‘Like Dylan, Dalí and Ginsberg on a rocketship to the moon to have it with the Clangers’ is how Gallagher describes band which also features Oasis alumni Zak Starkey and Andy Bell

As he eyes his return with Oasis later in the year, Noel Gallagher has joined forces with two other icons of Manchester music: the Happy Mondays’ Shaun Ryder and Bez, in their supergroup Mantra of the Cosmos.

Gallagher will appear on the group’s new song Domino Bones (Gets Dangerous), released on 19 January. It will only be available on vinyl, and only from Liverpool’s fabled Cavern Club, where the band will play two gigs on the day of release.