Venice Bitch

liam checking in with noel before a rare instance of doing octopus's garden during whatever

i love when interviewers are gay for liam gallagher x

transcript below:

Maine Road 1996

In that book by Chris Hutton (the singer of The Rain who got the boot and was replaced by Liam) & Richard Hurkey (who wrote the book for Hutton according to his retellings, judging by his writing style he's probably a music journalist) about The Rain/Oasis/Manchester Music Scene, they mention a mysterious job teenaged Liam was doing that he wouldn't talk about and I wonder what exactly they're alluding to? As they say, the official Oasis saga mentions several of Liam's jobs or that he would be on the dole a lot. Apparently the latter is not true and he was actually mostly working post school, but would rather pretend like he didn't which, as they say, seems "bizarre and unusual". Some of Liam's jobs that are mentioned in official Oasis sources are typical working class jobs a young lad would take on (garden centre work, construction work, car valeting etc), so that mysterious job wouldn't fall into that category as it's not like Liam would feel the need to keep such completely normal jobs under wraps. I don't think it's drug dealing either as elsewhere in the book they claim that Noel was the one who supplied Liam with weed. So what do you think this mysterious job is about?

"Chris remembers that he used to get the 50 bus into town with him every morning - Liam, the regular little commuter? He was doing something on the doors of an establishment in town, but he never wanted to elaborate upon it."

Btw anything from that book should be taken with caution: there are definitely lies in it and Hutton comes across as quite bitter as he takes any opportunity to slag the members of Oasis off. While this part about their jobs pre-fame seemed more on the serious spectrum to me, it may still be inaccurate.

Oh and let's not forget Liam was only 18 when he joined/formed Oasis, so there weren't many years after school where he could have really committed to a career outside of the band.

I think the interview where he said this happened a bit later than this book, so when this book was released this was truly absolutely unknown.

And I agree that drug dealing wouldn't make sense in this case. This wouldn't be something he would keep under wraps from all the local lads and girls - if anything this would make him everyone's go-to-dealer.

But working as a "rent boy" on the other hand, that's something he wouldn't tell all the other kids.