Astile Doherty has launched a career as a tribute act to Liam Gallagher.
The son of Babyshambles star Pete, 20, whose mother in Lisa Moorish, has been testing the waters in singing the Oasis rocker’s songs and on Friday he is pegged to play a gig at The Boat Yard in Leigh-on-Sea singing his tracks.
His choice of cover is intriguing, given the fact his half-sister Molly, 25, is the daughter of Liam, 51, meaning Astile has the perfect inside scoop.
While Astile is hitting stages as Liam, a resurfaced video from 1997 shows an interview with a baby-faced Pete where he queued to buy Oasis’ third studio album Be Here Now and said: ‘Noel’s a poet and Liam’s a town crier’.
The rock star connections are well-known, thanks to Lisa’s well-publicised late Nineties and early Noughties dalliances with the iconic rockers, both of whom have two other children each, with different mothers to all their children.
Astile Doherty has launched a career as a tribute act to Liam Gallagher
While Astile is hitting stages as Liam, a resurfaced video from 1997 shows an interview with a baby-faced Pete where he queued to buy Oasis’ third studio album Be Here Now and said: ‘Noel’s a poet and Liam’s a town crier’
The rock star connections are well-known, thanks to Lisa’s well-publicised late Nineties and early Noughties dalliances with the iconic rockers, both of whom have two other children each, with different mothers to all their children
Pete is pictured in 2008 with his son Astile
Lisa is pictured with the two rockers’ kids – Mollu and Astile in 2005
His choice of cover is intriguing, given the fact his half-sister Molly, 25, is the daughter of Liam, 51, meaning Astile has the perfect inside scoop
A poster for Astile’s show reveals the set is called Liam On Sea and starts at 6pm at the trendy pub and restaurant in Essex.
In a nod to the family passion for Liam’s band Oasis, a video from 1998 shows an 18-year-old Pete queuing to buy the album during which he is asked by the interviewer: ‘Can you sum up Oasis for me in one sentence?’
In a typically wordsmith style that left the interviewer in shock, Pete retorted: ‘Well yeah, I subscribe to the Amberto Echo view that Noel’s a poet and Liam’s a town crier and I will sing that as a perfect combination.’
His reference to Italian medieval historian and philosopher Umberto Eco was particularly surprising to the tickled interviewer who requested he repeat himself.
Astile is Pete’s eldest child, who he shares with Molly. They met while his band Libertines were on tour in 2002 when he met the Kill City singer. She gave birth to their son the following year.
The singer was once-banned from seeing his son because of his drug habit, but after going to rehab and getting clean, he became a much more hands-on dad.
Lisa told Metro in 2009: ‘Peter has on-and-off problems with his recovery so it was a really difficult decision to make…
‘But when he came out of rehab last year, and started to get his life in order I thought the time was right. I want Astile to have a dad.’
In a nod to the family passion for Liam’s band Oasis, a video from 1998 shows an 18-year-old Pete queuing to buy the album during which he is asked by the interviewer: ‘Can you sum up Oasis for me in one sentence?’
In a typically wordsmith style that left the interviewer in shock, Pete retorted: ‘Well yeah, I subscribe to the Amberto Echo view that Noel’s a poet and Liam’s a town crier and I will sing that as a perfect combination’
Pete was chomping on some food while he waited for the album to go on sale
Pete was reported to have said: ‘When I can claim to have any sort of control over my own life, I’m going to take some responsibility for Astile. I love the little fella.’
Pete also has a daughter, Aisling, with model Lindi Hingston, who shared news of her daughter’s arrival in 2012, a year after she was born.
A week after Linda shared the news, Pete said: ‘The little girl was two months premature. I said I’d try to be there for the birth… Yeah, she’s mine.’
Pete is now happily married to his Puta Madres bandmate Katia De Vidas and the couple welcomed daughter Billie-May in May last year.
Liam meanwhile fathered Molly in 1998 with singer Lisa – two months into his marriage with Patsy Kensit – but was not involved in her life until 2019.
Liam has a fourth child who he has never met in the US, a daughter named Gemma, born to New York journalist Liza Ghorbani in 2012.
Pete is now happily married to his Puta Madres bandmate Katia De Vidas and the couple welcomed daughter Billie-May in May last year (pictured in August)
Pete also has a daughter, Aisling, with model Lindi Hingston, who shared news of her daughter’s arrival in 2012, a year after she was born
Liam is pictured with Molly when they first met in the late Nineties
Before connecting with her father Molly had been in regular contact with her uncle Noel, and landed in the centre of a social media spat, with mum Lisa attacking Liam in 2017 as Molly backed Noel with the hashtag #FAMILYFIRST.
However Molly and her uncle are no longer on speaking terms since her reunion with her father Liam. It was reported that Molly was born after Liam cheated on his wife at the time, Patsy with Lisa.
In February 2018, Liam confessed to not meeting Molly yet and told The Mirror: ‘I’ve just never got around to meeting her. I’ve heard she’s all right, though. She’s doing all right. I never heard anything that she wanted to meet me.’
Liam revealed he wrote a song called Now That I’ve Found You about his formerly estranged daughter.
In May 2018, Liam shared a snap on his Instagram with Molly and his two sons Gene and Lennon. It is thought that she came to watch her dad perform at the London Stadium along with her half-brothers and the two finally met.
It was reported that Molly was born after Liam cheated on his wife at the time, Patsy with Lisa (Patsy and Liam in 1996)
Liam is seen with his later partner Nicole Appleton in 2001
Liam in pictured in Italy in July last year
