Noel Gallagher says Glastonbury is ‘a bit woke now’ and criticises political musicians

Ben Beaumont-Thomas - TheGuardian - 05/07
Former Oasis guitarist describes festival, which has long championed political causes, as ‘kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling’

Noel Gallagher has decried Glastonbury festival, long a champion of leftwing political causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, as “getting a bit woke now”.

Speaking to the Sun, the former Oasis guitarist said: “It’s getting a bit woke now, that place, and a bit kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling. I don’t like it in music – little fucking 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. Fuck the Tories man,’ and all that. It’s like, look – play your fucking tunes and get off.”

Gallagher regularly attends Glastonbury as a festivalgoer, including this year’s event, and made his solo performance debut there in 2022 fronting Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

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