Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke launched a tirade in response to an old comment from Liam Gallagher.
Oasis singer Gallagher had a snipe at the indie champs over two years ago in NME, calling them a "band off 'University Challenge'." In response to that comparatively mild piece of anti-intellectualism, Okereke was vicious in his response during an interview with Uncut Magazine.Not only did Okereke call Oasis "the most over-rated and pernicious band of all time" who have had a "negative and dangerous impact upon the state of British music" but he claims that the Britpoppers, revered in the Laddish scene of the late-'90s, "have made stupidity hip."
He called the band "repetitive Luddites". "The idea that your ambitions shouldn't extend beyond getting drunk and watching the football really irks me," he ruminated, "It's this idea that to be authentically working class you need to be untainted by the airy-fairy ephemera of education."
It's seems that old class distinctions die hard. Okereke is the son of a molecular biologist and studied English literature at King's College. Gallagher never undertook tertiary study and claimed that he read his first book in 2005, Dan Brown's 'Angels And Demons'.
