www.esquire.com/es/actualidad/musica/a12785657/liam-gallagher-entrevistamos-al-hermano-malo-de-oasis/Patricia Gallego
LIAM GALLAGHER: WE INTERVIEW OASIS 'BAD BROTHER'
Few win on a pulse of impudence and pride. Oasis's latest ex-rapper arrives in the form of a disco, As You Were, his solo debut with which he derails his stage as a leader of rock bands. A perfect excuse to chat with him about this new era, his last groans in the network or the possible meeting of the quintet of Manchester.
BY DANIEL MESA
06/10/2017
London. Twenty degrees. It is always a pleasure to escape to the British capital and leave behind even for a few hours the stifling heat of Madrid. Even more so when the purpose of the visit is to interview for Esquire Spain one of the most mediatic and juicy living characters that has seen the island born in the last 50 years.
We await the arrival of the Gallagher's bad brother - a title the musician has been carving over the last thirty years because of his impulsive and reckless nature - in a studio in Kentish Town, north of London. Liam does not wait too long and suddenly breaks into the set with his girlfriend and manager, publicist Debbie Gwyther, who lives today away from the bad life in a luxury penthouse in the Highgate area. Small licenses of a rock star.
As soon as we enter, he nods, frowning at his famous frown. Dry, but decisively. The exlíder and vocalista of Oasis seems nervous, agitated. He rubs his hands and moves from one place to the other of the set waiting for someone to tell him what to do. "What shall I wear? I bring a lot of clothes of my own. Do you want me to change or with this jacket okay? " Indeed, it brings with it a suitcase with which any mortal would manage for a week. O dos. Once settled the issue of styling - that of playing the barbies does not go with his alleged attitude of hard style with style - Liam is relieved, determined to do everything in his power to please the staff. Of course, "no smile at the camera," relentless spit. Few singers have a pose as studied and calibrated to the millimeter as the Mancunian, who every now and then seeks approval for his acting with furtive looks to his partner. Not even the pouches are saved from those uncomfortable sudden failures of self-confidence.
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The youngest of the Gallagher has just turned 45 years old, and despite his good physical form, years of hatred and punishment of a youth marked by success and addictions of all kinds are evident in a face that oozes tiredness. We return to the story of the rock star. The emotional ups and downs, her millionaire divorce with All Saints member Nicole Appleton and a lawsuit for her lover Liza Ghorbani claiming a high sum for the support of her last daughter, Gemma, (with whom the singer adds four sprouts) have not helped lately. "In the last four years I have had to endure many things in my life. Every day when I woke up, the only thing I heard was: 'Lawyers, lawyers, lawyers'. For a moment all I wanted was to send everything to shit and go to live in Spain. I thought of Mallorca. A place where you could change your life by eating well, sunbathing in a huge garden and being tanned all year round, "he says, feeding without realizing the cliché of the avid Englishman of coast, sun and paella.
THIS RECORD IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST PERSONAL I'VE EVER PUBLISHED.
However, the plans were twisted into good sense for the greater glory of macarra fans parody of indie pop. Just a year after the release of the documentary Oasis: Supersonic and after two albums published with Beady Eye, Liam Gallaguer published his first solo album, As You Were (Warner Music) on October 6, which in recent months meet the singles Wall of Glass and Chinatown. "This is certainly the most personal thing I've ever published in my life. Almost the whole record is written by me, about 70%, except for a few songs I composed with Andrew Wyatt. " Five, to be exact, are the cuts from the album in which the vocalist of the Swedish band Miike Snow and lyricist of people like Florence + The Machine, Bruno Mars or Charli XCX participates as a co-author. "The composition process has been easy. I had some songs already written and I just needed to record them. So I went to Los Angeles to work alongside Greg Kurstin -Multiinstrumentalist known for his work for Sia or Adele and producing part of the album- and Andrew.
There we spent three days forming in the studio the songs Wall of Glass, Paper Crown and Come Back to Me. Then I went back to England and continued to write the rest. In a short time and naturally I got to write all the songs. I recognize that I am not very quick at this to make songs. It's such a personal process that I always feel I could do better. It's not easy to talk about yourself, you know? Everything I have in this album has to do with my life in recent years; my place in the world, and thoughts and feelings that have been in me since I was a child. But I have to say that this time the process has been quite fluid and natural ", explains in great lines to define this new adventure emancipated of all band.
