Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds live at the Liverpool Echo Arena (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Chris Cester of Jet has revealed how a text from Noel Gallagher resulted in his off-shoot Damndogs morphing into Mystic Knights Of Amnesia.
“When Mark left the band, Louis and I decided to keep going but we renamed it because the music had changed a lot as well,” he’s told The Music. “I texted Noel Gallagher at one point and asked him if he could give us a new band name. And he said ‘Mystic Knights Of Amnesia’, which we both thought was ridiculous.”
“But then we were like, ‘Actually, it’s so ridiculous it could be awesome!’ And it suits the music, too, which is just really off the wall.”
“Our first song is gonna probably be around nine minutes long, but not a boring nine minutes. Nobody’s gonna be playing a nine-minute song but I gave up on the radio a long time ago. I think you’ve gotta sort of just play your own game, you know?”
While this very different adventure can be sampled over on the band’s website, Jet are about to get back into action too and will support Bruce Springsteen on tour next year after returning from a 2012 split.
