It's only been about the best part of six months since Noel dropped a few. As usual, he's banging on about his troubled relationship with his baby brother, Liam:

"By the time we make another record we'll be five years older (we can take that to mean they're having a break from each other for the foreseeable future). He's never seen my little lad, just pictures. To a stranger it sounds ludicrous, but you wouldn't have him in the house if he spoke to you the way he speaks to me and my family. Liam is constantly developing techniques for balancing that f***ing tambourine on his head. He's rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy. He's the angriest man you'll ever meet. He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup." Or just a belligerent tw*t.

According to Noel, "the breakdown in communication began when the group were recording its latest album Dig Out Your Soul in 2008", when Liam decided to elope in secret: "There's two great tracks lying there not finished from the last record, because of Liam f**king off to get married (to Nicole Appleton). That annoys the f**k out of me (naaaaw. Romantic). We've got a 50-piece choir on both, they're enormous. There's no talking to be done. Maybe that's the problem - there's no fall-out from it. I never said to him, 'What are you doing?'" Rodgering your coat tails for the last 14 years, or so?