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Apparently Noel Gallagher is taking an extended break from making music:

He said: ''I'm going to take voluntary redundancy and maybe grow a couple of beards. I like to get as far away from it as possible when I finish touring because it's so full on when you're doing it. There's not just only the gigs, there's all the other stuff that goes around it.''

He's going to wait until inspiration strikes him before returning to music. Of course, if he'd done that after the second Oasis album, he'd still be on hiatus now, so fingers crossed, everybody.