OASIS star Noel Gallagher has dismissed rock outfit The Darkness as "inoffensive" and says he has no idea why they're so popular.

The 36-year-old guitarist is confused as to why the I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE band have been hailed as the saviors of British rock music.

And the LIVE FOREVER songwriter is convinced that those who follow the band are merely confused.

He says, "I just find them very, very inoffensive. I really don't know why people hate them or love them.

"It doesn't do anything at all for me. I'm not even totally sure whether the people who like them genuinely like them."

05/01/2004 17:55