So stick to the day job, Joan, Jim, Noel, et al. And if you're not working, do something seemly - like watching telly.
- Erlös soll zum Schuldenabbau der Dritten Welt beitragen
20 Jahre nach Live Aid, dem wohl größten Benefizkonzert der Musikgeschichte, plant Bono nach Informationen der britischen Zeitung "The Sun" eine Neuauflage des Konzerts. Wie das Boulevardblatt unter Berufung auf britische Regierungsvertreter berichtete, will der Sänger der Rockband U2 mit dem Erlös zum Schuldenabbau der Dritten Welt beitragen.
Als Superstars der Marathonveranstaltung seien unter anderem Robbie Williams, die Gruppen Oasis, Coldplay und Radiohead sowie Paul McCartney und Phil Collins im Gespräch, hieß es weiter. Laut "The Sun" will Bono noch in dieser Woche die Details seines Plans bekanntgeben.
Bono und U2 waren 1985 bei Live Aid aufgetreten, das damals maßgeblich von dem Musiker Bob Geldof organisiert worden war. 16 Stunden lang traten die Topstars der damaligen Musikszene parallel im Londoner Wembley-Stadion und im John F. Kennedy Stadion von Philadelphia (US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania) auf. Das Konzert wurde weltweit übertragen. Der Erlös der Spendenaufrufe, rund 60 Millionen Pfund, kam den hungernden Menschen in Äthiopien zugute.
He may have only written the odd early Oasis tune but strumming a guitar earned Bonehead the riches one would expect from being in a rock 'n' roll band at the top of it's game.
According to The Last Party, John Harris's in-depth book on the britpop phenomenen, Bonehead even surprised himself with his swollen bank balance.
"I was out with a mate once and I said 'Can we stop at a cash machine?' I pressed 'display balance' and it said 'Your balance is £480,000'. He was like 'Is that right?' I said 'Look at that! Check it out!'"
Sounds fanciful.
"It's true," laughs Bonehead. "We were going for a pint and I said 'I'll go to the cash machine'.
He siad 'no, it's all right - I'll give you a sub'. I didn't know what was in there but I said 'no, it's all right I'll grab it out, we're passing it anyway'.
"Of course, I looked and it was like 'check this out!'. When we got in the pub the drinks were on Bonehead."
If he did it now how much would it be?
"Well, I was £1,500 overdrawn last week but I sorted it out. Did a few transfers here and there. If I did it now I don't know - I'd be all right put it that way."
Seems he was sensible with the Oasis dollar and invested it "here and there".
"I was too sensible actually but that all comes from having a sensible wife. If it was down to me I would have blown it."
Still he has a "large" detached house in Bowden, Cheshire, and drives a Porsche Ferrara 4.
It was family responsibility - he has two children, aged 9 and 7 - that stopped him joining in with the Gallagher boys' excesses with cocaine.
"Going on tour when your baby's two days old - well you can't. I never did it anyway. It was always alcohol for me."
During 1999, after 8 years, he walked out of the band. "I'd taken it as far as I could. There was no fun in it anymore. The vibe in the camp was no one is enjoying it anymore and if there's no fun then there's no point in hanging around. I thought 'get out now while the going's good.' I could have stayed and toured the album but I thought 'well, do I want to?'
"when I left there were the phonecalls from other band members saying 'don't go' and I was just like 'no, but you lot carry on, have it'."
Doesn't he wish the band had felt the same and ground the Oasis machine to a halt for good to preserve the reputation?
"Not at all. I wished them the best. I still watch them very closely. And outside the band I am still their number one fan."
Though he wont see them play.
"That'd be a bit close to the heart."
After facing 250,000 over one weekend at Knebworth, eight years on he is playing clubs like Junktion 7 in Canning Circus, which holds 150 people.
That's a comedown, surely?
"Not at all. I think I speak for everyone in Oasis here: After Knebworth, if we could have woken up the next morning and said 'right, that's it, let's call it a day, we've reached the pinnacle, how far can you get?' I'm sure they all would have agreed. But nobody said it."
"That was certainly my thinking. You know, we've brought it further than i ever imagined it would go."
Getting back in at base level, he says, is exciting.
"They were always the best gigs for me anyway when we started out. And we were sort of slipping about in a Transit van and doing the small gigs and trying to guage people's reactions. It's simply a case of going back to doing that again, which is great fun, you know."
Liam Gallagher agrees.
Two weeks ago he turned up to watch The Seers playing at Alan McGee's Notting Hill club Death Disco- which, like Junktion 7 can't hold too many punters.
"He was at the back watching me and i was on stage watching him watching me. Afterwards he said '******** **** it'd be brilliant to do this'".
He's still matey with Liam but hasn't seen Noel in two years.
"There's no problem there I just don't see him. I don't really see Liam often. We never did anyway, we didn't get on the phone every night. We'd see enough of each other."
"Besides I live in Manchester and they're in London so we don't get the chance to bump into each other. Though i do see Alan (White, ex-Oasis drummer) and Guigsy (Paul McGiugan, ex-Oasis bassist)
After walking out of Oasis he had a couple of years off.
"I built a studio at my house and I was writing and recording. Just for myself really. I had no real plans for getting a band together but you get itchy fingers. It just got to the stage where I needed a vocalist. The band came together from there. It just sort of happened."
The Seers includes Bonehead on guitar and backing vocals, Johnny Evans (former member of Happy Mondays offshoot Buffalo 66) on lead vocals and guitar, bassist Levi Damarell and ex-Ladytron and Bentley Rhythm Ace drummer Keith York.
"It's a big guitar sound. Anthemic, melodic."
Not a million miles from Oasis then?
"Not a million miles, no. But it's different. We've set our own sound up."
He adds "We'll take the band as far as it will go. We have no grand plans for world domination or anything like that. We've got a single coming out in September on a small independant label in Manchester. We're just going to get it out and tour it. Get people into it. Have some fun, you know."
He concedes that trying to out-do Oasis would be a masterplan of gross stupidity.
"It can't be done. That level of success was beyond all our wildest dreams.
