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The Guardian - UK
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Ben Beaumont-Thomas

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

Noel Gallagher at 2024’s Glastonbury festival.
Noel Gallagher at 2024’s Glastonbury festival. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

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 on a podcast, 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.”

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