Oasis are said to have invited UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to the premiere of the Don’t Look Back in Anger documentary next month.<\/p>\n
The decision means that Burnham, who has described the Roll With It rockers as one of his favourite bands, is set to be part of the star-studded event for the Disney+ film – which chronicles the Britpop icons on their reunion tour last year – in London’s Leicester Square on September 7.<\/p>\n
A source told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “Burnham is a big fan of Oasis and attending the premiere would be the icing on the cake of his year.<\/p>\n
“He loved it when Noel and Liam (Gallagher) reunited and took over Manchester for the record-breaking Live ’25 gigs last year.<\/p>\n
“Burnham has been speaking about his Britpop music taste on TikTok and this would be the perfect opportunity for social media content.”<\/p>\n
In a recent TikTok video, the Labour leader ranked Oasis – who had split back in 2009 – at number one when asked to “blind-list” his favourite bands.<\/p>\n
Burnham also spoke of his admiration for the Gallagher brothers when the Wonderwall artists played five nights at Heaton Park in their home city of Manchester last year.<\/p>\n
The 56-year-old politician – who served as Mayor of Greater Manchester before becoming Prime Minister last month – said of the concerts: “This is the day that Manchester has been waiting for. I’ve had a bit of contact with Noel in recent times; they’re both brilliant, actually.<\/p>\n
“Noel helped us out when we were raising funds for homelessness as part of (former Manchester City captain) Vincent Kompany’s testimonial year.<\/p>\n
“And Liam helped us out last year – he did the announcements on our trams to support a new music conference we have got in the city, Beyond The Music.<\/p>\n
“I am just so pleased to see them back together. I never got to see them back in the day.<\/p>\n
“I have seen them both individually but never seen them together.”<\/p>\n
It was revealed earlier this year that Noel and Liam had given their first joint interview in 25 years for the documentary, which has been written by Steven Knight.<\/p>\n
The Peaky Blinders creator said: “I wanted to tell the story of the brothers and the band, but just as important, the story of the fans whose lives the music has touched and sometimes changed forever.<\/p>\n
“It is also the story of how music and songwriting can unite generations, cultures, countries and in a time of spite and division, give us all some reason to hope.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oasis are said to have invited UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to the premiere of the Don’t Look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73961],"tags":[28914,82888,44891,82887,52704,1768,82889],"class_list":["post-183695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-andy-burnham","tag-andy-burnham","tag-leicester-square","tag-manchester","tag-noel-and-liam","tag-oasis","tag-uk-prime-minister","tag-vincent-kompany"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117067650427328400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}