Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - ‘The Making Of Council Skies’ [Part 1]

shall we let's do it let's do it don't worry about all I tried in the middle of the room we got the drum where that from is that mine that's if that's yours that sounds great really good in fact I thought I saw it's worth a fortune you know it's worth a lot yeah Callum was here and Jeremy was here when I was trying it and they both went it's amazing but I think he might like this and I said yeah this is amazing but it's a little brighter so and a little less bass so I left them both here that's reason my Blue's breaker well whatever it is it sounds great so I thought I'd sold that yeah let's put this way it's it's a lovely color it's very red very red let See Marshall Vintage blue breaker yeah hell Crim crimson and this is your that's my wow that I like the look of it it's sort of like um Eastern block sort of nuclear warhead kind of vibe is it on camera well the other thing you know we could do is we could do some um if you like pretty boy we could try reamping it through that see if it's I don't don't mind playing it again I don't mind playing it again it's just that that I mean that has got a great sound on it but well it's not not too bad not too shabby we'll see what actually makes try remain confident of what we got i' got perect my look into the camera so as soon as this is done when you're not here Tuesday onwards we'll set up the next kit for the next song me the whole thing he's tuned well he said he's tuned I think he was eating a sandwich on top he he is the only man I've ever seen I've is the only man I've ever seen do a sound check while eating AB yeah that's right wasn't it got You' got a little upset didn't you at that point well well he had a sandwich on his Flor on which was annoying me cuz I was soundchecking and he was playing like this sandwich and I got Mickey Winder to go and take the sandwich off his pH like it couldn't function for about 10 minutes we used to go to these venues and we' all get off the bus and you know the sign post stage would be late for sound checks like stage stage this way every I never forget I'd always be at the back everyone of walk straight to the stage except he just come out and just follow for catering come out crumbs all over his beard so we got to get these tracks for Johnny cuz he's he can do them in February right so there's pretty boy Council Skies Council skies and love is a rich man okay so they're all completely different drum sounds as well I would have thought yeah I mean I'm on those I'm on those yeah no no no um open the door I think probably get Chris to do that um anyway so whichever one you want to do okay I'm easy I guess love as a rich man is a bit more a it and Capal Skies is a bit um what did you say Harvest for the world well that was no what it was is when you played it to me first it was a boss and over more of a boss and over F and it had a back bead in it and then I thought it had because of the the acoustic mildly insulting oh was oh were you insulting I think so remember that period yeah you were insulted not for the first time you ha do you hate that song no no okay no I just thought that it become more well it was just but but the the sound I well I don't know it it's robotic and bang on the money yeah but my mainous man here suggested live haats so it gives it a bit more of a swing and I was like that's a great idea and of course I well we have spoke about this and we just said look give Strang boy one one one last crack at here one last go this man this is the last crack can tell you this is the last dance this is the last the last W and the sound is still you tell me that [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are you playing that in live you playing that in live pretty s yeah I mean the thing is it can always be fixed to be you know perfect but it but it I mean in some way I would like it to be I would like it to be a loop so it stays in with the keeping of the the demo you know so it sounds mechanical yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's fine I got this idea of putting the acoustic once you've done it through that little Marshal amp as well to add a certain kind of grit sound that I've got in my head okay which is course I can you can hear it like it or not like will it sound will it still sound like an acoustic oh yeah because the thing is with this track is it just reminded me when I rot it of the Cure I think I'll just do it without the closed high without the Open high open higher and then do the open higher as an overdub let's try that let's try it all right on Christmas Day swimming y oh yeah shall we let's do it let's do it good morning how are you oh this is very nice well you caught in a bit of messy we're still kind of setting up this was this was all very nice and tidy for writing for a year it was just me in here with one microphone wow a and all these you not get lonely you're not got a dog I hate dogs no we were going to bring Tommy was like should been the dog like no dogs no I remember when you came around you were like I don't mind your dog if it's in your house I'm kind of respectful to no I would never have brought the door play I'm not giving up tonight he can talk you through this Memphis thing that he's going on about wow so we'll play we'll play it with the vocal and then play it instrumentally that's what we'll do right eat track yeah yeah cool that amazing mate because they get they get the cellos particular get sort of swallowed up with the Reverb so sure but I think it's we can make this work brilliantly I think it's really inspired and it's a brilliant idea death to the world oh yeah that's a great stuck yourself in [Music] I don't know where I've been oh that's that is amazing Absol I love that I mean the Goosebump fact is that is such a tune thank you very much oh M that's absolutely you proud of that one that's my favorite one gorgeous the first song I wrote here that so inspired toward towards the end that end section there there was wasn't I couldn't hear the choir oh okay yeah it's just it's not sample off a keyboard yeah yeah they those parts going to change is that will that section towards the end Poss get more Heavenly and more when it gets to