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Yahoo
04-07-2025
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- Yahoo
First picture of Liam and Noel together as Oasis finally reunite at Cardiff Principality Stadium
It is the moment every Oasis fan has been waiting to see - Liam and Noel Gallagher back on stage together. The brothers from Burnage finally reunited at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff tonight, for the first gig of their huge reformation tour. It is the first time Oasis have performed live since a gig at 2009's V Festival, which came after three nights at Heaton Park. The Heaton Park residency infamously began with the first having to be pulled after a generator failed. A row before a subsequent show in Paris led the Mancunian legends to split. But tonight, at 8.15pm, after millions of fans clamoured to get hold of tickets, the tour finally began. READ MORE: 'I've sold my Oasis opening night ticket after Liam's unacceptable post' READ MORE: Oasis fan left devastated after £730 tickets cancelled days before gig The brothers emerged on stage as an intro tape and the 2000 track F**kin' in the Bushes rang out, before storming into first track Hello. The gig had started with support slots from Richard Ashcroft and Cast. But the crowd almost blew the roof off the Principality Stadium when the band took to the stage. It is also a momentous night for Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs, a founding member of Oasis who left the group in 1999 but has since performed with Liam Gallagher's band Beady Eye, and on the frontman's solo tours. The rhythm guitarist took to the stage with both Gallagher brothers for the first time in over two decades. Also forming the Oasis live band are bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer, who both joined the band in 1999. Completing the line up is new drummer Joey Waronker, who recently performed on Liam Gallagher and John Squire's recent album. Touring members also include Christian Madden on keyboards, Jessica Greenfield on backing vocals, Alastair White on trombone, Steve Hamilton on saxophone and Joe Auckland on trumpet. Fans have been travelling from around the world to be in Cardiff for the first show of the tour. Lifelong fans Lachlan Weekes and Jayden Helm spent more than a day travelling from Sydney, Australia to attend the concert in the Welsh capital. 'We've been lifelong fans – we're 22 and 21, so haven't really had a chance to see them before," Jayden said. "We always said it was worth it to come, we wouldn't miss it for the world,' he added. 'To take time off work to come over here, it's more than worth it.'
Telegraph
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
How Liam Gallagher went from laughing stock to national treasure
In 2015 Liam Gallagher considered moving to Spain. The downcast singer's career was in the doldrums and he was worried that he couldn't afford to live as he wanted to in London. Oasis – the band with which Gallagher made his name – had split up six years previously and his follow-up group, Beady Eye, had withered on the vine of public indifference. Without a band or a record deal, just through a bitter divorce, at war with his older brother and former bandmate Noel, running low on cash and drinking too much, the then-42-year-old pondered starting afresh. 'I was depressed and really f------ bored,' he told GQ in 2017. He started 'Googling properties. It weren't f------ Magaluf, I'm not that broke, but not far off,' he said. Friends and family were worried. 'He was very down and fed up with himself,' Gallagher's mother, Peggy, said in 2019. His brother Paul described his younger sibling as 'pretty much at the bottom'. Former bandmate Bonehead said Gallagher was 'f------ terrified' that his career in music was over. Fast forward a decade and Gallagher is about to embark on one of the most anticipated rock tours in decades. The Oasis reunion will see the Britpop stalwarts play over 40 vast concerts from Edinburgh to São Paulo as part of a world tour that will net Liam and guitarist Noel between £75 million and £100 million each, if industry estimates are to be believed. Some 14 million people tried to snap up the 1.4 million available tickets for the 17 UK dates when they went on sale last summer, meaning that Oasis would need to play 170 stadium shows just to satisfy domestic demand. When the tour – which kicks off in Cardiff on July 4 – is done, it's safe to say that Gallagher will be able to live where and how he wants. So what went right? Lazarus Liam's resurrection must rank as one of the most impressive in music history. How exactly did Gallagher go from 'sitting at home being Billy No Mates', as he put it to the Evening Standard in 2017, to this? Analysis of Gallagher's comeback, via interviews with insiders, reveals a series of steady year-on-year incremental gains since he launched a solo career after almost becoming an episode of A Place in the Sun in 2015. What's equally note-worthy is that as Gallagher rebuilt, he pulled in a whole new generation of fans who weren't even born during Oasis's mid-1990s heyday. 