Peter Kay thinks he’s banned from BRIT Awards due to Liam Gallagher feud

“The last time we played in arenas, we didn’t really have many songs that were arena-worthy,” says Guy Garvey. Taken at face value, it’s a strange admission from the frontman of a band who have been filling UK arenas for nearly 15 years, but those who have followed Elbow’s trajectory since The Seldom Seen Kid catapulted them into the UK’s musical stratosphere will have an idea of where he’s coming from.

Metric has spoken to NME about the second half of their ‘Formentera’ project, their recent US tour with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and how she tackled her “toxic positivity”.The nine-track ‘Formentera II’, released last week, was largely written and recorded at the same time as last year’s ‘Formentera’ album and completed at Motorbass Studios in Paris earlier this year. To mark the release, Haines and Metric guitarist Jimmy Shaw recently played a series of acoustic shows in the UK, following on from a run of US and Canada dates celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?’Haines caught up with NME just after their London gig, which she described as “a full 10 out of 10”“We sit down at a piano with a guitar, and I’d already planned the setlist that people will maybe sing along on the last few songs of the whole show,” she said. “Instead, from the very beginning of the show, it was like a choir and everyone was good.

Liam Gallagher has added more dates to his 2024 ‘Definitely Maybe’ tour. Find out ticket details below.As announced earlier this week, the former Oasis frontman will embark on a tour of the UK and Ireland next summer to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band’s 1994 debut album.Tickets for the tour went on sale at 9am this morning (October 20) and due to the high demand, Gallagher has now announced two extra dates.This includes a fourth date at London’s O2 Arena on June 11, and an extra show at the singer’s hometown of Manchester on June 28, taking place at Co-Op Live.Previously listed dates include stops at arenas in Sheffield, Cardiff, Glasgow and Dublin.

Thousands of Liam Gallagher fans are set to join ticketing queues on Friday as his new Definitely Maybe tour offficially goes on sale. There is set to be a ticket buying frenzy after Liam announced he would be celebrating the 30th anniversary of Oasis' debut album with a solo tour in 2024.

On Monday, Liam Gallagher delighted fans as he announced a new tour celebrating Oasis' seminal debut album Definitely Maybe would take place in 2024. The new tour will include three homecoming shows at the new Co-Op Live arena in Manchester.

Liam Gallagher has claimed that Noel Gallagher turned down the opportunity to take part in the upcoming ‘Definitely Maybe’ tour.News of the UK tour was announced yesterday (October 16) and confirmed that Liam would be hitting the road to celebrate 30 years of Oasis’ debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’.The live shows follow on from an update shared by the singer earlier this year in which he reflected on the milestone and teased fans by saying that he was looking for a way to play the 1994 album in full.Liam continued to tease the prospect, later announcing that he’d be playing “naughty” B-sides from the era too as well ‘Half The World Away’ sung by his brother, former bandmate and Oasis’ chief songwriter, Noel.However unfortunately for fans it looks like his brother and ex-bandmate has no intention of taking part in the upcoming tour. The live shows will instead be more of a solo venture for Liam.This news came when Liam took to X (formerly Twitter) earlier today (October 17) to confirm that he offered his brother the chance to participate in the Oasis tour but that no plans ever materialised.“He’s been asked and he’s refused,” he wrote, responding to a fan who asked when he was going to announce Noel’s involvement in the tour.He’s been asked and he’s refused— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) October 17, 2023The 12-date ‘Definitely Maybe 30 Years’ UK and Ireland tour will kick off in Sheffield on June 2 before making stops in Cardiff, Glasgow and Dublin.Three dates at London’s O2 venue are also planned, as are three in his hometown of Manchester, held at the Co-Op Live venue.“I’m bouncing around the house to announce the ‘Definitely Maybe’ Tour,” he said at the time.

Naman Ramachandran Liam Gallagher has revealed a 2024 U.K. and Ireland tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Oasis album “Definitely Maybe.” “I’m bouncing around the house to announce the ‘Definitely Maybe’ tour. The most important album of the ‘90s bar none.

Oasis fans have been speculating this morning after Liam Gallagher announced details of a tour to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the band’s debut album Definitely Maybe.

Liam Gallagher has sent fans into a frenzy announcing an epic new tour celebrating Oasis' seminal debut album Definitely Maybe in 2024. The new tour will include three HUGE homecoming shows at the new Co-Op Live arena in Manchester.

The Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer have today announced a summer tour of the UK and Ireland in 2024.

Liam Gallagher has announced that he will be playing two nights at Glasgow's OVO Hydro next year as part of his 'Definitely Maybe 30 years' tour.

Liam Gallagher has announced a new tour to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of Oasis' debut album Definitely Maybe. The run of dates in 2024 include three HUGE homecoming gigs in Manchester.

