OHMYGOSSIP — Liam Gallagher ended his Lollapalooza set after just 20 minutes due to vocal issues – shortly before headline acts Lorde and Muse’s sets were cancelled early due to weather concerns.
The former Oasis singer took to Twitter to say sorry to his fans after cutting his solo set short at the musical festival at Grant Park, Chicago, on Thursday (03.08.17), later admitting he has “f***ed his voice”.
After playing just three-and-a-half songs, he tweeted afterwards: “Sorry to the people who turned up for the gig in Chicago lollapalooza had a difficult gig last night which f***ed my voice. I’m gutted LG x (sic)”
Following Liam’s early exit, the music festival was hit by yet more controversy as the 400,000 attendees were asked to evacuate around 9pm, while headline acts Lorde and Muse were still playing.
Lorde was unimpressed by her departure, admitting she was “so gutted” for her fans because she had a “spectacular show” lined up.
She wrote on Twitter: “”f**ks sake. i am so gutted guys i don’t know what to tell you
“they’ve told us we can’t play. i had the most spectacular show planned for you and i PROMISE i will come back to play it as soon as i can
“looking into the possibilities of a club show but i want you guys to see full tank show. will keep you posted
“this is the most MELODRAMA s**t ever (sic)”
Muse managed just three songs before they were made to depart, and frontman Matt Bellamy has called for festival bosses to book them for next year to make up for it.
He tweeted: “”Gutted. City/police made us leave the stage tonight 3 songs in at #Lollapalooza . Due to weather/lightning. Nightmare!
“Crowd awesome, we’ll be back, hope lolla book us next year to make up. (sic)”
The festival’s Twitter account issued a number of weather warnings throughout the day.
One read: “WEATHER UPDATE: There may be more inclement weather approaching Grant Park shortly.”
Another tweet later read: “We are expecting storms within the next 20 minutes. Be prepared for light to moderate rain.”
The Killers and Blink-182 are among the headline acts due to take to the stage on Friday night (04.08.17).

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OHMYGOSSIP — The Who’s entire collection of singles and EPs will be released on a 5-CD boxset titled ‘Maximum As & Bs’.
The ‘My Generation’ rockers – fronted by Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend – have put together all 86 tracks they’ve released on all of their labels, Brunswick, Reaction, Tracks and Polydor, all of their A- and B-sides and all of their EPs for release on October 27.
The boxset kicks off with the singles ‘Zoo Suit’ and ‘I’m the Face’, which were released under the band name the High Numbers, which The Who were called before they released 1979’s ‘I Can’t Explain’.
Their biggest hits including ‘Pinball Wizard’, Won’t Get Fooled Again’ follow with ‘Be Lucky’ from the 2017 compilation ‘Who Hits 50! and a remix of ‘I Can’t Explain’ bring the set to a close.
The iconic group’s ‘Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy’ and the compilation ‘Live at Leeds’ are also set for release on October 27.
Guitar slayer Townshend’s three ‘Scoop’ compilations are also set to be reissued on August 18.
‘Scoop’, ‘Another Scoop’ and ‘Scoop 3’ have been remastered on double CD and include all of the 72-year-old rocker’s demos and outtakes.
Meanwhile, The Who continue their residency at the world famous Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Friday (04.08.17) until August 11.
They are the first ever rock band to perform at The Colosseum music venue since it opened its doors in 2003, and join the likes of Mariah Carey, Sir Rod Stewart, Sir Elton John, and Celine Dion, who have all performed residencies in the past.
