Oasis star Gallagher is Drums For Weller

OASIS star NOEL GALLAGHER is back in the studio as pal PAUL WELLER's drummer. The rocker has swapped for sessions with Weller and the former Style Council star is more than a little impressed with his new percussionist.

Weller said in radio, "He's a nice drummer, I haven't chartered him, he came free. He always keeps it fat and funky, you know, that's how we like it. He's a good all rounder; people don't realise what a good musician he is. He can plays keys, bass, all sorts actually, harmonica, electric kettle, all sorts."

But he insists that you do working with the older Gallagher brother doesn't mean he has less love for singer Liam

Weller adds, "I'd definitely be up for collaborating with Liam and with Noel. I love them both becouse they're both extremely talented in their own ways."

In World Cup for Oasis Argentina’s Messi to Crush Germany

The world’s best soccer player, Argentinean Lionel Messi, is also a committed for Oasis fan. The diminutive striker says he will defeat Germany for Oasis and the Gallagher brothers when Argentina play Germany in the World Cup quarterfinal.
Argentina teammate Carlos Tevez, who plays his club soccer in Oasis’ hometown of Manchester, U.K., turned Messi on to the Gallaghers. “Ever since he has been playing in Manchester, Carlos has told me how great Oasis was. I kept promising I would listen to them, but I never got ’round to it. On the plane on the way to the World Cup, Carlos made me listen to their first two albums.
“I have to say I wasn’t expecting much, but it is some of the best material I have ever heard. They are absolutely amazing.”
Germany eliminated England from the tournament with a controversial 4-1 victory last weekend.
Messi told The Sun, “If they love England as much as they do Manchester City, you can tell them from me I will do everything I can to defeat the team who knocked their beloved England out of the Cup.”
Germany play Argentina on Saturday. The winner will move on to next week’s semifinal ahead of the 2010 World Cup Final on July 11.

