Noel Gallagher in an interview to NME has spoken out against the “mass hypnosis” that led to Brexit, while also expressing his negative views on the current state of England. He stated, “All the dreams I had growing up underneath the council skies sparked off a lot of things for me, but it was written in that god-awful period in lockdown. In isolation in those nine months where there was nothing to do, nowhere to go and no one to see.”
When asked if writing the record helped him find answers about his personal journey, Gallagher pointed to the track ‘Think Of A Number’ and its closing lyric, ‘Let’s drink to the future, I hope it comes round again.’ He admitted, “Did I find any answers? No, but I will find them, though. I don’t think it’s all doom and gloom. Although the world is a shit place now and England in general is a fucking… What has happened to this country? I have no idea. Well, I do have an idea: Brexit happened. A lot of people fell under some kind of mass hypnosis, but it’s shit England now. It was going downhill for a bit, but actually, fuck all works.”
Noel added, “Eventually, I will find the answer. The answer is: the world is a great place, it’s just inhabited by cunts, and it’s the internet’s fault. That’s just the way it is.” It is worth noting that Gallagher had previously referred to Brexit as a “fucking absolute unmitigated disaster.”
“In the outskirts of Manchester, where I was born, everything is boarded up,” Gallagher lamented. “I feel sorry for young people growing up in this country now; Brexit has been a fucking absolute unmitigated disaster. And it will be a living nightmare until some politician has the balls to put a referendum in a manifesto and run on it and go back into the EU. Nothing works in this country anymore. Politics doesn’t work. Social Services doesn’t work.”
He continued, “Politics has come to a fucking dead end. I don’t understand what any of them stand for anymore. The Tories are going to run this country into the ground and then pass it over to Labour and say fucking good luck with that.” In 2019, Gallagher faced criticism for his comments on those who wanted to overturn the result of the EU Referendum, referring to them as “the rise of the c***s.”
He later revealed that people started calling him a ‘Nazi’ because of his remarks. Damon Albarn, Gallagher’s former Britpop rival, also recently described Brexit as a “travesty” and “spiritually, economically, just rubbish.”
