Noel Gallagher loves to talk and he has many unpleasant opinions about celebrities, royals and pop stars of the day. Noel is currently promoting his new album, which has him giving interviews to various music publications. Journalists must love interviewing him because – say what you want about him – the man gives a great and memorable quote. Recently, he was asked about Matt Healy and the 1975, and he called Healy a “slack-jawed f–kwit.” So of course the next person who interviewed Noel had to ask him about Healy and the 1975 again. Once again, Noel is just giving away these quotes for free:
Noel Gallagher has once again taken a brief respite from clashing with his brother to poke fun at another target: The 1975. Gallagher has been making the rounds in support of his new album Council Skies, and interviewers have focused in on quotes by the 1975’s Matty Healy saying that Oasis should just “grow up… Get back together, stop messing around.” In a conversation with NME published Saturday — the day after Council Skies’ release — Gallagher doubled down on his hatred of the 1975.
“Oasis’ influence, I think, was for people to f–king start a band in the first place,” Gallagher said of the current rock scene. “I do meet loads of guys who say that and that’s great. There are a lot of them around, it’s just a pity guitar music has become marginalized. You’ve either got to be rock, or that f–king [The] 1975. At the BRITs, The 1975 won Best Rock or some f–king sh-t.”
Gallagher continued, “I was watching it with my kids, two teenage lads, thinking, ‘Is it me being a grumpy old man, or is this sh-t?’ They were both going, ‘Oh no, this is f–king sh-t’. The 1975, Best Rock Band? Someone needs to re-define that immediately, because that is… I don’t know what that is, but it’s certainly not f–king rock. Whatever rock is, that’s not it.”
Liam Gallagher, perhaps the more outspoken brother, has surprisingly taken a more subdued response to Healy’s remarks: When asked by a Twitter follower, “Matty Healy says you’re just wasting your time and you should stop being like children… what do you think?,” Liam responded simply, “It’s our time to waste who made [Healy] the boss of time.”
What’s funnier? “I don’t know what that is, but it’s certainly not f–king rock” or “who made Healy the boss of time?” I actually think Liam might have won this, just for pure laugh-out-loud humor. But Noel wins for his utter contempt for the actual band and their music. I actually think Noel is right about this in a narrow sense – The 1975 is a pop band more than anything else, they’re not really “rock.” But what do I know, I’ve only heard their (completely forgettable) music a few times.
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- BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend at Camperdown Park. Featuring: Matty Healey, The 1975 Where: Dundee, United Kingdom When: 27 May 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend at Camperdown Park. Featuring: Matty Healey, The 1975 Where: Dundee, United Kingdom When: 27 May 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend at Camperdown Park. Featuring: Matty Healey, The 1975 Where: Dundee, United Kingdom When: 27 May 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend at Camperdown Park. Featuring: Matty Healey, The 1975 Where: Dundee, United Kingdom When: 27 May 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
I never heard of Matt or that band before I came to this website. Will not check out their music either and removed Taylor from my playlists for the moment as well.
Hope she will try to redeem herself a little, but am disappointed.
Same – and it’s messing with me as a 45ish adult. Am I just out of the loop or are they a super niche indie band that was trying to go mainstream? Are they played on top 40 radio? All this started and everyone else seemed to say HIM?! When I was saying WHO?
Hahah, thanks. Despite being a millenial on the older side of the millenials scale, I still follow charts a bit in several countries. Never heard of them though, so I don’t think they’re that famous?
But maybe I’m wrong 😀
Never heard of them here in the UK either, Flowerlake. Tone fair, Matt is a nepo baby and now I’m sure I am not minimally interested in listening to his music ever.
AlpineWitch, I love how you put that: “I am not minimally interested in listening to his music ever.”
Didn’t know he was a nepo baby either.
@Flowerlake, I’m an elder millennial too and the only song I heard of theirs was one that was suggested to me on Spotify based on my indie playlists (“Somebody Else”?). It was entirely forgettable and did not make it onto my “likes” or any curated playlist. But from what I can remember (def not listening to that or looking any of it up) I would say they are probably categorized as “indie-pop”. After 10 years on the scene (according to Taylor’s ppl), I don’t see them having a “moment” of any sort—unless you count dating Taylor Swift as a moment. So to me they’re less than a one-hit wonder because I can’t name one hit, but what do I know? 100% with Noel on this one.
