Liam Gallagher has made it clear that no-one is to refer to his brother Noel as a “potato” anymore, now that Oasis are back together.
The band have been in the news for the last two weeks after officially announcing their return – they will be playing a string of huge shows in the UK and Ireland next summer, their first gigs since 2009.
As the big announcement made clear, “the guns have fallen silent,” and it appears that brotherly peace is, for now, the order of the day.
Liam, who is once again highly active on X after a brief break, responded to a fan on Saturday morning (September 7) who asked if he was going to stop “tweeting shit about Noel”.
“Nope it’s all done peace has prevailed he’s the man,” Liam replied. “I can’t wait to be on stage with him blowing him kisses in between each song.”
Nope it’s all done peace has prevailed he’s the man I can’t wait to be on stage with him blowing him kisses in between each song
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) September 7, 2024
That prompted another to ask, “Is Noel still a potato?”, referring to a long-running insult that the singer has used for his brother.
“No he is bloody well not,” Liam retorted. “I won’t have a bad word said about that gorgeous talented young man.”
No he is bloody well not i won’t have a bad word said about that gorgeous talented young man
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) September 7, 2024
The singer has been using the “potato” barb against Noel for several years, dating back at least as far as 2016, when he tweeted the word alongside a photo of his brother, something he later replicated several times.
Potato pic.twitter.com/naIX8TpppC
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) May 24, 2016
POTATO pic.twitter.com/C13BbKFyCH
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) July 9, 2016
POTATO pic.twitter.com/yPPwh3BwNx
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) July 9, 2016
Pouting Potato LG x pic.twitter.com/K8y3AOFeYQ
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) June 29, 2016
The tweets eventually provoked a response from Noel in which he dismissed the insult as his brother trying to “stay relevant”, questioning whether it was an attempt to “climb out of the ‘where are they now’ basket”.
The back-and-forth went to another level in 2017 when Liam started looking for someone to peel potatoes on stage with him, seemingly in response to Noel having a member of his band playing a pair of scissors on stage.
Noel called Liam a “cowardly lion” after he heard about the potato peeler fiasco, and when Liam was set to headline Parklife Festival in Manchester in 2018, the festival had to specifically request that fans did not bring the implements with them to the site.
Now that relations appear to be fully restored, Liam has been sparking rumours by teasing the possibility of a new Oasis album being on the horizon, while he also stated that he was “seriously gutted” that so many of the band’s fans were unable to get tickets to the 2025 shows amid the chaos last weekend.
Oasis’ 1994 classic debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ returned to Number One yesterday (September 6), their first chart topping album in 14 years. It came on the occasion of the album’s 30th anniversary reissue. ‘Live Forever’ and ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ both re-entered the Top 10 on the Singles Chart, with ‘Wonderwall’ landing at Number 11.
