After almost 90 minutes on stage, Noel Gallagher ended his long-awaited Bristol Sounds 2022 performance with a chorus of boos from the Harbourside crowd. And it wasn’t because he played seven Oasis songs at Lloyds Amphitheatre, either - it was simply because he brought up the subject of football.
‘This one’s for all the Man City fans,’ grinned Gallagher, before launching into AKA…What A Life!, a track from his first solo album. The mere mention of his beloved Sky Blues certainly riled some of his fans who pantomime-booed the 55-year-old singer.
Of course, it was all good-natured banter, which is what Gallagher would expect from such a crowd of devotees, some of whom wore Bristol City shirts as a reminder to the Mancunian star where he was. They had certainly forgotten the reference to Man City by the time Gallagher and his band High Flying Birds launched into the final encore of Don’t Look Back In Anger, an Oasis favourite that had everybody singing along, phones and pints aloft.