The WHo’s ‘Maximum As &Bs Track-listng is as follows:
DISC 1
Zoot Suit
I’m the Face
I Can’t Explain
Bald Headed Woman
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Daddy Rolling Stone
My Generation
Shout and Shimmy
Circles (AKA ‘Instant Party’)
Instant Party Mixture
A Legal Matter
The Kids Are Alright
The Ox
La-La-La Lies
The Good’s Gone
DISC 2
Substitute
Circles
Waltz For A Pig
I’m A Boy
In The City
Disguises
Batman
Bucket T
Barbara Ann
Happy Jack
I’ve Been Away
Pictures Of Lily
Doctor, Doctor
The Last Time
Under My Thumb
I Can See For Miles
Someone’s Coming
Dogs
Call Me Lightning
Magic Bus
Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
DISC 3
Pinball Wizard
Dogs Part Two
The Seeker
Here For More
Summertime Blues
Heaven And Hell
See Me Feel Me / Listening To You
Overture From Tommy
Christmas
I’m Free
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Don’t Know Myself
Let’s See Action
When I Was A Boy
Join Together
Baby Don’t You Do It
Relay
Wasp Man
DISC 4
5:15
Water
Listening To You / See Me Feel Me (Soundtrack Version)
Overture (Soundtrack Version)
Squeeze Box
Success Story
Who Are You
Had Enough
Long Live Rock
My Wife (Live)
5:15 (Soundtrack Version)
I’m One (Soundtrack Version)
You Better You Bet
The Quiet One
Don’t Let Go The Coat
You
DISC 5
Athena
A Man Is A Man
Eminence Front
It’s Your Turn
Twist And Shout (Live
I Can’t Explain (Live)
Bony Maronie (Live)
Join Together (Live)
I Can See For Miles (Live)
Behind Blue Eyes (Live)
Real Good Looking Boy
Old Red Wine
Wire & Glass EP – Side A (5 x tracks)
Wire & Glass EP – Side B – Mirror Door
Be Lucky
I Can’t Explain (2014 Stereo remix)

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OHMYGOSSIP — Warner Bros. Records are inviting fans of The Smiths to share their memories of their favourite track from the band’s LP ‘The Queen Is Dead’.
The iconic British punk band’s seminal 1986 album – which featured the hits ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’ and ‘There is a Light That Never Goes Out’ – spent 22 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number two, and is set to be remastered for release on October 20.
In the run up, the record label are asking people to post images and videos of themselves enjoying the tracks on social media sites such as Instagram and Twitter with the hashtag of the song title.
What’s more, Warner will also release a rare live version of each song from the record on all streaming services – including Spotify and Apple Music – every week until the album is released.
The title track, which has already been released, was recorded at Irvine Meadows, Laguna Hills on August 28, 1986.
Speaking about the record, frontman Morrissey said: “You cannot continue to record and simply hope that your audience will approve, or that average critics will approve, or that radio will approve.
“You progress only when you wonder if an abnormally scientific genius would approve – and this is the leap The Smiths took with ‘The Queen Is Dead.'”
And guitarist Johnny Marr added: “‘The Queen Is Dead’ was epic to make and epic to live.”
Those who purchase the deluxe version will get additional recordings featuring demos, b-sides and alternative versions including, the ‘Live In Boston’ album recorded at the Great Woods Center For The Performing Arts on 5th August 1986, a DVD featuring the 2017 master of album in 96kHz / 24-bit PCM stereo and ‘The Queen Is Dead – A Film By Derek Jarman’.
The rock group – which was also comprised of drummer Mike Joyce and bassist Andy Rourke – broke up under acrimonious circumstances in 1987, and although they have been offered massive money to get back together to play live they’ve never come close to reuniting.
Marr previously revealed “I think we were offered $50 million for three … possibly five shows.”
Relations between the band members has been poor since 1989 when Joyce and Rourke successfully sued Morrissey and Marr to get more than 10 per cent of the group’s royalties.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Madison Beer has dropped her seductive music video for single ‘Dead’ directed by filmmaker to the stars Darren Craig.
Justin Bieber’s protege can be seen ironically rolling around in a roll top bath with rose petals as she calls out a game playing-ex in the promo for her latest single.
Darren – who has worked with the likes of Rihanna, Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Kesha – shot the short film with Madison and her model pal Presley Gerber, who makes a cameo appearance, in Los Angeles.
The 18-year-old hunk is the son of famous model and actress Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber, and has the looks of his 51-year-old mother when she was younger.
The last part of the video sees Madison pour cold water over Presley as she sees him with another girl, but the brunette beauty insists it wasn’t awkward to film the scene as he was a “good sport”.
Speaking about the promo, rising star Madison, 18, said: “I loved making this video!
