Oasis comeback gig in Cardiff was dream come true for fans | Manchester News

It was rock’s most eagerly awaited comeback tour and some of the more than 70,000 fans crammed into Cardiff to see Oasis said they were not disappointed.

Feuding Mancunian siblings Noel and Liam Gallager walked on to stage for the first time together since 2009 and the crowd went wild.

Lifelong fan Kevin Varley, 42, from Manchester, said: “It was brilliant – it was a real moment in time.

Mr Varley, whose first gig was at Maine Road, the former home of Manchester City, in 1995, said: “I’ve seen them 10 times and this was up there with the best.”

He added: “I took my lad, who is six, and he thought it was great I hope in years to come he will really appreciate it even more.

“It was everything I hoped it would be.”

Mr Varley, who spent £250 each for his tickets said: “If I could go again tonight I would do.”

He added; “I’m thinking of trying to get tickets for the gig at Heaton Park [in Manchester] as it is not far from my house.”

Speaking after the concert, Steve from Hertfordshire, who last saw them perform in 2006, said they had lived up to his expectations – but admitted to having had quite a few beers before the show.

Asked for his favourite part, he said: “The beginning, the middle, and also the end.”

“All of it was fantastic,” he said, adding: “We had a really good time, we’ve come all the way from Hertfordshire to see them in Wales.”

Morgan, 20 and from Wales, said: “It made my life, honestly, I could get hit by a car and die, and I’d have a smile on my face.”

Describing himself as an Oasis fan from birth, with his father encouraging him to get into them, he said: “It was unreal, being in that stadium, I’m still shaking, being here tonight is something else.”

The band split acrimoniously in 2009 after a backstage altercation following a gig in Paris that began with Liam throwing a plum at his older brother’s head.

In the intervening years, they engaged in a long war of words in the press, on stage and social media.

Liam repeatedly called Noel a “massive potato” on Twitter and, more seriously, accused him of skipping the One Love concert for victims of the Manchester Arena bombing.

Noel responded by saying Liam was a “village idiot” who “needs to see a psychiatrist”.