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It is logical, considering that two published works with Beady Eyes fueled all kinds of speculation that Oasis had nothing to do without Noel. "I do not think I'll ever have another band, since everything I do as a group will be compared to Oasis. Now I want my music to have nothing to do with me. " Because if anything there is no doubt that, although Liam was the charismatic singer and voice unmistakable, able to grab month by month covers of the NME (New Musical Express, British music weekly), his brother was who composed the largest part of the group's hits, largely responsible for bringing Oasis to the top with songs like Some Might Say, Do not Look Back in Anger or All Around the World - to name but a few - all of which came to copar the number 1 spot in the UK charts.
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NOW I ONLY DRINK FROM MONDAY TO FRIDAY AND FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY. ONLY A COUPLE OF TIMES A WEEK!
As You Were presents us from the cover to a black and white Liam portrayed by photographer and creative director Hedi Slimane. "It's a classic, sober photo, on a neutral background. Just what I was looking for, "explains the protagonist. The singer is shown in the confident, confident image, with a sharp, almost defiant attitude. It is the Liam of the future, the one that signs records with his last name and that does not need palm trees behind his back. It is the Liam of the brazenness and punk silliness that sows the network with statements as obtuse as pitiful, but also Liam that every morning gets up to run and tries to do things right for once. "When you reach an age you try to be more responsible. Now I try to drink less, get less, "he says while pointing his nose," you know. Now I only drink from Monday to Friday and from Saturday to Sunday. Only a couple of times a week! [laughs], "he jokes. "I have been wrong many times in my life and I have gotten into nonsense. Too much drama. But I do not think that on the musical level he made big mistakes. "
On the other hand, in strictly musical terms, his first solo release remains largely reminiscent of Oasis. Indie pop rock guitarist with some psychedelic twist in the wake of the sound that defined the British scene from the ninety to the beginning of the century. Although he himself clarifies that it was not his intention to reinvent the soda either. "This is a classic rock record. I was not going to do a dance! What I've always liked is Neil Young, Sex Pistols, The Kinks, The Who ... My references remain the same. I would never think of starting to listen to shit from EBM ( Electronic Body Music ) or genres like that, "he says, hesitating from the Chester chair.
What has come out of that mouth ...
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The promotion of his new work is bringing with him some other headline that shakes the sketch of a new Liam more worried about his music than to mount a pifostio wherever he puts his feet. Without going any further, a few months ago decided that it was time to open (once again) the Pandora's box in his already famous outrages against Damon Albarn, the only rival that managed to cast shadow on several occasions during the glorious years of Oasis. It was enough that his brother Noel and Blur's frontman came together to collaborate on the last work of Gorillaz, the other band led by Albarn. "That Blur pimp has made Noel Gallagher a babe, but believe me, the next time you see him there will be war," he posted on Twitter days ago, the singer's favorite network when it comes to ranting and cutting heads to right and wrong .
The London composer has not been the only victim of Liam's verbal varapals. Also Bono and his band have taken theirs in recent months, wrath unleashed after Noel his up on stage with U2 to play together Do not Look Back in Anger, one of the highlights of the quintet Manchester. "I'd rather eat my own shit than go and see them live," he wrote hours later on his wall. "I hate that people still see U2 as a rock band. Oasis did rock 'n' roll, as did The Rolling Stones or Sex Pistols. They are nothing more than a group of guys playing the guitar, "he released with the self-knowledge of the one who knows back.
