VENEZUELA: COLLECTIVE SOUL AND OASIS PERFORM AT CARACAS POP FESTIVAL.

Record ID: 390801

  • Title: VENEZUELA: COLLECTIVE SOUL AND OASIS PERFORM AT CARACAS POP FESTIVAL.
  • Date: 21st January 2001
  • Summary: CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) ROLAND, SAYING: "I love pop music, I think it's great. I think it's great for music because as long as it's done from the heart and it's very sincere, I think all music is good. I think if we all liked the same type of music, or the same artists, we would be an absolutely boring society with no brains, so I think it's very necessary to have all ty
  • Embargoed: 5th February 2001 12:00
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  • Location: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Topics: Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVACZGXFSBS1OV3KM5Y97XWHWUI4
  • Story Text: "They should be shot". That was Oasis' Noel Gallagher's verdict on British boyband "Backstreet Boys".
    But although the songwriter's comments got the music press talking, most of the audience at the Caracas Pop Festival were oblivious to British band wars and happy to just sit down and soak up the music. Oasis and US band Collective Soul closed the Venezulan pop festival.
    Venezuela's "Caracas Pop Festival" came to a close with concerts by Oasis and Collective Soul.
    While Collective Soul's Ed Roland said all music was good, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher blamed the "bad taste" of the U.S. public at a news conference prior to the concert for hindering the sales of British bands in the world's biggest music market.
    He said the popular five-member boy band from Florida, the Backstreet boys "can't sing, can't play, can't dance".
    The Oasis star, whose three-year marriage to Meg Mathews ended in divorce on Friday (January 19), called the Backstreet Boys' songs "rubbish" and even blamed them for damaging children's teeth by promoting soft drinks.
    "They should be shot," he said.
    The bands were part of an all-star line up that included Sting and Sheryl Crow on opening night, Panama's Ruben Blades and Mexico's rock sensation Mana on Friday, (January 19) and teen idols Christina Aguilera and Five on Saturday (January 20).
    Many of the international acts have come from playing at the giant Rock in Rio festival, which has overrun the coastal Brazilian city during the last week.
    While the Caracas event is on a far smaller scale, its organizers hope the four concerts will attract a total of around 150,000 music lovers.
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