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Oasis' Noel Gallagher hopes the credit crunch worsens

Guitarist jokes that it'll help him write better songs

March 3, 2009 | 19 Comments
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Oasis' Noel Gallagher has joked that he hopes the global financial crisis gets worse – because it will help bands write better music.

He compared the current financial climate to conditions in the early '90s when the Manchester band started out, joking that he hoped a similar resurgence in the quality of music would occur.

"I hope the financial crisis gets a bit worse - at least we'll get a few good albums out of it," he told That's Shanghai.

He added: "When we started in the early 90s it was a pretty grim time when the Conservative [party] was still in power. Times of crisis usually bring out the best in music and fashion and politics and things like that."

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onethirtyeight

Mar 3, 2009

What a wanker. Really. Just shut the fuck up Noel.

TOMQ84

Mar 3, 2009

Show a bit of respect for the legend that is Noel Gallagher.If you dont like what he is saying dont read the article simple as that, instead go knock one off over the one eyed dwarf that is Thom Yorke, that you all love so much.

little james

Mar 3, 2009

onethirtyeight, it's sad how bitter people are towards Noel. Why do you care about him so much? It wouldn't be the fact he's more succesful and popular than yourself or bands you think are cool to like would it? Pretty funny quote with a fair bit of truth to it. Noel for Prime Minister is my shout.

the*strokes

Mar 3, 2009

What a cock! Easy to say when you've got shit loads of money from peddaling the same old shit! Nobber!

StockholmSyndrome182

Mar 3, 2009

I think he may have been joking 'onethirtyeight'. Are you okay?

Mike.T.

Mar 3, 2009

Nothing could help that monoeyebrowed twat write decent music.

Pupox

Mar 3, 2009

Even if he's joking it's sad, there's people paying attention to whatever he says who don't have a job now and probably have spend money on his music...How about 'I hope financial crisis ends'?

Gerbalism

Mar 3, 2009

Anything to take away the attention of your shite 'dreary rock for dumb people' music.

eggy1609

Mar 3, 2009

People on here will probly give him a shit load if stick for saying this but he isn't saying that he wants people to lose there jobs and businesses to to bust he is saying that during times when the economy is fucked like it is now record companies are only gonna sign bands that will sell records and tickets I'm only 18 but I know that during the last recession music improved the stone roses came out and the whole spike island thing happened. If you look through the years during recessions only the best bands get signed last time bands such as blur the verve and oasis themselves were signed and then britpop happened

eagle1967

Mar 3, 2009

i think he's saying he hasn't written anything decent since the 90s, fare point. Decent, obviously being used on loose terms here considering the drone of the Oasis monkeys.

Craig2uk

Mar 4, 2009

pupox, "theres people paying attention to whatever he says who don't have a job now", you say that as though through listening to Noel Gallagher, these people have lost their jobs. By the way he's completely right, in times of crisis music gets much better, people batten down the hatches, look for an escape, find their voice...whatever, music just sounds better when things are f*cked...I wouldn't ordinarily use an asterix, but I don't know the etiquette

RichKid 1980s

Mar 4, 2009

although there's an element of truth in what he's saying, i don't think a multi-millionaire musical con artist, whose dreary commerical football stand pub-rock has sporned thousands of shite bands across the world today, has any right to a) make-out that millions of people enduring financial grief isn't an issue, b) give his opinion on 'good recession music', given that his band rose to prominence during the New Labour boom years. Twat.

TOMQ84

Mar 4, 2009

Jealous Bitter Bastards, what more can I say.Oh Manchester, (Oh Manchester), is wonderful (is wonderful) oh manchester is wonderful.

spunkydory

Mar 4, 2009

You've got to love Noel Gallagher, his off the cuff comments always bring about a reasurring level of whining from those with an severe irony deficiency. He wasn't born rich, he was penniless in Tory Britain until he was 27 when the 'recession effect' he's describing took place and he wrote some timeless tunes about being skint and jobless, becoming the biggest band in the country at the most miserable time since the Smiths were pouting outside Salford Boy's Club. Labour's 'prosperous' Rule Britannia brigade didn't get elected until 1997 at which time Oasis released their 3rd album, after 3 years gaining massive success during Major's tenure. As such, Noel's in about the fairest position imaginable to be able to make this sort of remark

Craig2uk

Mar 4, 2009

New Labour weren't elected until 1997, 'Britpop' happened under the Tories and was on its last legs by the time Tony waltzed into number 10, also what he said is fairly tongue in cheek, as is with most of what he says, by the way TOMQ84, you're a total cock, whilst I am a big fan of Manchester, its racist tit-a-ma-boobs such as you that give Britain a bad name

MartynDavenport

Mar 4, 2009

I'm sick of trying to justify arguments against this guy, and similarly sick of stupid people blindly defending him, so I'll limit the argument to one very apt word, prick.

Gerbalism

Mar 4, 2009

Jealous? I just feel sorry for the naive fans who have had to put up with shite album after shite album for over 10 years.

RichKid 1980s

Mar 4, 2009

i think you'll find that Britain's last recession was in the late 80s, when Noel was working as Inspiral Carpet's roadie, not living as a semi-homeless pauper on the 'mean streets' of Manchester, nor inspiring the nation with politically-inspired anti Tory pop songs (since when has he talked of himself as some sort of recession-formed political rock great, until now????). You'll also find that The Gallaghers didn't grow up in some squat, and that they actually grew up on a fairly respectable middle-class road in a fairly respectable part of Manchester where i'm sure a few people were voting Tory, contrary to popular belief and the copius amounts of bullshit they have been talking for the last 15 years. Talking of copius amounts of bullshit, how have, for nearly 2 decades, these nob-warts fooled the majority of UK "music fans" into believing that their bad Beatles rip-offs warrant them a place amongst Britain's best ever bands? I mean, i know you Oasis fans are as thick as bull turd, but you should have seen through this farcical con by now!

Splendid Fool

Mar 8, 2009

Noel thinks he is as funny as he is a music genius. He fools himself on both cunts... er... counts. Believing you write better music while economy goes down the drain is akin to believing you write better music while on drugs. And as it can be argued that most Oasis music was written while the Gallaghers were on drugs...