Somewhere in the US, there’s an unsigned musician who deserves big props for having some serious guts. During a recent performance by Noel Gallagher & The High Flying Birds, an artist who goes by the moniker The Memo handed his demo CD to the big man himself.
As Gigwise reports, the elder statesman of British rock and roll was interrupted during his performance at the Boston Opera House last week. An up-and-coming musician in the crowd had apparently caught the Oasis guitarist’s attention by flailing his demo CD around.
Gallagher took the whole thing with good humour, but still launched into a ball-busting rant about the lousy job the muso is doing of promoting himself, making light of the fact that he tried to hand him a CD with no name or contact information on it.
“When you’re giving away CDs of your shit… there’s not even a fucking name of who it is, or what it’s called, or a phone number, or nothing,” he says in the clip below. “No song titles, no name, no nothing. Now unless this is some psychedelic fucking album project, I’m saying, this cunt’s going nowhere.”
After prompting the musician for his name, the man replied “The Memo”. “The invisible man? No, The Memo? Do you fucking get the irony of that? A CD with nothing written on it by somebody called the Memo. Fucking hell, don’t make me say it,” joked Gallagher.
Back in March, Gallagher shared his thoughts on an up-and-coming band from Australia whom you may know, Sydney’s own DMA’s, though he didn’t have many good words to say about them. No big deal, Gallagher’s countrymen and women are absolutely loving our boys.
Gallagher recently made headlines (though it’s not like he ever really leaves them) when he responded to a call from Paul McCartney to reunite Oasis. The sharp-tongued rocker told an interviewer, “Tell [McCartney] if he writes our comeback single, it’s on. Tell him to write an Oasis track and then we’ll talk.”
