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Noel Gallagher is up for performing at the Glastonbury festival next year.
The 47-year-old musician made the declaration in response to comments made by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl earlier this month, who said he would headline the festival's Pyramid Stage with his bandmates if Oasis reformed to top the bill as well.
Dave said: "If Prince does it, and Oasis does it, you've got the Foo Fighters, how about that?"
The Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds star has now said he would be available for Michael Eavis' iconic event - which will take place at Worthy Farm in Somerset, South West England, from June 24-28 - but wouldn't be drawn on whether he wanted to reunite with his brother Liam for the festival.
Noel said: "I'm available that weekend - it's not up to me though, is it?"
The 'In The Heat Of The Moment' singer was also full of praise for Dave and his band, insisting they are among the loveliest guys in rock.
Noel told XFM Radio: "What they say about him is true. He is genuinely one of the nicest men in rock. We've done some big gigs with them down the years. Great lads, all of them."
Noel quit Oasis in 2009 following a huge backstage bust-up with Liam, which ended with the volatile singer trying to hit his sibling over the head with a guitar.
The pair didn't speak for years but the animosity has eased between them in recent months, with Noel admitting that they are on "good terms, well as good as we can be".
However, a reunion doesn't seem to be a possibility for the near future, with the guitarist previously saying: "It's not on the cards. From where I sit now it's purely a creative thing.
"I really, really enjoy where I am with my music and where I am with my band. I wouldn't be willing to give that up for anything."

Cher has cancelled her 'Dressed to Kill' tour due to a viral infection.
The 68-year-old music legend has announced she has been forced to call off the second leg of her 'Dressed to Kill' tour after doctors advised her she needed more time off to recover the illness.
In an statement, Cher said: "Nothing like this has ever happened to me. I cannot apologise enough to all the fans who bought tickets. I'm so proud of this show. It is my best ever. I sincerely hope that we can come back again next year and finish what we started."
A post on her official website read: "While her progress has been consistent, Cher's doctors have advised her to take more time to ensure and complete and total recovery."
She later took to Twitter to express her regret to her 2 million followers.
Cher wrote: "I'm SORRY I Couldn't B the 1 to tell you about postponing my tour. I Tried SO HARD 2b Strong enough, but my Will couldn't force my Body time (sic)"
She then added: "Let's talk about it tomm. Between gut wrenching Sadness of not being Able 2go on stage, sing, b Silly, & wear new Mackie's & Mike Dying, I'm [heartbroken] (sic)"
The 'Believe' songstress has cancelled a total of 29 concerts which would have taken her across America and Canada.
The second leg of the tour was due to kick off in New York City on September 11, but that was called off after she contracted an infection "that affected her kidney function".
The music icon had already played 49 concerts during the first leg of her 'Dressed to Kill' tour earlier this year, where she was joined by her support act Cyndi Lauper.
The first run of shows all sold-out and banked Cher a reported $54.9 million.

Olly Murs wants to organise a Live Aid concert with Bob Geldof for 2015.
The 30-year-old pop star was invited to sing on the Band Aid 30 recording of 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' by Bob and is hoping the charity single - which is raising money for the Ebola crisis - will be followed by a huge concert as it has on previous occasions.
He explained: "It would be incredible to do. It has been done in the past and it would be amazing to do it again.
"I've heard inklings from Bob on the other ideas that he's got. He's definitely got an idea and plan for something to happen."
The original Live Aid concert took place at London's old Wembley Stadium in July 1985 - the summer after the first recording of the track - and featured a show-stealing set by Queen.
Live8 was held in Hyde Park in July 2005, seven months after the Band Aid 20 version was released in December 2004 to mark the song's 20th anniversary. Pink Floyd reunited for their first concert together for years to help raise money for Africa.
'Troublemaker' hitmaker Olly would have no hesitation in agreeing to perform if Bob wants to do it again.
He said: "If I was asked to do it I would definitely make sure I was available."
The former 'X Factor' contestant recorded the updated track with numerous other pop stars, including Emeli Sandé, Ed Sheeran, Bono and Sam Smith, and the fundraising single has already become the biggest selling track in the UK in 2014.
Olly admits it was a huge thrill to be in the studio with so many artists he admires.
He told the Daily Star newspaper: "I was like the joker in the pack because I get along with everyone. I loved seeing Elbow and Sam Smith and me and the One Direction boys all having fun.
"Chris Martin complimented me on my presenting skills. I presume he must have watched 'The Xtra Factor' because that's the only presenting job I've done!"

