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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have announced their new album, Who Built The Moon? and details of a UK and Eire arena tour. Produced by David Holmes, the new album will see the former Oasis guitarist move into a new direction.
Gallagher has spent two years working on the record with Holmes and it will be released on November 24. The pair met backstage at a Primal Scream gig and Belfast-based Holmes invited Gallagher to his studio in the Northern Irish capital to work on new material completely form scratch. Featuring guest appearances from Paul Weller and Johnny Marr, the album has been described as a collection of “instrumentals, imagined soundtracks and cut and paste experimentation.”
The new album is also said to be inspired by French psychedelic pop as well as more electronic influences.
“People are going to be surprised,” said producer David Holmes of the new album. “I think people love Noel and they’re desperate for him to make a really big, bold, up-tempo beast of a record – a lot of Noel’s music is quite mid-tempo. This one is fun.”
As for those arena gigs, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds play a 12-date tour in April and May that will call in at London, Newcastle and Dublin among others. Tickets for the tour go on sale at 9am on Friday, September 29.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds play:
APRIL
22 - Brighton, Brighton Centre
24 - Glasgow, The SSE Hydro
25 - Aberdeen, BHGE Arena
27 - London, The SSE Arena Wembley
30 - Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena
MAY
01 - Birmingham, Birmingham Arena
03 - Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena
04 - Manchester, Manchester Arena
06 - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
07 - Leeds, First Direct Arena
09 - Belfast, The SSE Arena
10 - Dublin, 3Arena
Not that everyone is thrilled with the news. Noel’s younger brother, former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, has lashed out at the forthcoming album and the direction that Noel is taking. Taking to Twitter, Liam – whose debut solo album, As You Were, is released on October 6 – called Noel a “beige drip” whose “psychedelic music” was “like a vegetarian trying to sell you a kebab.”
Psychedelic music by a beige drip is like a vegetarian trying to sell you a kebab as you were LG x
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) September 24, 2017
So yeah, that Oasis reunion just went back by a few more years.
