{"id":768104,"date":"2026-09-12T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768104\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:16:09","slug":"west-country-accent-would-not-have-worked-for-oasis-says-noel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768104\/","title":{"rendered":"West Country accent ‘would not have worked for Oasis’, says Noel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oasis would not have worked if the band had “a West Country accent”, Noel Gallagher has said. <\/p>\n

He made the claim in a new documentary, ‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger’, which tells the story of the band’s reformation and comeback tour after 15 years apart.<\/p>\n

Talking about the importance of the band’s Manchester roots, Gallagher said: “Imagine if I had a West Country accent saying ‘we are going be the biggest band in the world’. It’s not gonna work.” <\/p>\n

Despite his comment, Oasis does reportedly have a West Country connection. A long-held rumour suggests their name was inspired by Swindon’s Oasis Leisure Centre<\/a>, which hosted a gig which Gallagher worked on as a guitar technician.<\/p>\n

The documentary, which is currently in cinemas, was produced by Gloucestershire-based Steven Knight who created Peaky Blinders and co-created Who Wants to be a Millionaire. <\/p>\n

Recent polling found that 15% of respondents with a West Country accent reported having their way of speaking mocked or criticised <\/a>in the workplace.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Bristol and the wider West Country has produced a host of high-profile media figures like Simon Pegg, Stephen Merchant and Maisie Williams, as well as musicians such as Massive Attack, Idles and two thirds of Bananarama.<\/p>\n

But arguably none have embraced their West Country accent as fervently as the Wurzels, who topped the charts in 1976 with Somerset anthem, ‘The Combine Harvester’<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oasis would not have worked if the band had “a West Country accent”, Noel Gallagher has said. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}