'There's no one quite like Liam,' 20-year-old Oasis fan Jettson Dearlove tells me. 'I can't really think of anyone that's come after that's been as interesting in terms of his personality.' Some have gone so far as to suggest that this summer's reunion shows wouldn't be happening without the solo success that Liam has enjoyed in recent years. 'Without question, the respect that Noel had for his brother increased enormously with the success [Liam] had as a solo artist. What Liam did, I would argue, more effectively than anyone else, was actually lay the ground for the comeback,' says Mike Smith, the industry A&R veteran who signed a publishing deal with Gallagher as boss of Warner/Chappell UK in 2016. To understand the peak, you have to understand the trough. And, boy, was Gallagher in one. So let's go back to 2015, some six Prime Ministers ago, when Adele's 25 was the year's best-selling album and Wayne Rooney was the England football captain. Gallagher seemed lost. Beady Eye – essentially Oasis without Noel – had split up in 2014 and his life lacked structure. An expensive divorce from second wife Nicole Appleton, the former All Saint who he'd married in 2008, didn't help. Nor did his brief fling with New York Times freelancer Liza Ghorbani, which resulted in a 2014 child support squabble in a New York court over their baby daughter Gemma. These issues aside, insiders say that Gallagher was exhausted. He'd leapt into Beady Eye soon after Oasis imploded backstage at Paris's Rock en Seine festival in August 2009 (Liam threw a plum at Noel, an almighty fight followed, the band was over). 'Let's not forget, Liam probably hadn't had a holiday since 1990,' says Smith. 'Being in a band is like being in campaign mode. When you stop it's like coming back from Waterloo. All you know is life on the road with the five members of that band.' Money was tight. 'His bank account was dwindling and for the first time in over two decades, Liam Gallagher was without a band… He was spending more and more time down his local,' wrote biographer PJ Harrison in his new book Gallagher. Even 'our kid' – as Noel called Liam in the good times – was tiring of his 'mad for it' shtick. 'Do I really wanna be Liam Gallagher?' he asked in an interview with Huck Magazine. 'Can I be arsed with the bulls--t that goes with it? Maybe it's time to walk away and not do anything.' Two things lifted Gallagher from his funk. Firstly, he 'got bored' of being bored, he told Huck. Secondly, he started a relationship with the eminently sensible Debbie Gwyther, formerly his PA and now his co-manager (and fiancée). Gwyther encouraged him to get fit, look after his voice and stop moping. She 'pulled him through', says Smith. 'You can't overestimate Debbie's input,' says Andy Prevezer, who was director of PR at Warner Music, the label that'd later sign Gallagher. 'He was absolutely at rock bottom and humbled by the experience. Now he was listening to people.' Smith suspected a mojo revival when Gwyther, who he knew, invited him over to the pair's Highgate flat. There, Gallagher – a solid if unspectacular songwriter – picked up a guitar and played Smith embryonic versions of four or five songs he'd been working on. 'He'd got the coffees and the pastries in. He was a little bashful when it came to showing me the songs that he'd written,' recalls the music exec. Numbers included Bold and Greedy Soul, which would go on to form the core of Gallagher's first solo album, As You Were. Smith was impressed. No business was done that day but they discussed possible songwriters that Gallagher could work with to flesh out other song ideas. Months later, Gallagher signed a record deal with Warner Bros Records in the UK (different from the Warner that Smith worked for). The label was run by a man called Phil Christie who 'stuck his neck out' to bring Gallagher in from the wilderness, says Prevezer. The strategy involved teaming Gallagher up with gold-plated songwriters such as Greg Kurstin, who co-wrote Adele's Hello, and Andrew Wyatt, who'd worked with Bruno Mars and would go on to co-write Lady Gaga's Shallow and the Barbie soundtrack. 'The masterstroke was to make a record on which all the tracks, like lead single Wall of Glass, sounded like they could sit very comfortably on an Oasis record,' says Prevezer. Smith, at Warner/Chappell, then signed a deal for Gallagher's publishing (as opposed to his recorded music). 'Liam could have sung the phone directory at one point and it would have sounded beautiful. He was the greatest rock 'n' roll star this country produced in the last 30 years. It seems crazy to say this now, but I felt he never quite got the level of respect that he was due,' Smith says. All the ingredients for a revival were in place. In May 2017 Gallagher played a comeback show at the modestly-sized O2 Ritz in Manchester. Crucially his set included six old Oasis songs, something he'd assiduously avoided with Beady Eye. With considerable chutzpah, he walked on stage to Oasis's old intro track F-----' in the Bushes. Bonehead guested. The buzz was off the charts. The particularities of the singer's rift with Noel are not for this article – it would take a whole book – but it's safe to assume that his older brother took note. Gallagher's comeback concert was same month as the Manchester Arena suicide bombing in which 22 people died at an Ariana Grande concert. Days later, he appeared at the One Love Manchester memorial concert at the Old Trafford cricket ground. There, he sang the Oasis classic Live Forever with Coldplay. In devastating circumstances, the world was reminded of that track's poignancy – and the power of the voice behind it. Weeks later, Gallagher played Glastonbury. When As You Were was released in October 2017 it went straight to number one. From there, momentum grew. Gallagher's formula – bit of the old, bit of the new, strong voice, work hard – was bearing fruit. His next two solo albums, in 2019 and 2022, also went to number one. The venues got bigger. In a gigantic 'Oh, hi!' to Noel, Gallagher played two vast concerts at Hertfordshire's Knebworth House in 2022, equalling the brace of nights that Oasis famously played there at their zenith in 1996. 'It was a juggernaut. It was kind of nostalgia but the key thing was that he wasn't avoiding Oasis, he was embracing Oasis,' says Prevezer. The comeback might have wobbled when, in 2018, The Sun published CCTV footage appearing to show Gallagher grab Gwyther by the neck in a corridor of the Chiltern Firehouse in London. Gallagher wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he'd 'never put my hands on any women in a vicious manner', while Gwyther called it 'fake news'. He was questioned by police but no action was taken. The narrative swiftly moved on. Gallagher's final action as a solo artist prior to the reunion announcement was to play a huge arena tour last summer to mark the 30 th anniversary of Oasis's debut album Definitely Maybe. I recall sitting on the tube near London's O2 and being surrounded by young men in their late teens belting out Oasis tunes en route to one of the shows. They were loud and larky – just like the original Oasis fans. Gallagher had hooked in a younger cohort of rabid acolytes. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Oasis (@oasis) One such fan is Gabriel Bird, 25. He got into Oasis after seeing the 2016 documentary Supersonic. 'I love the story, I love the sense of humour and I like the swagger and charm. Maybe at the time some people found it exhausting but if you're a bit younger, you didn't really have all that [growing up],' says Bird. Gallagher is a 'complete counterbalance' to the more sensitive frontmen of Bird's own era, like the 1975's Matty Healy or the Arctic Monkey's Alex Turner. For people who came of age with so-called normcore stars like Ed Sheeran and Lewis Capaldi, Gallagher has a powerful, stylish and edgy 'aura', Bird says. He filled a void. There's another factor behind Gallagher's resurrection, slightly less tangible but equally important: his humour. Gallagher is often the funniest and most cutting man on X, formerly Twitter. His surreal posts – heavy on capital letters, with grammar and spelling secondary to impact – have regularly taken shots at Noel. In May 2016, Liam posted a photo of his brother with a one-word caption: 'Potato'. The next month he posted a picture of Noel with his lips pursed. The caption? 'Pouting Potato'. He has ribbed Noel relentlessly about his experimental solo music with his band High Flying Birds, often taking the mickey out of the group's use of instruments like the 'saxaphone' [sic] and (yes) scissors. Noel had gone 'all Pink Floyd', Liam wrote. His use of puns and his distinctive 'LG' sign-off have seen him develop his own vernacular on the social media site. 'Snore patrol Noel Gallaghers high flying smurfs who said rock n roll is dead LG,' from 2012 is a typical post. He once posted a paparazzi shot of Noel buying milk. 