Noel Gallagher.

So, the past few weeks have seen some news about a new Noel Gallagher album.

Honest! It's on the Guardian and stuff (probably the NME too), Mark Coyle said that Noel Gallagher's been in the studio (or is in the studio) and has around 50 (fifty!) tracks to mess around with to make a new album.

Alright I'll stop with brackets now. Hopefully the 'news' is true, as I honestly can't wait to hear some more Noel Gallagher stuff. It's been a while since the last official NG release (Everybody's On The Run single) but since then some stuff has been leaked onto YouTube which were apparently demoes from the NGHFB album and I have to say they are great, if this is the direction NG is going in on his new album then I'm very pleased. I thought NGHFB was experimental but it still had many links to the Oasis era (I mean two of the songs from the album were being bandied about for years before the album was released) and I thought it was a good mix of new stuff and old stuff.

I hope the new album sees a total lack of constraints that may have inhibited NG before... Not that I believe that Noel is sat at home saying "no, it's too different to Oasis, this isn't what the fans want!".

Get yourself on YouTube and find some of these tracks. There's some belters, and if these unreleased demoes are anything to go by the new NG album could be spectacular.

I am also really interested into what happens next with regards to the people in the band, and how they will set up live. I'm not a massive fan of The Zutons so don't know if the bass player will have a year or two off at the end of the year (if we see the album in 2014) or if Tim Smith is available to assist Noel in guitar duties.

Will it still be Noel Gallagher's High Flyin' Birds?

If you're reading this Noel, I'll quite happily play guitar for you! I'll even do it on minimum wage!

Onward!
SJ.