“The song means so much to me and it’s really exciting to get to bring my vision for it to life.
“Presley is a great friend of mine and it was a blast getting to work together – he was a good sport about that last scene.”
Within hours of being published the video has already surpassed 30,000 views on YouTube.
The video comes after Madison performed three sold-out shows at London’s Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen last month.
The talented star – who can also name Brooklyn Beckham and Anais Gallagher among her famous friends – kicked off each night with ‘Dead’, which was met with great reception with all of her fans singing the lyrics right back at her every night at the intimate concerts.
Madison was catapulted into the spotlight after Bieber spotted her cover of Etta James’ ‘At Last’ on YouTube.
Shortly after the ‘Sorry’ hitmaker got a breath of the video, a ‘Good Morning America’ film crew arrived outside her home, and the rest is history.
Watch the video for ‘Dead’ here:
http://vevo.ly/AVZQ7q

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OHMYGOSSIP — Charli XCX says she spent her birthday designing her coffin.
The ‘Boys’ hitmaker turned 25 on Wednesday (02.08.17) and told her 2.1 million followers that she was signing off the micro-blogging site for the afternoon to come up with the perfect design for the “dream” casket she wants to be buried in.
She wrote on Twitter: “i feel like your 25th birthday is the absolute perfect day to begin designing your cute a*s dream coffin. brb i got ideas (sic)”
The busty brunette has long had a fascination with death and previously said she wants to have a flash “diamanté coffin”.
Even though she is barely 30, the ‘After the Afterparty’ singer has been planning her funeral and in keeping with her unique fashion sense she said she wants to be placed in a box which has been blinged up with sequins and rhinestones.
Charli has also already thought about what song she wants to be played as she is laid to rest and has settled on Britney Spears’ 2004 hit ‘Everytime’.
Posting on Twitter, she previously revealed: “Planning my funeral. what song shall i have played whilst i’m carried out in my diamanté coffin??
funeral song = everytime by britney, duh (sic)”
Britney wrote the ballad with Annet Artani and Annette Stamatelatos and it was a recorded and released as a response to her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake’s 2002 single ‘Cry Me a River’, which was inspired by the couple’s break-up earlier that year.
The lyrics from ‘Everytime’ include: “Everytime I try to fly I fall, without my wings / I feel so small / I guess I need you baby /
And everytime I see, you in my dreams, I see your face / It’s haunting me / I guess I need you baby.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Years & Years’ Olly Alexander and Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke have released a “romantic duet”.
Both frontmen are openly gay and decided to release ‘Grounds For Resentment’ in a bid to break the taboo surrounding musicians in the pop industry who feel they have to use “codes” to talk about their sexuality in songs rather than being straight-talking about same sex relationships.
‘This Modern Love’ hitmaker Kele, 35, says the single – which is featured on his solo LP ‘Fatherland’ – is just the starting point for breaking the barrier down, as he says there is “a long way to go” with regards to homosexual pop stars feeling confident enough to “describe love and desire authentically”.
He told The Guardian newspaper: “I remember reading something that [Olly] wrote about the use of pronouns in pop music for gay artists that I thought that was very perceptive and intelligent – that the use of pronouns was the last frontier for gay artists.
“There are lots of gay acts that avoid using the term he when singing about same sex desire.
“It will just be a neutral term, whereas Olly understands from what I read that there is a long way to go for gay musicians in being able to describe love and desire authentically.
“So I was very happy to sing a romantic duet with him on my album, because I couldn’t think of a precedent of any out gay musicians singing a love song to one another without having to hide behind codes.”
Kele was referring to an interview Olly did previously where he said he’d like to see more mainstream gay stars be more open about their sexuality, and praised pop megastar Miley Cyrus for promoting a “non-binary gender”
He said: “I’d like to hear a gay artist express their sexuality in a really open way. That’s something I’ve sort of tried to do a little bit on this album, but to be able to talk about sex is possibly new for gay artists, so I’d like to see that in the mainstream. I think you’re right – music does feel like it’s in a much more accepted, tolerant place; even with Miley Cyrus, when she doesn’t identify with either gender, and we’re getting used to these ideas of about non-binary gender, which is a good thing.”
