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Making a timeline because these are the most insane two months anyone's ever had. Also for me and @glossymint 's fic purposes

[At the start of July, Liam and Patsy get engaged. Noel finds out through rumours and the press. According to Noel, Liam finally tells him in Birmingham, around July 18. From there there's no gigs until Loch Lomond]

August 1 -> Liam and Patsy's engagement is officially made public. (x)

August 2 -> Loch Lomond soundcheck, Liam and Noel have an argument and Noel sees a worker die the night before the show.

August 3 ->First Loch Lomond gig. Interviews with MTV, Liam and Noel do separate interviews, a bit tense. Liam and Noel kiss at the start of the gig.

August 4 -> second Loch Lomond gig

August 10 & 11 -> Knebworth gigs!

From August 16 to August 22 -> rehearsals for the MTV Unplugged performance. On the last day Liam and Noel come to blows during the rehearsals, Liam refuses to sing and Oasis rehearses while Liam claps on the front row. (Hewitt, 1997, p.346)

August 23 -> MTV Unplugged performance. Liam refuses to sing due to a sore throat, watches Noel peform from the balcony.

August 27 -> the band arrive at Heathrow airport to set out for a three-week American tour. Liam gets off the plane and the band travel without him. Liam says that he can't travel with the band because he needs to do house hunting for him and Patsy, since someone had just bought the house they were living in.

Noel talks to the press:

"``I can sing as well as [Liam] can but I am no way a front man or anything like that. It is going to be hard work. I expect that everyone will get behind the rest of us and hopefully not make it too difficult for us.'' However, he was not angry with his brother. ``We've done enough of slapping each other, it's not about that. You have to support people when they are going through a personal crisis.'' (...) Recently, Noel shared his worries about the pressures of fame on his frontman brother.''

— Noel Gallagher interview for The Scotland Herald, before the Chicago gig. August 27, 1996

Oasis perform in Chicago without Liam, Noel is on vocals.

August 28 -> The gig gets cancelled "for last minute MTV Awards rehearsals".

August 29 -> Liam arrives to the US and is back with the band, says he already sorted out the house and that him and Noel "are sweet"

September 3 -> Rehearsals for the MTV Awards in New York. Patsy is there with Liam.

September 4 -> Performance at the MTV Awards, every band who performs is interviewed except for Oasis. In response, Liam mocks and swears at the audience, changes the lyrics of Champagne Supernova to "Champagne Supernova up yer bum" and spits on stage.

September 11 -> Before the Charlotte gig, Liam and Noel allegedly come to blows. The gig gets cancelled. One of the rumors that was circulating was that Noel was upset that the Charlotte venue was downsized from Independence Arena to the Charlotte Hornets Training Facility (x). There's a meeting in the hotel and consequently the rest of the US tour is cancelled, Noel is the first to leave.

— The Charlotte Observer

September 12 -> Around 7 pm Noel arrives in the UK alone and the press starts to fill with rumours that Oasis is breaking up.

September 13 -> The Sun's front cover reports Oasis has "sensationally split up" after a fight, every other media outlet says the same thing following The Sun's exclusive

In the morning, Patsy (staying in LA at the time for a movie premiere) appears on TV and says: 'I don't know anything. I haven't spoken to Liam. As far as I know, he's on a plane back to London. I'm bewildered by the whole thing.'

Liam and the rest of the band arrive at the airport. A group of men (including Steve, one of their long time bodyguards) in a van take Liam to a house in the country where Noel is expecting him. (Furmanovsky, 1997)

In the afternoon, Creation Records and Ignition Management issue a statement saying the band is not breaking up, that Liam and Noel are spending time together and getting over jet lag:

The rest of the tour dates are cancelled.

September 21 -> Liam's 24th birthday.

This same day, Melody Maker publishes an article detailing the events of the US tour with quotes by people from Creation. This article also says that: "Noel and Liam left London for a secret location where they met up and were still together as we went to press."

In this article people from Creation deny that there was ever a fight in Charlotte or that Noel was angry at the change in venue. It's left unclear why the tour got cancelled.

There's no news about Oasis until October when the recording of Be Here Now starts.

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