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Liam Gallagher Sues Noel Gallagher

andPOP Staff — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:15:33 +0000

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Talk about brotherly love. Liam Gallagher is suing his brother Noel for calling him a “drunk.”

TMZ reports Noel claims Oasis bailed on a 2009 music festival because Liam was too “hung over to perform.”

Liam just told U.K. tabloid The Sun: “I have taken legal action against Noel Gallagher for statements he made claiming Oasis pulled out of the 2009 V festival Chelmsford gig because I had a hangover.”

Liam claims the real reason was he had a case of laryngitis.

He adds, “I tried to resolve this amicably but have been left with no choice but legal action. All I want is an apology.”

Yet another example of why you shouldn’t mix business with family.

Oasis is Back… Sort Of

Sara Harowitz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:39 +0000

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Now that the long-time popular band Oasis are officially finished, lead singer Liam Gallagher is finally free to start a new band. And he’s doing so… with the members of Oasis who aren’t his brother Noel, reports rollingstone.com.

Bassist Andy Bell, drummer Chris Sharrock, and guitarist Gem Archer are currently working with Liam on new songs. In an interview with an Italian radio station, Liam promised fans that this new revamp of “Oasis,” which will perform under a different name, will return with music and performances soon.

“I’ll be back doing that, playing live, within a couple of months,” Liam said. “I’ve just done a tour, I always miss singing songs. I miss the people.”

Noel Gallagher left Oasis in late August, following a backstage fight with his brother before a performance at a French music festival. In the Italian interview, Liam revealed that the argument started when Noel poorly treated a guitar that was given to Liam as a present from his wife. In angry response, Liam took one of Noel’s guitars and smashed it.

“I didn’t smash the guitar on him,” Liam said. “I wish I had, man.”

“To be quite honest, I think Noel wanted out,” Liam continued. “We had an argument – but we’ve had bigger ones, about more important people. Basically, I think he wanted out, wanted something different, but he hadn’t got the bollocks to tell the band or the fans.”

Liam singularly wrote Oasis songs such as “Songbird,” “I’m Outta Time,” and “Little James,” but the music he creates in his new band will definitely be different without the intense yet creatively brilliant song relationship with his brother.

To really drive home the point, Liam repeated one more time, “Oasis is done.”

Liam Gallagher Moves On

Stephen Baldwin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:32:20 +0000

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Singer Liam Gallagher told WENN.com that he planned on putting together a new band next year. The former Oasis lead singer has taken a break form music since his brother Noel caused the band to fold after a fight with the two.

While Noel is pursuing a solo career, Liam intends to maintain a group dynamic, saying, “Getting away from the whole Oasis thing is going to be a good thing, I suppose. I don’t want to do anything solo. I want to be in a band. But we can do things a lot differently these days. It’ll definitely be rock ‘n’ roll.”

Liam is far form bitter about his time with the arguably one of the best bands in history.”I’m always going to miss Oasis. It was my f**king thing, you know what I mean? It’s who I am. But it’s only a name. I’m still who I am and I can go and do something else.”

Whatever Gallagher ends up doing, he will have an immediate following in the rock community.

Noel Gallagher Plans Solo Career

Vanessa Baker — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:10:56 +0000

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Now that Oasis has disbanded, lead singer Noel Gallagher is breaking away from his brother Liam and going solo, reports Perez Hilton.

“I’m looking forward to doing my own thing, bringing out my own music,” he said. “I’m glad that’s what people want to hear. I am not thinking about much else, Oasis or Liam, I’m just having a good time.”

He left the band in August following comments his brother made about the paternity of his daughter, Anais.

Oasis No Longer Exists

Sara Harowitz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:50:42 +0000

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Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has officially confirmed that the band is no longer around, according to CHARTattack.

Gallagher told Britain’s Times newspaper that the band are “done” and are “no longer.” He also said he was thinking about what his next musical move will be.

There was talk of Oasis continuing to make music without guitarist and main songwriter Noel Gallagher, who left the band earlier this year after a backstage fight with his brother. However, that appears to be out of the question now.

“I know [Oasis are done],” Liam Gallagher said in the Times article. “Without a doubt. And it’s a shame but that’s life. We had a good run at it. The thing about Oasis is [we ended it.] No one ended it for us. Which was pretty, kind of… cool.”

Oasis had a rocky 2009. Earlier in the year, Noel Gallagher said he wanted to release a solo album following Oasis’ tour for last year’s album Dig Out Your Soul. His brother was not a fan of that idea.

For now, Liam Gallagher’s busy promoting his Pretty Green clothing line, which launched earlier this year. He has also become a big supporter of bees – yes, as in the bug – and publicly supports a campaign to save them.

“You’ve got to look after the birds and bees, man,” Gallagher told British tabloid The Sun. “The bees are vanishing. We’ve got to save them before they all buzz off. It’s important. It’s really worthwhile cause.”

CHARTattack reported that one-fifth of Britain’s bees died last winter, which is a devastating number considering bee products contribute 200 million British pounds each year to the country’s economy.

Gallagher apparently became aware of this problem after honey cured the throat virus that led Oasis to cancel their Virgin Festival performance this summer.

“I like honey,” Galagher added. ”If it weren’t for honey, I’d have a rough voice.”

Noel Gallagher Leaves Oasis In Limbo

Emma Renda — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:34:50 +0000

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Oasis gossip comes fairly cheap, but the latest news from the Brit-pop powerhouse may actually cost the band their very existence. Noel Gallagher, guitarist and older brother of vocalist Liam Gallagher, announced Friday on his blog he had quit the band for good this time.

“People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer,” Noel wrote on oasisnet.com.

The post came after an altercation between Noel and Liam at the Paris music festival Rock en Seine. The two were so worked up they bowed out of their headlining set moments before they were scheduled to take the stage, disappointing fans even to the point of tears, according to drummer Chris Tomson’s statement to NME.

Vampire Weekend played the slot directly before Oasis and walked off stage into the midst of the confrontation between the brothers.

“It’s a story for Oasis to tell,” keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij told NME at the Leeds Festival the next day. “We’d just come offstage. It was weird – you feel kind of good [having played], your mind is not on other people’s problems. It was a strange time.”

Of course, Oasis have turned this trick dozens of times, and very publicly at that.

Both brothers have stormed off the stage mid-set, dropped off tours and slandered the other via interviews, on stage or most recently through Twitter. But entertainment media around the world seem to be taking this split more seriously and have already begun questioning the future of the 18-year-old band.

NME reported that while Liam said he has no intention of pursuing a solo career, he has said he would carry on with Oasis should Noel ever leave beacuse he was the one who started the band in the first place. On the other hand, Noel said he has written a number of songs that don’t belong to Oasis and a solo record is a possibility.

The Mirror UK reported both the Gallagher’s mom and the man responsible for discovering them, Creation Records’ boss Alan McGee, believe this is all just a spat and they will reunite in the end.

Noel’s wife, Natalie Appleton (former member of All Saints) told NME “Oasis will die before they split up…They’re going to go on forever until they are old men.”

The Guardian UK’s John Harris wrote a column on Aug. 25 – three days before Noel called it quits – titled “Oasis: Is it really over?” detailing the rapidly expanding divide between the brothers over the last year. The column even mused the Milan gig on Aug. 30 could be the band’s last.

Looks like they couldn’t even hold out that long.