This Noel interview with Zane Lowe in Nov 2019 is really interesting. The interviewer has a well-intentioned approach in pushing the Liam/reunion topic and they talked about it IN LENGTH. You could feel Noel gradually worked himself up and his seething anger as he got into it. This is the period of time when their relationship hit the all time low (As It Was documentary, sara and noel fat shaming liam, liam sending threatening message, noel making it public and retaliating, etc.). I tried to clip all the important parts:)
Shoutout to @mightylaaitie who uploaded it here! It was copyrighted and for the life of me I could not screenrecord it or rip it and then I found out it's already there thank you so much!!
ZL: Liam when he was here the other day, he said maybe I should have kept the name.Â
Noel: Frankly, right, I was willing⌠I don't want any part of it. It never got to that discussion. I was convinced he was going to take the name and I was good with that. I walked away with nothing. I had no band. I'm the main songwriter, obviously. But Liam got the band and he's a singer and all that. He bullishly brought the band up and then announced the Beady Eye were going to outstrip everything Oasis had ever done. I was like oohâŚ.
ZL: And that was a tough one⌠he's now succeeding on his own terms, and his albums are good. Are you happy in a weird way for the legacy of Oasis that he's not this broken part of this legacy?
Noel: Absolutely. Yeah. I suggested, when we were all still part of the same management firm and all that, and I was saying to the people, what's Beady Eye all about? It should just be him. He should have done that when the band split up.
ZL: It really surprised me how quickly Liam spoke kindly of you straight away. Like, straight away.
Noel: Can I stop you there? That doesn't mean shit to me. Because he's on fuckinâ Twitter, probably right now, saying the exact opposite. So it doesn't mean anything. If he's in here on camera playing to the gallery, fine, right? Actually, when it matters, when he's abusing my wife and my kids. You don't get to do both. It's like either be a cunt and own it, or don't be a cunt. You can say into a mic off the top you read what you like. To sit down and type something and probably âactually, no, that's not offensive enough. I'll retype that."
ZL: Yeah he thinks it's banter. He thinks it's all part of a thing.
Noel: All right, well, when I eventually see him, he'll realize it's not fuckinâ banter.Â
Noel: Iâm constantly trying to draw analogies to kids when I meet them. Do you wear the same clothes every day now? You buy clothes as you get older because you change and you buy different clothes because they fit you differently. That's all I'm doing. I'm not going to be still wearing the same thing they don't fit me anymore. The oasis outfit doesn't fit me anymore!
We live in a in an era where on social media people do egg each other on. The easy thing would be to get Oasis back together and just say let's do it. I want it to remain special. I don't want a generation to come along saying they've seen us. I've never seen thee Beatles I've never seen the Sex Pistols, fuck them.
Noel: If we got back together, it would kill me if coming off stage at the first gig, not that I read social media, but there would be people saying, actually, that was a bit shit, wasn't it? And it would only take one person and you'd just go, well, what's the point of that?Â
ZL: So far, it's all about what everyone else thinks. It's what I think, fans think, social media thinks, this think, that think, some spotty 14 year old thinks. You are in such a sweet spot in your life. Great homes, security, family, wife, no one can tell you what to do. You make all the music you want to make... But there's something, a feeling that you got when you step on stage in front of 70,000 people, and only that band can galvanize and create that moment because it's what it means to us all, what if you realize that that's a feeling that you miss?
Noel: Well, I've said it a million times. I would be the first at the press conference if I wake up one day and I get that feeling. And I would make no bones about it. I wouldn't go and say, you know what, I really miss this guy. I'm here for the money and the fuckinâ laughs, right? I'm here for the lols and the fuckinâ pounds, right? But let's wait till we get to that day ...
And I know why Liam wants to do it, right? Because he will never be able to not be the frontman from Oasis. Because he's not a writer. Whatever he's doing, somebody else is directing that for him. I get it, right? It's not uncommon. Lots of people do it. I am different, right? I do my own thing, right? And it would be a backward step.Â
Noel: What kind of Oasis are we talking about? The original lineup? Half of Oasis are in my fuckin' band. And I'm telling you now the thought that they would have of getting on that tour they would just be like, can we not just fuckinâ stay doing what we're doing here? ⌠Yeah they want me and Liam and a load of fuckinâ other guys. Am I joining his band? Is he joining mine?Â
...This all comes from Liam that I'm desperate to get Oasis back together. But Sara is kind of at the end of the kitchen table saying, you're not going back in that band. And I'm going, oh, please, please, babe. She's like, no, you've done it once. You're not doing it again. Anybody that knows me, or her, knows that's a fuckinâ ludicrous, ludicrous fuckinâ situation. She gets a lot of abuse and it's really unfair because she's not even an Oasis fan! She don't give a shit of what I do! She doesn't care what I do! She's just like you are dad, husband. boyfriend, best mate. She's into George Michael. She's still not go over the death of George Michael to this day. I was in Thailand right when he died, and honestly she wept uncontrollably, and I was thinking I don't think I'll get these many tears.
ZL: I see what happens when people lose control of their life. It's one of the most terrifying things you can go through.Â
Noel: You feel helpless. You feel like it's just taken on a thing of its own, you can't claw it back. I used to be universally adored by the Oasis fan base. I get persecuted now because of the other fella on Twitter. And sometimes you feel like, hang on a minute, this has all been taken away from me somehow. You have to kind of check yourself sometimes and it is kind of slightly gone out of control. You've just got to step back and just do your thing, keep putting records out, keep doing gigs. Eventually it might blow over but i can't see it somehow⌠if i was fuckin bald no one would be arsed. Because I've got great hair, people are going, we need to see the hair man. That's what we need to see.