To celebrate the release of their fantastic new album Heathen Chemistry this summer Oasis will be touring Japan in September and October . They are bringing their incredible live show to the following cities:

26th Sept Tokyo, Yoyogi Taiikukan
28th Sept Tokyo, Yoyogi Taiikukan
29th Sept Tokyo, Yoyogi Taiikukan
1st Oct Fukuoka, Kokusai Center
2nd Oct Osaka, Osaka Castle Hall
3rd Oct Osaka, Osaka Castle Hall
5th Oct Sendai, Miyagi-ken Taiikukan
7th Oct Hiroshima, Sun Plaza
8th Oct Nagoya, Rainbow Hall

S: 7,000YEN, A: 6,500YEN (all reserved seat)

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According to Sony Music Japan, Japanese Album has one exclusive track on. The song title hasn't announced yet.

Oasis' record label Sony have created a series of special Oasis 'microsites' for the band's fans around the world. The sites in;

Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Holland
Italy
Spain
USA

MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2002 took place at Tokyo International Forum last night. Oasis won the Best Live Performance. They also performed The Hindu Times. It could've been a long time for them because of MTV 's bad preparation. The Award made too slow progress, It was Just over the midnight when Oasis appeared on stage.

Noel Gallagher has reignited his war of words with Robbie Williams claiming the pop star is "the biggest fake he's ever met".

The Oasis man - who famously described Robbie as "the fat dancer from Take That" - said he'd like to "kick him down the stairs a couple of times."

"I think Robbie is a very very misguided, easily led, stupid, foolish young individual, who'd definitely benefit from a slapping," Gallagher said in the latest issue Now magazine.

"I'd probably kick him down the stairs a couple of times, not that I'm a violent person," he continued. "I think he needs to be held down by people in white coats and slapped around the face for half an hour. Robbie's the biggest fake ever and yet he thinks he's Elvis."

Noel also said watching Robbie's recent tour documentary 'Nobody Someday' made him want to vomit.

Oasis release their new single 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' on June 17.

Here is the Setlist of MTV The Super Dry Live @Zepp Tokyo, Japan. It was brilliant show! Oasis headlined this premium event and performed some songs from Heathen Chemistry. Surprisingly, They played D'you Know What I Mean?. I didn't expected that really. Liam said 'We're back in September!' so, Japan Tour will be on September.

[Setlist] - I think it's correct.

1. The Hindu Times
2. Hung In A Bad Place
3. Better Man
4. Force Of Nature
5. Little By Little
6. WhateveriNoel Acousticj
7. D'you Know What I Mean?
8. Some Might Say
9. My Generation

LIAM GALLAGHER draws the line when it comes to singing about NAZIS, NME.COM can reveal. Following last week's exclusive story that Liam was guest vocalist on the title track of Death In Vegas' forthcoming 'Scorpio Rising' LP, NME.COM has learned that he baulked at singing some of the lyrics as they were originally written because they alluded to "the Fuhrer".

Noel Gallagher told NME.COM this week: "Liam's weird about that kind of thing He's like going to me, 'I'm not too sure about some of these lyrics'. And I'm going, 'Look just go down there and tell them. You're in the biggest band in the fookin' country. Just go in there and tell them. Do what you do here, you fucking arrogant little twat.'"

Death In Vegas's Richard Fearless confirms that Liam refused to sing the lines. He said: "The actual lines I wrote first were, "Harrison murals on the corner/Insane men preaching the fuhrer', because we found this Nazi selling memorabilia on the street and preaching. Liam didn't want to sing about the Fuhrer, though. He was, like, 'I get where you're coming from, but I'm not doing it'."

'Scorpio Rising' is due for release in September. For more on this story, see this week's NME, which is out now.

According to CD NOW, Here is the track listing to Heathen Chemistry.

1. The Hindu Times
2. Force of Nature
3. Hung in a Bad Place
4. Stop Crying Your Heart Out
5. Songbird
6. Little by Little
7. A Quick Peep(Instrumental)
8. Probably All in My Mind
9. She Is Love
10. Born on a Different Cloud
11. Better Man

According to J-wave (Japanese FM Radio Station), Oasis arrived Japan safely yesterday and Noel enjoyed shopping at Harajuku, Shibuya and Shinjuki in Tokyo.

