Noel Gallagher: I can’t wait to get my mobility scooter if I’m being honest

Forward of his first new music in three years singer Noel Gallagher popped in for a chat with Ken Bruce this afternoon on Biggest Hits Radio. The Excessive Flying Birds frontman started with a cheeky quip to the host ‘So that is the place you’re hiding is it?’; earlier than the pair went on to debate Noel’s newest album – and single – Council Skies, together with how lockdown affected his writing and why he’s prepared for that mobility scooter…

NOEL ON BEING IN HIS FIFTIES
‘My Forties was my absolute peak however from the minute I wakened on the thirtieth Might in my first day of my Fifties [Noel turned 50 in 2017] I used to be like, it’s simply been one factor after one other! What I’ve discovered is that the slightest knock stays with you for ages after which as soon as that’s cleared up its one thing else after which as soon as that’s cleared up its one thing else. I can’t wait to get my mobility scooter if I’m being trustworthy.’

It’s not all dangerous information nonetheless as Noel mirrored: ‘There’s plenty of expertise now. I discover once you get to a sure age you simply don’t care anymore. I’m not bothered what folks suppose and I really feel much more skilled now at life itself. However I’m not too good at dodging site visitors anymore – I’ve to attend till the inexperienced man comes on. It’s an excellent job I don’t take the bus wherever as a result of I wouldn’t be catching any of them!’

NOEL ON THE PANDEMIC AND COUNCIL SKIES
‘My plan in 2019 was to all the time put a file out in 2023 anyway so I’ve not sort of misplaced any floor however it’s a reflective album. None of us had been by way of it [the pandemic] earlier than, we didn’t truly understand how we had been going to get out of it for a very long time.
I consider all of the individuals who navigated the pandemic greatest I might have thought artists had been the very best as a result of your world is sort of inside your head anyway. I, specifically, completed off each tune that was half written and wrote some new ones. I might have most well-liked to have written it in a special environment than sort of sat in silence – in an admittedly quite beautiful writing room but it surely was a bizarre time for everyone.’

NOEL ON TOURING
I’m on tour in just a few weeks, trying ahead to that. It’s America first, the previous few world excursions I’ve undertaken I’ve tried to start out in America as a result of the gang I’ve bought over there are fairly a extra thought of and older crowd which provides the band an opportunity to play in earlier than you get the chaos of again in England.’