When we last spoke I left Noel in tears, says Liam Gallagher

Looking back in anger: Liam Gallagher says he only sees his brother Noel, far left, onstage and they trade insults on the internet

Just days before Oasis headline the V Festival, the band's frontman said the pair last spoke during a row at an airport which left Noel in tears.

"He doesn't like me and I don't like him, that's it," Liam told NME. "He hasn't told me what he thinks of anything this year. We've got nothing to say to each other at the moment."

Instead, the Gallaghers have been exchanging insults via Twitter and blogs. This week Liam called his brother the "fool on the bill" after the guitarist was pictured on a night out, and accused him of looking like "he had got through to the next round of X Factor".

And Noel recently complained that "What'siz'name" was "probably on his man period" during a gig at Camden's Roundhouse last month, referring to his brother.

Liam said today that the pair now simply trade insults on the internet rather than face-to-face "to save the tour imploding".

He said Noel wouldn't have the nerve to criticise him in person "because he's a f**king lightweight and he knows where he'd end up". Liam, who recently branched out into the fashion business, launching his own clothing label called Pretty Green, continued: "We don't travel together, do we ... so I never really see him, the only time I see him is onstage and we're a little bit busy at that time to be scratching each other."

The brothers have been feuding for years but hostilities appear to have stepped up in recent years. In an interview Noel confessed that his two-year-old son Donovan had never even met his uncle.

Liam said the last conversation ended in a row. "I think it might have been about some support band he wanted to play with us and he didn't ask my permission. So we had a f**king ding-dong in the airport and I think he started crying then — that was it — doesn't travel with me any more."

During the interview with NME magazine, Liam referred to his brother as "Parker" because of the songwriter's similarity to the chauffeur from Sixties puppet TV series Thunderbirds.

And he said he was unsure about the future of the band after Noel claimed that he would like a five-year hiatus.

"For the first time in my life I haven't got a f**king clue what's going on with Oasis, you know what I mean? It's pretty confusing but I'm not going to freak out about it."