"And i have to say I've got great memories. They were the best years of my life."
The Oasis star wants £54,349 - and 5p - from firm Sheldon Andrews, who he is claiming messed up renovations at his £2.5million mansion.
Part of the complaint is believed to involve work on internal walls.
A pal of the star told me: "Noel may have millions but he's not a mug.
"He's not going to let someone come along and get the better of him.
"He's very canny with money and £50,000 is a lot of cash.
He is pretty confident he can win and has got a good team of lawyers."
Noel decided to have the house refurbished after ex-wife MEG MATHEWS left four years ago.
She stripped the six-bedroom home of most of its furnishings after their bitter split.
Noel later moved out temporarily too, buying himself a mews home in London's Marylebone while the refurb was carried out.
He is desperate to move back into his pad near Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, with PR girlfriend SARA MACDONALD. But he may have been tempted - in the words of his famous song - to look back in anger at some of the building work.
Noel sold his famous North London pad, Supernova Heights, in 1998 and moved to the country to get away from the capital's rock'n'roll lifestyle and build a family life with Meg. They had married the year before.
The legal action is due to be heard by His Honour Judge Richard Seymour at the Technology and Construction Court in London.
No one from Sheldon Andrews was available for comment last night.
Their 10-year-old creation, Definitely Maybe, has topped a staff poll of 50 best albums by Q magazine.
Second on the list is the Fab Four's Revolver, released in 1966, almost 30 years before the Oasis debut.
The poll comes after the Mancunian band, who have always looked to the Beatles for inspiration, signed Zak Starkey, the son of former Beatle Ringo Starr as their latest drummer.
The Gallagher brothers experienced supersonic success after they were discovered, with Definitely Maybe becoming the fastest-selling album of all time.
The band also beat heavyweights such as the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Pink Floyd in the survey of the music magazine's staff.
The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet comes seventh, The Smiths' The Queen is Dead eighth, Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin III came ninth, and Massive Attack's Blue Lines 10th.
The Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols comes third on the list, followed by Radiohead's OK Computer.
The poll is featured in the July issue of Q which is out on June 1.
Here is the list of Best British Albums Ever
1. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
2. The Beatles - Revolver
3. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. The Clash - London Calling
6. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
7. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
8. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
9. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
10. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
11. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
12. Blur - Parklife
13. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
14. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
15. The Specials - The Specials
16. Queen - A Night At The Opera
17. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
18. The Who - My Generation
19. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
20. The Jam - All Mod Cons
21. The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
22. Joy Division - Closer
23. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
24. Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
25. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
26. The Coral - Magic and Medicine
27. John Lennon - John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
28. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
29. Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
30. Pulp - Different Class
31. Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
32. The Verve - Urban Hymns
33. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
34. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
35. Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
36. The Human League - Dare
37. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
38. Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol 1
39. Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties!!
40. The Undertones - The Undertones
41. Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
42. Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
43. Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lens
44. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
45. Iron Maiden - The Number of The Beast
46. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
47. Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
48. The Cure - Disintegration
49. Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
50. Pet Shop Boys - Very
The furious frontman called broadcaster Sky to complain about an ad for new show Pornotopia on music channel The Amp.
In the one-page promo he and brother NOEL are mocked up as porn stars.
The star, famed for his quick temper - and inability to fight his way out of a paper bag - ranted about how he had not agreed to let his picture be used.
Liam, love, get your eyes tested because it's not you. It's a lookalike.
A sense of humour check may be a good idea, too.
Laut WENN will Zak Starkey, der Sohn von Beatles-Trommler Ringo Starr, kein dauerhaftes Mitglied bei Oasis werden - weil er lieber bei den Altrockern The Who bleibt. Starkey, der die Gallagher-Brüder beim Oasis-Gig auf dem Glastonbury Festival im Juni begleiten wird, hat angekündigt, sich weiterhin für die "My Generation"-Band hinters Schlagzeug zu setzen und bei Oasis nur gelegentlich auszuhelfen.
Ein Insider: "Zak organisiert lediglich die Oasis-Sachen um seine Termine mit The Who herum, die ja auch schon bestätigt sind. Er will The Who einfach nicht im Stich lassen." Die Nachricht könnte für Oasis-Kopf Noel Gallagher, dessen Idols Zaks Vater ist, als Schock kommen - hatte er doch gehofft, Starkey könnte dauerhaft bei Oasis bleiben. Kürzlich scherzte Gallagher: "Wenn er uns ein Autogramm seines Vaters besorgen kann, ist er dabei."
MEET Christian Wess, alias The Powderkeg - the American football-playing hulk who punched out Liam Gallagher's two front teeth.
Christian, 6ft 5in and 19st, was enjoying a quiet night out with pals when they ran into Liam and the lads from Oasis on a drunken binge.
When trouble flared loud-mouth Liam decided to throw a few punches. Unfortunately for him he threw one at Christian.
In seconds he was flat on his back in the Munich nightclub, covered in blood and minus his gnashers.
A pal of Christian said: "He's known as The Powderkeg because when he does blow he goes off like a volcano."
Gridiron linebacker Christian, 32, and Liam, 31, face charges over the brawl.
Von der Musik-Kultsendung Later with Jools Holland ist eine DVD im Anmarsch, die den Namen COOL BRITANNIA trägt. Neben Oasis werden 33 andere Künstler für ihre Auftritte in der Show gewürdigt:
1. Ash - Shining Light
2. Blur - Tender
3. British Sea Power - Remember Me
4. Catatonia - Bleed
5. Coldplay - In My Place
6. Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha
7. Doves - The Cedar Room
8. Echo And The Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever
9. Elastica - Connection
10. Elbow - Fugitive Model
11. Embrace - All You Good Good People
12. Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling
13. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
14. Keane - This Is The Last Time
15. Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
16. Morrissey - Boy Racer
17. Oasis - I Am The Walrus
18. Paul Weller - Sunflower
19. Primal Scream - Movin' On Up
20. Pulp - Disco 2000
21. Radiohead - The Bends
22. Spiritualized - Come Together
23. Starsailor - Good Souls
24. Stereophonics - More Life In A Tramps Vest
25. Suede - So Young
26. Super Furry Animals - Something For The Weekend
27. Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz
28. 22-20s - Devil In Me
29. The Beta Band - Human Being
30. The Charlatans - Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over
31. The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
32. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
33. The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
34. Travis - All I Wanna Do Is Rock
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Sogar Noel Gallgher zeigte sich beeindruckt von der Version:
"I went to see Ryan Adams in Manchester. So he's playing away and he just does 'Wonderwall' right in the middle of the set. The fu**ing place went silent. It was so beautiful. I was just like, 'Fu**ing Jesus Christ what a fu**ing song!' Afterwards, I told him, 'You can have that song, man, because we could never quite get it right.'"
