In an interview in yesterday’s Sunday Times, Noel said that his brother “needs to see a psychiatrist”.
“I don’t say that as a joke,” insists Noel Gallagher.
Noel headlined the benefit gig last month to mark the reopening of the Manchester Arena, following the horrific terrorist attack that had occurred there on 22 May.
But a bizarre tweet from Liam’s Twitter account claimed his older brother’s performance was a “PR student”.
However, Liam later claimed that his Twitter account was hacked. “I wouldn’t do that. I wouldn’t say stuff like that. Can you believe that?”
When the subject of Liam’s “PR stunt” tweet was brought up in yesterday’s interview, Noel told the Sunday Times: “For the second time. He needs to see a psychiatrist. I don’t say that as a joke. Because young Mancunians, young music fans, were slaughtered, and he, twice, takes it somewhere to be about him. He needs to see somebody.”
Liam had headlined the first benefit gig organised to honour the 22 people who tragically died in the terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena.
And at the time, Noel was lambasted by his brother on social media for not performing at the concert. Noel described his brother Liam as “Mr Angry” who had “bombarded the internet with his hate”.
But in the interview yesterday, Noel insisted that the reason he didn’t play at the first benefit gig was simply because he wasn’t actually invited to perform.
He added that the insults flying around at the time didn’t hurt him. “It’s just noise. Ill-informed fuckwits,” he said.
Noel also said he wanted to keep it a secret that royalties from the Oasis’s song ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ were being donated to help those affected by the Manchester bombing.
He added, “So I’m getting calls saying, ‘Surely you want to do an interview?’ No. People died. This is not about me or some other idiot. A woman’s just woken up from a coma to find her daughter’s dead. Have some respect.”
Speaking about performing at last month’s benefit gig at the reopening of the Manchester Arena, Noel said: ““It was a strange night because you live for moments when everyone is arms in the air with a song you’ve written, but you’re wishing this moment was never taking place, that ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ was still about this woman of a certain age, toasting her life passing by, rather than being an anthem of defiance.”