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[entremet]

http://noel-gallagher.esquire.co.uk

Doesn't look bad considering his hard partying lifestyle when he was active--must have the Keith Richards gene.

Some excerpts

On ranking Oasis among the legendary British rock bands

I used to put us at number seven. It went The Beatles, the Stones, the Sex Pistols, The Who, The Kinks… who came in at six? I don’t know. We were at seven. The Smiths were in there, The Specials. Where would I put us now? I guess I’d probably put us in the top 10. We weren’t as great as the greats but we were the best of the rest. We did more than The Stone Roses could fucking even fathom. We’re better than The Verve: couldn’t fucking keep it together for more than six months at a time. If all the greats are in the top four, we’re in the bottom of the top four, we’re kind of constantly fighting for fifth, just missing out. Just missing out on the top four, I’d say.

On his partying days:

I had 30 to 40 kids sleeping outside my house every night, so much so that the council put in two benches, fucking bolted them to my wall. And a litter bin on a fucking side street in Primrose Hill. The neighbours went fucking ape-shit.

We’d be partying with supermodels and all sorts. It’d be like, “We’re out of cigs. Who’s gonna go to the shop?” “No way. Press are outside.” So, you just go out and say to one of the kids, “Do us a fucking favour: go round the Tescos and get us 400 Benson and Hedges, can you?”

In the Nineties, all of us were high on fucking cocaine, all the time. Having it. The last party. Nobody gave a fuck.

On the current generation of musicians:

This new generation of rock stars, they look great: Alex Turner, Miles Kane, the guys from Royal Blood. They’ve got the fucking skinny jeans and the boots, and all that eyeliner. I’ve got a cat that’s more rock’n’roll than all of them put together. Pigeons? Rips their fucking heads off.

I go back to this: fame is fucking wasted on these people. The new generation of rock stars, when have they ever said anything that made you laugh? When have they ever said anything you remember? People say, “They’re interesting.” Interesting! That’s a word that’s crept in to music: “Yeah, man. Have you heard the new Skrillex record?” “No.” “Yeah, man. It’s really interesting.” I don’t want interesting! Rock’n’roll’s not about that. To me, it’s about fucking utter gobshites just being fucking headcases. Well, not headcases. But what I want, genuinely, is somebody with a fucking drug habit, who’s not Pete Doherty. Do you know what I mean?

Fun stuff. More at the link.

 

[liquidtmd]

Love or hate his music, he's an interesting well travelled man and is always game for a good interview.

Some of his stories from the heyday years are Spinal Tap level hillarious

 

[rtcn63]

I just picture his brother sitting behind the interviewer quietly with a dead stare.

 

[freenudemacusers]

We really do need more druggie rock star trash, he's spot on there.

 

[Drencrom]

I love this man

 

[DECK'ARD]

Always a good read.

The Stone Roses were still a level above you though, sorry Noel.

 

[Tenebrous]

He's always mentioning Radiohead in these interviews.

Am I aware of a hierarchy? I’m aware that Radiohead have never had a fucking bad review. I reckon if Thom Yorke fucking shit into a light bulb and started blowing it like an empty beer bottle it’d probably get 9 out of 10 in fucking Mojo. I’m aware of that.

...

Technically, there’s better songwriters than I am. Guardian writers will tell you that. Have other people’s songs ever really touched a generation, though? Radiohead? When do people listen to them? Is it when they go out, or is it when they come in? Because I’m struggling to think.

Look, as soon as Thom Yorke writes a song as good as fucking “Mony Mony”, give us a fucking shout.

Me and my missus, we were at the Coachella festival a couple of years ago and Radiohead were headlining. We were like, “Right, let’s give them one more chance. Let’s go and see them.” Beautiful, sunny night. We walked out through the crowd as they came on, and they were playing this post-techno: “de-de de de”. We were a bit pissed. Fucking great. And then he started singing. No. Not for us. We’re party people.

Can't really hate on Noel, though. Oasis had two great albums back to back (well, WTSMG is up for debate), and Noel was the reason for most of it.

 

[liquidtmd]

He's always mentioning Radiohead in these interviews.



Can't really hate on Noel, though. Oasis had two great albums back to back (well, WTSMG is up for debate), and Noel was the reason for most of it.

Definitely Maybe and WTSMG were the mainstream gold standard but the amount of quality songs scattered throughout the assorted B-sides and throughout the albums were numerous.

The money he's making 20years on this Christmas on the mere B-side Half The World Away being used by John Lewis, coupled with its Royale Family use over the years, must be a tidy sum.

Heathen Chemistry was a bit shit but all the others had their highs and Dig Out Your Soul was a solid swansong. Noels solo work will never reclaim the Glory fans but it's sincerely enjoyable without the Liam drama to boot

 

[sheepishlord]

Sierra faced bastard lmao.

 

[Freewheelin']

Twat

 

[Currygan]

Noel Gallagher is always a riot, lol. Super entertaining human being

 

[teruterubozu]

He must hate Led Zeppelin.

 

[OldRoutes]

Amazing. I love his interviews.

