Noel Gallagher sits down in the Absolute Radio campervan for a chat with Sarah Champion backstage at the Isle of Wight Festival 2012.
Noel chats about being his own boss these days, being offered a spot on Strictly Come Dancing - and Mr Gallagher also takes a phonecall from Ian Wright...
After revealing he snubbed an approach by Strictly Come Dancing, Noel Gallagher revealed he’s hooked on ‘bird’s’ fags after capitulating to wife Sarah’s demands.
The self-conscious 45-year-old told all when he turned up to the Isle of Wight Festival yesterday to play with his High Flying Birds.
He explained to Absolute Radio: ‘When I met her, she smoked Marlboro Lights and I smoked Benson & Hedges, and she made me change to Marlboro Lights because she reckons Bensons were bad for me. And then do you know what she did? She gave up smoking.
‘So now I smoke bird’s fags and she’s the picture of health.’
Noel’s girlie turn came after he confirmed he’d knocked back the chance to learn a little rumba.
‘I did get offered to do that,’ he confirmed. ‘Yeah, with the best will in the world, no thanks, you know?’
Meanwhile, despite owning a Godlike Genius award Gallagher taunted the other celebs who used speedboats and helicopters to get to the Isle. He said: ‘It looks so undignified when you turn up in a lifejacket. All windswept, like a dog that’s had its head out of the car window for 45 minutes. Just get on the ferry with the people.’
Flying high with his new project, Gallagher said an Oasis reunion was a long time off.
The If I Had A Gun singer said: ‘Funnily enough, I spoke to Gem yesterday. I’m just getting on with it, I’m so busy I don’t really have the chance. It’s been so successful so far.’
Below is the setlist for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Hurricane Festival in Scheessel, Germany yesterday.
(It’s Good) To Be Free Everybody’s On The Run Dream On If I Had A Gun The Death Of You And Me (I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine AKA... What A Life! Talk Tonight AKA... Broken Arrow Half The World Away (Stranded On) The Wrong Beach Little By Little Don’t Look Back In Anger
Rock star and football fanatic Noel Gallagher reckons Steven Gerrard has proved once and for all that he should get the vote over Frank Lampard in midfield.
Football has always been divided about whether the two can play together for England.
But crocked Chelsea star Lampard, 34, was ruled out of Euro 2012, leaving Gerrard, 32, to run the show.
And Manchester City fan Gallagher (below) says he has done a superb job.
He thought the Liverpool skipper was man of the match against Ukraine and said: “It was the best I have ever seen him play for England. Isn’t it ironic, the debate about him and Lampard? Blah, blah, blah, blah. No more.
“It just goes to show when he is the main man, he plays like the main man.
“He has had a hand in all of England’s goals so far. He has been brilliant, dictating play, taking free-kicks, running the show.”
Gallagher believes the only way to beat Italy tonight is to bring back Andy Carroll – and continue to rely on a huge slice of luck.
He said: “For as long as I can remember we’ve never had such luck, now we seem to be getting it for once. I can see our game against Italy being goalless, a grind and us winning on penalties.
“I don’t think England can improve, they can only change the system and play Andy Carroll up front – go for the Stoke City approach.
“The quality is going to step up tenfold now we are playing Italy and, in Pirlo, they have arguably the best midfield player of the tournament.”
Gallagher compared the Ukraine victory to a “Scottish third division match”.
And he added: “Roy Hodgson has been playing like that all his career. But I still think we win will.”
British rocker Noel Gallagher played an unlikely peacemaker after defusing a fight between Reverend And The Makers star Jon Mcclure and his brother.
Gallagher, no stranger to physical and verbal spats with his brother and former Oasis bandmate Liam, invited MCClure and his sibling Chris to a wild party he threw on tour in 2009.
However, the night descended into debauchery, and Gallagher had to pull apart the MCClures after they almost came to blows.
MCClure tells Britain's The Sun, "It was the final gig and Noel said, 'This is mash-up (heavy partying) night. We're going to the moon. Book your tickets.'
"We were all off our nuts (drunk). My brother and I were squaring up to each other and Noel had to step in. He said, 'Ah, this reminds me of another couple of brothers,' then just walked off."
Oasis broke up in 2009 following an explosive bust-up backstage at a gig in France, and the pair has since become embroiled in a legal battle, with Liam suing Noel for libel.
From Noel Gallagher's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' tour diary.
Comrades . . . this cold is fucking killing me (man!).
Horrible, horrible couple of days. I fucking hate being a sick boy. It’s at times like this I wish I was still in a band so I could just shuffle onstage and stand at the back. Not good.
Anyway . . . all that being said Gdansk was great. What a lovely place. Super nice people.
Did a great show in one of the fan parks. There were English, Irish, Germans, Greeks, Italians and even a few locals there. Lively bunch and all. There was a brilliant sign being held up all the way through the gig that simply read "I LOVE BLUR!!" (the word love being substituted for a love heart). Someone must've made that in the 90's and just bided their time on the off chance that ONE DAY one of those Gallagher boys would be in town. I did laugh.
Legged it sharpish back to the hotel. Sniffling. All bunged up. Horrible. So I'm not sleeping too well, (as you can't breath all that well with a cold innit?), when at 6am on the dot the fucking fire alarm goes off in the hotel!!! Now usually these things don't last for more than 5 minutes but this time the bastard hotel was EVACUATED!!!!!! It was barely getting light AND it was raining. So I'm stood outside in a proper fury. Fucked. Colded up to raas when what could only be described as a fucking fat idiot marches up to me and with no pre-amble put's his fat fucking idiot arm around me pulls out his fat fucking idiot phone and says . . . (and you KNOW what's coming next!) . . . “quick picture?" My response can only be described – visually - like this:
It's SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING!! We've been evacuated from our beds in the rain and your first thought (after checking if the buffet was open presumably) is to start mithering for a fucking picture?? Seriously?
Former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has caught onto the feel-good vibe of Euro 2012 with his High Flying Birds concert in Gdansk.
With the quarter-finals getting underway from Thursday, Gallagher's concert comes at the perfect time to take fans' minds off of the eagerly anticipated clashes.
Support acts included The Vaccines and Ziemianie at Plac Zebran Ludowych on Wednesday night as over 30,000 fans attended.
The concert in the fan zone is one positive among several off-field negatives at the tournament this year, with several fines issued for racism from fan groups.