Noel Gallagher Says Glastonbury Festival Is “Getting A Bit Woke Now”

While taking in the sights and sounds of the recent Glastonbury Festival, former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher praised the fest while also leveling serious criticisms of some bands’ behavior in recent years. “Don’t get me wrong, I f–king love Glastonbury,” Gallagher told the British tabloid, The Sun. “It’s probably the best f–king thing about Britain apart from the Premier League.” But he went on to say that the festival, which Oasis famously headlined in both 1995 and 2004, has significantly changed in recent years. “It’s getting a bit woke now, that place, and a bit kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signaling,” Gallagher said. “I don’t like it in music — little f–king idiots waving flags around and making political statements and bands taking the stage and saying, ‘Hey guys, isn’t war ­terrible, yeah? Let’s all boo war. F–k the Tories man,’ and all that. It’s like, look, play your f–king tunes and get off… It’s too much.” (Billboard)