As mentioned before, Noel Gallagher was attacked in Toronto while he was performing with Oasis at the Virgin Festival on September 7, 2008 and suffered some bruises to his ribs and even a suspected broken rib. Gallagher called the security at the event “a joke,” and wrote on his blog:

“I knew something was going to happen last night. I said I had a bad feeling, didn’t I!? Someone, who can only be described as a ‘Canadian’, was able to get onstage, somehow managed to evade our crack security team (Trotters Independent Security Service) and assaulted my mid-riff.”

He added:

“Can’t say much more than that as the ‘perpetrator’s’ gonna get the book thrown at him. Repeatedly. It was all going so well up until that point’n'all. Feel like I’ve had a sparring session with Ricky Hatton. Still, we’ll probably get an extra couple of days in NYC. Every cloud, eh?”

The Canadian attacker was identified as Daniel Sullivan who was arrested by police over the incident and charged with assault. Sullivan was released, but will have to show up to court on October 24, 2008.

Poor Noel got pretty beat up over the incident. To watch the video of the attack, go here. Apparently, the attack was worse than it looked on stage!

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