Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at Southside 2015
Photo: Frank Meissner. All rights reserved.
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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have released a new single from the announced “Council Skies” with “Dead To The World”. The melancholic number was created in collaboration with longtime band collaborator Rosie Danvers, who arranged the strings.
“It has this film noir vibe. It’s unlike anything I’ve done before. It’s very melancholic, but I like that,” says Gallagher of his new song. “Rosie understands what I’m doing. Spending a weekend on Abbey Road recording strings… that’s one of the great privileges of a musician’s life. It sounds majestic,” he describes the process of creation.
The lyrics were also created under special circumstances: “When I go to Argentina, I stay in a certain hotel, and the Argentine fans are undoubtedly the best in the world. There are a lot of kids standing in front of the hotel 24 hours a day, replacing each other, and at night they always bring their guitars with them [… ] they were playing Oasis and High Flying Birds songs in the parking lot, and they were singing the wrong lyrics, and I was sitting there with a drink and I was like, ‘Those aren’t the right lyrics,’ and the song came about when I was writing a song wrote about it. One of the lines in the song is: ‘I’ll write you a song, it won’t take long and you can change all the words but you’ll still get them wrong’. That’s how it started, and that became the second verse,” he told BBC Radio 2.
Dead To The World is the third pre-release following Pretty Boy and Easy Now. Council Skies, out June 2, marks the fourth studio album by the former Oasis guitarist’s band.
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