Liam Gallagher brands Mark Lanegan ‘uptight junkie’ over claim Oasis star bailed on fight with him

Screaming Trees frontman claims the Oasis star tried to intimdate them while their bands were on tour together

Liam Gallagher has branded Mark Lanegan an “uptight junkie”, apparently after the fellow musician claimed the Oasis star bailed on a fight with him.

The US rock artist details a tense encounter with the former Oasis star in his new memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, in which he claims Gallagher quit the 1996 Oasis tour in part to avoid a planned fight between the pair.

The musicians had reportedly clashed backstage after Gallagher’s attempts to intimidate the Screaming Trees frontman failed.

Lanegan recalled he had been irritated when Gallagher first met him while the two groups were touring together and made a joke about his band’s name, shouting “Howling Branches” at him.

“’F*** off, you stupid f***ing idiot,’ was my brief, blasé retort,” Lanegan said.

Gallagher apparently then launched into an angry tirade, which Lanegan called “pathetic”. He then suggested they have a physical fight when they were both back in Miami.

“I detested bullies and refused to put up with them,” Lanegan writes.

“Liam Gallagher was an obvious poser, a playground bully. Like all bullies, he was also a total p***y.

“He had quit and bailed before I could have a go at him before his promised playground battle royale in Miami.

“Typical, I thought. That phoney motherf***er had p***ed his pants and gone home to mama before I had a chance to blow this whole thing up myself.”

Responding after media reports of the anecdote were published, Gallagher tweeted: Mark Lannegn [sic] here’s how I saw it I asked you your band’s name I was f***ing around and called it something else… you being an upiight junkie and not having a sense of humour got your grungy little knickers in a twist another bulls****er trying to sell a book.”

Gallagher's latest Twitter outburst follows a tweet that called his brother, Noel, "tofu boy", in response to the release of a previously unheard Oasis song.