86TVs’ Felix White once chased Noel Gallagher out of HMV

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86TV‘s Felix White has recalled the time when he chased Noel Gallagher out of an HMV store when he was a teenager.Appearing as a guest on Radio X’s The Evening Show, hosted by Dan O’Connell, The former Maccabees guitarist shared his experience on meeting the Oasis brothers back in the day. “I was completely obsessed with Oasis,” he told the presenter.White went on to explain his perfect encounter with Liam Gallagher and how he met him at age 16 while on his way to see Oasis support Neil Young in Paris during the ‘Heathen Chemistry‘ Oasis era.“Liam was on the Eurostar and I had a disposable camera and I very very very nervously asked for a disposable photo, which he said yes to and did the perfect B-boy stance next to me in a photo as I’m going bright red,” he said. “I’ve never guarded a disposable camera with my life like anything,” he admitted. “That was the most precious thing in the world for that moment on.

I’ve still got that photo.”His encounter with Noel on the other hand was not as great. “The first time I met Noel […] We were in HMV and I was buying The Smiths ‘Hatful of Hollow’, Love ‘Forever Changes’ and another record that I’d only thought of because Noel would talk about these records,” he shared.He continued: “And then my mate ran up to me as I was about to buy them and went, ‘It’s Noel Gallagher,’ and as I say that now I can still see myself going white, but I ran to the shop and as he was walking out of HMV in Oxford Street and I chased after him.