Oasis continue their much-trumpeted revival with the release of the second new single 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out', from their new album 'Heathen Chemistry'.

Click on the link above to watch the video in full and see a resplendent Liam looking every itch the rock n'roll star.

Following their recent return with 'The Hindu Times', Noel, Liam, Andy, Alan and Gem prove there's still plenty of life left in Oasis. With the epic quality of 'Champagne Supernova', 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' is set to become one of the anthems of the summer.

Oasis have now assembled a mouth-watering series of summer shows before they head out to North America in August and return for the hometown gigs on September 14 and 15 in Manchester.

> Stop Crying Your Heart Out Video

The European gigs in full:

June
17th Lyon, Transbordeur
19th Barcelona, Razzmatazz
21st Modena, Vox Club
24th Berlin, Columbiahalle
26th Stockholm, Circus
29th Belfast, Odyssey Arena
30th Belfast, Odyssey Arena

July
2nd Hull, Arena
3rd Hull, Arena
5th London, Finsbury Park
6th London, Finsbury Park
7th London, Finsbury Park
10th Newcastle, Telewest Arena
11th Newcastle, Telewest Arena
13th T In the Park Festival, Kinross, Scotland
14th Ireland, Witnness Festival
16th Vicenza, Stadio Comunale Tickets
17th Lucca, Piazza Napoleone
19th Switzerland, Gurten Festival Festival
21st Mallorca, Festival Isladencanta Calvia
23rd Salamanca, Plaza De Toros La Glorieta
24th Vigo, Parque De Castrelos
26th Rome, Palacorda
27th Rome, Palacorda

Oasis leave for Tokyo this weekend in preparation for their appearance at the inaugeral Japanese MTV Video Music Awards. Oasis will play live at this event on Friday 24th May. Whilst in Japan they will also appear on TV Asahi's "News Station" for broadcast the following week.

Following the Number One hit single eThe Hindu Timesf Oasis release their second single of 2002 on June 17th. Entitled eStop Crying Your Heart Outf, this classic, epic Oasis song was penned by Noel Gallagher and is sung by Liam.

eStop Crying Your Heart Outf will be available on CD, twelve inch vinyl and DVD single. The single features two brand new tracks, "Thank You For The Good Times" written by Andy Bell and "Shout It Out Loud", a new track from Noel. All tracks were produced by Oasis and mixed by Mark eSpikef Stent.

"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" is a further taster for eHeathen Chemistryf, the bandfs fifth studio album that has become one of the most anticipated releases of the year. eHeathen Chemistryf comes out on July 1st.

LIAM GALLAGHER has been moonlighting from OASIS, working with both DEATH IN VEGAS and the PRODIGY. NME.COM can exclusively reveal that Liam takes lead vocals on the title track of the forthcoming Death In Vegas album 'Scorpio Rising'. A dark six-minute psychedelic epic, it will draw inevitable musical comparisons with The Beatles 'I Am The Walrus' while lyrically the song is a drug-fuelled stream-of-consciousness, the chorus running: "I want to go to Heaven/Never been there before/I want to go to Heaven/So give me some more". NME.COM understands that Liam didn't write the lyrics; they were the result of a three-way collaboration between Richard Fearless, Harry Pratt (an ex-sports journalist and one of Fearless' best friends) and Oasis video-maker Wiz.

Speaking about his involvement with Liam, Fearless told NME.COM: "He's the greatest rock'n'roll singer in the world as far as I'm concerned. That's why we wanted to work with him. Basically, we were of the mind that if he didn't want to do it, we weren't going to put the track on the album. It was brilliant when he said he was up for it, we were over the moon."

Gallagher also claimed he has been working with Prodigy on a new track. For more, see this week's NME, out nationwide tomorrow.

