Liam Gallagher’s pre-show DJ had been well briefed. The 1,400 lucky punters that had bagged tickets to this club show –celebrating the release of a live album from the Oasis frontman’s two solo shows at Knebworth last summer – were whipped into a pint-flinging frenzy with The Stone Roses’ I Am the Resurrection, a most fitting intro for the greatest rock’n’roll comeback of the century so far.
Just six years ago the younger Gallagher brother was one of Twitter’s most frustrated and caps-locked shouters, his post-Oasis band Beady Eye imploded and all his eggs quite vocally lay in the Oasis reunion basket. Three chart-topping solo studio albums later, he’s an icon reborn. As he swaggered onto the Koko stage to Oasis’ F**king in the Bushes, biting on his smile-shaped tambourine to express the pleasure his famously surly persona and glowering attitude can’t otherwise allow, it rained lager; Liam has become Broken Britain’s fightback hero, rock’s parka-clad Rocky.
