{"id":14780,"date":"2025-07-10T08:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14780"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:08:31","slug":"manchester-prepares-to-welcome-home-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14780","title":{"rendered":"Manchester prepares to welcome home Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=0e900a30-6178-4da7-b8e0-9fe4a3faa222\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Sitting in his Oasis-themed bar, surrounded by merchandise and memorabilia, Paul Gallagher ponders Manchester\u2019s relationship with one of its most famous musical exports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not actually that much to see in Manchester, Oasis-wise,\u201d he muses, over the strains of the band\u2019s third-album single \u201cStand By Me\u201d. \u201cYou go to Liverpool and the whole city is moulded around the Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is, on one level, correct. Liverpool has an entire tourist trail devoted to the Fab Four.\u00a0In the past, Manchester tended to be less sentimental. But this is 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Oasis will finally perform in their home city once again, 16 years after the band\u2019s split and more than three decades after launching a swaggering, working-class caricature of Manchester into the national consciousness. Around 400,000 Adidas-clad, bucket-hatted fans will descend for five gigs, thirsty for nostalgia. And there is no shortage of people ready to sell it.<\/p>\n<p>In Gallagher\u2019s case it was a long-term dream. He set up the bar six months ago, well ahead of this week\u2019s frenzy, with his sibling Mark \u2014 yes, they are coincidentally also the Gallagher brothers, just not <em>those<\/em> ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about it since the 1990s,\u201d he says of the bar, named Definitely Maybe after the band\u2019s first album. \u201cI can\u2019t believe nobody did it then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oasis themselves caught up a few weeks ago, launching an official pop-up shop in Spinningfields, a commercial district that didn\u2019t exist in their heyday. Fans can buy \u00a3100 Oasis-branded Adidas anoraks, or be projected, via green screen, on to one of the band\u2019s album covers.<\/p>\n<p>Local artist Mark Kennedy, whose pop culture mosaics have long been city centre trademarks, recently unveiled a new image of Noel and his younger sibling Liam on the wall of the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was part of the city\u2019s 1990s music scene, he admits that the current hoopla leaves him bemused. \u201cI kind of get the feeling like with Barcelona, with those water guns,\u201d he says of the coming fan deluge, drily referring to the anti-tourism protests in the Catalan city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Manchester, with its history of economic liberalism, knows how to make an opportunity its own.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the week I decided to do an audit of the mania. At one tram stop an advert had been plastered across the length of the shelter, repeating the band\u2019s logo so many times it made my eyes ache. <\/p>\n<p>Next door, a row of \u201cOasis Live 2025\u201d flags adorned the Central Library\u2019s frontage. Further afield, the Aldi supermarket closest to the gigs had temporarily renamed itself Aldeh (a knowing nod to the nasal accents synonymous with the band).<\/p>\n<p>And one city centre bar is offering a 90-minute \u201cChampagne Supernova\u201d bottomless brunch (\u00a335 per person, \u00a360 if you actually want champagne). In Chinatown, one restaurant is touting a \u00a319.80 \u201cOasis set menu\u201d featuring salt-and-pepper prawns that it claims the band loves.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly every spare surface \u2014 the gable ends of pubs, arcade ceilings, public transport \u2014 is being used for sales. Some have the official stamp of the Gallaghers. Others, to use the Manc slang, are more snide: low-key fake. Chancing it. <\/p>\n<p>I am secretly warmed by the hoopla. Oasis were my era. <em>Definitely Maybe<\/em> was among the five free CDs I got from Britannia Music Club, the 1990s mail-order outfit, after persuading my dad to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s second album, bought with my own cash on cassette from Woolworths, can still conjure the unashamed excitement of being 15.<\/p>\n<p>Woolies and Britannia are long gone, while the Manchester that Noel and Liam grew up in has been transformed by skyscrapers and professional services.<\/p>\n<p>The city has also become so good at self-mythologising that it can now rival Liverpool, Kennedy muses. Testament to the way in which the two global music cities of north-west England define themselves against each other, while pretending not to care.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy won\u2019t be going into the city centre over the coming days. But even he admits to being swept up by the spirit of the moment. \u201cI\u2019m glad some people are going to make some dough out of it,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd the money will sprinkle down the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>jennifer.williams@ft.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0e900a30-6178-4da7-b8e0-9fe4a3faa222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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