Sylvain Lefevre/Getty ImagesLiam Gallagher and Mark Lanegan are feuding on Twitter, because the world apparently isn’t strange enough at the moment.
Lanegan just put out a new book, Sing Backwards and Weep, in which we mentions Screaming Trees‘ 1996 tour with Oasis. According to the U.K.’s Independent, Lanegan writes that when the groups were first introduced, Gallagher made fun of Screaming Trees’ band name, referring to them as “Howling Branches.”
“‘F*** off, you stupid f***ing idiot,'” was my brief, blasé retort,” Lanegan wrote in the book. Things then escalated to threats of physical violence, and the two apparently planned to fight each other during an upcoming tour stop in Miami. However, it never came to that, as Gallagher quit the tour before it got to Miami.
Word of Lanegan’s book apparently reached Gallagher, who responded on Twitter with his version of what went down.
“I asked you your bands name I was f***ing around and called it something else you being an up[t]ight junkie and not having a sense of humor got your little grungy knickers in a twist,” Gallagher wrote. “Another bulls***ter trying to sell a book.”
Lanegan then responded, “Coke addicts are junkies too you f***ing tool, the stupidest kind. Still trying to make like you’re hard. I could have then and still could put serious hurt on you. Leave it alone d***head unless you’re actually ready to finally step up.”
Lanegan also took a shot at Liam’s songwriting ability, placing himself firmly on Team Noel.
“Liam has never written a decent song by himself or with the teams of songwriters hired to do it for him,” he wrote. “I would however gladly write with Noel, he was the one blessed with the talent, wit and brains in the family.”
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