Noel Gallagher of Oasis got his rib cracked when some dude tackled him on stage in Toronto during "What's The Story, Morning Glory?" on Sunday. Turns out the assaulter wasn't Inquirer movie critic Steven Rea, who's been blogging about the Toronto Film Festival all week, and was probably hobnobbing with Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortenson at the time. Nor was it Thom Yorke of Radiohead, despite Gallagher (that's him, second from right) calling out the art-rocker in the new issue of Details, in which the often impudent songwriter issued these fighting words: "They're middle-class boys worrying about pushing an envelope somewhere, and all that carbon footprint and all that bollocks. ... It's very easy to just say, 'We're going to become difficult now and challenge our audience.' I like my audience. They paid for my swimming pool. I'm not f- challenging anybody."
The video of the Gallagher takedown is below. Note how alleged perpetrator Daniel Sullivan goes after Noel, then sets his sight on younger brother Liam. The Beatlesque band's new Dig Out Your Soul arrives Oct. 7. There's no Philadelphia-area date as of yet.
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