Noel Gallagher brilliantly rips apart ‘woke’ Glastonbury with blistering rant: ‘F***ing idiots waving flags’

Glastonbury 2024: Palestinian flags were held aloft at this year’s event

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Letting rip on this year’s event, he said: “I don’t like (virtue-signalling) in music — little f***ing idiots waving flags around and making political statements and bands taking the stage and saying, ‘Hey guys, isn’t war ­terrible, yeah? Let’s all boo war. F***k the Tories man,’ and all that.

“It’s like, look — play your f***ing tunes and get off. It’s too much. Donate all your money to the cause — that’s it, stop yapping about it.”

Gallagher went on to tell The Sun that he knows the “world is in a bit of a f***ed up place” before asking: “But what’s all the kids in a field at Glastonbury going to do about it?”

“Everybody knows what’s going on in the f***ing world, you’ve got a phone in your pocket that tells you anyway. What is the point of virtue-signalling?”

Glastonbury 2024: Dua Lipa headlined the Pyramid Stage on Friday night

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Gallagher, who attended this year’s event, isn’t the only person who’s grown tired of virtue-signalling displays at the festival.

X, formerly Twitter, was awash with complaints over the weekend, including one person who raged: “What the f*** happened to Glastonbury? Nothing but a load of virtue signalling garbage with even more diabolical music #glastonbury2024 #Glastonbury.”

A second echoed: “Millennials have ruined Glastonbury. Its full of virtue signallers and you’ve got to wear a bar-coded wrist band. Hardly a bastion of rebellion and freedom. Shania Twain, Seventeen and Dua Lipa ffs. #Glastonbury #Globalists #GoWokeGoBroke #KPop.”

Elsewhere, another hit out: “Exactly why the modern #Glastonbury #Glastonbury2024 is nothing but a political, virtue signalling cesspit nowadays. It should be defunded & shut down, especially being shown by the frightened to death & woke #BBC.”

And another weighed in: “RIP #Glastonbury. Used to be class but now a woke fest pile of s***e , painful to watch this year.” (sic)

Of course, plenty of festivalgoers and viewers applauded this year’s line-up and performances on-stage, with Coldplay, in particular, inundated with plaudits for their performance – which included a surprise cameo from Michael J Fox.

The festival is due to return to Worthy Farm next year despite some years being treated as a fallow year to allow the land to recover.

The last official fallow year was back in 2018 but as the pandemic rendered 2020 and 2021’s festivals a no-go, the next fallow year isn’t scheduled until 2026.