#finding ng

NG: I wouldn’t say I was scarred, but everybody’s childhood makes them what they are.

Music was an escape for me. That three minutes was to take me to somewhere else, other than drudgery of cold Northern England in November.

i've been really curious about this time period for awhile and stockpiling posts with the intention of assembling them in some kind of chronological order. still not quite sure what i'm looking at but it's a bit like finding the edge pieces of a puzzle and snapping them together for a frame. you can get a vague idea while understanding much of the pieces are missing to complete the picture. most notably noel is giving interviews at this time while liam is mostly out of the public eye entirely.

assembled them in the queue and looking at them in order now and getting a bit choked up by what we have. even factoring in the normal album press cycle, noel's interviews have noticeable outlier moments during this time. charting his uncharacteristically relaxed calm fondness to emotionally raw moments when mentioning liam, it does look like any attempt at a truce all goes south within a months time (mid february to mid march 2015). coincidence it’s when dead in the water is written and the chasing yesterday is released? of course it’s not lost on me it also is at a period of nostalgia with the 20th anniversaries of their first two albums and part of the buzz about a reunion driven by stone roses reunion. but in the course of the entire feud it sticks out as different. and suggests noel was more invested in a reconciliation than he’d ever be willing to admit.

queuing them up now. when they're done posting i'll link them to the chronological list below to access them easily.

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2014/2015 gallagher timeline

2014 28 february: beady eye cancels coachella gig, manager splits

11 may: liam runs into noel (man city wins the league) 21 october: "we're on good terms." (video) 25 october: "beady eye are no longer." ?? october: "don't give up"

17 november: in the heat of the moment released (do the damage bside) 31 december: "i think liam should make a solo record"

2015 12 january: ballad of the mighty i released (revolution song bside)

14 january: ng in the telegraph “from the texts i’ve received from him, he’s all right”

17 january: ng in nme about lg: “he’s still putting out the persona of an angry barking dog” 4 february: "i’d write him a few songs. i've got a few songs lying around that he'd be good at singing." (also takes a dig at beady eye) 20 february: "[liam] sends me cheeky texts from time to time." (interview) 25 february: "we're alright. i'm a bit concerned that he's starting to grow facial hair....family is family, you don't have to patch it up do you?…blood is thicker than mud." (interview)

26 february: dead in the water writing

28 february: “we text quite a lot” 28 february: recording dead in the water live at RTÉ 2FM radio studios in dublin (after dying of the light [video] which airs 2 march with a live interview)

2 march: chasing yesterday released

2 march: “what inspires me are relationships. how they begin, how they die.” 14 march: "keeping it in the family" lg tweet with nghfb pass 21 march: "you're already ruining my day talking about him" 24 march: "liam is a very angry man still and as long as he's angry we won't be friends i'm afraid" 23 april: ng on lg ending beady eye “i don’t know where his brains are at the moment…if he’s happy then i’m happy”

2(?) may: "can't be arsed" + lg tweet goad

5 may: ng interview with rolling stone released, probably from mid-march (“it was my other brother’s pass…there was a rumor last week that we’ve had a gentleman’s agreement [to reform the band], but that rumor’s come from his people.”) 7-11 may: “noel katie hopkins gallagher” lg tweet responding to the rolling stone interview + "busted" lg tweet (in response to AA interview)

11 may: riverman released (leave my guitar alone bside)

29 may: “only reason i would ever do [oasis reunion] is if i was broke or maybe if liam was broke”

19 july: ng on desert island discs “the way it worked was, when we’re not slagging each other off, that’s when we’re telling each other that we loved each other”

23 july: “i’m not his keeper anymore. whatever he does now is his business.”

26 july: liam playing bold in a pub (video)

29 july: ng on talksport “i’ve seen him a few times. he’s still kind of uh…still a bit lippy”

28 august: lock all the doors single (here’s a candle for your birthday cake bside)

14 august 2002: noel interviewed by musique plus (montreal, quebec)

for receipts, here’s the stand by me entry on nghfb setlist.fm: