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The Most Outrageous Brit Awards Moments

Gallagher v Hutchence

With Britpop at its height, the night of the 1996 ceremony proved to be something of a changing of the old guard.

After being presented with the best British band award by INXS singer Michael Hutchence, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher dismissed the 80’s rocker with the stinging line: "Has-beens shouldn't be presenting awards to gonna-bes."

Hutchence later responded by secretly back-masking the line “better than Oasis” over the INXS track Elegantly Wasted.

Robbie Williams offers Liam Gallagher out

Clearly filled with Dutch courage after picking up two awards that evening, fearsome former boy band star Robbie Williams challenged his pop nemesis Liam Gallagher to a fight during the 2000 ceremony.

The former Take That singer said: "So, anybody like to see me fight Liam?

"Would you pay to come and see it?"

"We'll get in a ring and we'll have a fight."

Somewhat conveniently for Williams, Oasis were on tour in Japan at the time.

Read the rest of the most outrageous Brit Awards moments here

Source: www.dailymirror.co.uk

Freebass Get A New Singer

Freebass, the group consisting of The Smiths’ Andy Rourke, New Order’s Peter Hook and The Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Mani, have revealed their new singer.

Gary Briggs, formerly of Cornish-by-Manchester band Haven, will join the trio, alongside a number of celebrity guests.

Speaking to BBC 6Music, Peter Hook said: “We have had trouble getting it together and I have had a lot of trouble finding a vocalist and we now have another one. This is about our 15th one.”

Ian Brown, Billy Corgan, Happy Mondays’ Rowetta, Tim Burgess and Liam Gallagher are also involved in the project, reportedly contributing guest vocals.

The group has been in development since 2004, a delay Hook puts down to commitments in the members’ other bands.

He said: “We started it funnily enough, Mani and I, as a reaction because our groups New Order and Primals had been stalled, and then miraculously our groups started up again so it went on the back burner for a long time.

“Rourkie plays guitar a lot, Mani and I balance each other out. He plays low and I play high. It actually works well.”

Source: www.nme.com

Inspiral Carpets Fly High Again

Indie rock veterans Inspiral Carpets show no sign of slowing down as they prepare for another UK tour, more than two decades after they first formed.

The band, who enjoyed a string of hits in the 1990s including This Is How It Feels and Dragging Me Down, play Wolverhampton Civic Hall on March 12.

Singer Tom Hingley says the tours give the five-piece a chance to act and feel “like 17-year-olds”.

He says: “We played the V festival in 2003 at Weston Park and Liam Gallagher was stood at the side of the stage watching us. During the Chelmsford leg, we had Noel watching us.

“Afterwards he came up to me and said: ‘Why were you lobbing the mike through the air round your head?’ I said: ‘Noel, I’ve been round long enough that I don’t need your permission!’”

Noel Gallagher was originally a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets, helping them behind the scenes on world tours before finding superstardom with his brother’s band Oasis.

He adds: “One book on the Manchester came out recently and it had about 50 pages on the Stone Roses, 50 on Oasis, 35 on Happy Mondays and then a quarter of a page on us. And that quarter of a page was just dismissive of us.

“The revisionism makes out our band was rubbish but we were one of the top three bands in the country in 1990.

“Stone Roses were a marvellous band, who were better looking than us and better songwriters.

“But we created a fashion and we had really good songs. We were really, really good.”

While the Inspirals enjoyed a string of chart hits, their psychedelic side brought them the endorsement of a run of sessions for the late Radio One DJ John Peel.

Hingley says: “The band did about five or six of them. One of my proudest moments was headlining the Reading Festival in 1990. We played to 80,000 people and my dad was there to watch me for the first time.

He adds: “We get a lot of 30-something blokes at our gigs but we also get the young kids who know us from the bands who we influenced like Maximo Park, Richard Ashcroft, Oasis, the Fratellis and Kaiser Chiefs.”

Hingley hopes the Inspirals will produce some new material but he warns fans not to expect anything in the near future.

“We are working on some new stuff but I wouldn’t hold your breath,” he explains.