Oasis: Oasis Petroleum Advances After Second-Biggest U.S. IPO of 2010

Oasis Petroleum Inc. advanced in its first day of trading after raising $588 million selling shares at the midpoint of its forecast price range in the second biggest U.S. initial public offering this year.
The Houston based drilling and exploration company with oilfields in North Dakota and Montana climbed 6 % to $14.84 at 2:29 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange trading. Oasis Petroleum sold 42 million shares at $14 each, according to a statement yesterday.
The sale came after CBOE Holdings Inc. and BroadSoft Inc. priced offerings within their forecast range this week and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index erased its loss for the year. At least 34 companies worldwide had postponed or withdrawn IPOs since the beginning of May as concern the European debt crisis would curb the global economic recovery sent the S&P 500 down as much as 14 % from its 2010 high.
“The market’s been at least stable, even had a pretty decent move up from its lows,” said Scott Billeadeau, who helps oversee $19 billion at Fifth Third Asset Management in Minneapolis and bought shares of CBOE. “And Oasis was unique. It’s oil exposed and has a seasoned management team.”
Morgan Stanley of New York and Zurich based UBS AG managed Oasis Petroleum’s sale, which was the biggest U.S. deal of 2010 after Sensata Technologies Holding NV’s $654 million offering in March, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The company is backed by EnCap Investments LP, a Houston based private equity firm.
‘Unconventional’ Deposits
Oasis Petroleum focuses on developing and extracting “unconventional” oil and natural gas deposits, according to its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It owns rights to 292,000 acres of land in North Dakota and Montana, 85% of which has not been developed, the filing showed.
The company plans to spend $220 million on drilling and supporting activities in 2010, more than double the $89 million in 2009. Oasis Petroleum said it will use proceeds from the offering to fund its exploration program and repay debt.
The IPO came eight weeks after a rig leased by London based BP Plc exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering the worst oil spill in U.S. history. President Barack Obama on May 27 extended a moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling permits and said yesterday that BP will put $20 billion into a compensation fund.
“What’s happening in the Gulf and the moratorium on offshore drilling, there’s going to be overhang with the deep sea drilling,” said Darren Fabric, managing director at Chicago based IPOX Capital Management LLC.
Relative Value
The IPO valued Oasis Petroleum at 2.19 times net tangible book value, a measure of shareholder equity that excludes assets that can’t be sold in liquidation. That’s 53% higher than the median ratio of 1.43 for 61 oil refining and marketing companies worldwide, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
While Oasis sold shares within its forecast range, Higher One Holdings Inc. cut the size of its IPO by 55 percent yesterday. Motricity Inc. reduced its deal by 40% today, a filing with the SEC showed. The Bellevue, Washington based company will now offer 5.9 million shares at $10 to $11 each.
“Capital markets are very tentative right now,” said Christopher Turner, head of capital markets at New York based private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, which oversees about $30 billion. “Windows are opening and shutting pretty rapidly based on idiosyncratic events and macroeconomic trends.”
Higher One, which processes financial aid payments and provides banking services to college students, raised $108 million yesterday after seeking $242.3 million, data compiled by Bloomberg and an SEC filing showed. The New Haven, Connecticut based company’s sale was managed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
The shares advanced 19% to $14.34 on the NYSE today.
Yale Students
Founded in 2000 by three students at Yale University, Higher One serves more than 650 campuses and about 4.6 million students. The company plans on using the proceeds from the sale to repay debt and fund general corporate expenses, develop new products and for possible acquisitions, its SEC filing showed.
About 88% of Higher One’s revenue in 2009 came from interchange fees, ATM fees, non-sufficient fund fees and other banking fees, according to the filing. The U.S. Senate passed a bill in May that would limit fees generated by debit cards.
“Investors were probably concerned with the pending changes in banking regulation that relates to debit card fees,” said Michael Gaiden, a Chicago based securities analyst at Morningstar Inc. “It’s easy to spook investors in an otherwise new story where there are a lot of unknowns, particularly with market conditions overall being tepid.”
CBOE, the last major U.S. securities exchange owned by its members, surged 12 percent on June 15 after the Chicagobased company completed its transformation into a public company with a $339 million IPO. Gaithersburg, Maryland based BroadSoft fell 7.8 percent yesterday after selling $67.5 million of shares.
Goldman Sachs led CBOE’s sale, while Goldman and Jefferies Group Inc. of New York managed BroadSoft’s IPO.

Oasis Middle students: Create cool hangout

At Oasis Middle School a group of 13 math students dedicated their newly renovated courtyard on Monday.
School's students were bored with the plain, grassy courtyard and took on the task of sprucing it up.
The group of students designed a scale drawing, researched native plants, created a budget and designed a 3-D model to scale on Google SketchUp.
The students came in on a current Saturday to bring their project to life.
“I just hope it would become a popular place to hang out before and after school,” said Justus Pierce, 13. “It actually turned out better than I thought it would.”

Former 'OASIS' Singer Liam Gallagher not happy.

Former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has revealed some of his pet hates about the current British music scene.

Liam Gallagher is an angry man. On the final Oasis tour before the band imploded the singer stood before an entire crowd and insisted they stop clapping so loudly. Apparently he found it distracting.

Since the Manchester giants split last year Liam Gallagher has not shied away from the limelight. Launching his new label Pretty Green the singer has also been telling anyone who will listen his thoughts on British music.

Apparently, it's in a bad way...

Recently Liam Gallagher launched into a rant against Bloc Party labelling the band "students" amongst other insults. Now the one time Oasis icon has unleashed vitriol against a few other targets.

Oasis - Wonderwall HQ (Happy 2010!!! Stay Madferit)

Oasis - Wonderwall HQ (Happy 2010!!! Stay Madferit)

Noel Gallagher announces first post-Oasis solo gigs

Noel Gallagher is set to play his first post-Oasis gigs in March, for the Teenage Cancer Trust.The guitarist will join Arctic Monkeys, Them Crooked Vultures, a reformed Suede, The Who, Depeche Mode and JLS on the line-ups for the charity gigs. They will take place at the London Royal Albert Hall from February 17.

