Zak Starkey to join Oasis for Glasto

Ringo Starr’s son Zak will play drums with Oasis when they headline Glastonbury.

Noel Gallagher told BBC’s 6 Music that Zak Starkey would replace Alan White for the gig.

He thinks the gig will be better than Oasis’s last perfomance at Glastonbury.

“It’s a pity that we haven’t actually got any new stuff to play but I think we kind of George Best’ed it the last time we headlined it,” said Noel.

“So this time will be great I think. Then again we’re not doing ourselves any favours because Zak’s first gig will be to 150,000 people. But y’know, he’s rehearsing all the Oasis songs now.

“We’ve known Zak for a while and we asked him if he’d play on a few songs and he said yeah, and he has done and it’s been absolutely fantastic.”

Noel also revealed that the new Oasis album might not be ready for release this year and gave the real reasons for the departure of producers Death In Vegas.

He said: “We’re in the studio at the moment, it’s going all right – one step forward two steps back, but it’s going all right. I dunno whether it’ll be out by the end of the year.

“We didn’t sack our producers. We just ran out of time. They had to go off and do their Death in Vegas thing and we sort of gave ourselves about three or four weeks with them, and we just ran out of time but there wasn’t a sacking.”