#cricket bat

say it with me: "thank you yuyu for posting bts videos on tik tok!"

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and why the flipping fuck does this entire story get played for laughs?

listing each account to link after reblogging:

noel (1995: “i had a cricket bat” /2015:“broke his arm or something” + beatles belt buckle apology)

liam (arriving home with casts on arm and leg vs calling it a “proper laugh” and “top laugh”)

alan white (at the pub with liam, firsthand account of fight, drives noel back to london according to getting high, says noel climbed out his room window to escape liam banging his door down, has he spoken elsewhere about it?)

meg mathews (attests to noel's reaction when he returns to london according to getting high, has she spoken elsewhere?)

owen morris (asleep when it happens but claims to have locked up the studio before going to bed and runs into liam with a broken foot the next day; says they were working on supernova before the fight and it was the 5th day of recording (friday); another time said they were working on don’t look back in anger (on sunday) and noel returns with cast no shadow; full mg account)

daniella from monmouth (girl liam brought back to the studio from the pub, her account is printed by a tabloid)

rockfield studio owner and sound engineer (mg 25th retrospective: damages bill + broken door)

paolo hewitt (cricket bat with letter)

john robb (with the band cable recording at monnow valley who met liam at the pub, liam invites them back to rockfield but they start trouble; gives the date as saturday 13 may, not actually there for cricket bat itself claiming he took the band home before noel and owen came out of the studio)

michael spencer jones (says liam’s room was a nuclear explosion and that noel asked him for a ride to weller’s house after, at conflict with getting high account)

just looking at this list, the worst thing to me is how getting high has the most complete scene but the most important accounts to support this scene are by alan and meg which are not verified elsewhere. we just have to trust everything paolo says as accurate. the first account i read after supersonic was owen morris who questions it cause he missed the whole thing. so maybe that colored my entire thinking about it. but i've since read three different accounts from him which makes me question his honesty recall whatever. and he's not the only one. noel has mentioned hitting liam in the head with the bat, breaking his arm and breaking his leg, in separate accounts. could it be all three? maybe? liam saying he arrives home with casts on his arm and leg. but then they’re back recording one week or 10 days later. so is he returning to record with casts on? they are back at gigs in june (glastonbury is 23 june where liam’s dancing around with robbie williams) and there’s no pictures i can find of liam in a cast. no pictures doesn’t mean it didn’t happen but i’m a skeptical bitch about band mythmaking so it just adds to my questions. the cricket bat itself is the focal point of the myth with supersonic dramatizing the whole episode with a broken bat. yet rockfield studio owners show off an intact cricket bat when noel goes back for the wtsmg 25th and talk about a guitar that was busted up instead. yet paolo hewitt recovers an intact cricket bat. and then there’s daniella the girl at the center of all of this who sees the whole thing but never even mentions a cricket bat! one year later and listing it all i still feel like i have more questions than answers.

(update1: striking the above sentence cause i remembered wrong. paolo hewitt finds the cricket bat and the busted guitar was bhn sessions.)

(update2: added john robb account from his 2025 live forever book)