Fed up with the violence in London: Noel Gallagher
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Combative tones from the speaker of the British music scene. In an interview with the London daily newspaper “Daily Mirror”, Noel Gallagher said with regard to today’s offspring: Current rock music has become far “too much middle class”. Working class kids, on the other hand, can no longer afford to start a band, says Gallagher. The rise of a band like Oasis would no longer be conceivable today.
In the early 1990s, it would have been possible for the Gallagher twins to work their way up from the working-class suburb of Burnage near Manchester. 30 years there would not be this chance anymore. Gallagher’s culturally pessimistic point of view coincides with voices from the academic field, such as “Pop Professor” Robert Loss or “Guardian” critic Dorian Lynskey, who have long been aware of a change in the origin of pop musicians.
For Gallagher, lost social structures meet an uncomfortable pose: “Working-class children can no longer afford it because guitars are expensive and there are no more rehearsal rooms. They’ve all been converted into wine bars or lofts.” There would be a lot of middle-class bands by now whose members carry their guitars around instead of playing them. For guys from the Council Blocks something like that is priceless.
However, his key question “Where are 14-year-olds in bands these days?” can also be answered to the effect that the rock band format is no longer the official dream of teenagers when it comes to bedroom productions in the field of electronics and hip-hop (keyword: grime). , like in the early 1990s. Lower-class kids in particular are now looking for other means of expression beyond the traditional (guitar rock) model.
The (late) career of their own band, which broke up in 2009, does not seem to be affected. His brother Liam would continue to play the old songs on his shows. “Oasis sold 480,000 albums in 2021,” he reports. “It’s actually unbelievable, because it’s always said that nobody buys albums anymore. But Liam keeps the flame alive.”
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