Gallagher will play two gigs at the venue, on March 25 and 26. The Who's Roger Daltrey, whose band play their gig for the series on March 30, told NME that the shows would be the guitarist's only live dates of 2010. For the rest of the line-up dates see below.It was announced last month that Suede would be reforming for their Teenage Cancer Trust show – without original guitarist Bernard Butler.In addition to the gigs, a comedy night will take place at the venue as part of the series on March 23.

The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding, Jimmy Carr and Rhod Gilbert will appear.Tickets for all the shows go on sale at 9am (GMT) on Friday (February 5). See Teenagecancertrust.com for more information.

The Teenage Cancer Trust gigs line-up at the London Royal Albert Hall is:

Depeche Mode (February 17)

Them Crooked Vultures (March 22)

Jimmy Carr, Noel Fielding and Rhod Gilbert (23)

Suede (24)

Noel Gallagher (25, 26)

Arctic Monkeys (27)

JLS (28)

The Who (30

At Port Everglades, Oasis of the Seas wows the crowds as it docks

Oasis of the Seas, larger than life on the ocean's horizon Friday morning, swaggered into Port Everglades, sounding her horn as a crowd of onlookers at John U. Lloyd State Park beach let out a cheer.
``Wow!'' cried one early riser, joining revelers with binoculars and blankets to greet the 225,000-ton megaship. `It's so amazing!'' shrieked another. ``It's huge.''
The world's largest cruise ship was accompanied by a flotilla of small boats and doused by water cannons as she headed into her new home port.
At the park, Marsha Scharf, of Chesterfield, Mo., rubbernecked from the beach and thumbed through a text message on her cellphone. ``TJ says `Can you tell which ship we are?' '' she laughed to her fiancé, Tom Smyka, who stood next to her clicking pictures with a digital camera.
Scharf said her son, Timothy J. Scharf, had sent the text message from onboard the Oasis, where he has been working since August as the IT manager. ``It's his 33rd birthday,'' she said.
Dana Steinberg, a retired merchant marine from Hollywood, arrived early at John U. Lloyd Park Friday to behold the mammoth ship, which has seven neighborhoods, including a Boardwalk reminiscent of Coney Island. The ship has not one, but two rock-climbing walls, an ice-skating rink, and 24 specialty restaurants among an array of entertainment and activities. The ship's theater will feature a 90-minute production of the Broadway hit Hairspray, which the cast has been practicing during the crossing.
``It's the largest in the world,'' Steinberg said. ``I've never actually been on a cruise, but I love ships.''
Joy Rodeberg, 13, played along the beach with her sisters Sarah, 15, and Rebecca, 8, as the Oasis grew larger on the horizon. ``My dad told me about it: It's the world's largest ship,'' said Joy, toting a welcome poster.
The Oasis, carrying crew and construction workers, braved high seas and hurricane force winds in the North Atlantic Ocean, which stretched the journey from its shipyard in Turku, Finland to Fort Lauderdale to 14 days -- two days longer than planned. But Royal Caribbean officials say the giant ship performed excellently in the rough seas.
Now that the ship is in Port Everglades, workers will put the final details on the vessel. Perhaps the biggest job is the installation of some 12,000 shrubs, plants and trees to give Central Park, the first of its kind park-at-sea, a leafy, green ambiance.
Miami based Royal Caribbean plans a private performance by pop singer Rihanna on Nov. 19, followed by a national television debut on ABC's Good Morning America Nov. 20 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.
The ship will sail on several promotional cruises with travel agents, journalists and guests before making its first revenue cruise Dec. 1.
The naming ceremony is slated for Nov. 30 during a fundraiser to benefit the nonprofit Make-A-Wish Foundation, which provides treats to children with life-threatening illnesses. Tickets for the event begin at $750 per person.

