Noel Gallagher vs Dance Music

Noel Gallagher doesn't fuck around. When it comes to music, his brother, the press or anything he's slightly disgruntled about, he's one of the most outspoken figures in the game.

No-one is safe from the wrath of Gallagher's silver tongue, not even the world of dance music. In fact, Noel has taken aim at the electronic music scene a few times which begs the question: who would win in a fight? Noel Gallagher or dance music?

Well, we've gathered together some of the Mancunian's finest quotes about dance music to see who comes out on top. Gum shields at the ready, let's do this.

At the start of the year, Noel proclaimed his love for dance music, more specifically, UK house imprint Defected Records. Now this caught us as much by surprise as it did the label. None of us could have predicted Gallagher loved a bit of Sam Divine and Noir. In an interview with The Quietus he said:

"I'm fucking obsessed with dance music at the moment. It's in the middle of a renaissance. That firm Defected, that do those 'Defected In The House' mixes, they're fucking amazing. I went to Ibiza last year and had an amazing time."

That's a point to dance music: 1-0

[ Portrait by Alan Clarke]

It wasn't always love and matrimony with Noel and electronic music though. In fact, in 2011 he really wasn't a fan. He took aim at the people making the music that was filling the clubs. Despite being bang on hitting Hacienda in the 90s he felt that things had gotten considerably worse since then.

Talking to NME in 2011 he said: "Dance music sounds like a walk in the park now. Any fucker can do it – and quite frankly, every fucker is doing it."

He might not be too far from the truth so that's a point to Noel there: 1-1

"When the acid house thing started in '87, it fucking blew my mind and it continues to do so."

Say no more. That's a point to dance music: 2-1

Noel took his High Flying Birds to T in the Park this year and once again caught up with NME to chat about Kanye West's Glastonbury performance. On the whole he liked it which we were surprised about but he couldn't resist opening his video interview with a cheeky dig at the world's most famous animal-headed DJ:

"Hello, this is deadmau5 without the stupid fucking hat."

Point to Noel: 2-2

In the same NME interview (see above) Noel didn't just subtly par off Deadmau5. He gave Avicii and David Guetta a quick kicking as well. He had no idea who Avicii even was and stated he "didn't wish to know anything about him" either. After asking if he was "like that David Guetta nonsense" he went on to say how fans at the festival needn't worry about the festival as he would "take care of it".

Lad. Noel you get a point: 3-2

Back in 1996, The Chemical Brothers released their second album 'Dig Your Own Hole' and within the seminal dance LP was a track called 'Setting Sun'. The classic banger featured none-other than Noel Gallagher on vocals. Yep, Noel has collaborated with one of the greatest electronic acts of all time. Further to that, he invited The Chems to come and play at Knebworth at their gig in the same year. Now that's what you call two worlds colliding.

We're going to offer a point for each: 4-3

Final score: Noel 4, Dance music 3

It's official, Noel beats dance music with a combination of wit, balls and generally not giving a fuck about what people think.