Noel Gallagher Interview In French Voxpop Magazine
A seven page interview with Noel Gallagher, features in the current edition of the French music magazine Voxpop.
A seven page interview with Noel Gallagher, features in the current edition of the French music magazine Voxpop.
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Q: As we speak, knows England's largest riots the last thirty years: looting shops, burning cars, guerrilla war against the police. Do you feel affected by this youth movement?
I watch the stuff, but at a distance because I have passed the age of that crap ... I am fed up alone in front of my TV. The worst thing is to read the reactions of journalists idiots who comment on the riots in ducks as the Guardian or that kind of cloths ... They say that young people have suffered too much of this consumer society. They think it's politics! If you ask me, they tell anything. Damn journalists!
Q: You do not like the press?
No, no, no ... That's not it. I read a little, but I know from experience that one should not trust him, if you see the nuance. Always buy the same good old music magazines since I was old enough to read Mojo, Q, NME sometimes, but not every week. It allows me not to become totally an old fart. By cons, newspapers have always bored, and the Guardian, so it is the worst of all towels. The guys who are working there think they are saints. They strike poses. They really believe that by taking the defense of what they call "the suffering", they are right. They are just morons of the middle class. And what a moron of the middle class? He says all the time. He believes that with his certain calf, it can dip the aspirations of the people. Except that the world is more complicated than a battle of rich against the poor. Riots in England to prove it.
Q: So back to the riots. Do you see a message?
A message? Well yes. The class system in England, everyone said that abolished after years of moderate left in power, has not disappeared. Things become even worse than twenty years ago. The kids who do not care a mess in the streets do not tie-in of the working class and of course, not middle class either. They represent a class even more in trouble that the working class whom I knew well: no culture, no hope. Neither political party or ideology which relate. These little guys exploding displays and plasma screens are biting are just crazy. And when you know you have nothing to lose, you become uncontrollable. This is where England is today forced to deal with thousands of kids uneducated and greedy.
Q: For you, this movement will not affect policy in England now?
Maybe it will become even safer than we were before. I do not know what David Cameron and the Conservatives can do more. But do not try to politicize this movement. Does what happens in England has something to do with the French Revolution? Not exactly. Can you imagine a politician trying to harangue all those kids with the hood on his head: "So kids, what do you want? Do you want us to change the world? "No," head node! We want new clothes-on, fucking big shoes, mobile portable and speakers to plug our iPod ... "Pathetic! There is nothing heroic in that. They are just hooligans. Hooligans and, anyway, one day end up in jail either because they are not smart enough. What Marie Antoinette said already? "If they have no bread, give them chips ..." (sic) That's right, let's them fucking chips ...
Q: Those involved in these riots are often very young, 13 or 18. Their relationship to music does more by buying discs in stores. They download free. You understand what changes in time?
Hackers are just sub-human shit (laughs)! Okay, just kidding there. I will judge anyone, because I tell myself that if I too had 15 in 2011 and not enough gold coins to pay me a disc, I would fly. The only thing that really saddens me in the culture of MP3 is that it looks like a solitary pleasure. It's like masturbating. The idiots who are working in large start-up you say "The Internet is the sharing, the community access to culture in one click." I think it's the opposite: the music was a way to invent something collective, and in recent years. it has become a practice with a single purpose: that you recognize as an individuality. Super ... I do not condemn the pirates, because they are kids. For cons, I'm sorry they do not point in a record store the day of the release of the single of their favorite band. rencon-they meet other little guys as excited by the music they, would have read some friends. They would return home with a smile. They could look at the disk, they could detail the cover and read the words themselves. That would make them a human experience. The human is cuand even though, right?
Q: As a songwriter, you have been a very strong symbol of England of 90 years, the one that led the britpop, then Tony Blair and his New Labour government ...
(The cut) If you're saying is that it must be true. Everyone Vou milk be English in the 90's and we're probably a little something to do with Oasis.
Q: Do you feel as much in line with England now? Or is it that your country has finally disenchanted?