Oasis Of The Seas Slips Under Bridge

The world's largest cruise ship, bound for Port Everglades, cleared a crucial obstacle Sunday, lowering its smokestacks to squeeze under a bridge in Denmark. The Oasis of the Seas, which rises about 20 stories high, passed below the Great Belt Fixed Link with a slim margin as it left the Baltic Sea on its maiden voyage to Ft. Lauderdale.Bridge operators said that even after lowering its telescopic smokestacks the giant ship had less than a 2 foot gap. Hundreds of people gathered on beaches at both ends of the bridge, waiting for hours to watch the brightly lit behemoth sail by shortly after midnight local time, or about 7 p.m. EDT."It was fantastic to see it glide under the bridge. Boy, it was big," said Kurt Hal, 56.Officials of Miami based Royal Caribbean Cruise Line are banking that its novelty will help guarantee its success. Five times larger than the Titanic, the $1.5 billion ship has seven neighborhoods, an ice rink, a small golf course and a 750-seat outdoor amphitheater. It has 2,700 cabins and can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 2,100 crew members. Oasis of the Sea, nearly 40 percent larger than the industry's next biggest ship, was conceived years before the economic downturn caused desperate cruise lines to slash prices to fill vacant berths. It is due to make its U.S. debut on Nov. 20 at its home port, Port Everglades.It was built by STX Finland for Royal Caribbean International and left the shipyard in Finland on Friday. Officials hadn't expected any problems in passing the Great Belt bridge, but traffic was stopped for about 15 minutes as a precaution when the ship approached, Danish navy spokesman Joergen Brand said.Aboard the Oasis of the Seas, project manager Toivo Ilvonen of STX Finland confirmed that the ship had passed under the bridge without any incidents."Nothing fell off," he said.Accommodations include loft cabins, with floor-to-ceiling windows, and 1,600-square-foot (487-meter) luxury suites with balconies overlooking the sea or promenades. The liner also has four swimming pools, volleyball and basketball courts, and a youth zone with theme parks and nurseries for children.It's inaugural voyage is set for December 5th from Port Everglades, where it will sail to St. Thomas, St Maarten, and Nassau. A particular 4 night preview voyage to Royal Caribbean's resort in Labadee, Haiti will sail December 1. The enormous ship features various "neighborhoods" — parks, squares and arenas with special themes. One of them will be a tropical environment, including palm trees and vines among the total 12,000 plants on board. They will be planted after the ship arrives in Fort Lauderdale. In the stern, a 750-seat outdoor theater — modeled on an ancient Greek amphitheater — doubles as a swimming pool by day and an ocean front theater by night. The pool has a diving tower with spring boards and two 33-foot (10-meter) high-dive platforms. An indoor theater seats 1,300 guests.One of the "neighborhoods," named Central Park, features a square with boutiques, restaurants and bars, including a bar that moves up and down three decks, allowing customers to get on and off at different levels.Once home, the $1.5 billion floating extravaganza will have more, if less visible, obstacles to duck: a sagging U.S. economy, questions about the consumer appetite for luxury cruises and criticism that such sailing behemoths are damaging to the environment and diminish the experience of traveling.

Scenes from a Party, Oasis of the Seas

Oasis tonight big event of the Seas was a gala dinner in the Opus Dining Room, where photographer/reporter Teijo Niemela curses that the lamb chops served were the best he's had in years. Then the party moved out onto the Royal Promenade. What's fun about this series of photographs is that it shows the ship in what presumably will be its more natural state -- lots of people out and about, noshing, drinking, having fun. Since it's dark at this point (and let's be honest, it's fall in Finland, which means it's also a bit cold at night), the events focused on indoor spaces aboard Oasis of the Seas. Stay tuned tomorrow for more of Niemela's shots from his tour of the ship earlier on Thursday.