Liam Gallagher mocks The King of Limbs and its ancient tree

Liam Gallagher has told The Quietus he cannot see why anyone would write a song about a thousand-year-old tree. You'd have thought he'd have written a song about a modern tree or one that was planted last week. You know what I mean?⁵

Julian Marszalek interviewed Gallagher and Andy Bell of Beady Eye in a hotel suite in Marylebone, London, as they got ready to launch their album, Different Gear, Still Speeding, out in Britain today, and their first UK tour. The question was about influences, and whether the electro and hip-hop of 1980s Manchester had touched him. Gallagher said Beady Eye would not add beats for the sake of it, and admitted the album had been done before. We're quite happy doing the rock & roll thing.⁵ Then he turned to “that Radiohead record”, which left him asking “What?!”.

He names neither the album nor Thom Yorke, but the tree points to The King of Limbs, out ten days ago. Its title is widely reported to come from an oak in Savernake Forest in Wiltshire thought to be about a thousand years old. None of its eight songs is named after the tree.