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The Brit Awards will feature Hollywood actor Johnny Depp on stage to present Oasis with their special achievement award.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star is a friend of Noel Gallagher, who will receive the gong for Outstanding Contribution to Music along with other band members. Previous recipients of the award include U2, The Beatles and Paul Weller.

Johnny was introduced to Noel by their then girlfriends Kate Moss and Meg Mathews and Johnny went on to play guitar on Fade In-Out, a song on the number one Oasis album Be Here Now.

A Brits source said: "This year it's going back to being broadcast live so the organisers have gone for huge names to spice it up."

Oasis refused to allow the Brits to use any footage of their videos at last year's ceremony because they were rumoured to be upset that they had not been chosen for the Best Band category.

But the special award will build bridges between the Brits and Oasis, giving them the recognition they missed out on previously.

Next year's spectacular will be opened by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on Valentine's Day and will be hosted by Russell Brand and Fearne Cotton

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Kasabian played one of their biggest indoor shows ever tonight (December 19) in London.

The Leicester four-piece played a 90-minute set to a massive audience at Earl's Court as they rolled off hits from their 2004 debut and their Number One album 'Empire'.

Kicking off the set with instrumental 'Brown Acid', singer Tom Meighan eventually arrived onstage dressed in a long black trench coat for glam stomper 'Shoot The Runner'.

The band then performed the likes of 'Processed Beats', 'Reason Is Treason', 'The Last Trip' and 'Sunrise/Light/Flies'.

The show, which was watched by Oasis band leader Noel Gallagher, also saw guitarist Serge Pizzorno and drummer Ian Matthews perform an acoustic rendition of 'British Legion'.

Later in reference to Oasis' Earl's Court shows in the autumn of 1995, Meighan told the crowd as he launched into 'The Doberman': "I'm not often lost for words but tonight I am. We were here over 10 years ago and we wanted to be in a rock n roll band. If it wasn't for the likes of Noel and Liam Gallagher we wouldn't be here now. If you wanna be in a rock n roll band it will happen. You will have your time!"

There was a rare outing for 'Aponoea' which resulted in the frontman changing the words to 'A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop bam boo' from Little Richard classic 'Tutti Frutti'.

Rounding off the show with 'LSF' a visibly moved Meighan added: "This has been the best gig we have ever done, I swear to God. Merry Chrismas and a Happy New Year. We'll see you at Glastonbury yeah."

Kasabian played:

'Brown Acid'
'Shoot The Runner'
'Reason Is Treason'
'Sunrise/Light/Flies'
'Cutt Off'
'Me Plus One'
'By My Side'
'Empire'
'Seek And Destroy'
'British Legion'
'Processed Beats'
'The Last Trip'
'The Doberman'
'Apoena'
'Club Foot'
'Stuntman'
'L.S.F.'


source: NME.com

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Hearing an acoustic, solo Noel Gallagher perform his band's magnum opus, Wonderwall, it was hard not to wish he'd sung it in the first place. Of course, it was his brother Liam - the surly one - who belted the Cool Britannia anthem out in his usual unmeasured style on the the 1995 Oasis release (What's The Story) Morning Glory?. (It was great, of course. Liam Gallagher has never been one of England's most technically proficient vocalists, but he is one of the most compelling.)

In the hands of its writer Noel - the curmudgeonly one - the song might not have had the energetic angst of the record, but it had light, shade and nuance and it was apparent the song actually meant something to its composer.

The feeling was typical of Noel Gallagher's performance during an intimate gig in Melbourne recorded for MTV's Live At The Chapel series on Monday night. The gig was held before Gallagher's sold-out show at Enmore Theatre in Newtown on Wednesday night.

Accompanied by Oasis guitarist Gem Archer and percussionist Terry Kirkbridge, Gallagher performed a handful of Oasis hits as well as a whole lot of B sides with which only fans, or those in possession of the recently released Oasis best of, Stop The Clocks, might be familiar.

Introducing the Kinks-esque 2005 British hit The Importance Of Being Idle, Gallagher called it the "last great song I wrote" with a wistfulness that provided a deliciously voyeuristic insight into the psyche of the loudmouth as artiste.

No such intro for Talk Tonight, the gorgeous B side of the hit Some Might Say. But Gallagher's delicate (yes, delicate) performance of a song containing the lyrics "I wanna talk tonight ... 'bout how you saved my life" left a lingering sense of his vulnerability and not just a whiff of boyish charm.

Gallagher hadn't gone completely soft though. A few choice digs at his favourite sources of derision, brother Liam and Robbie Williams, kept his motormouth rep well intact. His taped performance, Noel Gallagher At Vodafone Live At The Chapel, will screen on MTV December 26.

source: Sun Herald

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