Noel Gallagher "assaulted" onstage in Toronto. Look how hard Liam is when he cannot get near the assailant!
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Beany: I just replaced your video with one cropped to get rid of the lengthy build up before the action really starts.
If only
you'd produced Be Here Now.
lol
loving your work, mate...
Phew, rock'n'roll!
Is this the first spontaneous onstage moment at an Oasis gig since ... oh I can't even recall that far back ...
There's always one tool in a crowd...
I like Noel Gallagher... he seems like a good bloke. Hope he's OK.
That mother totally chopped
him down...
Obviously
Noel don't notice him on his turf.
here's the boy Keef talking about that very episode
what's really funny about the series of interviews that Chris Evans did with the Stones is how well spoken Keith is. One would think with the image/swagger etc that he'd sound more rough around the edges in the actual voice. Sure, it's shot to hell from booze and fags, but he *does* speak rather posh.
The bit you want about the interloper on stage kicks in around 5:54 and it's genuinely hilarious.
Here's the man in action
The best bit? He doesn't even knock his guitar out of tune and just carries on.
Jagger
notice how Jagger pockets the 20 dollars at the end - class act, tight as two coats o' paint
K.O.'d
Not condoning this kind of thing, but it would be considered a normal day at the office for Iggy.
The myth of Keith Richards...
wasted, braindead, lost, wounded, funny, rock n' roll incarnate... what is always missing from descriptions of Keef is that he's as sharp as a tack, highly intelligent and works bloody hard at his job. You do not remain at the top of your game for 40+ years without having a lot more to you than the caricature he puts across for the public...
The description of Jagger's 'Goddess In The Doorway' solo album
by Keith as 'Dogshit In The Doorway' tells me everything is just hunky dory with the mental health of Mr Richards.
Copyright
Keef I believe !!!
Erm that's more than an "assualt"
It's at least assault and battery and probably ABH. And whilst Liam is a cock of near Jay Kay proportions, he's made to look good by the arse who pushed Noel offstage.
I agree. Not sure about the inverted commas in original post.
That was assault pure and simple and frankly very dangerous.
They came back and finished the gig which was laudable.
I wouldn't have blamed them if they cancelled the rest of the Canadian dates and made that twat most unpopular.
Highlights the fact that when you are up on that stage you are a sitting duck despite the security.
I thought
any assaults committed while Oasis were on the premises were part of Liam's job description. They'll be getting someone in to sing for him next.
Liam's response
Initially backs away then sees two bouncers holding assailant and then wades in. "Well 'ard, madferit, mad fooker, me".
EDIT - have just now read the initial blog comment... Sorry... great minds etc..
It's an outrage
An appalling act of stupidity that has caused signifcant harm and great distress.
Enough about Oasis's recording career so far though...
Also
If you listen closely, at the point of Noel being pushed his hands involuntarily move up the guitar neck and he actually changes key.
I think for the first time ever. Interesting musical development there.
Isn't that
Damon?
Sometime soon...
...another crazy is going to do some real harm to a band member? No one ever expected athat Chapmanesque attack, but the way society has changed, surely it's bound to happen.
Hopefully it will be Kid Rock, but you never know.
It has happened
Former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed on-stage by a paranoid schizophrenic fan in 2004.
Ho, and indeed, ho. So far.
How did this idiot get onstage (there's no punchline ahoy, sadly) in the first place, and what on god's lovely clean earth possesses these people to whoop and throw hand shapes once the act they've paid to see gets cut off in their prime? I was playing in a pub on friday night and some idiot accidentally fell over the monitors and into our guitar player, that was unsettling enough, but to be assaulted at your day (or rather night) job, is just beyond the pale. Ho, ho, very amusing and all that, but if I'd been Liam, I'd've waited to see whether this nutter had a knife or a gun before wading in too. The only people who come out of this episode with any credit are the long suffering road crew.
Single
Great clip, good to have The Gallaghers back, what do people reckon to their new single?
back they are
and the new single .... average.
roll on a brave new music to stop ' top up the pension reunions '. Liam will recall this as ' i saw him coming and beat the **** out of him before he could do the family damage ' ... then someone will roll out the tape ( per hilary clinton red faced campaign yarn )
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*@!
The assailant is 47
Not a Molson-fuelled teen, as I first suspected. So there's probably an unhappy back story involved. Fair do's to Noel for coming back on, trouper that he is. If you're asking, the new single sounds and wears out its welcome like a Be Here Now outtake.
I'm starting to think that....
this was maybe an inside job.
The offender came from the back of the stage not the audience.
Unless he came from the other side of the stage and ran across.
The fact that the band came back to play after this episode staggers me.
I'm sure if it were a random concert goer they would have abandoned the gig.
I think the offender may have been a disgruntled employee...
Yes I want to work for The News Of The World.
If that was the case
The assailant would have been a "stunna" or a WAG or a reporter dressed as an arab.
Predictably
...I loved the new single and now I am in a state of feverish anticipation for the album. I get ridiculously excited every time I think about it...then only a few weeks until Wembley. I am counting down the days.
Just hope it's as good as the last one.
What's the opposite of serendipity?
It happens 6.00 minutes in, and you do have to sit through Artie's solo spot first ...
Well, actually
you can cut to the chase by simply jumping to 5:55 or so. (Life's too short.)
You have to taste the sour
(which ironically in this case is Art Garfunkel) to appreciate the sweet ... it's my Puritan upbringing ...
It's remarkable...
... how quickly it all happened. It's unacceptable, though. Whatever you may think of the Gallaghers (actually, I don't mind Noel so much, it's Liam who tends to irk me more), they don't deserve to be assaulted at work any more than you or I. I wish him a speedy recovery.
This exemplifies my problem with gigs in general, though - there's always someone who takes things a bit too far and spoils it for everyone else...
Noel's been attacked on stage before
back in their early days - strange how nobody ever goes for Liam.
..."strange how nobody ever
..."strange how nobody ever goes for Liam."
Well - apart from those Italian tourists who literally kicked his teeth in at a German bar a while back. No small feat bearing in mind the oaf is usually accompanied by genuinely scary ex SAS security gorillas most of the time.
On the subject of Manc rockstars only getting brave in an onstage fight once the assailant has been restrained, check out Ian Brown doing a Liam below:
Have these people no shame?