“For us to put it out, it’ll have to be the best stuff we have ever done. We wouldn’t want to put out anything we didn’t really want people to hear.”

Source: www.expressandstar.com

Roger Daltrey Joins Charity Line-Up

The Who frontman helps out Childline

The Who's Roger Daltrey is set to play the ChildLine Rocks concert in March to celebrate 21 years of Childline.

The event will be held at the Indig02 in London on March 13, and is the charity's first ever rock concert to help raise money.

Those who buy VIP tickets will be able to bid for guitars donated by Noel Gallagher and Status Quo at an auction.

Other prizes include a Led Zeppelin plaque and a guitar signed by all the bands on the bill.

The line-up for the event is now:

Marillion
The Zombies
Russ Ballard (Argent)
Brian Bennett, OBE (The Shadows)
Fish
Thunder
Ian Paice (Deep Purple)
Glenn Hughes (Black Sabbath/Deep Purple)

Click in the link for the availability of tickets

Source: www.nme.com

The Honeymoon's Already Over For Liam And Nicole As Rocker Jets Off To LA

The honeymoon's over already for newlyweds Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton - the Oasis singer is off to the U.S. to record the band's new album.

After seven years together and a six-year-old son Gene, the couple finally tied the knot on Valentine's Day at Westminster Registry Office - the same venue Liam wed his first wife Patsy Kensit in 1997.

But after only four days of wedded bliss, Liam has been forced to leave his 33-year-old bride at home in London to join brother Noel and bandmates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Zak Starkey at a Los Angeles recording studio.

The pair were spotted kissing each other goodbye on the steps of their north London home yesterday as Liam prepared to fly Stateside.

As the newlyweds said their goodbyes, their son Gene - dressed in matching Ugg boots with his mother - seemed more interested in playing on his scooter.

Liam, 35, had been recording the group's seventh album - a follow-up to 2005's Don't Believe The Truth - in LA and temporarily left the band to fly back to Britain specially for the wedding.

Liam's older brother Noel was a noticeable absentee at the nuptials, but Nicole's sister and former All Saints bandmate Natalie and her husband, Progidy star Liam Howlett were in attendance, along with Liam's son Lennon, from his first marriage to Patsy.

Following the civil ceremony, the couple hosted a small soiree at the Landmark Hotel in Marylebone.

A friend of the couple said: "They felt like they were married anyway.

"He's worn a ring on his wedding finger for years to show his commitment.

"But he decided it was the right time and the wedding was completely hush-hush."

Liam and Nicole started dating in 2000.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

What's Going On At Oasis And Kasabain's Favourite Club Night This Weekend?

OASIS tour DJ, The Troubadours, The Jives they are also giving away some very rare signed Kasabian artwork and more loads more!

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On This Day In Oasis History...

"Don't Look Back in Anger" is a song by British rock band Oasis, written by the band's guitarist, Noel Gallagher. Released as the fourth and final single from their hit second album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? it was , released on the 19th February 1996. The song became the band's second single to reach #1 in the United Kingdom charts, and the first to feature Noel replacing Liam Gallagher on lead vocals. The title is perhaps a play on the song "Look Back in Anger", from David Bowie's Lodger album or on the play by John Osborne of the same title from which Bowie's song took inspiration.

Noel said of the song "[It] reminds me of a cross between 'All the Young Dudes' and summat the Beatles might've done." Of the character "Sally" referred to in the song he commented, "I don't actually know anybody called Sally. It's just a word that fitted, y'know, might as well throw a girl's name in there. It's gotta guarantee somebody a shag off a bird called Sally hasn't it?". Noel claims that the character "Lyla", from Oasis' 2005 single is the sister of Sally. In the interview on the DVD released with the special edition of Stop the Clocks, Noel also revealed that a girl approached him and asked him if Sally was the same girl as in the Stone Roses' track Sally Cinnamon. Noel replied that he'd never thought of that, but thought it was good anyway.

