Liam Gallagher

“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

Hello darling

April 2025 by Zoe Law

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

©️ Kevin Cummins

Since I saw that photo of Noel and Liam wrestling on the floor is going around today, here are some outtakes I found :)

Feb 2011, The Quietus

Couldn’t help it. Too tempting

Not him putting oasis and blur in there in a inspiral carpets letter to fans in 91 😭

Bonus:

Why I think that Liam’s voice was permanently damaged during the Be Here Now tour and how that happened

Why was Liam so anxious that he would become useless during the time of Oasis' third album, and why was his mentality so shattered? The instrument that a vocalist possesses is his own voice, and other members who use instruments that exist physically can repair and replace them with other instruments if they break, but that's not the case with voices.

And Oasis was not run in a way that respected that. This is the recorded performance schedule from 1993 to 1998 Australia/New Zealand tour, and after that, it continued with 7 performances in South America before finally ending the third album tour. And when they weren't performing - during the gap period, the album was recorded, and even during the tour, B-side recordings were done here and there.

They worked Liam’s voice to death with such a tough schedule that didn't give him a single moment to rest his voice. When Liam thought that his throat would get damaged if he continued performing like that, he had no choice but to get off the stage and get criticized by the band, the press and the fans. He even had to worry that someone else would take his place if he couldn't perform.

The recording of the third album was particularly tough, and songs like Fade In/Out pushed Liam to his limits, and it is said that after recording the song, Liam was unable to sing for a week. And the song was on the set list 64 times out of the 81 shows of the third album tour.

He continued performing with a tight schedule, and was diagnosed with nodules in his neck by a doctor on December 4, 1997, the second day of the Dublin performance (so Noel performed on the second and third days). The doctor said he had to take a break from performing for a few weeks, but it was impossible because there were so many performances left^^ After taking a two-day break and getting a steroid prescription, he performed until the end of March 1998.

They had a lot of year-end performances planned for the Christmas, but the doctor said the singer has a problem with his throat and he has to rest for a few weeks. Of course, if they adjusted the performance schedule, it would have costed money, but the singer's voice would’ve been damaged if they didn’t. If they knew how irreplaceable his voice was, theywouldn't have done it that way.

Did you know that the third album cycle was the only time they didn’t have a large outdoor/stadium concert since their debut album? They already did Knebworth for their second album and played a stadium for their fourth album, so if they had replaced it with a large-scale concert for their third album, wouldn't they have been able to reduce the number of concerts? But they didn't.

The number of shows Liam had to perform without resting after being diagnosed with nodules. It went downhill from there, Liam’s voice never fully recovered after this

(Translation @/dstrbnc text on Twitter)

If you need any convincing that Noel and Liam Gallagher are incestuous freaks (affectionate), here's the basic information you need

First of all. The kisses

Loch Lomond kiss, where they just... made out on stage in front of cameras. Cool. There's a gif with every photo from every angle.

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guess this is the closest we can get to an actual loch lomond video (not my work i found this masterpiece on the almighty internet)

Another kiss, this time in Japan. Here's the actual video.

And here's the same video but together with nice quotes from their 2016 documentary:

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Oasis: Supersonic (2016) dir. Mat Whitecross

Here's a 2005 award event where they kiss again and also look quite in love

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😘

And here's Liam straight up groping Noel during concerts:

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Liam couldn’t get enough of Noels bum

General stage antics and more groping:

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Me and Liam are head over heels in love at the moment. It’s illegal in some countries but while you’re on the road, it’s fine. - Noel Gallag

Just one more groping

Ok. Let's talk about the music, then

Oasis has a song that Noel wrote called "My Sister Lover". The title speaks for itself, really. It includes amazing lyrics such as "You're my lover, I'm your brother"

But there's more! Noel used the same chorus of this song (with different lyrics) for a song he released in his solo album, 20 years later. It's called "Lock All the Doors". The very first line says: "She wore a star-shaped tambourine, prettiest girl I’d ever seen". And guess... guess who famously played a star-shaped tambourine? Liam! And Noel was the one that gifted him the fucking tambourine!!

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”She wore a star-shaped tambourine, prettiest girl I’d ever seen was standing lost and lonely on the shore I tried to catch her every night

Liam wrote a song for Oasis called Guess God Thinks I'm Abel

I'll just link everything that's been said about this song, because it really is batshit insane that this song exists

(It's common in the north of England to refer to things and people as "our". When either Liam or Noel say "our kid", they're talking about each other)

Liam has the tendency of thinking every song Noel writes is about him, including the love songs

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melody maker, april 96

Here he says "I'm his muse", along with some other interesting quotes

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We fight and call each other every name under the sun, but at the end of the day, we’d die for each other -Noel Gallagher.

Ok, now we're on to suspicious quotes!

They had sex last night, according to Liam

This one is my favorite:

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"Me and Liam are head over heels in love at the moment" - Noel Gallagher (Gurten Festival 2002 Interview)

Of course this one is just all the weird quotes jammed in one post, you can feel yourself going crazy as you read it

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I think I have two more quotes One is Liam saying “I adore him”, about Noel. In this link: https://www.tumblr.com/lovecomedy/73806542380595

Noel assures us that Liam knows about his arse

Other people confirming that they act like a couple. And them being fucking weird about each other’s marriages.

This one has Noel saying Liam is deeply in love with him. At the bottom, Liam's tweet.

Actually Liam always tweets things that basically confirm they're relationship. Like when somebody asked him if he ever rimmed Noel. Yeah.

This radio interview is where the most lovely quotes come from. Only Noel was supposed to be interviewed but then they both showed up PISSED DRUNK. Transcription in the same post

Even More weird quotes

This one involves the word impregnate

Noel making a suspicious comment about his daughter and son, Anais and Donovan

I think to be convinced you really just need that, but I'd like to add some niceties.

Just genuinely enjoying each other’s company

This is from the Oasis; 10 Minutes Of Noise and Confusion documentary. As Noel is kissing Liam's cheek, Liam is saying "He’s a fucking cunt and I hate him and I love him and he twists my melon, man. He’s the best songwriter in the fucking world.”

Some sweet quotes, and some less sweet ones as well

From the Supersonic documentary

Hugging after playing football

Just being silly

To finish off, two wonderful video edits with endearing moments

getting him to join

from the get go liam's plan hadn't been to merely impress noel by being in a band, it was to get noel IN the band

liam is at first desperate and then genuinely thrilled to get noel, whereas noel is deliriously happy about having louise

but yes, the mission was to get noel in at any cost. kind of like baby trapping someone, but with a band instead of a baby

imagine liam jumping through all these hoops for paul?

so what's it like now that you've successfully smuggled your one and only into the band? must be pretty nice, right? well...:

cutting two-word review... seldom seemed to show any positive emotion towards liam... noel's smile seemed to vanish...

yeah ...

so these are from tony mccarroll's book which is well worth a read or ten