The Interior Life of Noel Gallagher: A Speculative History

his spot on alan carr last night p much confirmed this thread

It were good, it.

what are you going to do no that you're taing a year off?

I can make a tesco shop last all day, me. Just spend all day, shopping.

Still nowhere near on-point if it was Liam

Noel Gallagher criticises Muse drummer for smoking an electronic cigarette

"There are no characters left in the music business. When we first started going there was a healthy percentage of people, and we were all dirt-kickers from council estates, and we all couldn’t believe our luck that we were at the Brits. You go in now and everybody is a careerist. It’s very corporate, and you know what I’ve actually seen people doing at the Brits? Eating. I saw the drummer from Muse smoking an electronic cigarette. A cigarette with a battery in. I had to say to him: ‘Really? Really? Is that where you are at? Do me a favour mate, either have a proper one outside, or don’t have one.’ It lit up green when he had a drag of it. Nonsense. He said that immortal line – ‘Oh you know how it is mate’. And I said ‘I’m sorry mate, I actually don’t.’

Gallagher continued his outspoken views on the ceremony, calling the night "instantly forgettable" and rallying against young people who wear hats.

rallying against young people who wear hats.

"Is it rock ‘n’ roll to be two hours late? It depends on what he was doing in those two hours. Was he snorting coke off prostitutes? Or was he playing bridge? That’s not very rock'n'roll, is it? My cat sounds more rock ’n’ roll that that"

he made something up and then immediately went on as if it were a fact, that's our noel.

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nuthin' more rock'n'roll than hanging out w/prostitutes this is true.

Every time I read a quote from this guy, I instantly want to go and listen to his music, because some part of me goes, "He's a fucking maniac genius! Now I must dive neck-deep into his catalog!" Fortunately, it wears off before I actually fire up Spotify.

Same thing happens when I read a quote from Mark E. Smith. Except in the case of Smith, it led to an actual CD purchase once.

Well, that's the lay of the land..

i know this is liam, but god... just look at him.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01689/SNN1203SLA---_1689568a.jpg

actually looks like a muppet, and i don't mean that as the common pejorative.

you mean as in "The Cookie Monster" or "Oscar"

this is the muppet who's got the right eyebrows for the job

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060102004117/muppet/images/0/02/Sam02.jpg

Gallagher continued his outspoken views on the ceremony, calling the night "instantly forgettable" while still somehow managing to recite a list of perceived offences against rock'n'roll he committed to memory at the event.

‘Really? Really? Is that where you are at? Do me a favour mate, either have a proper one outside, or don’t have one.’ It lit up green when he had a drag of it. Nonsense. He said that immortal line – ‘Oh you know how it is mate’. And I said ‘I’m sorry mate, I actually don’t.’

Bullying Muse about e-cigarrettes is p awesome

Oasis def top 5 interview bands of all time but I don't really dig their music

rallying against young people who wear hats

I can't argue with that.

In time he will be acknowledged

don't mean to be all NME grammar police but shurely he was "railing against young people who wear hats"

Maybe he was trying to put together an army of his peers to defeat the feckless be-hatted youth.

Or perhaps he was engaging in an off-road motor racing contest against teenage millinery enthusiasts.

Or planning an Occupy event at a haberdashery.

I believe he was recovering from an earlier attack from the behatted youths

http://www.nme.com/news/noel-gallagher/69195?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blur50

Gallagher, standing in for The Who's Roger Daltrey, has curated a week of huge shows at the London venue, including headline appearances from Kasabian, Paul Weller, Primal Scream and Noel himself. Speaking to Shortlist about how he arranged the all-star bill, Gallagher said that he had spoken to artists personally backstage at festivals during the summer of 2012 and had verbal agreements from lots of artists who subsequently "wriggled out" of appearing.

"I'd talk to Ed Sheeran and Mumford And Sons thinking, 'I'll just do the fucking seven nights myself, what the fuck am I asking these people for?' and I got turned down a lot. Everybody says yes to your face. Everybody. And then the agent will call, and their management will call and then their PR will call and say, 'Ah, they're going to be in Australia at the time.' Really? Well they never said that to me. What's interesting is all the working class bands said yes straight off the bat, no fucking inkling of when it was. The middle class bands said yes and wriggled out of it. I dunno what that means, but it must mean something. It was an interesting summer. But I will say, if the people that blew me off but said they'll do it next year actually do it, it might be the greatest event since Woodstock.

it must mean something.

"working class bands"

that horny-handed son of toil Bobby Gillespie

one out of three ain't bad

Kasabian, Paul Weller and Primal Scream? How did Noel think of asking them?

next he'll be saying he's keen on the Beatles!