If you guys haven't already saw this, it's the highlights of the DVD commentary he made on the Oasis Music Video compilation :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI

It's indeed very hilarious.

 

[valkillmore]

Amazing. I love his interviews.

If you guys haven't already saw this, it's the highlights of the DVD commentary he made on the Oasis Music Video compilation :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI

It's indeed very hilarious.

lol 'there's a lot of Adidas going on in here.'

 

[Clegg]

Bit touchy bout the Stone Roses isn't he?

 

[mjc]

I'm digging his High Flying Birds stuff. He's always good for an entertaining interview too haha

 

[liquidtmd]

Amazing. I love his interviews.

If you guys haven't already saw this, it's the highlights of the DVD commentary he made on the Oasis Music Video compilation :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI

It's indeed very hilarious.

Oh god I'd forgot about that. Required viewing.

"Look at all those helicopters - that cost a fucking fortune...This is fucking nonsense"

 

[OverBlood 3]

Lovely funny bloke, he was great on the Russell Brand radio show too.

 

[norm9]

Love his hilarious description about modern Radiohead with the de de do doop shit.

Still #teamLiam though.

 

[entremet]

Lovely funny bloke, he was great on the Russell Brand radio show too.

He should do a podcast, but he would probably get bored and quit after two episodes lol.

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

Not sure why I ever passed them over, remember seeing their videos on mtv in the 90s but was more into the alternative or hard rock stuff. Feel like I owe it to myself to experience them properly, what's a good album to start with?

 

[theaface]

For better or worse, I find myself agreeing with almost everything he says. A bona fide deserving hall of gamer if ever there was one.

Not sure why I ever passed them over, remember seeing their videos on mtv in the 90s but was more into the alternative or hard rock stuff. Feel like I owe it to myself to experience them properly, what's a good album to start with?

Definitely Maybe, their first and greatest album.

 

[Drahcir]

As much as I loved Oasis and Noel's solo records, I cannot agree that Oasis was better than The Verve and The Stone Roses. Hell, they aren't even fucking better than The La's or The Jam. Sorry, just my subjective opinion on the matter.

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

Love or hate his music, he's an interesting well travelled man and is always game for a good interview.

Some of his stories from the heyday years are Spinal Tap level hillarious

Got any links for any? Love this guy.

 

[Switch Back 9]

Amazing. I love his interviews.

If you guys haven't already saw this, it's the highlights of the DVD commentary he made on the Oasis Music Video compilation :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI

It's indeed very hilarious.

Hahahaha this is amazing!

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

For better or worse, I find myself agreeing with almost everything he says. A bona fide deserving hall of gamer if ever there was one.



Definitely Maybe, their first and greatest album.

Great thx.

 

[Xun]

He must hate Led Zeppelin.

Probably hurt by what Plant had to say during the O2 gig:

http://www.live4ever.uk.com/2010/08...-partying-with-oasis-at-led-zeppelin-reunion/

This bit of the Esquire interview is truly something:

I was being asked about a reunion five weeks after I left the band. It’s a modern phenomenon. It’s a modern disease. All the bands that get back together, all those ones you’ve mentioned [Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin] they didn’t have anybody in the line-up as fucking brilliant as me. What’s the guitarist out of Fleetwood Mac called? Lindsay Buckingham. I can’t remember him setting the world on fire. Jimmy Page? That’s debatable. He’s a good guitarist but I’m not sure how many solo albums he’s fucking made.

lol ok noel

 

[Markitron]

Amazing. I love his interviews.

If you guys haven't already saw this, it's the highlights of the DVD commentary he made on the Oasis Music Video compilation :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI

It's indeed very hilarious.

Never seen this, fucking hilarious.

 

[Massingberd]

He should do a podcast, but he would probably get bored and quit after two episodes lol.

He actually did a three-hour radio show with Matt Morgan a few years back. Hilarious stuff. Had an up and coming band on doing a session who were due to open on his tour a few weeks later. Praised the songs, but took the piss out of them constantly.

 

[OverBlood 3]

Not sure why I ever passed them over, remember seeing their videos on mtv in the 90s but was more into the alternative or hard rock stuff. Feel like I owe it to myself to experience them properly, what's a good album to start with?

Masterplan is my favourite.

 

[lastplayed]

Does anybody give a fuck about what any of these current pop stars are up to? Who gives a shit what fucking One Direction do? Cocksuckers, all of them in rehab by the time they’re 30. Who gives a shit what Ellie Goulding is up to? Really? Adele, what? Blows my fucking mind. It blows my fucking mind. Nobody cares! Fame’s wasted on them, with their fucking in-ear monitors and their electronic cigarettes. And their fragrances that they’re bringing out for Christmas. You fucking dicks.

ha

 

[liquidtmd]

Got any links for any? Love this guy.

Seriously, take half an hour and just YouTube 'Noel Gallagher interviews'. He rarely disappoints in any

 

[uncelestial]

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Rolling Stones
Radiohead
The Police
Oasis

...If I had to.

