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Noel Gallagher on his new album, and his love of The Frank and Walters

Gallagher also tells the story of 'Don't Look Back In Anger', and the unique Manchester-Irish milieu that has seen him bond with the likes of Johnny Marr  
Noel Gallagher on his new album, and his love of The Frank and Walters

Noel Gallagher's new album is Council Skies. 

Noel Gallagher sits forward, eyes lighting up. “They were really brilliantly melodic,” says the most acclaimed songwriter of his generation. “They were great. They were quirky.”

 In a suite at the Intercontinental Hotel in Dublin, Gallagher is thinking back to several lifetimes ago and his brief employment as a roadie for Cork indie band, The Frank and Walters, who later recalled accidentally poisoning one of his goldfish with vodka when Gallagher invited them to his flat in Manchester.

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