Noel Gallagher breaks radio silence on Chicago's alt-rock station Q-101.

DJ: "You have some kind of new members, but I guess these guys were friends of yours for a while. Are they in the band or..."

Noel: "If they wanna be, yeah! I means it's up to...yeah. Well, they are till next September when the tour finishes and then they're welcome to stick around. They're not getting paid, like, but..."

DJ: "Really?"

Noel: No. No. They're more than welcome to come and make the tea and stuff."

DJ: "The CD comes out in February, what's, er, is anything..."

Noel: "It's a little bit different. it's a little more...You see, the last album rocked, but that's basically all it done. This one's a bit more focused and thought out, and it's just got better songs is the main difference."

DJ: "With this CD, I know that you wrote everything, but Liam wrote a song for this one, the first time..."

Noel: "He did, yeah...it's a song called 'Little James' and it sounds very much like a certain band from Liverpool as you'd expect. It's a pretty good attempt for the first song he's ever written. He wrote it all by himself and everyone was quite amazed really, and we decided it was good enough for the record..."

DJ: "But, like, don't get carried away, man!"

Noel: "Yeah, do you know what I mean? You got your one, now sit down and shut up."

DJ: "Did he bring that to the table, or did you..."

Noel: "When we were in the studio, you'd always hear him in a room somewhere, just fannying about with an acoustic guitar. We finally nailed him onto the seat one day and said, 'Either play it to us, or it's never going to get used.' So he played it and we recorded it on a video camera. He went away on holiday, and when he came back, we'd done the backing track, and he walked in and sung it. It's a catchy little number. But he's had the great teacher..."

DJ: "Is it all going OK with this, the cohesiveness of the band?"

Noel: "Everyone's getting on fine. As I say, it's the first time we've been on tour together. So, we're getting to know the two new members' more drunken nature, which is quite funny, cos usually we're sick of Liam's drunken babblings by about the second gig, which is tonight. But now there’s two more class drunks in the band, it should make things a lot more interesting. Yeah, it’s good, man!"

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