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Liam Gallagher says “greedy” Noel will agree to Oasis reunion “very fucking soon”

By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 2 March 2020

Liam Gallagher has predicted that an Oasis reunion will happen “very fucking soon” on account of his brother Noel being “greedy”.

Last month, Liam tweeted that the group had been offered £100 million to get back together, but Noel was holding out for more. Noel responded by tweeting: “To whoever might be arsed: I am not aware of any offer from anybody for any amount of money to reform the legendary Mancunian rock n roll group Oasis”.

When John Squire put out a similarly worded statement in 2011 saying that he had “no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group The Stone Roses”, it was six months before his band announced their reunion. So maybe the countdown is on to an Oasis reunion too. Liam certainly thinks it is.

Insisting that the 100 million figure “has been offered and he knows about it”, Liam claims in a new interview with the NME that the reason Noel is denying it is because “he’d like to be the person to break the news to people, because he’s the fucking oracle”.

Whether or not Liam lets Noel announce any reunion, he insists that “it is gonna happen, believe you me – it’s gonna happen very fucking soon because he’s greedy and he loves money and he knows that it’s got to happen soon or it won’t happen”.

Now, OK, Liam did seem to introduce a bit of doubt there, but I’m sure that’s nothing to worry about. Not least because, he claims, Noel’s solo career is faltering, making the cash more attractive. “That cunt can’t even fucking sell out Apollo in Manchester”, he says. “3000 capacity in his own fucking town, the fucking embarrassing fucking donut”.

At least we know the classic sibling rivalry between the Gallagher brothers will still be there if and when this reunion happens. If it’s when, and if the pay-out for the band’s members really is £100 million+, then none of them would ever need to work again once that reunion inevitably fell apart. What might they all get up to after that?

“I can see myself retiring in a wigwam”, says Liam.

Perhaps not what you were expecting, but actually it turns out he’s got prior experience with tent life. “I bought one years ago when I lived in Henley”, he says. “But it’s fucked because a deer got in it and couldn’t get out. I’ve come back to the house one day and there was this fucking commotion going on. There’s fucking holes in the fucking tent and I’m like ‘What the fuck’s going on here?’ And a deer from the fucking field next door had gone in for a snoop and couldn’t get out and lost its fucking mind”.

So, yeah, sounds ideal. Let’s get this reunion up and running.