This week, former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher proposed that rock music has all however pushed out the working class. His reasoning? That devices are costly and rehearsal areas are briefly provide.
The subject got here up when Gallagher thought of if there may ever be one other Oasis. Would financial inequality stop circumstances like those who brought on the alt-rock band’s Nineties Britpop reign led by Gallagher and his brother, ex-Oasis singer and present solo artist Liam Gallagher?
“The place are the 14-year-olds in bands now?” Noel requested the Daily Mirror on Wednesday (March 9). “Working class youngsters cannot afford to do it now, as a result of guitars are costly, there is no rehearsal rooms. They’ve all been changed into wine bars and flats.”
He added, “4 or 5 guys from a council property cannot afford guitars.”
In the meantime, there are “a great deal of center class bands” with members who put on guitars “versus enjoying them,” the 54-year-old musician, who at the moment fronts Noel Gallagher’s Excessive Flying Birds, opined.
However issues are rather a lot completely different now from how they had been on the peak of Oasis’ recognition 25 years in the past. Nonetheless, Noel touted the band’s continued success, which he appeared to credit score to his brother.
“Oasis bought 480,000 albums in 2021,” he mentioned. “It is unbelievable, as folks do not buy albums. Liam retains the flame alive.”
Final month, Liam defended Taylor Swift after the pop star condemned Damon Albarn, the bandleader of Blur and Gorillaz, for saying Swift did not write her songs herself. Blur and Oasis had been large Britpop rivals within the ’90s. However there does not appear to be an Oasis reunion imminent, although Liam has hinted at it.
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