Two '90s rock-star survivors are now re-litigating a 24-year-old fight on Twitter. Last week, Mark Lanegan, the craggy-voiced singer-songwriter and former Screaming Trees frontman, published his memoir Sing Backwards And Weep. (This week, he'll also release the new album Straight Songs Of Sorrow.) In the book, Lanegan recounts a story about a verbal disagreement that he and Oasis co-leader Liam Gallagher had in 1996.
According to Loudwire, Lanegan writes that Screaming Trees were supposed to tour the US with Oasis that year, but a conversation between himself and Gallagher ended that. Lanegan claims that Gallagher called his band "Howling Branches": "'Fuck off, you stupid fucking idiot,' was my brief, blasé retort." In his book, Lanegan also refers to Gallagher as "an obvious poser, a playground bully. Like all bullies, he was also a total pussy."
Lanegan claims that he and Gallagher set a date for a physical fight but that Gallagher left Oasis' tour before that fight could happen. (Liam really did leave an American Oasis tour that year.) Here's Lanegan again: "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 phony motherfucker had pissed his pants and gone home to mama before I had a chance to blow this whole thing up myself."
Gallagher had a different memory of how the confrontation went down. On Twitter yesterday, Gallagher wrote, "Mark lannegn here’s how I saw it I asked you your bands name I was fucking around and called it something else you being an upiight junkie and not having a sense of humour got your little grungy knickers in a twist another bullshitter trying to sell a book LG x."
https://twitter.com/marklanegan/status/1257465968344928259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And then he offered to fight the guy who made that comment. It's starting to seem like fucking with Mark Lanegan is a bad idea.
