Liam Gallagher has hit back at claims that Oasis are set to reunite because they are “broke” following his brother Noel’s £20 million divorce last year.
The band’s former lead vocalist took to X, formerly Twitter, to tell users that “your attitude stinks” after they posted that the brothers would only be reforming the band because they needed money.
He responded after one user posted: “It’s better off left it the 90s … they must be skint.” Another was told the same after claiming that “cash is drying up”.
I spent the 90s pretty much unplugged from British culture – and music. First Russia, then the US. So I missed all that excitement.
I’ve heard some of the music at least since. Some of it I’d even voluntarily listen to. Not a lot, but some.
Still, if the brothers can cash in 25 years later – and it will obvs be cash in as their audience is now itself 25 years richer – good luck to ’em.
There’s quite the market in 80s revival tours, so 90s ones will soon start to make sense.
Never a fan, I found their music derivative and dull. I used to run into Noel occasionally, he had a mews house or flat off of Marylebone High Street. This would have been 2001ish, my office was just round the corner. Miserable lookng chap.
The point is they’re supposed to hate each other (probably not normal hate but sibling hate), which is why this is so unexpected. Only last week i heard Richard Osman discussing tribute bands and he said Oasis are never getting back together so that’s a good reason to see Noasis or whoever.
This amused me
https://stroudtimes.com/stroud-man-on-cusp-of-oasis-reunion/
Jesu. Imagine being as rich as Croesus and choosing to live in Stroud?
But yes, that is a lovely, lovely, piece of local reporting.
Selsley, to be fair.
https://stroudtimes.com/some-might-say-oasis-legend-liam-gallagher-is-living-in-stroud/?feed_id=12966&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2nRFGiRwB7ZxERieflZSqQ5bjKHzQIJVTC9AN76HPzEJyud4D_z1WyHDo_aem_ATQWifI6t-fANDq3gShTjf9bgjvALarnCi7a4MaY4wS-bEOJKvntIL7QvODfywvOAo0AbKMy-lFNkcUQFbNJ5lAX
Perhaps I am not as appreciative as I shoukd be of stroppy Irish mancs.
I give it 6 months
I think they are genuinely irreconcilable, this is all driven by money and that is not a good permanent glue
A bloke I worked with was a part-time professional musician who kept the wolf from the door by working p/t in Further Education, teaching kids on BTEC pop music course. (Loads of musicians and artists do this type of thing…) He had a short-lived burst of minor fame due to him writing a song for the local team who won the FA Cup. As part of this, he bumped into the Gallagher brothers a few times. He said that they got on perfectly well, and were fairly canny businessmen. The enmity seemed to be completely faked up, and whenever journalists appeared they would start gurning and jabbing fingers at each other, or one would wander off in an apparent sulk.
Showbiz all the way through. Conflict sells.
Sorry, talentless crap. I liked Robbie Williams comment that “(one of the brothers, I don’t know which is which) has run out of other peoples ideas”.
They’re not my bag and I’d be less than happy if my daughter brought one of them home, but there’s no denying they are significant. Compared to current music Noel Gallagher is Beethoven!
The headline reminds me of the imperishable one from the Buchan Observer:
Aberdeenshire business owner wins presidential election.
PiP
Local man lost at sea. (Aberdeen Press and Journal, sinking of the Titanic)
Giant neep grown at Turiff. (APJ, Hitler invades Poland)
Two things I dislike about Oasis. The words, and the tunes.
I’d like to think that Gallagher noticed that he was in the local paper and thought, “Oo, I must buy a copy.” In which case, job done.
I always consider the ten years in this country between 1987 (Lawson abolishing the on-course batting tax – actually abolishing a tax; and not replacing it!)) and 1997 (Blair) was the Greatest Decade. I don’t think there’s ever been a better time for ordinary people anywhere. And the exuberance and swagger and sheer pleasure of some of those Oasis songs played a part in that.
I suspect a lot of bands break up because they’re living in close proximity *all the time*.
You don’t meet anyone else because when your “work day” is over, the bars are closed.
You might like the other members, but after a year or two (or ten), eventually you get tired of living in each other’s pockets.