I love England less. Much less the same, it's nothing to say ... I feel that there was a better atmosphere in the 90's. We were thousands to feel that the country was his great musical revival, economic, political. In any case, some dreams seem attainable. You could get up one morning and you say "I want to become someone important. I want my place in history "and you get to work to realize this dream. Yes! (/ / Thinking) could still dream until the early 2000s. Well, maybe I tell you that. since I was ten years younger. But it was a different world: less violence, less individualism ... My country did not engage in this stupid war in Iraq. Everything has changed so much in the world from September 11, 2001. Things went from bad to worse.
Q: Oasis carton starts in the mid 90s. Looking back, we say now that britpop was the last time music in not knowing the crisis. Do you feel privileged to have participated in this period?
In a sense yes. Well, it would not have bothered more than that to be punk at the time of Sex track or compete with the Rolling Stones. But hey, I lived 90 years without getting thoroughly weigh questions. The discs were sold. It was enough to have a column in the NME, with the label "britpop" so that all the kids will want to buy your records. It was a prosperous period. We took advantage, but that's normal: we were excellent. Groups like Blur, Pulp and Supergrass have also enjoyed, and after all, why not: they were not the worst. What is more crazy is that nazes as Shed Seven and Gene had, too, entitled to a share of the pie. (Clamp-in-cheek) This proves that all was well in business English. Otherwise people would be taken there twice before to celebrate such crap. But hey, you know, the scenes, what irrational phenomenon ...
Q: What is fun too with the britpop scene is that this was associated with a change of government: Oasis and Blur say that England becomes cool, and a few months later, it was Tony Blair who takes the message his account with New Labour.
It has often been told that in fact: the theory that one day there is a generation that listens to britpop and the next day, miraculously, these people all want to vote for the left and Blair. Unless there is a truth to which I have always believed: the music can not change the world. It is the violence that changes the world attacks, murders, coups ... A band of clown coming out records like "Parklife" or "Definitely Maybe" has no political power over the world. It's a fact! For cons, I'd say that our songs have failed to change the lives of individuals. With Oasis, we had one power: to make the existence of our fans less pathetic. less hollow. I know some of our fans finally have a reason to get up every morning and endure the day of crap at the factory.
Q: In the euphoria of britpop, you have been to several artists-mer Affiris your support for Tony Blair. Were you really fell in love with the guy or did you think that England only had everything to lose by continuing to be governed by the curators?
First, the program of the New Labour seemed suited to the new face of England. When he was campaigning, Blair proposed reforms. He said that the youth would not be the most overlooked of the system. He promised to build a more competitive, but also cool. When the media asked me, "Noel, who will you vote?" I had no problem of conscience. I never sought to become a spokesperson. I only said: "I am a man of the people, so I always prefer to fuck / a guys is right!" This is not an analysis, it's just cultural. These are the roots that control. And then when Blair asked me to meeting during his campaign, I found it normal, "He wants to see me? Well yes, like everyone else! Everyone wants to know the genius of Oasis "(smile).
Q: One day, Tony Blair, then Prime Minister, invites you into his office at 10 Downing Street, you and boss Alan McGee Creation Records (label of Oasis at the time - ed). Have you taken this action as a social revenge?
McGee, who was the son of a railroad, probably more than me ... In fact, it was strange. You feel a bit special when it invites you in the palace, but it's not going away. We arrived in a Rolls Alan McGee. The Rolls Royce was the gift that McGee had promised if the second album from Oasis card. Well, in short, we train the car in the neighborhood. We pass security, and there we find ourselves in the midst of an audience of actors, television people and old pop stars. There was the Pet Shop Boys, I think. It was not a party really rock and roll. The atmosphere was stuffy, but hey, we are still good advantage. The new heroes of rock do the party at the new hero of the policy, it was just normal.
Q: What if you had to vote for Tony Blair today, would you?
He was the one that has stuck in this stupid war in Iraq along with Bush's America, right? We looked the fucking weapons of mass destruction ... I think I answered your question ... But he did things well. He still has improved the lives of the citizens of England. Perhaps, in the end I would have done myself a great Prime Minister. I'm serious. I should not bribe. I would have had a dozen brilliant ideas a day, at least. But hey, it is precisely because I should not use politics to save wheat that I would probably planted in the elections ...
