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Sun 5 April 2026 18:43, UK
If we’re all being completely honest, there’s one band that we’d all love to banish from the planet of the earth, and rewrite out of history. However, not all of us have had a platform to vent these frustrations, as Phil Collins did on national television.
The Genesis frontman was once a guest on the now-rested BBC comedy programme Room 101, which saw famous faces, like Collins, have the opportunity to send any irritation, no matter how big or small, to the dreaded Room 101.
Typically, the construct of the programme worked as a humorous vehicle to allow guests to deliver a dose of light-hearted observation comedy about the problem with queuing, or something else equally benignly British.
Collins instead opted for a different approach, using Room 101 to get his hatred of Oasis off his chest. Although Collins’ choices were delivered in a layer of humour, he could not hide his visceral disdain of the Gallagher brothers, particularly Noel, which came across as personal rather than an allergic reaction to hearing ‘Wonderwall’.
Unsurprisingly, he has been on the receiving end of Noel’s acidic tongue in the past, as have countless other musicians over the years. While most of his victims have embraced his barbs with humour, evidently, he got under Collins’ skin and began charging rent in his head.
On an episode of The Matt Morgan Podcast, Gallagher explained that his dislike of Genesis and Collins stemmed from when ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ stopped The Jam from reaching number one. Since that moment, Gallagher has held a grudge against the band and regularly jokingly referred to him as the antichrist.
Therefore, when the opportunity arose for Collins to get his own back and banish anything of his choosing during an appearance on Room 101, he didn’t hesitate before selecting Oasis. At this point, he’d already faced over a decade’s worth of insults from Noel and was no longer prepared to bite his tongue.
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“They’re just horrible. Horrible guys. They’re rude and not as talented as they think they are. I won’t mince words here; they’ve had a go at me personally,” Collins told host Paul Merton.
The host then read a quote from Noel encouraging the general public to vote for Labour at the general election in 2005. His plea, essentially, centred on his fears that Collins would return to England from his tax-free life in Switzerland if the Conservatives were placed into power.
Collins cagily said in response on the show: “He was quoting something that was said way back. Everybody assumes I’m a Conservative because I’ve got a lot of money, but I’m not a Conservative and never have been. He was using the fact I’d gone to Switzerland, assuming it must be tax blah, blah, blah, but they keep having a go at me, which I find strange.”
“There’s nobody they think is worth anything, apart from them,” Collins also said of the Gallagher brothers in a parting shot.
However, unlike the Gallagher brothers, Collins didn’t quite have it in him to turn the nastiness to 11 and admitted that he does understand the appeal of their music, even if he can’t personally get past them as people, stating, “If you can stomach their behaviour, the music is OK. I’m not having a go at Oasis, the band, because there’s some good songs.”
Collins did manage to get another swipe in, though, claiming Oasis were unoriginal, adding, “I love The Beatles. It’s a great nod to that. I liked the music long before I knew what these guys were like.”
Shortly after airing his grievances on Room 101, Collins had his dream come true when Oasis split in 2009, and enjoyed 16 years of quiet bliss as they appeared to be banished from existence.
Then, they came back, bigger than ever, selling out stadiums across the globe and creating an earth-shattering level of noise that nobody, even Collins, could ignore.
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