Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds released the music video for their new single “Black Star Dancing” on Tuesday. In the mode of Weezer’s Happy Days-inspired “Buddy Holly” video (directed by Spike Jonze), “Black Star Dancing” has Noel and his band performing to a captive audience at the 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club' in 1974, all thanks to some old-fashioned movie-magic editing.
After a comedy Russian Cossack act performs, Noel and his High Flying Birds are introduced to the stage by none other than the late comedian Bernard Manning. Check it out below:
“Black Star Dancing” is Gallagher’s first new music since 2017’s Who Built The Moon? and is from the upcoming EP of the same name, due to be released on June 14th. In a statement [via NME], Noel says the new music combines “the influences of David Bowie, INXS, U2, Queen, Indeep and ZZ Top. “I might have been watching too much Top Of The Pops recently … Anyway, it’s ‘dope.’ Not my words, but the words of Nile Rodgers who literally danced in the studio when he heard it.”
Gallagher has previously told the NME that, “everything I’m writing at the minute sounds like The Police, The Cure or if The Police and The Cure were in a band together.” We don't have long to wait before we find out for ourselves, but with such a solid list of certified influences, it sounds almost impossible to go wrong! Listen to “Black Star Dancing” and more from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds on Spotify:
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