Human headline Noel Gallagher, who bravely combats the threat of cultural irrelevancy by simply saying crazier stuff, has taken a colourful swipe at BBC Radio 1.
The station's new direction excludes bands that rose to fame during the '90s (like, say, Oasis), as well as emerging bands like Sydney's own Jagwar Ma (a favourite of Gallagher's). Gallagher thinks the new direction is a result of focus groups, and he's not having it.
"I don't understand it," he told GQ. "It's when radio stations start focus groups. They literally go outside their building and ask people walking by, 'If I played you this song, what would you think?' and all that. Don't ask the man on the street! He's a cunt! That's why he's the man on the street, not the man in the expensive restaurant eating fucking mini sausages at four in the afternoon!
"There's great records coming out this year you're not going to hear on the radio. Temples. Jagwar Ma. Great stuff, but it's on a lower level. It's not on the battleground. You have to be in that world to hear it."
Naturally, Gallagher also had opinions on...
One Direction: "Everybody's winning out of it. One Direction aren't working in the local fucking Costcutter, so they're winning. The geezer who's writing the fucking shit tunes — he's winning. He doesn't even have to leave the studio. He's got fucking new houses coming out of his ear holes. The record company are winning, 'cos they're all getting their fucking bonuses at Christmas. The young 12-year-old girls are winning because one day they might actually grow up to give one of them a blow job. They're all winning."
Terrorism: "I don't like workaholics. Don't fucking trust them. Why are they working? I don't trust busy cunts. That's how wars start: busy fuckers. If terrorism had a weekend off, eventually they'd have a year off. Eventually they'd go, 'Fuck this — blowing up shit? Football's on.' Thou shalt not be arsed."
Litter: "I don't like litter. I like that Singapore thing. You know — you get caught dropping litter you get your head chopped off. I'd have a bin on every street corner. If you're going to buy a doughnut, eat the fucking doughnut. Don't have a bit and then chuck it on the floor. Eat the fucking doughnut."
Fiction: "I only read factual books. I mean, novels are just a waste of fucking time. I can't suspend belief in reality... I just end up thinking, 'This isn't fucking true'. I like reading about things that have actually happened."
Fifty Shades Of Grey: "Fifty shades of shit. I'm not having it."
Liam Gallagher: "Liam's got a touch of the Red Indian in him when he has a drink. When the Europeans went to America, they got the Red Indians pissed and bought Alaska off them for a fucking milk-bottle top. 'Wahoo! Firewater!' There's a bit of that in Liam when he's drunk."
The whole GQ interview is amazing, and frankly beats the hell out of Kanye West's much publicised interview with Zane Lowe — which, of course, was on BBC Radio 1.
