Liam Gallagher’s heart ‘wasn’t really in Beady Eye anymore’


Liam Gallagher and Andy Bell on stage with Beady Eye (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Liam Gallagher and Andy Bell on stage with Beady Eye (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)




The split seemed to come out of nowhere, merely a Saturday evening tweet from frontman Liam Gallagher briefly declaring that, ‘Beady Eye are no longer’.

But for guitarist Andy Bell, who has since wasted little time in reuniting Ride, the demise was much less of a surprise.

“Beady Eye just sort of ran its course really,” he says in this week’s NME. “Liam had been pretty quiet for a while, and them he just let us know that his heart wasn’t really in it anymore. It’s been a long fade really.” “It ended on good terms and we’re all still mates. We wished each other the best of luck and it’s all cool. It just sort of ran its course.”

Beady Eye formed out of the ashes of Oasis pretty much before Noel Gallagher‘s plane had even landed back in the UK after his Paris walkout in 2009. They released two studio albums; ‘Different Gear Still Speeding‘ in 2011 and last year’s ‘BE‘, but struggled to hold court both in the charts and on the live scene.

Bell will tour with Ride from May next year, playing headline reunion shows and festival spots in Europe and North America.


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