Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds visited the BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room this week to perform a set in the company of the BBC Concert Orchestra, and covered Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Maybe it was the presence of all those strings – the very sight of violins – or the fact it was for the Auntie Beeb, but Gallagher broke from type, eschewing his usual choice of electric guitar to pick up a Fender Stratocaster, capoed at the fifth fret, for the performance. Indeed, the Strat in question looks very much like The Edge's signature Strat, albeit with the decal rubbed off the front of the headstock.
