Oasis keeps Clock ticking Jane Stevenson Sun Media November 9, 2006 Oasis braintrust Noel Gallagher has never been one to mince words, God bless him. So if the Manchester-born songwriter and guitarist had his way, Oasis wouldn’t be releasing a greatest hits package, the two-disc Stop The Clocks, on Nov. 21. “If it was up to me, it wouldn’t be coming out until Oasis wasn’t around anymore,” said Gallagher. However, it was either co-operate with the band’s former label, Sony/BMG, from which they’ve since parted, or not be involved in Stop The Clocks’ track listing and art work at all. “They own all the rights to everything, so we were informed that they were going to do a retrospective of some description by Christmas — did we want to get involved?” explained Gallagher. “Well, if it is has to be now, it has to be now. Don’t be surprised if there’s a singles album following this. They’re well within their rights to do it.” Gallagher, who said he’s currently got about 30 new songs in rough form for the next Oasis studio album, isn’t sure who Oasis will sign with next on this side of the pond but they’ll stick with their own indie label, Big Brother, in England. “We won’t be going back to Sony,” he said. “They’re all right for us in Canada, so we might stay with them in Canada. In America, I feel they kind of let us down a wee bit. I balance that by saying they didn’t really dig our unprofessionalism. They found it very difficult to actually grasp the concept that we actually didn’t give a (expletive). And they thought, ‘Well, if they don’t give a (expletive), we don’t give a (expletive).’ I don’t bear any malice towards any of them. They’ve got a business to run.” Gallagher said Oasis fans shouldn’t hold their breath for the next studio disc — it definitely won’t be out in 2007 — but he did offer a hint at the sound. “Some of it’s great,” he said. “But for what it’s worth, a lot of my songs will probably end up being acoustic. But not in the Cat Stevens sense. ’Cause a lot of (2005’s) Don’t Believe The Truth was kind of acoustic-driven. But when you get into a studio, it all goes out the (expletive) window and you just go, ‘Let’s rock!’” The Oasis road movie, Lord Don’t Slow Me Down, is expected to be released as a DVD in Canada next year. Gallagher said director Baillie Walsh was given carte blanche to shoot the band on the road. “There’s no gringey-bits for me in it,” said Gallagher of the film. “Liam (his brother/lead singer) wears some very questionable clothes in it. Shorts at one point. … But there’s a lot of drinking involved and a lot of talking absolute nonsense. It’s quite funny in places. “The opening scene is very funny. When I’d seen it, I cried with laughter.” Gallagher feels McCartney’s pain Beatles lover Noel Gallagher hasn’t spoken to Paul McCartney since his acrimonious split from his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney, but he sympathizes having been through a painful divorce himself. “I feel really bad for him to be honest,” Gallagher told the Sun. “I know what he goes through man, getting divorced, and your (expletive) soon to be ex-wife is just being a (expletive) absolute lunatic. I’ve been there. I feel for him because she’s putting all these stories out there that he’s a wife-beater and and excessive drinker. “And it’s so (expletive) ridiculous. But, no, I feel for him because he’s quite a dignified chap, and he’s one of the Beatles, and it’s not a very nice end to a period of his life, is it?” Calgary Sun http://www.calgarysun.com/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=161289&x=articles&s=showbiz -- 照片很酷。 --

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