A fan at the V Festival in Toronto has posted on YouTube entertaining footage [1] of Noel Gallagher taking an unscheduled tumble during a performance of Morning Glory:

Quite what provoked this attack is a bit of a mystery, but one commenter suggests the assailant had "obviously heard the new album". Whatever the truth, the chap was evidently lucky to escape a battering at the hands of Noel's fist-happy bruv Liam. ®

Links

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5JBsKih0c

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