Many fights between Oasis’s warring Gallagher brothers were born out of frustration – the board game Frustration.
Noel and Liam would regularly erupt into violence over their favourite pastime during their time in the band.
Liam became convinced of a devious conspiracy after Noel won a series of matches, which they played for money.
Rows even kicked off over sinister claims the central “pop-o-matic” bubble – pressed to roll the enclosed dice – had been tampered with.
“It would always end in violence,” remembers Noel. “I was up about a grand at one point on tour.
He always accused me that somehow, before the game had started, I had unscrewed the glass dome and put grease on the dice.
It’s a complete game of random – it’s in the lap of the gods. I was winning far too much for him to handle so he accused me cheating – f***ing rigging the game.
“Would I rig a game of Frustration?”
The group loved playing so much that MB Games famously made them a personalised version, which they took on tour – until Noel eventually took custody of it.
“When the band split, I took the Frustration,” he boasts to Matt Morgan’s Funny How? podcast.
He adds “there is always one” in his dressing rooms to this day.
Noel also confirmed there is no chance there will be an Oasis reunion, despite Liam’s early attempts to get them back together for a one-off gig in aid of NHS keyworkers.
Admitting he had been tempted, Noel eventually scoffed: “I realised I would only be doing it to shut this f***ing idiot up.”
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