'Scary clown buying milk last seen in waitrose Maida Vale call the cops as you were LG x,' ran the caption. You get the idea. Gallagher has regularly seemed to tease non-existent Oasis reunions and taken on critics whose reviews he didn't agree with. Scary clown buying milk last seen in waitrose Maida Vale call the cops as you were LG x — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) October 14, 2016 But there's a serious point to all this. Gallagher's humour has reminded people, quite brilliantly, that he's not a mindless knuckle-dragging rock star. Young people I've spoken to cite his very British humour as one of Gallagher's most attractive assets. His followers on X have risen from 830,000 in 2014 to 3.8 million today. That's seven times the population of his native Manchester. Gallagher follows no one. Two days after Gallagher headlined last August's Reading Festival to a Gen Z audience comprising people like Bird and Dearlove, Oasis announced their reunion. From zero to hero in 10 years; a decade in which 'our comeback kid' turned the heads of the music world, Britain's youth and his estranged sibling. Quite the feat. The astonishing revival highlights another undeniable facet of Gallagher's appeal, one that perhaps – ultimately – explains everything. 'He backs himself in a fight,' says Bird.
Metro
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Liam Gallagher apologises after tweeting ‘racial slur' ahead of Oasis reunion tour
Liam Gallagher has been forced to apologise to South Korean Oasis fans on social media after appearing to publicly tweet out a 'racial slur'. The Oasis frontman, 52, will be taking to the stage again with older brother Noel, 58, from Friday, July 4 when the worldwide Oasis Live 25 tour gets under way in Cardiff. After originally splitting up in 2009, the Gallagher brothers are back together for the first time in 15 years – they announced their sold-out reunion gigs last year. On the tour, the duo will be stopping over at the Goyang Stadium in October – a 41,000-capacity arena situated to the northwest of South Korea's capital city, Seoul. However, Liam has left some South Korean Oasis fans feeling hurt after screenshots posted on X appeared to show him tweeting the phrase 'chingchong'. 'Chingchong' (believed to have originated in the 19th century) is understood as an offensive or derogatory phrase that's used to mock or denigrate East Asian languages. So Chingchong ain't right, A racist slur burning bright… Your "ancient thought" — a lie, Five thousand years reply: Stop the hate you bring! Don't look back in anger — LEARN RESPECT INSTEAD. @liamgallagher #Liam Gallagher — 哦哦哦 (@Satrununcle) July 1, 2025 While usually intended to insult people who speak Chinese languages, it has also been applied towards languages and speakers from Japan and South Korea. Liam deleted the post shortly afterwards, with the original tweet generating a flurry of responses from South Korean fans, criticising his choice of words. @Hrpss8 tweeted, 'Liam, you can't say that' to which Liam appeared to respond 'Why?' When @Icey_Melted warned Liam that he might be about to 'offend his own fans', the former Beady Eye frontman joked, 'Chill out Birdy'. In further screenshots, Liam then apparently described 'chingchong' as being an 'ancient thought process' and informed fans that was actually 'zillions of years old'. When one fan – @LiamPurrs – said that Liam's tweets had made them feel 'aggressive', a still-readable tweet said: 'You need work on that and don't be blaming other people for your weaknesses'. South Korean music fan account @KK10000 tweeted: 'When your favorite global singer goes rogue and tweets a racial slur instead of their next hit—yikes!' However, a few hours later, Liam retracted his comments and apologised, saying: 'Sorry if I offended anyone with my tweet before, it wasn't intentional, you know I love you all and I do not discriminate. Peace and love LG x.' Before his apology, @Icey_Melted forgave Liam for the slip-up and understood he hadn't behaved maliciously, saying: 'I hope that you don't actually think that I have a lot of hate in my soul or whatever, you know that I love you and that I'm grateful for you right.' Liam replied: 'Only kidding, I know you're a good egg.' Oasis' long-awaited reunion tour kicks off in Cardiff on Saturday at the Principality Stadium, with more than 74,000 people expected to attend. Over on X, someone standing outside of the Welsh capital's stadium was listening to the band's soundcheck on Monday afternoon and revealed the Whatever hitmakers sound 'biblical'. The group are playing Cigarettes and Alcohol in the video, and Conor quipped: 'Oasis soundcheck in Cardiff just now. @liamgallagher sounding biblical.' Fans have gone wild over the video on social media, although there's been some debate around whether or not it was a live soundtrack or simply a recording to test sound levels until everyone is on site later this week. Metro has reached out to Liam Gallagher for comment. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you.