Noel admits that certain lines from the song are lifted from John Lennon: "I got this tape in The United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He's going on about 'trying to start a revolution from me bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head". I thought 'Thank you, I'll take that'!" "Revolution from me bed" most likely refers to Lennon's infamous bed-ins in 1969 , both in the quote and in the song. The piano during the intro of the song is from "Imagine". The chord progression for both the verse and the chorus are very close to the classical piece Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel only differing slightly at the end of each phrase.

The song has become a favourite at Oasis' live performances. Noel encourages the crowd to sing along and often keeps quiet during the chorus, allowing the fans instead to sing along while he focuses on his guitar playing. The volume of crowd noise that usually descends on the chorus at concerts is easily audible on the rendition of "Don't Look Back in Anger" on Familiar to Millions.

The lyric to the song charts the lyricist's trouble keeping a relationship alive on a tour, coupled with images from an unhappy childhood. For example, the line "Stand up beside the fireplace / Take that look from off your face" is taken from Peggy Gallagher's instructions to Noel when he would have his photograph taken next to the fireplace when he was a child. An unhappy child, Noel would have to be told by Peggy to take the miserable look from his face, so as to produce a suitable picture.

The video for the song is notable for featuring Patrick Macnee, the actor who played John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers, apparently a favourite of the band. Whilst filming the video, drummer Alan White met future wife Liz Atkins. They married 13th August 1997 at Studley Priory Hotel, Oxfordshire, but later divorced.

The song has been used in a huge number of television programmes since its original release — perhaps most notably, it played over the end credits of the final episode of the BBC Two drama serial Our Friends in the North in March 1996, the very week it was at the top of the UK charts.

The single cover is an homage to the incident where Ringo Starr briefly left The Beatles during the recording of The White Album; after the other three Beatles members successfully persuaded him to return, George Harrison decorated Ringo's drumkit in red, white and blue flowers to show their appreciation.

The B-side "Step Out" was originally intended for the (What's the Story) Morning Glory? album but was taken off after Stevie Wonder demanded 10% of the royalties as the chorus bore a similarity to his hit "Uptight (Everything's Alright)".

Oasis became the first act since The Jam to perform two songs on the same showing of Top Of The Pops, performing "Don't Look Back In Anger", followed by their cover of Slade's "Cum on Feel the Noize", also on the single.

In a 2006 radio interview, Liam Gallagher said that it was him who came up with the line "so Sally can wait" as Noel was struggling with that particular line at the time. (Bootlegs of demos of the song feature Noel singing 'Crowley' — as in Aleister Crowley — rather than 'Sally' so there may be some truth in Liam's claim.) Noel confirms this on the bonus DVD, entitled Lock the Box, released with the Stop the Clocks retrospective album. In the interview with Colin Murray, Noel admits, "I was doing it in the sound check and the so Sally bit, I wasn't singing that...and he [Liam] says, 'Are you singing so Sally can wait?' and I said, 'No.' and he said, 'Well you should do.'"

In 2006, a poll by Q magazine voted "Don't Look Back in Anger" as the 20th best song of all time.

The song was included as the closing track on Oasis' 'best-of' album Stop the Clocks.

Source: Wikipedia

Liam Gallagher Heads Back To Studio In LA

He's mad fer . . . marital bliss, eh?

Newlyweds Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton shared a lingering kiss as the Oasis lord set off to finish his shift mastering the band’s new album in Los Angeles.

The couple, who tied the knot on Valentine’s Day, cut short their family honeymoon as Liam disappeared across the pond to join brother Noel and the gang in a Hollywood recording studio.

Liam has become a real family man and looked glum as he left his bride and lad Gene behind playing with his scooter at their North London home.

I’m sure he told the wee man to roll with it . . .

But hopefully his old fella will be back soon with a bumper album for us all.
Mega.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Graeme Swann On Meeting Liam Gallagher

England cricket star Graeme Swann answers questions sent in by fans on the current tour of New Zealand.

What's your best experience away from the cricket so far this tour?

Definitely the flight over because I sat next to Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher – a hero of mine. Luke Wright was originally supposed to sit next to him but he’s just a young boy-band wannabe and probably doesn’t even have a clue who he is so I got our seats swapped sharpish. It was proper Roy of the Rovers dream stuff – I’ll probably get home and find I’ve won the lottery and Newcastle are top of the Premier League. No, all right, that’s just ludicrous talk…

Click here to read the full interview.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Oasis Definitely The Best Ever

Britpop veterans Oasis have cleaned up in the all-time album charts.

