In 1996, British band Oasis played to an audience of 250,000 fans in Knebworth Park in England. Two-and-a-half million people applied for tickets.
Now it is 2017, and it’s been eight years since Oasis broke up in what was a reportedly dramatic final brawl between brothers Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher. Now touring again and releasing a new album, As You Were, Liam tells Esquire in his characteristically blunt fashion, “I’m starting from the bottom again.”
“A gig’s a gig, man, as far as I’m concerned. Whether it’s 200 people or 200,000 people, you’re just trying to fucking get in the zone and fucking get everyone off, you know what I mean? Sing the best you can and not act like a dickhead and jump up and down, remaining in control all the time, that’s the way I see it.”
After Oasis collapsed in 2009, Gallagher tried to move on with Beady Eye, which was basically Oasis without Noel—“We don’t mind being compared to ourselves. Oasis was a great band. It’s cool, man,” Gallagher told Vanity Fair in 2011. When Beady Eye broke up in 2014, Gallagher became a solo act and is now, apparently, mostly focused on not being a “dickhead” as he makes public appearances in 2017.
He performed at Ariana Grande’s sold-out Manchester benefit concert in June before playing a stunted performance at Lollapalooza, and then a secret show at the McKittrick Hotel in Manhattan in July.
These days, you can also find Gallagher on Twitter, where he is quite active. After his performance in Manchester in June, he tweeted that his brother was a “sad fuck” for not showing up to perform.
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Though the drama with his brother is clearly not over, the rocker says he is ready for a comeback on his own—and his fans are ready, too.
“I feel like I’m ready to come back and do what I’m best at, and that’s just fucking singing my heart out, you know what I mean?” he said. “I’m talking a whole load of shit, man, because I’m equally as good at that as I am at singing.”
