Noel Gallagher admits double ban from nightclub as he reflects on Oasis' old days

Noel Gallagher was banned from the premises twice after causing a stir over the legendary but now defunct Manchester rave venue the Hacienda.

Talking at a roundtable event to promote the release of a new book he co-authored about the club, Hacienda Threads, he admitted he'd offended one of its owners, Peter Hook. He'd been standing in for the usual hosts at a local radio station which Oasis was due to appear on - and sparks flew live on air.

"[Peter] was giving us all this, 'What are you called? Oasis? What kind of name is that?'" Noel recalled. He fired back with an insulting retort about his interviewer's fashion sense - and was immediately banned.

"There was a bit of back and forth about his leather trousers and he says: 'You’re f*****g barred,'" Noel continued. However, there was a twist.

"He didn’t know I was already barred!" he quipped. However, the acid house nightclub, which sadly closed in 1997, had been pivotal in inspiring Noel and Liam to create Oasis, and unsurprisingly the former had been a regular in his earlier years.

"I guess when the band formed it felt like a rite of passage, we played there on the way up like The Smiths. I saw Happy Mondays, New Order and the great Primal Scream there," he revealed.

Noel went on to confirm that being 20 and 21 years old had turned out to be "the two best years" of his life, with the Hacienda being "the nearest place to my flat".

Paying tribute to Factory Records, which co-owned the club along with Hook and the band New Order, he exclaimed: "Not many [record labels] have built something for the people of their city.

"There [were] visionary people in this town and thank God they had the balls to do it."

Noel had previously revealed that the now world famous multimillion-selling Oasis track 'Live Forever' had been inspired by the good times he and his brother had at the club.

Aged 15 and 20 respectively, Liam and Noel had also headed to a milestone Stone Roses show there, which Liam later exclaimed was his "favourite gig of all time".

"[It] killed me dead, changed me f*****g life!" he confessed, adding: "Without [that show], there would have not been Oasis, because I don’t think Liam would have bothered joining Bonehead’s group, and subsequently I wouldn’t have bothered joining Liam’s group.”

Meanwhile, Noel promoted the new book Hacienda Threads - about "all the threads that came together to make the nightclub special" - at a roundtable conversation with the likes of his former idol Mani of The Stone Roses at Manchester's New Century Hall.

The synopsis of the new book invites readers to "celebrate the club that changed everything" through "evocative photographs and eye-witness accounts of the people who were there - from the musicians, DJs and fashion designers, to performers, clubbers and staff".