The DVD will be released in September - exactly ten years after Definitely Maybe's debut.
NOEL and LIAM GALLAGHER are spending a lot of time in Manchester to supervise work on the disc, which has new interviews with the band, friends and key figures.
There will be also be previously unseen live footage and loads of out-takes from the early Oasis studio sessions.
The way recording of their new album is going - slowly - I'm beginning to wonder if the DVD will be their only new release this year.
At least their Glastonbury headline slot will keep their fans happy - for now.
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Oasis: heimliches DVD-Projekt!
Wie gemeldet wird, arbeiten Oasis gerade heimlich an einem DVD Projekt. Der Anlass ist der zehnte Jahrestag der Veröffentlichung ihres ersten Albums. Zu sehen geben soll's neue Interviews mit der Band, Freunden und Schlüsselfiguren - außerdem bislang unveröffentlichte Live-Footage und jede Menge Out-Takes aus frühen Oasis-Studio-Sessions. Liam und Noel Gallagher kümmern sich angeblich gerade höchstpersönlich in Manchester um das Projekt. Die DVD soll im September erscheinen - genau zehn Jahre nach dem Release von 'Definitely Maybe'.(ct)
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Hard rock fans are in for a real treat. Rock band Oasis are planning to launch a DVD to commemorate their decade-long achievements in music.
The DVD will contain exclusive footage of the bands earlier trials and tribulations and finally their sudden rise to fame. According to ratethemusic.com, it will also feature special interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, the members of the band.
They will try to make sure that the DVD encapsulates the entire musical history of the band. For this purpose they are supervising the compilation work in Manchester.
The extra add on features in the DVD will be rare backstage snapshots of the band and some exclusive photographs which have never been aired before.
Jungle bunnies ... Sun readers' ideal line-up
THIS is the sensational line-up Sun readers would like to see in the next series of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!
You voted for - from left to right - Peter Stringfellow, 63, in the Has-Been With A Heart category. Spice Girl Mel B, 28, as the Past It Pop Star.
Blue singer Lee Ryan, 20, as Pretty Boy. Edwina Currie, 57, is the Fallen Politician. Chef Gordon Ramsay, 37, is a Born Leader.
Porn TV host Abi Titmuss, 27, is the Woman With Baggage. Paul Gascoigne, 36, is a Bad Lad Sportsman.
Michael Barrymore, 52, is the Scandal-Hit Star. Model Jodie Marsh, 25, is Jungle Totty. TV host Kim Woodburn, 61, is the Great Dame.
Ex-Brookside babe Jennifer Ellison, 21, is your Surgically Enhanced choice. And Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, 31, is Rebel Without A Cause.
An executive at Granada - now casting for a fourth series - said: "Your readers' list makes exciting reading."
THE BAND WILL VISIT THE SOUTH COAST PLAYING POOLE LIGHTHOUSE ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 23RD, WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE BEES.
DETAILS ARE:
VENUE:
Poole Lighthouse
21 Kingland Road
Poole
Dorset
DATE: Wednesday 23rd June 2004
ON SALE : 9am on Saturday, 15th May 2004
TICKETS: £30 plus booking fee
TICKET OUTLETS:
Poole Lighthouse box office – counter sales only (no phone sales) - booking fees: face value for cash/cheque & £2 for credit cards – max 4 tickets per applicant
Bournemouth BIC box office – counter sales only (no phone sales) - booking fees: face value for cash/cheque & £2.50 for credit cards – max 4 tickets per applicant
Very limited internet sales at OASISINET – booking fee £2.50 credit/debit cards plus postal charges – max 2 tickets per applicant
Phone sales – NEW Oasis lo-call number (0870-160-8989)– booking fee £2.50 credit/debit cards plus postal charges – max 2 tickets per applicant
NOEL GALLAGHER and IAN BROWN have collaborated on a track for the former STONE ROSES vocalist's new album.
According to The Sun newspaper, the pair met by chance at the Electric Cinema in London's Notting Hill.
"We got talking about music and agreed we should do something", explained Brown .
He added: "Noel sent me some music he'd done and I recorded a vocal. The result is brilliant, I'm really excited. I hope it will be a single."
The news comes after denials from the Oasis camp that Liam was to form a supergroup with ex-Roses guitarist John Squire. As previously reported on NME.COM, the band claim the story was "dreamed up" by editorial staff at The Sun.
Oasis are currently working in the studio on the follow-up to 'Heathen Chemistry', which is due for release later this year.
Brown's new album is expected in August or September.
Drummer Starkey: Von The Who zu Oasis
Prominenter Zuwachs: Zak Starkey, Sohn des ehemaligen Beatles-Drummers Ringo Starr, wird neuer Schlagzeuger bei der britischen Rockband Oasis. Der prominente Spross spielte bereits mit The Who und der Spencer Davis Group.
London - Wie der Vater, so der Sohn: Zak Starkey, 38, Sprössling des Beatles-Schlagzeugers Ringo Starr, 63, ist neuer Drummer der britischen Rockband Oasis ("Wonderwall"). Wie die "Times" am Dienstag berichtete, wird Starkey sein Live-Debüt im kommenden Monat beim englischen Glastonbury Festival geben. "Er übt gerade alle Oasis-Songs", sagte Bandleader Noel Gallagher der Zeitung. Im Januar hatte sich die Band von ihrem Schlagzeuger Alan White getrennt, es war bereits der zweite Drummer in der zehnjährigen Geschichte der rüpelhaften Rocker aus Manchester, die ihren Karrierehöhepunkt Mitte der Neunziger erlebten.
