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Paul Brannigan

“We had sausages and salad and margaritas. Noel wouldn’t eat the salad.” That time Australian dance crew Confidence Man invited U2 and Noel Gallagher to their house for dinner, and were confronted by an angry neighbour on their doorstep

Noel Gallagher, Confidence Man, U2.

On the morning after a long night of partying with U2 and Noel Gallagher in Melbourne back in 2019, Janet Planet and Sugar Bones, co-vocalists with Australian dance sensations Confidence Man, invited their new rock star pals to pop around to their house for dinner some evening if they had a night off during their Australian tour... never imaging that they'd actually be taken up on the offer.

So when U2 guitarist The Edge and Noel Gallagher accepted this kind invitation, it understandably threw the pair and their mysterious veiled bandmates Reggie Goodchild and Clarence McGuffie into a minor panic.

“Reggie and I were like, ‘Shit, we’ve got to clean the house,’” Sugar Bones recalls, sharing the story in UK broadsheet newspaper The Times.

“There weren’t any wine glasses and I was like, ‘We can’t serve them wine in mugs,’” Janet Planet remembers.

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