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Artist News
Gallagher announces new band
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 19 November 2009
Liam Gallagher has announced that he is, as he promised, working with a new band. If you can call a band consisting of most of his old band new. Only one former member of Oasis will not appear in the line-up. Can you guess who?
Speaking to Italian radio station Radio Deejay, Gallagher said: “I’ll be back [playing live] within a couple of months. … I always miss singing songs. I miss the people. We’re sort of doing things at the moment. Not Oasis, Oasis is done. Everyone except for Noel”.
He also told MTV Italy: ”We’ve been demoing some songs that we’ve had about, that we’ve had for a bit. Just doing that, on the quiet, not making a big fuss about it. ‘After Christmas we might go in the studio and record them and hopefully have an album out in July. We’ll do it in a different kind of way now. I’ll try and reconnect with a new band, new songs, and I’m feeling confident about the songs. I’m feeling a million per cent confident that they could be better than Oasis.”.
On the acrimonious split from his brother earlier this year, Liam told Radio Deejay: “To be quite honest, I think our kid wanted out. But you’ll have to ask him when he comes in and does his little solo thing. We had an argument – but we’ve had bigger ones, about more important people. Basically, I think he wanted out, wanted something different, but he hadn’t got the bollocks to tell the band or the fans”.
He also expressed regret at smashing Noel’s guitar during the argument, though not, apparently, because it is thought to be the exact moment the band split, but because it meant he damaged something he himself partly owned.
He said: “I didn’t smash it on him, I wish I had, man. He sort of… treated my guitar poorly, which was a present off my wife. So, I thought it was only fair to pay the compliment [back] so I smashed one of his. It sounds ridiculous, like a pair of old women. That guitar of mine was mine. The guitar that I smashed of Noel’s was Oasis’ guitar. Part of the thing that I pay for. So, I shouldn’t have smashed it really!”