The Guardian
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘He looks like a potato': every major Gallagher feud since Oasis split in 2009
As Oasis prepare to go on stage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris, an argument breaks out behind the scenes. The Gallagher brothers had always bickered and fought, but this argument was enough to end the band. Noel described the moment in a statement the following week: 'The details are not important and of too great a number to list. But I feel you have the right to know that the level of verbal and violent intimidation towards me, my family, friends and comrades has become intolerable.' Liam later alleged that the blame was placed on his drinking, but claimed he had been drinking as he always had been. 'That was my behaviour since day one, and [Noel's]. That's what made Oasis what it was,' he told the Guardian in January 2024. 'I wasn't any different, but all of a sudden, he's turned into Ronan Keating or some soft cunt, going: 'We can't have that behaviour.'' Oasis win best British album of the last 30 years for (What's the Story) Morning Glory? at the 2010 Brit awards. It is hoped that Noel and Liam will reunite to collect the award and the brothers might show some signs of reconciliation. However, Liam swaggers on stage alone and thanks the other members of Oasis individually, but not Noel, before throwing his microphone and the band's award into the crowd. Noel and his longterm girlfriend Sara MacDonald marry and do not invite Liam to the ceremony. While on tour in the US with his newly formed band Beady Eye, Liam speculates that it was due to Noel not being invited to Liam's previous weddings. 'He goes on about how he wasn't invited to my wedding. No one was at my wedding but [the bride's] mum and my mum. Get over it, mate.' Things escalate after Noel speaks in an interview about Oasis having to cancel their performance at V festival in 2009 after Liam had supposedly contracted laryngitis – Noel alleges this was actually due to Liam being hungover. Liam sues Noel and demands an apology, stating: 'The truth is I had laryngitis, which Noel was made fully aware of that morning, diagnosed by a doctor.' Noel apologises and the lawsuit is dropped. In an interview with Q magazine Liam takes aim at Noel's new music and his new look. 'Listen, our kid's a mouthy fuck too. He said we had a year to come up with a band name and came up with Beady Eye. He had three and came up with the High Flying Turds. I don't know who dressed him but he looks like something out of Westlife.' When asked about reuniting with his brother for a 20th anniversary celebration of (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, Liam says: 'I'd rather eat my own shit than be in a band with him again. He's a miserable little fuck … If the fans want it, though, I'd do it.' Despite the strong words in December, Noel says he had been in contact with Liam that Christmas, but he also denies any chance of a reunion. 'I haven't been in touch. I last texted him at Christmas after the City match. I don't think it's gonna happen. It would be great for everyone else except me … I don't think anyone is pushing for a reunion either. Nobody ever brings it up in any seriousness; I mean, Liam does publicly, but he says a lot of things publicly. I wouldn't take anything he says seriously.' Liam explains his complex feelings about his brother. 'I love our kid – as in the Noel that's not in a band and not in the music business and not all that bullshit that people see he is. But the band Noel? … I absolutely fucking despise.' Fans are given fresh hope as Liam tells the Guardian: 'We could bury the hatchet for a quick lap of honour … I'd do it for nowt, but if someone's going to drop a load of fucking money, I'd do it for that too … [Then] I'd still go back to Beady Eye and Noel would go back to his thing.' Of a reunion, Noel tells NME: 'One can never say never, because one might be skint. But I've got no intention. I'm not interested.' Liam's band Beady Eye break up. Noel is sympathetic though perhaps