I resent the way you have to know about it. I don’t really take much notice of American politics.

Is Canada preparing for an influx of refugees? ’Cause they’ve got enough s- on Clinton, haven’t they? Aren’t those two in it up to their armpits? Then you’ve got the comedic genius that is Donald Trump. It’s him and Clinton, innit? Which pretty much means America’s f-ed.

I checked out Donald Trump’s bets bits on YouTube. Well, minutes before he planned to ambush Neil Young with a question of his own during a function at Young’s office - specifically, Gallagher wanted to ask why Young hired guitar prodigy Nils Lofgren for After the Gold Rush then had him play piano - the Oasis troublemaker agreed to answer some of ours. “There was clearly a bit from ’93 to ’97 where every song I wrote was f-ing amazing,” he offers, “then a bit from ’97 to 2000 where they were f-ing awful.” politics, to his fractious family relations, to his own golden-age output. Nothing is out of the firing range of his corrosive candour, from U.S. Reached in London as he prepared for a North American tour with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds that’s Toronto-bound on July 10, Gallagher was ever the rollicking conversationalist seemingly able to generate caustic quotables on virtually any topic.

As Noel Gallagher approaches 50, rest assured the fire in his heart isn’t out - and neither is the acid in his tongue.

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