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i was listening to an old interview of noel and bonehead when i was stuck by how soft noel gets, telling the broadcaster that live forever is a love song. he doesn't ever really admit that freely, so i was surprised that he said it unprompted.
"Live Forever" @ the Melt Festival, Germany, July 19, 2009
obviously it was really sexist of liam to say “my brother actually loves me a lot and it’s his evil wife that’s keeping us apart and not my own actions or our horrible communication skills. it’s his bitch wife that’s the problem” but on another, very real level, noel really did come running back into his arms the moment that divorce happened so idk man maybe let’s not think about the implications of that
OKAY so my colleague did a great job of not editorializing on the previous post about the DITW studio audio and I'm going to absolutely FAIL at following such dazzling restraint and go a bit tinhatty bc like.
so, noel recorded dead in the water on march 2 2015; the extended studio chatter suggests the possible presence or at least recent presence of liam. (and perhaps coincidentally liam was due in court this same day and was fined $5K for failing to appear)
the next week, liam tweeted this:
and then days later, this photo:
I believe afterwards the story went he'd nicked Paul's pass. but like. what if it was his pass all along and he was just being Liam and really really bad at behaving himself
Q magazine, 2000
do you see my vision
Cigarettes and alcohol ❤️
They love each other, really. I’m absolutely convinced that Liam loves Noel more than anybody else, possibly even himself. As to who Noel loves, I don’t know.
- Source: Owen Morris in The Word on the Street (Eugene Masterson, Mainstream Publishing, 1996)
good evening honorary scholar in oasis lore!! im pretty new and idk whether i just hot everything mixed up or it really happened buy did noel and liam retreat somewhere together after they had a huge fallout again? like left the city went somewhere secretive and stuff i think in the 90s? made up there and all that
who knows maybe it didn't happened at all and my mind just mixed everything together but still <3
The sequence of events can sound a little far-fetched if not an outright wishful fantasy, so I will keep strictly to the bare facts and quotes lol:
In the fall of '96,
(you remember '96, of course: Liam announcing he was getting married and Noel being pissed about it and then kissing him in front of 40,000 people, and then shortly thereafter they do the biggest concert of their lives, immediately after which Liam fails to show up sober for MTV Unplugged and then doesn't go to America with the band and then shortly after he does show up, Noel walks out of the tour and returns home -- that '96, yeah?)
"everyone" in the UK is freaking out that Oasis has finally broken up. No one from Oasis is really saying anything.
Liam flies back to the country... and is kidnapped from the airport:
(^ from Jill Furmanovsky, apologies for the janky photo)
He was brought to a country house where Noel was staying and the two of them holed up there for a while to patch things up.
Creation Records has announced that despite rumours, Oasis aren’t splitting. Noel and Liam Gallagher were at a secret location ‘spending time together and getting over jetlag’. The brothers have phoned their mum Peggy to assure her that Oasis were not about to split. ‘They phoned me at home to say they are both well and the band is not splitting up. They didn’t tell me where they were but they are both very happy. It was as though nothing was wrong.’ Astonishingly, they have been left alone. No one could find out where they went; after disembarking from their separate flights, Noel and Liam left London for a secret location where they met up and were still together as we went to press. Guigsy, Bonehead and Alan travelled to different destinations … Johnny Hopkins said: 'Noel and Liam got together to hang out. They're on good terms-yeah, totally. They're mad for it. Of course they're friends. They're staying together and getting over the jetlag, just chatting away.' – Melody Maker, September 1996
"No, me and our kid went to a country house. The pair of us stayed there and got pissed. Me and him weren’t arguing. We got slaughtered. And Marcus [Russell, manager] was saying, ‘Lets put a press release out’. Me and him [Noel] were taking the piss, going ‘Fuck it - if anyone asks where we are, tell ‘em we’re chasing sheep round the fucking country.’ But it would have started to get silly. So we put one together. -Liam, 1996
blow-by-blow newsroom account of oasis's fall '96 american tour falling apart; Melody Maker Sept 21 1996
if someone tweeted me a pic of my tongue in my brother’s mouth i would try to safe word my way out of that conversation as well
any time liam oasis does anything i feel like a shitty combo graphic in a rupaul’s drag race mobile app. girl your diva meter is off the charts!!!!!!! hit the slay button!!!!!!! you go queen!!!!
LIAM GALLAGHER on The Jonathan Ross Show March 11, 2024
him and the brother he told you not to worry about
Maybe Liam should quit tw and be here on tumblr, where he can be a freak, insane person and probably a gcest shipper.
liam blowing smoke rings — Tokyo, Japan | 1994
I never noticed noel's id card is his face on a cow
Couldn’t help it. Too tempting
It's so insane to me that Noel named a recording company after himself and called it "Big Brother Studios".
HE'S NOT EVEN THE OLDEST BROTHER!!!!!!!!! HE'S A FUCKING MIDDLE CHILD!!!!!!!!
The man really looked at his baby brother and said "My entire identity is you." And Liam was like "yay."
cute liam, cute noel
"maybe noel is talking about love from a women's perspective?" maybe he's talking about being in love with his brother. which one is more likely? huge misogynist empathizes with a woman for the duration of a song, or guy who has always been weird about his brother is being weird about his brother?
“When he turns to me and goes, “are you madferit?” and I go “oaye cocker.” that’s what its all about innit, d’you know what I mean?”
-Noel Gallagher
It’s so funny when you know very little about a text, just that there are two siblings who have the most unhinged, fucked up thing going on between them. And then you find out there’s a third sibling.
B-Side Magazine #50 May/June 95 (credit to @all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual for the original scans)
He is a menace... But is he though?