Never got the whole "Blur vs. Oasis" thing. For one thing, Blur was not even in the same league. But also they weren't really all that similar, so wtf?

 

[Massingberd]

Not sure why I ever passed them over, remember seeing their videos on mtv in the 90s but was more into the alternative or hard rock stuff. Feel like I owe it to myself to experience them properly, what's a good album to start with?

Start from the start. Definitely Maybe. Or the best of - Stop the Clocks.

 

[twobear]

pulp were better than oasis, but i don't think i'd put them in the top 10 either

Cocksuckers, all of them

charming guy!

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Still can't get over the fact that the verve were better than his boys live I see.

 

[Massingberd]

Love or hate his music, he's an interesting well travelled man and is always game for a good interview.

Some of his stories from the heyday years are Spinal Tap level hillarious

Have you heard the Spinal Tap Oasis story?

 

[WadiumArcadium]

Amazing. I love his interviews.

If you guys haven't already saw this, it's the highlights of the DVD commentary he made on the Oasis Music Video compilation :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI

It's indeed very hilarious.

Fucking nonsense. That is great.

 

[Dead]

Lol at that self ranking

Oasis ain't fit to lick the shit off the soles of Pulp and Suede.

 

[RunTheBrules]

Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
The Stones
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
Queen

I'd also take Fleetwood Mac, the Sex Pistols, the Smiths, and Joy Division/New Order.

My love for Oasis has waned over the years. I like the Verve so much better these days. Gimme "A Storm In Heaven" over everything Oasis did.

 

[liquidtmd]

Have you heard the Spinal Tap Oasis story?

Ho ho this one?

David Walliams - DW

Noel - NG

Spinal Tap; Pete Doherty; Ipswich

DW: Ricky Gervais told me there's a story that Liam thinks Spinal Tap are a real band. Is that true?

NG: Yeah, he thought they were real people. We went to see them play in Carnegie Hall. Before they played, they came on as three folk singers from the film A Mighty Wind. We were laughing and he said: 'This is shit'. We said: 'No, those three are in Spinal Tap. You do know they are American actors?' 'They're not even a real band?' 'They're not even English! One of them is married to Jamie Lee Curtis.' 'I'm not fuckin' 'avin that,' he says, and walks off right up the middle of Carnegie Hall. He's never watched Spinal Tap since. He'd seen the film and loved it and thought they were a real band.

More gems from this interview

http://observer.theguardian.com/omm/story/0,,1507223,00.html

 

[twobear]

I Spy is actually so good, when will Oasis?

 

[Skinpop]

pulp were better than oasis, but i don't think i'd put them in the top 10 either

i saw pulp live in '01, I've never been so disappointed with a show since or before.
in retrospect 80% of their songs were crap and even their good stuff got old rather quickly. at least with oasis including all the b-side tracks they didn't make a bad song for their first three albums. can't listen to oasis nowadays though, it actually makes me sick to my stomach. not because it's bad but because of how much I loved them and I just can't relate to that anymore.

 

[JABEE]

Ho ho this one?

David Walliams - DW

Noel - NG



More gems from this interview

http://observer.theguardian.com/omm/story/0,,1507223,00.html

This can't be true lol

 

[Fjordson]

Noel is great. Still makes me sad that he and Liam couldn't work it out after how good Dig Out Your Soul was.

Never got the whole "Blur vs. Oasis" thing. For one thing, Blur was not even in the same league. But also they weren't really all that similar, so wtf?

Hey hey, Blur was pretty great also. Oasis is one of my favourite bands, but they really had just two great albums imo. Blur certainly has at least that many with Parklife and The Great Escape.

 

[twobear]

i saw pulp live in the early 2000's, I've never been so disappointed with a show since or before.
in retrospect 80% of their songs were crap and even their good stuff got old rather quickly. at least with oasis including all the b-side tracks they didn't make a bad song for their first three albums. can't listen to oasis nowadays though, it actually makes me sick to my stomach. not because it's bad but because of how much I loved them and I just can't relate to that anymore.

why are you lying

 

[Drahcir]

For one thing, Blur was not even in the same league. But also they weren't really all that similar, so wtf?

Not in the same league as in Blur was better or worse than Oasis?

The whole battle of britpop thing was ridiculous for sure, but Blur was far and away the more exciting and less boring band.

 

[Skinpop]

why are you lying

how can you not be disappointed if you go to a pulp concert and they didn't play common people? it's almost as bad as when I went to roskilde and suffered through half a week of meter deep mud and rain with the sole purpose of seeing bowie perform, then he gets ill and they replace it with fucking slipknot. that night I actually questioned my existence.

 

[ColdPizza]

This guy is high. Oasis were a flash in the pan. They're nobodies.

 

[twobear]

how can you not be disappointed if you go see pulp and they didn't play common people? it's almost as bad as when I went to roskilde and suffered through half a week of meter deep mud and rain with the sole puropse of seeing bowie perform, then he gets ill and they replace it with fucking slipknot. that night I actually questioned my existence.

i saw them at glastonbury a couple of years and they played common people

poor you tbh