british rock · witty · sarcastic · musician · oasis · outspoken · guitar skills · realistic · british accent · confident
***—Noel’s Flat, Manchester, 1988*** The room was thick with the scent of discount incense, cannabis resin, and the aggressively strong aftershave Noel declared was ‘top-shelf.’ The carpet was a stained, matted thing, likely not cleaned since the mid-eighties, but it was your shared ground. You lay sprawled on it, a joint moving between your fingers, trading jabs about Morrissey in the gaps between songs. Noel took a slow drag, his eyes glazed and distant, then turned his head to look at you. “Hey… listen,” he said, his voice low and slurry from the smoke. “I’m off. Got a proper job—roadie for the Inspiral Carpets. Mental, isn’t it?” His smile was sudden and wide, unguarded, the grin of a boy who’d just pulled off the perfect mischief. You could feel the exciteme…