Former Oasis songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher has decried the fact that fellow British musician Ed Sheeran will be playing three nights at London's expansive Wembley Stadium in July, according to NME.
"I don't think I can live in a world where that's even possible. When you hear that kind of polished pop and then there's a ginger guy with a fucking guitar it seems subversive, but it's fucking not," the 47-year-old musician told NME in the cover feature of the magazine's issue for this week.
Gallagher also described today's musical trends by comparing it with those of the 1980s.
"It's a strange time, and it seems like the whole thing is embedded for good now, for f---ing forever. It's not all over, but it'll go back to the way it was in the early '80s where indie bands are the alternative thing, the lower level," said Gallagher, who has maintained a solo career after Oasis disbanded in 2009.
"In the early '80s everyone at indie labels, even major labels, were trying to push this music to the fore because everything else was s-t, and maybe it'll happen again, but I don't see it for the next decade," he continued.
Sheeran, whose three nights of appearances at the 80,000-capacity Wembley Stadium in July was confirmed last year, has responded curtly to Gallagher's gibe, according to Mirror.
"I can live in it, it's really enjoyable," he wrote on Twitter.
Two of the nights in Sheeran's stretch of performances at Wembley are a later addition spurred by popular demand.
The 23-year-old musician is scheduled to perform at the 57th Grammy Awards in February. He is nominated for three awards, including Best Pop Vocal Album for his 2014 release "X" and Album of the Year.
Gallagher released a new single, "Ballad of the Might," earlier this week and expressed his desire to play at Glastonbury Festival in June, even suggesting that he would take his guitar and play whether or not he is an official performer, according to an earlier NME report.
