Naemanson,

I would appear that Oasis have calmed down a little in public life and I believe that Liam has given up taking cocaine which has possilby helped but there behavoiur has in no way confined to insulting their audiences. I am not claiming that Oasis are unique in this but here are a couple of examples from the Daily Telegraph. Is it any wonder some of us (even those like myself who's assesment of there music is similar to yours) take a dim view of the band?

Feb '98

AN airline is to ban the pop group Oasis unless it receives guarantees of "adult behaviour" after the group turned an eight-hour flight into what one passenger called "an obscenity-filled hell".

Liam and Noel Gallagher were accompanied by the other three band members and 25 of their road crew on the Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Perth on Monday night.

They were accused of abusing fellow business-class passengers and cabin crew, excessive drinking, swearing, smoking despite a strict no-smoking ban and refusing to wear seat belts.

The captain twice entered the cabin to remonstrate with band members and ask them to stop standing on the seats. He threatened to divert the aircraft and kick them off the plane unless they behaved, a Cathay Pacific spokesman said. The airline would refuse to carry the group again without a guarantee of "adult behaviour", he said.

One passenger said she hoped that other airlines would also ban the group. "The travelling public should not have to put up with their disgusting behaviour," she said.

Dec 97 LIAM Gallagher, singer with the band Oasis, poured several drinks over a journalist's head last night in a confrontation in a hotel foyer.

Gallagher left other drinkers stunned when he approached ITN's Tim Rogers at the Jury's Hotel in Cardiff and, after a brief conversation, tipped the drinks over him before storming off.

The press had gathered to cover a performance by Gary Glitter at the city's International Arena, the singer's first since he was at the centre of child porn allegations last month. Oasis are due to play the venue this evening.

Mr Rogers, ITN's Wales and West Country correspondent, who had been sitting drinking tea and soft drinks with a cameraman, declined to comment on the incident.

Shortly afterwards, Gallagher left the hotel with two minders in a black Mercedes with tinted windows. Gallagher had earlier been warned by police after allegedly hurling a book over the balcony of an airport bar.

Officers ejected him and fellow members of Oasis, who are on a British tour, from the bar at Glasgow Airport a few minutes before they boarded a flight for Cardiff.

Oct 97

THE BBC apologised yesterday for an obscenity-riddled Radio 1 interview with Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis and promised an investigation into how it came to be broadcast.

A BBC spokesman said it had not expected Liam Gallagher, who has an explosive temper and a reputation for bad language, to accompany his brother to the studio for a chat with the disc jockey Steve Lamacq.

During the show, which went out live at 8pm on Thursday, the singer unleashed a stream of four-lettered abuse, largely directed at surviving members of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

With an aggression that the show's production team should have expected, Gallagher threatened to "beat the f*****g living daylight s*** out of them".

His brother, the band's songwriter, went on to court further controversy by calling for drugs to be legalised.

A BBC spokesman said yesterday it would be "reviewing the situation".

Far from apologising yesterday, Liam Gallagher lost his temper again outside his home in north London. According to journalists, he threatened to hit them unless they left. Asked about the Radio 1 interview he said: "I don't give a ****."

Jon