Matty Healy Responds To Noel Gallagher Calling Him A “Slack-Jawed Fuckwit”

Matty Healy opened for his own band at the 1975 show in Dublin on Wednesday night, after Caroline Polachek had to pull out at the last minute after losing her voice. During the stripped-down set, he debuted some 1975 songs live for the first time (“Then Because She Goes,” “Playing On My Mind”) and covered Colin Hay’s “I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You.” Jamie Squire, one of the 1975’s touring musicians, sang Leon Russell’s “A Song For You” while Healy spray-painted the word “Sorry?” on a backdrop on the stage. And Healy talked about his ongoing feud with Noel Gallagher, who most recently called the 1975 “shit” and “certainly not rock.”