With the news that Liam Gallagher and his "new" band Beady Eye — made up from the remnants of Oasis after his songwriting brother Noel quit in 2009 — will be performing in Abu Dhabi on September 16, tabloid! takes a look back at the many highs and lows of the Mancunian brothers and their music.

The beginning

Noel Gallagher was always the songwriting talent in Oasis, but it was his younger brother Liam (aka "our kid") who put together a band in 1991, with mates Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll. Shortly after seeing one of their first performances, Noel joined the band, bringing with him a number of songs he'd already written, and becoming de facto leader, restricting the musical styles of the other members to suit his sound.

The band were signed after a performance at Glasgow's legendary indie music venue King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, and went on to release their first single, Supersonic, in April 1994, followed by Shakermaker and Live Forever, which reached number 10 in the UK charts.

Their debut album, Definitely Maybe, then went straight to number 1 upon its release in September 1994, marking not only the start of the band's fame, but also the heady days of Britpop, the mid-'90s musical era defined by the dominance of British pop-rock acts in the charts.

Blur vs Oasis

If Liam and Noel battled constantly with each other and the other band members, with fistfights and cursing the norm, then it was only a matter of time before the brothers' belligerent tendencies, coupled with their belief that they were the best band in the world, led to rivalries.

Blur vs Oasis hit the UK charts on August 14, 1995, with both bands releasing singles on the same day — Oasis' Roll With It against Blur's Country House.

Noel cemented the band's status as controversial (to say the least) when he reacted to Blur beating them to number one by telling the Observer newspaper, "I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn, Blur's bassist and lead singer respectively]. I hope they catch Aids and die."

The cancelled tours

The concert high point for the brothers came early on — two back-to-back outdoor concerts at Knebworth in the UK in August 1996, performing to 250,000 people — over 2 million applied for tickets. But tensions between the brothers have always been palpable, and they often reached a peak during tours, with both Liam and Noel repeatedly pulling out in anger or, it would appear, to simply annoy the other.

In 1996, just days after the success of Knebworth, Liam pulled out of an MTV Unplugged performance, saying he had a sore throat. He then chain smoked through the performance, heckling his brother, who had taken over singing duties.

Shortly after, Liam announced — with 15 minutes to go before he was due to board a flight to the US — that he was leaving the band's US tour to househunt with his then girlfriend Patsy Kensit. He later joined the band, but it appears the damage was done — Noel himself walked out two weeks after.

Another world tour was curtailed before it even got off the ground in 2000, when a night of drinking after a cancelled first date in Barcelona led to a fight between the brothers and Noel pulling out of the tour, which was to promote the band's poorest-selling album, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. He later joined for the British and Irish legs.

The last straw

With tours often being the breaking point for the brothers, it's little surprise that when the band finally, officially ended, it was amidst another walkout. After a backstage fight just before a performances at the Rock En Seine festival in Paris, the band's manager announced that the band would not perform that night (Liam reportedly also broke Noel's guitar), continue with their European tour — or even continue to exist, saying Oasis "does not exist any more".

A statement from Noel appeared on the band's website two hours later, saying, "With some sadness and great relief... I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."

The music now

Liam, along with the band's later additions Gem Archer and Andy Bell (Arthurs and McGuigan having quit in 1999), formed Beady Eye, releasing their album Different Gear, Still Speeding, with Rolling Stone giving it 2.5 out of 5 stars.

Noel released his solo single The Death of You and Me last month.