Noel Gallagher has dreams of headlining next year's Glastonbury Festival.

The rocker wants to top the bill at Worthy Farm in Somerset, South West England, because he'll be attending as a spectator anyway.

Noel Gallagher

Asked in a Facebook Q&A with fans if he's eyeing up a slot at the event he said: "Am I eyeing it up? If I was asked if do it yeah - I'd headline the spoken word tent...

"If Michael Eavis is watching, yeah I'll do it ... I'm up for doing it and I'm going to be going anyway."

Despite Oasis headlining the festival in both 1995 and 2004, Noel doesn't think they've ever performed as well as they should have.

"We never really got on with it. I couldn't tell you why. Lord knows we had the tunes.

"The time we did it and it should have been great was the first year we headlined and we got side-tracked cause we just finished [second album] '(What's the Story) Morning Glory' and, it was suicide, we decided to play six tracks off 'Morning Glory' that no one had heard, with one of those being 'Champagne Supernova' which goes on for half an hour.

"I remember I played 'Don't Look Back In Anger' for the first time to total silence and it's the only time it's ever happened. It never really got going and maybe the second time we headlined it our moment had passed."

Noel however famously slammed the festival in 2008 when it chose Jay Z as a headline act, but admitted he had a fantastic time there this year despite not watching "a single band".

"I was there this year. I was there all three days and I didn't watch a single band and watched it all when I got home. It was brilliant this year but I didn't see a band. I clapped Lars Ulrich on stage but as much as I love him and I've known him for 20 years it dawned on me after 30 seconds, 'F**k this is heavy metal.' So I went off to some acid house tent to re-live my youth."


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