Let's start by clearing something up. Noel Gallagher wants you to know that his forthcoming album, Council Skies, is not about Manchester.
While the album cover was shot by legendary Mancunian photographer Kevin Cummins and features Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ equipment set up on the roundabout of Maine Road - the demolished former home of his beloved Manchester City - and the music video for the title track shows clips of tower blocks from around Monsall and Collyhurst, the record is not about his hometown - apparently.
“The journalists got the wrong end of the stick and thought the whole thing was about Manchester and it isn’t,” Noel says, over the phone from a recording studio in London.
