Noel Gallagher has suggested there may be no new Oasis album for at least five years, in an interview with Q.

The guitarist – who spoke to Q for the new edition on sale on April 28 – revealed that in the meantime he is planning a solo album when the band finish touring their current record, Dig Out Your Soul. Gallagher said he had built up a stockpile of tunes that date back to the Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants-era of the band in 2000.

“I’ve got a lot of songs lying around and some of them are really great,” says Gallagher. “But they’re not Oasis songs. They’re going to sit there and do nothing, so hopefully at the end of this tour I’m going to go and do something for myself.”
Gallagher’s solo plans will result in an extended gap between Oasis albums.

“The last three albums have been three years in between,” he says, “but I see it as likely to be longer this time. We’ve arrived at the point I wanted to be at from when Gem [Archer] and Andy [Bell] joined the band. And the last time we did that was at the end of Be Here Now, and we rushed the next album [Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants]. There was no inspiration on it. Even before the end of making each Oasis album, I’ve always started writing the next one, and I haven’t this time. I don’t
want to force it.”

He added: “By the time we make another record we’ll be five years older.”

Gallagher has performed solo in the past, most notably for a Teenage Cancer Trust show at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2007; a set that is now available for download from iTunes. He insists that the break will do Oasis good and hopes the other members will also work on their own side-projects.

“It’d be really interesting for fans of the band to see how each individual makes up the whole,” he says. “I don’t think it’ll affect what Oasis do. Liam, on the other hand, will f***ing freak out.”

Noel revealed that his relationship with his brother is still fractious – and that Liam has never met his nephew Donovan, Noel and his partner Sara MacDonald’s son. “He’s never seen my little lad, just pictures," Noel said. "To a stranger it sounds ludicrous, but you wouldn’t have him in the house if he spoke to you the way he speaks to me and my family.

“He’s rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy. He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”

Oasis will begin a UK tour on 4 June at Manchester’s Heaton Park, and have been announced as one of the V Festival headliners on 22 and 23 August (playing Staffordshire and Cheltenham respectively).

For the full interview, read the new edition of Q on sale on April 28. You will also be able to read extra material from the interview - and see behind the scenes photos and video from our photoshoot - at qthemusic.com from the same date.

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Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour rolls into London this weekend with sold-out shows set to take place at the O2 Arena and The Roundhouse. His forthcoming album, Together Through Life (4 stars says MOJO), is released on Monday (April 28) and follows Time Out Of Mind, "Love And Theft" and Modern Times into Dylan's gallery of late-period classics.

MOJO is delighted to announce that we have an exclusive pair of money-can't-buy tickets up for grabs for Bob's show at the Roundhouse on Sunday (April, 26).

The winner will be notified on Friday (April, 24). Tickets will need to be collected from the Roundhouse box office on Sunday afternoon.

So, to be in with a chance of witnessing Dylan's most intimate UK show in years, please send the correct answer to the following question to Editor@mojo4music.com before 12pm on Friday.

Which of these is not a track on the new Dylan album?

a) Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
b) Talkin' Alicia Keys Won't Return My Calls Blues
c) I Feel A Change Comin' On

For more on all things Bob, head over to www.bobdylan.com

The Freewheelin' Terms & Conditions

• No prizes can be traded or exchanged for a cash alternative
• Closing date for this competition is 12pm on April 24, 2009
• All entrants are responsible for including correct contact details
• The judges' decision is final and no negotiation or debate will be entered into.
• All winners will be notified by email.
• This competition is open to all UK readers, except employees and associates of Bauer and their families.

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'Terrible' Ted Nugent left his loincloth, crossbow and buffalos behind when he reunited with his old band The Amboy Dukes at last week's Detroit Music Awards to receive a Distinguished Achievement Award.

Although the Dukes were semi-famous for synapse-altering musical excursions such as 1968's Journey To The Center Of The Mind (see the classic video below), the Tedster, well-known for his right-wing views, was thrilled to get word of the honor.