Emeli Sande has written a song about her "heartbreak".
The 'Next To Me' singer penned the emotional track about her divorce from her childhood sweetheart Adam Gouraguine after just one year of marriage, ending their 10-year relationship.
According to Naughty Boy - who produced the song 'Saddest Vanilla' with the Brit Award-winner - Emeli is hoping the track will "set the ball rolling" for her musical comeback next year.
Naughty Boy, 29, compared the song, which features 25-year-old singer Jess Glynne, to power ballads sung by music legends Mariah Carey and the late Whitney Houston.
He said: "It is a heartbreak song and they sound great on it. It's a real Mariah and Whitney moment."
Emeli, 27, recently admitted she was still coming to terms with with losing her "best friend" Adam.
The Brit-born beauty said: "Everyone thought I'd gone mad. 'What do you mean a divorce? We were all at your wedding a few months ago!' But there was just something inside me that said, 'This isn't the life. You're pretending to be someone else.'
"And that's so hard to explain to someone. I can't even explain it now.
"Adam and I had been together since I was 17. He was my only boyfriend. That's the only person I've been with for the past 10 years.
"So [losing] our relationship more than the marriage was the big part for me to deal with.
"Having a friend who'd been my best friend for so long ... losing that support and structure in my life was the biggest thing."

Dave Grohl likes to sing in his underwear.
The Foo Fighters frontman - who has daughters Violet, eight, Harper, five, and Ophelia, three months, with wife Jordyn Blum - unwinds at the end of a busy day at home with a glass of wine in his home studio.
He said: "I've done three-quarters of a bottle of wine, and I'm in my underwear, totally rockin' these riffs all night."
While he is partial to a glass of wine, the 'Learn to Fly' rocker - whose late Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain was addicted to heroin - insists he isn't interested in taking drugs.
He told Rolling Stone magazine: "To this day, I have never done cocaine, because I know me. Never tried heroin. Pills are lame.
"I like wine. I'm the fun drunk. You know I'm wasted when I shut up."
While Foo Fighters have only just released their new album 'Sonic Highways' - which they recorded in various US cities after examining the musical history of each one for an accompanying documentary - Dave already has plans for their next record, which he has promised will be groundbreaking.
He said: "I don't think anyone's ever done it. And it's f***ing cool. It will blow everybody's mind. Nobody has the balls to do it. And that's three years away."

Guns N' Roses will be the subject of a new movie.
The 'Welcome to the Jungle' rockers' will have their story played out on screen when the film - which is based on Marc Canters' 2008 biography, 'Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction' - hits cinemas. and the author has promised the picture will be "very cool" and done "with no short cuts.
Posting on a fan forum, he wrote: "I do have a big say so on the script which is still being put together now but so far looking cool.
"I am going to see that everyone in the cast is doing their job and doing justice to the band. Since I was there, I know what the dialogue was between the band for many of the events that took place. When you find out who is making the movie, you will then understand that it will be very cool. I'm proud of all the hard work that was put into this project and it's just going to KICK ASS!
"In no way will it be a cheesy movie like 'Rock Star'. There really is such a great story here that even the outtakes will be great.
"The truth is a movie could be made just from 'Hell Tour' alone which was only about a week or so long."
Though frontman Axl Rose won't be involved with the film, he and his bandmates will get to review the script and "help fix things that are off a bit."
The author added in his post: "The goal is to get it right.
"As you all know Axl doesn't support anything to do with the old band except playing their songs live.
"However I do think he will be happy with the fact that it will clear up some stories that have been said about him from those days that were told incompletely."

