Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher is dissing and dismissing rising British band Arctic Monkeys, criticising their real-life lyrics and saying he fears their success will inspire scores of copycat bands.
"Their public persona is now of a bunch of grumpy old men," the nearly 40-year-old rocker says of the Monkeys who are 20 and 21-year-olds. "I'm worried about what's going to follow in their wake."
"It's gonna be c**ts with guitars going: 'And me mum works down the f**king chip shop, she met a geezer' and all that."
"Great pop music is not about real life, it's about how great life can be. Real life's s**t."
