{"id":737995,"date":"2026-07-02T01:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737995\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:28:09","slug":"ian-mcnabb-tells-a-noel-gallagher-story-noel-wont-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737995\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McNabb tells a Noel Gallagher story Noel won’t like"},"content":{"rendered":"

In July 1994, Ian McNabb, leader of Liverpudlian alt.rockers the Icicle Works<\/a>, released his second solo album, Head Like a Rock. Recorded in Los Angeles with serial Neil Young<\/a> collaborators Crazy Horse, the album was well-received and was nominated for that year’s Mercury Prize.<\/p>\n

To mark the album’s release, McNabb and Crazy Horse played at that year’s Glastonbury Festival<\/a>, with a pair of warm-up shows scheduled at Manchester Academy and at King’s College London Student Union.<\/p>\n

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At the latter show, Noel Gallagher joined the band onstage, riding a wave of critical acclaim as Oasis geared up for the release of the debut album, Definitely Maybe, the following month.<\/p>\n

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“We played Pushin’ Too Hard by the Seeds, which has two chords (Am and G),” says McNabb, posting on Facebook<\/a>. “He struggled to fit into this basic pattern, and when I told him to take a solo, he royalled [messed up] his Callards [‘trousers’ in Cockney rhyming slang].<\/p>\n

“The show was recorded. When he learned I was releasing it, he demanded he be allowed to redo his performance. When I said it was a live album, and that’s what was going out, he ordered his name be taken off the credits as I was ‘cashing in.’ Formidable songwriter, entry-level strummer (still). Bit of a dick.”<\/p>\n

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McNabb’s story appears to have been inspired by footage from an old interview with Gallagher<\/a>, which has recently gone viral. In the interview, filmed in Tokyo on Oasis’s Standing on the Shoulder of Giants tour in 2000, Gallagher describes Eric Clapton<\/a> as “fucking awful.”<\/p>\n

“Eric Clapton is not ‘fucking awful’, advises McNabb. “He’s nowhere near the rapture afforded him, but his work with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Cream<\/a>, The Beatles<\/a>, Plastic Ono Band, Blind Faith and Roger Waters<\/a> was sterling. After Blind Faith, he changed beyond recognition, seduced by the minimalism of The Band, J.J. Cale and Jamaican music.”<\/p>\n

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The version of Pushin’ Too Hard recorded with the uncredited Gallagher was eventually released on Ian McNabb’s Merseybeast album in 1996. McNabb’s latest solo album, 65, was released in April.<\/p>\n

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