Noel Gallagher says he is often mistaken for his brother Liam when approached by fans for pictures

‘I humour most people!’ Noel Gallagher reveals he is often mistaken for his warring brother Liam when approached by Oasis fans for pictures


Noel Gallagher revealed he has often been mistaken for his brother Liam when approached by fans for pictures. 

The 53-year-old former Oasis star admitted he often pretends to Liam instead of telling people they have called him the wrong name. 

Speaking on the Matt Morgan’s Funny How? podcast about the frequent cases of mistaken identity, Noel said: ‘I humour most people’.

‘I humour most people’: Noel Gallagher spoke on Matt Morgan’s podcast about being mistaken for his brother Liam on several occasions by fans asking for pictures

The musician said: ‘I get f****** people going: “Can I get a picture Liam?” I go “Yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem, oh mad for it”.’ 

‘I don’t stamp my feet and go: “Stop calling me that”.’

During the episode father-of-three Noel also touched upon the behaviour of his 13-year-old son Donovan and his friends. 

He explained his children are into ‘weird s***, internet stuff’ and barely look up from their phones when in the company of friends. 

Case of mistaken identity: The former Oasis star said he often just lets the name mishap slide and pretends he is his brother Liam (pair pictured together in 1994)

Case of mistaken identity: The former Oasis star said he often just lets the name mishap slide and pretends he is his brother Liam (pair pictured together in 1994)

‘This is a sad indictment of the times but it was raining at the weekend so we’re in and my eldest has got a load of his mates round,’ he said. 

‘There’s six of them just all sat in the kitchen on their phones not looking at each other. That’s all they do.’

He joked that once his son’s friends had left his house ‘smelled of dogs for a good ten minutes’. 

It comes after the musician compared his fans going ‘apes**t’ for his Oasis tracks to a ‘drop-off’ response with his new songs as he made a comeback to music last month.

The musician, who led the iconic group from 1991 until 2009, admitted he believes the difference in reaction between his classic hits and more recent material is ‘character-building’ as he discussed his career in this week’s GQ HYPE. 

Rock star Noel unveiled a new single called We’re On Our Way Now with his band High Flying Bird and is set to release his greatest hits album Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021) on June 11 – in celebration of their 10-year anniversary.

Recent music: It comes after the musician compared his fans going 'apes**t' for his Oasis tracks to a 'drop-off' response with his new songs as he made a comeback to music last month

Recent music: It comes after the musician compared his fans going ‘apes**t’ for his Oasis tracks to a ‘drop-off’ response with his new songs as he made a comeback to music last month

On spending the last decade maintaining his career after his bitter split from Oasis, Noel – who is estranged from his brother and founder Liam – said: ‘It’s really character building when you play a song from Oasis, which everyone knows and the place goes f****ng apes**t.

‘And then you play your new stuff and there’s clearly a f**king drop-off in people digging it.

‘And in between those songs, people are constantly shouting out for stuff that you wrote 20 years ago. But you either sink or swim and you have to actually look these people in the eye and say, ”F**k them”. 

‘When you’re writing for a band that’s become a brand and a huge f****ng business – and this is only with hindsight, as I didn’t realise this at the time – you’re kind of writing with the weight of the brand hanging over you.

‘The songs have to sound a certain way to sell 70 million records and you’re not going to just throw it all up in the air on a whim.

‘A lot of the early High Flying Birds songs were actually written for Oasis, but as I’m not a brand, and as High Flying Birds is not a brand, I could do whatever I wanted.’  

Feuding brothers: On spending the last decade maintaining his career after his bitter split from Oasis, Noel - who is estranged from his brother and founder Liam (pictured together in 1996) - said: 'It's really character building'

Feuding brothers: On spending the last decade maintaining his career after his bitter split from Oasis, Noel – who is estranged from his brother and founder Liam (pictured together in 1996) – said: ‘It’s really character building’