Rock Idols - Interview with Noel and Lime Gallagher...

                           
                           
                           
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    OASIS: интервью с Ноэлeм и Лaймом     
                Гaллaxeрaми               
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                                11/10/2004
                                          
Когда Лайм Гaллaxeр был маленьким, в школе
на обед он ел картошку фри - иногда с мяс-
нойgravy, sometimes with curry sauce.
Fifteen years later, 36 million albums
mov and some cool life scrapes
he still dines on the same thing: fried ca-
mouthpiece with curry - served in a paper wrapper
chum salmon with a plastic plate and plastic
with a fork. He lays it all out on
shining glass table in a cool bar
from our hotel: today he gets a bag of potatoes
brought from the diner around the corner, and yesterday
he went there himself. "And there are children looking at me...
some immediately attacked. Probably thought-
or that I am Gareth Gates. I don't eat in London
potatoes with curry, and not with gravy either
I eat, so every time I come
here, I'm just having a blast. Help yourself."      
                                          
 Wow, and at the same time so flawless
skin. Lime Gallagher, approaching thirty
these years, no matter how unpleasant this will be
who can hear, every day everything is fine -
et.  Today he is not wearing sunglasses, he
got up early and went to bed early (why did he care?
hurt, he knew that the bar was open until the
seven in the morning), and his eyes are two colossal
motionless deep blue disks, a
eyelashes so black you'd think
Lime is equipped with some kind of magical built-in
Revlon mascara. Such beautiful eyes that,
you know, it's even funny.    Meanwhile, Noel, who is 35, is hiding
has eyes behind dark glasses, because
that he feels "like crap", he
terrible hangover, but nothing that is impossible
it would be a life-saving fix
"cup-of-tea-and-sleep."  However, even about
such a tortured Noel can be straightened out
say with your soul: he, too, is all good and good-
grows: he has beautiful hair, stylish
stubble, and eyes hidden behind dark glasses -
the brightest blue color. Nothing about this is
Brom's face doesn't remind me of the recent terrible
accident that Noel got into while extinguishing
trolls across America.  "You lie in bed all
so rumpled, - recalls Noel, collapsed
lying on the sofa next to Lime, taking off his glasses
and refusing the offered potatoes, -
and you think: "If I were Thom Yorke or
Fran Healy, I would have already written about this story
riya a whole gift box of discs", but,
damn, I don't know how to write fuckin songs like
(sings): "O-ooh, I was driving down the road, and suddenly
Betpoboro fragments rained down on my face
glass-a-a..."  I'm lucky that there's still
you tell me. James Dean was unlucky, but I was
lucky. Just thinkcrashed and further along
walked - not the coolest event in my life
know That's when I get a bottle of Vicodin -
tili, yes, it was cool. fucking cool.   
                                          
- It turns out that such a close meeting with cmep-
didn't it influence you at all?            
                                          
- No, well, if only at 20 miles per hour faster -
Yeah... - he shrugs. - Yes, so -
everything worked out, so what about it now?      
                                          
- You, Lime, probably scared you to death-
Xia?                                       
                                          
Noel: Yes, he had five days off! He
I was happy!                             
Lime: I was drunk as hell then, but immediately
I sobered up when I heard this. "What are you doing? -
I said. “What the hell kind of car accident?!”
No, dude, it sucked, but he was lucky -
lo, and now it's all over.                  
Noel: It was funny: I was worried about my mother and
for my daughter and all that, but the worstit was
that my favorite sunglasses were ra-
beaten to pieces - it really pissed me off.
My purple glasses, I had six of them
yo, my Captain Kirk glasses!             
Lime: He then put them on and said: “That’s how
I looked like when I got out of the car (image)
fawns over a man with broken glasses." One
there is one point, there is no other, and everything is bent -
that is.                                      
                                          
This year no one managed to defeat Oa-
sis. The new single "Little Wu Little" is
their first real classic in a while
for many years("Cool words" - rightly
notices Lime), a popularity of the song "She
Is Love" didn't hurt at all by the fact
that the woman it was written about
Sarah MacDonald is no longer a "bird"
"Whoa" Noela.                               
                                          
- I know how to switch off, - says Noel.- So
happens with all songs - “she” can o-
start anything: your favorite car
well, a guitar ora new pair of sneakers.          
Lime: Well, at least now in this
The song is about exactly this - about sneakers. Xe-
xe-xe.                                    
Noel: In America, some idiot wrote,
that we are going to ban the release of this
singlea. (Presses an imaginary work to his ear
bku.) "Uh, Sony Music? This is Noel from Oa-
sis... here my lady and I parted ways,
so you there, please stop pro-
cess, can we take this song off the album?
ma?" Fuck off!                    
                                          
 Less than five minutes have passed since returning
Noela G. to his homeland, as he immediately
was nice to all the yellow press and popular
British TV show.                         
                                          