the make it when it go there one section that just does that rundown that's when it kind of yeah it should gradually get bigger and then feel like the can take it I mean the strings can do that but it's just that the sound is so beautiful and so Heavenly and works so gorgeous you know so well in this I wanted I wanted to hear more of them so that otherwise I'm going to go there with my Str but I think it should be quiet but I think if we get like the 50 piece choir we don't have to get 50 I mean it takes away I think if we get if we get the three girls and track them with with the correct amount definitely um just so they don't get in the way you know what I mean if I think I think air I think a choir will be too bombastic for it it'll be too kind of a bit football stadium I know I would let the string start the piano start it and establish it then I'd bring the strings in on it and then I'd harmonize it and so the harms would go like that and then you get to the and then it's going somewhere is it then then then the strings kind of drop down you got that lovely warmth that's what I would do so i' kind of grow through it with the strings and harmonize it and then the cellos and bases come into that section and then you get that really nice contrast of it being there and then the warmth of the strings after thatt so that's what I would do do oh it's just but there's so many things you could do like you say so the next one the the top line is set the the string line is set okay but it's very kind of got Glen Campell Vibe is what we're going for okay beautiful so crack on there Callum love Glen C [Music] sun in so do you want it do you want it to feel like you want to be able to hear the cellos and you want to hear the kind of a bit of what you did on when were we doing the first album whatever you did on everybody's on the run on record machine it's that kind of thing it's going to be that kind of song that I think we were 24 for that yeah right so the next one has got there's a there there a there's a string line already on it and we were going to keep it until it was like well actually let's get Rosie to do to okay and it's beauy heavy is the head that wears a hollow Crown the must be something in the air let talk of Revolution [Music] here wow that's me that's brilliant love that that's incredible wow love the cord just love it everything about it yes so that and the in the outro there's a bit of sculpt for something not not too jaunty no okay yeah I love it I like theal at the [Music] end Wai on now this next one I don't know whether it needs strings but I was listening to it the other night and thinking it's quite beatlesque and in the in the in there's a solo section which might require not huge strings it's just the Cello's doing a kind of iron the wallrus thing not standing out but just adding yeah texture like a like a harmonic thing like oh what is that yeah yeah so it's um there she blows break it Li ship disappear a long long time ago great searching the Seven Seas for [Music] love simply no it's simple but [Music] he no no it's fine just go why just just use that oh that's wicked I love that yeah great yeah all right sh on that yeah yeah right so do the instrumental and we're done then right I'll see you I'll speak to you no doubt soon but I'll see you when I see you yeah yeah yeah bye [Music] feels good in here and then we can work on that transition after run some CU I'm starving we stop another one yeah that's I'm sure we've got it but it's just it stopped the way he stopped might be better this wasn't as [Music] [Applause] [Music] good stop great that's it actually cuz all I wanted was a better stop and that was perfect so okay got it we got it [Music] hi it's got to be the first single morning morning morning morning morning morning another wonderful day how are you good thought I told you not to not to [Music] [Applause] answer I think I think we're on the same page really just a different book yeah exactly yeah you're in charge you do I don't know what I'm doing songs man do the demos write the songs make the [Music] tea I make your dreams go true I thought it sounded good on the the course the that bit not sure I'm not sure what we should do there yet it'll have to be a loop so I can lock in with the bass and drums you know what I mean yeah and then the sole of it should be the [Applause] [Music] what CHS out there the start of that b section well there's just something there that's dropping out that's not on that doesn't drop out on the demo you what I mean it can of go wait are we missing something um we just play into that [Music] V this one these two these two are the ones you've got two I think you only want one of these but there's two of them just you can have a look at them one slightly different I would like going up here above the okay yeah if we Le it back yeah like just got our we just got our prison orer yeah that's great nice very good the obligation the responsibility T well there work going on here there's work going on here can't do the no you can't oh okay see them like ceramic stars and that would be really cool I do need to out this is a secondary secondary line of employment me and me and Callum have been talking this morning oh yeah yeah yeah oh no I am problem definitely [Music] this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] H these are very [Music] bright the truth that I'm telling might not be true [Music] the gifts that I'm bearing they might stolen but I'm here right now and I will [Music] keep saying it so I don't believe it tell me it's gone that come be true is lost I'm going to find it yeah I well [Music] that bass drum every now and again keeps popping out these headphones hold up let's do a take and then just move to the window okay that through that window yeah strange boy get us a a gray pick out of one of [Music] those you maybe it's just [Music] there you I think less is more with this maybe it's only in the second half of that I'd say yeah because yeah this should be the last thing to go on really okay no then I mean totally so we do my tuners well I can't get them to work even with new batteries the batteries go in but the tuners say the tun doesn't come out the tun doesn't come out oh that's Hil hey Hil yeah [Music] [Music]