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" In between his ongoing feud with brother Liam and mouthing off about this year&amp;#039;s X Factor lot, it&amp;#039;s easy to forget that Noel Gallagher has a new album out. His first sort-of solo album, to be precise - with the backing of his anonymous High Flying Birds bandmates.  Having given the album a spin earlier this month, we called him up to find out whether he&amp;#039;s suffering any release-week nerves and his take on today&amp;#039;s rock bands. What would you be doing now if you weren&amp;#039;t talking to us? &amp;quot;If I get a day off I&amp;#039;d just be mooching about the house. I don&amp;#039;t like to do a great deal. Smoke some cigarettes, strum the guitar. You don&amp;#039;t get much of a chance to do that when you&amp;#039;ve kids running around you all the f**king time.&amp;quot;  You have an album out soon; are you allowed to relax at the moment? &amp;quot;I work until about 7 o&amp;#039;clock and then clock in with my wife for the night shift. It&amp;#039;s been OK - I don&amp;#039;t mind the work because I allow myself such long periods of time off between recording and touring. I kind of get geared up for it; to know that I&amp;#039;m working flat out for the next two years feels great because I know I&amp;#039;ll take another 18 months off after.&amp;quot;  Early reviews of the album are suggesting it&amp;#039;s on a par with Oasis&amp;#039;s What&amp;#039;s the Story Morning Glory?. Do you agree? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve only read the Q and Mojo ones, but it&amp;#039;s difficult for me to get involved in that argument - but I think it&amp;#039;s the best collection of songs I&amp;#039;ve had on an album in a long time. I&amp;#039;ve not written a whole album since 1999, so I&amp;#039;m glad people are saying that.&amp;quot;  Some of the songs were written as long as ten years ago; did you always intend to keep them back for a solo project? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d actually recorded those songs for the last two Oasis albums - and they were f**king great - but the vocals were never finished on them - they weren&amp;#039;t as good as the versions on this album. Liam always ran out of time to finish them, and I thought if I didn&amp;#039;t put them out now, I&amp;#039;m never going to.&amp;quot;  You&amp;#039;ve released two great singles from the LP but they haven&amp;#039;t charted as highly as you&amp;#039;d necessarily expect. Does that annoy you? &amp;quot;Chart positions haven&amp;#039;t bothered me since [2005&amp;#039;s] Don&amp;#039;t Believe The Truth - it all seemed to change after that. I was actually blown away that the singles managed to hang around for as long as they did - it shows a good song is a good song. I mean, how many 45-year-old fathers of three are in the charts? None! Beady Eye have done similar chart-wise, so why should I expect any different?&amp;quot;  What&amp;#039;s wrong with the charts at the moment? &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s nothing wrong them, they&amp;#039;re just unrecognisable now from when I was growing up. It&amp;#039;s a f**king free-for-all now! When &amp;#039;The Death of You and Me&amp;#039; charted, the only other guitar song in the Top 40 was Red Hot Chili Peppers&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Under The Bridge&amp;#039; which was out 20 years ago but was in some new film. It&amp;#039;s a mish-mash of all sorts of s**t. Who cares what&amp;#039;s number one anymore? Just be thankful we lived in the &amp;#039;90s.&amp;quot;  Are you hoping for a number one on the album chart instead then? &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t see it being number one as it&amp;#039;s out the same week as Matt Cardle. Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11am because they&amp;#039;ve been at a digital meeting. It definitely won&amp;#039;t affect the band - I&amp;#039;m on my own label and funded it with my kids&amp;#039; school fund - I&amp;#039;m hardly going to drop myself.&amp;quot; It would be quite funny if you did, though. &amp;quot;It would - and then I can sue myself for aggravated dismissal. All I need is the record sales to break even so I can make another one.&amp;quot;  &amp;#039;AKA... What A Life&amp;#039; is being used on the Vauxhall TV ads; has that ruined the song for you yet? &amp;quot;Not really. Radio 1 are refusing to play my records - I understand that because I&amp;#039;m too old - but there are very few ways to get your music out there today, and unfortunately everything is for sale. I&amp;#039;ve had my shot with Radio 1 - I&amp;#039;m not going to sue them like Status Quo did. I wasn&amp;#039;t sure on the advert at first - I want you to know that I was only thinking of the money when I agreed to it. It&amp;#039;s hard being this age in the music industry.&amp;quot;  Adele has bucked the current trends and become one of the biggest successes of the year. Are you a fan of her album? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve not heard it. I&amp;#039;ve heard &amp;#039;Rolling in the Deep&amp;#039; and that was pretty good. I haven&amp;#039;t got the album though - and to be frank I don&amp;#039;t know anyone who has.&amp;quot;  Aren&amp;#039;t you intrigued to see what all the fuss is about? &amp;quot;Not really. I know what she&amp;#039;s about and I have no desire to hear that album.&amp;quot;   As well as the charts being in a bit of a state, so is the country. Could that be a driving force for the revival of rock music? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. People don&amp;#039;t give a s**t anymore - as long as they&amp;#039;ve got an iPod, an iPad, mobile phone, and a flatscreen TV then they don&amp;#039;t give a f**k. Everything you want you can get because it&amp;#039;s all superficial. People don&amp;#039;t aspire to be what Oasis and similar bands were about. They all want to be on The X Factor.&amp;quot;  Do you think The X Factor is to blame for the state of the music industry? &amp;quot;Take that Frankie [Cocozza] kid - he looks like an indie kid yet he&amp;#039;s on The X Factor. They want the fast track to the big car. F**king go for it, but it&amp;#039;s nothing to do with music. I think this country will produce less and less Morrisseys and Ian Browns because people won&amp;#039;t sign them. Labels don&amp;#039;t want it and the working class people can&amp;#039;t afford to do it for themselves.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s still a lot of indie bands around, though... &amp;quot;There are, but what are those bands about? Will any of them say anything controversial? I don&amp;#039;t think they ever will. I read interviews with bands and I don&amp;#039;t give a f**king s**t about what they&amp;#039;re saying. It&amp;#039;s all superficial nonsense. There&amp;#039;s no reason why Kasabian or the Arctic Monkeys couldn&amp;#039;t sell out Wembley for three nights - so it&amp;#039;s something else. Whatever it is, these bands don&amp;#039;t have it anymore.&amp;quot;  You met Tony Blair when he was appointed prime minister; would you do the same if David Cameron invited you today? &amp;quot;No way. I gave up on politics at the last election - it&amp;#039;s all bollocks now. It all ended at this coalition - I don&amp;#039;t remember an option for a coalition. How many people would have voted for it if it was an option? Who gives them the f**king right to decide that? I&amp;#039;ve don&amp;#039;t mind Cameron - but get a proper f**king job, because what they&amp;#039;re doing is pointless.&amp;quot;  You&amp;#039;re including some Oasis songs on your upcoming tour. Which do you think are the best? &amp;quot;I have to include them - I don&amp;#039;t have enough material for a show otherwise! Fortunately I&amp;#039;ve got an excellent back catalogue to fall back on. I&amp;#039;m doing &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t Look Back In Anger&amp;#039; on the acoustic guitar which is sounding particularly poignant at the moment. Rehearsing is getting f**king boring now. I just want to get on with it before we over-rehearse and turn s**t.&amp;quot;  Noel Gallagher releases Noel Gallagher&amp;#039;s High Flying Birds today.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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