Steve Lamacq Talks About Noel Gallagher In His Blog

Taken from Steve Lamacq's blog that can be found here.

A day later, Noel Gallagher walks into our studio with a hangover, rubbing at his forehead. He’s been out the previous night to the theatre – to see a friend in a play – and then onto the opening of a new private members club in London.

He is, as always, a terrific raconteur. Although this is a slightly different NG to the old one: this one is musically single for the first time in his career and – if you can read anything into the lyrics of his new High Flying Birds album – more reflective than on past records.

He says he doesn’t like explaining the words to his songs but does admit that several of them were written in the aftermath of the Oasis split, which might have coloured them a little.

And when did you first feel lonely after Oasis ended?

“We made a video for the single in the desert and I was sitting in my trailer on my own…(he does a bored whistle)…I thought about phoning Gem up and finding out what he was doing.”

He also has a new neighbour, who you really couldn’t make up. But that’s another story….

Interview finished we wander outside for the obligatory promo picture when he says: “You’ll never guess who I was drinking with last night.”

“There we were, going ‘What was all that Britpop stuff about. How did all that happen’.” There is a grown-up spark in his eye, which – like parts of his record, suggests a certain sense of closure.

Looking up, with an almost baffled smile, he concludes: “It was only Damon Albarn.”

You can hear the Noel Gallagher interview in full (including the stuff about his neighbours and life on tour with the Inspiral Carpets) on 6Music on October 11.