Starkey ist jedoch in seinem Metier beileibe kein Unbekannter. Sein erstes Schlagzeug erhielt er einst von seinem Idol, dem 1978 verstorbenen Who-Drummer Keith Moon. Mit zwölf Jahren spielte er schon die Drum-Rhythmen seiner Lieblingsalben nach, als Teenager war er Mitglied der Garagenrockband The Next. Dem extrovertierten Who Drummer Moon eiferte er nicht nur musikalisch nach. Wie sein Vorbild gab er sich dem Alkoholgenuss hin, statt zur Schule zu gehen. Als er schließlich von der Schule flog, setzten ihn seine Eltern auch vor die Tür.
Starkey schlug sich mit einigen Aushilfs- und Kellnerjobs durch, bis er schließlich Anfnag der achtziger Jahre als Drummer in der reformierten Spencer Davis Group unterkam. Im Zuge dessen wurde er zum begehrten Session-Musiker und spielte unter anderem Schlagzeug für die Icicle Works, die Waterboys und die Lightning Seeds. 1996 schließlich verließ der Beatles-Sohn seine eigene Band Face, um sich seinen Kindheitsidolen The Who als Tournee-Drummer anzuschließen.
Der Schritt zu Oasis passt daher in die Karriere des Legenden-Sprosses: Die Band pflegt ein ähnlich raues Image wie The Who und die Rolling Stones Anfang der Siebziger. Ein neues Oasis-Album ist für den Herbst veranschlagt. Zuletzt hatte die Band um das Brüderpaar Noel und Liam Gallagher wenig Glück: Ihr letztes Album "Heathen Chemistry" blieb musikalisch wie kommerziell weit hinter den Erwartungen zurück.
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Zak Starkey - Der Trommler
12. Mai 2004 Ich trage einen großen Namen: Das gleichnamige, angenehm altmodisch gehaltene Fernsehquiz bringt uns Normalsterblichen die Prominentenabkunft nahe, ohne nach deren Nutzen und Nachteil moralisierend zu fragen. So was ist selten in einer Öffentlichkeit, die keinen Begriff mehr hat von familiärer Normalität.
Ob es sich um Geraldine Chaplin, Golo Mann oder August von Goethe handelt: stets mischt sich in die Berichterstattung über solche Leute ein bitterer, ja vorwurfsvoller Ton. Daß es die Kinder Prominenter am schwersten, schwerer noch womöglich als die in der Sahelzone haben, war vor einiger Zeit einer Dokumentation im Fernsehen zu entnehmen, die sich mit den Nachkommen des Popadels befaßte und an Wehleidigkeit nichts zu wünschen übrigließ.
Kleine Popgeschichtspointe
Da marschierten sie denn auf, die Söhne und Töchter von Phil Collins, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Carly Simon und James Taylor, einer angeblich ärmer dran als der andere. Und warum? Weil, so die denkfaule und meistens nur nachgeplapperte Mär, diese Kinder erstens aus dem berühmten "Schatten" nicht herauskommen und sich nie richtig entfalten können, deswegen zweitens auch nicht ernst genommen werden, nie eine "echte Chance" haben, indem sie ja fortwährend am Erzeuger gemessen werden, und wenn, drittens, diese blinden Hühner doch mal ein Korn finden, dann nur wegen ihres Namens, also aus reiner, unverdienter und das Unglück nur noch vertiefender Gnade.
Von solchen Klischees hat sich Zak Starkey immer wohltuend ferngehalten und, wie es dann immer so schön heißt, einfach nur sein Ding gemacht. Der Sohn des ehemaligen "Beatles"-Schlagzeugers, der den Beruf des Vaters so mutig wie freiwillig ergriff, konnte sich von vornherein ausrechnen, daß die Band, mit der es zu tun haben würde, notwendig etwas weniger berühmt und geachtet sein würde als das Ensemble des bald vierundsechzigjährigen Vaters. Daß er nun, wie die englische "Times" meldet, bei der Gruppe beiträtig wird, die das Erbe der "Beatles" am dreistesten für sich beanspruchte, wird Ringo Starrs stoische Gesichtszüge kaum zum Entgleisen bringen, ist aber für den, den's interessiert, eine kleine Popgeschichtspointe.
Immer zur Stelle
Wer hätte das gedacht: Der kleine Ringo setzt sich ans Schlagzeug bei der Gruppe "Oasis", jener von den Brüdern Noel und Liam Gallagher kommandierten und nicht selten auch terrorisierten Rüpeltruppe aus Manchester, die eigentlich nur mit ihren ersten beiden Platten Mitte der neunziger Jahre zu Recht das Aufsehen erregte, das ihr bis heute, allerdings mehr schubweise, zuteil wird. Die Gallaghers haben den Neuen schon zu ersten Proben einbestellt; bis Ende Juni, wenn das große Festival von Glastonbury im Südwesten Englands stattfindet, soll dieser das Repertoire am Schnürchen haben.
Erfahrung im Anverwandeln hat er. Der heute Achtunddreißigjährige ließ sich vom Vater im Alter von zehn Jahren den Viervierteltakt beibringen, hatte mit zwölf seine erste Band und ist seit den achtziger Jahren eigentlich immer zur Stelle, wenn irgendwo eine britische Prominentencombo aus dem Ruhestand zurückgeholt wird, zuletzt "The Who". Nun ist Zak Starkey also in der auch schon wieder etwas älteren Gegenwart angekommen. Manche meinen, er trommele besser als sein Vater; andere meinen, das sei auch keine Kunst.
While there has been no official statement from Glastonbury organisers, Gallagher confirmed Oasis' appearance at the three day festival, which will be the band's only live event this summer.
"We weren't planning on doing anything,” he explained in an interview with 6 Music, “But Michael and Emily Eavis - last year when I went there - they sort of backed me into a corner and said `Look are you gonna do it or what?' And I go there quite a lot and we decided that the time was probably right.
