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Daily Mail
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
I partied with Noel Gallagher in the 1990s and met him numerous times over 28 years - here's what he's REALLY like, and how fame changed him
A woman who partied with Noel Gallagher in the 1990s and met him numerous times over 28 years has revealed what he's really like - as Oasis returns for the first time in 16 years. Lily Moayeri, from California has been a music journalist since 1992, interviewing some of the world's most influential musicians at the start of their careers, including Oasis. She first met Noel during a night out in 1992, after she was invited to an after party by Manchester rock band Inspiral Carpets, who Noel was a roadie for. Since then, she has interviewed him many times over the course of his career. They developed a strong rapport, she wasn't afraid to ask the tough questions, and she could both take his banter and dish it right back. She described him as 'a show off' with a 'witty sense of humour', but she noticed a change in Noel around 1997. She claimed things were starting to feel 'different' as she noticed that Noel had stopped 'making eye contact with people' and by 2000 he was already talking about leaving the band. Speaking on the Pictures of Lily Podcast, she said: 'I first met Noel in 1992 when he was a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets, the Inspirals were apart of the Manchester craze which was happening at the start of that decade. 'My interview with their guitarist Graham Lambert was my second ever interview and they were my second favourite band at the time, so I was very excited. 'After the Inspiral's show Graham and the band invited me and my friends to hang out at a nearby bar, it was here that we were first exposed to the entity that is Noel Gallagher. 'Noel was so loud, so talkative and such a show off, he was dominating the whole place, he was very very funny and he had us in stitches the whole time. 'He kept on saying loads of negative stuff about the Inspiral Carpets and he said he was going to have a band "a hundred times better" and he kept on telling us how much they were paying him to be a roadie.' The next time she met Noel was two years later at the Chemical Brothers Heavenly Sunday social, after the Oasis album Definitely Maybe had been released. She recalled: 'I hadn't listened to it, and I had made my mind up without hearing it that I was over it. 'I didn't realise at the time but they were playing Oasis's Live Forever and the whole place was singing at the top of their lungs and the whole place was soaking it up. 'I didn't place him but I knew I had met him before, and I was going over to ask him "where do I know you from?" but I decided against it because I was having a really good time and I didn't want to start a conversation with some random dude.' 'Later that year I was watching MTV News and they were doing a segment on Oasis and they mentioned that Noel used to be the Inspiral Carpets roadie and everything fell into place.' A year later, after the release of What's the Story, Morning Glory, Lily got to meet Noel again, but this time for an interview. In 1995, they at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, Oasis were there to film the music video for Don't look Back in Anger. She said: 'I reminded Noel that we had met before and we had a super fun time during the interview. 'I was recording on cassette tape, I had another interview that week and I was running out of tape so I stopped the recording and Noel thought it was insane that I would stop just to save tape for someone else - in retrospect I see him point.' She said during the interview he went to buy cigarettes and she said they were cheaper down the road and he said "I don't care because I'm f***ing rich!" Noel said: 'I never thought we would get to this stage, I needed the money, well I made good money as a roadie but then I quit that.' In the interview, he claimed the songs Liam wrote were 's***', but he found it to be a 'a lot of pressure' as the main songwriter of the group. Noel wrote the vast majority of the band's songs, including many of their most iconic hits up until 2000. While Liam also wrote some songs for the band, such as Songbird and I'm Outta Time, Noel's songwriting was the foundation of Oasis's success. During Lily's 1995 interview with Noel he also opened up about his drug taking. He said: 'If we don't have an album or a single coming out the article is going to be about drug. I've never told a lie, if someone asks me a question, I give them a straight answer. 'It's not big and clever to take drugs, I'd rather be a healthy person but the culture I was brought up on in Manchester was about drugs and gangs, there is no getting away from it. 'I'd love to give up smoking, drinking and drugs but I'm not going to be a hypocritical, up my own a**, righteous f*****, telling people not to do it when I do it myself. 