Noel Gallagher - Melody Maker - 23rd February 2000

Noel Gallagher on 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants'

TELL US ABOUT THE ALBUM...
"This is a small step to where we want to be with the next record - the next one will be a small step further to where we're going. We're going to try and get into the soul side of things. We did have one track which didn't go on called 'Revolution Song'. It was demoed two years ago and it's on out-and-out gospel song, but not in the sense that 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' by U2 is a gospel song. I think it's a really, really good song. We were going to have the full-on gospel choir singing it until f***ing Blur put out 'Tender' and then we went, 'F***ing bastards!' That'll have to wait for the next one. They always nick our ideas!"

YET THERE STILL SEEMS TO BE A SMATTERING OF HEAVENLY VOICES ON THE ALBUM...
"It's actually a Mellotron machine. It's an old original Sixties one that they used for the Abbey Road sessions and it's actually got a setting on it which is a school choir. You press one key and it's eight schoolboys round a mic going, 'Ahhhhhhh'. If you press, like, 12 keys, you just get this f***ing massive sound and we'd just layer it and layer it until you get this huge f***ing choir."