Q: Your roots are those of a kid from the working class Rounds-ter with parents of Irish origin. How is the music she entered your life?
Learning music is progressive. There was no one thing that made me switch permanently in the world of pop and rock. Let's say I got bit by bit. At first, I think there was this 45-rounds of the Beatles "She Loves You", who was often at home and I started out loving. The reason for this? It makes me fai-known laugh to see my aunt singing it. I thought it was pretty, but without really dipping depth of the Beatles. Anyway, as I was born in 1967, I could not dip the whole thing about Lennon and McCartney, the frenzy, the girls screaming, all that. Same for the punk. I got it the impact of this music in 1978. I had what, 11 years and I saw a guy in my neighborhood who Burnage around with their hair completely shaved. Finally, entirely, the only thing that remained of his hair. it was a black exclamation point. Very impressive. As my friends told me the neighborhood that this guy was a punk, I thought, "Hey! Me too me it looks like being a punk! "The year after I bought the album of the Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks." There I got it the thing. Violence punk, it was really something that you understand if you were broke and yourself in revolt.
Q: During your teenage years in Manchester, in the mid 80's, the fashion group in England called The Smiths, New Order. Their songs have they participated in your education?
The Smiths, especially. I must say they played on the radio very often. In all the record shops in town, everyone was walking around with a T-shirt in their own image. That impressed me, all this veneration tion around a group. All true rock fans were talking in the neighborhood with fairly definitive statements, "You know my little guy, the Smiths are the last great rock band from England. After them there will be nothing! "I remember that and also the atmosphere that was a little drunk with their music. The Smiths, it was well over the years Margaret Thatcher in England. And it's true: when you hear the words of Morrissey, to die laughing, especially the guitar sounds What happened to produce Johnny Marr, you did not need to think for hours to understand that you were faced with a very large group. One thing that pleased me most is knowing that after the Smiths, the English rock did not stop: there was the Stone Roses. There was like a leap into the future. I think the guys who had 20 years in the U.S. when the album came out in the banana Velvet Under-ground had to feel the same sensation. You had this great band, out of nowhere, with an attitude and a sound that perfectly tell-ment the spirit of Manchester where I lived: the groove clubs, drugs, job prospects blocked, post-industrial landscapes. If there is something which I am happy is to have experienced it live: be twenty when the Stone Roses released their first album was a huge thing.
Q: When the young Noel Gallagher said he could also be part of this world?
In fact, especially when I started to scratch on a guitar. You can listen to all the best records in the world, nothing can replace good old guitar. I do not know when I found myself with this instrument in the hands, I immediately felt that I was made for this. It's hard to explain. You would have put a wrench or a gun between the legs, I had the air of a Con, but now it fitted perfectly with what I was deep. Already with a guitar you have reason to shut yourself in your room and not come out. (/ / Change of voice) "Noel, what are you doing? You smoke dope? "" No, mom I play the guitar! "" Oh, okay! No problem, son! "Then you can lug around with you, with your buddies on the street, and you're always welcomed like a king. We look at you with a smile: "Oh yeah, the guy with his guitar, the artist," Well, it's as simple as that. I walk around with a guitar has given me everything I was looking for: recognition, freedom, dreams.
Q: And girls too?
Ah yes, that's what some say. The guitarist a little lonely, it appeals to girls. I admit there have never thought so. Maybe the girls in my area were not particularly, how do you say, desirable, that's ... But the girls came later. I have known all full and most have made me happy. But when I started writing songs, I was mostly too obsessed with my obsession to become, in turn, like my hero, David Bowie, the Beatles. I've always been motivated by one thing. To be really honest, my motivation was to get rich. Not famous. Fame is a source of trouble if you're not a cool guy. By cons, earn lots of money, it makes you life much. Your mind does foca-read more about the anxieties of everyday life. You eat to your hunger, you travel the world, you cultivate, you give gifts to your relatives, you can think about starting a family, etc.. Me, I wanted to get money for one reason: to leave my son of working-class daily, about anything other than the housing projects in northern England and parts of football on vacant lots.
Q: In the north of England that you attend, there are two types of heroes that young people identify themselves: professional footballers and rock stars. When you choose a goal, you never hesitated between these two lifestyles?
