Thursday 7th March 2013 by Grace Carroll | Photos by WENN

Tags: Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher has criticised Muse drummer Dom Howard for smoking an electronic cigarette at the BRIT awards.

Gallagher said that everyone at the event was a 'careerist', and went on to explain that it was 'corporate' and 'forgettable'.

Speaking to Time Out Dubai, Gallagher said, "There are no characters left in the music business. When we first started going there was a healthy percentage of people, and we were all dirt-kickers from council estates, and we all couldn’t believe our luck that we were at the Brits. You go in now and everybody is a careerist.

"It’s very corporate, and you know what I’ve actually seen people doing at the Brits? Eating. I saw the drummer from Muse smoking an electronic cigarette. A cigarette with a battery in. I had to say to him: ‘Really? Really? Is that where you are at? Do me a favour mate, either have a proper one outside, or don’t have one.’

"It lit up green when he had a drag of it. Nonsense. He said that immortal line – ‘Oh you know how it is mate’. And I said ‘I’m sorry mate, I actually don’t.’"

He went on to hit out at the afterparty for being too boring, adding that young people who wear hats should be shot. 

Dominic Howard needs to stay away from the electric cigarettes

It was an instantly forgettable night," he continued. "There was nothing going on at the Brits, there was nothing going on at the aftershow parties. There seemed to be a lot of young people in hats, with iPhones. They’re either all involved in some massive video game that they’re all hooked up to, or they’re just texting each other saying ‘Where are you, what are you doing?’

"And they’ve all got hats. Where did the hat come from? We’re going back to some Dickensian nightmare. I don’t understand it. People with hats and Blackberrys under the age of 30 should be shot. Or stoned to death."

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