Time to celebrate good times

"This is a great moment to celebrate," Nugent said prior to the event. "I got the word about [the award] and said, 'Well, of course it must be done. It's as proper as tomorrow's sunrise.' I immediately reached out to John [Brake, vocalist] and Andy [Solomon, keyboards and saxophone] and started tracking down people."

Nugent, who formed The Amboy Dukes in Chicago in 1964, then moved them back to his native Detroit four years later, called the outfit "the world's greatest garage band. We were part of that original fist of Detroit music. My brain is jam-packed with stimulating memories."

Speaking of stimulating memories, what of The Dukes' Top 20 hit, Journey To The Center Of The Mind? What does the Motor City Madman think of its, uh, hallucinogenic origins?

"I didn't have the faintest idea," Nugent said. "I thought, 'journey to the center of the mind' - yeah, it's good to be reflective."

Check out Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes performing Baby Please Don't Go last week at the Detroit Music Awards.

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A FORMER Procol Harum member continued his legal battle to claim royalty rights to their most famous song.

Organist Matthew Fisher took his royalties appeal to the to London's House of Lords yesterday (23Apr09) after a lengthy dispute over the publishing credits.

Fisher argued he had co-written the band's hit song A Whiter Shade of Pale and should be entitled to royalties as a result. He lost a legal battle against frontman Gary Brooker last year, after an appeals court handed the singer full royalty rights.

Fisher is now appealing against the ruling at the highest level, and hopes the case will finally be resolved, because it has caused him so much anguish over the years.

And he admitted he now regrets ever joining the band because the long-running legal battle with his former bandmates has "crippled" him.

He said, "Gary's built a career out of taking credit for my work - or that's how it seems to me. I wish I'd never met Keith (Reid, lyricist) and him. I wish I'd never written that tune and I wish I'd never joined the band.

"I wished I'd gone and done something else, because I was good and I would have succeeded if I'd been in a band who appreciated me. Instead, this eating away at me all those years crippled me. It acted as a death blow to my confidence."

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Nirvana's legendary Reading Festival gig in August 1992 was recorded and is now to be released on DVD on May 4.

The live DVD 'Life Takes No Prisoners' captures the band performing 27 tracks including covers of the "Star Spangled Banner" and Boston's "More Than A Feeling".

The festival set saw front man Kurt Cobain come onstage wearing a hospital gown in a wheelchair.

'Life Takes No Prisoners' full track listing is:

'The Rose'/ 'Intro'
'Breed'
'Drain You'
'Aneurysm'
'School'
'Sliver'
'In Bloom'
'Come As You Are'
'Lithium'
'About A Girl'
'Tourette's'
'Polly'
'Lounge Act'
'More Than A Feeling'/'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
'On A Plain'
'Negative Creep'
'Been A Son'
'All Apologies'
'Blew'
'Dumb'
'Stay Away'
'Spank Thru'
'Love Buzz'
'The Money Will Roll Right In'
'D-7'
'Territorial Pissings'
'The Star Spangled Banner'

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Pink Floyd, the band behind Dark Side of the Moon, one of the best-selling albums in music history, have filed a lawsuit against EMI, claiming the private equity-backed firm has miscalculated royalty payments.

The unprecedented legal claim is a glimpse at the fraught relationship between EMI, under the ownership of Guy Hands's Terra Firma, and some of the label's leading acts. The new owner's arrival in 2007 was blamed for the departure of acts such as Radiohead and Paul McCartney.

Terra Firma acquired stock market-listed EMI for just over £4bn, saddling it with £2.5bn of debt in the process. Hands, who became chairman, quickly moved to cut costs.

Industry insiders suggest the legal action is likely to have flared up amid routine three-yearly negotiations over royalty payments.

Pink Floyd, who signed with EMI in 1967, have been one of EMI's most lucrative signings. In the last 25 years their back catalogue has only been outsold by that of the Beatles.

EMI and Pink Floyd declined to comment.

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