"But I will say, if (Ed Sheeran and Mumford And Sons) actually do it, it might be the greatest event since Woodstock."

Led Zep and the Beatles were the Ed Sheerans and Mumfords of Woodstock

Cancelled Acts
Jeff Beck Group (The band broke up in July, forcing cancellation)
Iron Butterfly (Stuck at the airport, their manager demanded helicopters and special arrangements just for them. Were wired back and told, as impolitely as Western Union would allow, "to get lost", but in other 'words'.)
Joni Mitchell (Joni's agent put her on "The Dick Cavett Show" instead)
Lighthouse (Feared that it would be a "bad scene".)
Ethan Brown (Arrested for LSD three days before the event.)

Declined Invitations
The Beatles (John Lennon said he couldn't get them together)
Led Zeppelin (Got a higher paying gig at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey that weekend)
Bob Dylan (Turned it down because of his disgust of the hippies hanging around his house)
The Byrds (Turned it down because of a melee during their performance at the first Atlanta International Pop Festival, held at the Atlanta International Raceway on July 4 and July 5, 1969)
Tommy James & the Shondells (Turned it down because of being misinformed about the size and scope of the event)
Jethro Tull (Turned it down because they thought it wouldn't be a big deal.)
The Moody Blues were included in the original posters as performers, but backed out after taking a gig in Paris on the same weekend.
Spirit (they had other shows planned and did not want to back out of their commitments; not knowing how big that Woodstock would ultimately become)
Mind Garage (Declined because they thought it wouldn't be a big deal and had a higher paying gig elsewhere)

who is ethan brown?

Ethan Brown was a solo guitarist highly admired by the 'hippie' youth, but he was arrested three days before the festival on LSD related charges. He is known best for his earlier childhood friendship with The Doors piano player, Ray Manzarek.

huh. thanks. nothing on allmusic.... did he ever record?

No idea - any search for him brings up the same couple of sentences being repeated on lots of websites. Maybe if he hadn't dropped that acid tab he'd be a household name.

iirc noel referred to robbie williams as a fat karaoke singer from stoke, but every word out his mouth is a jewel so the details hardly matter

robbie williams as a fat karaoke singer from stoke

Lol
I know ppl that live in the uk have a lot of oasis baggage, but trust me if you live in the u.s. where they are no better remembered than like semisonic or gin blossoms these dudes are super hilarious and I wish they did interviews every day

So do they.

This stuff writes itself!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21916688

Former Britpop rivals Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn have buried the hatchet and performed together at a charity concert.

Oasis guitarist Gallagher joined Blur singer Albarn and his bandmate Graham Coxon at a Teenage Cancer Trust gig at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Paul Weller completed the supergroup, who performed Blur's 1999 track Tender.

Oasis and Blur were famously engaged in a feud in the mid-1990s as the biggest bands of the Britpop era.

Noel Gallagher caused controversy when he said in 1995 that he hoped Albarn and Blur bassist Alex James would "catch Aids and die".

But Gallagher and Albarn have recently made peace. They shared a table at this year's Brit Awards, with Gallagher later saying they bonded over a dislike of boy band One Direction.

Ha ha ha these fuckin guys

And I said ‘I’m sorry mate, I actually don’t.’

can vividly picture noel saying this. every expression - one eyebrow raised as he says 'sorry mate', flicker of a smirk round the edges of his mouth as he says 'don't'. eyes darting about, waiting expectantly for peals of laughter at yet another classic no-nonsense wit-drenched bon mot from the big noelly g

not on topic but it is depressing as sin how noel has taken on the role of 'voice of the working class' when he's the ultimate NIMBY small c conservative. same goes for the enemy et al

I know ppl that live in the uk have a lot of oasis baggage, but trust me if you live in the u.s. where they are no better remembered than like semisonic or gin blossoms these dudes are super hilarious and I wish they did interviews every day

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otm

lol at the thought of nimby small c conservative not being the voice of the working class

um ok. (is this more of that fabled darragh banter?)

if you mean warmed-up barely digested daily mail bollox then probably

Ha rein em in folks (or not, as the case may be i spose) but no, bantlessly i put forth the contention that blokey noel may be very much the voice of the working class. I can't figure out if it's his bantz or mine that are the warmed up daily mail bollox etc but i'm not sure it stands as solid refute in either case.

More interior life, pls.

;)

And I'd contend that's a pretty fucking narrow and clueless take on the "voice" of the working class tbh, but there you go eh? xp