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If one is saved from among his peers is Coldplay leader Chris Martin, who sang Live Forever, also composed by his brother Noel, during the One Love Manchester, the event headed by Ariana Grande that was to raise funds for the families of the victims of the bombing at the concert of the American artist at the Manchester Arena on 22 May. "Coldplay and U2 may do something similar. Okay, it's not my music roll, but why did I play with Coldplay and never do it with U2? Basically because Chris Martin is a good person, and Bono a preacher. I do not like people like him, "Esquire explains unabashedly. It also did not feel right that his brother did not perform that night at the charity concert as scheduled, an unfulfilled event that many of his fans understood as a possible meeting of both leaders, something that Liam himself is quick to deny. "If Noel had performed like me in One Love he would have played with his guitar and I with Chris Martin, as I did. At no point did we talk about coinciding on the stage. "
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I'M TIRED OF BEING CALLED A HOOLIGAN. I'VE ALWAYS CONSIDERED MYSELF A GOOD GUY, YES, AS LONG AS I DO NOT TOUCH MY BALLS
In recent months Liam has been touring for several festivals, some of them in our geography, with a setlist that includes songs from his old band and several of his new work, some unpublished until the moment. One of the last performances took place in the frame of the festival Lollapalooza of Chicago, that would finish after only playing four songs. He would then excuse himself with these words on Twitter: "I'm sorry for the people who came, but I had a very hard concert the night before and I fucked up the voice." And something else. In the meantime, the hater of pop has not stopped short of spitting out all kinds of sharp comments in the network of 140 characters and leaving for posterity several pearls. From ensuring that you never put a foot in the carpool of Karaoke Carpool, the successful format led by James Corden - called "imbecile" - in which front-line stars sing duo with the presenter by car in Los Angeles, until exclaiming that the world had gone mad to deny him the purchase of cigarettes in a New York establishment or to confess that in twenty years he had never seen in person his daughter Molly, the result of an adventure with the singer Lisa Moorish shortly after marrying her actress Patsy Kensit, mother of her son Lennon (18 years), now model budding. A recent record that has only increased his ingrained reputation of thug and despot, with which he disagrees: "I'm tired of being called hooligan. I've always considered myself a good guy, yes, as long as I do not touch my balls. Then yes the mess and I can get into scolding, but that does not make me a hooligan. "
Much has been speculated about a possible return to the stages of the band and the truth is that, according to the mastodon figures that move the returns of legendary bands, it is not unreasonable to think that in a recent future we see Oasis heading the posters of the summer festivals on duty. Marcus Russell, exhumager of the band dissolved in 2009 coinciding with the last rales of the britpop, was in charge to put an end to the rumors during the presentation of the documentary directed by Mat Whitecross Oasis: Supersonic. "There is no reason for Oasis to be reunited and no one in the band wants it to happen," he answered the question about a possible future reunion of the quintet by a journalist.
The Gallagher brothers playing together with Oasis in 2003.
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But the truth is that since Noel decided to start his career apart from his colleagues with his project Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Liam's statements in this regard have cast some doubt on his true intentions, often contradicting his desire to return to resume his position in the band. From assuring that nothing would like more than to meet again with his colleagues until mocking that he would prefer to work in a fast food restaurant before touching again with them.
"It was a wonderful time, but I've already been up there and I know what it is. Now it is time to give way to the new generations. I can not say that I throw too many things of less than the times with Oasis, beyond the fact of playing with my brother and everything that our fans did for us ", he says avoiding to show any hint of nostalgia about those times - so are the types hard. Good years in which Oasis had become one of the key names of an industry that used labels like "indie" or "alternative" to claim a new musical movement that cited among its influences names like The Beatles, The Who, The Smiths or Happy Mondays. A scene emerged from the underground that saw the reef quickly with the arrival of other groups like Blur, Suede, Ocean Color Scene or The Verve, which in a short time seduced both the public and the critics with an energetic pop about the post- studied retro haircuts, vintage Adidas shoes and sneakers and a cool pose too.
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Oasis not only came to edit the fastest-selling album in the country's history, with 420,000 copies sold the day of its release - its outstanding third album Be Here Now (Creation Records, 1997) - but to reunite a whopping 500,000 people in their two direct shows on 10 and 11 August 1996
NO MAN, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET TOGETHER. IT WOULD BE GREAT TO BE BROTHERS AGAIN AND PLAY TOGETHER, BUT FOR NOW IT IS NOT A VIABLE OPTION. WE CAN NOT STAND
at Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire, remembered today as one of history's greatest concerts. But the golden egg hen ended up exploding years later in a war of egos carried out by the two brothers and leaders of the band, which continues today to run rivers of ink in English tabloids. "I will never know the origin of our misunderstanding, but if you ever find out, you call me and you tell me," he says. "I've always liked people who go head-to-head. My brother, on the other hand, is one of those who need to surround themselves with people who constantly tell him: 'Oh, man, you're great!' She snaps as she plays the pat on the back. He is a crazy fan phenomenon. I definitely do not care about people like him. We are too different and I think the best thing is for each one to follow his path ", he adds before clearing any doubts about a possible ceasefire in the relationship. "No man, we're not going to get together. It would be great to be brothers again and play together, but for now is not a viable option. We can not stand each other. " Only time knows if there will be peace for the Gallagher. For now, we can only say with certainty that we will have Liam - and war - for a while. Rocanrol.
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