About Us

About The Flying Birds

The Flying Birds is an independent archive and news site documenting the history, live performances, and ongoing activity of Oasis, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Liam Gallagher, and related projects.

The site exists to preserve and organize information that is often fragmented across forums, outdated fan pages, press archives, and incomplete databases. While there is no shortage of opinion or commentary online, accurate and accessible records of gigs, releases, and key moments are surprisingly difficult to find in one reliable place. The Flying Birds was created to address that gap.

Rather than focusing on short-term traffic or headline chasing, the emphasis here is on structure, accuracy, and longevity. Live performances, radio sessions, releases, and articles are treated as reference material first — something that can be searched, cited, and returned to over time.

This is a work in progress - Many More features to come. 

Why the site exists

Music history has a habit of becoming distorted as years pass. Setlists change, venues close, radio sessions disappear, and links rot. What survives is often partial or inconsistent.

The aim of The Flying Birds is to bring together:

documented live performances

release information

artist-related news

and supporting editorial content

…in a way that is searchable, internally consistent, and maintained over time.

This is not intended to replace official sources, but to complement them by acting as a stable, independent archive — particularly for live history, which is often the least well preserved.

About the publisher

The site is built and maintained by an independent publisher with a long-standing interest in the artists covered and a background in digital projects, structured content systems, and database-driven publishing.

The technical side of the site matters just as much as the editorial one. Pages are generated from a central database rather than static files, allowing information to be updated, corrected, and expanded without losing historical continuity. The focus is on building something that remains useful years from now, not just today.

This approach has been shaped as much by experience in building scalable digital systems as by an appreciation for music history itself. A whole content managments system has been built from the sky down to serve this site. 

Editorial approach and maintenance

Content on The Flying Birds is maintained with the following principles in mind:

Accuracy over speed
Information is prioritized for correctness rather than immediacy.

Structure over speculation
Wherever possible, factual data (dates, venues, releases, tours) is separated from commentary.

You Can contact me here for clarifications or corrections, I'll welcome all input

Continuity over deletion
Errors are corrected rather than removed, preserving the historical record.

Discoverability
Pages are structured so they can be understood by both readers and modern search and AI systems.

Gig data, release information, and articles are reviewed and updated as new details become available. Where sources conflict or information is incomplete, this is handled cautiously rather than filled with assumption.

Corrections and contributions

No archive is ever truly finished.

If you spot an error, missing information, or inconsistency, corrections are welcomed and reviewed. The goal is not perfection, but steady improvement over time.

The Flying Birds is an independent project and is not affiliated with the artists or their official representatives.

You Can contact us with corrections here

Finally, a personal note.

The music I grew up with — Oasis, U2, The Stone Roses, Joy Division, The Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, Doves, New Order — all arrived in waves, and stayed.

Our story with The Flying Birds really began in 2023, when a child came into our care and we became a family. This site is my gift to that family, and to the wider community we’ve encountered along the way. If you look closely, you’ll find small traces of us throughout the site.

What started in a tiny club in Boscombe in 2003 eventually led to ten gigs — nine shows and a soundcheck — at Wembley, standing among 80,000 like-minded souls. I dislike the word journey — it feels manufactured — but this has been an adventure, and it’s one worth remembering.

So this is my way of remembering it. And of sharing it.

To Debbie and Summer: thank you.

And thank you to Noel Gallagher for taking ten seconds to acknowledge a little girl, and for signing her Who Built the Moon? record. You’ll never know how much that moment meant, or how much it helped.

God bless the High Flying Birds.