Noel Gallagher takes brutal swipe at Royal Family during Oasis hometown show
Noel Gallagher took a swipe at the Royal Family while performing at Oasis' closing night of their Manchester residency. The singer-songwriter, 58, has just completed five dates at Manchester's Heaton Park with Oasis, after burning the hatchet with his younger brother, Liam Gallagher, 52.
Each night, the once-warring brothers performed to a sold-out crowd of 80,000 fans, who had never imagined that Oasis would reunite again. The mega-group split in 2009 after Noel said he couldn't work with his brother for a day longer.
But while those in attendance appeared to be in high spirits, Noel used his solo slot to make his feelings very clear. At the first Heaton Park show, he dedicated the track Half The World Away to the late Caroline Aherne, famed for playing Denise in The Royle Family, which the song is also the soundtrack to.
On Sunday, however, Noel didn't hold back when it came to sharing what he wanted to say. As he started playing the track, he said: "This one, for the Royal Family," which the audience appeared to lap up as they let out loud cheers.
"Not that f***ing Royal Family! The real Royle Family," he added, in a clip which is being shared on TikTok, as the crowd let out a louder cheer, before he started performing the moving track. This isn't the first time Noel has spoken about the royals. In 2022, ahead of the late Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, he said he wasn't "anti-royal" but believed the "appeal" of the Firm had been "dwindling."
"There are other things for people to be interested in," he commented, before branding the monarchy as "a bit farcical." He said: "I'm not like anti-royal or anything. I don't hate the Queen or none of them; they were all born into it."
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Meanwhile, Liam also made light of a recent situation which has gone viral on social media after Coldplay singer Chris Martin appeared to catch Astronomer CEO, Andy Byron, and the company's head of HR, Kristin Cabot, in an intimate embrace before they tried to hide their face.
"This one's for all you love birds... Don't worry, we don't have a camera, it's not a Coldplay moment," he joked, before adding: "It's none of our business who you're with - doesn't matter who you're tingling with, mingling with and ******* with," before he started performing Slide Away.
Following the five sold-out shows in Manchester and the two opening gigs in Cardiff, Oasis are now preparing to headline Wembley Stadium. They'll play a staggering seven nights at the home of England football after the initial five shows sold-out almost instantly.
Oasis last played at Wembley Stadium on July 12, 2009, as part of their Dig Out Your Soul Tour. It became one of their final performances before they split in Paris later in the year. The band have a varied history with the venue, with Noel previously describing a 2000 gig as one of their 'worst ever.' "That was the low point in Oasis," he said. "It was a horrible two-and-a-half hours on stage. Liam can hang his head in shame. It was dreadful," he added.
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