Noel Gallagher: 'I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury' and other luddite sense
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After all the conjecture back and forth, it’s good to finally have someone wade in and take the situation by the scruff of the neck, because, let’s face it, hip-hop and Glastonbury make about as much sense as mixed-race marriages and that outré Aerosmith/Run DMC collaboration.
Oasis’ Noel Gallagher: “If it ain't broke don't fix it. If you start to break it then people aren't going to go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance.”
No fookin’ chance mate. There goes Kylie Minogue, barely scraping it into Gallagher’s corridor of comprehension.
"Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music,” spluttered the ape, “and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night you go 'Kylie Minogue?'”
Yeah, well random!
"I don't know about it. But I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong."
Imagine there’s no heaven… in other news Gallagher hates the O2 Arena – “soul destroying… too Americanised for me, and it's too far away. Any gig you can get to by boat that hasn't got a beach is wrong… much to our manager and agent's disappointment, we came back and said we would never play there.”
Instead, they’ll have to “do 640 nights at Earl's Court,” which Arctic Monkeys could never hope to achieve.
“We'll be bigger than them in terms of ticket sales, but they'll probably sell slightly more records than us,” Gallagher said when asked if Alex Turner’s crew had taken Oasis’s mantle as the biggest band in Britian.
"But then again, they've got about 20 years on us. So see where they are in 2089, or whenever it is they'll be my age."
The new Oasis album is finished, though it’s as yet untitled and the band haven’t found a label to release it. The first single will be “four-and-a-half minutes long”.
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Arctic Monkeys
noel
is about as pleasant and relevant as the black plague
I want to be the first one in with the
'4 and a half minutes too long' joke
Oasis single four and a half minutes long
Also: earth still revolving around sun.
In a hamfisted way he is of course right
The knuckleheaded Glastonbury crowd dont want a big hip hop headliner, they want this months anthemic, average indie band, to bray along too.
'the knuckleheaded glastonbury crowd'
what on earth are you talking about? why is Glastonbury described in those terms as opposed to every other major festival?
you obviously haven't been, or if you have, then you obviously didn't stray too far from the 'knuckleheads', otherwise you'd have met some right decent people.
you knucklehead.
Only 8 times
Full of cunts.
Or less aggresively
The majority of the crowd, who are the ones who sell it out, and spend the whole weekend at the main stage, dont want a hip hop act.
so your argument is
that no news should be reported unless it involves the cessation of life on this planet?
Jay - Z has done good albums
he was the most exciting out of all the headliners but people in drain pipes and middle aged middle class snoots dont realise that.
Jay Z and Leonard Cohen are the only reasons to go to this.
End of discussion.
.
I think glastonbury people will swallow whatever the hand feeds them with. Wait until Jay-z is a no show or a poor show for them to bite said hand.
Jigga may not be
the greatest hip hop artist but still he'll colour the lineup and bring a bit of diversity to the usual new and aging pop rock acts, thought glasto was meant to be about diversity and suprises anyway? Plus how many people in the UK love Jay-Z? He charts well and will no doubt put on a big show. Noel Gallagher gets more and more grumpy old man everytime i read about him! sometimes comically offensive and sometimes just plain offensive - plus his hair become more and more like an elderly ladies buffon every time i see him
'But only specifically with Jay-Z. If it was good hiphop then it would be OK. If it was the Beasties
i.e. good hip hop = white hip hop. the mistake they made is that jay z's image is too 'gangster', even if he's made some great records. they should've got kanye, innit.
yeh this is true
i gotta say (apologies if i offend anyone) depending on how you define hip hop, the Beasties is kinda weak, cool beats but vocally pretty poor. I really hope this is not a black / white thing going on with all this backlash but either way Kanye would have been a much smarter move, even if Jay-Z is pretty family friendly these days...Would love for Snoop to some how erupt onto the bill, even tho he's banned.
i think he was takin the piss
a bit there, bit of sarcasm, i wouldn't take too much offence. I am also mixed race and know how god damn annoying that would be if Kev was serious but if you read on he's illustrating the point that Noel Gallagher may as well come out and say it, that its a festival for 'pure white bred' rock stars, music that wasn't born out of black music at all!!! ....Mixed race makes all sense!!
oops...
getting across not *illustrating
word!
.
this
is so true.
wow
I've never ever seen someone miss the point so completely.
I love Noel Gallagher
I love how much he antagonises DiS folk so easily.
Personally I'd love to see Jay Z at Glastonbury but he's completely entitled to his opinion. Let's face it, it's not much of a shock to discover that Noel Gallagher doesn't like hip hop. Who cares? He's one of the few musicians who provokes a reaction in people through his interviews. Rather that than all of the other bland shite bands spout to promote themselves.
To be honest,
I think we just proved that if you admit to killing cobras in your DIS username, you're probably not going to understand sarcasm either... mental.
Props to ya, Kev.
If that is your REAL name :/
Yours Is
The fisrt sensible post on this article !!Noel Gallagaher is opinionated but is actually speaking out for the majority of the crowd!! He is not scared to voice his opinion something that too many rock stars are !! And he's headlined the damn festival in the past so hes defintaely entitled to his views !!Unlike radiohead who may be more intelligent than him but wouldnt play it for environmental reasons !!! Rock stars should kick but and rant about the state of the nation and say/do controversial things - if we are not carefuil everything in rock will be as exciting as a hoosiers/coldplay collaboration !!And hip hop is a complete rubbish genre to anyone with any musical taste at all!!
Radiohead HAVE headlined. Twice.
And that last sentence utterly negates any validity your arguement had up to that point.
oh dear
its called sarcasm
mixed-race
I take it you don't really use the term much.
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