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Noel Gallagher slams bands for pulling out of charity gigs: 'I should just play the f**king shows myself'

Former Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher has revealed that most of the acts he approached to perform at this year's Teenage Cancer Trust gigs pulled out at the last minute.

Speaking to Britain's ShortList magazine, the star explained that he has curated a series of seven consecutive shows at the Royal Albert Hall for the charity, but was shocked when musicians agreed to perform to his face then had their PRs call to cancel later on:

"I'd talk to Ed Sheeran and Mumford and Sons thinking, 'I'll just do the f**king seven nights myself, what the f**k am I asking these people for?' and I got turned down a lot."

"Everybody says yes to your face. Everybody. And then the agent will call, and their management will call and then their PR will call and say, 'Ah, they're going to be in Australia at the time.' Really? Well, they never said that to me."

Of the concerts, which will take place between March 19-25, Gallagher added that he hopes the acts that turned him down this year will make up for it in 2014 because some of them were fantastic: "What's interesting is all the working class bands said yes straight off the bat, no f**king inkling of when it was. The middle class bands said yes and wriggled out of it... if the people that blew me off but said they'll do it next year actually do it, it might be the greatest event since Woodstock."

 

 

 

 

Watch Gallagher's very recent interview with Russell Brand below: