Sunday 22 January 2012

Noel Gallagher On His Flying Birds, Oasis And More











Noel Gallagher is in the process of belittling me - and anyone else with an office job for that matter. His mini-tirade is in response to a question about whether he ever thought about packing it in when he quit Oasis in August 2009 following another bout of fisticuffs with his brother Liam.

It seemed a fair enough question considering he'd obviously had a gutsful of his younger sibling and what, after 18 years and seven albums, his band Oasis had become. Still, it set him off.

"I get asked this question a bit, and it usually comes from people who have jobs. This isn't a job. I encounter so many taxi drivers, people who work in bars, journalists, and people who work in banks, and it's like, 'Well, that's how you think because you have a job. And you're probably in a job that you f***** loathe and you don't get enough satisfaction from'. But I love what I do."

Gee, thanks Noel. Then again, he can also be funny, thoughtful, likeable even. And really, his temperamental nature is exactly what you expect from the famously outspoken, arrogant, and, some might say, more intelligent Gallagher brother. He's renowned for his scathing one-liners, pithy hilarity and scorn for everyone from his little brother to Jay-Z (In 2008 Gallagher proclaimed hip-hop had no place at Glastonbury when the rapper was announced to headline the music festival.)

He refuses to talk about lippy Liam these days. An email confirming TimeOut's interview with Gallagher said: "Noel is no longer taking questions [...]



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