Granada’s Music Scene

Noel Gallagher continues to be the best interview guest ever.  You can find no better Rock star, or any celebrity for that matter, that provides so much entertainment and humor in an interview.  The self proclaimed Last Rock Star sat down with Esquire UK to give one of the best interviews I’ve read in along time .  If you have ADD or just want the footnotes here are Noel’s 10 Best Quotes from the interview. 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. Like when we went to the Brits and we’d won all those awards and we didn’t play. The head of the Brits said, “This’ll ruin your career.” Fucking, wow. I say to the guy, “Do you know how high I am? You know who’s going to ruin my career? Me, not you. Bell-end. More Champagne. Fuck off.” “Oh, yeah, my last selfie got47-thousand-million likes on Instagram.” Yeah, why don’t you go fuck off and get a drug habit, you penis? You know what was the weirdest thing about doing my first ever gig? I’d never played guitar standing up, in my life. I’d always just played it sitting on the end of the bed. So I had to get a strap. I remember the week leading up to the gig thinking, ‘What am I going to fucking do?’ I just stood still. And that’s where the art of Stillism came from, which Oasis mastered. Look, as soon as Thom Yorke writes a song as good as fucking “Mony Mony”, give us a fucking shout. Someone asked me what “Champagne Supernova” is about. I was like, “Who gives a fuck what it’s about?” And he’s going, “But surely when you write it you must know?” On stage, two hours later, in Scotland, with an acoustic guitar, I’m playing it and there’s a 15-year old kid, he’s got his top off and he’s singing it, crying his eyes out, and I’m thinking, “That’s what it’s about.” It was just a case of waiting forpeople to come to us. Liam said, “Why haven’t you sent any fucking demos out?” I’d say, “Listen, this kind of music can’t not be heard by the world. It’s just fucking impossible.” I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe there’s an all-seeing Somebody guiding the universe because if there was, clearly, there wouldn’t be such a thing as Isis. And I don’t mean the Bob Dylan song. In that sense, I’m a man of science. The Big Bang, that all sounds a lot more plausible to me. I guess it’s like any writer – not that I consider myself “a writer” because they are the fucking most boring cunts in the world Ten years from now, if I wake up one morning and go, “You know what? I think I’m going to do it,” I can guarantee you, just for spite, Liam would say, “Oh, no, I’m not keen.” Live Forever Noel!