Oasis will be playing their second major open air concert in the UK this year at Manchester's 50,000 capacity Lancashire County Cricket Club on Saturday September 14. The show, which is part of their 2002 World Tour is their first large show in Manchester since 1997's performances at GMEX and their first open air show in the city since the legendary 1995 Maine Road Stadium events. The LCCC show already includes special guest Richard Ashcroft with further names to be announced. Tickets for the concert priced at £28.50 plus booking fee go on sale on Saturday the 18th May at 9.00am through www.oasisinet.com, the dedicated Oasis locall ticketline 08708 300300, Piccadilly Box office and Wembley box office (check press for further details).
In other news Oasis have confirmed Sweden's Soundtrack of Our Lives as the special guests for their June European dates, Belfast Odyssey Arena and Hull Arena shows.

Oasis will be playing three dates in Spain as part of the European leg of their 2002 World tour. On Sunday the 21st July they will be headlining the Festival Isladencanta Calvia on the Island of Mallorca, with support from Mercury Rev and The Soundtrack of Our Lives. They then head to the mainland to play two open air shows; on Saturday the 23rd July at the Plaza de Toros La Glorieta in Salamanca, and on Wednesday the 24th July in Vigo at the Parque de Castrelos. Special guests for the two shows will be announced For further information and ticket purchase details check out the On Tour section of the website

To celebrate the release of their fantastic new album Heathen Chemistry this summer Oasis will be touring the USA and Canada in August. They are bringing their incredible live show to the following cities:

8/2 Pompano Beach Amphitheater, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
8/4 Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
8/5 Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
8/7 Murat Theater Indianapolis, IN
8/9 Tower Theater, Philadelphia, PA
8/10 Fleet Pavillion Boston, MA
8/13 Beacon Theater New York, NY
8/14 Beacon Theater New York, NY
8/16 Molson Center Montreal, QUE
8/17 Molson Amphitheater Toronto, ONT
8/20 Chicago Theater Chicago, IL
8/21 Fox Theater Detroit, MI

Oasis have added the Gurten Festival near Bern in Switzerland to the European leg of their 2002 world tour. They will be headlining Friday night July 19th of the three day fesitval with support from The Charlatans. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here or by telephone on 0848 800800 (international ++41 848 800800). Tickets cost CHF 65.00 for a one day pass, CHF 95.00 for two days and CHF 135.00 for a three day pass.

> Gurten Festival info

And more tour date in Italy

16 July - Vincenza, Stadio Comunale
17 July - Lucca, Piazza Napoleone
26 July - Rome, Palacorda
27 July - Rome, Palacorda

Oasis have vowed never to play Top Of The Pops again after recording a live performance of their number one single, 'The Hindu Times'. According to tabloid reports, Noel Gallagher has said the band will not return to the BBC music show and claims the studio crew are amateurs.

"They were so unprofessional", he said. "They are a bunch of f***ing amateurs and we will never go back to that place again. "They cut six seconds from one of the songs. They have been doing it for 35 years and they still can't get it right."

He continued: "I had to stay up until five o'clock in the morning the day before I came out to America because I was mixing the tape some idiot should have done on the night. "It was some idiot who is paid to do it for a living but can't be bothered because he is doing the sound on some other show the week after. "We will never play Top Of The Pops again and I certainly won't be singing live for the BBC's awful programmes", he said.

However, a spokesperson for the show explained: "Oasis came into the studio to perform seven songs, which will be used over the course of the year. "Because it was a live performance we asked them if they wanted to use a multi-track to record a mix of the songs themselves." She added: "They already had their own sound guy at the studios, and agreed. So if Noel doesn't like any of the sound it is his own fault - he chose to mix it. "There are no hard feelings on our side. I'm sure once it has all calmed down they will come back on the show. They are only one band and they need us more than we need them."

Oasis played 4songs at The Primo Maggio Festival.

[Setlist]
1. The Hindu Times
2. Force Of Nature
3. Don't Look Back In Anger
4. Rock'n'Roll Star

	interview with Noel & Liam, answering lots of questions such as fotherfood, drug, Wembley gig, ex-member.
	Noel & Liam talking about new album and band. Available Jaoanese only.