Noel Gallagher: 'If you pretend to be interested in my record, I'll slag of Liam for a bit'

It shows what a grip Noel Gallagher has on the zeitgeist that he arranged to hold his big, mystery announcement at exactly the same moment as Prime Minister's Questions was starting.

Anyway, blah blah blah solo album:

Noel Gallagher has announced full details of his new solo debut album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' at a London press conference.

High Flying Birds? Low hanging fruit, surely?

In fact, it looks like even Noel knows how dull the prospect of his solo record is, having to pad out the press conference with details of the Oasis split:

Speaking earlier today at a press conference, Gallagher said of the incident: "[Liam had] gone into his private dressing room and he'd picked up this guitar. He came back in and he was wielding it about like an axe. He was quite violent. At that point there was no physical violence but there was a lot of World Wrestling Federation stuff. It was an unnecessarily violent act and he nearly took my face off."

He was wielding his guitar like... an axe, you say? Why has the similarity between an axe never been commented on before?

Shortly afterwards, Liam took to Twitter and tweeted 'Shithead'. Damn, I wish I'd thought of that.