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And Finally Beef Of The Week
CMU Beef Of The Week #70: Noel v Liam
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 8 July 2011
Noel Gallagher announced this week that he plans to release not one but two solo albums in the next six months or so. The first, ‘Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Bird’ will be released in October, followed by a collaboration with Future Sound Of London’s psychedelic rock offshoot Amorphous Androgynous next year.
And once all the journalists at his press conference on Wednesday had feigned interest in all of that, they got on with the business of asking him about the break-up of Oasis that caused him to become a solo artist in the first place.
Oasis, I’m sure you remember, imploded suddenly, splitting just minutes before they were due to go on stage at the Rock En Seine festival near Paris in 2009. There’d already been much talk about Liam wielding a guitar about the place and shouting just before the split, which Noel spoke about on Wednesday, though he added that no one was actually hit, but said: “Liam doesn’t like me. I don’t get on with him, but he doesn’t like me in a very violent way. I did everyone a favour when I left”.
He explained: “I’d never had enough of Oasis – I’d had enough of him. It started to unravel when he started his clothing label [Pretty Green] and he demanded that in the Oasis tour programme he be allowed to advertise. And I didn’t think it was right for him to be flogging his gear to our fans. There was a massive row about it. It slowly went downhill after that”.
Finally, he said: “At the end of the day he doesn’t like me. For me, there’s no point in being in a band with people you fight with. What’s the point?”
Shortly after the press conference, Liam took to Twitter and published his own response. It simply reads: “SHITBAG”.