Gallagher reveals solo album plans

Noel Gallagher has revealed that he is well on the way to putting together a solo album.

The Oasis guitarist told NME that he was looking forward to releasing a collection of his own work under his name only, and the only difficulty facing him at present is trying to balance the project with Oasis' schedule.

"I've actually got a backlog of songs that are slowly building up," he confirmed. "The thing about a solo record is the time to do one is between Oasis world tours because you'd have a good couple of years. But it takes me so long to write the songs that eventually I run out of time (before Oasis begins again), but I've got a backlog now of about four or five songs which are probably too far in the past as far as the band in concerned, but which could work on my record... it's coming."

He added that Oasis themselves were almost ready to record a new LP: "The next one in theory is already... written. I've got eight songs that I'm pretty happy with. I think Liam's got one or two that he thinks are brilliant. We're waiting for Gem and Andy. It's just a case of sitting down and saying, 'When do we want to do this?'"