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Noel Gallagher has revealed the release date of the new Oasis album.

He said the band had set themselves a deadline of May 26 next year to release the long-overdue album.

Noel told Sky One: "May 26. We've got a release date now, which is why it's been meandering for a bit because we've not had a date to work to because we're extremely successful.

"So they just say: "Alright, finish when you finish" - but it's kind of been rambling on and not working too hard on it but now we have to have it finished by May 26."

Oasis scrapped sessions intended for the follow-up to Heathen Chemistry, which included a period recording with Death In Vegas.

Noel recently revealed that Oasis have written 66 songs for the new album and that brother Liam has written most of them.

But he said: "Some of them are really good but he's going to have to do a solo tour 'cause I'm not doing a triple album."