with a veiled criticism of Liam, saying in December: 'I'm very fucking sad about Beady Eye, because I know they really wanted to make it work. I wanted it to work for them. I was out with Gem Archer the other night. The vibe I'm getting is that it was a shock, although not completely surprising.' Liam develops his Twitter account as the chief forum to deliver blows to his brother. He posts a picture of him wearing a High Flying Birds backstage pass captioned: 'Keeping it in the family'. For a brief moment it seems the feud is cooling. But Noel accuses Liam of stirring up false rumours of an Oasis reunion: 'It wasn't his pass. He wasn't there. It was my other brother's pass. If he'd had been at one of my gigs, you would've known about it because he'd have made his way on stage and started acting like a fucking gobshite. He's being a bit disingenuous to Oasis fans in the sense that he always gets their hopes up.' Liam tweets in response: 'I see Noel Katie Hopkins Gallagher is talking out of his slack arse again go and polish your SAXAPHONE Ha ha,' ending the tweet with his new trademark, 'LGx'. Liam airs grievances about Noel refusing to participate in an Oasis reunion, ending: 'FUCK OASIS'. This is also when he begins posting photos of his brother with the caption of 'potato' in each one, claiming 'he looks like one.' It soon becomes a familiar insult. The documentary about the band, Supersonic, is released and Liam attends the premiere, though not without taking a swing at Noel's absence. When asked about the likelihood of Noel turning up too, he says, 'Oh no, Noel won't be here. He's in one of his really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really big houses. Probably eating tofu while having a face peel. Isn't that right, man of the people?' Liam releases his first single as a solo artist, and further dismisses the idea of reforming Oasis. '[Working with Noel] bores the death out of me,' he says, adding that the pair had not had any contact in years. After the bombing of Manchester Arena at an Ariana Grande concert, the One Love Manchester concert is held to honour the victims. Liam performs three songs, including Oasis's Live Forever with Coldplay. He attacks Noel on Twitter for not appearing: 'Noels out of the fucking country weren't we all love get on a fucking plane and play your tunes for the kids you sad fuck.' In a Sunday Times interview a few days later, Noel says he wasn't asked to perform, and adds: 'Young Mancunians, young music fans, were slaughtered, and he, twice, takes it somewhere to be about him. He needs to see somebody.' More 'potato' jibes are thrown in response, with Liam alleging: 'I got proof you were asked and declined.' Noel plays a no-alcohol show at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Liam responds: 'I forgive you now let's get the BIG O back together and stop fucking about the drinks are on me LG x'. When Noel doesn't respond, Liam tweets: 'I'll take that as a NO then.' After One Love Manchester, few thought the feud could get any worse. But when Noel's wife Sara MacDonald is asked if she would watch Liam's performance at Glastonbury she declines and calls Liam a 'fat twat doing his tribute act'. Noel then posts a screenshot of a message Liam sent to Noel's daughter Anaïs reading 'tell your step mam to be very careful'. 'So you're sending threatening messages via my teenage daughter now are you?', Noel wrote. 'You always were good at intimidating women though eh?' Liam apologises: 'My sincere apologies to my beautiful mum Peggy and my lovely niece Anais for getting caught up in all of this childish behaviour I love you both dearly'. Noel speaks to the Guardian in an interview headlined with the quote: 'I liked my mum until she gave birth to Liam.' Noel adds: 'That's not the first time he's sent texts to my daughter, or left threatening phone calls on my wife's answering machine. So when he's threatening my wife via my teenage daughter, I'm thinking, you know, if you weren't a rock star, if you were just an uncle who worked in a garage, you'd be getting a visit from the police. But because you're a rockstar, wahey, you get away with that shit.' Noel says the incident means they are unlikely to ever reconcile. 