NO-EL WAY!
Noel Gallagher reveals ‘new’ Oasis song will be released at midnight after finding long lost CD from 15 years ago
NOEL Gallagher is set to release a brand new and unheard Oasis song tonight.
The musician found the demo of a song called Don't Stop while digging through boxes of old CDs.
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Noel thought the recording from a soundcheck in Hong Kong 15 years ago was "lost forever".
And now he is releasing it for Oasis fans to "enjoy/argue over".
The song will be available from midnight tonight, and is sure to excite fans who have long hoped that the band would reunite.
Taking to Twitter, Noel told fans: "Hey there dudes and dollies. Like the rest of the world I’ve had infinite time to kill lately so I thought I’d FINALLY look and find out what was actually on the HUNDREDS of faceless unmarked cds I’ve got lying around in boxes at home.
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"As fate would have it I have stumbled across an old demo which I thought had been lost forever.
"As far as I’m aware there is only one version of this tune “out there” from an Oasis soundcheck in Hong Kong about 15 years ago.
"I’m not sure whether the soundcheck version pre dates the demo as there’s no date on the cd.
"I know some of you love this tune so we thought we’d put it “out there” for you to enjoy/argue over. It’ll be up on the internet from midnight.
"The song is called: ‘Don’t Stop…’ Hope everyone is staying safe and trying to ride out the lockdown with the minimum of fuss. You’re welcome by the way."
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The song is thought to be written around the time of the band's 2005 LP, Don’t Believe the Truth.
That year they embarked on a world tour, and on 25 February 2006, played the AsiaWorld-Arena in Hong Kong - where the soundcheck Noel mentions in his new post took place.
In 2009, Noel, the group’s lead guitarist, stunned fans when he announced his departure from the group in the midst of their world tour.
Apparently, things had gotten so chaotic between him and Liam that Noel simply couldn’t deal with the idea of being around his brother any longer.
He wrote in a statement: "People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."
His departure from the band came just weeks after Liam’s infamous interview with NME Magazine, where he claimed that his relationship with Noel was non-existent.
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Even before their split, Noel and Liam apparently only saw each other on stage, they had no communication with one another and also didn’t travel together when it came to work commitments and touring.
Evidently enough, this would cause a clash for anyone who is placed in such a toxic environment where two people in a group can’t get along.
"He doesn't like me and I don't like him, that's it," Liam explained to the mag.
But, as fans are well aware, Liam and Noel had been clashing for well over a decade prior to the band calling it quits - to say that their relationship was fractious would be an understatement.
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Alan McGee, who founded Oasis in 1993, had admitted at the time that Noel quitting the band wasn’t anything new - there had been plenty of feuds and arguments in the past that led to both of them quitting at one point.
But this feud was different than their previous ones, he said, explaining: "Noel has left tours before, Liam's not showed up for gigs before, and they've carried on. But this, certainly the way Noel's presented it on the Oasis website, it does feel like it has a degree of finality to it."
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The famous brothers have had endless arguments over the years dating all the way back to 1994 when Noel quit the band following a disastrous show that saw Liam supposedly slurring his words, insulting the crowd and throwing a tambourine at his brother.
In 1995, in the midst of recording What’s The Story, Morning Glory, Liam invited a group of drunk strangers to the studio which absolutely infuriated his sibling.
When Noel had made the attempt to control the situation and remove the strangers, Liam apparently lost his cool and attacked his brother, but Noel defended himself by cracking his brother over the head with a cricket bat.
Fans are still desperate for them to get back together but Noel rejected his brother's recent offer of reforming for a charity gig in aid of the NHS.
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