Paul Weller reveals why he won’t be going to see Oasis
Although he admits reunion is ‘a big cultural moment’
Paul Weller has said that he won’t be going to see Oasis on their reunion tour, despite the fact that he’s good friends with Noel Gallagher and sees the comeback as a “big cultural moment”.
Weller was being interviewed by Jo Whiley and was asked about the tour.
He said: “I’m not a big fan of big gigs. I said to Noel, a few weeks or months ago, ‘Are you going to do any warm-ups?’, which he wasn’t, but I’d go and see something like that in a smaller venue, but I just don’t like big gigs. It doesn’t matter who it was, really.”
He added: “It kind of spoils a bit for me because I want to see whoever is playing or singing, and I want to be able to see them.”
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Asked whether he wanted to go just to cheer on pal Noel, Weller replied: “You know how it’s going to go for him. It’s going to be mad.
“I said to him that it’s going to be a cultural moment because the amount of people I speak to just out on the street, not necessarily who you’d think would be an Oasis fan, but they are all going to it, and it’s a big cultural moment, I think that will be remembered forever.”
After playing a string of huge gigs in Cardiff, Manchester and London, Oasis will play Edinburgh and Dublin before moving on to North and South America.