Robert Yates

Tony McCarroll, sometime drummer with Oasis, attempts to live with a contradiction. ‘I don’t have a bad thing to say about Noel Gallagher,’ he’ll say, and then, without missing a beat: ‘He’s an arsehole though.’ McCarroll, who last week secured a ￡600,000 out-of-court settlement from Oasis, has barely spoken to the press since he was sacked from the band in April 1995. Hence, he finds hitting the correct tone a little tricky.