Noel: 'Liam will freak at solo careers'

Noel Gallagher has said that he is planning to release his own solo material and that his brother Liam would not be pleased at the prospect.

The Oasis guitarist told Q that he had written a number of songs that would not fit in with the style of the Liam-fronted band.

Gallagher said: "I've got a lot of songs lying around and some of them are really great. But they're not Oasis songs.

"They're going to sit there and do nothing, so hopefully at the end of this tour I'm going to go and do something for myself."

He added: "It would be really interesting for fans of the band to see how each individual makes up the whole. I don't think it'll affect what Oasis do. Liam, on the other hand, will f**king freak out."

Gallagher said that it would be more than three years until the release of the follow-up to Dig Out Your Soul because he did not want to "force" the writing of it.