Fist Fights With Liam Were Normal In Oasis Says Noel Gallagher

Punch-ups between Noel and Liam Gallagher were a regular occurrence during Oasis, but Noel claims he dealt the last blow.

The High Flying Birds frontman made the admission on this week's Late Late Show with James Corden.

When quizzed on who would win the most spars, Noel said: “It was pretty even towards the end, but I did leave on a high note."

If anyone is qualified to give advice on when to quit a band it's the 48-year-old guitarist - and he doesn't think Zayn Malik has made a wise choice leaving One Direction.

"I can’t understand why he left because they’ve only got at the most five years left," Noel told James. "He should just stand at the back, smoke week and get laid - but he should get himself a good accountant."

 

Source: www.joe.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher On Oasis Breaking Up And Former One Direction Zayn Malik

Noel shares his advice to former One Direction Zayn Malik and James asks Noel about Oasis breaking up and the fist fights they had backstage.



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Noel Gallagher On His Album, Oasis, Zayn Malik, Music, Drugs And More

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Noel Gallagher On The Drinking Skills Of Bono, Morrissey And Bobby Gillespie

Noel Gallagher—who recently said he’s lost “a f–king shitload of money” since Oasis split and, in potentially related news, advised One Direction’s Zayn Malik to “f–kin’ get a good accountant because life is very f–kin’ long”—is back with more colorful insights about the rock world.

Rock critic and editor of The Quietus John Doran interviewed Gallagher for Noisey’s The British Masters series and asked him who could drink more: Morrissey, Bono, or Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie. Gallagher responded with a predictably entertaining answer:

Bono, hands down. Bobby don’t drink. Morrissey is good crack. He can drink, and remains—doesn’t really get drunk though—he remains equally as vicious from the f—king minute you meet him until seven hours later. I lighten up once I’ve had a drink. Not Morrissey.

But Bono, he is really f—king brilliant company. I’ve been drinking with him, and I’ve been leaving a bar at 6 in the morning and he’s on the bar singing opera. And he’s got a f—king gig the following night with 70,000 people. And I’m being escorted out like James Brown—f—king pissed.

Source: www.ew.com

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Liam Gallagher Blasts Noel On Twitter

They are frequently slinging insults back and forth.

This time, however, fans of the Oasis brothers may be surprised to know that the siblings' latest exchange is about chart-topping boyband One Direction.

On Thursday Liam Gallagher told his brother Noel to leave the '1D kids alone' after he branded Zayn Malik a 'f***ing idiot' for quitting the pop group.

The 42-year-old rocker has taken to Twitter to defend Zayn following his older sibling's mocking tirade in Rolling Stone magazine about his desire to walk away from One Direction to be a 'normal 22 year old'.

During a new interview for Rolling Stone, the High Flying Birds frontman suggested that Zayn’s best bet would be to ‘get a good accountant because life is very f****** long’.

‘You want to be a normal 22-year-old? Have you met any normal 22-year-olds? They’re f****** s**t for brains.’ He added: ‘The greatest quote – I laughed out loud when I read it – “I just want to be a normal 22-year-old.’ Who wants to be a normal 22-year-old?”

But Liam has now blasted Noel, 47, by making a series of puns based on the Pink Floyd song 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)'.

In several tweets, he wrote: 'Hey NG leave those 1d kids alone LG x ... Just coz you have a SAXAPHONE on your new record and you think your all Pink Floyd LG x

'Everybody knows your just another Pr**k in the wall LG x (sic)'.

The public exchange is just the latest verbal fight between the pair - and comes just days after Liam also addressed Noel's assessment of the Oasis reunion "agreement" rumour, in which he claimed it was his girlfriend Debbie Gwyther who had started it.

Noel told Rolling Stone: "There was a rumour last week that we've had a gentleman's agreement [to reform the band], but that rumour's come from his people. It's a 'source close to him', and I'll tell you how close it is - she probably wakes up with him every morning.

'It's always left to me in an interview to let the kids down. People say, 'You're breaking these kids' hearts.' Well, what the f**k, man?"

Liam has now tweeted in response: 'Re oasis rumours you know I don't bum the press never had never will you know where I am if you need me LG x (sic)'.

Shortly followed by: 'Me and my adorable close source are living the vida Loca in the SHUNSINE LG x (sic)'. Liam also posted a more cryptic tweet, which read: "While ive been hybernating Ive been gathering my Wings LG x (sic)'.

Formed in 1991, Oasis' first LP Definitely Maybe at the time became the fastest selling debut album in the UK and set the wheels in motion for a number of hits including Don't Look Back In Anger.

However as the band grew more popular, tension between the two brother began to mount and the pair often clashed while on the road.

In 2009 after an altercation with Liam which resulted in one of his guitars being destroyed Noel quit.

In a statement, he wrote in a statement: 'It is with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight.'

He added: 'People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.'

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher 'Cannot Wait' To Hear Oasis-Inspired One Direction Album

Noel Gallagher has finally reacted to news that One Direction's fifth album will sound a bit like Oasis, and his response may just surprise you.

