Oh brother - Liam Gallagher is going to continue with Oasis despite Noel binning the band for good.The mad fer it Manc wants to Roll With It and keep the music alive as he holds the rights to the super band.This week Liam said he wouldn't talk to his brother until January - because he thinks Noel will need that long to cool off.I'm told by a contact in Liam's camp: "He's decided that just becau...
Noel Gallagher Is Looking Back In AngerNoel Gallagher is set to reveal all about his furious bust-up with brother Liam on prime-time telly.Chat king Piers Morgan is battling to sign up the Oasis star for his hit show.The band announced their split last week.Noel, 42, quit before a Paris gig, claiming he had suffered "verbal and violent intimidation".Reports suggest he and brother Liam had to b...
Noel Gallagher's decision to quit Oasis is years overdue, says Nick Hasted. The band were no longer relevant. And yet there is much to celebrate about their Champagne Supernova.When the end finally came for Oasis, it did so with a whimper. The violent altercations between the Gallagher brothers, a source of knockabout humour in the good days, had turned sour and abusive, said Noel, so he walked...
Noel Gallagher once penned the song Half The World Away.But he hasn't managed to get even a quarter of the world away from little brother Liam.The warring siblings have gone on holiday to get away from the storm caused over the Oasis split.But they have ended up in the same country.Noel has taken missus Sara MacDonald and their little laddie Donovan, to the Italian island of Sardinia for a well...
Who's a chart-topper and who's out of tune on this week's countdown of fame(Caitlin Moran) "OASIS SPLIT!" the headlines roared. And CW knows what you were thinking: "Holy guacamole, I am too jaded to read much past 'OASIS SP . . .'." News that the Gallagher brothers have had a massive mid-tour fight and imploded had a "Groundhogian" element to it. Over the past 14 years one could have made a p...
Click to download: Pump up the volumeDid you think Reading festival was too quiet? No such problems online, says Chris SalmonThere was much grumbling at last weekend's Reading festival that the main stage speakers weren't turned up loud enough. But there are no such concerns at bbc.co.uk/readingandleeds, where you can literally crank the volume to 11 on extensive video highlights from across th...
........ Says Inspiral Carpets Front Man While the Strabane faithful who made the trip to Slane Castle in June to see Oasis were still taking in the news of Noel Gallagher's acrimonious split from the group on Friday, one of Noel's former employers was in Strabane on Sunday for a very special gig of his own.Tom Hingley, front man of nineties 'Madchester' fav...
Liam Gallagher has ruled out any chance of an Oasis reunion with Noel, declaring: "It's over."Speaking for the first time about the band's split, the rocker said there was "no way he'd get back with Noel".His brother quit the band last week after another bust-up with Liam, who then headed to Italy's Lake Como with girlfriend Nicole Appleton and fellow band member Andy Bell.They spent four night...
Oasis modelled themselves on the Beatles - but their legacy won't come closeThis has been a week of the Beatles and Oasis, two bands linked across the decades. They were the most popular British bands of their respective eras and generations, the Swinging Sixties and Britpop Nineties, putting Britain at the centre of the global airwaves. But while the music business gears up for the last hurrah of
Noel Gallagher seems to be revelling in his decision to quit Oasis and is enjoying a new life in the sun away from brother Liam.Noel, 42, was spotted in Sardinia enjoying the sunshine with his long-term girlfriend Sara Macdonald and his son Donovan, 2.He looked chilled and happy as he relaxed in the Italian sun - a far cry from the in-band rowing he said drove a wedge between him and Liam, 36.O...
Noel's left and now the remaining members of Oasis could be about to leave Liam high and dry.Liam is holidaying in Italy's Lake Como with his missus Nicole Appleton but we're told any plans for a new-look Oasis could sink without trace.Says our mole: "It was always on the cards that Noel was to quit - the other band members saw it coming the night before he walked out."Some have already started...
The French promoter faced with paying a refund to each of the 30,000-plus music fans who turned up in Paris to see Oasis says he has no plans to take legal action against the band.Salomon Hazot of Nous Productions, who has run the city's Rock En Seine Festival for seven years, told Pollstar he believes he can work out an amicable solution with the act's management."I think I am dealing with som...
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