NOEL QUITS THE BAND

“When you listen back to that in the film, I swear to God Guigsy is playing a totally different bassline in one of the songs: it’s like he’s in a different fucking band! We were snorting crystal meth, thinking it was coke. I still don’t know if it was crystal meth, but it was super fucking strong. I do remember it being all over the shop in parts, but I’m sure it was alright... It’s fucking LA! If we’d have just gone on and done a normal gig, they’d have been like, ‘We’ve seen all that before.’ They want a bit of fucking wonky shit: that’s what they’re into, innit? But that gear, we were all wired for days after. The tyres on the bus went down, we couldn’t pay the hotel because fucking Putin [Noel] had run off with all the money to see some bird he’d met in San Francisco. I remember we were sitting around outside, all we’ve got is this gear, no fucking money, and I’m walking up and down, going into every hotel on Sunset, going, ‘Is there a Mr Noel Gallagher here?’”