Years after urging Oasis to “grow up” and reunite – much to the irritation of Noel Gallagher – Matty Healy was spotted singing along to Oasis at their homecoming Heaton Park gig.
The Britpop legends played the first of five massive shows at the north Manchester site on Friday (July 11), their first time playing in their hometown since 2009. Roughly 80,000 fans filled Heaton Park, with The 1975 frontman among them.
He’d urged the Gallagher brothers to reform back in 2023, saying he could handle Liam and Noel “dressing like they’re in their 20s and being in their 50s” but not “acting like they’re in their 20s”.
“They need to grow up,” he said at the time, in an interview that went viral once speculation about the reunion was at fever pitch last year. “Grow up! Headline Glastonbury! Have a good time! Have a laugh!”
While the Glastonbury slot never materialised, their historic comeback tour is now well underway, with many on social media bemused by Healy’s presence at the gig, given previous tensions with Noel.
Matty in the pit for oasis oh he’s just like me fr pic.twitter.com/T8usBZKKUV
— esra (@1989healy) July 12, 2025
// Matty at the Oasis show at Heaton Park // © noemoshonssz on tiktok pic.twitter.com/xTV89WM8wK
— Tanja 🎧 (@robbersingerman) July 12, 2025
He’d called Healy a “fucking slack-jawed fuckwit” after the ‘Chocolate’ singer called for Oasis to reform, saying: “He needs to go over how shit his band is and split up.” Healy’s comments also provoked a comical response from Liam on X/Twitter, who simply wrote: “It’s our time to waste who made him the boss of time.”
Noel also told NME that The 1975 were “fucking shit”, bemoaning their BRITs win for Best Rock Band in 2023.
“I was watching it with my kids, two teenage lads, thinking, ‘Is it me being a grumpy old man, or is this shit?’
“They were both going, ‘Oh no, this is fucking shit’. The 1975, Best Rock Band? Someone needs to re-define that immediately because that is… I don’t know what that is, but it’s certainly not fucking rock. Whatever rock is, that’s not it.”
Everyone say thank you Matty Healy https://t.co/GLq1IsQTdh pic.twitter.com/zkrFVHKhYU
— esra (@1989healy) July 4, 2025
The first dates of the blockbuster ‘Oasis Live ’25’ tour went down in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium last week, but with Heaton Park marking the first outdoors show, the band rounded off the night with a huge fireworks display.
Fans travelled from across the globe to be at the show, queuing overnight to bag a good standing spot. Some who did not get into the venue were also seen singing and dancing along in the streets surrounding Heaton Park.
Other fans without tickets tried to break into the park for the show, with Greater Manchester Police turning some away and making six arrests.
A cardboard cutout of Man City’s Pep Guardiola stood behind Noel throughout the performance, and the real-life manager was in attendance, even receiving a shoutout from Liam, who said: “I’d like to dedicate this next song to the greatest fucking manager of all time, Mr. Pep Guardiola,” before performing ‘D’You Know What I Mean?’.
After their five shows in Manchester, Oasis will play seven nights at London’s Wembley Stadium, and make stops in both Edinburgh and Dublin. From there, they will head to North America, South America, Australia, South Korea and Japan.
At the first of the band’s 2025 reunion shows, NME gave their performance in Cardiff a glowing five-star review: “After a ‘90s heyday and an often maligned post-millennium era, this is Oasis redesigned for the 21st Century.
“Playing before a pop-art-meets-psychedelia visual spectacular that never distracts but will look sick on a phone, they seem the quintessential stadium band playing the greatest hits of greatest hits.”
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