Noel also confirmed rumours that ex Beatle Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey has been playing with Oasis. While he's not a full time replacement it appears he fits in well (“He's a good boy he's got a good haircut. Good shoes - which is important.") and he'll be handling drumming duties at Glasto (which Noel reckons will be better than their last appearance).
“It's a pity that we haven't actually got any new stuff to play but I think we kind of George Best'ed it the last time we headlined it,” he explained, “So this time will be great I think. Then again we're not doing ourselves any favours because Zak's first gig will be to 150,000 people but y'know. He's rehearsing all the Oasis songs now."
"We've known Zak for a while and we asked him if he'd play on a few songs and he said yeah, and he has done and it's been absolutely fantastic."
Whether the band's new album will be released this year is also in doubt, though the departure of producers Death In Vegas wasn't as acrimonious as was reported.
"We're in the studio at the moment, it's going alright, one step forward two steps back, but it's going alright.” He continued, “I dunno whether it'll be out by the end of the year. We didn't sack our producers we just ran out of time. They had to go off and do their Death in Vegas thing and we sort of gave ourselves about three or four weeks with them, and we just ran out of time but there wasn't a sacking.”
"We're trying to get this album finished and it's taking a little bit longer than expected but there isn't any rush on it really. We were trying to get it out by Glastonbury but it doesn't seem to be working out that way now. Not for any particular reason just that we've gotta get it right and if we get summit out by the end of the year it'd be great. If we don't there's no rush really Franz Ferdinand will look after the charts for us I'd have thought.”
Noel also laughed off the reports that Liam Gallagher has formed a supergroup with John Squire and Dhani Harrison saying, "Chance'd be a fine thing. I don't think he's forming any supergroups he's too busy sorting his court case out isn't he?"
There is no release date pencilled in for the as-yet-untitled new record as yet, but working song titles include ‘Stop The Clocks', 'They Ain't Got Nothing On Me, They Ain't `Got Nothing On You', 'Longer', 'Singin' Your Life', 'You Wanna Feel My Shame', 'Say It', 'Revolution Man' and 'The Good Rebel'.
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Noel reveals all about Glasto plans
ROCK 'N' ROLL STARKEY!
NOEL GALLAGHER has announced OASIS will play no new material at the band's forthcoming headlining slot at GLASTONBURY.
Oasis will play the festival with Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey on drums. The festival appearance will be his first with the band.
"It's a pity that we haven't actually got any new stuff to play but I think we kind of George Best'ed it the last time we headlined it. So this time will be great I think," Noel explained to BBC 6 Music.
"Then again we're not doing ourselves any favours because Zak's first gig will be to 150,000 people but y'know. He's rehearsing all the Oasis songs now."
The star also shed light on why the band continued without Death In Vegas producers Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes.
"We're in the studio at the moment, it's going alright, one step forward two steps back, but it's going alright. I dunno whether it'll be out by the end of the year. We didn't sack our producers, we just ran out of time."
He added: "They had to go off and do their Death In Vegas thing and we sort of gave ourselves about three or four weeks with them, and we just ran out of time, but there wasn't a sacking.
"We're trying to get this album finished and it's taking a little bit longer than expected but there isn't any rush on it really. We were trying to get it out by Glastonbury but it doesn't seem to be working out that way now."
Noel also spoke of new friends Franz Ferdinand, whom he met at the band's show at the London Astoria last week (May 6).
He concluded: "If we don't there's no rush really - Franz Ferdinand will look after the charts for us, I'd have thought."
The band headline Glastonbury on Friday June 25.
Wonderwaltz ... Noel and Sara
NOEL GALLAGHER and girlfriend SARA MACDONALD Wonderwaltzed down the street after seeing FRANZ FERDINAND live.
The pair watched the gig from the balcony while sinking pints of Guinness.
Concert ... couple after gig
They then went to the aftershow party at West End club Infinity.
Noel was deep in conversation with Franz frontman ALEX KAPRANOS for an hour.
Happy ... dancing in street
And the chat certainly put a spring in Noel's step - when he left the club he just had to Go Let It Out.
The possibility of a new album from the Gallagher brothers, the follow-up to 'Heathen Chemistry' now looks less likely for 2004 following Noel's revelation that the group ditched plans to work with Death In Vegas because they ran out of time. "I dunno whether it'll be out by the end of the year. We didn't sack our producers we just ran out of time. They had to go off and do their Death in Vegas thing and we sort of gave ourselves about three or four weeks with them, and we just ran out of time but there wasn't a sacking.
When asked about tabloid rumours that Liam has formed a supergroup with John Squire he said: " Chance'd be a fine thing. I don't think he's forming any supergroups he's too busy sorting his court case out isn't he?"
Noel said the fact that Heathen Chemistry was critically acclaimed meant they had more time to think about the follow up and he revealed that he'd asked Ringo Starr's son Zac Starkey to take up drumming duty with them: " We've known Zac for a while and we asked him if he'd play on a few songs and he said yeah, and he has done and it's been absolutely fantastic."
Asked about whether Oasis were becoming The Beatles Mark two Noel said "as long as I'm not becoming Paul McCartney it'll be alright." And Noel said although there were no plans just yet to make Zac a permanent member of Oasis he will be joining them on tour and will join them for their headlining slot at Glastonbury next month and reckons he's stylish enough to join them even though he isn't from Manchester : "he's a good boy he's got a good haircut... Good shoes - which is important."
Earlier in the year Noel Gallagher said that there were around 13 new songs written for the record, including six written by Liam, and a couple from guitarist Gem Archer,Noel said: "We're trying to get this album finished and it's taking a little bit longer than expected but there isn't any rush on it really. Heathen Chemistry - the success of it - bought us a fair bit of time. We were trying to get it out by Glastonbury but it doesn't seem to be working out that way now. Not for any particular reason just that we've gotta get it right and if we get summat out by the end of the year it'd be great ... If we don't there's no rush really Franz Ferdinan will look after the charts for us I'd have thought.