'Because I've got one fatal flaw in my otherwise perfect makeup as a human being, which is I don't forgive people. Once you start texting my children – and his two sons have been going for her, too – and legitimise my wife being bullied on the internet, where she has to shut down Instagram accounts because of the vile shit being written about her and my daughter, then it ain't happening.' He also uses the interview for a dig at Liam's new solo music. 'I think it's unsophisticated music. For unsophisticated people. Made by an unsophisticated man. Who's giving unsophisticated orders to a load of songwriters who think they're doing the Oasis thing … I reckon if I put my two sons in a room – one's nine, one's 11 – for about 45 minutes, they could probably muster up something better than that new single of his.' Noel releases a demo of Oasis's Don't Stop … without Liam's vocals or guitarist Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs' riffs. As expected, Liam takes to Twitter: 'Oi tofu boy if your gonna release old demos make sure im singing on it and boneheads playing guitar on it if not it's not worth a wank'. Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, Noel responds to a claim that he'd turned down £100m to get Oasis back together. He says, 'There isn't £100m in the music business, right, between all of us … If anybody wants to offer me £100m now, I'll say it now, I'll do it. I'll do it for £100m.' Liam responds online with: 'I'd do it for FREE'. Noel shares what he believes was 'the beginning of the end' for the brothers' relationship while on The Matt Morgan Podcast. He tells the story of how he donated clothes from Liam's brand Pretty Green to a charity shop before the brand launched in 2009: 'Liam gave us a load of clobber, not just me, he gave the band it. I went straight to the charity shop and left it in the shop doorway. He went fucking mental. He said, 'If you didn't fucking want it, you should have just said you didn't fucking want it, you cunt.' It was on the shop mannequin in Barnardo's a month before it launched. If push comes to shove, that was the beginning of the end.' When asked by a fan on Twitter if there would be any Oasis hit songs featured in his new documentary, Knebworth 22, Liam is quick to blame Noel for the lack of the band's songs: 'No Oasis songs as the angry squirt has blocked them he also blocked the Oasis I sang for Taylor Hawkins tribute he's a horrible little man.' On the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast Noel addresses claims Liam is calling for an Oasis reunion and bizarrely ends up comparing him to Puss in Boots from Shrek. 'Well, I know for a fact he doesn't want it either, but he likes to paint this picture of, you know, this little fucking guy who's sitting with his suitcase packed by the door, you know, like the little fucking cat from fucking Shrek, you know, the little fucking Spanish cat with these big fucking teary eyes. 'I'm [gonna] go and do it now for you fans. I love you.' It's like, well, fucking call me then. And he hasn't called me. And until he does, it's fucking going nowhere.' Just months before the reunion is announced, Liam is still venting about Noel. He tells the Guardian if he could go back in time to the Paris gig that ended Oasis, he'd 'fill in' Noel and Oasis's manager. 'They threw me under the fucking bus. All my life caved in,' Liam says in a long rant, pacing around the room. 'There were 40 or 50 people working for Oasis. All of a sudden, everyone was out of a job. Meanwhile, he's off with his guitar and his wife, having a lovely time … I know I've been humbled. And thank fuck for it because it's made me a better person. But he's not. He's still going round thinking he's the man, but we'll see.' But wait! Liam tweets: 'I never did like that word FORMER.' Oasis write on Twitter (which by now has become X): 'The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.'