'Every does it anyway, and there is people who deny it and they lie to themselves, but I can't for the life of me see what the f**** it has to do with the music.' Elsewhere in the interview Noel said 'Oasis won't last forever' he added: 'It will last as it as it lasts, the next album might be the last one, but then we could go for another 10 albums, its as long as I feel comfortable.' The next time Lily saw Oasis was when they were opening up for U2 at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California in 1997. She claimed things were starting to feel 'different' as she noticed that Noel had stopped 'making eye contact with people'. In 2000, when she interviewed him again, Lily revealed it felt rushed and not as relaxed as it did in her earlier interviewers. Noel told her he had planned to leave the band because he 'had enough' and he 'didn't like the people' he had to work with. He said: 'I felt like we weren't going anywhere, it was useless. I felt my time would be better served as a solo artist so I gave up drug, rediscovered the writing bug, it was brilliant.' Nine years after that interview, Oasis officially announced their split days after their V Festival show on August 28, 2009. In her podcast, Lily said: 'The thing that I found with Noel is, he doesn't have deep seated loyalties, he has people who are loyal to him but he could drop his end of it without any explanation or reason instantly. 'There is always that fear surrounding him, I wasn't surprised when they other members of Oasis didn't follow him when the band broke up.' In another interview years later, Lily asked Noel if he wanted to have the same impact as Oasis had as a solo artist. He said: 'I didn't realise what had happened until it was all over, to be honest it' never going to happen again, it's never going to happen for me, it might not ever happen again in rock and roll. 'The music keeps on regenerating, it couldn't happen to me now what happened to Oasis then. I wouldn't be able to deal with that. Well, I would be able to deal with it but I wouldn't be able to enjoy it.' Lisa revealed that Noel has a 'witty sense of humour' and said you can always count on him for a laugh. However she did find it 'a little weird' that he used to always bring up money, how much things cost, how much he was getting paid, how much people should be paying him for things.
ITV News
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ITV News
Who are the Gallagher brothers and why is the Oasis reunion so historic?
We've been waiting 15 years for the Oasis reunion and as the Gallagher brothers prepare to perform live on stage together here's all you need to know to get ready for the gigs. The start of Oasis Oasis first formed as a band in 1991 in Manchester. Liam Gallagher, from Burnage, was the vocalist, Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs was on guitar, Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan was on bass, and Tony McCarroll on drums. Originally called The Rain, Liam suggested they change their name to Oasis after spotting an Inspiral Carpets tour poster in the childhood bedroom he shared with his brother Noel, which listed the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon, Wiltshire, as a venue. Oasis played their first gig, at the bottom of the bill, on 14 August 1991 at the Boardwalk club in Manchester. After returning from touring as roadie for Inspiral Carpets, Noel, Liam's older brother, agreed to join the band and become the band's main songwriter. When were they spotted? In May 1993 Oasis were spotted by Creation Records co-owner Alan McGee. They were invited to play a gig at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut club in Glasgow by Sister Lovers, who shared their rehearsal rooms, but when they arrived they were refused entry as they weren't on the set list. When they eventually entered the club they were given the opening slot, impressing McGee - who was there to see Sister Lovers whose member Debbie Turner was a close friend. He offered them a recoding contract, but they did not sign until several months later. Due to problems securing an American contract, Oasis signed a worldwide contract with Sony, which in turn licensed Oasis to Creation in the UK. Oasis's debut album, Definitely Maybe, was released on 29 August 1994, entering the UK Albums Chart at number one within a week of its release, making it, at the time, the fastest selling debut album in the UK. Why are Oasis so important? Oasis are the rock band that helped form the so-called Britpop sound in the 1990s. From the early 90s Oasis recorded timeless songs across their eight albums; they defined a generation and continue to influence musicians with songs like Live Forever, Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger and Rock 'N' Roll Star. Oasis have sold more than 70 million albums, and picked up more than 30 awards from the Brits, MTV, NME and Q. The band recorded Britain's fastest-selling debut album, soon followed by Britain's fastest-selling album and have a place in the Guinness Book Of Records for scoring 22 consecutive Top Ten singles. Why did the band split? 