Noel Gallagher interview in Hong Kong 1998

My first interview with Noel Gallagher in Hong Kong, just before they took that infamous flight to Australia

[@liamblackman63]

Good camera for the 90s

[@runnersdialzero1244]

"If you talk to the English critics, they hate it; if you talk to the kids, they love it." That's, like, basically true of the consensus on _Be Here Now_ today. Always has been. It's always on these "worst of"s or "'jumped the shark' moments" lists, people talk like it was a total bomb, yet when you talk to just about any Oasis fan, they love it. Not _quite_ as good as the first two, but still so many brilliant songs.

[@lucasm3879]

The Masterplan b-sides compliation was far stronger. That had a lot a lot of classic Oasis songs on that weren't even on the first two albums. There were still some good songs on Be Here Now, but about half of it it was a decline in quality, just an inferior version of their earlier output - Magic Pie, All Around The World etc. D'ya Know What I mean and Fade In Out are two great tracks imo, as is Stay Young, which was only a b side for some reason.

[@TheFormerkgbchief]

No mate, it got great reviews when it came out. And it was shite.

[@mubblemann]

Had to laugh at his comments about never going solo and how he won't be 'pissing around with music at the age of 50 like Clapton'.

[@TheRedSetterr]

+Mubble Mann is this still the Noel on drugs?

[@mubblemann]

Yeah he gave up a couple of years after this.

[@TheRedSetterr]

I'm pretty sure it was this exact year, which was why I was curious.

[@z-rex6068]

lmao

[@j9186]

NOEL DIDN'T GO SOLO FOR ANOTHER 11 YEARS AFTER THIS FFS That's a life time.

[@spaceengineer1452]

Nice Beatle cut. Sorry to hear he won't be going solo....would've been good...high flying, even..

[@casperoomen9111]

I'm a huge oasis fan and I'm very fascinated about oasis in 1998. It really was a changing point, the energy wasn't there anymore. They had reached the peak and were slowly going down. For the first time the drugs and the antics were bigger than the music.

[@texaspete7748]

100%. By this point the whole britpop and “cool brittania” movement was in sharp decline. Most of the average bands faded out as people lost interest. Oasis were always bigger than that but by 98 the party was over.

[@SeanJepson7]

The story of all the greats 👍

[@miskay5526]

how is it possible to reach this level of cool ?!

[@David-sc7hx]

Simple. Just be the best songwriter of the decade

[@Jamesp1972]

haha

[@musicmaker3859]

Easy. Paul Weller, Macca (Gallagher isn't in their league)

[@aledum1815]

Not true.@@musicmaker3859

[@jcooke222]

As much as I love Noel he doesn't come across the best here. I imagine he was dreadfully hungover.

[@HearszAM]

Shortly after this interview, they did their first Australian Tour (March 1998) and he says he doesn't remember much about it. They were drunk most of the time and the tour in even his eyes was a disaster (they were class on their return in 2002 though).

[@hamricmike8]

4:00 ("I kinda just wanna go do a line".) That's what Noel was really thinking.

[@Li8mBenz]

The air of invincibility is just leaving him as the criticism for Be Here Now begins

[@alfie9718]

And it ultimately turned him into an artist in the long run.

[@NorwichBaggyBoy]

8:21 "and once this band is finished i wont be going solo..." how times change lol

[@TheRplatts]

That talk tonight cough at the start 🥺

[@TheJamie6666]

It’s just a caugh....So what?

[@madcorndog]

Aside from the deinterlacing artifacts, this looks really good and really HD.

[@beakf1]

Once the band is finished i wont be going solo. High flying birds derp derp.

[@runnersdialzero1244]

People change in the course of thirteen years. It really happens.

[@shaunclutt5047]

HUNGOVER !!

[@adamweishaupt2846]

6:25 He predicted 'Little James'

[@michaelhenry8072]

Wtf stand by me was written before definitely maybe thats mad what a song to have in the back pocket.

[@michaelhenry8072]

@Andrew Wilson Yeye seen that but stand by me is like a top top tune of theirs, to literally have that written and not released until album is insane.

[@yep3489]

He had a lot of songs just not lyrics.