Definitely Maybe from 1994 was voted top of the 50 Best Ever British Albums with the 1995 follow-up (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? second.

The Manchester band, fronted by brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, beat classics by The Beatles, The Clash and The Stone Roses in a poll by music mag Q and retailer HMV.

Radiohead’s 1997 masterpiece OK Computer came third while Amy Winehouse was the only female on the list, with Back To Black at 35.

Q editor Paul Rees said: “Having polled three times more votes than any other act, Oasis are undoubtedly the nation’s most loved band.”

BEST EVER BRITISH ALBUMS: 1. Definitely Maybe, Oasis; 2 (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? Oasis; 3 OK Computer, Radiohead; 4 Revolver, The Beatles; 5 The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses; 6 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles; 7 London Calling, The Clash; 8 Under The Iron Sea, Keane; 9 Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd; 10 Urban Hymns, The Verve.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Oasis Win Poll To Find The 'Best Ever British Album'

The Gallagher brothers' 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe, came top in the poll by music magazine Q and retailer HMV to find the 50 "Best Ever British Albums" this is the full list.

The top 50

01. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
02. (What's The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
03. OK Computer - Radiohead
04. Revolver - The Beatles
05. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
06. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
07. London Calling - The Clash
08. Under The Iron Sea - Keane
09. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
10. Urban Hymns - The Verve
11. The Bends - Radiohead
12. Abbey Road - The Beatles
13. Hopes And Fears - Keane
14. Don't Believe The Truth - Oasis
15. Violator - Depeche Mode
16. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
17. A Night At The Opera - Queen
18. Whatever People Say I Am - Arctic Monkeys
19. The White Album - The Beatles
20. Never Mind The B******s - Sex Pistols
21. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
22. Be Here Now - Oasis
23. Absolution - Muse
24. Rio - Duran Duran
25. Parklife - Blur
26. A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
27. The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
28. Origin Of Symmetry - Muse
29. IV - Led Zeppelin
30. The Wall - Pink Floyd
31. Up The Bracket - The Libertines
32. X&Y - Coldplay
33. Who's Next - The Who
34. Black Holes And Revelations - Muse
35. Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
36. Songs Of Faith And Devotion - Depeche Mode
37. Word Gets Around - Stereophonics
38. The Fat Of The Land - Prodigy
39. Different Class - Pulp
40. In Rainbows - Radiohead
41. Hunky Dory - David Bowie
42. Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
43. Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
44. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
45. Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys
46. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
47. Parachutes - Coldplay
48. Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones
49. Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
50. Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

No Maybes, Oasis Definitely Favourites

Britpop veterans Oasis have demonstrated their place in music lovers' hearts by securing first and second places in a new chart of the best British albums.

Fans voted the Manchester group's first two LPs ahead of established classics by The Beatles, The Clash and The Stone Roses.

The Gallagher brothers' 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe, came top in the poll by music magazine Q and retailer HMV to find the 50 Best Ever British Albums.

The follow-up, (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, came second and another two Oasis records made the top 25.

Radiohead's dense 1997 masterpiece OK Computer was third in the poll, followed by The Beatles' Revolver and The Stone Roses' self-titled debut.

The rock-dominated chart also features records by The Clash, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, The Smiths and Queen.

More recent artists to make the cut include Keane, Arctic Monkeys and troubled Amy Winehouse, the only female singer on the list.

Q editor Paul Rees said: "It's clear that, having polled three times more votes than any other act, Oasis are undoubtedly the nation's most loved band.

"Similarly, it's evident just who music fans believe the classic and most enduring British acts of each era to be.

"And, by that measure, the likes of Keane, Arctic Monkeys, Muse and Amy Winehouse have emerged in recent years to be seen as genuinely classic artists in the eyes of the people that matter most - those who buy music.

