The future of Oasis looked increasingly shaky last night after Noel Gallagher claimed his brother Liam was "losing it".
Speaking about his departure from the band's world tour, guitarist Noel said relations with his lead singer brother had reached such a low ebb he could no longer stand to be in the same room.
"What's going on is that I've had a major disagreement with monkey boy, the singer," Noel said.
Speaking on Chris Moyles's Radio 1 show, Noel, who quit the overseas dates last month, said it was a "major disagreement" but refused to go into details.
His outburst followed an interview with Liam in yesterday's Sun newspaper, where he branded Noel a "loser" for wanting to go solo, saying it would destroy the band.
But last night Noel hit back, saying: "It's me that's kept the band together for six, seven years. It's not something that I've done lightly, but it's just been made impossible for me to let alone be on the same stage, but be in the same room as him."
Noel is to rejoin the band for their British shows next month, but performed solo numbers during the Radio 1 broadcast from Eindhoven.
"It's been virtually impossible for me to tour at the moment because he's been a bit of an idiot," he said. "I'll be doing the British dates and then we've all got to have a chat, but at the moment he's losing it."
