Blur v Oasis: the Britpop battle remains as contrived and cynical as ever

With launch of a brand new Gorillaz album, the decades-old rivalry resurfaces as Liam Gallagher tweets rudely about Damon Albarn – and his personal brother Noel

Even earlier than the new Gorillaz album was released on Friday, Damon Albarn was anticipating Liam Gallagher’s scorching take on We Received the Energy, the primary formal collaboration between the erstwhile Blur frontman and Liam’s estranged older brother Noel. “Nobody’s asked Liam what he thinks concerning the music yet,” Albarn told Vulture. “Little question he’d have a unbelievable one-liner about what a bunch of fucking knobheads we are.”

Noel might as nicely have stated “Our Kid” 5 occasions into the toilet mirror, because within 24 hours of the quote showing on-line, Liam’s verdict was in. “That dick out of Blur and the creepy one out of Oasis need to hang there heads in shame as it’s no dancing in the streets,” he tweeted, presumably referring to Mick Jagger and David Bowie’s endearingly naff model of the Martha and the Vandellas basic. He then went on to deride Albarn as a “gobshite” who’d turned Noel right into a “large woman” and promised “there’s gonna be struggle” the subsequent time they meet.