Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher Feud Made Worse By Oasis Documentary, Admits Director
Liam and Noel Gallagher’s feud shows no signs of abating despite the release of a brand new documentary that celebrates the meteoric rise of Oasis.
Supersonic’s director, Mat Whitecross, has admitted that the film has actually only made their rivalry worse. The filmmaker even revealed that during a recent screening of Supersonic, singer Liam Gallagher threw popcorn whenever his brother Noel Gallagher was on the screen.
Mat Whitecross told the Evening Standard that all of the hype and hysteria surrounding Supersonic has only heightened the tension between the two siblings. The director’s friends and family initially believed that Supersonic would help to mend Noel and Liam’s fragile relationship, but he was always aware that wouldn’t be the case.
Liam Gallagher’s feud with Noel was fueled by #Supersonic says Mat Whitecross https://t.co/7CYBc61JM1
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“We thought it would go one way or the other,” Mat Whitecross revealed. “Everyone was, ‘Do you realise this film is going to bring them together again, it’ll be amazing.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not so sure.'” Whitecross then remarked, “Actually the result of doing all the press, the more that Liam appeared… I think it made it worse, if anything.”
Mat Whitecross is still hopeful that Noel and Liam will be able to put aside their differences at some point in the future, though. However, he doesn’t expect it to happen for at least two years because they’re both too busy.
“Just as much as anyone I’d love to see them back together again, just on a personal level, for their sake and for their family’s sake,” Mat Whitecross stated. “But I think the next two years are kind of out of the question because they’ve both got solo albums. After that, who knows? I hope so, I don’t see why not.”
“The one thing that comes across in those interviews that I showed them when we met up was the amount of love there and I think still remains. The bickering is pretty petty… But it’s not as simple as [a phone call], there are 30 to 40 years of reasons why they don’t get on the phone. It’s not something that can be solved overnight.”
Whitecross admitted that the most “nerve-racking experience” of his life was showing the film to both Noel and Liam Gallagher. But they both approved of his efforts, with Whitecross confessing, “Liam is just very happy to watch himself on screen. He’s watched it about 100 times now. He’s into it.”
Supersonic documents the intense and violent rivalry between Noel and Liam Gallagher, which included the pair getting into numerous physical altercations and once even saw Noel smash his younger brother around the head with a cricket bat. Despite their problems, the pair persevered until 2009, but a huge row in Paris in August of that year saw Noel Gallagher quit the band.
Since then they have only had sporadic contact, with Liam Gallagher admitting to the Toronto Sun that the last time he saw his brother was at a soccer match a couple of years ago.
“I think it was a football match in 2013 or ’14. A (Manchester) City match and he was in one box and I was in another box. And I was in one floor and he was in the floor below me. And I went in to see him and I pinched his nipple and kissed him on the ear. I don’t think we spoke. I think he pulled one of his faces like he’s sucking a f****** lemon,” Liam recalled.
Despite Liam and Noel Gallagher’s fractious relationship, Oasis were one of the most popular bands of the 1990s, and thanks to their albums Definitely Maybe, What’s The Story Morning Glory, and Be Here Now, they sold over 70 million records across the world.
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