'The guns have fallen silent': What's the story behind the Oasis rift? The relationship between the Gallagher brothers has always been tumultuous. In 1996, just days after performing their biggest-ever gig at Knebworth, Liam pulled out of a recording for MTV Unplugged, claiming he had a sore throat. He then sat and watched the band perform from the balcony and heckled Noel in between songs. A US tour followed days after, but Liam initially refused to go, forcing Noel to perform with him. When Liam did eventually turn up for the tour, he taunted his brother on stage. Noel decided to fly home early and the remaining tour dates were cancelled. In August 2009, Oasis cancelled their gig at V Festival, saying Liam was too ill to perform. A few days later, the band had been due to perform at Paris festival Rock en Seine. Before the gig, an announcement was made informing the crowd that Oasis would not be playing. A notice on the big screens at either side of the main stage showed the message: "As a result of an altercation within the band, the Oasis gig has been cancelled". A statement from Noel appeared on the band's official website hours later, marking the end of Oasis. He told fans: "It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. "People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer." ...and then reform? Reunion rumours intensified in 2024 amid the apparent thawing in the feud between the brothers. They confirmed in August 2024 that the Oasis Live 25 tour would go ahead, saying: 'The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.' What to expect from the reunion tour? Cast will be the opening act for Oasis, followed by Richard Ashcroft, the former lead singer of The Verve. The Gallaghers will be joined by original Oasis band member Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, as well as Gem Archer and Andy Bell who both joined the band in 1999 and were part of the line-up until the 2009 split The much anticipated set list is still under wraps, but is expected to include all the fans favourites. The band's co-manager Alec McKinlay told Music Week: "This is very much the last time around, as Noel's made clear in the press. "It's a chance for fans who haven't seen the band to see them, or at least for some of them to. But no, there's no plan for any new music." Where and when are Oasis performing? Principality Stadium, Cardiff - 4, 5 July Heaton Park, Manchester - 11, 12, 16, 19, 20 July Wembley Stadium, London - 25, 26, 30 July, 2, 3 August, and 27, 28 September Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh - 8, 9, 12 August Croke Park, Dublin - 16, 17 August
BBC News
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Oasis reunion tour was 'closest kept secret', friend says
A friend and long-time collaborator of Oasis has said the band's reunion tour was "the closest kept secret ever" before it was Cannon designed the band's album covers for Definitely Maybe, (What's the Story) Morning Glory and Be Here Now, and also collaborated with other bands from the Britpop "Madchester" scene such as The Verve. He said despite working on the Definitely Maybe 30th anniversary project with Noel Gallagher last year, he had "no idea" the brothers had planned the reunite. "I said I would run the length of Deansgate naked if they did [get back together]. That's how convinced I was it wasn't going to happen," he told BBC Radio Manchester. Mr Cannon added: "[Noel] gave nothing away, I think about eight people knew."The 41-gig tour kicks off in Cardiff on Friday, and the gig will be the first Oasis has performed in 16 years. Mr Cannon said he met Noel while the then-unsigned musician was working as a roadie for Madchester band Inspiral Carpets. "I met him in a lift one day. [We were] talking about trainers," he said. "I met them both before I knew anything about Oasis. They were two effortlessly cool oddballs."He said after "bumping into each other at gigs" around Manchester, the brothers invited Mr Cannon to watch them play. "I put it off because I thought 'it's bound to be rubbish', because all my mates' bands are rubbish."And it blew me away, and that was it." After designing the cover for Inspiral Carpets' 1992 album Revenge of the Goldfish, Mr Cannon said Noel asked him to design Oasis's album art. Mr Cannon said he didn't think the Gallagher brothers would be feeling too much pressure ahead of the tour. "They've all played the songs before, they've all played to big crowds before," he said. "They'll take it in their stride." Listen to the best of BBC Radio Manchester on Sounds and follow BBC Manchester on Facebook, X, and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
Daily Mirror
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
'We helped turn a jam session with a farting dog into a massive Oasis hit'
Chris and Tony Griffiths had a record contract and successful first album when they first met struggling wannabe rock stars Liam and Noel - taking them under their wing and showing them how to make records and even having a hand in some iconic songs Liam Gallagher was still at school, and Noel still working in a warehouse as a British Gas sub-contractor, when another pair of Beatles-obsessed brothers, Chris and Tony Griffiths, looked set to hit the big time. Their band, The Real People, had been signed to Colombia records for three years, and their first, eponymous album, had sold 100,000 copies. In 1992 the Griffiths were on tour with the Inspiral Carpets - for whom Noel Gallagher also worked as a roadie. It was over Pot Noodles in lunch breaks that Noel told them about his new band with Liam - and asked for their help. Chris and Tony invited the Gallagher brothers to their home recording studios in Liverpool - but said that before they had even heard their music they knew the duo were going to be stars. 