Monday 2 March 2015

Sunday 22 February 2015

NGHFB Live Rarities Compilation *INCLUDES UPGRADES*

Hello all,

In anticipation of the new tour, I've been revisiting the live shows for the previous album. It struck me that a number of tracks were played live, but not included in the official DVD. Also, a number of tracks were in relatively poor quality, so I've attempted to upgrade them by combining multiple sources (known as a 'matrix' recording). If you'd like to find out a bit more about that, then there's more info about the process I used HERE, but for now, here's the compilation:

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Live Rarities
01. Lord Don't Slow Me Down (audience matrix) - TCT 23/3/13
02. Shout It Out Loud  (audience matrix) - TCT 23/3/13
03. Idler's Dream (audience matrix) - Houston 9/11/12
04. Digsy's Dinner (audience matrix) - TCT 23/3/13
05. Fade Away (audience matrix) - TCT 23/3/13
06. A Simple Game of Genius (audience matrix) - TCT 23/3/13
07. Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me (Soundboard) - Buenos Aires 6/5/12
08. Alone On The Rope (Soundboard) - TCT 23/3/13
09. D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman? (Soundboard) - Dingwalls 14/8/12
10. Angel Child (Soundboard) - Dingwalls 14/8/12
11. Don't Look Back In Anger ACOUSTIC (Soundboard) - Dingwalls 14/8/12

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.sendspace.com/file/oxe9sy

Sources for 'matrix' recordings:
01: johnky and welshylad audio, plus 2 x Youtube (Christoffer Ordahl, nshinyaeva)
02: johnky and welshylad audio, plus 2 x Youtube (Christoffer Ordahl, talktonight27) 
03: 3 x Youtube (DCRANGERFAN, Gujagon15, fadingaway94)
04. johnky and welshylad audio, plus 1 x Youtube (theeckoro)
05. johnky and welshylad audio, plus 1 x Youtube (concertslive)
06. johnky and welshylad audio, plus 1 x Youtube (blue_velvet)

Thanks to all the tapers as this would obviously have been impossible without all their combined efforts!

TWB.


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FUTURE UPDATE NOTES:

SOURCES TO BE UPGRADED/UPDATED:

Digsy's Dinner was played at Paris Zenith gig in 2015 so will be upgraded to soundboard once the FLAC becomes available
- Fade Away does have a 2013 XFM/TCT Soundboard source, albeit one that's hard to get hold of - I'm trying to track it down to upgrade the collection. Alternatively, soundboard now exists from 2015 Paris Zenith gig too.

Both the above may no longer be needed in this compilation if they remain on the setlist and receive an official release on the next Tour DVD (assuming they release one, obviously)

This leaves the only tracks without Soundboard sources as: Lord Don't Slow Me Down, Shout It Out Loud, Idler's Dream, A Simple Game of Genius. For now, the best available sources of all four tracks remain my Matrix edits, included in the above compilation.


2015 TOUR NOTES:
Tracks that WERE on the setlist at some point, but got removed (as at 13/3/15) and so have no soundboard source for this tour:
(It's Good) To Be Free (2nd Feb) - a recording was released on O2 DVD, so not needed
- Alone On The Rope (3rd March) - 2013 XFM soundboard recording exists, so not needed
Shout It Out Loud (3rd and 4th March) - available audience recordings do not offer upgrade on my matrix recording, so no upgrade to be had here

Until (if) a 2015 Tour DVD is released, there thankfully ARE soundboard recordings of all the other new additions to the setlist not mentioned above, from the March 2015 Paris gig:
- Riverman
- In The Heat Of The Moment
- Lock All The Doors
- The Dying Of The Light
- The Mexican
- You Know We Can't Go Back
- Ballad of the Mighty I
- Do The Damage
- Champagne Supernova
- The Masterplan
- BONUS: The Dying Of The Light (acoustic version from radio appearance)

Sunday 15 February 2015

Finally - an update!

After almost 3 years, I've finally got round to updating the site. In anticipation of the release of Chasing Yesterday, I've given things a tidy up - the previous site was unmanageable in terms of updates, given my latest availability, so hopefully this'll become a more manageable overview of Noel/High Flying Birds' body of work...

For now, I've updated the discography and links on the right side-bar, and updated video playlists for official videos (top of page) and remixes/unreleased tracks (bottom of page). I've removed links to the sections I'll struggle to manage, but the Noel-era Oasis stuff is still there.

TWB.

Saturday 3 March 2012

Noel's Oasis-Era Solo Works

That section of the site's been tidied up, and all links checked, so anything that'd been taken down should now be available again.

If you spot anything missing/deleted, let me know.