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Oasis star Noel Gallagher admits double nightclub ban | Celebrity News | Showbiz and television

Noel Gallagher has been banned from venues twice after causing a stir over legendary, now-defunct Manchester rave venue the Hacienda.

Speaking at a panel discussion to promote the release of a new book he co-wrote about the club, Hacienda Threads, he admitted to offending one of its owners, Peter Hook. He was filling in for the usual hosts at a local radio station that Oasis were due to appear on – and sparks flew live on air.

“(Peter) was telling us all this: ‘What’s your name? Oasis? What kind of name is that?'” Noel remembers. He hit back with an insulting retort about his interviewer’s fashion sense – and was immediately banned.

“There was a few exchanges about his leather pants and he said, ‘You’re fucking banned,'” Noel continued. However, there was a twist.

“He didn’t know I was already banned!” he joked. However, the acid house nightclub, which sadly closed in 1997, played a central role in inspiring Noel and Liam to create Oasis, and unsurprisingly the former had been a regular in its early years.

Aged 15 and 20 respectively, Liam and Noel had also been there for a landmark Stone Roses show, which Liam later exclaimed was his “favorite concert ever”.

“(It) killed me, changed my fucking life!” he confessed, adding: “Without (this show) there wouldn’t have been Oasis, because I don’t think Liam would have bothered to join Bonehead’s band, and afterwards I didn’t. ‘wouldn’t have bothered joining Liam’s group.’

Meanwhile, Noel promoted new book Hacienda Threads – about “all the threads that came together to make the nightclub special” – during a panel discussion with the likes of his former idol Mani from the Stone Roses at the New Century Hall in Manchester.

The synopsis of the new book invites readers to “celebrate the club that changed everything” through “evocative photographs and eyewitness accounts of the people who were there – from musicians, DJs and fashion designers, to artists, clubbers and staff” .