Noel Gallagher is giving up booze for six months.
The 56-year-old singer /songwriter feels he needs a break from alcohol after "caning it" last year and he is planning a healthy start to 2024 ahead of recording his latest album.
Speaking on the Matt Morgan podcast, Noel said: "I’ve moved into London – I’ve moved house over the Christmas period.
"I’ve come back off tour and been caning it all year. I’ve been doing a lot of boozing, but I was like, ‘I could do with a quiet one’, which I’ve had.
"I may have had one shindig at Christmas, and one on New Year. After Christmas there has to be a new health regime for me. I feel [terrible] if I’m honest. I’m going to try and get off the booze actually. I’m looking forward to not doing much for the first six months of the year.
"We’ve now got to set the studio up for recording, because when I did the album it went into mixing mode and some of the equipment got taken on tour.
“So it needs a reset. I want to configure it slightly differently this time. So that’s what I’m going to be doing for the coming weeks and months."
However, Noel will miss lager and red wine when he gives up drinking.
He said: "I like lager and a few cocktails. I don’t even really like cocktails to be honest. My manager for one of my birthdays bought me a case of really expensive wine. He said, ‘Don’t open it for 10 years’. And I didn’t. And when I did open it, it just tasted like really good red wine – I wasn’t weeping.
"When they give you all this [stuff]: ‘This whisky has been aged for 28 years.’ I’m like, ‘Well, would it make any difference if it was 26 years? Really?'
"You drink to get drunk. Which is why I stick to lager and Guinness and red wine and maybe a Dark Stormy now and then… which is rum and lime and ginger beer. And the straw is optional. I did get into that Japanese beer on that last tour. And I bought a load of it back.”
