Looking Back in Anger: 101 Things Noel Gallagher Has Been Mad At
11. Rehab
“Didn’t go into rehab like all me mates did – fucking lightweights.” –Q Magazine, 1999
12. His Guitar Skills
“I’m average at fucking best.” –Total Guitar, Jan. 2009
13. Interviews With the Arctic Monkeys
“I would rather drink petrol straight from the nozzle at a garage than listen to an interview with Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Wouldn’t you? Alternative thinking is on its way out. They just don’t make for great copy.” –London Evening Standard, Feb. 2015
14. The Arctic Monkeys
“[They’re] invisible, they don’t say anything.” –The Irish Post, March 2015
15. Anyone Who’s Ever Had Anything to Do With a Book
“Because people who write and read and review books are fucking putting themselves a tiny little bit above the rest of us who fucking make records and write pathetic little songs for a living…. Book sellers, book readers, book writers, book owners – fuck all of them.” –GQ (U.K.), Oct. 2013
16. The Grammys
“No. I can’t really stomach things like that. Everybody’s too nice. You cannot have a room with 5,000 people, who are all fans of each other. That’s not real.” –RS, Feb. 2015
17. Interrupting the Grammys
“I never ever once got onstage while somebody else was getting an award. I would never do that. As little respect as I’ve got for other people at least I’ve got that much respect for people.” –National Post, Feb. 2015
18. Kanye West
“Somebody needs to buy that dumbass a dictionary so he can look up the word “artistry”…. Get him a dictionary from me, I’ll fuckin’ sign it and give it to him so he can look it up.” –RS, Feb. 2015
19. Beyoncé
“[If the word “artistry”] applies to Beyoncé then fuck me.” –National Post, Feb. 2015
20. Suits at the Brit Awards
“You can be sat at a table with a load of people from an insurance company. ‘Where you from? Classical label?’ ‘No. AIG.’ ‘Well, what the fuck are you doing here?'” –GQ (U.K.), Oct. 2013
21. Pop at the Brit Awards
“It’s all pop music…. I felt very much out of place. It wasn’t like back in the day.” –NME video interview, 2012
22. Erotic Fiction
“Fifty Shades of Grey? Fifty shades of shite.” –GQ (U.K.), Oct. 2013
23. “Indie” Labels
“Is it any coincidence that all the indie labels got bought up by the major labels and things have started to get boring?” –London Evening Standard, Feb. 2015
24. Pop Quietism
“The new names like James Blunt, Ed Sheeran and Jessie J — they defer to the [record] labels. The bands that I grew up with had a healthy dose of indifference and contempt towards their labels. That has gone.” –London Evening Standard, Feb. 2015
25. Pop Beigeness
“Modern pop music is bland nonsense. There isn’t even a word yet that’s capable of describing it. If it was a color, it would be beige.” –RS, Feb. 2015
26. Taking the Fall for Climate Change
“You can’t blame rock stars for global warming when the Chinese, the Indians and the Americans have been pumping out shit into the atmosphere for the last 100 years.” –Herald Sun, 2008
27. Free downloads
“I’m not giving my records away for free. If nobody fuckin’ buys them then… They’re not going out for free.” –Clash, Feb. 2008
28. Radiohead
“Making records should be fun. I remember seeing Radiohead on the cover of a magazine in the U.K. when In Rainbows came out, and it said, Radiohead: The Pain. And I thought, ‘Won’t you fucking give it a rest, you bunch of moaning children?’ The pain? Of making an album? I don’t buy it. If you’re not having a laugh, then don’t do it.” –Spin, Oct. 2008
29. His Brother Liam
“He’s a born fucking liar.” –Spin, Oct. 2008
30. Liam’s Destructive Tendencies
“He was trying his hardest to destroy everything, that’s how I saw it. Like not turning up for American tours.” –The Guardian, Dec. 2008