Noel Gallagher used a cricket bat to attack his brother Liam in their “biggest ever fight” – before air rifles had to be locked away to keep everyone safe.
It is approaching 20 years since the brawl broke out while the pair were recording Oasis’ second album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory.
The band members were working on songs in a studio in Wales in 1995 when trouble arose from Liam going to a local pub where he invited random revellers back.
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Furious at the disruption, Noel ordered them out and used a cricket bat to whack Liam over the head, before he sped away from the “carnage” in his car. The famous bat was later sold by writer Paulo Hewitt who retrieved it from a bin and in 2020, Liam told the BBC documentary Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm that his older brother overreacted.
He said: “He had always been a bit like that – ‘what are you doing bringing people back when we’re working?’ My argument would be ‘what are you doing 900 f***ing takes to do one guitar rift when you should be in the f***ing pub with me’, you know what I mean?”
He said he grew bored “twiddling his thumbs” in the studio because unlike all the other band members, he did not play instruments and was only needed for vocals.
But he said bringing people back from the boozer sent Noel into a fit of rage when the randomers started staring and commenting on the guitars.
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He said that was when things “went t**s up” and Noel used a cricket bat to crack him over the head.
Liam, who said yes to being asked if it was their biggest ever fight, added: “It was just a lot of running around and throwing s**t at people. I just remember him getting in the car and driving off and I just remember being stood there going ‘come on you f***ing s**t bag’.”
He also said air rifles were used as weapons and co-founder of Oasis, Paul Arthurs, better known as Bonehead, said: “Air rifles were (later) locked up cos they might get used.”
He added: “As fights went, it was a good one.”
One of the producers present remembered: “It was carnage, some things got broken. I didn’t really know what to make of all that because it was the first time I had seen something like that.
“I wasn’t used to it but everyone seemed to take it in their stride, they had seen it all before so nothing was going to shock them. They came down the next day and it was like nothing had happened.”
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Funnily enough, Liam was accustomed to being hit on the head with heavy objects, after discovering his passion for music when a student from a rival school attacked him with a hammer.
Speaking in the Supersonic documentary, he said: “We were stood there having a cig and I remember a load of lads coming down and these kids pulled out a little f***ing hammer and went whack on me head.
“There’s blood everywhere, got out of double maths, so that was alright.”
He added: “From that day on it was as if something clicked and I started hearing music and it started making sense do you know what I mean? So whoever he is, thank you.”
Noel later joked that he had an alibi for the time of the attack…
The brothers have since settled their years of bickering and in the last few hours they announced even more 2025 reunion dates.
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