Believe it or not, the famously grouchy musician “cannot wait” to hear the boyband's first offering without Zayn Malik because he's intrigued to learn exactly what they mean by “Oasis-y”.

“What if it's brilliant though?” Gallagher told HuffPost Live. “What if it's amazing?”

Liam Payne revealed last week that work on 1D's next album is “coming together really well” and will boast some “great, great songs”.

“It's kind of like a bit Oasis-y almost, which is ace. I love that,” he told Capital. “The songs have come out a bit more chilled because I think we want this to be quite a long-lasting album that you can listen to anytime.”

Whether or not Gallagher will join the devoted Directioners upon hearing the new songs remains to be seen, but one thing he “doesn't agree with” is streaming.

“I'm on it. I'm not going to be the only person stood outside the sweetshop, banging on the window spitting," he said, before being reminded that Taylor Swift has already pulled her music from Spotify.

“How is the world going to survive that? Are we going to send in the UN peacekeepers to wherever she lives and make her change her mind?" Gallagher joked. “I feel frightened that Swiftie has done that."

Whether or not Gallagher will join the devoted Directioners upon hearing the new songs remains to be seen, but one thing he “doesn't agree with” is streaming.

“I'm on it. I'm not going to be the only person stood outside the sweetshop, banging on the window spitting," he said, before being reminded that Taylor Swift has already pulled her music from Spotify.

“How is the world going to survive that? Are we going to send in the UN peacekeepers to wherever she lives and make her change her mind?" Gallagher joked. “I feel frightened that Swiftie has done that."

Source: www.independent.co.uk

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Why The World Still Seems Obsessed By Oasis

Exactly 20 years on from the release of Oasis’s first No 1 single, there are good reasons why they still cast a huge shadow over the pop landscape.

Last week, the Daily Mirror ran a story on a supposed (read: 100% not happening) Oasis reunion. It arrived almost exactly one year on from a Daily Star front page that claimed the “chart-topping Manchester band” were “set to headline Glastonbury in a £500m comeback deal”. Coincidence? Maybe. Although perhaps it isn’t coincidence. Maybe the tabloids take turns. Maybe the Sun is readying its own Gallagher-brothers-reunite exclusive for this time next year.

Also likely coincidence, but the Daily Mirror story arrives close to the 20th anniversary of the landmark event that kickstarted the red tops’ obsession with Oasis: Some Might Say, the band’s first No 1 single, was released exactly 20 years ago, on 24 April 1995. The single entered the charts at No 1, a landmark event not just for Oasis, but for what was then “indie” music, and for British music in general. Up until then, the idea of a band like Oasis reaching the top of the charts, as much as Echo & the Bunnymen or the Stone Roses might have boasted it was their aim, seemed like a romantic, nebulous concept. But Oasis actually did it. When Noel Gallagher raised his guitar above his head during a celebratory appearance on Top of the Pops that week (guest presenter – of course – Chris Evans), the alternative, music press-consuming nation felt a collective pang of triumph. At that precise moment, their world became the mainstream.

Within a year, genuine disappointment would greet Bluetones singles “only” entering the charts at No 2. Oasis, meanwhile, graduated from having indie centrefold Evan Dando trail them around on tour and play tambourine badly with them at instore appearances to having Robbie Williams – the Zayn Malik of his day, only with more cocaine – trail them around on tour and dance onstage badly with them during a Glastonbury headline set. Some Might Say was followed by Roll With It, the release of which – for reasons you’ll be aware of – was a lead item on the national news. Enter the tabloid press, bearing daily stories on Liam and/or Noel for at least the next two years. In August 1997, a picture Of Noel Gallagher mooning in Ibiza was the lead story on a Daily Record front page. The second lead was the death of Princess Diana.

In April 2015, pictures of Liam getting pissed would be unlikely to trump the arrival of Kate Middleton’s baby, but the regularity with which reliably spurious Oasis stories are deemed of greater interest to readers of a national newspaper than, say, the general election is testament to a continuing, insatiable public appetite for all things Gallagher. At the more specialist end of the media scale, consider also that NME – a magazine that is in theory primarily for teenagers keen to discover the hottest new bands – has published three Noel Gallagher covers already this year, and 21 Oasis-related covers in the six or so years since they ceased to exist. Even given there have been two Noel solo albums and two Beady Eye albums to contend with in that time, that’s a lot. And it can’t solely be down to the fact Noel is consistently the sharpest, most entertaining interview in town. It is because a lot of people still care, a lot.

There is a tendency to scoff that these people are all nostalgic football-loving British lads in their mid-30s, but that is easily disproved. Noel Gallagher recently expressed frustration that neither Arctic Monkeys nor Kasabian have succeeded in inspiring a next generation of bands. There’s a reason for that. If you look to Catfish & The Bottlemen – easily the fastest rising guitar band of the moment – they’re still going back to Oasis. Their leader Van McCann had his “I must do this” epiphany at their gigs at Heaton Park in 2009. “It was as if Jesus had come back,” he said recently of the occasion. It’s worth noting at this point that McCann was not even two years old when Definitely Maybe was released.

Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian themselves, of course, are both direct, self-confessed descendants of Oasis. And if you want to look beyond white, male British guitar bands, you could pan out to Frances Bean Cobain – born the same week as Van McCann – who continues to be a vocal, B-side referencing obsessive on Twitter (quizzed as to who she preferred out of Nirvana and Hole, she answered “Oasis”). Or to Jessica Alba, who celebrated her 21st birthday at an Oasis gig in Las Vegas. Or further afield to Mish Way, singer with Canadian feminist punks White Lung, who recently wrote an article entitled “It’s literally impossible to hate Oasis”. These are just a few. Marilyn Manson adores them (‘Be Here Now’ is his favourite album). Quite brilliantly, Tupac Shakur once said that they were “true thug life”.

What Oasis still represent to this wide spectrum of people is that idea of a band doing things completely on their own terms and triumphing over ”manufactured” music. Oasis didn’t even make a dedicated video for Some Might Say (Liam didn’t turn up to the shoot, and a clip had to be cobbled together from footage shot for Cigarettes and Alcohol). Nor did they, unlike the supposedly more alternative-minded likes of Blur and Pulp, utilise that most execrable of 90s fan-extortion tactics – the multi-edition CD single – to pump up its chart position. They didn’t, it turned out, need to play either of these games. Their songs and their attitude was enough.

“We’re here to get lids like you out of the charts and bands in,” Van McCann said recently in response to fawning adoration from Louis Tomlinson of One Direction. A fantastically correct attitude for a young would-be rock’n’roll star to have. And one that comes directly from Oasis, a band who will likely still be the template for kids with or without guitars to do the same in even another 20 years’ time.

Source: www.theguardian.com

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One Direction Fans Slam Noel Gallagher On Twitter

Noel Gallagher is not a One Direction fan. That much we are pretty sure of, because he just won’t stop slagging them off.

The former Oasis star seems to blast the young X Factor singers in every interview he gives and most recently he’s not only criticised their music, but their musical genre as a whole and it sounds like he’s pretty wound up about the whole thing!

We can always count on the Wonderwall to be outspoken and controversial and in a new interview with GQ magazine, he turned his attention to the industry and radio sector, blasting:

“[It’s] pretty f**king dreadful, the music is. I can’t get my head round pop music. It’s all on the same frequency.

“It all seems designed to aggravate my teeth. You know music that makes your teeth hurt.”

Turning his rant towards Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson in particular Noel continued:

“Everybody’s winning out of it. One Direction aren’t working in the local f**king Costcutter, so they’re winning.

“The geezer who’s writing the f**king s**t tunes – he’s winning. He’s got f**king new houses coming out of his earholes.

“The record company are winning – ‘cos they’re all getting their f**king bonuses at Christmas.”

If you are a Directioner, or the parent of a Directioner then you might want to look away now because he took his insults to a whole other level, adding:

“The young 12-year-old girls are winning because one day they might actually grow up to give one of them a blowjob. They’re all winning. No-one’s losing.”

Noel’s Twitter mentions quickly filled up with messages from users who didn’t like his comments at all.

Tweets sent to the singer and guitarist included:

“I hate when people like Noel Gallagher slag off pop music. It makes people happy and doesn’t change the fact nobody likes your latest album.”

“Ok I like Oasis but serious can Noel Gallagher stop he’s just being an arse I don’t care if you hate One Direction stop being a knob”

“I have no respect at all for noel gallagher, horrible man”

Source: www.unrealitytv.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Blasts Radio 1 And One Direction

It’s news to absolutely nobody that brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher – of Oasis fame – don’t hold back on their criticism and acerbic barbs, and in today’s Sun, it’s been reported that this week, it was Noel’s turn to fire several blasts across the bows of Radio 1, One Direction and the music industry in general!

In an expletive filled interview with GQ magazine, Noel began by lambasting Radio 1, remarking, “There’s a lack of soul on Radio 1…

“I mean, what’s going to be the future of chart music?”

Branding the station “pretty f****** dreadful” he added, “I can’t get my head round pop music.

“It’s all on the same frequency. It all seems designed to aggravate my teeth.

“You know music that makes your teeth hurt?

He added, “Everybody’s winning out of it.”

And of One Direction – who are of course Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Liam Payne – Noel said, “One Diretion aren’t working in the local f****** Costcutter, so they’re winning.

“The geezer who’s writing the f****** s*** tunes, he’s winning. He’s got f****** new houses coming out of his ear holes.

“The record company are winning because they’re all getting their f****** bonuses at Christmas.

“The young 12-year-old girls are winning because one day, they might actually grow up to give one of them a b*** job.

“They’re all winning. No one’s losing.

“The only people who are losing are idiots like me at 9.30 in the morning when you’re trying to get the kids out the door for school, and they’re f****** murdering one of Blondie’s songs.”

Source: www.unrealitytv.co.uk