BritPop? No! GaelPop is back!

“We’re not Britpop, we’re Irish for a start” – Noel Gallagher

At long last, Noel and Liam Gallagher have put their differences aside and are, ahem, getting the band back together. Millions, perhaps even billions rejoiced at the news, but not everyone was best pleased with liberals, quite frankly, seething and even some joyless chuds on the Right pretending to be above it all.

Oasis vs the Woke Mind Virus

But why have the haters been crying their hearts out? Well, at least in terms of leftists, one particular reason is that similar to Morrissey, Noel has been rather outspoken in recent years (although truthfully, both him and Liam have never been the PC types). The songwriter of many a gem, he said in September 2020 during the height of the scamdemic that he refused to wear a mask despite it being made mandatory by the English government. Destroying the narrative with facts and logic, he said “I was going up to Manchester the other week and some guy’s going ‘can you put your mask on, on the train, because the transport police will get on and fine you £1,000. But you don’t have to put it on if you’re eating’. So I was saying, ‘Oh right, this killer virus that’s sweeping through the train is going to come and attack me but it’s going to see me having a sandwich and go “leave him, he’s having his lunch”?’”

This isn’t the only time Noel has called out the government. After the Manchester terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert, he lamented “Our government are seemingly powerless to f***** stop this s***. I have children and they’re growing up in London and they take the tube, I take the tube – we all take public transport because I can’t drive. And there’s bombers roaming free around the whole f***** city and the government and the one before them and the one after that will be powerless to stop it because of some hippy ideal about people’s religious beliefs.”

He also has mixed feelings on Oasis classic “Don’t Look Back in Anger” being used as an “anthem of defiance” stating “I have very, very mixed emotions about it because I felt so proud that I was connected to it somehow, and then so sad that it was happening at all.” For me Morrissey has the correct opinion on this, shared with us through his song “Bonfire of Teenagers”:

“And the silly people sing: “Don’t Look Back in Anger”

And the morons sing and sway: “Don’t Look Back in Anger”

I can assure you I will look back in anger ’till the day I die.” 

Speaking of silly people singing, Noel is not a fan of what Glastonbury has become with every act feeling the need to make a political statement instead of simply performing: “It’s getting a bit woke now, that place, and a bit kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signaling. I don’t like it in music, little f**king idiots waving flags around and making political statements and bands taking the stage and saying, ‘Hey guys, isn’t war ­terrible, yeah? Let’s all boo war. F*** the Tories man,’ and all that.”

I’ve touched on Noel’s outspokenness, but what of Liam’s? Well at the Q Awards in 2000, it is reported that rkid, reminiscent of one of the lads who’s had a few too many rock shandies, repeatedly shouted “queer” at Robbie Williams and “lesbian” at Kylie Minogue. On a side note, there are now people who identify as “queer”, can you believe this folks? Next we’ll have people labelling themselves as “faggot.”

Of course the aforementioned jibes are classics, but have you heard of what Liam called a black paparazzi man who was taking photographs of him outside the hospital of his newly-born son? Squaring up to the journo-vermin, he told him that “you look like a gay boys arse!” Honestly if I was Liam, I would copyright that gem.

A Band of Gaels

“Oasis could never have existed, been as big, been as important, been as flawed, been as loved and loathed, if we weren’t all predominantly Irish.” – Noel Gallagher

I know that some of my readers/fans will be thinking “aren’t these the lads who have donned the butcher’s apron?” This is of course sadly true (ancestor cry), but I do think there’s a fair chance that they regret this. Allow me to elaborate (cope)…

The Gallagher brothers were born in Manchester to Irish Catholic parents Peggy and Thomas. Noel was a bit of a bowsie when he was a child, and when he was only 14 he received 6-months probation for robbing a newsagent’s. During this time, he proved the importance of being idle by teaching himself how to play guitar and was particularly inspired by a band of fellow Gaels, The Smiths. In 1983, he saw them performing “This Charming Man” on Top of the Pops and instantly became hooked, exclaiming from that day on that he “wanted to be Johnny Marr.” 

In that same year, Noel made the trip to Croke Park with his Manchester-based GAA team Oisín, playing in an exhibition match against Kilmacud Crokes. His former coach, Martin Logan, likened him to Aidan O’Shea in an interview with Newstalk: “Noel was very much along the lines of Aidan O’Shea, who would pick up the ball, run with it, and you never knew exactly what he was going to do. He was always difficult to mark, and Noel was very much like that; he’d pick up the ball and run with it. Sometimes he might lose it, but nine times out of ten, he’d play it on to someone else or get a score.”

Liam also played for Oisín and the brothers shared the same coach. He compared Liam to someone of a different sport but who is also Irish:  “We’re changing codes here, but I would regard Liam as more like a Roy Keane because he wanted to get on with the job. He gave 100%. He didn’t like losing, and if he did lose, everybody knew about it.”

Playing GAA wasn’t the only part of Irish culture and heritage that the Gallagher family brought with them to Manchester. The brothers grew up listening to Irish Rebel music and their favorite band was The Wolfe Tones. Lead singer Brian Warfield said that Noel and Liam would regularly attend their Manchester gigs before they started Oasis: “I remember them telling us they were starting a band, it was only years later when I switched on the TV and saw them, I realised it was Oasis.”

There’s also a video of the brothers driving through Manchester during their early Oasis days with Liam pointing out a record store saying “they used to have some good old Wolfe Tones records in there.” 

And now, it’s looking likely that The Wolfe Tones will be supporting Oasis at their Croke Parks gigs with Liam being asked on Twitter “What about The Wolfe Tones opening at Croke Park?” to which he replied “I’m up for it let’s do it”

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oasis album “Definitely Maybe”, Noel answered questions from fans in an interview posted to the Oasis YouTube channel. One Irish fan pondered if there was an Irish influence on the album, he responded “I guess the Irish influence is heavy in what I do and what we did as a band because we were all Irish descent. But I couldn’t pin it to one particular thing. Look, there’s a rebellious nature to Definitely Maybe, and there’s a defiance to it, and there’s a defiance and a rebellious nature to the Irish.” 

You Gotta Keep on Keeping on

It’s obvious that the Gallaghers’ Irish DNA played a significant role in them forming Oasis. A lot of this can be credited to their mother, Peggy, who brought them back to her hometown Charlestown in County Mayo every summer to ensure they did not forget their roots. To this day, the brothers continue to regularly visit here, with Liam especially having a soft spot for a pub called J.J. Finan’s and was even captured on video in 2015 singing a solo song of his before it was released called “Bold”. I hope Noel continues to speak his mind and that he won’t be silenced by freaks like Guardian journalist Simon Price, who wrote a hit piece on the band after their reunion, essentially blubbering about the topics I have discussed in this article.

P.S. Unfortunately I was unable to secure a ticket for either of the Oasis Croke Park gigs. If any of my fans have a spare one, please DM me on Twitter.