"In a list that features the likes of Radiohead's OK Computer and The Beatles' Revolver this list is a testament to the popularity of Oasis and their music."

Rudy Osorio, HMV head of music, added: "Most album polls of recent years have tended to see the likes of The Beatles, Radiohead and Stone Roses vie for the top five spots.

"However, as our perspective changes, it looks like many more of us are starting to recognise the iconic appeal of Oasis and the brilliance of Definitely Maybe as an era-defining album."

Source: www.thewest.com.au

I will post the full list as soon as I find it....

Cast Your Votes At The NME Awards

Oasis have been nominated in two categories for this years NME Awards 2008.

Best Track
'Fluorescent Adolescent' – Arctic Monkeys
'Flux' – Bloc Party
'Men's Needs' – The Cribs
'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' - Oasis
'Let's Dance To Joy Division' – The Wombats

Best Music DVD
'Up The Shambles' – Babyshambles
'The Song Remains The Same' – Led Zeppelin
'Unplugged In New York' - Nirvana
'Lord Don’t Slow Me Down' - Oasis
'I Told You I Was Trouble' – Amy Winehouse

The awards are now only a few weeks away, on February 28 at their new home, the Indig02 in north Greenwich, London.

Take a look at who is left in each category, and then cast your vote via www.nme/awardsnominees. Remember and get your votes in by 10am on Monday February 25.

Some Might Pay... £10k For Wed Day

Liam and Nicole snub big bash for bargain celebration

Millionaire rocker Liam Gallagher had a "bargin basement" wedding, spending less then £10,000 on the days celebrations.

The Oasis frontman and new wife Nicole Appleton snubbed a mega-money bash for a quiet gathering in their hotel room.

They invited a handfull of close friends and family for drinks after a ceremony in a nearby register office.

Songbird Liam, 35, who turned down "six-figure sums" from some of Britain's top glossy magazines to cover the day, shelled out for the £2,000-a-night Presidential Suite at London's five-star Landmark Hotel for the low-key celebration.

But palatial room 510 was the most expensive part of the day's fun, which cost less then the average £11,000 British wedding.

The guests, who included Nicole's All Saints pal Melanie Blatt, 32, and Liam's mum Peggy, drank their way through bottles of bubbly and cans of Stella while dining on bangers and mash.

A hotel source said: "The party went straight from the register office over the road to the hotel and locked themselves inside the Presidential Suite all night.

"The room is amazing, with a dining area for six, a huge white-carpeted living room with a massive four-poster bed.

"Liam's kids were given free rein to run around the rooms and in the hallways - they were having great fun. Everyone had a good time.

"It shows you don't have to go crazy with the money on your wedding day to enjoy yourself.

"Liams never been one to brag about cash because he knows what it's like to live on a pittance. He had nothing before Oasis made it big.

"Their wedding was about making a long-term relationship official and they did that.

"It wasn't about splashing the cash."

Liam tied the knot at the Old Marylebone Town Hall - the same venue where he married first wife Patsy Kensit, 39, in 1997. They split three years later.

He returned from Los Angeles, where he has been working on a new Oasis album and where his brother Noel, 40, is thought to have stayed, to get hitched on Thursday.

The couple posted several different dates and venues on their wedding plans to confuse the paparazzi.

Nicole, 33, spoke earlier this year about how she longed to marry her long-term boyfriend, saying: "Marriage is important to me"

Source: Daily Star

More On Liam And Nicole's Wedding

Keeping their wedding under wraps clearly tired Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton - as the pair spent their first day as Mr and Mrs in bed.

We can't imagine any other reason newlyweds would choose to hide all day.

The Oasis star, 35, left the couple's suite in the Landmark Hotel, London only once - to visit friends staying in another room.

He returned to Nic a few minutes later to do some more recovering...

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Paul Weller Confirms Exit Festival Slot & New Album Out In June

Paul Weller has been confirmed to appear at this year’s Exit Festival.

The former frontman of The Jam and The Style Council is heading to Serbia on July 11th. He will showcase his new double album ’22 Dreams’ on the Main Stage, as well as dipping into his extensive back catalogue.

