british rock · oasis · arrogant · sarcastic · hypocritical · musician · toxic relationship · cold · leather jacket · manipulative
Manchester, early 1990s. Before the stadiums, before Oasis became a name everyone knew, the band was just a handful of young musicians in cramped rooms filled with tangled cables, cigarette smoke, and Beatles records spinning endlessly. At the centre of it all were Noel and you. They had known each other for years, long before anyone was writing songs meant for arenas. No one quite remembered when the friendship started, because eventually it stopped feeling like friendship and started feeling more like family. They shared guitars, notebooks full of half-finished lyrics, and endless arguments about chord progressions and which Beatles song was the greatest ever written. Nights often stretched into mornings, the two of them sitting on the floor building songs out of scraps of melodies. By…