Council Skies (Deluxe 2CD)

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Ultratop.be – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Council Skies" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 11 June 2023. The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 12 June 2023". The ARIA Report. No.1736. Australian Recording Industry Association. 12 June 2023. p.6.

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All in all, then, Council Skies is very much a creative success. It’s the sound of Noel Gallagher pushing onwards, while once again playing to his strengths. Top Albums (Week 23, 2023)". Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 12 June 2023. Noel went on: "Pete's book happened to be on my coffee table at home. So I called him up and said, Can I use this title? And he said yeah. And I rewrote the song and then subsequently a lot of other things started to fall into place."

Austriancharts.at – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Council Skies" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 June 2023.Swisscharts.com – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Council Skies". Hung Medien. Retrieved 11 June 2023. For this new record, it was the first thing I wrote, the first thing I demoed, and the first thing I finished, so it’s only right that it’s the first thing people get to hear,” Gallagher previously said of “Pretty Boy.”“Massive shout out to my mainest man Johnny Marr for taking it somewhere special.” Noel Gallagher announces new album 'Council Skies', shares single 'Easy Now' ". NME. 17 January 2023. Smith, Thomas (2 June 2023). "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – 'Council Skies' review: brighter than before". NME. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023 . Retrieved 4 June 2023. Top of the Pops on TV transformed your Thursday night into this fantasy world, and that’s what I think music should be. I want my music to be elevating and transforming in some way.”

In keeping with the themes of ‘Council Skies’, the single is accompanied by a new video filmed in Manchester and captures the band performing inside the city’s stunning historic venue New Century Hall – a key location in Manchester’s musical heritage having hosted performances by Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones. Directed by long-time High Flying Birds collaborators Dan Cadan and Jonathan Mowatt, the music video also features a cameo from another Mancunian legend… Sign up for the official Video YouTube premiere here, taking place tonight at 6PM BST. Ultratop.be – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Council Skies" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 11 June 2023. On 31 October 2022, the song "Pretty Boy" was released as the first single. On 17 January 2023, "Easy Now" was released as the album's second single. On 23 March 2023, "Dead to the World" was released as the album's third single. On 20 April 2023, "Council Skies" was released as the album's fourth single. On 31 May 2023, "Open the Door, See What You Find" was released as the album's fifth single.

The artwork is taken by Kevin Cummins and features the band's live equipment set up on the original centre spot of where Manchester City's Maine Road football stadium once stood.