INXS: Michael Hutchence Feud With Oasis: BRIT Awards

INXS: The Michael Hutchence Feud with Oasis

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Back in 1996 INXS Frontman Michael Hutchence would present Oasis with an award for their huge hit Wanderwall at the Brit Awards. But the happy occasion resulted in Oasis guitarist Noel gallagher hurling an insult at Hutchence and INXS and would result in a diss track. That’s what were going to discuss in today’s video.

At the 1995 MTV European music awards it was reported that INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and Oasis singer Liam Gallagher nearly got into a fight backstage when Hutchence threw a fire extinguisher at Liam following some disparaging remarks he made about his then lover, Paula Yates according to the book INXS: Story to Story the official autobiography. There wasn’t much follow up reporting, but a year later 1996 at the Brit Awards it seemed like it was water under the bridge at least initially. Hutchence who was an Oasis fan would present an award that night to Oasis. Oasis at the time was reeling from the success of their sop****re record what’s the story morning glory. Featuring the hit song Wonderwall the song was nominated for the best video category wand be against take that, pulp, radiohead and blur. Oasis would win the award but as Oasis left the stage noel gallagher hurled an insult at hutchence saying

, “Has-beens should not be presenting awards to gonna-be’s.” Pretty rough. It was during the time of the Brit awardds that INXS who had started writing what would be their final album 1997’s Elegantly Wasted. The band had come off an extended hiatus after their last album 1993’ Full Moon Dirty Hearts was a commercial disappointment due to lukewarm responses from critics and changing musical tastes.

Hutchence would tell the album network magazine in 1997 “We really wanted to get off the old carousel for a while,” “As a band, we have recorded an album every 12 to 18 months over the last five or six years. This helped to create a situation resulting in a lot of personal and business friction within the band, as well as the record label. … So, it just seemed like the logical time to take a break.”

It was sometime after the brit awards that hutchence was in dublin, ireland and was at a bar with bono of u2 when liam gallagher supposedly walked in and got into a verbal altercation with hutchence. Bono kept the peace, butHutchence was so infuriated with the event that he headed back into the studio and added a background vocal to the title track elegantly wasted that said “i’m better than oasis.’ HEres an interview with hutchence asking about the song.

Hutchence would take his own life in november of 1997 and to those close to him Noel’s remark was said to have humiliated him.

Noel Gallagher seemed to would discuss the incident in 2000, three years after hutchence death telling uncut magazine…. The second night of The Brits [1996]. We didn't know Michael Hutchence was going to present us with an award. It was the first award of the night and there'd been words said before the ceremony in the papers. So when he come out to present the award, we went, 'Right, these cs [Brits organisers] have stitched us up here, because they know what's going on.' So we decided that, every time we hit that stage, we were just going to give it to everyone, and we f***ing duly did…It wasn't scripted or anything like that. We probably wouldn't have done anything if Michael Hutchence hadn't come out and said his little bit: 'I heard Liam wants to fight me.' We were like, 'Don't f***ing try and pick a fight with us, man, because we're the best at giving verbal abuse,' and off we went.

WHile the band’d last album with hutchence wasn’t as commercially successful as their earlier works the title track would peak at number 2 on the alternative charts in America.