‘Grounds For Resentment’ is out now and ‘Fatherland’ is released on October 6.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Robbie Williams feared his pop star was waining when he thought he’d performed to a half-empty arena in Edinburgh.
The ‘Party Like a Russian’ hitmaker has revealed on his recent trip to the Scottish capital for his ‘The Heavy Entertainment Show Tour’ he was being his “cocky” self coming out on stage when he looked up and saw loads of empty seats at Murrayfield Stadium, which seats 67,000 people.
As soon as he’d seen the lack of people in one area of the audience, Robbie panicked and suddenly had visions of having to do reality television because he thought it meant his career was “over”, and went into panic mode for two hours.
Speaking in his latest ‘Vloggie Williams’ video on his official YouTube channel, the 43-year-old singer shared: “I got on stage and turned around cocky with showmanship and looked at a whole section where there was nobody sitting and went: ‘It’s over, the career’s over.’
“Honestly, I had trauma for two hours. I was like, ‘OK right, I’ll go into TV, I’ll do a TV show’, true to God.
“Then we get in the car at Edinburgh and everyone was like, ‘Amazing gig’.
“And they genuinely mean that and in my head I was going, ‘But the tickets and nobody in the thing’…”
It turned out that they weren’t empty seats and in fact the gig-goers who were sat in those chairs had repositioned themselves to get a better view of Robbie.
However, the Angels’ star said even though his manager told him that it still played on his mind.
He continued: “And then Michael said everybody that was sitting in that bit got up and down to the [bottom].
“So there was 31,000 people on the floor, I’d needn’t of bothered.
“But, by that time, you know when you get yourself worked up into something and you find out the truth, but you are still like…”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jonas Blue thinks Justin Bieber owed it to his fans to complete his ‘Purpose World Tour’.
The 23-year-old singer shocked the world when he cancelled the final 14 dates on his extensive 18-month run due to “exhaustion”, and the ‘Perfect Strangers’ hitmaker says while he can relate to the intense “pressure” of long periods on the road, Bieber’s fans – known as Beliebers – are the reason he’s where he is and he should respect.
Jonas – whose real name is Guy Robin – told the Daily Star newspaper: “I can understand it, I’m no way near Justin Bieber in terms of profile, but it is hectic and stressful touring like that.
“Last weekend I was in five countries over two days so the pressure can take its toll.
“However, I also think you have responsibility to your fans as they put you up there in the first place. He’s young but he will be back.”
One Direction star Louis Tomlinson, 25, also agrees with Jonas that the ‘Despacito’ singer should have carried on.
He said recently: “Obviously, you have to be in a good position mentally, but I also think, to a certain degree, when you’re signing up to something, you should see it through.
“There’s never enough that I can say or do for the fans, and honestly, I think people can forget that to be quite honest. The whole game is so exciting and crazy, but at the end of the day, it’s the people who are buying the records that are putting you where you are.”
The 23-year-old pop star took to Instagram on Wednesday evening (02.08.17), to let his fans know he’s taking some time away so he can work on making his “mind, heart, and soul” “sustainable”.
Justin wrote: “Me taking this time right now is me saying I want to be SUSTAINABLE.. I want my career to be sustainable, but I also want my mind heart and soul to be sustainable. So that I can be the man I want to be, the husband I eventually want to be and the father I want to be.
“This message is just an opportunity for you to know my heart, I’m not expecting anyone to understand, but I do want people to have an opportunity to understand where I am coming from! THIS MESSAGE IS IS VERY GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT BUT ITS FROM THE HEART. BUT I ITHINK THERES SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT IMPERFECTIONS!!” (sic)”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sir Paul McCartney plays drums on Foo Fighters’ new album.
The 75-year-old former Beatle has lent his musical talents to the rockers’ upcoming album ‘Concrete And Gold’, as the band – comprised of Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffee, and Nate Mendel – dubbed him as a “great guy”.
Frontman Dave said: “Paul McCartney plays drums on one of our songs. He’s a pal. We’ve known him for a long time. He’s great. He’s the most wonderful person in the world. He’s a great guy.”
