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Emily Heward

'Unsophisticated music for unsophisticated people' - Noel Gallagher rips into Liam's solo career

Noel Gallagher has taken aim at brother Liam again, describing his solo material as 'unsophisticated music for unsophisticated people'.

The Oasis songwriter and High Flying Birds frontman also said he would never forgive his younger brother after Liam allegedly sent text messages threatening his wife Sara to his 19-year-old daughter Anaïs.

Speaking in an interview with The Guardian , he said he didn't listen to Liam's new music 'because I can't stand his voice' but had heard songs on the radio.

“I think it’s unsophisticated music. For unsophisticated people. Made by an unsophisticated man. Who’s giving unsophisticated orders to a load of songwriters who think they’re doing the Oasis thing," he said.

Liam issued an apology to Anaïs last month for his 'childish behaviour' after Noel posted a screenshot of his alleged What's App message to her on Twitter.

Paul 'Bigun' Ashbee put Liam Gallagher behind the mic (Daily Record)

But it doesn't look like Noel's accepted the olive branch.

"I’ve got one fatal flaw in my otherwise perfect makeup as a human being, which is I don’t forgive people," he said.

"Once you start texting my children - and his two sons have been going for her too - and legitimise my wife being bullied on the internet, where she has to shut down Instagram accounts because of the vile s*** being written about her and my daughter, then it ain’t happening.”

Noel was speaking with the newspaper to promote his new single This Is The Place, available to download or stream today from the EP of the same name, which comes out in September.

Its name is taken from Tony 'Longfella' Walsh's poem about Manchester, which was read at the vigil after the Manchester Arena terror attack in May 2017, and came to be an emblem of the city's pride and defiance.

Manchester poet Tony Walsh reads 'This Is The Place' on the steps of Manchester Town Hall (Eddie Garvey)

In , Noel revealed his next EP would be 'very Mancunian'.

"It just sounds like a late 80s Mancunian guitar anthem," he said of the lead track.

"It took me a long f***ing time to write it, because I could never get the chorus right, and when I eventually finished it I was like 'That's the f***ing b******s. It really is. It's amazing.' Even the title is very Mancunian."

Watch: Noel Gallagher's full interview with the M.E.N

Noel Gallagher talks to the MEN - full interview

Speaking to the Guardian, Noel also reiterated the views voiced in his M.E.N interview, in which he declared: "There’s only one f***ing thing worse than a fool who voted for Brexit, and that’s the rise of the c***s trying to get the vote overturned."

Discussing the reaction to the piece, he said: "People started calling me a Nazi! I thought: ‘Really? A member of the Third Reich?’ Look, I think it’s ridiculous that we’re leaving. None of us were even qualified to vote. You ask a guy above a chippy in Bradford if we should leave Europe. ‘Yeah!’ But I still think if there’s a second referendum, as a nation, we’ll never recover. We have to come out because, no matter how ill-informed people were, you’re saying to them their vote doesn’t count. And it's symptomatic of shutting people’s opinions down.”

You can read the full interview here .

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