Part of being from Burnage is accepting that you will be asked on a constant basis whether you know or have ever met Oasis. And usually, many people around here will actually have at least one story about the Gallagher brothers to share.
For example, my mum insists my grandad once had to ban Liam and Noel from the local church youth club back in the 80s due to ‘unruly behaviour’. Makes total sense to me, really.
Another part of my Burnage identity is having to justify to people why I don’t share the exact same colloquialisms and accent as Liam or Noel, despite them originally living just a two-minute walk from my mum’s house. And then usually the joke of pronouncing Burnage as ‘Burn-arge’ instead of ‘Burn-idge' will arrive right on cue.
