Noel Gallagher speaks human words about some music

Noel Gallagher is set to release his first material since the demise of Oasis, with a debut solo album due out this year.

The one-time Russell Brand sidekick will release Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds in October through his own Sour Mash Records. A second, “companion” album will follow in 2012.

The album represents his first recorded material since the collapse of his former band, which is now widely expected to hit the reunion circuit when the younger Gallagher brother begins struggling to keep up the mortgage repayments on his portfolio of parka-hawking clothes shops.

The first album, comprising ten new tracks, features a guest appearance from the Crouch End Festival Chorus, while the second is the product of a collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous.

High Flying Birds’ instrumentation also ominously includes an electric kettle – an addition which Gallagher cites as evidence that the record is “fucking far out.”

In an expertly catered press conference in Notting Hill, an area known for its slavish adherence to bands broadly derivative of The Beatles, Gallagher said: “I’m going out to get a new kettle this afternoon, actually. Mine’s fucked. Too much…what’s it called? Limescale.”

A relaxed Gallagher told reporters he places little importance on the record’s commercial success. “I suppose it depends how much this kettle costs, really,” he added, as a life-size effigy of his brother swung gently from a makeshift gallows behind him.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds is out 17 October on Sour Mash, with a tour beginning in Dublin on 23. The tracklisting is as follows:

Everybody’s On The Run
Dream On
If I Had A Gun…
The Death Of You And Me
(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine
aka What A Life!
Solider Boys and Jesus Freaks
aka Broken Arrow
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Stop The Clocks

Photo via Will Fresch.