Some time ago (actually, a very long time ago in the days of Oasis/Blur rivalry; long before the CMU Daily existed) Noel Gallagher was famously reported to have said that he wished Blur members Damon Albarn and Alex James would "get AIDS".
Gallagher has now told Xfm that it wasn't his fault and that he didn't mean it, telling the radio station "It was kinda a bit of a stitch up by the journalist. I was in this dressing room after we played Irvine Beach in that Big Top, and we were all fucked taking drugs - she was taking drugs an all, and I won't name her on the fucking radio because that's probably not the best thing legally to do - but I kinda thought we were speaking off the record, but of course there was a tape recorder on. But, there you go. I obviously don't wish that... A bad cold I should have said. Flu maybe?"
Gallagher also retracted comments that slagged off KT Tunstall, but reiterated that he still thinks James Blunt is crap: "I gotta say this, I was in Q magazine a while ago slagging off KT Tunstall, and I was kind of shocked at that cos I'd only been speaking to her ten minutes before and I don't really mind her music and she's a really sweet girl. I really didn't mean to lump her in with James Blunt, it's just that she plays an acoustic guitar. I apologise for that cos I thought she was really cool but I was kinda horrified. I was like 'Oh no, I didn't say that?' cos she was alright and she's not as bad as James Blunt. He's rubbish."
But, just for the record, he doesn't like Bloc Party, though it seems to be more on account of what they say in interviews, not what they do with their music: "Every time I read an interview by that shower. It's like they're talking about their favourite music, 'Yeah, I heard a Bjork B-side that was interesting...' People that analyse music? It's either good or its bad. So it either makes sense to your brain or it doesn't. There's no such thing as interesting. I've never sat down and listened to a record and gone and analysed it that much that that I was 'interested'. It's like, put it on and within two minutes you're going, 'Its rubbish, turn it off, turn it off!' or stick it on again."