The Futureheads frontman Barry Hyde recently revealed that Noel Gallagher once described The Futureheads as “weird” and producing “the strangest music I’ve ever heard.”
During NME’s ‘In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!’, they quiz an artist on their own career and see how much they remember. Noel Gallagher had once labeled the band weird and Hyde has opened up on the matter.
Barry Hyde talks about Noel Gallagher
“We were on tour supporting The Zutons. At Shepherd’s Bush Empire, we saw Noel Gallagher at the bar, and I told him my first ever gig was Oasis aged 15 at the Newcastle Arena and it was traumatising because I lost my shoes because the crowd was so insane. I left wearing only one shoe. He replied: ‘Well, don’t ask me for the money!” He was really funny. Then he told me we were the weirdest band he’d ever heard, because we had these unusual songs influenced by so-called post-punk, art-punk math-rock and new wave.”
“We later ended up supporting Oasis at Hampden Park in Glasgow [in 2005]. Me and my brother’s first ever band as teenagers was an Oasis cover band, so having Noel watching us from the side of the stage was a buzz.”
Oasis recently reunited on August 27th this year which is 15 years after the Gallagher brothers had a feud that broke up the band. Ticket prices became a hot topic because people had to pay more than double due to dynamic pricing.
The band is also set to cancel all tickets sold on secondary websites for their UK tour. Live Nation and SJM, the band’s promoters, said over 50,000 tickets will be voided. Canceled tickets will be available again on Ticketmaster at the original price. Oasis had 1.4 million tickets for their UK shows, but over 10 million fans from 158 countries tried to get them, leading to high resale prices.
