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Noel Gallagher’s got Ed Sheeran’s back
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 26 February 2015
You know how that Noel Gallagher once said a few words against Ed Sheeran. Well, he’d like you all to know that he’ll not have a word said against Ed Sheeran.
When the NME recently asked rent-a-diss Gallagher whether he was planning on attending one of Sheeran’s Wembley shows, he replied: “No no, they’re for my daughter. She’ll be going and drinking his champagne and possibly playing Top Trumps with James Blunt in the dressing room afterwards. I’ve given her a list of people to insult while she’s there”.
But Sheeran himself has been scratched off that list, having come good on a pledge to play one of the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at the Royal Albert Hall which Gallagher helps organise.
Speaking to Shortlist, he said: “What I will say about Ed is that, when I was doing those concerts, you kind of call up artists and say ‘we’re doing this thing, can you come and help us?’ and a lot of heartless cruel bands do that thing where they go ‘aw I can’t do it this year mate, I’m busy, we’ve got a gig in fucking Kenya. But next year we’ll definitely do it'”.
“But” he went on, “the only person that has ever said that and called me back the next year is Ed Sheeran. And I thought, you know what, you’ll do for me man. He’s a good lad and I won’t have a word said against him”.
Though fans for words being said against pop stars, don’t worry, if Noel’s gone soft we can always rely on Liam G. His four word wrap up of last night’s BRITs? “Kanye West. Utter Shit”. And you can’t say fairer than that.
