Noel Gallagher says his younger self would have ‘knifed him in the b******s’ for collaborating with Damon Albarn
Gallagher sung backing vocals on a Gorillaz track in 2017
By Emma Wilkes
Noel Gallagher thinks his younger self wouldn’t have taken too kindly to the idea of him collaborating with Blur frontman and former rival Damon Albarn.
The former Oasis member contributed backing vocals to Gorillaz‘s 2017 track ‘We Got The Power’, which appeared on the album Humanz.
“What would my younger self think of me working with Damon Albarn?” he pondered in an interview for The Big Issue. “It would depend entirely on what side of the bed I got out of on that day. If you caught me on a good day I’d be like, yeah, I could see that happening… On a bad day, I’d fucking knife myself in the bollocks.”
Oasis and Blur were frequently pitted against each other in the 90s at the height of Britpop, with the two bands battling it out for the top spot with their respective releases.
Elsewhere in the interview, the High Flying Birds frontman said that if he could go back in time, he would love to re-experience the time he met David Bowie as he has “no recollection” of the event,
“I went to see David Bowie and Morrissey at Wembley Arena in the 90s,” Gallagher recalled. “I was high and pissed. Then, before Bowie came on, somebody came up to me and said, would you like to come and meet David? [So] I was taken to see David Bowie in his dressing room.”
He continued, explaining how he remembers the moment he met the pop icon: “I have no recollection of it whatsoever… I remember walking in and he was putting on make-up in a mirror and that’s it. He’s up there with John Lennon for me and I have no idea what we said when I met him.
“If I could go back I would appreciate it so much more. I’d tell him what he meant to me growing up and how much he means to me now, and I’d tell him, ‘I’m gonna rip you off to fuck when you’re dead, you know.”
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will be releasing a new album, Council Skies, on June 2. The album features the singles ‘Easy Now’, ‘Pretty Boy’, ‘Dead To The World’ and ‘Council Skies’.
It will be supported by an arena tour, which kicks off in Hull on August 30.