for those who don't know, in september 1994, oasis were performing in the USA. one of them gigs - the whiskey a go go one - didn't go so well in the sense that noel sang horribly and didn't play much better, either, however, Liam sang beautifully throughout the whole thing and tony had a pretty good gig as well. guigs and the bone were nothing special but neither were they awful. so with the exception of a wee 'hey we didn't all agree which song to play NOW!' mishap, the gig was alright for everyone except noel.
the gig in question:
why was noel so unglued that he couldn't even perform semi-decently? the official version was, of course, hurr durr meth. but in supersonic (2016) Liam says he took meth as well - and he sang like an angel. was noel's meth different from everyone else's?
theory time: obviously, it wasn't the meth that messed noel up. the meth did nothing wrong and everyone else's performance that night proves as much. so leave the poor meth alone.
what messed noel up to the point he couldn't perform was having sex with Liam. proof:
but... noel had already written lock all the doors, up in the sky, slide away - all his depraved incest anthems? and according to Liam, the 'magic' happened in Liam's childhood bedroom (big yikes). surely noel's unhealthy incestuous relationship with Liam had been long since consummated by september 1994? well, yes. except noel obviously doesn't believe in any sort of equity or reciprocity, so Liam - apologies to the squeamish! - as we know from up in the sky was always left asking 'how does it feel when you're inside me?'. never the other way around.
until september 1994, that is, when Liam somehow managed to convince noel to bottom. and of course noely dearest ended up hating experiencing what he himself would regularly subject Liam to - so he left Liam that accusatory note, as if everything was Liam's fault. we can go on 'like brothers' when i'm banging you, but we can't go on 'like brothers' when you're banging me. and if you dare suggest that we do something YOU would like, i'm going to punish you by leaving you, scaring the shit out of you.
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
The Phoenix, Feb 2007
©️ Kevin Cummins
Dancing LIAM … lol (^o^)
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Ppl on the Disco Elysium subreddit are going crazy after the mobile game was announced
Not him putting oasis and blur in there in a inspiral carpets letter to fans in 91 😭
Bonus:
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some photos of Noel’s early 90’s notebook, auctioned off in 1998 (click through to see them in high resolution)