“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”
Nick Cave
Scott Walker
Josh Homme
Adam Ant
"Coldplay are the dictionary definition of corporate rock. The singer is about as weird as Phil Collins. They are career rock personified. EMI should’ve signed Otis The Aadvark instead"
Bono
Noel Gallagher
Matt Bellamy out of Muse
Alan McGee
"Jack White has just written a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts."
Damon Albarn
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Neil Hannon
"I get really tired of [Arcade Fire's] pompousness. We’ve played some shows with them and they really treat people like shit. Whenever I’ve been around them, I’ve found that they not only treated their crew like shit, they treated the audience like shit. They treated everybody in their vicinity like shit. I thought, ’Who do they think they are?’"
Elton John
Chris Martin out of Coldplay
Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips
Ghostface Killah
"You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout, 'Jeremy!, and 75% of the audience would turn round."
Billy Bragg
Paul Weller
Richey Edwards from the Manics
Bono
"If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’m going to eat meat - that’s how much I hate Morrissey."
Robert Smith of The Cure
Peter Hook of New Order
Elton John
Kate Bush
“I detest Stevie Wonder. I think Diana Ross is awful. I hate all those records in the Top 40 — Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston. I think they’re vile in the extreme.”
Lou Reed
Stuart Murdoch out of Belle & Sebastian
Brett Anderson
Morrissey
"[Suede's] pseudo-bumboy androgyny is more Grange Hill than Bowie”
Morrissey
Luke Haines out of The Auteurs
Damon Albarn
Paul McCartney
"I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go on stage and look young."
Mick Jagger
Brian Wilson
Elton John
Pete Doherty
“I feel sorry for Keane. No matter how hard they try they’ll always be squares. Even if one of them started injecting heroin into his cock people would go: ‘Yeah but your dad was a vicar. Good night’.”
Noel Gallagher
Ian Brown
Bono
Jay-Z