Began work on third solo album

Gallagher announced he had begun working on a third solo album on 6 October 2016, when he posted a picture on Instagram of himself in a studio with the caption, “New shoes. New amp. New album. There is no rest for the wicked ones.” On 24 June 2017, Gallagher introduced a special screening of the Oasis documentary Supersonic . On 6 July 2017, Gallagher posted a photo from rehearsals for their upcoming European dates in support of U2 , noting that they had new members. The members in question were Sharrock, former Oasis and Beady Eye drummer, who had retained his position as drummer after the most recent High Flying Birds tour in mid-2016, along with former Oasis and Beady Eye guitarist Gem Archer . This marked Gallagher and Archer’s reunion as bandmates, though the latter had previously sat in on several of Gallagher’s solo acoustic shows since Oasis’ split. On 9 September 2017, the band served as the headline act of “We Are Manchester”, a benefit concert to mark the reopening of Manchester Arena , following a terrorist attack there in May . On 25 September 2017, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds announced that their third studio album, titled Who Built the Moon? would be released on 24 November 2017. Who Built the Moon? debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 78,000 album-equivalent units , making it Gallagher’s 10th number one studio album as part of both Oasis and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. In July, the album was nominated for the 2018 Mercury Prize , Gallagher’s first placing on the award’s shortlist since Oasis’ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? in 1995.