Noel Gallagher on Brexit: “People fell under some kind of mass hypnosis”

nme.com:

Noel Gallagher has spoken out to decry the “mass hypnosis” that led to Brexit, as well as arguing that England is “shit now” and “fuck all works”.The former Oasis icon was speaking to NME for the latest in our In Conversation series, when he explained the “reflective” nature of his new solo album with The High Flying Birds,  ‘Council Skies‘.“All the dreams I had growing up underneath the council skies sparked off a lot of things for me, but it was written in that god-awful period in lockdown,” he said. “In isolation in those nine months where there was nothing to do, nowhere to go and no one to see.“Everybody dealt with it personally differently.

I came on to my own personal life, asking ‘How have I got here?’ It’s reflective more than anything about childhood.”When asked if the act of writing the record helped him to answer the question ‘How have I got here?’, Gallagher pointed to the track ‘Think Of A Number’ and it’s closing lyric, ‘Let’s drink to the future, I hope it comes round again’.“Did I find any answers?

No, but I will find them, though,” he said. “I don’t think it’s all doom and gloom. Although the world is a shit place now and England in general is a fucking… What has happened to this country?

I have no idea. Well I do have an idea: Brexit happened. A lot of people fell under some kind of mass hypnosis, but it’s shit England, now.