[@WernerTon]

ace interview thank you

[@Britpopsoul]

Noel has changed so much if you were to get an interview of Liam then and now he’d still be himself.

[@joseph1845]

Who's to say what someones true self is

[@DB-qj5kt]

Strong glass of water

[@BelalC]

“Over my dead body (will we release Don’t Go Away as a single)!” Hahah!

[@VFAFOOTY]

fantastic upload regarding the Noel Interview for speak easy would u have a date this was filmed....reason I ask in the back ground you can see a stage with lights set up and seats.... Did Noel or the band do an in store acoustic performance or was this just set up for show ?

[@thebadradio5340]

At 12:03 pretty shure Noel thinks how good his shoes are (so do I), having a moment off...and with all my respect, The Verve , Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy already had their very very very best albums, cheers!

[@fredsystra7584]

Noel is a self admitted ego maniac… I mean I’d probably be an ego maniac as well if my first 2 albums go platinum and I make 100mil from living on the dole. At this point in his career everything he did was great, he had the rock n roll world by the balls. The real hate for be here now wasn’t quite a thing yet at this point and Noel is at his peak drug use here…. He went cold turkey in the summer of 98’ a few months after the tour. I think after the tour is when it kinda set in for the band that the album wasn’t nearly as good as the first 2. Noel had some very very dark times in late 98 til 99… which lead to the lyrics being quite depressing on the following album “Standing on the shoulder of giants”

[@musicmaker3859]

£100 million? No...More like £10 million

[@Oneeyedpirate008]

litterally paused the video at the start cause i thought my phone was gona ring hahahha😂 😂

[@SC-nk5kn]

Can tell Noel’s still in his drug days here looks so on edge ahaha

[@BarnsleyMatchdayDrinkers]

Not long after this packed it in

[@jamesnapier7396]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug init chief. Hahaha

[@jamesadcock5235]

noel is acting like Liam here

[@kiely4561]

+James Adcock thats how Noel was back then due to all the booze and coke, luckily now he's evolved into the more articulate, socially comfortable man you see today lol

[@OwenTownson]

Him and Liam have the same attitude except Noel is more articulate

[@dan-hj3ed]

@@kiely4561 i like him more back then

[@misisipimike]

Why do I wanna do coke now and also not wanna do coke right now?

[@drivermontana2757]

lol ''wont be pissing about like eric clapton when im 50'', but Noels 48 now and doing solo haha how times change

[@BB.halo_heir]

He's about 52 now, still going lol

[@MidosujiSen]

Turned 55 today lol

[@TheDude69]

Noel at his cynical best here! 😂

[@endezeichengrimm]

Well the band finished, and he did go solo. Hahaha.

[@Eviction76]

Contemporary record..high flying birds

[@runnersdialzero1244]

He was foreshadowing _Standing on the Shoulder of Giants_ there, not his solo stuff.

[@PayTheDevil661]

She hands him a newspaper. LOL Yeah, its 1998.

[@jimmydean5812]

Ya know...

[@aledum1815]

Cheers.

[@mcscootie]

57 NOW ...

[@Randallhombre06]

he was at his worst mentally right here... he was sick of Oasis and himself

[@JohnWiIkesBooth]

I doubt it, he was still pretty happy to be apart of it at this point, 2009 was when he was sick of oasis

[@lewangillard9701]

Noel 1998 = what happens when you've become too successful

[@musicmaker3859]

If u think this is success...take a look at real international success from the best musician/songwriter Post Beatles: George Michael

[@HearszAM]

​@@musicmaker3859 How could writing most of the songs that contributed to 75 million album sales worldwide, and having the biggest-selling British album of the 90s, not be considered as "real success"?

[@Drenwickification]

13:00 bollocks to that, how can you not consider OK Computer a great album?

[@serialhealer5113]

Overated in my opinion, hail to thief and kid A are better

[@conornutt]

Lol as if Definitely Maybe stands up to the bends in any way shape or form (shakermaker lifts the melody from i'd like to teach the world to sing for gods sake) .DM's a great album for its time but The Bends is an actual classic.(i bought both the days they came out..it was a good time to be a teenager in the u.k what with britpop and the rave scene))

[@lukebowry9207]

This hasn’t aged well 🤣

[@donalosullivan1455]

Jaysus he's hanging here. Haha say had some session ,😂😂😂

[@billjim334]

awesome interviews man, do you have any more comin?

[@lionsdencreatives]

bill jim Hey, i'm uploading the extended Tokyo interview as I type

[@brocktonma.1816]

I won’t be pissn about when I’m 50 like Clapton, Richards & Jagger🫡

[@sharman8489]

And they’re all still going. 😅

[@t3br00k35]

Charlie.

[@doctorrobert1339]

This looks like it was filmed today holy shit, I was really confused for a moment

[@sratus]

It's lo res footage of Noel Gallagher in 1998. How does it look like it was filmed today? Are you easily confused?

[@lukedrifter100]

Now I can see why they split.

[@JohnWiIkesBooth]

What band did he mention at 13:08??

[@Neenan1995]

Suede

[@itsme1585]

He’s eating his own words now ....

[@tell-mea-story611]

This is an actor.

[@uapnewdiscoveryimages]

Still pissing about 😂

[@JohnWiIkesBooth]

8:23 Lmaoooo! that is litterally WHY the band finshed! r/agedlikemilk

[@laurahaltham2385]

He was married to that Meg matthews at this point

[@michaelhenry8072]

You can tell

[@eoindonovan238]

Id give meg one....🐇🐇🐇🐇

[@birdyashiro1226]

700

[@billjim334]

hahaha 8:15- 8:40,,, high flying liars

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

He’s lost here.

[@TheJamie6666]

That’s because he had used up his creativity and good songs....Oasis were average after this stage.

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

@@TheJamie6666 more like he’d run out of songs to copy

[@gedmason6387]

To superseed everything he has done before. Never did never will

[@craigsanderson4330]

I wont go solo or be playing music when I’m 50……

[@michaelhenry8072]

Possibly the absolute peak of his ego?

[@Stewartchampion]

Noel talks alot of ball dont he..not gonna go solo...ya joking .....the older i get i see it all the time...as for me ...the first 3 albums... and the b side album are wicked...i loved be hear now as much as the first 2.... after that tho ... they didnt do much for me..became to predictable.......his solo stuff is ok ..but it dont get close in my eyes......same for liams solo stuff...the song once is good but the rest are average....but ill always be thankful for those 90s albums...i needed a band like that at the time ..after nirvana there was a hole....and they filled it for a few years for me. Early oasis with guigsy and bonehead ..great live band

[@madferit84]

I can see a liar. Ridiculous.

[@TheJamie6666]

They ripped off the Beatles big time with that song.

[@adamsmith4856]

Loved early Oasis, and loved the later stuff, but the "Be Here Now" era (as much as it was entertaining) - was a fucking shambles, that album is overproduced shit, the perfect example of what happens when you try and produce a record when your addicted to drugs, endless guitar solos, overdubbing, endless distortion, huge solos, overly long tracks, nonsense lyrics, it's the ultimate cautionary tale Lol.

[@crashodeane]

Meatloaf's songs are 11 minutes long! To me, It's awesome that the BHN songs are very long because more Rock n Roll! guys say the same thing about Crash Bandicoot The Wrath Of Cortex, about the levels in that game being too long. Again that's not a bad thing because more platforming!

[@john_the_boxer]

Owen Deane Did you really just compare an Oasis album to a computer game?

[@aviation_sean9839]

It’s such a bad album (by their 90s standards) that it’s fucking brilliant simultaneously 😂 I love be here now especially when I’m getting pissed or stoned, the only thing I still don’t like about it is the length of some of the tunes especially all around the world and D’yer know what I mean, they’re both too long!! But so bad it’s great 😂

[@themarinman8339]

Be here now is incredible.

[@any4760]

Liar

[@Leticia-xj8zi]

why???

[@JohnWiIkesBooth]

I can see a Liar

[@Jamesp1972]

So mediocre this guy, saying he likes Travis says it all

[@jlpapple]

The Man Who is a solid album.