Little John’s Farm, August 25: the frontman gives the people almost everything they want...
with perhaps a little left for next year “I wanna dedicate this next song to Noel fucking Gallagher,” Liam Gallagher announces during his festival-closing headline set, before leading what feels like every punter onsite in a singalong to his big bro’s anthem ‘Half the World Away’. When he played the song at Leeds Festival on Friday (August 23), he teased: “It’s very interesting, innit? It’s a very interesting situation we’ve found ourselves in..
.” READ MORE: The Masterlist – every song Oasis ever recorded ranked in order of greatness What situation, you ask? Well, you don’t need to, obviously – by now you’ll have seen the video teaser that was beamed from the side of the screens after the show and soon shared across Liam’s, Noel’s and Oasis’ social media accounts: “27.08.
24. 8am.” Rumours of an Oasis reunion swirled around the Reading Festival site all weekend – if you believed everything you heard, Noel himself was mooching about backstage – while Liam seemed to relish stoking the flames on Twitter/X.
No, Noel doesn’t saunter onstage tonight to give his cheeky younger brother a big cuddle and sing the high notes on ‘Live Forever’. And a short video teasing an announcement tomorrow might not quite be a best-case scenario, but, even on its own terms, this is a great gig that builds into a sensational one. Liam Gallagher live at Reading 2.