Asked if Glastonbury's the only festival they're playing Noel said: "Yeah, we weren't planning on doing anything but Michael and Emily Eavis last year when I went there they sort of backed me into a corner and said `look are you gonna do it or what' and I go there quite a lot and we decided that the time was probably right. It's a pity that we haven't actually got any new stuff to play but I think we kind of George Best'ed it the last time we headlined it so this time will be great I think, but then again we're not doing ourselves any favours because Zac's first gig will be to 150,000 people but y'know ...He's rehearsing all the Oasis songs now."
Sad fer it ... Liam
THESE are grave times. Its bad enough the giant panda, humpback whale, Atlantic salmon and Siberian tiger are all on the endangered species list.
But now I hear that one of the greatest and rarest animals in Britain is in peril and may join the dodo and disappear off the face of the Earth.
News that one-time OASIS wildman LIAM GALLAGHER was given a good pasting by some estate agents and a computer nerd is very troubling.
Extinct ... Dodo
Is this once mouthy hell-raiser image now so sad it is virtually extinct?
The embarrassing revelations about having seven shades beaten out of him by nerds in Munich last year follow other mortifying revelations.
Liam has been spotted at the Ideal Homes exhibition, at a fun fair and getting a public telling-off from his missus.
The formerly fiery rock star has made a full transformation – from Mad Fer It to Sad Fer It.
But I wont take this lying down. I for one want to save the endangered species that is Liam Gallagher.
At a time when the most exciting rock star we have is teetotal CHRIS MARTIN we cant afford to let Liams reputation pass away.
So Im launching my World Wildlife Fund for the Oasis hardman.
Go on mate, give someone a slap, fall out of a club drunk and don't spend the rest of your days watching Countdown with NICOLE APPLETON.
As previously reported, the fight took place in a Munich hotel on December 1, 2002, when Gallagher and several of Oasis touring party were involved in an argument with a group of estate agents (and a computer salesman).
The fight allegedly began after members of the band had been flicking peanuts at the estate agents (that’s ‘estate agents’ not ‘gangsters’ as was originally rumoured). One of Oasis’ touring crew then reportedly jumped on the table next to the businessmen before starting the fight, which resulted in Liam losing his front teeth, the "leader" of the businessmen allegedly knocking out two Oasis bodyguards with a brass ashtray and the destruction of most of the hotel's furniture.
Eighty police were sent (one of whom was allegedly kicked in the genitals by Gallagher) and those involved in the brawl (including former Oasis drummer Alan White) were detained for questioning.
Gallagher was taken into custody and was given a blood test, which now, according to Munich's chief prosecutor Anton Winkler, showed he was drunk and had been using cocaine. "The test revealed substantial quantities of alcohol and drugs," Winkler explained, "It is possible he used cocaine."
No shit.
Prosecutors described the frontman as having been "totally drunk" and "the worst one of the entire episode" and said a prosecution will occur "in all probability” though its unlikely the case will go to trial.
The singer could face criminal charges of resisting arrest and damage to property, which may result in a fine (even though Gallagher has already paid a £170,000 as a result of the fight) or suspended sentence, while the estate agents may be charged with causing grievous bodily harm.
Oasis have been recently putting the finishing touches to the follow up to their 2002 album ‘Heathen Chemistry’ which was recorded in Sawmills studios in Cornwall.
The band are also still strongly rumoured to be playing the Glastonbury Festival.
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Auf Koks in München
Neues über die Oasis-Prügelei in einem Münchner Nachtclub Ende 2002: die Polizei konnte inzwischen die Kontrahenten der Band ermitteln und rekonstruierte die Ereignisse.
München (aw) - Gute Nachricht für die Brit-Pop-Veteranen von Oasis: die Münchner Polizei konnte anderthalb Jahre nach der Nachtclubschlägerei, bei der Sänger Liam Gallagher zwei seiner Frontzähne einbüßte, die Kontrahenten der Band ermitteln. Wie die Süddeutsche Zeitung berichtet, handelt es sich bei den Prügelknaben um vier Münchner Mitte 30 sowie einen 32-Jährigen aus dem Kreis Erding. Zeugen identifizierten einen der Männer auf den Aufnahmen der Überwachungskameras im Hotel. Daraufhin konnten auch seine Mitstreiter von den Beamten ermittelt werden. Sie müssen sich wegen gefährlicher Körperverletzung vor Gericht verantworten, sobald der Staatsanwalt Anklage erhoben hat. Nach der Vernehmung von über 50 Zeugen lüfteten die Ermittler nun endlich den Schleier um die Ereignisse des Abends. Die Akte zu diesem Fall umfasst bereits jetzt über 1.000 Seiten.
Am 1. Dezember 2002 gastierte das Prügel-Ensemble bestehend aus Liam Gallagher, Allen White, Steve Allen und Philip Bevan Smith im Nachtclub des Nobelhotels "Bayrischer Hof". Erheblich alkoholisiert und teilweise unter Kokaineinfluss fielen die Bandmitglieder schnell durch rüpelhaftes Verhalten auf. Unter anderem gaben die vier Musiker zu einem ihrer zufällig gespielten Songs eine in dem feinen Club eher ungern gesehene Karaoke-Einlage. Nachdem ein Oasis-Mitglied bei einer Rempelei auf dem Tisch der gewaltbereiten Münchner landete, eskalierte die Situation. Die aufgebrachten Gäste, angeblich vier Immobilienmakler und ein Computerfachmann, streckten kurzerhand zwei Sicherheitsleute der Briten mit einer 5,5-Kilogramm Eisenstange zu Boden, und die Zerstörungsorgie konnte unter Zuhilfenahme von allerlei Gegenständen ihren Lauf nehmen.
Dabei zog sich die Spur der Verwüstung bis ins Foyer im Erdgeschoss. Während der lang anhaltenden Massenschlägerei ging allerdings nicht nur die Einrichtung zu Bruch. Bei seiner Verhaftung fanden die später eingetroffenen Beamten Band-Aushängeschild Liam reichlich lädiert vor. Neben einigen blauen Flecken prangte auch eine große Zahnlücke im Gesicht des exzentrischen Sängers.
