It sounds like a Liam Gallagher tweet, but it would appear that police (or ‘bobbies’ as they prefer to be known) in Swindon are hunting a “Noel Gallagher lookalike swigging from a bottle of White Lightning and licking windows.”

You know it’s going to be one of those shifts when you get a report of ‘A Noel Gallagher lookalike swigging from a bottle of White Lightning and licking windows!’

Posted by Swindon North Police onSunday, 22 October 2017

A police spokesperson clarified in the following tongue-in-cheek statement:  “We received reports of a man resembling Noel Gallagher in Swindon at around 5.30pm yesterday who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and was licking windows – not a ‘Wonderwall’ and he may have been ‘Half the World Away’.

“It’s believed he was with another person causing a general nuisance. The incident was nowhere near the Oasis, but in the town centre, near the Wyvern Theatre.

“If anyone heard or saw anything suspicious in the area, please Don’t Look Back in Anger but contact us on 101.”

Props to the bobbies for artlessly slamming so many Oasis references into an official statement, too. Go easy with those truncheons, lads.

Here’s Noel new single, ‘Holy Mountain’

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