'When that tour was cancelled, and Noel and Liam disappeared, the press went crazy trying to find them, says Furmanovsky. 'What actually happened was they were picked up separately at the airport and whisked away to a secret destination in the country.
'Then, one night when Liam was in on his own, he told me what had happened. He said that when he was picked up from the airport, he was met by bodyguards, who shoved him into the back of a van that took him to who knows where. The van drove for miles, and every time he asked where they were going,the driver wouldn't tell him. 'Eventually they stopped near a cemetery and when Liam looked out the window he thought, "Bloody hell, I'm going to be murdered!"
In the event it was nothing quite so dramatic - or final. Noel was holed up at a friend's home, safe from the prying eyes of the press. He wanted to talk to his brother, to see if their relationship - personal and professional - could be saved.
Liam: Me and our kid went to a country house. The pair of us stayed there and got pissed. Me and him weren’t arguing. We got slaughtered. And Marcus [Russell, manager] was saying, ‘Lets put a press release out’. Me and him [Noel] were taking the piss, going ‘Fuck it - if anyone asks where we are, tell ‘em we’re chasing sheep round the fucking country.’ But it would have started to get silly. So we put one together.
The footage of you walking through the airport - you looked miserable beyond words.
Noel: People were saying, ‘Look, don’t say anything’. You want to answer all the questions, but you’re like [poker face]. I just went to the pub then. In Chiswick. ‘Two large gin and tonics, some pork scratchings.’ Then I stayed up all night getting off my tits, and then there was a news flash then these lot [points at Liam] were coming through the airport, live on This Morning. Him looking like a proper paraffin man, big beard on, grabbing arses on the way through the airport...
Liam: Check this out. Those bastards, my so-called minders...I get off the aeroplane, right. He’s [Noel] in a top house in the fucking country. Guess where these bastards take me? They take me to a fucking graveyard. I’m sitting there with two big meatheads going, ‘What’s all this about?’
Noel: He thought he was in Casino where they get the baseball bats out.
Liam: I was sitting there, thinking, ‘The bastards are going to fill me in’...I went in there [the graveyard], had a fucking egg and bacon sandwich in a fucking graveyard. It was top.
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