'LIFE WOULD BE EASIER WITHOUT OASIS' THE END OF THE ROAD...

By August 2009, tension between Noel and Liam was at breaking point

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PERHAPS the biggest surprise about the August 2009 demise of Oasis was that it actually lasted as long?

It wasn't the first time Noel had walked out on the band, but it was the last.

Previously he headed to San Francisco from Los Angeles in a cloudstorm, only to return with a new song, Talk Tonight.

This time there was no talk, there was no tonight.

An argument - another argument broke out between the brothers, Liam lashing out with a guitar of Noel's.

Tensions well and truly boiled over.

Noel described the volatile situation: “He (Liam) storms out of the dressing room and picks up a plum. He threw it across the dressing room and it smashed against the wall. I kind of wish it had ended like that because it would have made a great headline, 'plum throws plum and finishes Oasis'. So then he leaves and goes to his own dressing room and picks up a guitar. He comes back in and he starts throwing it around like an axe.

"I make light of it because that's what I do but that was a real unnecessary violent act. He's swinging this guitar around and he nearly took my face off with it. It ended up on the floor and I put it out of its misery.

"There were people who were in the band, not saying anything. People were looking the other way and it wasn't even a big dressing room.

"We were all involved in it and nobody was saying anything. So I thought, I'm out of here."

Also performing that night in Paris were Bloc Party. With their tour manager Peter Hill on stage, they announced Oasis weren't performing. Frontman Kele Okereke announced: "Oasis have cancelled. So I'd like to take this moment to say, 'That's a shame, isn't it guys?"