Noel Gallagher live in Newcastle tonight!!!!!!!

Great gig Jimmy, too many of your type there though, can you's build an arena in mackemland please? most people like yourself ain't dicks but plenty young (SOOOPER DOOOPER COMPUUUUTERS) types.

Has he got a new set, new voice and new backing band?! Coz the last I heard of his tour was boiled shite

few different oasis songs he played compared to when i seen him in Amsterdam. Choir and brass section were a good touch though

I spend most of my time In Newcastle. As a city i love the place and the nightlife, just not the football team. They should build a decent venue on the old Vaux site in Sunderland but it will never happen cos our council is shite.

Cool story bro.

www.nme.com/news/noel-gallagher/62235

looks massive jimbo. ;D

that guys username TheRokerRoar.

little by little the wheels of your band have slowly fallen off.

oh god.

Can I just rename this section The Dungeon?

I thought they only played that 10 years ago because they were touring the album and some record exec made it a single

The arena is a two minute walk from my house, was half tempted to go and see if I could get a ticket off a tout for a brown hen just as it was starting, but went to the shop and full of wankers walking past singing if i had a gun, decided not to fucking bother.

I'll see him at Benicassim, but to be honest I'll not be arsed, will enjoy the oasis tunes full of beer like, but he's nowt without Liam, just a miserable little fuck who thinks he is better than he is. Also fifty five quid a ticket, and at the worst venue for sound and atmosphere I've ever been to in my life, robbing little short arsed twat.

BDI at the Newcastle academy however, now that's worth creating a thread over kid!

Absolute brilliant gig. Atmosphere was class and the banter was good. Supersonic acoustic, Whatever and Everybodys On The Run were highlights for me, but overall an absolute brilliant gig. Only downside was far too many mackems there.

I remember the days when Coleman was all about Liam, Shearer and caps lock. Now he's rating acoustic versions of Supersonic

Added to the atmosphere the Mackems being there. Got talking to a few Geordies around the pubs before and after the gig. The older generation post Keegan lads will have decent banter regarding football and know their stuff, the young'uns however talk absolute deluded rubbish.

Supersonic acoustic is quality I think, prefer it played properly like however that tune could be played on nowt but a trumpet and I'd still fucking love it ha!

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle review


LET the debate over who was the most important part of Oasis end, once and for all, here and now.

Yes, singer Liam Gallagher had the Manc swagger and attitude, but there’s no doubt big brother Noel was the brains behind the outfit.

He was the one who wrote all their classic songs, and the one who broke up the band which came to define Britpop after one argument too many.

After a few months on hiatus, both emerged with new groups, Liam with Beady Eye and Noel with High Flying Birds.

Both released debut albums last year, and while Beady Eye’s received a fairly lukewarm reception from the critics, NGHFB’s saw him nominated for a Brit Award.

Here, Noel took his band on the road, and the fact this was one of nine sold-out arena UK dates told its own story.

From the moment he took to the stage to a cover of the Oasis song (It’s Good) To Be Free, originally buried away as a B-side, it was clear The Chief was back in town.

Mucky Fingers, another cover of a song by his old band, followed, and that was that particular elephant - will he play any Oasis tunes? - out of the room.

Now it was down to business, and a salvo of songs from his solo debut followed; Everybody’s On The Run, Dream On and If I Had A Gun.

All were greeted like old favourites, despite the fact the album only came out in October, and, over the course of the night, all but one track (Oasis leftover Stop The Clocks) got an airing.

After half an hour the leather jacket came off and you knew he meant business; it certainly was, with a sublime acoustic version of Supersonic.

More Oasis songs followed in the 70-minute main set, namely Talk Tonight and the wonderful Half A World Away - to think he tossed these away as B-sides when you hear some of the dross clogging up the charts these days is incredible.
( so so true ) ;D

He proved he still knows how to write a classic with one of the songs of the night, AKA... What A Life from the High Flying Birds album.

As well as his excellent four-piece band, who were every bit the equal of Oasis (probably better, if truth be told), he was joined on stage at various stages of the night by a three-piece horn section and the Hertforshire Choir, conducted by a Geordie, David Temple.

The banter with the crowd was good too, with references to the Sports Direct Arena and urging fans to buy a T-shirt on their way out (“merchandise is where it’s at, innit?”).

The best was saved until last though, a four-song encore of Oasis classics - Whatever, Little By Little, The Importance of Being Idle and Don’t Look Back In Anger.

A rare outbreak of modesty probably prevented Noel agreeing with the fans down the front that he is a legend. “Haven’t you got to be dead?” he deadpanned. But he is. No question.

was that review written by that old-wizard guy?

how fucking funny to read people moaning about Noel

it's been a fucking year, ladies. time to move on

fucking mega. it's 97 again.