'We had a recording deal at the time and in a better position than they were,' says Chris. 'We wanted to help them out as much as they could. 'But it wasn't about the songs. It was about Liam and his swagger. He had something. I remember the first time we saw him. It was at an end of tour party for Inspiral Carpets. 'Our kid (brother Tony) said: 'Who's he ? He's a star.' He lit up the room.' The four became good friends as they bonded over music. Chris remembers: ''They would come down on a Friday, stay over on our sofas and then go back on Sunday evening ready for work. They'd would come over and get stoned and listen to records. It was all peace and love – and music. 'We spent hours and hours listening to music. They would play us The Buzzcocks and we got them into Slade. We were bang into Slade at the time. They were into the Bee Gees.' 'We also taught them how to fall out,' he laughs. 'We were falling out 3 times a day and we still do. But we still work together now.' As Oasis is set to reunite after a falling out that lasted 16 years, with the first of a 41-date run of gigs kicking off in Cardiff on Friday, Chris remember's going along to their first ever gig, at the Manchester Boardwalk on August 14, 1991. 'There were only a handful of people there, 50 at most. They were first on and Liam came on wearing sunglasses! We started heckling him. They weren't all great musicians. Guigsy was just getting by on bass and Tony was a standard drummer, but Noel and 'Bonehead' were great guitarists, and Liam was always a star. "But we took someone from Sony Records with us and they weren't interested.' That changed, though, after the Griffiths taught the Gallaghers how to use their recording studio, making a demo cassette of their songs which would eventually catch the eye of the music industry. Tony remembered the first time Liam tried to record his vocals in their studio. He said: 'It was the first time Liam sang with headphones and he wasn't used to it. Chris would put the head phones on and get Liam to sing along with him.' 'I have him guide vocals and then we took my vocals out,' adds Chris. It was out of one jam session that Oasis debut single, Supersonic, emerged. Chris recalls: 'We were setting up to record and started jamming and it sounded really good. 'When we started recording Noel played another song. I said: 'What you were just doing sounds better.' We said they should crack on with the new idea. There were no lyrics, no melody, just an idea and by the end of the day it was finished. 'That was the only version they ever recorded." The song includes the lines 'Can I ride with you in your BMW?' and 'I know a girl called Elsa, she's into Alka-Seltzer' . Chris recalls: 'Noel sat at the back of the room and wrote about what was going on around him. We had a BMW and Dave Scott (the in-house engineer) had a dog called Elsa that was always farting! It was huge and intimidating - and could not stop farting.' Supersonic entered the charts at No 31 and Oasis were on their way. 'We were buzzing for them,' Chris remembers. 'We were playing 'Supersonic' to everyone we could, saying: 'Listen to this, they are going to be huge. If it wasn't for us doing that and recording the demos it wouldn't happened.' Another song they had a hand in was Colombia. The track was on the demo tape which the Gallagher brothers sent to music boss Alan McGee, who signed them on his Creation Records label. The song, which was including on their debut album Definitely Maybe, would also launch their legendary Knebworth live concerts, three years later in August 1996. Chris said: 'It started out as an instrumental. It was a long psychedelic guitar dirge that went on for five minutes. I said: 'This needs lyrics.' 'I came up with the first verse melody and first verse lyrics, Noel came up with the second verse and Liam came up with lyrics.' Three decades later, The Real People are still making music, with a new album planned for release next year. They continue to champion new acts, including The Kowloons, fronted by Chris's son Bobby. Chris says: I'm still doing music 24/7. We have our own studio and write songs and produce other bands. If I'm not writing or recording I'm doing Beatles covers around Liverpool pubs.' Tony said: 'We're proud to have been there to give them the support and the help we did. "And we are just proud to have been involved with the best album, and the best rock 'n' roll band, of the last 30 years."
Daily Mail
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Oasis reunion is plunged into fresh chaos as furious crew blast 'uncaring' Gallagher brothers over shocking move - and insiders tell KATIE HIND tour is 'all about the money'
Before Noel Gallagher found fame in Oasis, he was a roadie for '80s band Inspiral Carpets. It was a job he loved, and it gave him helpful, first-hand insight into the background cogs and wheels of the music industry – and, more specifically, the mechanics of touring. But nearly 40 years later all that insight appears to have been forgotten.
