Line Out - Comments on Noel Gallagher: "I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. No way. No. It's wrong."

Comment by terry miller

terry miller — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:34:19 -0800

i have to agree. this was a terrible idea.

Comment by lar

lar — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:34:47 -0800

fuck him and Perry Farrell

Comment by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:41:49 -0800

Noel's playing a little game with the press. It's called "say something completely ridiculous in hopes the press will pay attention to his painfully irrelevant third-rate Beatles cover band."

Ta-da!

Comment by Eric Grandy

Eric Grandy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:49:31 -0800

Or, as Idolator phrased it yesterday: "Gallagher Brother Goes "Veiled Racism" Route In Effort To Get Back Into News (And It Works!)"

Comment by Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:26:56 -0800

He'll never top "Wonderwall".

Comment by ndrwmtsn

ndrwmtsn — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:31:06 -0800

he can't be this dumb.....he did that joke song on the british office holiday special dvd w ricky gervais!

Comment by cosby

cosby — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:43:47 -0800

@5:
don't you mean he'll never top 'revolver'?

Comment by Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:20:52 -0800

Ha!

When you dis Oasis, you only dis yourself.

Still, is getting on Jay-Z's bad side ever a good idea?

Comment by ndrwmtsn

ndrwmtsn — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:27:32 -0800

yeah kirk, cause jay z will kill him?

RACIST

Comment by Eric Grandy

Eric Grandy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:17:20 -0800

Jay Z will no longer shout out Chateau Le Fr�res Gallagher Champagne in his raps!

Comment by rk

rk — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:05:34 -0800

Well, if Jay-Z headlining isn't the reason for the slow Glastonbury ticket sales, what is? Mind you, I don't give a damn about either Jay-Z or Oasis, but it's still a valid question. Anyone got a plausible alternative explanation?

Comment by segal

segal — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:26:29 -0800

Noel's just going for media outrage, just like he's always done.

Anyone hear the on-the-downlow hip-hop album he cut in the late '90s, titled Too Bloke, Too Strong?

Comment by Thig Nat

Thig Nat — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:16:39 -0800

Damn...I was just bumpin "Whats the Story.." the other day. I love that album but Noel Gallagher is an idiot. This isn't the first time he's made a statement like this either..

Comment by ryko72

ryko72 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:55:48 -0800

i agree with noel. bad move. it's not racist at all, gimme a f$%^in break. drop the elitist music snobbery � definitely, maybe and what's the story... are absolute undeniable classics. you know it's true. you'll be more comfortable to admit it in 5 years.

Comment by jerry falls well

jerry falls well — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:55:01 -0800

Noel's head looks like it was photoshopped onto a smaller body.

Comment by rexmundane

rexmundane — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:18:09 -0800

meh. It's hardly racist to blame a headliner for lackluster ticket sales. Every festival has its own identity. When a festival loses its focus and tries to appeal to a broader audience, blandness will surely follow sooner or later. This is just another sign that Glastonbury is no longer very relevant anymore (and hasn't been for a while, imo).

Comment by Eric Grandy

Eric Grandy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:33:18 -0800

Look, he's probably no more racist than any other working class Englishman, but I wouldn't exactly trust him to suss out causality in this or any other situation. One might as well blame the Glastonbury documentary for spoiling the festival.

Comment by kebabs

kebabs — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:37:57 -0800

Isn't the weather a factor? Apparently it has rained for the past three years straight, and people just got tired of camping in the mud.

Kanye headlined Bumbershoot a couple of years ago, and it was the best one I've been to (out of 4, but still). Oasis sucks.

Comment by stealingzen

stealingzen — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:21:18 -0800

There is absolutely -nothing- racist about his comments.

Vehemently not liking hip-hop does NOT equal racist. It might mean that you are discerning and possibly closed-minded about your preference in music, but it is not a race issue.

If an event sells out within hours for years and one year sales are down when a rap entertainer headlines that just means that those folks aren't into rap. Not a big deal. Let people like what they like without making a big deal about it or inciting irrelevant issues like race.

Jebus.

Comment by tb

tb — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:32:38 -0800

Wow. Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields got kicked around much worse for merely not having a personal taste for hip hop (and saying the "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" song was catchy), not calling for its exclusion from a festival. Let's watch the fireworks commence!

Comment by scary tyler moore

scary tyler moore — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:11:11 -0800

what stealingzen said. glastonbury was always about guitar music and not 31 flavors of music. noel put it rather inelegantly, but he's right on the money. as he usually is.

Comment by g

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:38:47 -0800

i think this in in britian at a rock show...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cqjXIO2bYXY

Comment by noel g

noel g — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:55:19 -0800

no fuck lar