SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017 GQ.COM.AU 91GQ: What’s your take on the current influx
of bands who are cashing in on this so–
called ‘90s revival’?
LG: I don’t mind it. I’m all for a bit of
nostalgia... Bring it on, you know what
I mean? I don’t sit there and go, ‘Oh, they’re
a bunch of cunts for getting back together’.
If it’s gonna pay their bills, so be it, man.
GQ: Well, you know what we’re going to ask
next, right?
LG: Ye s , m a’a m.
GQ: What would it take to get Oasis back
together?
LG: We’ve been offered lots of money. But it’s
not about the money – I don’t need it. And
I’m sure Noel don’t need it, ’cause he keeps
telling everyone how rich he is and that...
To get Oasis back, it needs me and our kid
to have a real sit-down and become friends
again. And brothers, you know what I mean?
And so, it’s not about how many notes we
keep putting on. It’s irrelevant. Oasis was not
about the money – it was about spirit and the
honesty. And I mean, not fucking falling into
them bullshit traps, and becoming a fucking
U2, or whatever. Not becoming a part of the
fucking system...
GQ: ... so some brotherly love is needed?
LG: Once we do that, if we ever get to do
that, then it’s on, but at the moment, it’s so
not. If that happens, we start talking, start
hanging out, and then, I think, it’d really be
a natural thing. It’d be like, ‘Look, should we
fucking have another crack at it? Should we
fire up the chariots?’ Until that day happens,
there’d be no point in me going onstage if
I still hate Noel, and Noel still hates me,
because people will see right through it.
Listen, we get offered lots of things when
we were Oasis, to do things for money. I got
offered some fucking Calvin Klein adverts
when I was 23. I turned it down. We got
offered fucking Coca–Cola adverts. We were
like, ‘No, that’s not what we’re about, you
know what I mean?’ ’Cause the minute you
go into that zone, it’s very hard to get out of
it. And that’s why I think people still have
a real soft spot, because it was fucking real.
It was super, super real. And towards the end,
&A
it just got, super fucking not real.
GQ: How do you feel about the music
now? Do you get a twitch when you hear
‘Wonderwall’?
LG: I like all the songs. We did it the other
night for the first time in ages, and people
fucking loved it. So I’m not one of them
people that are like, ‘I’m not gonna do it’
because I’ve had the hump with it. People pay
their hard–earned cash to go to a gig... give
them what they want. Send them home happy.
People don’t play their hits anymore, because
they’ve got an album out, and this is where
they’re at in life. Fuck off, mate. Get over
your fucking self. Play the fucking hits, and
some of your new stuff as well.GQ: Looking back, any regrets?
LG: I’ve got a few. But not too many.
Obviously, I’ve fucked a few things up and
that, personally, but everything happens for
a reason. So, only personal ones. Musically,
no regrets. Fashion sense, no regrets. It is
what it is. I might have fucked a few things
up on the way. But it’s all been dealt with, and
it’s all been picked up, and apologised for.
GQ: With all the noise and bullshit aside,
how would you like to be remembered?
LG: As a great rock ’n’ roll singer who did
not give a fuck – who did exactly what it
said on the tin.
Liam Gallagher’s debut solo album, A s You
Were, is out October 6.“it’s just all
a bit shit... And
I’m here to
shake IT UP.”