All the Oasis tour rows so far as Liam Gallagher is booed by crowd
Brothers Liam and Noel are back on stage together for the first time since 2009, when one of their many arguments over the years put an end to the band after one performance at their two-day V Festival booking.
In good news for Oasis fans, all seems friendly in the Gallagher camp so far. But Liam was booed at a homecoming date at Heaton Park over the weekend, while Noel stuck up for him.
An Oasis reunion was never going to be without incident - these are the controversies so far.
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One of the highlights on the reunion tour is five nights in Manchester's Heaton Park, where the band will perform to a home crowd.
But on the first night in Manchester, Liam managed to get on the wrong side of some of their fans by igniting the city's footballing rivalry.
He and Noel are Manchester City fans and Liam paid tribute to the team's manager - who was also pictured partying backstage with the Gallaghers' family - by dedicating the song D'You Know What I Mean to him. He said: "I'd like to dedicate this to the greatest manager of all time, Mr Pep Guardiola."
But Manchester United fans at Heaton Park were unimpressed and began to boo, with Noel leaping to his brother's defence by telling them: "Who you f***ing booing, who you f***ing booing?"
Luckily, the crowd seemed to see the funny side and laughed as Liam pretended to pray to Guardiola.
Even ahead of the tour starting, Liam had caused controversy with a social media post that appeared to include a racial slur. It used a derogatory term used to mock the accents of people of Chinese origin, and the post has since been deleted.
Some of Liam's fans had commented to warn him that the word was unacceptable and he had replied to ask why, responding to one person: "It's an ancient thought process get on it."
Sorry if I offended anyone with my tweet before it wasn't intentional you know I love you all and I do not discriminate. peace and love LG x
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) July 1, 2025
However, he did later delete it and posted: "Sorry if I offended anyone with my tweet before, it wasn't intentional, you know I love you all and I do not discriminate. Peace and love."
Liam seemed to make a vague reference to the controversy on stage at Heaton Park, where he wore sunglasses and told the crowd: "Gotta wear the shades tonight, didn't wear them last night, woke up this morning like a grasshopper? You're allowed to say grasshopper, right?"
Not all of the controversy has come directly from the band - despite putting on 17 UK shows, demand has been so high that plenty of fans were still unable to get tickets.
In Manchester, some of them had made a last bid to see Oasis with Greater Manchester Police saying they had arrested six people for trying to get into a concert with "fake accreditation", while others attempted to scale the fence at Heaton Park.
A large hoarding barrier has now been put in place at the park as hundreds of fans had gathered on a hill branded "Gallagher Hill" to get a view of the band for free.
Business dealings around the tour have put backs up in some quarters, after it emerged that photo agencies had only been granted rights to pictures from the first night in Cardiff for a year. The image rights will then revert back to the band and management.
The initial deal was even worse, as rights had been granted for use for just one month until it was extended to a year.
Photographers, news outlets and photo agencies will usually retain the rights to images they have taken so that they can be used in future. There are apparently negotiations going on to get a better rights deal for the other shows, although images from Heaton Park currently show the same one-year restriction.
According to The Guardian, chief exec of the News Media Coalition Andrew Moger said: "News photography has had a significant role in amplifying interest and telling the visual cultural story of artists such as Oasis, it's part of the legacy. And that does not stop after 365 days."
Of course, Oasis fans will be familiar with the headline-grabbing spat that began a year ago, when tour tickets first went on sale.
Tickets were expected to start from around £75 and could have been as much as roughly £148, but due to dynamic pricing, some fans who made it to the front of the queue got a shock when they were told that they could secure tickets for an eye-watering sum of £355.
Dynamic pricing sees sellers set a higher price if demand for an event is proving very high, which obviously it was for the Oasis shows.
It even prompted culture secretary Lisa Nandy to weigh in, who said: "After the incredible news of Oasis's return, it's depressing to see vastly inflated prices excluding ordinary fans from having a chance of enjoying their favourite band live.
"This government is committed to putting fans back at the heart of music. So we will include issues around the transparency and use of dynamic pricing, including the technology around queuing systems which incentivise it, in our forthcoming consultation on consumer protections for ticket resales.
"Working with artists, industry, and fans we can create a fairer system that ends the scourge of touts, rip-off resales, and ensures tickets at fair prices."
As recently as a week before the tour began, the UK competition watchdog had written to Ticketmaster threatening legal action over the way Oasis tickets were sold.
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