S Club 7 got back together over a takeaway.
All seven members of the band - Jo O'Meara, Bradley McIntosh, Rachel Stevens, Jon Lee, Paul Cattermole, Tina Barrett and Hannah Spearitt - performed together on charity telethon 'Children in Need' on Friday (14.11.14), and have now revealed a Chinese meal brought the band back together again.
Tina, 38, said: "I've been on Twitter for quite a long time actually so I was seeing every other tweet saying 'when are you guys getting back together?' so I sent all these guys a message, texted them, and they all came round to my place and had a Chinese. The important thing first - food! Then we started chatting and two years later [we're back]."
Since performing a medley of their hits including 'S Club Party' and 'Don't Stop Movin' on the fundraiser last week, the pop sensations have announced a 'Bring It All Back' tour of UK arenas for May 2015, adding a second date at London's O2 Arena after the first show sold out in a matter of hours.
The 'Reach' singers declined offers to appear on the television show 'The Big Reunion' which showed bands from the 1990s and early 2000s such as Atomic Kitten, Blue and Five, reform because they didn't want to have to "spill the beans" about their personal lives.
Talking on 'Loose Women', Bradley, 33, shared: "I think because everyone was busy, everyone was working, Jon was doing theatre, Hannah was doing TV and everyone was doing something.
"It was more to do with getting everyone together, it wasn't necessarily that [the show], but I think we all agreed that we'd rather just do a reunion and not have to spill the beans about our personal lives and just do this for fun."

General Levy recorded a special rap song for Nick Grimshaw.
The ragga MC has just released new single 'Pull Up' with DJ Sticky and the BBC Radio 1 breakfast DJ was one of the first people to pick up on the track.
However, when Grimmy first began playing the song he had trouble pronouncing General Levy's name correctly, and it was his moniker mistakes that inspired the humorous dubplate.
Grimmy played the song this morning (20.11.14) and screamed in delight as he heard Levy rap his name incorrectly several times.
Lyrics included: "Nick Grimeshaw ... Kershaw ... Grimshure ... me no sure."
And another line was: "Breakfast show you have to Pull Up Pull Up ... with your tea and your toast, you have have to Pull Up Pull Up."
After he played the track to the nation, Grimmy said: "That was so amazing!"
Levy wrote 'Pull Up' - which is available now - with DJ Sticky and their composition was inspired by an impromptu road trip from Croatia to Venice.
The two artists met each other on an airport transport bus after they both performed at the Outlook music festival but they missed their flight and had to hire a car to get home and that's when they agreed to work on a collaboration.
Sticky exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "We were on our way back to the airport on the same transfer bus, I jumped on the bus and I was like, 'I can't believe it its Levy!'
"A three-hour journey ended up being a seven-hour journey because we missed the plane; we had to go through two borders and ended up flying out from Venice airport."
Levy - whose biggest hit was 'Incredible' with M-Beat - added: "Yeah it was a mix-up, we had a lot of time to bond and a lot of connections got made on that trip during those summer festivals that's when a lot of artists cross-pollinate."

Jimmy Ruffin has died.
The Motown singer - who was best known for his 1966 hit 'What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?' - passed away at the age of 78 at his home in Las Vegas on Monday (17.11.14), his children Philicia and Jimmy Lee Ruffin have confirmed.
Motown Records founder Berry Gordy paid tribute to the 'Gonna Give Her All the Love I Got' hitmaker - whose brother David was an original member of the Temptations - and hailed him a "phenomenal singer" and a "wonderful human being".
He said in a statement: "Jimmy Ruffin was a phenomenal singer.
"He was truly underrated because we were also fortunate to have his brother, David, as the lead singer of the Temptations, who got so much acclaim. Jimmy, as a solo artist, had 'What Becomes of the Brokenhearted,' one of the greatest songs put out by Motown and also one of my personal favourites.
"He was a wonderful human being, quiet and unassuming, who touched many lives with his music, not just here in the states, but overseas, as well. Jimmy Ruffin will always be a part of the Motown legacy, and I extend my sincere condolences to his family, friends and fans."
Philicia and Jimmy Lee also paid tribute to their dad as a "rare type of man"
who had "left his mark".
They said in a statement: "Jimmy Ruffin was a rare type of man who left his mark on the music industry.
"My family in its entirety is extremely upset over his death. He will truly be missed. We will treasure the many fond and wonderful memories we all have of him."
Jimmy enjoyed a lengthy career, signing a record deal in the early 1960s and enjoying chart success for several decades afterwards, with his track 'Hold On To My Love' a big hit in 1980 and his last album, 'There Will Never Be Another You', released in 2012.