nobody knows the way it's gonna be

you can call me al :) 20s

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the seinfeld reference on talksport. he's such a nerd.

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hes playing

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Noel Gallagher & Paul Weller - All You Need Is Love (Live)

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Noel at The Kitchen in 1988

From The Rise and Fall of Madchester (BBC):

"Hulme during the eighties was economically broken but socially mixed, and The Kitchen became its heart and its soul. Ravers, students, punks, artists, musicians, gangsters, men, women — gay and straight — they learned to disappear into the music together."

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Noel: "When we used to go to the Haçienda in the eighties back in Manchester, afterwards there used to be, if you were brave enough to go, there used to be an afterhours kind of— what was it? ‘Cause they used to have DJs in there and it was very very shifty, y’know, and it would go on till seven-eight o’clock in the morning. And they would play kind of acid house music. But as the night would draw to a close, the older DJs would get on at like six o’clock in the morning and they’d start playing old, kind of soul stuff that you’d never heard. And I remember the sun coming up, and I was just stood beside a guy, and we were kinda dancing, and it was Mani from The Stone Roses, who I’d never met, but I was a massive fan! [...] That was the first night I met him, in 1988 at seven o’clock in the morning."

More on The Kitchen and Hulme Crescents:

Manchester Evening News (2022):

"You'd walk in and to the right there was like this half door to the kitchen, which is where the drinks were sold. It was dark, but it wasn't pitch black. There would be like a single pink lightbulb on, it wasn't a place that pandered to the consumer. "It was like the last days of the Roman Empire.

"At the time there were all these areas in Manchester that were basically left un-policed and without public services. "There were no police in Moss Side, the Gay Village, Hulme," he said. "And when that happens places become their own kind of entities. People make up their own rules. "So Hulme became this kind of commune, an anarchist haven. It was f***** fantastic. But you also needed to watch out for people taking your s***."

The Guardian (2023):

Constructed in 1972, the vast brutalist estate was the largest public housing development in Europe and could house up to 13,000 people. Intended as a futuristic blueprint for social housing, design and safety flaws became apparent within two years. In 1974, a child died falling from one of the easily climbable balconies. Cockroaches were plentiful, the heating system unaffordable, and residents were soon petitioning to be re-housed. By the mid-1980s, the council wanted to demolish it but couldn’t afford to, so they stopped charging rent. It became a magnet for a disparate crew of squatters – students, travellers, punks, ravers, anarchists, artists and drug addicts all living in chaotic harmony – and a dilapidated incubator for Manchester’s future musical talents. “It was a creative epicentre,” says Martin Moscrop of the post-punk funk outfit A Certain Ratio, who lived there. X Republic vocalist and resident Lily Laina Munster concurs: “It was a bringing together of minds through rebellion and music.” A Guy Called Gerald, the Smiths’ Mike Joyce, Ian Brown, Mick Hucknall and countless others also lived there, as did the film critic Mark Kermode and even Nico from the Velvet Underground. “Although I think she stayed for the cheap heroin,” says Una.

Late night blues parties had been run locally by the Black community for years, but by 1987, ecstasy and the burgeoning dance music scene brought an appetite for a different kind of early-hours do. So the Kitchen as a late night club was born. Scrawled graffiti on the walls in the estate provided directions for party-goers to reach the top floor of Charles Barry Crescent, where a sound system pumped out funk, hip-hop and imported house and techno. “On the first night there were 500 people,” says Williams. “It was crazy.” Nicholson remembers “a jam room upstairs for musicians and then DJs downstairs.” Williams recalls the room functioning for other activities. “People used to do a lot of fucking up there,” he laughs. Chris Jam and Tomlyn of the Jam MCs were brought in as in-house DJs. “The first time we walked in to Hulme it was like a scene from Mad Max,” recalls Jam. “It was lawless.”

This rent-free creative mecca for young people who shaped the future of Manchester sits in stark contrast to the city today, one which trades heavily off its own musical and cultural legacy but with a housing crisis that makes living there simply unattainable for many. “One of the reasons you get such incredible art, effervescent culture and creativity is because of a low or no rent situation,” Una says. “Rent is biblically expensive in Manchester and there are no areas where counterculture can be allowed to grow naturally and develop. Hulme was a haven for that.”

more sources:

DJ-mag: 24-hour party people: raving and rebelling in Manchester’s Hulme Crescents

VICE: Remembering Hulme: Manchester's Scruffy Squat Party Republic

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liam and noel holding hands and hugging same old same old

BUT HOW ABOUT NOEL DELIBERATELY BUMPING ANDY'S SHOULDER

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Looking for Lowry, 2011

Noel Gallagher talks about his admiration of fellow famous son of Manchester, painter LS Lowry.

Noel Gallagher might not be the first person you’d expect to see in a film about one of the 20th century’s most popular painters. But Looking for Lowry film-maker Margy Kinmonth made the connection when she saw the video for their song The Masterplan.

Inspired by LS Lowry’s paintings of crowds in scenes of the industrial north of the early 20th century, the animated video is a Lowry painting come to life. It even includes a swaggering Liam Gallagher, a character that fits seamlessly into the Lowry landscape.

The Masterplan music video, 2006, made with Lowry estate's permission.

“Everybody’s on the move [in his paintings] aren’t they,” says Noel. “There’s nobody standing still, everybody’s walking, all slightly hunched over aren’t they? I mean, they’re very brilliant.

“Only works in the rain though, don’t you find? You get great skies up in Manchester, real turbulent. Grey skies and tall buildings. And a little scraggy dog.”

For Noel the connection with and awareness of Lowry goes way back. “It’s like when they say ‘When’s the first time you heard The Beatles?’. It’s like, I don’t know, it’s just always been there for me, always.”

Both famous sons of Manchester with a deep connection with the city, Noel has always admired and related to how Lowry presented their hometown.

“I guess all the people that he ever met were all in there somehow,” he says. “Even though there are hundreds of people in those paintings, they’re all individuals in some way.

“There’s like a solace in them I think, you know. And you see them walking, they seem to be in their own little world. And I guess I was like that when I was younger. I was in my own little world and it was quite quiet, Manchester.

“It would be great to see what he could do with a northern town now because all the factories are dead. All those that haven’t been turned into cheap flats are just huge empty buildings that once housed all these people.

“All the houses around and all the people working there, the whole community was based around the factory. It’d be interesting to see how he would paint all these northern towns that are dead now that the textile industry has gone.”

A topic touched on in the film is the continuing issue of Lowry paintings not being considered worthy of serious art criticism. This has resulted in the Tate not displaying the many Lowry paintings the gallery owns. It’s something Noel is at a loss to understand.

“So [the paintings] aren’t considered Tate worthy? Or is it just because he was a northerner?” asks Noel. “Does anybody know why though? I mean, what’s the official line?

“I find it amazing that an artist that’s got that much of a strong identity is not accepted, because surely that’s what art is all about, you know. It’s reflecting real life and you know what it is when you see it.”

Will Marlow, 13 April 2011

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dainty pink noel gallagher in soft sweater that is also pink in his pink floral studio. part of his self described "pink-vibe"

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Noel Gallagher took fans by surprise at three of his friend Paul Weller‘s UK tour dates last week when he strolled onstage and played short warm-up sets. Unannounced each night, Noel played six songs on acoustic guitar at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on July 6, Bristol Colston Hall (7) and Plymouth Pavilion (9). He played songs by The Jam and The Beatles, as well as Oasis favourites. No new material was aired.

—Weller Gets Noel In To 'Jam' | NME July 1998

"But I've enjoyed doing it and it's been good for the fans more than anything else. It's been unannounced, so you should see their faces when I walk out, they all go 'Fucking hell, that looks like Liam Gallagher! Fuck no, it's Noel.'

—Total Guitar: Noel Gallagher Dec 1998

[photo of Noel from Plymouth Pavilions gig] [music from Noel Gallagher - Supporting Paul Weller - Live in Wolverhampton, Civic Hall, 6/7/1998]

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interesting he sings the games you make me play here instead of the games i have to play

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Noel says that the inspiration for the title Who Built the Moon? was taken from a chapter in a book of conspiracies that he read in the 90s.

While I couldn't find anything with that specific chapter title, I think it's likely that Noel read Jim Marrs' Alien Agenda that was published in 1997 and became hugely popular.

The first chapter in that book addresses the Spaceship/Hollow Moon theory.

Guy Pratt mentions Who Built the Moon? by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, but that book was published in 2005, so Noel may have seen or heard the title somewhere and gotten it mixed up. However, there are so many books on conspiracies it's entirely possible there is a book out there with a chapter titled Who Built the Moon?

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Liam Gallagher and Paul Weller parallels (continued)–'multitude of different personalities' (Liam) and 'a lovely bunch of fellas' (Weller)

Robertson, Iain. Oasis: What’s the Story? Life on Tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher. John Blake Publishing, 2024

Hewitt, Paolo. Paul Weller: The Changing Man. Bantam Press, 2007.

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swingin' udders 🐮

Inspiral Carpets - Reading Fest 1990 (full show, audience cam)

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— Forever the People, Paolo Hewitt

Noel and Strangeboy hitting the dance floor 🪩

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Dublin Evening Herald - Thursday 13 February 1997

so he did try to get married before Liam. (and also experienced the same press intrusion issue.)

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noel's review lmao

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2000 was chaotic (Timeline)

13 March Noel hinted at going solo

Noel Gallagher has spoken further about his plans to go solo and the future of Oasis. "I've got more songs finished for it than the next Oasis album because I wanna get Oasis away from writing slow ballad numbers. I'd like to do a let less in Oasis."

20 May Oasis cancel Spanish gig

(Noel: In Barcelona he questioned the legitimacy of my daughter. And even now I can remember being on him and punching him and splitting his lip and thinking, “He never really said that, did he?” But he did, and I've never forgiven him because he's never apologised. I would apologise for something like that. I hope he's reading this and realises that. He's my brother but he's at arm's length until he says sorry for what he’s done. - August 2005 Q)

25 May Brothers at war

Noel "He's the singer, so we have a professional relationship. We don't have a relationship outside the band. We are not good at playing happy families." He denied that Oasis will split, saying he will record a solo album but "that doesn’t necessarily mean you are leaving the band. I intend to do both."

31 May Liam Gallagher has insisted there will be no more Oasis if Noel records a solo album

"When you do a solo album, how can you go back? 'I am not there to be a shelter for him anymore. And if he goes down that road, he can't go and say 'OK, let's start Oasis again'. If he does a fucking solo album then Oasis will be over."

Noel went on holiday in Ibiza

22 June Liam Gallagher and wife Patsy Kensit are selling their London home

04 July Speaking about his recent meeting with Yoko Ono in New York, he commented: "We had a great chat and she's a great woman. People say she split up The Beatles, but that's [expletive "bleeped" in print]. No woman can do that. How can you blame it on a woman? It's four guys - they split themselves up. My wife couldn't split Oasis up, Noel's wife couldn't and [laughing] Andy Bell's boyfriend couldn't!"

Noel told London listings magazine Time Out that Liam's drinking was the main problem in their love-hate relationship.

"It makes me tired, it gets me down, but he knows that and the more it gets me down, the more he does it," he said. "It's like he can't accept the fact that may be the band is not the most important thing in my life any more. Watching my little girl grow up and go to school is more important than watching the band develop. He's gotta get his head round that before we can go any further."

07 July Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit have confirmed that their three-year marriage is over.

08 July LIAM REUNITES WITH NOEL

Noel rejoined the band for their Dublin concert after enjoying a break in Ibiza. Noel shook hands with brother Liam on stage at Lansdowne Road Stadium in front of 30,000 fans. Liam, whose separation from wife Patsy Kensit was announced just hours earlier, told the crowd: "There's been a lot of stuff written about us. . . but we ain't splitting up."

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20 July Noel: I don't know when him and what's-her-name split up but over the past 14 days he's been happier than I've ever seen him.

21-22 July Wembley Stadium

25 July Nicole Appleton has confirmed she is dating Liam

11 August Noel went on holiday with Meg

Noel Gallagher and stunning wife Meg Matthews lap up the sun at their Spanish retreat - in full view of delighted fans. He took 53-year-old mum Peggy, who will help babysit the couple's seven-month-old daughter Anais. Noel left brother Liam, 27, and ducked out of their band's European tour to take a summer break with his family. But the reformed hell-raiser looked bored and grumpy.

05 September Noel Gallagher and wife split

25 November NOEL has declared his plans for a solo album were fabricated to wind-up his brother LIAM. (video here)

"I was in an interview in Europe. The guy was saying have you ever consider solo?  I said "Well these four songs I probably won't use for Oasis, but I might use them for a solo album in the future." So anyway, Liam goes into this interview afterwards with the same guy. He's come back in a... I could see it in his eyes that he was absolutely disgusted and offended that I would even consider solo. So I thought well this is gonna be fun for the next six week. So in every interview I did, I was like "I'm planning a solo career, written four songs for a solo album and two for Oasis albums." This could get back at him. The more he kept getting annoyed about it, the more I would say it. But for the record, I'm not doing a solo album and I never intended to do a solo album. It's just all for the benefit of family relations. We're brothers, he's the singer in my band and Im the songwriter. There is summat between us that will never be broken, by some guys who sit with a typewriter."

BONUS (19/06/2001 Daily Telegraph)

Noel said he and Liam were getting along better than they ever had.

"We have the funniest, funniest times, which we never did before," he said, adding ,"Liam used to really annoy me, but now I think he is a comic genius, the funniest guy I have known in my entire life. I believe that in the old days he was difficult and drinking so heavily because of his ex-wife [Patsy Kensit]. She made him unhappy and he used to take it out on the rest of the band."

More Liam on Noel’s Solo in 2000

Speaking to an Austrian publication, Liam said: "It pisses me off that he has even thought about solo albums. What's he on about? He's in a band. Why would you want to make a solo album. It's bullshit and for losers. A solo album and a band album is too much pressure for him chill out man. Make a great album with us and stop thinking about solo albums," insisted Liam. Liam, who admitted he had not spoken to Noel since he walked out three weeks ago.

Liam confesses the reason Noel walked out of the tour was because of an ongoing argument about solo albums, not his drinking. He said: "I was doing interviews, and I'm hearing this solo shit. It's bollocks...I don't want to be hearing about it. Just fucking do it and get it over and done with, but I don't want to hear about it. "I've got my family and I've got this band, and I don't need anything else. So for him to be committing to some solo thing pisses me off because he should be just solid, thinking about this band...I don't think about anything else, except this band, me wife and me kids, and the people in the band. And he's fuckin' thinkin' about solo albums. So we had a little barney. We had a little bit of a scrap, and he got his ball and went home."