Noel Gallagher has described his teenage fans as “f****** idiots” for wanting him to play Oasis songs at his gigs with new band High Flying Birds.
The Mancunian musician, 52, said that the new generation of Oasis fans “hate” his new material and arrive at his gigs dressed as his brother and former bandmate Liam.
“When I play those songs it is an incredible thing since the documentary Supersonic came out,” he told The Sun. “It has reinvigorated a whole new fan base.
“Sadly they all do turn up to the gigs dressed as Liam with four pairs of sunglasses on, rolling around going ‘I’m mad for it.’
“The new stuff that I am doing, they f****** hate it. Which makes me want to do it more. You little f****** idiot, you are only 15.”
He added that the new fans would only have been small children when Oasis broke up in 2009, telling the publication: “What the f***! [They] were only ten when the band broke up. F*** off.”
He went on to reveal that he never gets nervous ahead of gigs because “all these people have paid to see me and the only person in this f****** building who’s me is me.”
Noel left Oasis in 2009 following a series of rows with his brother and now releases music with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
Liam went on to record with other Oasis bandmates under the new name Beady Eye until 2014. He is set to release his second solo album on September 20.
Addressing his departure from the Britpop band in an interview with Radio 5 Live in June, Noel admitted that leaving the group was “not much of a struggle” as they had become “dictated to by [their] audience.”
“They wanted stadium rock and we thought that was it,” he continued.
“Towards the end of Oasis I was getting restless and bored with the music.”
