Noel Gallagher may have left his Oasis days behind him in 2009, but in a new interview with Q magazine, he’s revealed one way he’d even consider a reunion.
“Nobody has made us an offer. I’ve been in the same room as Liam, and even then nobody’s said, ‘Weren’t Oasis great? You should re-form,'” Gallagher says in the issue, out Jan. 27. “But if I was ever going to do it, it would only be for the money. This isn’t me putting it out there, by the way. Would I do it for charity? No way. We’re not that kind of people. For Glastonbury? I don’t think [organizer] Michael Eavis has got enough money. But would we get back together one day? As long as everybody is still alive and still has their hair, it’s always a possibility. But only for the money.”
He notes that like many beloved acts before Oasis, a reunion is often desired by fans but is sometimes met with mixed reviews.
“I think it’s ingrained in the English psyche – this idea that the glory days, the Empire, are behind us. Led Zeppelin! The Smiths! The Jam! They should all re-form! Why? So a load of middle-aged people can stand in the O2 and go, ‘They’re not as good as they used to be’,” he says.
“It’d be the same with Oasis,” he adds. “‘Yeah, we’re not as good as we used to be.'”
The comments come ahead of the release of his next album with his High Flying Birds project, Chasing Yesterday, out March 2.