Liam Gallagher has spoken about his brother Noel Gallagher for a new book that’s being released amid the Oasis reunion tour, which is heading to Heaton Park in Manchester this week
Liam Gallagher has admitted the worst kept secret in music – that he and brother Noel Gallagher couldn’t be more different. The famously scrappy siblings seem to have buried the hatchet for the Oasis reunion tour but frontman Liam, 52, says the pair are – and have been – complete opposites. And he agrees with Noel’s analogy in 2016 documentary Supersonic when he said he was a cat and Liam was a dog. “Without a doubt,” Liam agrees in an interview featured in new book A Sound So Very Loud. “He’s arrogant, sticks his a*** up, comes and goes as he pleases… loves being stroked. Total tart. Loves you when he wants. I only get took out on a lead.”
Noel, 58, said in the documentary: “I’m a cat. That’s just what I am. I’ve accepted it. I’m a bit of a b******d.”
In the book, Liam also brags about the wild scrapes the band would regularly get into in the early days and moans about how times have changed. “The Benny Hill element has gone from rock ‘n’ roll,” he says. And Noel reveals the real cause of their infamous ferry bust-up in 1994, which sank Oasis’s chances of performing in Amsterdam. The band were just breaking through, but the incident led to Liam and the rest of the group getting arrested.
Noel said it was nothing to do with a reported scuffle with football fans. It was actually Liam walking past a roulette table and grabbing the ball, before being confronted by a police officer, who told him he was going to arrest him, along with Oasis bassist Paul ‘Guigsy’ McGuigan. Noel recalls: “Guigsy says that the copper told Liam he was going to arrest him. Liam goes, ‘You and whose f***ing army?’ Except he never got as far as the word ‘whose’. In one movement they had him on the floor with his arm behind his back.” The band got back on the road last Friday in Cardiff, 16 years after what had looked like being their final ever gig. They are next on stage in Manchester this Friday.
It was reported earlier this week that Liam risks getting a rocky reception at the homecoming gigs at Heaton Park if he continues asking the crowd to “do the Poznan”. He had urged fans at the shows in Cardiff to turn around and bounce up and down during the song Cigarettes & Alcohol.
As previously reported, he said on Saturday: “I don’t ask you to do the Mexican wave or sh*t like that, but I want you to do the poznan so everyone turn around and put your hands on each other. It’s 2025, don’t be shy. When the tunes start, you jump up and down, it’s very easy, you don’t need GCSEs.”
The Poznan is a celebration used by Manchester City. It’s expected that many thousands of Manchester United football fans will be in the crowd at Heaton Park though.
A source told the Mirror: “Liam loves seeing the crowd do it, but it will be a higher risk strategy at Heaton Park. It will be no surprise if he does do it or gives City a shout-out on stage because he and Noel are such big fans. Bonehead is the only red (United fan) in the line-up.”
A Sound So Very Loud by Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain is out Thursday.
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