Noel Gallagher has mirrored on his friendship with Bono, and recalled the time that he and Bruce Springsteen jokingly aggravated him by sending him a selfie.

The previous Oasis member made the feedback throughout a brand new interview with Shuffle (by way of Sunday World), forward of his efficiency with Excessive Flying Birds in Dublin on Saturday (August 26).

Main onto the dialogue about his friendship with the U2 singer, Gallagher started by reflecting upon his time assembly with one other rock legend, Bruce Springsteen.

In response to the musician, he met The Boss by probability whereas the 2 have been each in Ibiza and ended up spending the afternoon collectively. “Bruce is a tremendous dude and I used to be fortunate sufficient to fulfill him a number of years in the past,” he informed the outlet.

“I had lunch with him and his spouse. There have been a number of of us, we have been all out in Ibiza and we randomly ran into one another and all of us ended up spending the afternoon collectively…and he was a tremendous, superb man,” he added. “I gained’t say I used to be an enormous Bruce Springsteen fan, however I’ve undoubtedly obtained the utmost respect for him. He was nice, similar to a child into music.”

He continued, happening to say that they finally determined to poke enjoyable at Bono’s worry of lacking out by sending him a photograph of the second.

“We have been sat at this lengthy desk, we’d had a number of bottles of wine and there’s meals all over the place and we took a selfie with one another and [Springsteen] mentioned, ‘Ought to we destroy Bono’s day?’ And we despatched him the selfie,” Gallagher recalled.

“And, after all, Bono – you won’t know this – has obtained a crippling worry of lacking out. And his spouse referred to as me and mentioned, ‘Whenever you despatched him that {photograph} he couldn’t deal with the truth that you two have been in Spain having the time of your life and he wasn’t there.

“Then Bono was asking, ‘What have been you speaking about? [So] I mentioned, ‘We have been fucking slagging you off!’”

Gallagher additionally described Bono as “considered one of his dearest associates”, and defined what it was prefer to go on tour with U2.

“He will get numerous flack, however I fucking love him,” he mentioned. “I’ve been on tour with him and, are you aware what’s superb about U2? When a band will get to that degree, often your whole operation is run by Individuals. U2’s operation is completely run by Irish individuals, all of it. It’s like a mass exodus after they go on tour. It’s like there was a much bigger exodus than there was through the Famine.”

“There’s fucking a whole bunch of them,” he added. “There’s about 300 Irish individuals on tour, it’s unbelievable.

“I’ll inform you what, I used to be on tour with them for one of the best a part of a yr and I’ve solely simply recovered. It was actually nice enjoyable, they’re actually nice individuals and I really like them dearly.”

Gallagher’s subsequent present with Excessive Flying Birds will happen tomorrow (August 30), with a present in Hull. From there, the band will headline the Rock N Roll Circus in Sheffield on September 1, earlier than persevering with extra UK exhibits later within the yr. Discover all remaining dates and any remaining tickets right here.

In different Noel Gallagher information, final week the singer-songwriter and guitarist shared who he thinks would play in an Oasis reunion line-up if that day is to ever come.