Daily Mirror
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Liam Gallagher in 'freefall' and fleeing to Spain to retire until intervention
A new book A Sound So Very Loud reveals how Liam Gallagher was on the verge of moving to Majorca to retire like the gangster played by Ray Winstone in the 2000 movie Sexy Beast - until his partner made him see the light To borrow a catchphrase from Liam Gallagher, we are all about to witness a comeback of biblical proportions. In exactly two weeks, the Gallagher brothers will take to the stage for the first night of the Oasis reunion. More than 1.4 million tickets have been sold across 17 UK dates for the tour, 16 years after the Britpop favourites' acrimonious split. But according to a new book, the reunion might not be happening at all if it wasn't for Liam's fiancee, Debbie Gwyther. In Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain's new Oasis book, A Sound So Very Loud, the former recalls meeting Liam in a London pub in 2016, two years after his group Beady Eye disbanded. And he says we have Debbie to thank for persuading Liam to keep performing. Ted says: 'In the pub, over pints, Liam explained what had been going on for the past two years. 'Since he'd dispensed with the intricate management scaffolding that keeps rock megastars afloat, he'd spent a while in freefall.' Ted says that just like the gangster played by Ray Winstone in the 2000 movie Sexy Beast, Liam also considered retiring abroad. He explains: 'He had tumbled out of the bubble to such an extent that for a while, he considered jacking it all in and moving to Majorca, living 'Sexy Beast-style'. Debbie, who had previously worked at Beady Eye's management company, put paid to that.' READ MORE: Diana Ross opens up in rare interview - 'My five children really take care of their mum' The book reveals how Liam listened to Debbie's wise, albeit harsh advice. Liam explains: 'She just told me to stop being a d**khead. She got me out the house, introduced me to new people outside my world, got me doing new things.' The book adds: 'She also firmly reminded him that he was the greatest rock 'n' roll frontman of his generation, he was only 43 and there was lots of mileage left on his engine. 'Perhaps he just needed to work with different people – which is exactly what he did, going to LA and collaborating with songwriter-producers Greg Kurstin, Andrew Wyatt and Dan Grech-Marguerat, demoing and recording new songs, some of which Liam played via Debbie's laptop when we were drunk in the pub, miming the words and dancing as I listened through headphones, giving them a thumbs-up.' Liam, 52, and Debbie, 41, his former personal assistant, got together in 2014 – the year Liam divorced his second wife, former All Saints singer Nicole Appleton. He was married to actress Patsy Kensit from 1997 to 2000 and has four children – Lennon, 25, with Patsy, Gene, 23 with Nicole, and two daughters, Molly, 27, with singer Lisa Moorish and Gemma, 12, with journalist Liza Ghorbani. Liam's period of self-doubt came after five years with Beady Eye. The band formed in 2009 and was made up of Liam, former Oasis members Gem Archer and Andy Bell and drummer Chris Sharrock. They released two albums, Different Gear, Still Speeding in 2011 and BE in 2013 – but neither enjoyed anything like the success of Oasis. Both reached the top 5 in the UK album chart, but they had just one top 40 single with The Roller in 2011. A Sound Very Loud – dubbed the inside story of every song Oasis every recorded – also details other interactions the authors had with the band. Ted was with the NME when he went to Camden, North London, with the band in May 1994, three months before Definitely Maybe came out. He took them to famous boozer The Good Mixer, which was often frequented by musicians. 'Liam immediately spied Graham Coxon of Blur at a table and marched up to him, bombarding the introverted guitarist with aggressive bonhomie,' Ted writes. ''You're him out of Blur!' he boomed. 'Good band… sh*** clothes though'. 'They met again at the urinal, where Liam jostled the mid-flow Coxon, splashing his strides. 'An upset Graham complained to the landlord, who foolishly ushered Oasis out forever.' Later, the Gallaghers and their entourage got into a row at a rock venue with 'several dozen fans of a long-forgotten techno-punk group' who played that night. Ted writes: 'Confusingly, this dispute became physical and a bundle of goths, record company employees and perhaps some Gallaghers ensued. 'Once more, Oasis were shown the door, bringing the curtain down on our evening tog-ether. So I wombled off into London's orangey black, swaying at the night bus stop at 2am, wondering when the next night out with the Gallaghers might be.' Last week, Noel, 57, told pals the band sounded good in rehearsals. He and Liam will walk on stage together for the first time since 2004 on July 4 at Cardiff's Principality Stadium. There will also be dates in Manchester, London and Dublin on the UK leg of the tour. A Sound So Very Loud: The Inside Story of Every Song Oasis Recorded by Ted Kessler & Hamish MacBain is published by Pan Macmillan on July 3 costing £25 for hardback – ebook and audiobook also available. Preorder book here