Where Oasis really that relevant that they are still being interviewed and people started bands because of them?? Maybe it’s a British thing, because the only song I know is Wonderwall, which wasn’t even their own but a cover
?? Wonderwall is their own song; it was written by Noel.
I do remember thinking it was a cover because some band was doing a retro version of it when Wonderwall was also on the charts.
So I thought the retro version was the original one at first 😀 (hey, I was a kid)
EDIT< I think this is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfZshkNZRw
They were very relevant for a period in the 1990s. I’m not British, but Wonderwall was huge on the European mainland too.
Don’t look back in anger was pretty back too.
Apart from that, I mostly know them from their arguments with each other and I think Robbie Williams.
Pretty sure Damon Albarn has something to say here, too…
Wonderwall isn’t a cover, Noel Gallagher wrote it, though it’s hugely derivative as is most of his stuff.
Oasis were a massive moment in time for the UK and Liam in particular can still give good quotes. I just think a lot of music journos continue to cover them in a bid to reclaim their youth.
Oasis was relevant not just in the UK but for any music fan in the ’90s. If Healy feels bright enough to comment on the Gallaghers and their music, and they are still around and making music why shouldn’t they respond?
I get that I am as old and grumpy as Noel but a simple google search will tell you just how successful Oasis truly were in their day and no, it wasn’t just a UK thing.
“As of 2022, the band have sold over 70 million records worldwide, and been cited by Guinness World Records as the most successful act in the United Kingdom between the years 1995 and 2005. Oasis had 22 consecutive UK top 10 hits between 1994 and 2008.”
There’s a reason people still chase Liam and Noel for quotes and it’s not just because it’s pure gold entertainment.
Oasis were massive! Probably more so in the UK but for a couple of years in the 90s before the brothers really fell out they were IT.
Exactly! which is why Healy is begging for their attention.
The 1975 is on Apple Music pop hits and I’ve listed to a few songs because 1975 is my birth year so I was drawn to the name for that reason but I found the music to be bland. Definitely not rock.
Yes. They were/are that big. As big as foo fighters, for example. Multiple huge albums and other singles you’ve probably heard. Live forever. Champagne supernova. And Noel is on tour again this summer, which is why he’s being interviewed. Got my tickets already, he’s sharing the stage with garbage!
And I feel kinda sorry for him . He booked the US tour and forgot it was World Cup years so he went on tour this week after the FA Cup final and did not realise that the Champion Lg final was a week later as he ususlly waited till the season was over before going back out and suprise,surpise his team is in the final
A nice lady from San Diego Citeh(that is how you say it) Supporters Club has invited him to go day drinking at 20.00 noon to watch it with them
Oasis was and still is a relevant band !! And Why is Noel interviewed ? Because he has been in the music industry for decades and also because he has a new album coming out this month with his band « high flying birds ».
As a teenager in the 90’s I vividly remember the Oasis vs. Blur face off in the charts one summer (not that I can remember the singles off the top of my head). They were huge and have been phenomenally successful.
I can’t wait until we don’t have to look at Matty’s gums ever again
Talk yo shit miserable ass Noel. Cook that trash ass racist. Hahahaha!
You go Noel. Never has a nice word for anyone, but in this case he’s right.
On a minor note, his haircut is amazing. I’d like to meet his barber.
Oasis was relevant and defined an era if music. I’m not British but even I could acknowledge how famous they were/are. I wish the brothers were able to put their differences aside to keep the band going.
Great pic game, as always! That Healy dude always looks the opposite of sexy in your chosen pics—sniveling.
I think they’re still relevant not because of their music, but because they talk shit like ballers, not rock stars.
GB has given us a rich history of trash talking musicians who seem to enjoy ripping into one another with salty gusto.
I actually looked up The 1975 this week on YouTube and I have to agree with Noel; they’re not rock at all. Adult pop? Is that a genre?
I liked “Somebody Else”, but mentally I can’t align Healy’s soft, light voice with his douchebag persona.