In the district of Burnage, I was not too bad a footballer. I had a big mouth and also, what is the most important resource on land. I played midfield, but mostly, I Diri-jays maneuver. Not exactly a good sport, but a guy who sacrifices himself for his team. Except that I had my limits. I knew it. And I kidding too. Discipline, it was never my thing. At the school as football. That's why my school has not been exemplary (smile). At least in the rock, it does not fuck you if you behave like a big selfish wanker. And since that's what I am deeply ...
Q: What kind of support from Manchester City were you?
The kind hooligan. I was hanging out with the most violent supporters of the stadium, the guys in the Kippax Stand. They fascinated me as much as rock stars because they had this crazy thing. You had the impression they did not care about anything: cops, rival supporters, the danger when you go looking for the shit to the guys over there. My passion for football could make me wrong. I went really beyond the pale. There was unemployed and also Barjot the Sex Pistols on the road (smile). Manchester City lost as often at the time, there was always a good reason to go to french fries or break stuff. Our trips, they were made in Manchester or Leeds. I can still see some of these guys. There have changed, some not ...
Q: It is fun to know that after having attended the worst hooligan the corner, you were quoted, some years ago as a possible buyers of the club.
Ah, ah ... If I bought Manchester City with all the royalties of Oasis I would be safe today. The Arab emirs (new owners of City - ndr) would pay me millions a month to buy my shares. Anyway, the trick of redemption, it was a rumor. By cons I do not miss an opportunity to play a role as ambassador for the team to Manchester City. I attend games, I know some players, but I pay my person too. I am like an ambassador. Last Saturday I attended a charity event sponsored by the club. I found myself spending time with Patrick Vieira. Damn, what it is great! And this guy is a gentleman too. Very sweet, very intelligent. I loved the player and I like the guy. Right mindset.
Q: When you go to Oasis's debut album "Definitely Maybe" in 1994 and it ranks at the top of the charts in England, there is a real identification between the people of England and your songs. In retrospect, how do you explain this?
If tomorrow you have the idea of creating a rock band from scratch with guys coming out of art school and you make them sing stuff in proles. Dressing them as proles, there no chance to take the sauce in England. People here do not let themselves easily bilk. Why it worked with Oasis? Well it's very simple, my friend: we wholesale twenties, and our fans were, too, basically twenties. We were broke and the guys who have loved us that we were also broke. Our stories were shitty ass. Just like those guys who were willing to buy "Supersonic." We talked to conquer the world, starting from our little neighborhood of Manchester, and I think it's a feeling that many share: "Shit, I also want to get out of my shitty life. I want to become a star, walking down the street like the stars! "Oasis has worked because it was not cheating. It was really like our public: Single guys who know that life is rotten, but do not care much all the time they have enough gold coins to pay for a few shots in bars.
Q: Then, you pull out your second album "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" In 1995, with even more success. You can climb on "Be Here Now" a year later, and you become an institution of British rock. At that time, your mindset changes there?
There is just something quite normal, but still strange to live: our fans are guys broke, the wankers who love rock and beer, We, We are already past the next step: we drink champagne, we step models in private jets, we take all kinds of drugs hyper expensive. As in, you'll see evo-luer in your life, and the only thing that does not change, it's your public. You say that guys 30, 35, 45 you will dip, but no, when you play live, you look beautiful in front of you in the audience and you see again and again mouths the same: guys of 25 years, badly undermined, broke, drunk ... At that moment, you think we need to change your goals. "OK now that I am shielded and gold coins that I have anything better life reserve, what I miss?" What you lack in this case is eternity. You write songs with just the desire to be remembered to you for years after your death. The rock is just a game of survival. Once you have built it, I promise you sleep well. Aside from trying to become eternal, I do not see what is life.
Q: Oasis appeared as a result of American grunge bands like Nirvana. What you bring in the rock landscape is totally opposed to grunge. Basically, the message is that even though times are tough, do not bother to screw up, it is better to believe in its future.
