Oasis in Head-on Car Crash

Three touring members of the rock band Oasis, including songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher, were today recovering in hospital after a car crash in the US.

A taxi carrying Gallagher, bassist Andy Bell and temporary keyboard player Jay Darlington through Indianapolis, Indiana, was involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle, according to the band's website.

The three musicians were taken to hospital by ambulance, where they were treated for shock and cuts and bruises.

Gallagher, who was travelling in the front of the car, suffered heavy facial bruising and seatbelt cuts.

Darlington - formerly of the band Kula Shaker - has had his hand strapped and has to return to hospital later today for further treatment.

Neither is well enough to play at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis tonight and both have been ordered by hospital doctors to rest fully for the next 48 hours.

Oasis have had a troubled history in the US, struggling to find an audience as receptive as they had at their 1990s critical and commercial peak in the UK.

Gallagher also walked out of the band's 1996 US tour after a bust-up with his brother Liam, flying back to the UK. The tour had to be scrapped.

He once said: "I don't give a fuck about America as long as they buy the fucking records."