The Gallaghers' slanging match with other bands has stepped up, with Alex Kapranos hitting back.

Noel, meanwhile, has again criticised Bloc Party, who, he says, "over-intellectualise music." He was upset when the electo-punk band said some of their influences were "interesting".

"There's no such thing as interesting," declared the Oasis guitarist. "It's like, put it on and within two minutes you're going, 'Its rubbish, turn it off, turn it off!' or stick it on again."

Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos has hit back at singer Liam, who said his band were "Right Said Fred on the Atkins diet." Kapranos sees the younger Oasis brother's comments as a neurotic way of getting press coverage.

"He knows he can get in the papers by being as obnoxious as he can," said the singer. "When I read the press that surrounded them earlier in 2005, it sounded like an extremely neurotic young girl at a high school who thought that she had younger, better-looking competition and was just bitching about everything about her."

"Everybody, the Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, every contemporary band was at the end of some form of vitriol from him," he continued. "It just seems like bitchery from cheap neuroses."