THE guitar smashed by Liam Gallagher on the night Oasis split has sold for £289,800.
Noel Gallagher’s cherry red Gibson ES-355 was wrecked during a backstage brawl before the band were due to play on August 28, 2009.
It proved the final straw for Oasis, who cancelled their Rock en Seine festival gig in Paris, and did not play together again until this July.
Noel said at the time: “He’s swinging this guitar around and he nearly took my face off with it.
“It ended up on the floor and I put it out of its misery.”
The guitar, which has been restored, was one of 400 lots of rare instruments, music memorabilia and art auctioned online by Propstore on Thursday.
Other lots included a Banksy Blur artwork that went for £107,100 and Elvis Presley’s sunglasses, which sold for £75,600.
Oasis have confirmed the replacement for guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs after he left the band’s tour to have cancer treatment.
The Manchester rockers have brought in Mike Moore from frontman Liam Gallagher‘s solo band for gigs in Asia and Australia.
A source told the Mirror: “Mike Moore has been playing for Liam since 2017 and so he knows plenty of the Oasis tunes from the solo gigs.
“It’s not a full time slot in the band and everyone wants Bonehead well and back but it’s a huge privilege for Mike and he’s excited to get on the stage.”
Moore has a long list of credits to his name including contributions to records by Baxter Dury, Duffy, Trampolene, James Arthur and Peter Doherty.
Bonehead told fans in a social media post that he had been responding well to treatment for prostate cancer after being diagnosed at the start of 2025.
