Liam Gallagher: Radiohead fans are ‘boring and ugly’

It’s no secret that Oasis’ Gallagher brothers were never really into Radiohead. But just when Noel Gallagher praised the band for a change (for the ‘In Rainbows’ release: ‘they’re rebels and outsiders‘), brother Liam is at it again.

In an interview with The Times today, Liam Gallagher says he and his brother “are two totally different people and the sooner people realise that the less we can go on about it”. But yeah, I’ve mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay. I don’t hate them. I don’t wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and they don’t look like they’re having a good time.” Liam doesn’t like any contemporary bands. “Not interested. I play the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Pistols. Maybe a bit of the Roses. Don’t like modern bands. Topman music, innit?”


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  • Lyttleton

    Before anyone gets upset, are we actually sure he said that? I mean, who can even understand the guy when he speaks?

  • http://www.leahpritchard.com leah

    Who’s going to get upset over this? It’s good entertainment.

  • Me

    At least Radiohead HAS fans, millions of them. Oasis has like 13 worldwide. Don’t be so bitter Liam. Not good for your health.

  • Ryan

    And Oasis fans are football hooligan, drunken louts… I know what I’d rather be.

  • bingobongo

    oh thats liam just being a tool as usual, funny how many times the band have shared a stage, oasis and if liam hated them so much what was he doing at ‘the’ irving plaza 97 show? Must cause Noel no end of troubles considering he is best buddies with Chris Martin. Liam hates fans of all bands except kasabian and the ones hes mentioned.
    Yes Jealousy no doubt, i for one, enjoy the stupid oaf talking shit every time oasis are about to drop another turd album.

  • air_towel

    typical gallagher

  • ken

    not surprising. hes obviously a despicable human being.

  • buttercup

    Liam Gallagher THINKS?!!!

  • performingmonkey

    “At least Radiohead HAS fans, millions of them. Oasis has like 13 worldwide. ”

    Er, not exactly. Oasis have sold 50 million records worldwide! Think what you like of them they are still a massively popular band and their importance in the resurgence of British rock music shouldn’t be underestimated! I still rate them.

  • ADRI

    hahaha…that liam…

  • traverse

    and oasis fans are thumbless hairy knuckled monobrowed goobers who lick their own forearms.

    I know which I’d rather be :)

  • Sam

    I like Oasis, same with Radiohead. I also know Oasis is as good with or without Liam. Listen to the MTV Live concert they did a while back, terrific without the other brother…..cannot say that about RH as they are a unit.

  • http://khristopher.com Khristopher

    LOL oh how lame. Anythign to get attention!

  • Magic

    are u a skanger

  • Brent

    Well, I am boring and ugly. I can’t disagree with that. But I had a f*cking fantastic time at Blossom last week.

  • http://www.farawayjournal.com kurtvonnegutsson

    He thinks I’m ugly???

  • ParkaPal

    I’ll admit to liking some of Oasis’ music. Noel and the rest are pretty ok. But Liam is just an enormous prick.

  • snot

    Who’s Oasis?

  • stu

    At least Radiohead has more than two good songs Liam. Oh, and they’re more innovative than you will ever be.

  • Amneeziac

    Obviously the esteemed Mr. Gallagher didn’t take into account the possibility that Oasis fans may also be fond of Radiohead and Coldplay. What a dumbass!

  • Carson

    ahh the bitter Liam, still trying to ride the tails of wonderwall and lacking live performances with a has been band like Oasis. of course he would try to attack the greatest live band of all time! hell the greatest band of all time.

  • PC

    Yeah, fair enough. I’m ugly.

  • Scott

    Way to find the beast Ade!

    Why even bother reporting this shit?

  • bigidea

    Liam Liam Liam. When will you ever learn.

    Its funny that he said he plays “Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Pistols etc…”

    He doesn’t even play his own songs anymore…Does he realize he’s washed up ? Better yet… WHY is Times magazine interviewing a member of Oasis ?

  • sleeper

    slow news day?

  • Sam

    What I’m FIT

  • madaski

    Liam, you silly cunt. Just continue to hold on to hope that people come to your shows to hear more than just Wonderwall.

  • Seth

    “I play the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Pistols”

    And that, my friend, is why your music is stuck in the past and shows absolutely no growth.

  • Mrs Yorke

    OK, 1st of all: STOP SAYING RADIOHEAD AND COLDPLAY IN THE SAME BLOODY SENTENCE, YOU WANKER!!!!!

