Noel Gallagher is in Anna Gabriel's photobook EYE-D, 2022
I met Noel through a mutual friend of my husband. He put us in touch directly and in our online exchanges Noel was perfectly charming and accommodating. Not unlike the Eddie Vedder shoot there was no publicist or manager involved so organising the shoot took on the uncanny feeling of texting a mate.
We met at Noel's brand new studio in London. To my surprise, the first thing he told me was, he was a massive fan of From Genesis to Revelation, particulary the song "The Conqueror". I never had Noel down as a Genesis fan!
The studio was perfect for photographing. Noel's very into feng shui and the studio had a vermilion psychedelic feel, but I ended up settling on an office room with natural daylight. Out of everyone I photographed for this book, no one else had been able to hold his eye open without blinking for as long or as effortlessly as Noel did. When I mentioned this to him he joked that it must have been all the drugs he took in the Nineties.
β Eye-D: Portraits by Anna Gabriel, 2022
β annamariegabrielphotography on inst 09/2020
"He was great, very funny," she said.
"My husband came along and we went to his studio in London and it was a great time - He was making jokes, showing us around, very relaxed.
"He was telling about his sunglasses, he loves them, and likes to buy expensive ones so I had to shoot him with his sunglasses on but I like that shot."
yknow when you can tell that someones opinion on the homeless is dictacted by the fact they seem to imagine every homeless person just like. spawned in the back alleys of a city as a fully grown scruffy hobo with no life goals other than scrounging enough pocket change for a hit of Drugsβ’ . like you suggest that perhaps a homeless person was not always homeless and probably had a life and a childhood like the rest of us and they blank like they genuinely didnt consider it. like they forgot thats a human being too.
did they really live together/in the same hotel after the first divorce or is it just a fanfic thing?
they did! circa 2000. it's a tricky and ephemeral bit of lore to concretely track down, i don't believe the actual dates are even known. this is the only quote i have to hand about it at the moment:
so it turns out that this ^ encounter with tommy gallagher in 1996 was not actually after loch lomond! it was on the 23rd of march, just after a gig in dublin: see here and here.
this is, of course, very interesting in light of the "i'll fight you if you promise not to kiss me" moment, because tommy can't possibly have been mocking liam about the loch lomond kiss four whole months before it happened. which opens up two main possibilities:
the extract on the right, in which tommy narrates the event himself, was published on the 25th of august 1996, a matter of weeks after loch lomond. so, it's possible that he didn't actually make that joke to liam's face, but then chose, a few months on, after seeing the loch lomond photos, to lie and insert it into his narrative. why? who knows. but he is certainly a very practiced liar, so this is somewhat plausible.
tommy did, in fact, make that joke to liam's face, but he was alluding to something completely different. to what exactly? well i'm not actually sure i want to know. to be honest.
from the way tommy tells this story, it seems as if it was the kissing comment in particular that really set liam off and got him shouting and threatening to break his legs.
of course, tommy's description of liam's reaction should be taken with a pinch of salt (as with absolutely everything tommy says, frankly) because all other accounts of the incident say that liam was angry, loud and ready to fight from the get-go.
what it does tell us, though, is that even if, in reality, liam didn't react to the kissing joke in any notable way, (or even if tommy was lying and never actually made the joke to liam's face!) he must have thought that it meant/would mean something to liam, because it is this moment that he chose to emphasise as the moment liam got violent. he must have thought it was significant in some way. so the possibilities are:
he invented this exchange, but he believed that the loch lomond kiss was a sensitive topic for liam.
he invented this exchange, but it wasn't about the loch lomond kiss; he still believed, however, that joking about kissing him would get a rise out of liam.
he really did say that, and it wasn't about loch lomond; he believed that joking about kissing him would get a rise out of liam.
he really did say that, and joking about kissing him really did get a rise out of liam.
all of which are really very troubling.
anyways if anybody has any insights at all into This Whole Thing please do add on............
Terry gave chase and just as Liam got to his dad's table, he swiftly blocked him off.
"You fucking cunt, I'll break your legs," Liam shouted trying to get round Terry.
"You couldn't break Albert Tatlock's legs," Thomas sneered.
"You cunt, I'll have you."
Liam went to punch him but everytime he moved, Terry expertly moved with him. Liam threw his arms up in disgust and walked away, back to his seat. He looked hurt, devastated.
Suddenly, Noel entered the room, walked past his father, and went straight to Liam.
"Liam, come with me."
"No, I won't."
"Liam! You come with me right now." Noel was in no mood to argue, his voice made that patently clear.
Liam stood up and Noel took him by the arm and guided him to the far side of the room. They disappeared behind some curtains.
Bonehead watched them disappear and said, "It had to happen. We've been waiting years for this. We knew it had to come some time. And now it has." Kevin came over to where Bonehead was.
"I think we should clear the bar. He's gone now."
"I think that's exactly what should happen," Bonehead said in total agreement.
paolo hewitt, getting high: the adventures of oasis
But he lifted the lid on the night Liam threatened him after a gig in Dublin.
Bitterly, Tommy said: "The lads found out I was in their hotel and threatened to break my legs.
Then Liam's large babysitters came over. I told them: 'Go back to your babysitting duties before the child breaks the lovely piano'.
I thought to myself: 'It must be his bed time. He always throws a tantrum before bedtime'. Liam came over, jumped up and landed in front of me!"
Tommy added: "Then he tapped at his rear pocket and said:
"I'm a millionaire."
Then I winked at him and said: "Right then, I'll fight you if you promise not to kiss me."
This made his babysitters laugh and Liam started shouting:
"Your legs are gone, your legs are gone." I shouted back: "You couldn't break Percy Sugden's legs." The bouncers split us up."
an interview published by the daily record & sunday mail 25/08/96
Liam: No such thing as happily married. If you wanna see the opposite sex sprout four heads, then exchange a couple of rings. You walk to the altar with a woman with one head and you walk back up with a fucking monster. I'd much rather live with someone and have them as a girlfriend.
Did you both have problems with commitment?
Noel: Marriage is a ridiculous concept. I hate people who say, Oh I've found my soulmate. That's bullshit. There's only one soulmate and that's the man upstairs. I don't even know why I bothered getting married in the first place - a moment of fucking weakness, as well as an amazing tax fiddle. You can save loads of money from the taxman, but you end up paying it back in spades at the other end of the marriage.
Liam: I was forced into it. No, it wasn't an arranged marriage [to Kensit] more a deranged marriage.
So is your relationship as brothers better now?
Liam: We had to touch the bottom for it to get better. It had to be fucking totally shit first. Plus, we had to give you lot something to write about or you'd be stuck with Travis and Coldplay and people who want a long prosperous career by being nice. That ain't real. Fighting and arguing and fucking people off is real.
Noel: I can handle Liam now cos I'm more tolerant. I used to think, I'm the boss, so fuck off. Also, I do really mean it when I say he'll be the best songwriter in this country in five years time. People thought I was being ironic. I wasn't, his new songs are great.
So how close did you come to splitting?
Noel: We didn't. We sat down and I said, "Listen, I love you and you love me, what's the most important thing? One: the music. Two: the singer. Three: the cunt who writes the songs." So we got rid of the fucking entourage of 450 cunts hanging around us, he cut down on his drinking and wrote some fantastic songs, we got working with two great musicians and here we are.
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