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Beady Eye have revealed plans to release their second studio album by the end of the year.

The 'Millionaire' band reached number three in the UK with their debut album Different Gear, Still Speeding back in March, but now they are looking forward to creating new material.

"The big difference between Beady Eye and Oasis is that we're not going to put the ball down, sit around in a big house and go, 'We're great'," frontman Liam Gallagher told The Irish Times.

"We won't be taking months and months in the studio either. We don't want to roll this over into next year. There will be an awesome new album coming soon."

The group recently released a cover version of the Beatles classic 'Across The Universe' to raise funds for the ongoing relief effort in Japan following the country's natural disasters last month.

The band will also play a number of UK festivals this summer including Reading and Leeds, Isle of Wight and the iTunes music festival.