Oasis offered refund to concert, then mocked those who took it

Banhart covers the volatile brothers

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Devendra Banhart

After offering a refund to fans at a recent Manchester concert that experienced technical difficulties for half an hour, Oasis lead guitarist Noel Gallagher is now mocking the 20,000 who took the band up on its offer. "So you were genuinely disappointed?" he wrote on his blog. "There wasn't a 20,000 gap in the crowd... cheeky cunts." The Guardian reports that the band has to cough up £1m. That's not too bad. It would have cost Oasis £3m if all 70,000 fans had asked for their money back. Check out freak-folk singer and songwriter Devendra Banhart's cover of the volatile brothers' classic "Don't Look Back In Anger."

Words by Matt Carr

Published on melophobe June 22, 2009.

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