Sorry if this has already been posted - couldn't find it.
So, is he still idolising John Lennon? And, if so, how do we get from "Give Peace a Chance" to string em up?
Fucker.
Noel Gallagher wants to be the next British Prime Minister - and has promised to bring back hanging if elected.
The Oasis star insists the major political parties in the U.K. are not worth voting for, and he is ready to "sort the country out."
Noel - who famously had drinks with current PM Tony Blair after the Labor party won power in 1997 - said: "I'm considering standing for election myself, if I'm honest. I've worked this out and I could sort the country out in a year-and-a-half. I'd definitely bring back hanging for starters. All these violent offenders - you get convicted three times by three separate juries then you're going to the gallows.
"If by any off-chance some evidence comes up that you might have been innocent, and it could be proved beyond all reasonable doubt your next of kin gets $667,000. Vote for me!"
The 39-year-old rocker famously said Blair "was giving hope to the kids of this country" in his award acceptance speech at the 1996 BRITs.
Meanwhile, Noel has issued a come and get me plea to Glastonbury organizer Michael Eavis. The musician is desperate to perform his solo acoustic set - which won rave reviews at this week's Teenage Cancer Trust charity concerts - at the world famous music event and is hoping to be asked.
Noel, who headlined the festival with Oasis in 1995 and 2004, said: "Glastonbury acoustic tent sounds nice. That would be good. If I say that maybe Mr. Eavis will give me a call! Saying that he'd probably put me on at the same time as Arctic Monkeys. The best slot is second on the bill on the Other Stage. I've never had that slot at Glastonbury, but we've done it at foreign festivals and it's great."
― hobart paving, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I watched a Russell Brand DVD the other day, and they kept cutting to Noel in the audience, laughing at references to opiates. Perhaps that's where he got the idea.
What is BBcode and do I want to convert to it?
― PJ Miller, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
It was a few days ago, I think.
I don't think the hanging bit was a joke, which was the bit that annoyed me most. The sight of him running for Prime Minister would actually be quite amusing. Until he got in.
― hobart paving, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
(snip stuff that for some reason i can't get to post; not sure what the problem is)
ah! he said 500 grand. this story is doing the rounds in some weird ways.
from what i can tell this originated in a radio one newsbeat interview, but i might be way wrong there.
anyway. what a fucking chump he is. but we knew that anyway.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
(the problem, incidentally, is that you can't post a $ symbol inside emphasis tags. well bugger me.)
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
if he's joking this is hilarious
if he's serious this is terrifying and hilarious
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link