Liam in new band plan

Liam Gallagher is going to start a new band.

The former Oasis frontman – whose brother Noel Gallagher quit the band in August – is planning to embark on a new project in the new year without his sibling.

He said: “I'm always going to miss Oasis. It was my thing, you know what I mean? It's who I am. But it's only a name. I'm still who I am and I can go and do something else. I've got music in me. I'll never leave it behind but we'll see where it goes. You don't know (how it's going to go) until you try.

“Getting away from the whole Oasis thing is going to be a good thing I suppose. I don't want to do anything solo. I want to be in a band. But we can do things a lot differently these days. It'll definitely be rock 'n' roll.”

Liam plans to launch his group next year and has promised the project will take a different musical direction to Oasis.

He added to The Scotsman newspaper: “For now, I’ll be relaxing at home, just getting out of music for a bit and then I’m going to start up something maybe after January, do something different, see where it goes. But I’ll be having a breather from the music for a bit without a doubt.”

Liam – who is about to launch his own Pretty Green clothing range – is looking forward to a new challenge because music means so much to him.

The ‘Songbird’ singer said: “We're doing the Pretty Green stuff but you don't just do 18 years of music and then go, 'Right that's it, I want to do clothes.' There's no point in looking cool and having no tunes is there?"