Yes, somehow, that's it. Songs like "Rock'n'Roll Star" or "Live Forever" express a feeling only conqueror. Looking back, I learned to denigrate the least ceuvre of Kurt Cobain. Ultimately, I think he would be a good guy. He wrote good songs before committing suicide. But the installation of the artist maudit, I always thought it was stupid. Wait, I have a social environment far from ideal, my best friends are almost all in unemployment. my father was a drunk and should be well known, in addition, I caulked my room with the disc Nirvana who say, "I hate myself and I want to die"? Sorry, but I never got it this thing of self-pity.
Q: When you gave your first interviews with Oasis, you have adopted a position completely opposite to that of Kurt Cobain. Your manifesto was "We are in Manchester, we deserve to be the best and also we want to be as famous as the Beatles!" Was it an issue, or was it really what you thought?
The truth is that we really were the best in the world. Unless you are incredibly shy or stupid, when you're on your first album of songs of the caliber of "Supersonic," "Live Forever" and "Cigarettes And Alcohol", the least thing to do is bomber torso and wait cushy as the money and fame you fall into the hand. That's what we did, but still cool. We were in the flock. In concert, we were at the top. In interview, it was enough just a click to make you put out the most incredible stories. And not force us. Journalists emerged delighted, and I do not even tell you guys the heads of Creation (the label that broke Oasis - ndr). They drooled so they got it home with Oasis, they were going to win a fucking gold mine instead of remaining lifetime of bums coming out discs bums.
Q: Later, some criticize you maintain the image of Oasis, the group says at every opportunity he is the best, as a gimmick.
In any case it was impossible to remake "Definitely Maybe". In our career, there were only flashes of genius. What is not so bad (smile). We are cut off from certain realities. I'll take one example, when we go our fourth album, "Stan-ding On The Shoulders Of Giants" we should have more to tell that this album was shit. And he was. As crappy as "Definitely Maybe" is a bomb. Maybe we should keep our course of action: Oasis, the group that does not tell the whole truth in times of promotion. Our fans would have accepted. And what would have changed? Sell less, when you're already rich and you bought all the big cars that made you dream, it does not matter. The romantics say that the rock should not become a trade. That, but when you start to get into a comfortable, you do not want to leave too quickly. Oasis gave me everything: a mega booth in London where I managed to invite my idols like Paul Welter or George Best. Do you realize! Before me who lived with some unemployment benefits and jobs for a roadie to right to left ... And we can not say that we scammed anyone.
Q: With Oasis, you have experienced what many regard as the supreme recognition: you've played in stadiums. Is that Inpreted his songs in stadiums when you've been raised in a working class culture that has particular resonance?
I'll tell you one good thing, and I speak only for myself: I do not think you can get tired of playing in stadiums. Damn, it's up! The guys from the middle class will tell you that the acoustics are Meil them in small theaters, the public can really focus on music. All this is true. But the stage is something that you can appreciate when you come from the bottom. It's something almost mystical ment. The moment you really communicating with your people. Those who say that the stadiums have become too big for them, those who become jaded to this kind of ceremony, I'll tell you, these people are dead. Dead and useless, man! When we played at Maine Road and Knebworth in front of tens of thousands of people took my foot as ever. Especially at a time to begin my song "Do not Look Back In Anger." This is because we played in stadiums that everyone will remember my group Oasis. I saw before me thousands of people as happy as ever, united, exta-cal limit. When you give that feeling of eternity to people you do not know, sorry, but I call it do its job.
Q: Did you like stadiums, but have you also liked the circus that usually goes with the rock'n'roll?
Yes! The circus is great. Initially, music was only argument to live the life that goes with it. Do you know people who say, "Damn I loved composing 'Brown Sugar' instead of the Rolling Stones"? Of course not. For cons, I promise you that I can cite thousands of people who would have loved to hit as many girls and getting high as much as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. That's how. The first class drugs, the groupies, the comic super gratos in restaurants with guys who serve you in white gloves ... Rock'n'roll is denied, as long as you take it and have fun.
Q: Is being in competition with other songwriters, other groups you entertained as well? One has the impression that during the episode of the war between Blur and Oasis britpop you were in your element.
