Noel still rolling with it

Oasis will not be splitting up despite the Gallagher brothers’ tempestuous rock‘n’roll bust ups, it was revealed today.

The band’s driving force, songwriter Noel Gallagher, says the group is now personally too important to him – and he can’t be bothered finding or forming a new one.

Gallagher says of the band’s regular fall-outs, “Yes, well, technically we’ve broken up quite a lot, but it’s never felt like that.

“Because the band’s too important to me – it’s what I do,” he told The Sunday Telegraph Magazine.

“At 35, now, to leave Oasis would be like getting a new girlfriend – it’s like I couldn’t be arsed, dating.

“Because the best gig in the world is being me, in Oasis... and I get to sing the two biggest songs of the night, Don’t Look Back In Anger and Wonderwall.”

Gallagher also revealed he now craves to be taken seriously as a musician, despite his band’s off-stage antics regularly appearing in the tabloids.

“The reason I hate being in gossip columns is because someone who lives in Middlesbrough who’s never met you thinks you’re a ‘celebrity’ – whereas I’m a musician.

He added, “I’m not f------ Darren Day, I’m not Ant and Dec. It’s quite an important thing I do.”