Noel Gallager says his younger self would have “knifed him in the bollocks” for collaborating with Damon Albarn

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Noel Gallagher has explained that his younger self wouldn’t be too happy about his collaboration with Blur frontman and former Britpop rival Damon Albarn.The former Oasis member reflected on his time working with Albarn in 2017 in a new interview with The Big Issue (via Music-News.COM).The team-up in question was when Gallagher contributed backing vocals to Gorillaz‘s track ‘We Got The Power’, which appears on the band’s 2017 album ‘Humanz’. “What would my younger self think of me working with Damon Albarn,” he pondered.“It would depend entirely on what side of the bed I got out of on that day,” he added. “If you caught me on a good day I’d be like, yeah, I could see that happening… On a bad day, I’d fucking knife myself in the bollocks.”Both Blur and Oasis were leading names in the Britpop scene and shared a chart rivalry throughout the 1990s, where they continuously battled each other for the top spot with their respective releases.Elsewhere in the interview, the High Flying Birds frontman also confessed that if he could go back in time, he’d love to re-experience the time he met David Bowie as he has “no recollections whatsoever” of what happened the first time around.“I went to see David Bowie and Morrissey at Wembley Arena in the 90s,” Gallagher recalled. “I was high and pissed.

Then, before Bowie came on, somebody came up to me and said, would you like to come and meet David? [So] I was taken to see David Bowie in his dressing room.”He continued, explaining how he remembers the moment he met the pop icon: “I have no recollection of it whatsoever… I remember walking in and he was putting on make-up in a mirror and that’s it.