Liam Gallagher has shared details of a tour to celebrate 30 years of Oasis‘ seminal album ‘Definitely Maybe’. Check out full dates and ticket details below.Fans have been awaiting news of the shows since Gallagher confirmed earlier this year that he was looking to play their 1994 debut album in full.

Pop superstar Rita Ora visited Manchester to take part in a keynote discussion as part of the city’s first ever music conference.

Liam Gallagher has shared some of the Oasis B-sides that he will be performing on his ‘Definitely Maybe‘ tour next year.Earlier this year, the former Oasis frontman revealed that he wanted to celebrate 30 years of the band’s debut LP by performing its tracklist in full.He took to X/Twitter to announce that he will be playing the album next year with a post that read: “As it’s 30 years since [‘Definitely Maybe’] was released nxt year I’m gonna be playing the album from start to finish in its original order at a few BIBLICAL venues”Gallagher has spent the past week teasing the 2024 tour on his X/Twitter account, sharing that dates are “in the post” and will be announced “soon.” He took the time to respond to some the fans questions on the social media platform.One fan asked if the ‘Stand By Me’ singer would be playing any of the album’s B-sides to which Gallagher responded: “Yes WE are.”liam are we getting bring it on down for the DM tour— fairuz (@filmpaccino) October 6, 2023No but Half the world away will be I’ve never sung that song bfore somebody stop me cmon— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) October 6, 2023Not far off— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) October 10, 2023He added: “Of course your getting it all (‘Definitely Maybe’) and a few Norty b sides might even roll out (Oasis’ cover of The Beatles‘) ‘I Am The Walrus’ just for crocs n boob tubes.”Elsewhere, Gallagher shared that though he will not be singing ‘Take Me Away’, he will be tackling the Noel Gallagher sung track ‘Half the World Away’ which is known for being the theme song to The Royle Family.

Liam Gallagher will be this week’s surprise voice for Manchester’s tram announcements.The former Oasis member and Manchester music legend is set to take over the tram announcements in celebration of the Bee Network, Greater Manchester’s integrated public transport system, and Beyond the Music festival. Gallagher will be announcing the stops as they go via some pre-recorded snippets.Beyond the Music Festival is a new fest and change-making conference that is set to take place in Manchester from October 11-14.

Oasis have topped a new BBC chart ranking the most streamed albums of the ’90s.The Official Most Streamed Albums of the ’90s chart, which is being shared to celebrate National Album Day next week (October 14), features the Top 40 most-streamed albums from that decade, based on UK streams, as compiled by the Official Charts Company. It will air on BBC Radio 2 between 1-3pm on October 14; the programme is available to listen to now on BBC Sounds here.Oasis have earned the two top two slots in the chart with ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’ at number one and ‘Definitely Maybe’ at number two.

Peter Kay has defended Little Britain creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams, saying that comedy can be “such a minefield”.The comedian discussed the series in his new book TV: Big Adventures On The Small Screen, where he described criticism of the show in recent years as a “shame”.“It was all very far from being politically correct but that’s what made it funny,” Kay said, while recalling his cameo in the show’s special Little Britain Abroad (via LadBible). “It probably wouldn’t get made now.“Sadly, Matt and David have taken a lot of flak in the past few years for the work they did.

Peter Kay has spoken out about working with Jimmy Saville, descrbing the disgraced presenter as a “dirty old perv”.Speaking to The Mirror ahead of the release of his new book, Big Adventures on the Small Screen, Kay recalled some of the highs and lows of his career, including working with Savile.The comedian said he was working on the last ever episode of Peter Kay’s World Of Entertainment for the BBC series The Sunday Show, and wanted to “push the boat out” by getting Savile involved. The Jim’ll Fix It presenter agreed on the grounds he would receive £500 in cash and a box of cigars worth £1000, which Kay agreed to.However, Kay said he found Savile to be “very eccentric”, claiming he “talked utter nonsense, spouting weird quotes, crap jokes, limericks”.Kay continued: “The only hint I got of Jimmy being immoral in any way was when he met our executive producer, Bridget Boseley.“I remember she offered him her hand, which Jimmy took, then he flipped it round to kiss the back of it, but before his lips touched her skin I saw a quick flick of his tongue licking the back of her hand.

Peter Kay has expressed interest in bringing back Phoenix Nights for a feature film.The comedian co-created and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom about a working men’s club in Bolton, which ran for two seasons from 2001 to 2002. It later spawned the 2004 spin-off Max And Paddy’s Road To Nowhere for six episodes.In his new book TV: Big Adventures On The Small Screen, Kay said he still writes down ideas for Phoenix Nights and suggested he’s considering bringing it back for a film.“I had an idea only today of Brian getting Young Kenny to paint an enormous letter ‘H’ on the roof of the club so he can advertise they’ve got a helicopter pad,” Kay wrote (via The Daily Mail).