“You don’t meet anyone else because when your “work day” is over, the bars are closed.”
But the Beatles stopped touring and only did recordings. They broke up just the same.
George Harrison labelled the band “not very interesting”, and I’d go with George on this one. There quickly came a point where the most interesting thing about Oasis was the drama. All that means is that the music isn’t all that good.
Then again, the Geezer Tour circuit must be lucrative, because everyone from the Rolling Stones to Billy Joel are out there playing to thousands of people with hip replacements.
Off to see Jeff Lynne ELO this week, there’s definitely money in these tours
They were brilliant live between late 93 and the beginning of 95 when the three that weren’t Gallaghers were crap musicians, but made a right racket…all downhill when Gallagher Sr started sacking Gallagher Jr’s mates.
All the Britpop nonsense that came in the mid 90s really started with the The La’s and the Stone Roses, then Suede, Pulp etc light years before Oasis released “Supersonic…
I enjoyed them at the time, but no thanks
Being an old git myself, I’m interested that, for many my age, their musical tastes fossilised decades ago and they just continue to listen to the stuff that they got into back then and never explore anything new ever again. I just get bored listening to the same old stuff and so I have to keep exploring. Spotify can be useful in this respect but I’m sometimes bemused by what the algorithm thinks that I might like.
It would, IMO, be *less* embarrassing if they were trying to cash in. If they think they’re worth touring for . . . some things are of their time and should be left there.
The thing about modern bands is, they’re shite.
When Bananarama sang “I’m your Venus, I’m you’re fire, your desire”, they meant it, because I would have shagged every last one of those girls. Nowadays pop stars are emotionally damaged weirdos covered in shitty tattoos, called Duo Sucko or something similarly off-putting and foreign, and you wouldn’t shag them for all the opium in China.
Note to self: Chinese Opium Dens, a tax-efficient retirement option?
Steve: Bananarama might have been eminently shaggable but IMHO they weren’t very good singers. But then, what do I know? They certainly weren’t starving in a garret.
TG – Idk they didn’t have autotune in them days.
And did I mention how shaggable they were? The 80’s were brill. I think the 80’s thing ever was The Thompson Twins game on the ZX Spectrum.
Only in the 80’s could a bald Englishman with ginger pubes be a sex symbol. Rest in Bytes, Sir Clive.
Little while ago, my niece came to stay.
I made the mistake of switching on the wireless and listening to Zoe Ball and her brainless wittering ( I mean really, she’s my age ).
There was this dreadful screeching, over some tuneless music. I thought I’d accidentally switched on Radio3 and was listening to some Ligeti or Kurtag.
Me: Who the hell was that ?
Niece ( rolling eyes ) : That was Adele.
Me : I only know her James Bond song and I thought that was terrible. Is all her output that bad ?
Niece : Just about. She’s worse live.
Re: Bananarama I never really fancied Seeobihain. So there.
Not just that cunt Dale Vince but fucking Liam Gallagher as well? No wonder Stroud is a shithole.
Just to point out
I have nothing against ‘dreadful screeching’ per se, just that it should have some artistic merit, like Nina Hagen.
When it comes to Gallaghers I go no further than (the late, lamented) Rory Gallagher, PBUH. Later Gallaghers whether real Irish or not are of no consequence.
Steve,
“Nowadays pop stars are emotionally damaged weirdos covered in shitty tattoos, called Duo Sucko or something similarly off-putting and foreign, and you wouldn’t shag them for all the opium in China.”
It’s all part of the decadency of the west. Like caring about fluffy animals instead of just building a railway line and killing the badgers in the way and knocking down woodlands because there’s plenty of both. And actresses whining about having to give blowjobs to producers. Or how we don’t use batons against people blocking roads. And how BBC News now looks more like John Craven’s Newsround.
The east is going to kill us because K-Pop girls are like 80s girls. You’re there to make people a bit happier, not to bore them with how your life is being ruined by cocaine.
I saw Oasis (Noel had gone off in a huff so it was Liam and backing band) at a festival once.
Say what you like about the music but the guy had charisma and an animal magnetism you could practically carve. I couldn’t take my eyes off him and would love to see them live again.