    Second of all, poor Liam knows that the only way he can get any attention nowadays, is if he says something stupid or controversial – or, like, gets in a fight on stage with his brother in an incomprehensible dialect so that for all we know they’re talking about muppets – so has to take the piss out of guys whose albums he probably listens to secretly, alone, in his room, as he masturbates to visions of his long forgotten years as an actual rock star, (and I will admit to liking them IN THE PAST and their silly antics IN THE PAST).

    So what do we learn from this?
    1. Liam LOVES Radiohead
    2. Liam is as uncreative as he ever was, seeing as Noel was the real brains of the operation.
    3. He is probably balding and has a wee belly forming.
    4. Speaking of wee, the nicotine and THC have probably shrunk his dick so much that he can’t even masturbate properly as he thinks of his glorious past.

  • Mrs Yorke

    Liam, I say all that out of love.

  • anon

    seems like standard procedure for people who want to get some media coverage.

    1. get interviewed by moderately popular magazine.
    2. talk trash about radiohead.
    3. ???
    4. profit.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucretius Lucretius

    ah-hem.

    “no u.”

    thank you

  • anon

    but it’s actually quite funny that he has the balls to make such a blanket statement, that every last radiohead fan is boring and ugly.

    it’s like he’s not even trying to legitimately insult them or their music, he just feels like pissing off the fanbase. he’s like a troll, but in real life.

  • dils

    fuck you liam. your music is mediocre pub rock that drunk arseholes listen to after their football matches

  • Andrew Camp

    I have quite the distates for Oasis. But, he’s right. I’ve never seen a pretty radiohead fan. Me included.

  • a

    liam gallagher only wants to be remebered, poor bitch, he dreams every night that a fan shoot him and that everyone remembers oasis like the best band of the history

    pooooor bitchy bitch

  • Your Mom

    Radiohead fans ARE boring and ugly. I mean look at you…LOOK AT YOU!!!!!

  • Zach

    I don’t know what he’s talking about…

    I am better looking then he is. Hell I bet half of us here are. He looks like a cross between David Spade and Howard Stern in that bloody picture there.

    And while I admit that the Beatles and the stones are great bands. He’s living n the past. He wont update his influences. Resulting in the same music we’ve been hearing post-wonderwall.

  • Me

    Shallow.

  • kevin

    im pretty sure im a decent looking fellow. i dont mean to be cocky or anything.

  • sophy

    not true, i’m fun and beautiful!

  • A

    bunch of piss taking haters..they’re fucking idiots that need an amazing punch to the face to wake em up..not because of what the article reads,i dont care about any of this.i’m not defending radiohead or anything . but just because they like to be hated cause they’re head is so far up they’re ass in arrogance it makes me spit..

  • wonka

    i almost feel sad for liam.

  • what?

    I’m beautiful too.

  • Janet

    “He doesn’t read, apart from to his children. “It’s Grizzly Dad today, about a dad that turns into a bear. Don’t like Dr Seuss, too smart.” He hasn’t got the patience for other books, “and it’s a form of people telling you how it is, isn’t it? I like to make my own mind up.” ”

    How smart Liam!!! you’re my idol

  • Ether82

    Hi all! This is my first comment here… nice to talk about this smart guy the very first time i’m in here ^^
    Anyway i think Lytlleton’s right, who know if this is a real Gallagher’s butade? …sorry, i cannot be upset about this kind of things… too many important things to do, like catching butterflies.

  • Alexander

    OK true story:

    The other night some friends stopped by on the way back from the pub, and my friend Margaret brought over this friend of hers who thought he was totally metal with his long black hair and rings and jewelry, so he asks if he can play one of my guitars, and he picks it up and starts playing Oasis, and I asked him to please leave…

  • Alexander

    Oh man, look how cool he looks in this picture…

    http://www.tattoos-by-design.co.uk/celebrities/images/gallagher1.jpg

  • Tommy Simpson

    LOL!!!

    How can any of you even be offended by this? This is probably the most jealous, rediculous, HILARIOUS “pot shot” I’ve ever heard. Honestly, who really cares about Oasis? They had a couple of good singles 14 years ago and have since then felt they were the second coming of The Beatles. To me, the Gallagher brothers are just as innane and irrelevant as Axl Rose (just about as comical too!).

    Keep whining Liam, no one gives a fuck! :)

  • dellan

    I am boring and ugly.

  • pedro

    at less to my mother i´m beautiful

  • Weirdfish7

    ..donkey

  • http://www.seaholm.com Yickth Woovle

    I don’t think we’d get on well.

