Gallagher has spoken about his political views on several occasions , most notably in 1997 when he visited the recently appointed Prime Minister Tony Blair at No. 10 Downing Street in 1997 . In an interview in 1997 when he was asked about why he visited Blair he replied , " I 've taken a lot of flack for going to No. 10 Downing Street but the thing about that is , I never considered myself a rebel anyway . I was n't going there representing the ' Indie community ' . I was n't representing anyone . I was going there for me . You have to understand that from when I went to school and from when I was born all we ever knew was conservative , Tory , right-wing government . What people do n't mention is , they say ' He went to meet Tony Blair . ' No . I went to meet the '' Labour '' prime minister . Our parents always drummed into us that the Labour Party was for the people and the Tory Party was not . I went to meet the Labour prime minister . " Gallagher has been quoted , " Politics is like football for me . Labour is my team and even if you do n't like a striker you do n't give up supporting the whole team . Labour is the lesser of two evils . What else should we have ? Anarchy ? Someone has to be responsible . " In an interview in 2007 when asked about politics he said , " I 'd been unemployed all my life . It was a big deal for me when they ( Labour ) got in . Now David Cameron is no different from Tony Blair and Gordon Brown is no different from David Cameron . They 're all cut from the same cloth and it annoys me that the biggest political icon in the last 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher . Someone who tried to destroy the working class . It freaks me out . So I do n't really think there 's anything left to vote for . I believe that I , as a person , can only change things once every 5 years and that 's by voting , and my point is that even casting that vote means that the same guy gets in , the only difference is one has a red tie and the other has a blue one . " Gallagher was passionate in his support for Barack Obama 's successful bid for US President , calling his acceptance speech to the 2008 Democratic National Convention " spellbinding . " In 1997 , he played a 5-song set at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in New York City . As a result , Oasis were deemed " unsuitable " by the Chinese government , forcing a planned tour of the country in 2009 to be cancelled
2008 Democratic National Convention
2008 Democratic National Convention
Noel Gallagher