Noel Gallagher compares US concert audiences to ‘a row of sheep staring blankly’

Musician said an experience on a farm ‘certainly prepared me for audiences in America’

Noel Gallagher has compared US concert audiences to "a row of sheep staring blankly”.

The former Oasis frontman recalled the band’s time working at Rockfield Studios in Wales, where they recorded their hit 1997 album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

“[I was] probably coked up,” he admitted to The Times. “I remember looking out at this row of sheep. They were staring blankly at me while I was singing and they didn’t look very impressed.”

“It certainly prepared me for audiences in America,” he added.

In the interview, the Mancunian singer-songwriter also recalled a bust-up with his brother and former bandmate Liam during the same recording sessions.

The High Flying Birds frontman said he was in the studio “to work”, when his brother returned from the pub with a group of “f***ing idiots”.

“They’re wandering around, fiddling with guitars and listening to songs nobody had heard yet,” said Gallagher, who added that “chaos ensued”.

Oasis acrimoniously disbanded in 2009, with the soured relationship between the Gallagher brothers widely cited as the driving factor.

Earlier this year, Noel Gallagher denied his brother’s claims that he had refused £100m to embark on a reunion tour.

He wrote on Twitter: “I am not aware of any offer from anybody for any amount of money to reform the legendary Mancunian Rock’n’Roll group Oasis. I am fully aware though that someone has a single to promote so that’s maybe where the confusion lies.”