  • Watson

    For fuck sake, some of you make other radiohead fans sound like miserable bastards, who gives a shit what this manc idiot says? Personally I like oasis, not as much as Radiohead and seeing ive met not only Liam, Noel and Thom I can say Noel is the more friendly person out of all three and yes Liam is as thick as shit and comes across as ignorant in interviews as he does in real life but again so fucking what?

  • http://www.leveautobombo.blogspot.com levedad

    oasis used to be a great band.

    (wtsmg is, probably, one of the best albums ive listened to) but they lost their magic (so did Coldplay) and Liam has been an asshole the entire time.

    so, who need to care?
    you know just what you are
    (and you know who you are with)

  • Kevin S

    Liam Gallagher is boring and ugly.

  • billy

    this dude still gets interviews? good for him.

  • Bulabula

    Who is he referring to when he says the Roses? The Stone Roses?

  • trojanpony

    As much as I love Radiohead, I would agree that their fans, on the whole, are boring and ugly.

  • http://www.devilhood.com Pawel

    So it would seem Liam completely misses the point that it’s about music, and instead acts like a vain c£$%. What does he do during his gigs, play staring matches with his audience until he orgasms? or maybe he is too drunk to realise that there are ugly people in crowds at Oasis gigs too.
    It’s fine if he prefers older stuff, but what the hell is the point in making some lame excuse to discard modern bands?
    Absolutely l-a-m-e.

  • performingmonkey

    With everyone slagging off Oasis fans it’s just as bad as what Liam says about RH’s. It’s just petty and ridiculous to say that all Oasis fans are pisshead football fans as it is to say all RH fans are ugly and boring or whatever. People generalise way too much. And for some reason people aren’t allowed to like two different kinds of music.

  • venk

    oh is that liam running his mouth again?
    frankly, i am sick of wannabe rockers referring to the old greats like the beatles, pistols etc. radiohead are an evolving, progressive machine that more creativity than some f’in washed up moron

  • Tara

    I think Liam is an Ateaser, probably TomPiltoff. Anyways, I’m more offended that we’re being lumped with Coldplay than being called ugly/boring.

  • grizz bear

    would you always maybe sometimes take it eeeasy

  • jo

    well i’m hot and interesting so i take no offense. i’m pretty sure radiohead fans are probably better looking and more interesting than oasis fans, considering most oasis fans are fat old and balding and act like morons and have no other interest than going t’pub every night. i don’t even dislike oasis. I just think their fans are wankers.

  • Joe

    Ugly? How can he justify a conclusion like that? That’s one of the biggest generalizations i’ve heard in a while. Plus, how is that even pertinent in any conversation that revolves around music? I respect oasis but damn, what a fucking idiot.

  • Used To Like Oasis

    It’s times like these that make me proud to be a Radiohead fan.

    And I was going to buy your new album Mr. Gallagher but not after you’ve insulted me.

  • http://rantingraving.wordpress.com/ Nikita

    Desperate cry for attention… he’s certainly entertaining.
    Oh, and yeah, we know he likes the Beatles… Oasis tries to sound like them but keeps missing the mark.

  • Malon

    Not according to the Montreal concert. So many hot guys there. SO MANY.

  • Thomas

    What’s this.. something like the 123901283901823th time he’s ragged on Radiohead for spotlight time? Sad way to have to promote yourself/what you do.. What a stupid fuckin cunt.. Would be great to see ateaseweb ignore pointless publicity-rants from nobodies in the future -Bringing it in the news thingy on this site gives Liam Gallagher exactly what he wants….

  • Tara

    I agree with Thomas’ post above.

  • josiah peffer

    who give a crap what Liam thinks…hes all washup, one hit wonder…screw Oasis…like they are some god given gift or talent…there just a wanna be beatles, Radiohead is one of the most progressive, influential bands of all time…and Liam thinks he opinion matters? ha ha ha

  • HCB

    funny how you guys are really upset with his comments.. if you are upset, then Liam wins.. I’m a big Radiohead fan but I also love oasis, they’re the two best bands around, without a doubt. Liam and Noel are two funny bastards, dont take him to seriously :-)

  • http://www.johngalantini.com JOHN

    Liam’s ignorance never ceases to amaze me. Foot in mouth, everytime. If anyone has been to an Oasis gig, they will know, its a shower of piss – litterally, plasic pint glasses of piss being thrown around – it’s a disgraceful night out, which you will quickly forget, unless of course, you get beaten up and made to watch your girlfriend being raped by drunk hooligans… i suppose in that instance, an Oasis gig would be unforgettable.

