Manchester is their spiritual home. But, for much of their adult lives Liam and Noel Gallagher have found themselves powerless to resist the siren call of leafy north London.
That means that when the Oasis brothers come off stage on Friday, after the first London show of their triumphant reunion tour, they will only have to make a short trip around the North Circular to get back to their respective homes.
The Gallaghers’ first home was a modest, redbrick semi in Ashby Avenue, Burnage, Manchester, where they shared a bedroom.
Their property journey has since taken them to party pad townhouses, secret island hideaways, mock Tudor mansions, and some of North London’s prettiest and most sedate urban villages, as well as linking their names with everyone from Noel Edmonds to David Walliams.
Indeed the most striking thing about the Gallagher brothers’ property journey is just how un-rock’n’roll it has been.
Noel Gallagher’s homes through the ages
Noel Gallagher moved to London in the mid-1990s, initially staying at a flat which belonged to the Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr who he had met on the Manchester music scene.
Casa Atlantis, Noel’s former Ibizan house
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Marr later joked he didn’t charge his friend for use of the property, and was owed a fortune in back rent.
During Oasis’s early years Gallagher senior invested in a summer home in Ibiza. The spectacular £2.5m cliffside villa had previously belonged to musician Mike Oldfield, has six bedrooms, an impressive clifftop location, and can now be rented as a holiday villa for as much as €121,780.
Noel sold the property in 2009 after a decade, claiming that James Blunt was a close neighbour and he could not “stand living there in the knowledge that Blunt is nearby making terrible music”.
Noel’s first grown-up family house was also the band’s most iconic property – Supernova Heights, named after Champagne Supernova, the closing track of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory.
Noel’s famous house in Belsize Park was renowned for its wild parties
It quickly became the unofficial headquarters of the Primrose Hill set – an ultra-glamourous friendship group featuring Kate Moss, Sadie Frost, and Sienna Miller.
One journalist described the vibe as “supermodels lolling against the fridge, white lines everywhere, and endless gabbing about crop circles and conspiracy theories” while the décor consisted of 1960s retro furniture, psychedelic patterned carpets, and an enormous fish tank.
Neighbours recalled fully mature trees being winched into the back garden when the Gallaghers moved in.
Noel later said he regretted turning his home into a nightclub, and neighbours were driven to distraction by the loud parties and the fans and paparazzi who would hang around outdoors hoping for a glimpse of Noel and his now ex-wife Meg Matthews.
Meg and Noel chatting to Tony Blair
Noel only lived at Supernova Heights for a couple of years before opting to try out a quieter life in Hertfordshire with party-girl Matthews.
The experiment failed, the couple split, Meg bought a house in Primrose Hill, and Gallager got together with his next wife, Sara MacDonald.
Supernova Heights was subsequently bought by toilet roll heiress, former Hollyoaks cast member and fellow Primrose Hill set member Davinia Taylor for £3.25m, apparently after a drunken early morning conversation.
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Noel, meanwhile, bought a five-bedroom white stucco villa on pretty Blomfield Road in Little Venice for £8 million in 2010.
In 2019 Gallagher and MacDonald put down some rather palatial roots in the Hampshire countryside, paying £8 million for an 18th century mansion in the South Downs, close to the market town of Petersfield, which came with all bells and whistles including a swimming pool, gym, tennis court, and croquet lawn.
In 2020 Noel submitted a planning application to build a games room at the property, and he managed to hang onto the Grade II-listed house after divorcing MacDonald in 2023.
Towards the end of his marriage he also bought a flat in Maida Vale, which he has furnished with 1970s Italian designer pieces sourced on the FirstDibs website.
While Noel Gallagher has tried out city and country, baby brother Liam has tended to stay faithful to north London’s refined urban villages, living in a string of homes in Primrose Hill, Hampstead, Little Venice, Highgate, and Muswell Hill.
Liam hung on in Manchester for a few years after his brother moved south but by 1997 he was the globally famous face of Cool Britannia, married to the actress Patsy Kensit, and living in a four storey semi-detached townhouse on Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, close to Jamie Oliver.
Liam and Patsy Kensit
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Liam was a regular patron of his local pubs and recalled being scolded by the chef after suffering hunger pangs on his way home from a night out.
“I got told off for throwing stones at his windows p*ssed-up, asking him to chuck down some bacon rolls,” he said in a 2016 interview.
Alas, the marriage to Kensit was short lived and the couple divorced after just over three years together.
Liam Gallagher’s Vale of Health house
Liam moved on with All Saints singer Nicole Appleton, his second wife, but stayed close to his adopted roots by buying a chocolate box two-bedroom cottage on the Vale of Health, Hampstead.
The couple also had a £3million home in upper crust Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and a €2.5m two-bedroom apartment in Essex House, an art deco apartment building in New York.
The marriage to Appleton fell apart in 2013 when it emerged Liam had fathered a secret child with an American journalist and he moved out, alone, to a penthouse in Muswell Hill.
Liam’s former apartment was in this Muswell Hill block
Liam now lives with his fiancée and manager Debbie Gwyther, the woman credited with brokering peace between the endlessly-feuding Gallagher brothers, paving the way for the Oasis reunion.
Home for the couple and their rescue dog Buttons is a £4m mock Tudor 1920s mansion in Highgate. At 16,000sq ft it dwarfs his previous homes, and features a gym, sauna, ballroom, and meditation room.
Gwyther is said to have finally tamed the frontman, who has stopped drinking and now gets up early to go running on Hampstead Heath and is busy upgrading the property.
Late last year he was granted planning permission to build a garden room at the property, and he also plans to construct an outdoor pool in the extensive gardens.
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