Weller joins The Sex Pistols on the line-up, while Finnish metal act Nightwish have also been added to the bill. Tickets for the festival, which takes place from 10th-13th of July, are available for the tiny price of £72.

’22 Dreams’ will be released June and includes guest appearances from Noel Gallagher and Graham Coxon. The album will be preceded by a full UK tour in May.

Source: www.festivalwise.com

I Turned Down Oasis To Watch Coronation Street

Kiss, The Offspring and Lostprophets have been confirmed to headline the Download 2008 festival this summer but who else will be playing? The man booking the bands is former Rock City director Andy Copping.

As vice president of music for Live Nation, one of the world's largest concert promoters, he is responsible for organising UK tours for some of the biggest rock and rock stars.

"It was like me when I turned down Oasis to go and watch Coronation Street, remember?'"

I do. And it's a story that has been in the pages of the Evening Post in the past. In March 1994 he was offered the chance to put the band on at the Talbot Street venue for just £100.

He'd never heard of them, was busy and said no. A few weeks later they were dominating headlines.

By August they'd been booked and played a sell-out show there.

Read the Full interview here

Source: www.thisisnottingham.co.uk

I Effin’ Do Luv

Oasis singer Liam Gallagher finally wed Nicole Appleton yesterday and celebrated by dancing to Britney Spears!

The Britpop legend tied the knot with the All Saints star in a quiet ceremony watched by only a few friends and family.

But the happy couple more than made up for it last night with a private party in their hotel room.

Guests knocked back booze as Britney’s No1 smash Gimme More blared out of their fifth-floor suite.

Outside the door was a trolley loaded with empty champagne bottles and all-drunk cans of super-strong Stella lager.

Liam’s son Lennon, nine, and the couple’s six-year-old boy Gene yelled excitedly as they ran along the plush-carpeted corridor in London’s swanky Landmark Hotel.

But Liam’s brother Noel, 40, was not there – he is currently working in the US.

The 35-year-old singer had told chums he wanted a wedding “down-to-earth – but with a posh twist”. But he and Nicole, 33, who have been together eight years, were so desperate to keep their marriage a secret they posted a string of eight possible dates and addresses at Marylebone register office – where he had also married ex-wife Patsy Kensit.

Guests including Nicole’s sister Natalie, 34, and her Prodigy star hubby Liam Howlett, 36, attended the ceremony and then headed for the hotel for a £75 sausage dinner. But the party really got into full swing when the bride and groom invited their pals up to room 510.

After bopping to Britney the guests danced to The Who classic My Generation and then a medley of Madness songs.

Liam’s mum Peggy giggled to guests how much she loved the cake while his other brother Paul playfully bickered with a girlfriend who appeared to have had too much bubbly.

Nicole’s bandmate Melanie Blatt, 32, said: “It has been a very good day.” While fellow All Saint Shaznay Lewis, 32, joked: “God, we’re all so grown-up now!”

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

Oasis Liam's Wed For It Again

Rocker Liam Gallagher married for the second time yesterday — in the venue where he wed first wife Patsy Kensit.

The Oasis singer and Nicole Appleton tied the knot at London’s Westminster Register Office.

It is steeped in rock history, with Beatle Sir Paul McCartney marrying first wife Linda there in 1969.

“Mad for it” Liam and Patsy, 39, got hitched at old Marylebone Town Hall in 1997 — but split three years later.

He has been in Los Angeles working on an album, but flew back to marry the former All Saints singer, 33.

Nicole’s bandmate sister Natalie, 34, was there with Prodigy hubby Liam Howlett, 36 — but newlywed Liam’s brother NOEL, 40, stayed in LA.

The couple’s son Gene, six, was there, along with Lennon, eight — Liam’s son with Patsy.

The witnesses were Nicole’s sister Mel and Liam’s mum Peggy.

A source said of the couple: “They felt like they were married anyway. He’s worn a ring on his wedding finger for years to show his commitment.

“But he decided it was the right time.”

A source at the venue said: “The wedding was completely hush-hush.”

Liam, 35, will return to LA next week. An Oasis spokesman last night confirmed he had married.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk