what's the lore with the paris photoshoot??
ah, the emotionally upsetting paris photoshoot! it's a good one. there are a lot of pics from it but here's a taste of the most striking ones, for those who may not be familiar:
[x] (my fave one ^ the creachurrrrrrrs)
you may notice a particular........ unpleasantness occuring here lol.
from jill furmanovsky's website:
Jill recalls, "Terrible vibes between Noel and Liam produced a wonderful set of pictures. Liam was drunk and minutes before this was taken had been chasing Parisians on bicycles over the bridge before hurling his drink at the wall. To make things worse we were being tailed by paparazzi. Noel was thoroughly fed up but the session continued. The strange angles sum up the dark mood of the day."
Noel Gallagher said during a recent chat with Jill, "We were just so uninterested in being there. I just remember Liam being absolutely rat-arsed and being in a proper f**king bad mood."
this series of photos + accompanying quotes from jill & daniela soave's tremendous book was there then are quite incredible, if by incredible we mean horrendous š:
I didnāt know what had been going on between them. It could have been some small comment that sparked things off.
Liam spent the evening in the bar with endless vodka and oranges.
The MTV awards were being held that evening and there were loads of people arriving ā a distraction we didnāt need. We arranged to meet at Noelās room and when Liam didnāt show up, my heart sank.
Heād gone back to the bar straight after breakfast.
Yvonne McConaghy, who was assisting me, went to try and coax him out but he flatly refused to go anywhere near Noelās room. He said heād do the photo session as long as it wasnāt in Noelās room, so we got in the bus and he took his drink with him.
We stopped off at this bridge and the first thing Liam did was hurl his glass at the side of the bridge. Noel was furious, but I took him aside and said āLook, it doesnāt matter. As long as you stand there, Iāll catch him in the frame.ā
But Noel was so pissed off, and you can see it in these photos. He is literally gritting his teeth. The body language is incredible. It was awful. You can almost hear the air crackle.
and, most devastating of all (emphasis ours):
Yvonne McConaghy: I'd witnessed some of what went on the night before. Liam had been trying to be friendly with Noel and Noel was giving him a hard time, and that's what started him off on his binge. The impression I got was that Noel had so much power over him. He seemed very vulnerable that day. He was totally pissed by the time we did that photo session but he was desperately trying to get in with Noel again.
Liam Gallagher: I remember that. I wasn't speaking to him. We hadn't spoken for about two days.
