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Chelmsford’s makeshift headliners happy to fill in ‘for best crowd ever’

Snow Patrol covered Oasis on the final night (August 23) of V Festival 2009 at Chelmsford, after they had to fill in as headliners for the illness-stricken band.

Gary Lightbody’s men topped the bill after Liam Gallagher caught viral laryngitis.

To make-up for their absence, the group covered ‘Wonderwall‘ and ‘Champagne Supernova‘ acoustically during their encore, with frontman Lightbody declaring: “The mighty Oasis should be here tonight!”

Snow Patrol had discovered that despite boos greeting news of Oasis’ cancellation earlier in the day, they were warmly received as headliners by the V Stage crowd.

“Already you’re one of the best crowds we’ve ever played to,” Lightbody declared after just two songs. “It’s a dark, dark time but we’ll try to shed some light on it.”

Later the band dedicated ‘Run‘ to Elbow, who had played just ahead of Snow Patrol. Lightbody declared them “a national treasure”.

Enjoying loud crowd sing-a-longs throughout their set, ‘Shut Your Eyes‘ saw the band play the halves of the V Stage arena off against the other with a series of shout outs.

Following the Oasis covers, Snow Patrol completed their encore with their own ‘Tiny Little Fractures‘ and ‘You’re All I Have‘.

Snow Patrol played:

‘If There’s A Rocket Tie Me To It’
‘You Could Be Happy’
‘Hands Open’
‘Spitting Games’
‘How To Be Dead’
‘Somewhere There’s A Clock Ticking’
‘Set The Fire To The Third Bar’
‘Make These Go On Forever’
‘Run’
‘Shut Your Eyes’
‘Chasing Cars’
‘It’s Beginning To Get To Me’
‘Take Back The City’
‘Open Your Eyes’
‘Wonderwall’
‘Champagne Supernova’
‘Tiny Little Fractures’
‘You’re All I Have’

Taking the top spot on the 4Music Stage Keane also compensated for Oasis’ absence by covering ‘Cast No Shadow‘ acoustically.

The trio thanked fans for choosing to see them over the other headline acts. “We’re immensely proud of every single one of you,” declared frontman Tom Chaplin as they played a set including ‘Everybody’s Changing‘, ‘Spiralling‘ and ‘You Don’t See Me‘ which Chaplin admitted was his favourite Keane song, asking the crowd to hold up lighters and phones and light the place up “like a Christmas tree”.

Quelle: nme.com

Don’t believe the uncouth!

Rock’s new school have hit back at OASIS after their controversial NME cover story.

In our recent interview with the band, who are on the comeback trail with new album ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’, the Gallagher brothers rubbished the vast majority of Britpop’s next generation.

Talking about Keane, Noel said: “Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don’t need to say anything else.”

But Keane pianist Tim Rice-Oxley slammed Noel, telling NME.COM: “The biggest twats in a band? We don’t really care. I think he’s a c*** to be honest. He was in a band that was very brilliant in the mid-nineties and now they’re just not important anymore. No-one really cares.”

Responding to Liam’s diss that they looked like “a band off University Challenge,” Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack told NME.COM: “I used to buy NME in the nineties when Oasis were in their prime and the reason I bought it was ‘cos Liam Gallagher would say something stupid and funny every week. However, I thought that was really poor, that was the same thing he said about Travis and Coldplay. I’m throwing down the gauntlet because we don’t hate Oasis but I want a nice insult.”

However, Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson wasn’t so phased to be branded “a bad Blur” who “wear make-up”, beaming: “I was chuffed to bits. To even occupy space in Liam’s mind so he’d open his mouth about us is a compliment. He had a go for me wearing make-up, but the only reason I ever wore make-up was to look like him. It’s hard to get that dark, swarthy look in your eyes when you’re a ginger.”

Quelle: nme.com

OASIS frontman Liam Gallagher helps girlfriend Nicole Appleton take home the weekend shopping – but we reckon the singer will go off his trolley when he hears what the latest rash of Brit bands think of him and brother Noel.

The Mancunians recently mouthed off at new groups branding Keane “tw*ts”, the Kaiser Chiefs “a bad Blur” and The Paddingtons “f***in’ awful”.

Now the bands have hit back. Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley told this week’s NME: “Noel’s a c***. He was in a band that was very brilliant in the mid-90s but now they’re just not important any more.”

Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson said of Liam: “He had a go at me for wearing make-up. I only wore it to look more like him.” And Josh Hubbard, guitarist with The Paddingtons, hisses: “Noel’s a genius but what does his fat, toothless vocalist know about youth culture?” Seconds out, round three…

Quelle: mirror.co.uk