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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stuart Heritage

Wonderhaul: has Liam Gallagher really got into metal detecting?

Liam Gallagher sings into a microphone as Noel Gallagher plays guitar behind him
A jacket made more for rainy fields than stadiums? Oasis on The White Room in 1995. Photograph: Des Willie/Getty Images

Liam Gallagher is one of the country’s foremost trendsetters. When Oasis emerged in the 1990s, you couldn’t move for the sight of young men doing their darndest to look like him – wearing parkas and swaggering around as if they had just wolfed down a breakfast that didn’t agree with them.

Which is to say, we should probably expect stocks of metal detectors to run low in the coming days, because Gallagher has apparently outed himself as a keen detectorist. “I’m a big fan of the metal detector phenomenon,” he tweeted on Sunday, adding in a separate message that: “I do it for the buzz n the bing.”

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