Noel Gallagher, frontman of pop super-group Oasis, admitted he "pretended" the band's songs were better than they were.

"'Don't Look Back in Anger' and 'Wonderwall', I thought they were good songs until we played it to people, and they would all look at each other and go 'that's amazing.'

"I'm like 'really?' Then I had to go around the world pretending it's amazing," Gallagher told Today's Richard Wilkins.

Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher had an extremely tumultuous relationship during their time together in Oasis. (DOMINO POSTIGLIONE)

"I've released albums and thought 'that's going to be a hit, that's going to be huge, that I'm not sure about.' And it's been the exact opposite," he admitted.

Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher were the lead members of highly volatile group Oasis for 18 years, but went their separate ways a decade ago - Liam flying solo and Noel forming Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Noel's band will be joining U2 on their tour to Australia next month, the frontman making light of the famous headliners. "They will make it one day, that mob. They have been scratching around in the music business now for a good 30 years. Maybe this is going to be it," he joked.

Noel was unequivocal in what he was most looking forward to down under though.

Turns out, his favourite thing about Australia is the news.

"The last time I was in Australia, you had a female Prime Minister," he recounted, referring to Julia Gillard. "And there was something going on and she got hustled into a car but one of her shoes came off.

"Then for about a week, the Prime Minister's shoe had gone missing.

"I could not contain myself just to thinking 'this is like Monty Python!" he laughed.

"Honestly, one of the gifts of my life was to follow that story for a week."

Noel said he "cried laughing" over the shoe-gate story which happened in 2012.

"I had to leave before they found the shoe. And I actually was going to say for another few days because I was like 'I don't think I can leave the country without knowing if they did they find the shoe in the end'," he added.

Thinking on their feet, Wilkin's camera crew handed over a R M Williams boot to the musician. "On behalf of all Australians," Wilkins announced.

Scrunching up his face, Noel remarked, "Wow, whe has got terrible feet!"

Noel Gallagher pays homage to Aussie shoes and their hilarious news stories (Nine)

The interview wasn't all fun and games though, with Wilkins seizing the opportunity to push Noel on whether Oasis would ever reunite.

"Reunion? It's not for me," Noel answered, scratching his ear.

"It would have to be some extraordinary circumstances that brought me and Liam back together. I'm not saying those extraordinary circumstances don't exist, but if I close my eyes and look into the future, I don't see it."

"But, of course, who knows... I mean, I know better than anyone. But I mean, you should never say never."

"Oasis was great for what it was. The music and the time, it summed up an entire generation. But it was all about the struggle. And there comes a point where you just go 'I'm too lazy for this now.'"

Unlike Oasis, Noel said that High Flying Birds is "the best band [he's] ever been in".

It wasn't just his new band that Noel rejoiced in. He also like the power social media has afforded him. "The good thing about the modern era, if you read a bad review, you can Google the idiot that wrote it and look at him and see he wears glasses and he's got terrible shoes. So, I'm not bothered," Noel laughed.

Tickets for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds tour with U2 through Australia are still available through Live Nation.