  • http://www.johngalantini.com JOHN

    I would also like to ask how this is Radiohead News?

  • Mad fa it

    Cant beleive u knobs get so worked up about this – he’s been doing it years – funny as fuck i think

  • Pablo

    If he is that desperate for attention I say let the monkey dance.

  • gpeddino

    OK. Next.

  • MEl

    what an idiot

  • Thiago

    This is so ridiculous, hes just trying to get attention for the new album talking about real good bands, can anyone take this asshole seriously?

    What a shame theres people like this in the world.

  • Liam woke-Up Sucking A Lemon

    So if he loves Radiohead and he’s just doing all this for publicity in order to sell his upcoming album…

    Why not just praise Radiohead and their fans? Is he trying to start another “Oasis Vs Blur” battle? But in this case to include Radiohead instead of Blur? ?? Does he see Oasis as being bigger than Radiohead?

    Liam… wake up and smell the roses.

  • Joe

    Great, and only really hardcore Oasis fans I’ve ever known have been serious douchebags and poseurs. *Yawn*

  • http://conducioc@hotmail.com o.p.one kenobi

    a quote from the best: “ive no idea what you are talking about, your mouth moves only with someones hand up your arse”
    for liam of from me with love…

  • MustyWon

    They’re just jealous because they can not come up with an original tune with out mimicking The Beatles.

  • http://www.myspace.com/elitebanda ImATumbler

    I’m beautiful no matter what they say, cos words wont bring down

    so don’t you bring me down today

  • Liam=asshat

    Liam Gallagher is a pussy! Oasis sucks.

    …and thats the truth.

  • what?

    cristina! hahahaha!

  • jimbo

    Do we have to hear about it every time this guy says something stupid? He does it for the headlines, and atease is giving him one.

  • http://myspace.com/draizetrain ramoo

    I’m quite sexy thank you very much.

  • r2d2

    fuck oasis.
    they have about three good songs.
    other than that it’s all rubbish!

    and fuck you liam i’m not boring or ugly, and i know of other fans that are genetically blessed as well.

  • Andrew L

    oasis has around 7 albums and maybe only 3 pretty good songs that i would listen to if someone put them on. where as radiohead is pure genius, and every album they’ve released blows me away. it kills me when an artist that does pretty well can not artistically recognize radiohead for their genius, similar to the genius i see in the beatles. liam gallagher needs to keep his mouth shut and start focusing on the music he produces rather than how many girls he can bang out of being in a british rock band or how much money he can make

  • Briggs

    I’m surprised he can tell that Radiohead fans are ugly since that unibrow covers half his face.

  • AFXTWIN

    Oasis sucks balls!

  • anon

    now they have exhausted all their insults
    on the band itself they’ve turned on
    their fans well at least they HAVE fans!
    Oasis, guys youve seen better days
    you’re a joke noone takes you seriously
    anymore. Reduced to dissing artists to
    get yourself in the papers – so sad!

  • mental monkey

    Liam is wrong, Radiohead fans are not ugly, I’ve had fun with some very pretty Radiohead fans, they just have no sense of humor, are self-important and are dull. The posts below prove it. Calm down people, it’s just a rock and roll star having a laugh with the media? The only thing Liam has done is expose the dumb fools who take themselves and their favorite pop bands too seriously and must express their infantile views to the world. Radiohead are just a pop band, Oasis is just a pop band, and both have done extraordinary work in different markets. Get over it people – next time Liam slags someone off, take it like grownups. He is a snarling rocker from Manchester; I’d rather hear comical insults from rock stars when they’re forced to chat to gossip mongering muck rakers. I am a fan of music so I ignore this stuff for the most part, most people who buy into this stuff are not fans of music – whether it’s Radiohead or Oasis, they just want to be seen liking the correct band at the time. They perpetuate this type of hear-say journalism, and never listen to the albums themselves, How can their pea-like brains have been suckered by a Mancunian rock star, who’s only job is to be…well…a rock star!!?? Get over it so-called ‘Radiohead fans’ and just chill. Until you stop responding to this shit, you ARE boring – Liam is right, that’s the irony. I don’t mind Oasis but I don’t want to live in a world where Liam is right about stuff. Same goes to you Oasis fans, although I would imagine that more of you guys are out in the sunsheeeeeine and not wasting as much time as your obsessive Radiohead contemporaries, who MUST comment on other people’s comments from their parent’s basement. If you really must to debate from behind a keyboard like a bunch of losers, then discuss how a group of people can become blinded by loyalty for some pop stars. Get over it. Thom Yorke is an annoying little twat and Liam Gallagher is full of shit but so what! I love a lot of the work by both of them. Why the fuck would anyone care what either of these people has to say? Anyway, I’d rather either of them over every American band that claims to be even remotely rock and roll. Like poor old Maroon 5 or Fall Out Boy etc. Now all you angry Oasis fans and predictable Radiohead fans, get outside and take a break from your faceless arguing. Take your ipods and enjoy the work of two of the world’s best pop bands, and remember what the ass-clown George Michael once said, Listen Without Prejudice! (a 1000 Wham fans are about to go nuts over my ass-clown comment – just a joke).