I looked them up too, because had never heard of them. Matty says, “We are NOT a pop band” at start of “Girls” video, then says they very much are not a pop band. Burn, Taylor. I can already imagine the breakup lyrics she’ll write about him–the smug poseur dissing her music. She’ll be the superficial diva in his songs, the barely talented superstar bringing him into her phony world. Maybe they need each other.
At least her songs are ear worms. I’ve already forgotten “Girls.”
I’m just enjoying the shitshow here- I’ll listen to Noel Gallagher run his mouth any day.
Dude is the ultimate “get off my lawn” grumpy Brit rock star. There are so many like Damon Albarn from Blur but to my knowledge Liam isn’t a full on Brexit wanker like Morissey or Johnny Rotten so I will enjoy his grumpy gen x shade.
Oops, I thought this was Liam. Surprised he’s being the more subdued one. But response is equally as salty lol
Ah, Noel and Liam Gallagher, I love them both.
They came from poverty and started a band that was internationally known to bc multi-millionaires.
I’m surprised either of them are even aware of MH or his weak band.
“Slack jawed fuck-wit” is such a specific insult, lol! And a correct one.
Britain may be failing in many, many ways, but we do well in producing outspoken musicians and good insults.
Lightpurple, yes, now that I think of it, I remember Keith Richard calling Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull) a “freaky, acid head flute player” when Anderson criticized Keith Richard for leaving England for tax reasons.
JFerber, Keith is the best at it. He’s gone after so many and he can do it with a brilliant one-liner or just by shrugging his shoulders and rolling his eyes.
A friend once said the best music competition show would have Keith, Elton, and Liam Gallagher as judges because the takedowns would be hilariously vicious but the best would be when they turned on one another.
Haus of Cats, I think it was Liam who insulted Goop in a very snarky, nasty way while she was dating her future husband in England. If anyone remembers the exact insult, I’d love to savor it once again.
I’m always down for some quality Goop criticism!
Liam definitely called Chris Martin a geography teacher, and possibly also called him a plant – pot.
I also remember Noel and Liam had a bust-up because Liam insinuated or downright stated that Noel’s only daughter wasn’t biologically his. They don’t play nicely with each other either!
Noel is such a boring old has-been. Matt has done some daft things but overall he’s not a bad lad and some of the music is great.
Noel is touring now with his new band and selling out venues. Their new album is expected to enter the UK charts at No. 1 and sell more than the Foo Fighters. He is most definitely not a has been.
“Matt has done some daft things but overall he’s not a bad lad”
Healy’s racist words and actions go beyond being “some daft things”. They have real impact on people and propagate an oppressive system of inequality by normalising racist behaviours.
So you think liking violent and degrading porn against black women is “daft things”? Tell me you’re racist without saying you’re racist.
Noel Gallagher is not wrong. If the subject is Rock and Roll, at best, the 1975 is a pop band. I expect to hear their music over the speakers at my local Whole Foods in five years.
Liam on Mr Paltrow: “Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher. What’s all that with writing messages about Free Trade? If he wants to write things down I’ll give him a pen and a pad of paper. Bunch of students.”
The outspoken rocker also said the ‘Yellow’ hitmaker looks like one of the characters from the children’s TV show ‘The Tweenies’, while extending his insults to the rest of the band.
He added at the time: “I’m sure he does put on a good gig, Chris Martin, the amount of money he gets paid. He looks like he’s in The Tweenies though. The whole band look beyond s***. Have they not seen any photos of The Rolling Stones? Probably not.”
They may have subsequently made up.
Noel Gallagher is that grumpy Uncle that gets drunk and ruins Christmas every year.
I listened to the “Girls” video because had never heard of the 1975. Matty says, “We are NOT a pop band” at start of the video, then says they very much are NOT a pop band. Burn, Taylor. I can imagine the breakup lyrics she’ll write about him, the smug poseur dissing her music. She’ll be the superficial diva in his. Maybe they need each other.
At least her songs are ear worms. I’ve already forgotten Girls.
I looked it up. Liam called Gwyneth Paltrow “a gawky bird.” He’s not wrong.
Noel Gallagher giving his opinion on Matt Healy is a little like teapot calling kettle a bit of dickhead.