CallumsBlog: Chasing Yesterday

"Chasing Yesterday" By Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Post 3
10/3/15



"Chasing Yesterday" is the 2nd album of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and is currently (as of writing this blog) the fastest selling album of 2015.
The album was announced on the 13th October 2014 with the debut single from the album "In The Heat of The Moment" released on the 23 October 2014 with the accompanying music video released the same day.

It was the follow-up album to The High Flying Birds first album which like this album was released to immediate praise as well as taking the number 1 spot in the UK album charts. 

The second single released from the album was "Ballad of the Mighty I" Gallagher has said he personally believes this particular track is one of the best tracks he has ever made and says the track was massively helped with the input he received from Johnny Marr who is formerly the guitarist for The Smiths and both Marr and Gallagher have been awarded NME Magazines "God like genius award".


Personally my favourite song off of the album is "Lock all the doors". It is just blaring with excitement and personality from start to finish. Lyrically the song is far from Gallagher's best work, however musically the intro to the song is an immediate crowd pleaser and I cannot wait until I see the band perform this song when they headline the T in the Park festival in July as the passion and energy coming from the song will send the crowd into a frenzy.

Chasing Yesterday from start to finish is an incredible album from the huge guitar riffs in "Lock all the doors" to the slower more emotional songs such as "The dying of the light" the album never wavers in quality. Gallagher has once again managed to exceed expectations just like he did with the bands self titled debut album and he has been rewarded for it with yet another number 1 album.

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Callum

CallumsBlog: The T in the Park 2015 Lineup

Post 2
3/3/15

T IN THE PARK LINEUP

After seeing The View had been announced for this years festival I finally caved and decided it was time to write up my opinion on this years line-up. The past couple of years have been tough for me at T in the park as the lineups have been really very weak when compared to other summer music festivals. Calvin Harris headlining 2 years in a row infuriated me to the point I near bored people to death with my huge rants about how the festival was becoming unoriginal and had ran dry of ideas however this year the festival seems to be revitalised with the move from Balado to Strathallan. The line-up with a couple of exceptions (Avicii and David Guetta as headliners! Really?) this year is incredible to say the least many of my personal favourite bands such as Kasabian, St. Vincent, Jamie T, Peace, Alabama Shakes and of course Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (Who's new album will be reviewed in a future blog post!)
The Libertines were the first band announced for the festival this year which didn't massively excite me or get me hugely hopeful that the festival would go back to it's glory days as I had seen The Libertines previously at the Barrowlands and was far from impressed by them and with the festival circuit this year they seemed like they were simply going to be an obvious and easy announcement just like the Arctic Monkeys were at T and most other festivals last year.

Kasabian being announced sent me sky rocketing! I was finally getting to see the band who's live performances had evaded me ever since the release of West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum and I just could not have been any happier or so I thought. Zane Lowe (who was announcing the line-up on his 7 PM Radio 1 show) announced that closing T in the Park this year would be Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. I was certain he would have been playing this year but I could never have predicted that he would have been headlining the festival but of course being a Gallagher brother and in my opinion the far superior Gallagher brother, he obviously has the power to draw in huge crowds. Noel's incredible solo material is what will largely draw the crowd to his performance but of course it has a huge part to do with Noel being part of the band Oasis.

So in conclusion T in the park might finally be going back to being a festival to be reckoned with and I can't wait until it does!

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Callum