  • Simon

    well at least we aren’t nonexistent.

  • I am Ed O’Brien

    This thread is hilarious.

  • genius gorilla

    The fact that mental monkey quoted George Michael on a Radiohead thread discredits every single word written. I am not a loser typing behind a keyboard and by the way…

    …The George Michael fan-club forum has been wondering where you’ve been.

  • Martyn D

    Oasis fans don’t know what music is. If Oasis fans are happy it is just the drugs they are on. Jonny Greenwood is a better musician than all of Oasis put together

  • r2d2

    AGREED! ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

  • what?

    nobody wants to read mental monkey. Talking about losers… and you quoting George Michael. You should have more respect for clowns by the way!

  • wonka

    Monkey Mental you are the only one who’s taking it to seriously, we all know liam’s talking shit. Don’t waste your “winner”-precious-time writing such a big crap.

  • ssssssssss

    Mental Monkey, are you Thom Yorke? kidding :D

  • Jacob

    I’m not boring. I’m not ugly (ish) and I
    had a killer time at Blossom last week.
    This Liam feller’s a real dirtbag. Shouldn’t
    he be off playing “Wonder Wall” somewhere
    for drunken idiots?

  • lucila

    i’m so hot…

  • Chris C

    Pretty funny that Liam always has something to say, coincidentally, around when Oasis’ next album is within weeks of being released.
    Strange….

    In short….

    FUCK Liam Gallagher in the ear with a steel dildo!
    He dreams of having even a tenth of Thom’s talent….

  • k

    Funny that he has to talk shit about a band that people actually still care about just to get his name in the press.

  • Tim

    I’d rather be boring and ugly than listening to Oasis.

    Too bad for the Gallaghers though. They suck ass compared to a guy named the same (Rory Gallagher) as well as compared to both British bands they hate: Radiohead and Blur (although The Gorillaz and the Good, The Bad and The Queen are all better than Blur)

    Ergo; Oasis should just jump of a cliff or something

  • Amy

    The irony here is that ‘mental monkey’ has written the most humourless, self-important, and dull post in this thread.

  • charlie

    gallagher’s interview was shortly followed by his daily ritual of screaming the lyrics to ‘the scientist’ in his favorite chris martin t-shirt

  • http://www.dupecreative.com ed@dupe

    the guy is a legend. Full stop. Anyone engaging in any kind of angry reaction to this is a fool.

  • MikeD

    If I’m a huge fan of both Oasis and Radiohead, does make me boring but sexy? Or does it make me interesting but ugly? Oh, who am I kidding! I’m sexy and interesting! Thanks Liam :D

  • rdub

    hahaha what a loser. what he lacks in the quality of his own music catalogue, he can make up for with ridiculous attention grabbing comments like these. he’s been doing it for years. same shit.

  • Andres Lebrija

    Oh Liam, You dumb fuck!!! I was thinking about buying your new album but this has made up my mind… thanks for saving me money.

  • hyde

    u f..ckhead gallagher pri.ck
    loser and lunatic fagg..ot

  • kurdt

    Damon Albarn is off making operas and having great success.

    Radiohead just got album of the year for In Rainbows.

    And Coldplay just made a big comeback in the past year.

    What has Oasis done? I sure haven’t heard from him.

  • Tim from USA

    suck my ass oasis radio head rules. Lima is a bitch, Noel is prolly ok, stfu liam and take your salary like the good bitch u r. If i ever hear wonderwall again I will puke. FU!

  • Paul

    Just came across this

    oasis 70 million records
    radiohead 30 million records

    They’ve sold alot of records for a “one hit wonder”.

  • Denny

    Oasis fans use sales figures to back up their arguments precisely because they can’t back up the ‘music’.

  • Thom Yorke

    When Noel insults Radiohead, it will mean something but when Liam insults us (Who only wrote 1% of Oasis’s material since Noel wrote 99% of everything else) It means nothing.

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