{"id":210802,"date":"2025-12-25T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210802\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T21:05:09","slug":"starsailors-james-walsh-when-i-picked-up-a-guitar-i-tried-to-learn-songs-from-oasis-as-they-seemed-the-easiest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210802\/","title":{"rendered":"Starsailor\u2019s James Walsh: \u2018When I picked up a guitar I tried to learn songs from Oasis, as they seemed the easiest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe singer has a bit of history with the Gallagher brothers, but he\u2019s not complaining\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Walsh of Starsailor performs on stage in 2019 during Victorious Festival in Portsmouth. Photo: Redferns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SF Starsailor 4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">James Walsh of Starsailor performs on stage in 2019 during Victorious Festival in Portsmouth. Photo: Redferns<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In 2002, back when bands still had fights in the press, Oasis\u2019 Noel Gallagher dubbed James Walsh of Starsailor  \u201ca cock\u201d in an interview. Walsh approached him at the T In The Park festival to ask for an explanation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Liam Gallagher apparently got physically involved and it was all handbags backstage. In 2021, Walsh told the NME: \u201cIt was a mad time and the only period in our lives when we were all over the tabloids, and it was a fuss over nothing. We\u2019ve done gigs with Liam since. I\u2019m not sure how Noel feels about it, but we\u2019ve definitely made up with Liam anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singer has a bit of history with the Gallagher brothers, but he\u2019s not complaining James Walsh of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6282,93,61,60,655,6495],"class_list":["post-210802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-barry-egan","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-oasis","tag-van-morrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}