Interview: Liam Gallagher on new solo album, Oasis rumors
by Jill Riley
February 04, 2022
Liam Gallagher spoke with The Current Morning Show host Jill Riley this week. They discussed the former Oasis vocalist’s latest solo album, C'mon, You Know, due out May 27.
Listen to the full interview to hear more about upcoming performances at the BRIT Awards and Knebworth Park, as well as the new live film, Oasis Knebworth 1996, and read more highlights from their conversation below.
On reports he had fallen out of a helicopter:
Here's what happened. We're doing a gig at the Isle of Wight Festival, and we take off in a helicopter. It's all gone really foggy. So we've got to wait about [to land] for a bit…'til about three o'clock in the morning. We finally land back in London, and I'm a little bit eager to get out of the helicopter. And I've had a couple of drinks. I forgot that I'm in the helicopter, and I think that I'm in a car. So I just open the door. And instead of using the steps to go down, I just stepped out of the helicopter landed flat on this concrete runway thing. The helicopter had landed. I was thinking I was just in a car and I was just on the curb, you know? But that's brandy for you.
On collaborating with Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin for new single “Everything’s Electric”:
We'd been working in England with Andrew Wyatt on C’mon, You Know. And we finished it. We finally got it all done. It's a wrap. So we're off to the pub, and I get a phone call saying that Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin have got this tune, and can we send it over. I was like, [expletive] come on then. And they sent it over. And I liked it. So then I put the beer on hold and we went back into the studio the following day, and recorded the vocals. There was no zoo, none of us were in the same room and stuff. Well, I've known Dave for a bit and he's cool and I think Foo Fighters write great songs. So I knew that what they’d be sending over wouldn't be dodgy, you know? I think I think the Foo Fighters have got great melodies.
On making solo albums:
The weirdest bit was the cowriting thing. I knew I'd need to be writing with people. [Putting a] whole album together…I'm not that guy that I mean, so that was the weirdest bit going into it. You know what I mean?…And if it was comfortable with me, then yeah, I'll make as many as we can. Oasis won't soon be getting back together, not soon. So I'm sort of getting into it.
On his relationship with brother Noel and rekindling Oasis:
He started calling me by me first name now. So who knows. He's mentioning a lot of Oasis things. He might be sorry, or he might be getting soft in his old age. Who knows? I think it'd be better for him to do it. More than me.
A conversation with Liam Gallagher (2017)