Whilst drummer for the ‘Learn To Fly’ hitmakers Taylor said the veteran rocker only took “two takes” to get the beat down perfectly.
He added to ET Canada: “He hadn’t even heard the song. He comes in and Dave picked up and acoustic [guitar] and showed him real quick. He sat on his special drum set that his tech set up for him. I sat there with a drumstick conducting. He did two takes.”
The addition of the ‘Hey Jude’ hitmaker won’t be the only collaboration on the album – which is due out on September 15 – either, as Dave previously teased the band were working with “the biggest pop star in the world”, and has remained tight-lipped about who that could be.
He said: “We have a bunch of guests that we haven’t told anybody about yet, some of them will really surprise you. But there is one, who is probably the biggest pop star in the world, and I’m not kidding, sings back-ups on one of the heaviest songs on the record, and we are not telling anybody who it is.”
Since making the confession, the ‘All My Life’ singer has hinted there are a number of stars it could be including Shania Twain and Lady Gaga, as they were all around the the famous EastWest studios in Los Angeles whilst the band were recording.
He said: “You might have Shania Twain having a record-release party, or the guy from Deep Purple hanging out with Jason Bonham, or Justin Timberlake would be in for a couple of weeks, or Lady Gaga working with these other cats from Nashville. And every so often we’d be like, ‘Hey, wanna come sing some backing vocals?’ and they’d just f**king do it. It was loose and random: everyone was hanging out, drinking whiskey, having a good time. I never went to college, but it’s what I imagine a dormitory’s like.”
‘Concrete and Gold’ is released on September 15 via RCA Records.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gwen Stefani is planning to release a Christmas album.
The ‘Hollaback Girl’ hitmaker has reportedly been working on a selection of new music to drop in the autumn time, so that the catchy singalong songs are ready to wriggle their way into the charts in the run up to the festive season later this year.
A source told ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “Christmas music from Gwen is on the way.”
According to BMI records, the 47-year-old singer has registered a handful of titles for her holiday playlist, including a track she co-wrote with her boyfriend Blake Shelton.
Although details of the LP are being kept tightly under wraps for now, a fan page has managed to get their hands on the five song titles she’s registered, which include ‘Christmas Eve,’ ‘My Gift Is You,’ ‘Under the Christmas Lights,’ ‘When I was a Little Girl’, and ‘You Make It Feel Like Christmas’, so far.
Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time Gwen has teamed up with Blake – who she has been dating since 2015 – as the pair previously worked on the collaboration ‘Go Ahead and Break My Heart’ while they were employed as coaches on ‘The Voice’.
She said at the time: “Anytime I’ve ever collaborated with anyone, it’s always my favourite. But to do something with him — because he’s so talented and comes from such a different world — to make music together, it was just so shocking! So amazing to do it live and share it with everybody.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Brian Wilson was “thrilled” to being his ‘Pet Sounds’ tour to London on Tuesday (01.08.17).
The 75-year-old singer, joined by a top class 10-piece band including his former Beach Boys bandmates Blondie Chaplin and Al Jardine and Al’s son Matt, took to the stage at the city’s Eventim Apollo to perform the 1966 LP, sandwiched by a huge number of other tracks from his extensive back catalogue.
He told the audience: “I’m thrilled to be in London, I love London, you’re such a great audience.”
While Brian’s voice is no longer what it was, he is still more than capable of holding his own from behind the piano, though he now takes Mike Love’s lower parts on the tracks, leaving the higher vocals to Matt.
The 38-song set began with ‘California Girls’, quickly followed by ‘Dance, Dance, Dance’ and ‘I Get Around’, getting all the audience in the mood to dance and sing along.
Long-term Beach Boys fans will have been delighted to hear ‘Let the Wind Blow’, as Brian hasn’t performed it live since 1973, or the equally lesser-known 1965’s ‘Salt Lake City’, taken from the ‘Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)’ LP.