- Has anyone even noticed that they are
on TV in these reality shows
they say not just some fuckin
morons from the Tesco store, and famous
tey? Program "The Last Horseradish in the Jungle"
or whatever ee... Why don't they show
any old series?  No, insteadThis is why they have Geri Halliwell, motherfucker.
You look at it and think: "Listen, eat it
fuckin chocolate, aunt! You weigh, damn it,
two pounds! Eat a milk bar with ara-
xucom, have a beer and go to bed, there you go
I'm growing! And if you type too much fuckin
pound, get on the fuckin treadmill,
like the rest of us, you fucking loser!"          
Lime: They are all crap, every single one of them. Vo-
in general, this interview of ours is no longer hpa-
it turns out because everyone is crap.  Everyone will
read it and say: well, here it is again
couple of bastards!                            
Noel: Hmm, not even ten minutes have passed, and we
They've already thrown shit at everyone. Well why don't we
can we be like everyone else?                       
                                          
- Concert in Manchester for 50,000 spectators-
lei is a triumphant return home
or just another performance?         
                                          
Noel: Today I spoke with a woman
shina, and she told me: "Could you
give an autograph for my son, yesterday he wanted towent to your concert, and it was absolutely the most
his first concert, he didn’t want to go to
other concerts until I visit-
on Oasis". This guy, he came home
in tears.  He and his teenage brother are both
We were at a concert for the first time in our lives. I hope
they will grow up and become a group.            
Lime, chewing potatoes: This is the main thing.          
                                          
- Coming to Manchester, you feel that
back home?                          
                                          
Noel: I love coming here. When I
in England, I try to come here every
Saturday. If I didn't have a daughter,
who lives in London, I would go back here
yes for good. The friends you grew up with
remain exactly the same, they're all like that
they smoke weed and say: "Well, namana?"
- and pat you on the shoulder as if
you've never been shown on TV.
You walk along the central streets and think:
"There are no paparazzi or journalists here, they
they simply don’t live here" I could rent a staff
us and walk down Market Streetnaked with nazis
with a cap on his head, and that’s all
pointed a finger at me and said: "Oh, by-
look at the idiot."                    
                                          
- How would you describe the people of Manchester?   
                                          
Lime: These are people who seem to
totally crap, but actually perfect
but it doesn't give a fuck at all. Such people who
Rym doesn’t seem to care about anything, but about the sa-
In fact, I really don’t even give a damn. They don't
don't care more than anyone at all
all over the earth.                            
Noel: When the royalists reached Manches-
Tera, everyone here is like this: "What kind of fuckin co-
role? That guy in tpehukax? No, not a damn thing.
We will have a parliament." I think Manchesterers
look like Italians.  Never been to
a room full of Manchesterites?  Who everyone
nepeopet, he's right.                     
                                          
- Those famous concerts of The Verve and Stone
Roses in Manchester - was that cool?   Lime: The Stone Roses were fucking killer
veins. Damn yes. But I had one task -
cha - see their heads on stage and eat -
sya with comrades.  When I remember now
that day, then I understand that the music was de-
shitty, but we hung out quite a bit - that
there was still a crowd.                         
Noel: The other day I watched a recording of that end-
mouth and damn near burst into tears. They all
looked like such freaks - well, except for Mani,
of course. I was there with my girlfriend and I
then I managed to get behind the stage - the first
once in a lifetime! - and it turned out to be so fuckin
boring: some people are jostling, smoking, and
we were hoping to see naked women there,
handing out 50 pound notes. So we
They quickly got out of there. We just then
didn’t understand anything - this happens to everyone in
first time.                               
                                          
- Are you playing with Richard Mashcroft again? 
                                          
Lime: He came to me and called nokata-
on his new car.  I almost mentioned
fucked because he just passed it the other day
driving test. On this white car of his
then Elvis for 50 fuckin thousand. He's like this:
"Let's lower the top", and I think: "We'll be like
live on a real couple of real dicks,
if we start driving around London with full
riding this... nah, dude, po-
back to top in days!"  Damn, I just
I love it.                                   
Noel: He plays you some of his songs
sings a song and says something all the way, a
then like this: "So how?" - and you to him: "Yours
Mother, you’ve been saying something the whole song!”
He (Lime - NME) is the same! It's in their minds
She, do you understand? You can't portray it if it's...
no. Sometimes you look at someone
TV and think:  "Well, yes, dude, you
you say the right things, you are wearing the right
your clothes and hairstyle are correct,
but despite all this you are a complete idiot
and you know it yourself."  - However, they say that music rules the world again -
rum                                      
                                        
Lime:  But rock and roll stars are still
no. Full of different groups, but not a single star
y rock and roll. Nowhere.                    
Noel: I agree with Lime.  England needs
cool band whose first five singles were
would have taken first place in the hit parade. which
would give big, huge concerts,
10,000 people every evening, otherwise - a penny
her price.The Vines andThe Strokes - this is not
then. Their music is cool, I like it, but
they speak with a foreign accent and sing
not about that. I've never been touched by anyone
one American group.  It's not themselves that are important
bands, a the people who play in them, a
they don't say a damn thing. This guy
from The Vines squeals and screams until it's crazy -
niya, but all I know about him is that
he is a fan of McDonald's.  Cool. For the sake of
this can be explainedourselves people, right-
yes? For crap fast food.            
                                          