Während die Münchner Raufbolde damals unerkannt entkommen konnten, wurde die angeschlagene Band von insgesamt zehn Streifenwagenbesetzungen abgeführt - nicht ganz ohne Gegenwehr von Seiten Liams. Nach der Begleichung von 238.000 Euro Sicherheitsleistung kamen Oasis wieder auf freien Fuß. Aufgrund des Drogeneinflusses prüfen Rechtsmediziner derzeit, ob die Gebrüder überhaupt schuldfähig sind.
Bei derartigen Freizeitaktivitäten bleibt natürlich wenig Zeit für sonstige Hobbys. Jedenfalls erwiesen sich mittlerweile Berichte über eine von Liam Gallagher angeblich gegründete Supergroup mit Dhani Harris (Sohn von Ex-Beatle George Harrison) und John Squire (früher bei Stone Roses) als falsch. Ein Sprecher dementierte entsprechende Berichte und erklärte dem New Musical Express, es handele sich nur um die überhitze Fantasie der Sun-Redaktion.
Reports in The Sun newspaper over the weekend suggested that the Oasis singer was teaming up with the former Stone Roses guitarist and Dhani Harrison, son of late Beatle George Harrison.
However, this morning (May 4), a spokesperson for Gallagher vehemently denied the rumours in a statement.
It read: "The welcome heat of Sunday's weather in London must have got to the editorial staff at The Sun newspaper, so much so that they dreamed up a bizarre story about Liam Gallagher forming a supergroup with John Squire."
"Liam is already in a supergroup called Oasis, and far from taking a break in London, as The Sun story would have us believe, he is busy and recording and mixing the next Oasis album, due for release later this year."
Die Münchner Polizei ermittelt gegen fünf Männer, die Oasis-Sänger Liam Gallagher und seine Kollegen vor anderthalb Jahren im Nachtklub des Nobelhotels „Bayerischer Hof“ versohlt haben sollen.
Oasis-Sänger Liam Gallagher sah damals aus, als wäre er mehrmals gegen eine Wand gelaufen: Die Haare zerzaust, eine Lücke im Gebiss, zwei Schneidezähne fehlten. Dies war am 1. Dezember 2002 nach der Prügelei im Hotel „Bayerischer Hof“, die er und seine ebenfalls total betrunkenen Band-Kollegen angezettelt hatten.
Schaden nahmen sie – neben der Hotel-Einrichtung – dabei selbst am meisten. Die Polizei rätselte monatelang darüber, an welch schlagkräftige Truppe die Musiker geraten waren. Nun sind die mutmaßlichen Rivalen ermittelt. Es handelt sich um fünf Münchner im Alter von 32 bis 38 Jahren.
Während sich Oasis – namentlich also Liam Gallagher, Allen White, Steve Allen und Philip Bevan Smith – mit 240.000 Euro aus der Haft herauskaufen und zurück nach England flüchten konnten, droht den fünf beschuldigten Münchnern nun Ungemach.
Anklage wegen gefährlicher Körperverletzung wahrscheinlich
Sie müssen sich aller Voraussicht nach wegen gefährlicher Körperverletzung vor Gericht verantworten, falls die Staatsanwaltschaft Anklage erhebt. Dies ist nach dem Ermittlungsstand mehr als wahrscheinlich: Mehrere der 50 im In- und Ausland zu der Sache vernommenen Zeugen bestätigten die Beteiligung des Münchner Quintetts an der Prügelei.
Zusammengefasst sind die Aussagen in der gut 1000 Seiten umfassenden Ermittlungsakte der Polizei. Die Beschuldigten – selbstständig tätig im Immobilien- oder EDV-Geschäft – schweigen zur Sache und lassen ihre Anwälte sprechen.
Nach den bisherigen Ermittlungen reservierten die fünf Münchner für den 1.Dezember 2002 unter dem Namen „Matera“ einen Tisch im Night-Club des Hotels am Promenadeplatz. Während sie dort saßen, begannen die ebenfalls anwesenden Oasis-Mitglieder zunächst mit Nüssen um sich zu werfen.
Nach Karaoke-Einlage und Rempelei eskaliert die Situation
Alle waren erheblich betrunken, bei Gallagher und Smith war obendrein Kokain im Spiel. Einen ärgerniserregenden Auftritt mit unfreiwilliger Komik boten dann Gallagher und White im Nachtclub: Als ein Discjockey, nichts ahnend von der Anwesenheit der Band, ausgerechnet eine Platte von ihnen auflegte, hüpften die beiden Musiker auf die Bühne und spielten Karaoke zu ihrem Song. Im feinen Nachtclub verbat man sich diese Einlage.
Einige Drinks an der Bar später, eskalierte die Situation: Ein Oasis-Mitglied landete bei einer Rempelei auf dem Tisch der bis dahin unbeteiligten Münchner.
Den fünf Herren platzte nun offenbar der Kragen. Man prügelte sich mit sämtlichen greifbaren Gegenständen durch den Nachtclub aus dem Keller bis ins Foyer im Erdgeschoss. Dort gingen einige Vitrinen zu Bruch. Ein Zeuge sagte bei der Polizei aus: „Ich habe mich gewundert, dass niemand vom Hotelpersonal eingreift.“
Festgenommen von zehn (!) Streifenwagenbesatzungen wurden nur die Bandmitglieder, wobei Gallagher einen Beamten mit einem Fußtritt begrüßte. Die fünf prügelnden Münchner entkamen unerkannt – bis die Polizei nach diversen Zeitungsveröffentlichungen doch noch einen Tipp bekam und nach und nach die anderen Schläger ermittelte.
Der inzwischen 31-jährige Gallagher arbeitet längst wieder: an einer neuen Platte, mit neuen Schneidezähnen.