It was great to kick ass guys like Blur, as they had the resource. It, came a great song, and they replied with a title of the same caliber. The opponent is more powerful and worth the fight. Be measured by Damon Albarn, was moved to the very goodlation. I have been slow to recognize that it is one of the best, but now I recognize: the songwriters the likes of Damon Albarn, England did almost none. There's me, there is Paul Weller, of course, Alex Turner and certainly Serge Pizzorno Kasabian. But Albarn is better. More eccentric. Definitely English. A madman!
Q: Do you remember that full britpop, you had to say about Damon Albarn, now that you admire, "I wish him to die of AIDS »...?
Ah, ah, ah ... But yes, I was stupid, I was ready to kill my whole family for a good swing valve. We liked me for that, "Well that's Christmas, the language of a bitch!" We hovered so a hundred feet above the ground with all the drugs you took. It was not just the guys from Oasis who were like that elsewhere. Everyone in this small universe was as britpop moron: NME journalists of the other groups, the public. When you're young, you're supposed to be like this: broken, arrogant, stupid!
Q: At the rate things were going, would you be able to continue Oasis a few years?
I'll answer twice. Is it that I could continue to play in a rock band with the customs of the rock band we were talking about? The answer is no. No, because I have 44 years and I'm too old, nor the interest to compose titles that darken and pretend to be young. There is nothing more pathetic. I aspire to have fun otherwise. Fights, drugs, touring around the world, at some point it ends up not much to make you laugh. Per cons, if the question is: do I wish Oasis continues by changing the image slightly and ambitions of the group, the answer is yes, as I said, I have a good forty years and it's weird to start a new career at that age. I even think that I would take fewer risks by keeping the name Oasis. Already, I would not have to provide interviews.
Q: When Oasis decided to stop in 2009, it has been lived in England as a national tragedy. Did you expect this kind of reaction?
Already, let's factual: I have not demanded that the band broke up after our fight with Liam in Paris. I just left the band. If the guys had wanted to continue Oasis without me, I think I would have sit quiet. It is they who chose to stop after Rock In Seine. Why? Perhaps because the tank had dropped the songs, let's say it's a possibility ... At least we had the intelligence arrest charges in full glory. It's good for the legend. But what are you asking me questions like, already?
Q: I wanted to know how you felt when you read all the newspapers containing the death of Oasis as if it were the death of a character in the foreground?
I was lucky to escape all that stuff. After Rock en Seine, I cut the first train to spend a few days in southern France. It was in the corner of Nice, I think. And from there, I waited a private jet to pick us up, me and my family, to spend a quiet holiday in Italy. That way I managed to escape all the pathos and all those guys who are crying in your windows. (Takes a grotesque voice) "Why did you kill Oasis? Bastard! "I'll tell you: no one asks me questions Oasis displaced. Journalists do not seem to think that I was the last idiots leaving the group. They got it that the stuff would end like this.
Q: Do you ever there to take stock of your life?
It happens, yes. Things are simple. I was nothing, good at nothing, lazy, liar, not very smart, and rock changed my life. I'm sorry, but when I look back now, I see nine albums of Oasis. (He mimes with his hands) New fucking album! Some are real masterpieces, none is shameful. And then, without my songs and Oasis, there would be no Kasabian, the Libertines, Razorlight and Arctic Monkeys. Not bad would kill to have achieved if only half of that path. When I see guys I admired as Lee Maver, the leader of The La's who has not written anything new since 1986, I did not even want to complain. I'm just saying, "Poor nose! What have you done with your talent? You've screwed up! "The guss like this are not heroes, they are just zero. I know that I worked and I'll leave a mark. The day I die, the newspapers will write out a thing on me. Front page news item, I do not care. You can play any of my songs on the radio. Even those of Beady Eye, if it sings ...
Q: There is still one of those songs that represent you better than others. That we will play at your funeral.
Well I keep "The Importance Of Being Idle." It's totally me. A guy who constantly lives in idleness and pleasure. I'm that guy that bump that to afford the good life. You'd be surprised to see me every day. When I'm not on tour or in the studio I did not insane. I remain your ass sitting on a deckchair in my garden, I look out the window, I read books lying on my bed, I watch football or gangster films on TV, I'm fed up with my friends and my family . This is the good life, yes, but I always knew this was it I wanted.
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