Noel Gallagher on Blur and Pulp reuniting – and the offers made for Oasis

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Noel Gallagher has shared his thoughts about the recent reunions of his former Britpop peers Blur and Pulp – as well as the lack of offers made for Oasis to do the same.Former rivals Blur recently kicked off their comeback tour, as well as announcing their surprise new album ‘The Ballad Of Darren‘, with Pulp also returning to the road their first shows together in a decade.Asked about how he feels about being on the road at the same time as his ’90s peers in support of his acclaimed new solo album ‘Council Skies‘, Gallagher wished them well when speaking to NME as part of the latest in our In Conversation series.“I didn’t know that, but good luck to them!” he said. “Blur never split up, did they?

Pulp never split up, they just went and did other things, which is the adult way of doing it. Sadly my fucking band were very far from adult about it.

It was a bit more crash and burn.”Asked if Oasis had ever been made any offers for a Britpop reunion package tour with other bands – perhaps a cruise – Gallagher said that “inevitably, it will happen”, but that “there’s never really been a serious offer about ‘The Big O’ getting back together, but there you go.”Last month, Gallagher joked that his younger self wouldn’t be too happy about his collaboration former rival and Blur frontman Damon Albarn.

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.