- But recently in the north of England
Are there still good bands emerging?       
                                          
Noel: OnlyThe Coral. Nothing else.    
                                          
- A The Music?                            
                                        
Both: Shit.                              
Noel: Dog poop, friend.           
Lime: He has a voice like a witch.          
Noel: If people like it, great,
fuckin the flag in their hands, but it's fuckin cheating
nothingness, that's what it is.                    
Lime: There may be clouds, and clouds, and
clouds and cloudsdifferent groups, but if in them
no personalities, then it's no fucking crap-
doesn't mean anything. There may be clouds on the table and
clouds of different booze, but if it’s not alcoholic
flax, then this is complete crap.  On the table
maybe a shitload of cigarettes, but if
These are the kind of cigarettes that you can't get rid of.
stop fucking cancer, then this is shit, not
cigarettes.                                 
                                          
- Complete the statement: “Youth in our
days..."                                 
                                          
Lime: ...too fucking relaxed. Im
everything comes very easily. Everyone is sitting at home in
on the Internet, at the age of 18 they are already walking in circles
the best clothes, holy shit: sneakers for 80 pounds -
Comrade! Yes, at that age we only had
fuckin a pair of jeans, one jacket and a crossover
ki for seven pounds.                       
                                          
- So, are you giving an economic recession?       
                                          
Noel: Exactly!  We need a good world
war!  - It seems to be just around the corner.    
                                          
Noel: I don't understand all these pop stars co-
who speak(depicts the voice of a pop star-
dy): "We need to carry out democratic
debate on the topic of war."                    
Lime: I don't care at all: in war
Either you die or you wake up.  Nobody
won't listen to the idiot from the groupBlur,
or me, or someone else. Nobody nobody
where he doesn't listen to the words fuckinBo-
but...                                       
Noel:  At least there will be something to see
a third on fucking TV.  If so we
it would be very unlucky that some guy
decides to detonate a nuclear weapon, who the fuck
will be able to tell him whether it’s good to do this or
bad? And I’ll tell you what: if directly
in the middle of the program"Pop Idol"broadcast interrupted
there is an emergency message that
a bomb exploded and that the program  "Pop"
idol"I have to say goodbye to you, then I
with all hands and feet for the bomb. Because
I'm sick of all these fucking morons who...
They run around the jungle and talk about
all sorts of shitty shit. Let it be on TV
show fuckin normal things, 9 o'clock
evening - the fall of Baghdad, what the fuck,
come on, I want it to be like this! Let bu-
kids like that! I can't talk about this seriously...
I know, because I know that my opinion is conscientious.
absolutely doesn't mean anything. People in the White House
can somehow change this, but I’m just playing
heaven in the group on the guitar, we are really cool
this group, and we don’t give a damn about everything else.
                                          
- Who is to blame for the fact that the 21st century is like this?
what is he like?                            
                                          
Noel: Everything is so well disguised, who
will you blame me here?  You can't blame anyone.  More
no one hates anyone. Well, except for me
and him, of course. For everyone, everything is "normal".And
their musicis "normal".  Where would I go?
I really enjoyed going to the concert
a band that plays crap. I love lu-
dey whohate Oasis, honest word
wow, I love it.  When people come up to me and
they say: "You're crap!" - I answer them: "From-
personally! At least you didn't say that
we are"normal".  What the fuck
do you mean when you say that we are -
"okay"?I'm singing in front of you here,
I cherish my soul, and you think that this is "but-
okay"? It’s better to throw tomatoes at us-
ramie There are no extremes left in the world. Even
Conservatives have also turned into a bunch of ty-
xux idiots - where did all the evil ones go?
people? Looks like the Devil had his balls torn off...
                                          
- What should we do, guys?                   
                                          
Lime: We need a new drink. Look
to this bar.  (Looks around the steep, crowded
expensive drinks counter.)I was sitting here
yesterday, I looked at him and thought: "I
I've already seen everyone, I've already seen all of youdrank, y'all
I don't need any more, fuck off..." Drink
should be called "horseradish". Normal xpe-
new drink. "I'd like a pint of xpe, please -
na!" "What did you drink yesterday?" - "Horseradish!"     
                                          
- Why do you think this year Oa-
sis - is this such a mega?                     
                                        
Lime: Because we're really cool. Particularly
but for the people about whom everyone thinks that
they will now take it and fall face down into the as-
false.  And I always knew that our fans
will be with us because we speak the same language
language with them.  And our new album -
very good.  This, of course, is not mega-
Bom, not the best in the world, but it's a great al-
bom. And soon he will give way to the next one. 
Noel: I have already recorded demo versions of the
threex songs for the new album. And what
Lime writes, sounds like mega fuckin. Coming soon
We'll definitely make a new record. A
then our contract withendsSony
and it is unknown where it will take us. Who knows
what will we do?  Nobody knows because
that a car accident can happen to
by anyone and at any time.       
                                          
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Text: Sylvia Patterson                 
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