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Immobilienmakler prügelten Liam Gallagher
Liam Gallagher ist im Dezember 2002 im Münchner Luxushotel "Bayerischer Hof" nicht von abgebrühten Kriminellen verprügelt worden. Im Gegensatz zu früheren britischen Presseberichten handelte es sich bei den Bargästen, die dem angeblich so wilden Gallagher zwei Schneidezähne ausschlugen, um vier Immobilienmakler und einen Computerfachmann. Dies wird unter Berufung auf den Münchner Oberstaatsanwalt Anton Winkler berichtet. Demnächst werde entschieden, ob es eine Anklage gegen Gallagher und dessen Gegner gebe. Der ziemlich betrunkene Oasis-Sänger war mit anderen Bandmitgliedern in der Hotelbar unangenehm aufgefallen, als er versuchte, einige seiner Hits zu singen. Nachdem sich die Immobilienmakler den Lärm verbeten hatten, bewarf Gallagher sie mit Erdnüssen und löste die Schlägerei aus. Winkler: "Gallagher war der Schlimmste von allen."
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Oasis-Prügler gefasst
Polizei ermittelte verdächtige Hotel-Besucher
Altstadt - Am Sonntag, 1. Dezember 2002, kam es gegen 2.10 Uhr in einem Hotel in der Münchner Innenstadt zu einer Rangelei zwischen zwei Mitgliedern der Band »Oasis«. Dabei fielen sie auf den Tisch einer zunächst unbeteiligten Gruppe von fünf Personen. Daraus entwickelte sich eine größere Schlägerei, an der insgesamt zehn Personen teilnahmen.
Nach einiger Zeit verlagerte sich die Szene ins Foyer, wo ein 32-jähriger Mann aus Finsing mit einem schweren Messingständer zwei Bodyguards der Band bewusstlos schlug. Vor dem Eintreffen der Polizei konnten sich die fünf Gäste, die neben den Briten saßen, entfernen. Nach Zeugenaufrufen und intensiven Recherchen des Fachkommissariats 123 in Zusammenarbeit mit der Staatsanwaltschaft München I konnten zwischenzeitlich alle fünf flüchtigen Tatverdächtigen ermittelt werden.
Alle Tatbeteiligten werden sich wegen gefährlicher Körperverletzung verantworten müssen. Der Ermittlungsvorgang wurde mittlerweile an die Staatsanwaltschaft abgegeben.
Frontman ... Liam
LIAM GALLAGHER is forming his own supergroup - and they will record an album for Christmas.
The OASIS frontman will team up with the former STONE ROSES' guitarist JOHN SQUIRE and the late BEATLE GEORGE HARRISON's son DHANI.
The trio hope to start recording tracks later this year and are now looking for other big names to step forward and join them.
Liam, whose first single with Oasis was Supersonic, will take lead vocals, with Dhani and John on guitars.
This will be the wildman's pet project outside Oasis and he has already had lengthy telephone conversations and meetings in North London with the other two.
New hope ... John
A pal of the star told me: "Liam is an ambitious lad and thinks the music scene needs an injection of something exciting. He knows Dhani and John and has huge respect for their talents.
They have discussed getting together for a one-off album and are now interested in getting other big names involved.
In the summer they will properly sit down and start writing some tracks together with a view to getting something out for Christmas."
Fellow Manc John is an old pal of Liam's and is credited with being the creative genius behind The Stone Roses. But his success after the band split up in 1994 has been patchy.
John released an average album called Do It Yourself with his new band THE SEA HORSES — an anagram of "he hates Roses" - and has had two solo albums since of limited success. Dhani performed The Beatles' While My Guitar Gently Weeps when his dad was posthumously entered into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in New York in March this year.
Liam spent the early part of 2004 holed up with brother NOEL, GEM ARCHER and ANDY BELL in studios in Cornwall recording their sixth album. But as Oasis are going through a rough patch it is unlikely to be ready before the end of the year.
Liam is now on a break in London.
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Liam gründet neue Supergroup
Zeitungsberichten zufolge will Oasis-Sänger Liam Gallagher eine neue Band gründen und noch vor Weihnachten ein Album veröffentlichen. Ohne Noel.
London (stj) - Die Arbeit am sechsten Oasis-Werk reicht Frontmann Liam Gallagher anscheinend nicht aus. Wie die britische The Sun berichtet, möchte Liam mit John Squire, Ex-Gitarrist der Stone Roses, und Dhani, Sohn des verstorbenen Beatles George Harrison, eine neue Gruppe gründen. Es habe bereits mehrere Gespräche zwischen den Dreien gegeben. Im Sommer wolle man ins Studio gehen, um noch vor Weihnachten eine Platte zu veröffentlichen. Zudem seien weitere große Namen im Gespräch, zitiert das Massenblatt einen Freund Gallaghers. Liam bastelt momentan mit Bruder Noel, Gem Archer und Andy Bell in Cornwall am neuen Oasis-Werk. Die Scheibe erscheint aber wohl erst 2005.
Im Gegensatz zu Liam gelangten seine Mitstreiter noch nicht zu Weltruhm. Squire veröffentlichte nach dem Ende der Stone Roses 1994 zwei Soloalben und kollaborierte mit den Sea Horses. Dhani durfte bei der posthumen Aufnahme seines Vaters in die Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame den Beatles-Klassiker "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" spielen. Die Platte mit Liam wäre sein Debüt.
Grumpy ... Liam
WHAT a big baby LIAM GALLAGHER is.
The one-time Oasis hell-raiser trudged home in a huff after a bust-up with fiancée NICOLE APPLETON on a petrol station forecourt.
The pair were overheard shouting at each other near their North London home as they prepared to go out for a family lunch.
Former All Saint Nicole later threw him out of the car and made him walk home in the rain. Well done Nicole.
Bust-up ... Nicole
With his bottom lip firmly stuck out, a bearded and bedraggled Liam, whose hits include Wonderwall, sloped off home with a face like thunder.
He probably locked himself in his room to sulk for a few hours.
Meanwhile, Nicole, the couple’s son Gene and mother-in-law Peggy went for a pub lunch with brother-in-law Paul Gallagher.
Some might say Liam should listen to some Oasis lyrics – Don’t Look Back In Anger and Roll With It for starters.