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NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS

5th June 1999

tiny, fuzzy picture of Bonehead, Liam and Guigs sitting on a wall in Cannes
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Liam Gallagher is claiming that the new Oasis album sound slike Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon'. The singer made the statement to two British holidaymakers who met him in the south of France, not far from where Oasis are recording the album, which is tentatively titled 'Where Did It All Go Wrong'.
According to The Mirror, a somewhat worse for wear Liam was given a lift back to his villa by Paul Hupfield, 23, when he failed to flag down a local taxi after emerging from a restaurant in the early hours of the morning. He then told Hupfield and an unnamed friend that the new album was "great".
He continued: "It's f*****' brilliant - the best record we've ever done. It's like Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon'. He then sang some tracks to the pair in a rather indiscernible fashion. Liam also hit back at his brother Noel for making him stop drinking for three months. "It's all right for him, in London picking up awards all the time and getting all the glory and expecting me to be tucked up in bed by 9pm with a cup of cocoa. F*** that - I'm going to enjoy myself."
Hupfield told The Mirror: "It was a surreal evening. When we got to his villa he didn't offer us a nightcap, he handed us about Ł40 in Fench francs and signed a fiver for my mate."
A spokesman declined to confirm or deny the story, but added: "It's a funny story, but I think it's more gossip column than anything else. As Noel said last week, it's much too early to say what the album sounds like."

Chemical Brothers...interview comments
"Surrener" is where Tom and Ed should get ultimate respect as Britain's Greatest (Noisy) Producers, not least for the things they've done with this year's guest vocalists. Noel Gallagher's returned to sing on the baggy Beatles-y funkadelia of "Let Forever Be"...
So you're bringing in the poetry?
Tom: "We're quite poetic souls really. But we need someone who can cypher that."
Noel's poetry session took place the day after Gallagher had been shouting from the seats at a Manchester City vs Wycombe Wanderers game, which explains the grainy vocals, but he still managed to provide "a real burst of energy" they say.

public nme
...Then, of course, there was Liam Gallagher, who promised Noel he'd be a good boy and stay away from intoxicants while Oasis record their album in France, but as soon as his big bruvver vamoosed for a weekend, he went face first into a vat of lager. He then blabbed to a stranger who blabbed to a tabloid that the new LP is like Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon', and the reason why Patsy's been bloated penguin is that she is, in fact, preggers. Shocking. Like we hadn't heard that before. Strangely, however, Patsy showed up looking positively svelte at a saucy King's Cross Scala soiree for bosom-loving film director Russ Meyer...
"Surrener" is where Tom and Ed should get ultimate respect as Britain's Greatest (Noisy) Producers, not least for the things they've done with this year's guest vocalists. Noel Gallagher's returned to sing on the baggy Beatles-y funkadelia of "Let Forever Be"...
So you're bringing in the poetry?
Tom: "We're quite poetic souls really. But we need someone who can cypher that."
Noel's poetry session took place the day after Gallagher had been shouting from the seats at a Manchester City vs Wycombe Wanderers game, which explains the grainy vocals, but he still managed to provide "a real burst of energy" they say.

public nme
...Then, of course, there was Liam Gallagher, who promised Noel he'd be a good boy and stay away from intoxicants while Oasis record their album in France, but as soon as his big bruvver vamoosed for a weekend, he went face first into a vat of lager. He then blabbed to a stranger who blabbed to a tabloid that the new LP is like Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon', and the reason why Patsy's been bloated penguin is that she is, in fact, preggers. Shocking. Like we hadn't heard that before. Strangely, however, Patsy showed up looking positively svelte at a saucy King's Cross Scala soiree for bosom-loving film director Russ Meyer...
...Then, of course, there was Liam Gallagher, who promised Noel he'd be a good boy and stay away from intoxicants while Oasis record their album in France, but as soon as his big bruvver vamoosed for a weekend, he went face first into a vat of lager. He then blabbed to a stranger who blabbed to a tabloid that the new LP is like Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon', and the reason why Patsy's been bloated penguin is that she is, in fact, preggers. Shocking. Like we hadn't heard that before. Strangely, however, Patsy showed up looking positively svelte at a saucy King's Cross Scala soiree for bosom-loving film director Russ Meyer...

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