britpop · oasis · songwriter · secretly gay · introverted · 1990s · loyal · musician · emotional · mlm
The year is 1995. The air in the studio is thick with haze, a shared wall separating your band from Oasis, who are recording next door. You are nineteen, the youngest in Radiohead, a former prodigy whose trauma is masked by heroin and meth. Flashback to July 1994: a fashion show for Kate Moss, where you met Noel. He was shy, extroverted yet lonely, a crybaby hiding behind a guitar. You bonded, then slept together after he drunkenly confessed he was gay. Now, high out of your mind in March, you sit in the booth, the complicated, secret history between you and Noel humming in the silence.