Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn apparently buried the hatchet after meeting in a London club recently.
If you can remember the 90s then you probably weren’t there. With the Conservative government decaying and New Labour on the rise, class distinctions again reared their head in the UK.
In one of British pop’s most iconic moments, Northern working class heroes Oasis faced off against Southern middle class artisans Blur. Of course, the battle lines weren’t as clear cut as that but in the eyes of the press this was a battle royale played out across the Top 40.
With temperatures rising on both sides of the fence, Noel Gallagher gave an infamous interview in which he stated that he hoped Damon Albarn and Alex James would both dies of AIDs.
In retrospect, a rather silly and out of character moment from the Oasis lynchpin. Speaking to Shortlist, Noel Gallagher explained that he actually bumped into Damon Albarn recently and the pair really hit it off.
“Funnily enough, when I was out last night, I bumped into him. I literally haven’t seen the guy for 15 fucking years and I bump into him in some club. We both went, ‘Hey! Fucking hell!’ and then he said, ‘Come on, let’s go for a beer.'”
Continuing, Noel Gallagher said: “So, we’re sitting there, having a beer, just going, ‘What the fuck was all that about 15 years ago? That was mental.’ Then he said, ‘It was a great time, though,’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, it was a fucking good laugh.'”
Elsewhere, Noel Gallagher mused on his life after Oasis. The songwriter spent time in the wilderness but revealed that had an offer come in from Kasabian he would have joined the Leicester band.
“I would’ve joined that band in a heartbeat but they never asked,” he said. “I never really got calls off anyone. I never had Bono phoning me, saying, ‘I’ve always thought The Edge could do with some back-up’. So, if you’re reading this and you’re in a band that sells in excess of 15 to 20 million albums and you need a rhythm guitarist, then…”
‘Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ is out now.
