Beady Eye star hits out at tree insipiration...
Jason Gregory

13:34 28th February 2011

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Beady Eye frontman Liam Gallagher has launched an attack against Radiohead.

The singer took aim over the title and lyrics on the band's new album 'The King Of Limbs', which was inspired by a 1,000-year-old tree in Wiltshire's Savernake Forest.


“I heard that f*cking Radiohead record and I just go, 'What?!'” he told the Quietus.

“I like to think that what we do, we do f*cking well. Them writing a song about a f*cking tree? Give me a f*cking break! A thousand year old tree? Go f*ck yourself!

Gallagher added: “You’d have thought he’d have written a song about a modern tree or one that was planted last week. You know what I mean?”

The album's title is not the only tree reference on 'The King Of Limbs'.

'Separator', the final track, also includes the line: “The sweetest flowers and fruits hang from the trees, falling off the giant bird that's been carrying me.”

Beady Eye released their debut album 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' today (February 28).

Liam Gallagher - Quotes
  • Via Twitter: “In Caracas, top gig. Sat in me room in silence as my TV doesn't work. Not allowed to leave the hotel for fear of being tickled to death “

  • On Oasis' comparisons to The Beatles: "The Beatles play guitars, we play guitars. The Beatles got hair, we've got hair. The Beatles got arms, we've got arms."

  • Speaking about Pete Doherty and Keane's Tom Chaplin: “Posh boys can't take drugs, man, they're lightweights. They have one little line, and they're in rehab". (The Observer, 2006)

  • Speaking at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in 1996: "Alright, this party's shit and we're here to liven things up a bit. You know you're not havin' a good time but you're all too scared to say it, ya know mate."

  • On the paparazzi: "It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just sit around getting fat." (The Guardian, 2006).

  • About celebrity: "If you don't like it, then fuck off- don't be in it! I don't know nothing about that coming down business. Straight up all the way man."

  • On Oasis' battle to break America: “Americans want grungy people stabbing themselves in the head onstage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don’t get it.” (NME, 2006)

  • Speaking about Coldplay and Radiohead: “I don't hate them, I don't wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and don't look like they're having a good time.” (The Guardian, 2008)

  • On being named the best frontman: 'There`s Elvis and me. I couldn`t say which of the two is best.'' (Q, 2010)

  • On Victoria Beckham: “She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.” (NME, 2001)

  • On brother Noel's songwriter: “There are shitloads of meaning in the songs. I don't know what they mean, but there's still meaning there.” (Rolling Stone, 1996)

  • On Twitter after Peter Kay called him a Knobhead at the 2010 Brit Awards: "Listen up fat f*ck as a real northerner I was brought up 2 say sh*t 2 people's faces not behind their back. Live forever LG."

  • Via Twitter:''Regarding shortarse's comments on my behaviour at the roundhouse-Pretend rage? It's called rock and roll darling, you wanna try it sometime!''

  • On his brother's solo career: ''Just heard through the grapevine that Noely G is playing guitar on The Nolan sisters comeback tour...B Jeezus... LG''.

  • In an interview about Twitter:"I only use my Twitter as a weapon or to say thanks to people or if people are getting a bit fresh. Instead of waiting six months to do an interview, put them into place, do it on Twitter.''

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