t think they would, but they were like long-lost cousins.“[Gallagher] was going to Andrew, ‘I want to break out of this and do something different musically’. I told Andrew that he was probably asking him for some beats.”Williamson continued: “They were off their heads.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have confirmed a series of 2023 headline dates across the UK – find tickets here.Gallagher will begin the tour on August 30 at Hull’s Bonus Arena, heading to London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds and Glasgow, before finishing at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena on December 21.The tour is in support of the High Flying Birds‘ fourth studio album ‘Council Skies’, which comes out on June 2 via Sour Mash (pre-order here).Tickets for the tour go on general sale at 9am on Friday, March 31 and can be found here. Fans can access a pre-sale on Wednesday, March 29 if they pre-order ‘Council Skies’, via the official Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds store.It’s going back to the beginning.

Liam Gallagher has taken to social media to praise the latest single by his “mean-spirited” brother, Noel.Earlier today, Noel Gallagher released the melancholic new track ‘Dead To the World’. The song is the latest single to be taken from his upcoming High Flying Birds album, ‘Council Skies’, which is due for release on June 2.Now, Liam Gallagher has taken to social media to share his thoughts on the new release – labelling his brother as “mean-spirited”, but celebrating the track as “beautiful”.“How can such a mean spirited little man write such a beautiful song,” he wrote.

Noel Gallagher has shared a new single called ‘Dead To The World’ – you can listen to it below.The song serves as the latest preview of the High Flying Birds‘ fourth studio album ‘Council Skies’, which comes out on June 2 via Sour Mash (pre-order here).“It has this film noir vibe,” Gallagher said of the track in a statement. “It’s not like anything else I’ve ever done before.

The Oasis brothers, Liam and Noel Gallagher, are still feuding.

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Membranes frontman and journalist John Robb has spoken to NME about his new book detailing the origins and rise of goth.The monolithic book has taken 10 years to write and looks at artists including Bauhaus, Nick Cave and The Cure and their place in building one of music’s most important scenes.“I’ve read a lot of books about the post-punk period and goth is always just dismissively kicked away,” Robb told NME. “It’s always really annoyed me that people have been quite sniffy about bands like Bauhaus or Killing Joke, despite them being some of the best art rock bands this country has produced. They were often looked down upon, all because they had a dark side and dressed up a bit.”Robb said that he hopes his book will do for goth what Jon Savage’s book, England’s Dreaming, did for punk in getting people to take it more seriously.

Liam Gallagher has claimed that his brother Noel Gallagher has “done a lot of damage to Oasis as a brand”.The former Oasis lead singer was seemingly responding to an interview that Noel, who played guitar and sang in the ’90s juggernauts, had conducted recently with French outlet France Inter.In the interview Noel was asked for his thoughts about fans fantasising over an Oasis reunion. “Yeah, I understand it, yeah. No one has really come along to take our place,” he said.

Liam Gallagher has bought Noel Edmonds’ mansion near Cannes on the French Riviera, it has been reported.According to The Sun, the former Oasis frontman turned soloist bought the three-floor, six-bedroom property for £3million this month.TV presenter Edmonds (Deal Or No Deal, Noel’s House Party) is said to have listed the house for £4million in 2018 before moving to New Zealand.The mansion – located in Grasse, the world’s perfume capital – reportedly features numerous engravings of Edmonds’ first name, which he shares with Liam’s estranged brother and former bandmate Noel Gallagher.“Liam’s been telling mates, ‘I’ve bought Mr Blobby’s house’,” a source said. “Him and [fiancé and manager] Debbie [Gwyther] plan to put their own stamp on it.

Nandi Bushell has dropped another drum cover, declaring this one as “the most difficult cover [she] has ever made”.This time the young prodigy covered Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Juan Tizol’s percussion-heavy ‘Caravan’. The jazz-y cover took Bushell three months to learn, and then a week to film.“First I needed to learn new techniques, then memorise all the sheet music,” she said.

We all love a bargain style find, and footballer's wife and fashionista Kaya Jones is no exception. Kaya, who is married to Man United star Phil Jones, was one of the glamorous ladies out supporting International Women's Day events in the city centre this week, when we headed out for our weekly Steal Their Style series.

An iconic Northern Quarter store which boasted the Gallagher brothers as regulars has announced it will be closing. It has been reported today (March 9) that Oi Polloi's founders are currently in talks with the owners of the company, JD Sports, over the future of the brand.

Thania Garcia The Cure is hitting the road for a North American trek that includes three dates each at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl and New York’s Madison Square Garden. This will be the first time the band plays any North American shows since their 2019 festival appearances and their first tour in the region since 2016. Following a slate of 2022 European concerts, the Cure’s “Shows of a Lost World” tour will kick on May 10 in New Orleans and hit 30 stops across the U.S. and some parts of Canada with a closing show on July 1 in Miami. The Cure will be supported by Scottish post-punk band the Twilight Sad at all shows. See the full lineup below.

Britpop: The Music That Changed Britain will kick off this weekend to celebrate the genre’s 30th anniversary.The series will document the story of the integral British genre from start to finish. There will be “exclusive new interviews with the key players”, who will tell “fascinating behind-the-scenes stories”, and a “rare and unseen archive of all the era’s big names”.The first episode tells the story of Britpop’s rise to fame and the infamous rivalries between Blur, Oasis, Suede and Elastica.

Gogglebox star Lee Riley left Zoe Ball's radio show in chaos as she was forced to apologise for his swearing not once but THREE times. The Channel 4 favourite was joined by his co-star and friend Jenny Newby on the Zoe Ball Breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 to help celebrate Gogglebox's 10th anniversary.