{"id":10056,"date":"2025-08-19T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10056\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:57:07","slug":"its-great-being-back-in-a-band-with-liam-i-forgot-how-funny-he-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10056\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s great being back in a band with Liam \u2013 I forgot how funny he was"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noel Gallagher<\/a> has opened up about the \u201cgreat\u201d experience of being back on tour with his brother Liam<\/a>, saying he had forgotten \u201chow funny\u201d he is.<\/p>\n

Oasis<\/a> recently wrapped up the opening UK and Ireland leg of their massive comeback tour with a third show in Dublin\u2019s Croke Park on Sunday (August 17)<\/a>, and they will now head across the Atlantic for a total of nine dates in the US, Canada and Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They are the first shows that the Gallagher brothers have played together since their acrimonious split 16 years ago, and in a new interview, Noel has spoken about enjoying the tour so far.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the phone to Talksport<\/a>, he reflected on the image of him embracing his brother at the end of the first show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great just to be back with Bonehead and Liam, and just be doing it again. I guess when it\u2019s all set and done, I\u2019ll sit and reflect on it, but it\u2019s great being back in a band with Liam. I\u2019d forgotten how funny he was.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked by presenter Andy Goldstein about the strength of Liam\u2019s vocals at the shows, Noel quipped: \u201cIt\u2019s AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLiam\u2019s smashing it, I\u2019m proud of him,\u201d he added. \u201cHaving been fronting a band for 16 years, I know how hard that is. I couldn\u2019t do the stadium thing like he does it, it\u2019s not in my nature, but I\u2019ve got to say, good for you, mate. It\u2019s been amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was also asked if he was \u201cstunned\u201d by the positive reception to the shows, Noel answered: \u201cYeah, completely blown away. Everyone is. It\u2019s difficult to put it into words actually.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery night is the crowd\u2019s first night, do you know what I mean? So every night\u2019s got that same energy to it. But it\u2019s been truly amazing. I\u2019m not usually short for words, but I can\u2019t really articulate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to talk about the moment before taking to the stage for the first time in Cardiff last month. \u201cFor me personally, I grossly underestimated what I was getting into. After about five minutes, I was like, alright, can I just go back to the dressing room and start this again?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done stadiums before and all that, but I don\u2019t mind telling you, my legs turned to jelly after about half-way through the second song. It\u2019s been an amazing thing, it really is an amazing thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noel also mentioned that he is particularly looking forward to playing the Estadio Mas Monumental in Buenos Aires, the home of football club River Plate<\/a>. \u201cThe Argentinians are without doubt in the top five places for us to play in the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

After their split in 2009, Liam and Noel remained on bad terms for many years and consistently rebuffed any suggestion that they would reunite on stage. Rumours picked up last year that the prospects had changed, however, and the comeback was officially announced in August 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their mother Peggy was in attendance at one of the Dublin shows last week, with the brothers dedicating \u2018Stand By Me\u2019 to her.<\/p>\n

NME\u00a0gave Oasis\u2019 first concert at Cardiff\u2019s Principality Stadium a glowing five-star review<\/a>, writing: \u201cAfter a \u201890s heyday and an often maligned post-millennium era, this is Oasis redesigned for the 21st Century.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying before a pop-art-meets-psychedelia visual spectacular that never distracts but will look sick on a phone, they seem the quintessential stadium band playing the greatest hits of greatest hits,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noel Gallagher has opened up about the \u201cgreat\u201d experience of being back on tour with his brother Liam,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,9765,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-10056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-britpop","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}