Another day, another Gallagher feud. Taking to Twitter, Liam Gallagher has denied claims that the rift between Oasis and Blur originated because of a love triangle in the mid-’90s between himself, Blur frontman Damon Albarn, and a girl that Liam was supposedly dating.
The claims, which have recently resurfaced, were first made by Noel Gallagher in the 2019 book Don’t Look Back In Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia by Daniel Rachel.
Liam Gallagher has responded to claims that the feud between Oasis and Blur was born out of a love triangle involving himself and Damon Albarn.
In the book, Noel describes that “Liam and Damon were shagging the same bird; and there was a lot of cocaine involved”.
“That’s where the germ of it grew from,” Noel says, going onto describe an NME award ceremony where “[Oasis] won everything and then we were photographed with Blur, and Liam said, ‘Fuck you cunts, blah blah blah.’”
“It just escalated from there. They’re both singers, and singers are fucking idiots. They’re wired the wrong way round. Once they’ve looked at themselves in the mirror for four hours, what else are they going to do?” he continued. “It’s like gangland wars start over ridiculous things and then it’s very hard to put them to bed. It was kind of like that.”
The claims were backed up in the book by ex-Oasis manager Alan McGee, who described: “There was a situation with a girl. That created the Britpop war. Damon shagged somebody close to Liam… It was one of these many women Damon was friendly with.”
“Then he got off with her for a one-night stand and that created the rub,” McGee continued. “They were all goading each other after that. It created the Blur-Oasis wars.”
When the claims resurfaced, Liam took to Twitter to offer his side of the story, calling Albarn “Dermot oblong” and claiming that the feud actually dates back to when Noel “wished he Dermot caught AIDS and die”.
Just for the record me and Dermot oblong never fell out over a girl or boy we always had the craic think things turned nasty when Noel Gallagher wished he Dermot caught AIDS and die not Rkid’s finest moment as you were LG x
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 26, 2020
He continued by claiming he’d “never done cocaine with any of that lot”:
And I’ve never done cocaine with any of that lot out of blue Rkid you and your witch need to up yer game
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 26, 2020
And the thing is those clowns at the scum always email going would you like to respond to our lies get to fuck you parsites I’ll let the people who matter know through my TWITTER account love TWITTER as you were LG x
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 26, 2020
Liam then turned his sights on Alan McGee, threatening to slap the music executive:
And as for you McGee you fucking wasp keep your fucking mouth shout about me or you’ll get slapped as you were LG x
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 26, 2020
Has he set the record straight or simply made the waters of history even murkier? You decide. For a rundown on the entire Liam and Noel Gallagher feud, head here.
