Scouting For Women’ Roy Stride doesn’t maintain a grudge towards Noel Gallagher for branding the group “Scouting For Idiots” and can attend the Oasis Stay ’25 Tour.
Scouting For Women’ Roy Stride ‘by no means retaliated’ after hero Noel Gallagher mocked his band
The She’s So Pretty hitmakers are enjoying the Britpop group’s largest rival Blur’s bassist Alex James’ Huge Feastival on August 22.
Again in 2008, an ever-mouthy Noel gave his opinion of widespread artists of the time, together with Scouting For Women, throughout an interview on BBC Radio 1.
Quizzed by Contact Music if he ever retaliated, frontman Roy Stride mentioned: “I might by no means retaliate.
“He was like a God. Did it damage? Probably not. I by no means heard it. My spouse heard it reside on radio as a result of I feel he mentioned it on Radio 1, however she was like, Oh, he principally gave the impression of he’d been out all evening and he got here in, and was simply reviewing each single band, and he was simply saying that about each band. I’ve by no means met him since.
“You may see on my vinyl right here. And I’ve received, yeah, I’ve received the whole lot. I’ve received Oasis and Blur.”
Requested if he was like fortunate sufficient to bag a ticket to Oasis’ first tour in 16 years – which kicks off on July 4 in Cardiff – he mentioned: “I’ve one, however I did not get it within the authentic bout. I used to be like, there for eight hours. I spent my whole day in a foul lodge room making an attempt to get tickets. However I’ve since managed to get one as a result of I am presently in LA and so I’ve received one for the Rose Bowl in California, which goes to be fairly a mad factor, as a result of I am unable to think about seeing Oasis in California.”
Scouting For Women have a busy summer time forward and a tour in 2026, plus they’ve a brand new album on the way in which.
Roy says they’re gunning for the 2026 Easter primary with the follow-up to 2023’s The Place We Used to Meet.
He mentioned: “The album’s not going to come back out until subsequent Easter, and we’re going for Easter primary, as a result of This Ain’t A Lengthy Track was Easter primary. And no one ever dreamed of getting an Easter primary earlier than or since.”
Huge Feastival takes place on Alex James’ Cotswolds farm between 22 – 24 August. Weekend and day tickets are on sale now through bigfeastival.com.