Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher has revealed he is working on new songs - and reckons they are better than anything he recorded with his former act.
The cocky star, who is working with the same line-up minus his brother Noel who quit in August, said he hoped to release an album by July.
In an interview with MTV Italy, Liam said he had been "demo-ing" tracks with his bandmates.
Noel walked out prior to a show in Paris in the summer after the troubled relationship with his brother hit a new low.
But Liam said: "We've been demo-ing some songs that we've had about, that we've had for a bit. Just doing that, on the quiet, not making a big fuss about it.
"After Christmas we might go in the studio and record them and hopefully have an album out in July or summat.
"We'll do it in a different kind of way now. I'll try and reconnect with a new band, new songs, and I'm feeling confident about the songs.
"I'm feeling a million per cent confident that they could be better than Oasis."
Prior to Noel's departure, it became clear that the brothers barely spoke after years of bickering.
Liam said in the MTV interview: "I love him to bits but we just don't get on. Me and our kid have never been that close anyway. We'd only sort of hang out when we were on tour. We didn't have a solid relationship."
© Press Association