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CMU Beef Of The Week #121: Liam Gallagher v music and fashion. And Noel. And Wayne Rooney
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 3 August 2012
Liam Gallagher recently gave an interview to The Telegraph’s fashion section. Because he’s in the fashion business now, as I’m sure you know – his Pretty Green label, founded in 2009, now has eleven stores around the UK, including one just outside the Olympic Park, with international expansion in the works.
However, said Liam, while it’s all been a good move financially, his time in the music business has taught him not to get too engaged with the fashion world. Or, as he put it: “No one’s making money out of records so it has been a good move. But it wasn’t a planned move, it just happened. I don’t want to get caught up in [the fashion industry though]. I’m not hostile, but 90% of the music business is run by idiots and I’ll guess it’s the same for fashion, know what I mean?”
Not hostile? Surely it’s the hostility that we all love best about Liam Gallagher. Is he softening in his old age? His ongoing war of words with brother Noel has certainly died down since the pair sued and countersued each other over claims Noel made about a cancelled Oasis V Festival performance.
On this, Liam said: “My mum told us we ought to chill out after that suing thing. I went: ‘All right, cool’. I can’t talk to him, but I’ve never hated him. He’s doing his thing and I’ll do mine. But I did enjoy our little spats – since we called a truce the world’s just boring. It’s been hell. We need to get the party started again! Maybe in Japan…”
I think that might have been another call for an Oasis reunion. Or just a challenge to a fight in Tokyo. But whatever, Liam saved his choicest words for footballer Wayne Rooney, and his slightly misjudged new haircut: “I’m not having it. He looks like a fucking balloon with a fucking Weetabix crushed on top. He’s better off as a skinhead, isn’t he?”