IN THIS WEEK'S NME: OASIS TEN YEARS ON
In their first interview together for what seems like an age, you'll be pleased to hear that Noel and Liam are still madferrit, sticking into each other as well just about anyone else you care to mention. NME.COM is pleased to present, exclusively, Noel's choice of images from Oasis' first ten years.
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Right. Picture time. To celebrate ten action-packed years, we asked Noel to flick through our photo archive and pick out the images which sum up Oasis' decade. He duly obliged providing - with a little help from Liam - personal captions for each image. The ensuing debate is almost as entertaining as the pictures. Here's what happened.
Noel's caption: 'C'MON LEAVE IT... IT'S ONLY THE SOUNDCHECK'
Liam: "What've you put on that, you cunt? "C'mon leave it, it's only the soundcheck"? Heheheh! Hahahah!" [rolls around sofa for several months, picks up another live shot] "Where's that? Haven't got a fookin' clue. Knebworth, is it?"
NME: Oh Christ. You can't remember the entire 1990s.
Liam: "I really don't!"
NME: Would you like to write some captions, Liam?
Liam: "I don't write. I can only do four letters and it's L.I.A.M."
NME: We've never seen your handwriting. Come on!
Noel: "No, you can't see his fookin' hand-writing, you can hear him sing!"
NME: How come!?
Liam: "Cos its fookin' rubbish."
Noel: "He only writes in Braille."
Photo: Roger Sargent
2. Liam's 'legendary' spit, MTV Video Music Awards, September 1996
Noel's caption: 'BASTARD KUSS KUSS'
Noel: "That's after I put fookin' cous cous in his sandwich before he went on."
Photo: Popperfoto
Noel's caption: 'WHERE'S ME GILLETTE EXCEL'
Liam: "What do I see when I look at that? Fookin' geezer!"
Photo: Hayley Madden
4. On-ver-road, November 1999
Noel's caption: 'FREEEEZING!!'
Noel: "Fucking freezing is all I remember."
Photo: Tom Sheehan
Noel's caption: 'FUCKIN' GOBSTOPPERS'
Liam: "Fookin'... look at that young man?!"
NME: How different are you to that young man?
Noel: "Not much."
Liam: "I'm the exact same."
Noel: "That was our first ever NME cover that. 'Cept for a big leather jacket you had on."
Liam: "Good leather jacket, that!"
Photo: Kevin Cummins
6. Liam with shirt off. Steady, girls/boys etc
Noel's caption: 'WHAT D'YER MEAN THERE'S NO EVIAN'
NME: Don't see you with your gear off much, Liam.
Liam: "No! What would I get me gear off for? I'm not a fookin' soft lad! I'm not a model! Look at me fookin' socks man... Who's that there, is that Guiggs?"
Noel: "Someone else with their top off with you in a room..."
Liam: "It's not fookin' good, is it!? Two blokes! It's fookin' McGuigan in Japan... I wonder who's in the fookin' room takin' the picture, the cheeky cunt, comin' in an' fookin' snappin' man, they'd get a black eye for that..."
Photo: Roger Sargent
Noel's caption: 'I AM THE COSMOS'
Liam: "Classic man. Classic."
Noel: "Great picture that. And that's what it felt like. The cosmos! At that point, it's better than the gig, 'cos you haven't played a note. And if you look at everyone, everyone's got their fucking arms in the air and that's a proper celebration. And there's not even a fucking note been played yet. At that point he was always waiting in the wings and we'd fire up an instrumental and it was just like "fucking hang on man", and at the end of that gig, there's was loads of kids'd got on the roof, helicopters over the gig, it was like fucking Vietnam, it was mega, proper mega."
8. Some chairs in a hotel pool. May 1994
Noel's caption: 'GOOD DRINK'
Noel: "That's Portsmouth. Summit fucking hotel. We met East 17 in the hotel and they got taken to their rooms by their management and we proceeded to just throw everything that wasn't nailed down into the pool."
Liam: "I remember me being in it at one point. And I can't swim."
Noel: "It was with the NME! Simon Williams, the fuckin twat, eggin' us on, I think we got stopped when me and Guiggs were wheeling the Coke machine across the foyer."
Photo: Kevin Cummins
9. Liam in fisherman's jumper, 1996
Noel's caption: 'VAN DOONICAN ON CRACK'
Liam: "What am I fookin' doin' there man!?"
Noel: "Fookin' line dancin'."
Photo: Steve Double
10. Noel 'n' Wellah. The White Room, 1995
Noel's caption: 'LEETWEIGHTS'
Noel: "He was up our studio the other night. He's doing his new album up at our studio as well."
Liam: "It's like we were saying the other day, acoustic guitar, off his fucking twat, like you said, 'Imagine what he was like when he was 17.'"
Noel: "He was doing some backing vocals on one of our tracks and it's a mellow fucking tune and the mike's there and he's playing air guitar and going fucking mad. I've been doing these acoustic gigs with him, on a stool, proper fucking flailing madman. He's fucking mental, inee? At T In The Park one of his strings snapped and we were doing 'That's Entertainment' and he was making me nervous 'cos he was getting more and more angry, 'Keep fucking playing!' and I'm like 'er, alright!' and he stood up and fookin' head-butted the guitar across the stage. I was like, 'fookin 'ell man you're 44 will yer fookin' calm down for fuck's sake!' He was walking around going 'fuck fuck fuck'..."
Photo: Kim Tonelli
11. Liam with bog-roll at arse, Loch Lomond, 1996
Noel's caption: 'SET LIST MY ARSE'
Liam: "What the fook am I doin!? Fucking top! Cracker, man. [suddenly overcome with dewyness] Fucking great days them, man."
Noel: "They were the best."
Photo: L.F.I.
12. Them pair snogging, Loch Lomond, 1996
Noel's caption: 'HAD A DRINK? ME??'
Together: "Ahahahahahah!"
Photo: Roger Sargent
Noel's caption: 'WE'RE OASIS. THANK YOU. FUCK YOU. 'AVE A NICE DAY'
Noel: "I remember walking off stage, that day, and somebody from Creation was on a mobile phone and the single previous to the one out then was 'Supersonic' and it was Number 31 and we were fucking made up we'd been in the Top 40, pretty gutted we didn't make 'Top Of The Pops' and as we came off stage Alan McGee just went 'Shakermaker' has just gone in at Number 11, we were expecting maybe Top 20. And at the weekend there was 100,000 people at Glastonbury, a 100,000 people that didn't buy it and we were just thinking, 'It's gonna go. It's gonna go fookin' mad'. And it fookin' did."
Photo: Roger Sargent
14. Liam with be-gloved 'V' sign
Noel's caption: 'THEY'LL NEVER GET ME DABS'
Liam: "They'll never get me dabs!?"
Noel: "You've got fookin gloves on! You never get me fingerprints officer."
Liam: "I'm sure they matched with summat... [scans photo for all-important sartorial co-ordination] Me shades! There you fucking go!"
Photo: P.A. Photos
15. Bin-men chic, 1997
Noel's caption: 'KANGOL PROMOTIONAL TOUR '97-98'
Noel: "I was fucked that day. "What the fuck am I doing here?"
Liam: "Look at that. Fookin' wedding rings on and everything. [leaps straight off seat, fist in the air] Fuuuh-kin' no more!"