This weekend at The Virgin Music Festival in Toronto (as posted about here yesterday), Noel Gallagher of Oasis was attacked on stage. It is possible that someone got fed up about Noel Gallagher bashing Radiohead, or Jay-Z or any number of other rock stars, but wow, to take it out on him in person is a little much.

The footage of the incident is available on youtube and shows Noel Gallagher getting pushed in the back very hard (at about 1:30 on the video), causing him to fall face first into his monitors. After this happens, the attacker begins to approach Liam Gallagher before he is tackled by about 5 or 6 security personnel. Pretty unbelievable.

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A few months back Noel Gallagher of Oasis remarked to the press that he felt it was wrong for Jay-Z or any hip-hop artist to be headlining the main stage at Glastonbury. Jay-Z, in turn, responded back in the press by defending hip-hop in general.

When Jay-Z’s set commenced, he strapped on a Fender strat and “strummed” along to Wonderwall by Oasis and proceeded to sing the song very out of key, as a sort of “screw you” to Noel Gallagher.

Now, I feel like I should comment on this after having read some people’s responses on sites like Stereogum. It is kind of cool that he came out and basically mocked the Oasis song, but he obviously can’t actually play guitar and it just looked stupid seeing him pretend to play. Also, they just put on the album version and he sang along to it, like someone would in their car.

I dont know, to me it just seems lame. Jay-Z did get a lot of great critical response from the performance, but also some critics saying it started to wain mid-way through. To me, this kind of proves Noel Gallagher’s point in a way. Not that hip-hop shouldn’t be a festivals, but that in my opinion, hip-hop just isn’t very good live.

Check out the video here.