If you were a teenager in the 90s, chances are you found yourself enjoying Liam, Noel and the rest of Oasis. The band broke up in 2009, and the brothers aren’t exactly on the best of terms.

Don’t feel bad about liking Wonderwall back in the day, friends, at the time it was perfectly acceptable to sing along.

At present most of the drama plays out on Twitter, with Liam’s account home to some quite spectacular outbursts.

That wasn’t always the case, and Rolling Stone have detailed exactly how we got to the point where Liam says he would rather eat his own shit than be in a band with his brother again.

We’re going to start in 1994, and Noel quitting their first American tour:

…during a gig at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles in September, the band, allegedly high on crystal meth, muddled through a legendarily terrible set, which culminated in Liam hitting Noel with a tambourine and walking offstage before the show was over.

Fast forward to 1996, skipping over the Wibbling Rivalry tapes, to when the band vaulted to superstardom off the back of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?:

…that level of success was calamitous for two people as cocky and volatile as Liam and Noel Gallagher. (All of the cocaine they were using, by their own admission, probably didn’t help.) After the Knebworth concerts, the band was due to record MTV Unplugged in London, but Liam – claiming a bout of laryngitis – didn’t perform, preferring instead to heckle Noel (who took on singing duties) from the balcony while chain-smoking and guzzling beer…

Never one to be outdone by his kid brother, Noel himself said “fuck it” a few weeks later and returned to England in the middle of the tour.

Rock stars, right? Let’s stop in at the year 2000, and one argument that turned really nasty:

Allegedly, in the middle of the band’s 2000 world tour, the Gallaghers got into a fight so bad (in which younger bro was said to have questioned the legitimacy of his older brother’s daughter) that Noel abruptly quit the tour. Later, Noel would tell British music magazine Q that “I’ve never forgiven him because he’s never apologized [sic] .” He would eventually rejoin the band later that year for U.K. tour dates, but the damage was done.

Somehow the band managed to stay together for another nine years, many of those with the brothers at each other’s throats, but in 2009 Noel pulled the plug:

…after nearly two decades of conflict, Noel quits Oasis for good. “It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight,” he said in a statement at the time. “People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer. “He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”

Please enjoy Noel talking about the fight that finally broke the band:

Once the band had split the gloves really came off. Liam snubbed Noel at the 2010 Brit Awards (HERE), and then he discovered Twitter:

…since 2011, Liam has used Twitter for a number of things – posting song lyrics, cheering on his beloved Manchester City, leaking details of his solo record – and, yes, sending forth a seemingly never-ending series of catty jabs at his estranged brother.

Perhaps the most famous of those Twitter rants came in 2016 – enter the potato:

On May 24th, 2016, Liam took the feud to another level of boffo by tweeting out a picture of Noel with the caption “POTATO.” There’s nothing more to it than that, but he went on to tweet about Noel being a potato at least half a dozen more times over the next year.

It was childish, sure, but also pretty damn funny. He also told an interviewer that, “Lots of people say I need to chill out about Noel. Not until they stop Twitter. That cunt will always get it from me.”

Noel’s response: “I guess it was about him staying relevant. If you’re him, what else is there to tweet about?”

Do we have time for one more? OK, last brawl – 2017, Manchester:

Liam made a surprise appearance at the quickly organized [sic] One Love Manchester benefit concert on June 4th, where he performed a few Oasis songs – including a poignant version of “Live Forever” with Coldplay’s Chris Martin – and showed his love for his hometown. But the day after the event, he took to Twitter to chastise Noel for not showing up to support Manchester, calling his brother a “sad fuck”:

So, would you rather watch Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor battle it out in the ring, or see the Gallagher brothers throw down?

One is a fight between two overpaid drama queens singing for their supper, and the other is between Liam and Noel.

Do yourself a favour and watch the Oasis doccie SUPERSONIC – it’s sheer class.

[source:rollingstone]