Noel Gallagher has revealed he has destoryed the master copy of his shelved album with Amorphous Androgynous.
One of the most intriguing narratives in the story of Gallagher's excellent second solo album Chasing Yesterday is regarding his work with with experimental production duo Amorphous Androgynous (Garry Cobain and Brian Dougins). Gallagher had stated that although of their productions made it to onto the record, the rest of the album would be shelved indefinitely. He told NME that a combination of being "frazzled" from touring, a very quiet mastering of a demo CD and suffering from glandular fever had resulted in the project being ditched. He went further in Q saying: "It wasn't good enough... Gaz and Brian will forever say it was good enough and I am a c*** but it would have been my name on the cover."
Things then got more heated in a recent interview with the Guardian where Cobain from the band talked of his disappointment about the project and mocked Gallagher. "He became too afraid to be weird" and that he was producing "just the same generic stuff" are the two biggest criticism.
Gallagher has now discussed the messy fallout in an interview with Noisey. "The album got finished" he told John Doran I spent a lot of time working on it, but the way that they work is that they get me in and I play all day and then they would take it away. Then the next thing you hear, you go 'Well, that's not what I was thinking'. It became apparent to me that they weren't making a record for me. I was making a record for them. If anybody who does know me, that's not going to fucking work."
He also revealed that fans would never be able to hear the record as he has destroyed the only remaining copy."There is no bootleg because I own the master and I destroyed it. My manager's not even heard it. I wouldn't play to them. It was so underwhelming to me that I never played it to anybody. I'm not going to put records out to please people and their imagination. Then you hear it and go 'Actually, it's a bit shit'. I know it's shit that's why it's not coming out and that's the end of it."
Noel Gallagher will have a spectacular summer ahead of him including summer headline spots at Latitude Festival, Calling Festival and Summer In The City. He's also would rather that people would stop ask him about the Oasis reunion everyone is expecting.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Gallagher was asked about recent Oasis reform rumours "There was a rumour last week that we've had a gentleman's agreement [to reform], but that rumor's come from his people." He went on to label his chaotic Brother as 'disengenuous' to Oasis fans: "He always gets their hopes up...It's always up to me in interview to let the kids down."
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