The band propelled through 19 Beach Boys songs before returning to play ‘Pet Sounds’ in full – with ‘God Only Knows’ the highlight of the night – in the running order of the album, before wrapping with a six-track encore of ‘Good Vibrations’, ‘Help Me, Rhonda’, ‘Barbara Ann’, ‘Surfin’ USA’, ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’, and ‘Love and Mercy’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ricky Wilson worries Kaiser Chiefs fans were “scared off” by their last album because it was more a pop record.
The ‘Ruby’ hitmakers love experimenting with different sounds and approaches to recording, but the 38-year-old singer admitted some of their loyal supporters were not thrilled by their October 2016 LP ‘Stay Together’ which they made with producer Brian Higgins, famous for his Xenomania production group that created hits for the likes of Girls Aloud, S Club and The Saturdays.
Speaking to Closer magazine, he said: “We’re in the studio recording and I think there is a lot more to come from us. We’re always working on new music and we’ve made every record in a different way. I did think we might have scared off some of our fans with the pop feel of the last album, ‘Stay Together’.”
Ricky previously revealed he thought ‘Stay Together’ was full of “instant hits”, like ‘Parachute’ and ‘Hole In My Soul’, and he felt they were being true to their original “ethos”.
He said: “We weren’t into making a guitar record this time. We wanted to remember our ethos … When we wrote our first record, all we wanted to do was to play festivals where everyone remembered us. To do that we had to write what sounded to us like instant hits.
“I think somewhere along the way of our career we forgot this is what we love doing. So on this record we’ve gone back to writing songs that when people hear them for the first time they go, ‘I know this and I am enjoying it and don’t care who the band is. I like it.'”
Meanwhile, Ricky admits that he thinks the reason Kaiser Chiefs are still going strong after a decade of making music, is simply because they “have fun”.
The former ‘Voice’ coach said: “We just enjoy it and have fun together. And nothing actually catastrophic has happened to us. We’ve done all right and we are still here and that’s how we will continue. Just seeing what comes next.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Fall Out Boy want to reach lost young people with their new album.
The US rockers will release their seventh LP, ‘Mania’, next month and bassist Pete Wentz is hoping the songs will help “kids” who are looking to “figure themselves out” and let them believe they can fit the world around themselves.
He said: “The world can be a big lonely place, especially for kids who are trying to figure themselves out. I think sometimes we can forget that… that’s who Mania is meant to speak to. That’s who I want to reach. I don’t think that kids should feel like they need to adjust their empathy or selves to the world – I’d rather give them the belief that they can adjust the world to fit their empathy.”
Pete also promised the EDM-influenced ‘Young and Menace’ isn’t indicative of the album as a whole, but the song offered them the chance to do a “hard restart” and do something completely different.
He told Rolling Stone magazine: “It feels like every once in awhile, you’ve gotta do a hard restart that clears the cache and erases the hard drive.
“I think that’s what ‘Young and Menace’ was – a big palette cleanse. I think it gave us the space to create something brand new.”
Pete believe it is important for the band to continue to evolve, rather than just making music that sounds like fan-pleasing classic work.
He said: “I think we have to just move forward – that’s the goal of us (I don’t mean the band; I mean humans) – we just need to evolve.
“No one wants to be who they were two years ago or 10 years ago… it’s great to have that snapshot, but it’s time to hang up your hat when you think your glory days are behind you.
“I think the sound of FOB will always come with us because of the nature of how Patrick sings against the music – it is just inherently there.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — James Bay is determined his new album will “eclipse” his debut record ‘Chaos and the Calm’.
The 26-year-old singer-songwriter enjoyed considerable success with the album in 2015, but James has high hopes for his new material, too.
He explained: “I want the next album to eclipse everything the first album did. I’m really excited about the music that I’m making.”
James’ new album is likely to be released in 2018, and the musician has been making the most of his time in the studio, having spent the last two years on tour.
Although James relished his time on the road, he is loving the challenge of writing new material.
Speaking to Music Week, he shared: “We toured [‘Chaos and the Calm’] for a very long time and I really enjoyed it.
“The only thing that made me feel a bit negative about it towards the end was that I love those songs, but I really wanted to pepper them with new material. So that’s what I’m doing now and I’m having a pretty fantastic time doing it.”
And while James is already missing touring, he said recording new music is a similarly exciting experience.
He explained: “I miss touring. It’s an amazing experience, an amazing adventure. Every day, everything is new. You’re playing to new people win a venue you’ve never seen, in a new town – and every time you wake up, things outside the window are different from how they were before. I do miss it a lot.
“But right now is an equally exciting new journey, making new music. Every time I make new music I always think, I’m going to make a live set out of these new songs soon, and I can’t wait to get on the stage and perform them.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Liam Gallagher believes his brother Noel still holds a grudge from him “p***ing” on his older sibling’s new stereo.
The two brothers and former Oasis bandmates – who have rarely spoken since the group split in 2009 – shared a bedroom when they were younger, and the ‘Wall of Glass’ hitmaker thinks the 50-year-old musician still hasn’t forgiven him for a drunken incident.
Asked where their rivalry began, Liam said: “We shared a bedroom and he’d bought this new soundsystem.
“I’d been out drinking, I was 15, had too many sherries, and I’d come in, and had a spliff as well, the room is spinning, I’d got out of bed, couldn’t find the light switch so thought, ‘F**k it, I’m gonna have to go man’.
“So I whipped it out, p***ed all over his new soundsystem and he’s gone ‘What the f**k are you doing? That’s my f***ing new f***ing stereo?’ ‘It’s alright, it’ll f***ing dry won’t it’. And I think he still holds a grudge from that and that was a long time ago.
“[The stereo] was the holy grail but when you gotta go, you gotta go, I ain’t p***ing in my Paddington Bear pyjamas for no one.”
The 44-year-old singer offered an apology of sorts to his brother, but it’s not surprising Noel didn’t accept.
Asked by US DJ Howard Stern if he’d apologised over the years, he said: “I said listen mate, it was either the soundsystem or your f***ing head, and I know he sleeps with his mouth open, so you take it or leave it my son.”
Despite the tensions between them, the former Beady Eye singer still “loves” his brother but thinks he is “lost in celebrity world” and branded him a “stalker potato”.
He said: “I love our kid, he’s cool, just a bit lost in celebrity world. every time i see him he’s got his arm round a crazy celebrity, it’s like he’s stalking them.”
And asked about his infamous habits of sharing photos of Noel on Twitter and captioning them ‘Potato’, he explained: “Potato, you know what a potato is?
“Every time I see a couple of pictures of him and I just see a potato.
“Maybe it’s just the way my brain is wired – pouting potato, angry potato, stalker potato. When he’s got his arm round Bono, stalker potato.”
The ‘Wonderwall’ singer still holds out hope that Oasis will reunite one day, but knows he and Noel need to repair their relationship first.
He said: “Without a doubt, that’s my band. We’ve got to become brothers first before we can talk about the music, once we start liking each other, inevitable the next step is to take the band around the block for a spin.
“I love Oasis, it’s the best thing ever.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ringo Starr started planning his new album just months after ‘Postcards From Paradise’ was released.
The former Beatles member is due to drop his 19th studio venture ‘Give More Love’ in September, and his long time producer Bruce Sugar has said the team started work on the album shortly after the release of 2015’s ‘Postcards From Paradise’ because the star “likes to plan his life years in advance.”
Bruce said: “It wasn’t long after ‘Postcards’ came out [that we started working on it]. Ringo likes to plan his life years in advance. I think he went on tour after that and then when he got back we started looking at some different ideas.
“We’re real happy with it. Everyone who’s heard it can’t wait till it’s put out there in the universe.”
And Bruce also talked about what it’s like to work with the 77-year-old music icon in the studio, where he claimed the process was very “casual”.
He said: “It’s very casual, especially when it starts out. I just go over to his home studio. And we just play around with some different synth ideas and bring in a few friends of his initially and see if he can get the ball rolling, kind of get a feel for what he wants to do.”
Bruce has high praise for ‘Give More Love’, as he’s even said the record could be the “best music” he’s recorded with Ringo.
Speaking to Billboard magazine, Bruce said: “I think it’s the best music I’ve done with Ringo. I think it’s the best musical album we’ve done. We’ll see what happens.”
‘Give More Love’ is due to be released on September 15.

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