Liam Gallagher is still hammering Fontaines D.C., calling the Dublin band not good enough for Oasis and claiming they don’t have any tunes, a feud running since 2024.
The Oasis frontman answered a fan question this week the same way he usually does: blunt, public, and unbothered by manners. Asked why Fontaines D.C. never opened the Oasis reunion shows, Stereogum reported that Gallagher wrote they simply weren’t up to it.
“There not good enough they don’t have any tunes,” he posted, according to the embedded reply dated October 16, 2026.
That line fits a longer pattern. Gallagher and the young Dublin band have traded dismissals since the Oasis reunion talk heated up in 2024. Fontaines members shrugged at the comeback. Gallagher answered with insults about their look, their clothes, and now their songs.
The back-and-forth did not start with Gallagher’s latest post. On Sept. 11, 2024, Studio Brussel posted an interview with Fontaines D.C. members Carlos O’Connell and Conor Deegan III. Asked whether they were excited about the Oasis reunion, O’Connell did not play along.
"Couldn't really give a s***, to be honest,"
Bandmate Grian Chatten pushed the other way on Instagram around the same stretch, separating himself from that shrug.
"I love Oasis. This is not my opinion,"
So the band was not of one mind. Gallagher still treated the slight as enough.
The day after that Studio Brussel post, someone asked Gallagher whether Fontaines might open Oasis dates. He did not hedge. On Sept. 12, 2024, he unloaded on X.
"F*** them little spunkbubbles I've seen better dressed ROADIES,"
He added another jab in the same burst.
"They look like a s*** EMF."
EMF, for readers who don’t live in 1990s alternative radio, was the British dance-rock act behind “Unbelievable.” Gallagher’s point was not subtle: he thought Fontaines looked cheap and unimpressive. Stereogum later noted it was unclear whether Gallagher had even seen the full Studio Brussel interview before posting. The clip did not spread widely until after his replies.
Fontaines D.C. did not get the slot. Reunion shows across the UK, Ireland, and the Americas used Cast, Richard Ashcroft, and Cage The Elephant on different nights. Ball Park Music supported in Australia. Asian Kung-Fu Generation and Otoboke Beaver handled Japan.
Those are working rock and indie names with catalogs and crowds of their own. Gallagher’s new line draws a hard circle around that choice: in his view, Fontaines did not earn the stage.
Fontaines just put out a new record, Dopamine Chamber. Some listeners are already echoing Gallagher’s charge that the songs are thin. That is taste, not a court finding. Gallagher stated his verdict anyway.
Gallagher has spent decades saying the quiet part out loud. He does not sand down feuds for brand safety. He names who he thinks is soft, who he thinks can’t draft, and who he would not put on his bill.
Fontaines D.C. built a sharp modern reputation out of Dublin. O’Connell’s “couldn’t really give a s***” line treated the Oasis return as optional nostalgia. Gallagher answered as if the ladder still runs through songs, clothes, and proof onstage, not through carefully managed indifference.
Whether Liam ever watched the full interview almost misses the point. He heard enough, or thought he did, and he kept the door closed. Years later he is still explaining why.
In a business full of soft answers and focus-grouped cool, Gallagher still talks like a man who thinks the tunes either work or they don’t.
