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<\/p>\nThis was a week when it never felt cooler to be in Manchester, to be a part of Manchester<\/p>\n
Dianne has written for the Manchester Evening News for almost 20 years across a variety of subjects. Formerly Diary Editor covering showbiz and events in Manchester, Dianne is now Lifestyle Editor, covering travel reviews, food and drink news and reviews and attending many of the biggest gigs across Manchester. Dianne loves a farm shop, and writing about all the great places for families to take children across the North West and beyond.<\/p>\n
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Oasis played their last night at Heaton Park(Image: Dianne Bourne)<\/p>\n
You could barely turn a corner in Manchester this week without a sign of the extraordinary rock \u2018n\u2019 roll takeover that Oasis have staged in the city.<\/p>\n
Shops transformed with Oasis lyrics and merchandise, the faces of Liam and Noel Gallagher staring moodily out from every lamppost, yellow buses and trams boasting She\u2019s Electric.<\/p>\n
Streets alive with excited fans, thousands soaking up the city before making the pilgrimage to Heaton Park (or Heaton Parrrkkk as I\u2019m now destined to forever hear it in my head after hearing Liam\u2019s tram announcements on the way in to the gigs).<\/p>\n
This was a week when it never felt cooler to be in Manchester, to be a part of Manchester.<\/p>\n
And to be a part of the extraordinary Oasis rock \u2018n\u2019 roll story – one that feels like it\u2019s only just getting going again after 16 years away.<\/p>\n
At Sunday night\u2019s final show even Liam and Noel couldn\u2019t fail to be moved by the reaction on home turf.<\/p>\n
An emotional Noel summed it up in the encore saying: \u201cFor the last ten days the eyes of the world have been on this city of Manchester and I just want to say to all Mancunians you\u2019ve done yourself f***ing proud.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got people coming in from all over the world\u2026 what I can say by staying in the city is you\u2019ve still f****ing got it Manchester.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liam earlier made his own heartfelt thanks saying: “It\u2019s been amazing being here the last f***ing ten days, you\u2019ve actually blown whatever brain cells I had left, they\u2019re well and truly gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
It seems a long time now since that five star opening night gig in Cardiff<\/a>, followed up with a simply scorching opener here in Manchester<\/a>.<\/p>\n But as Bonehead rightly said after Saturday night\u2019s gig: \u201cIt\u2019s getting better man\u201d.<\/p>\n So can you imagine just how turbo-charged Sunday\u2019s final Oasis<\/a> Manchester gig was going to be? Even with the prediction of a shock of the lightning (which thankfully never materialised), but a good old soaking of rain, to spice things up.<\/p>\n You could throw as many stars as you like at this show, it still wouldn\u2019t adequately sum up that feeling of being there, being a part of this huge, collective experience of joy.<\/p>\n A Manchester moment, yes, but a moment in rock \u2018n\u2019 roll history too.<\/p>\n A gig experience so feverishly desired by the masses here in Manchester, that they would stop at nothing to get the tiniest glimpse, the merest muffled strains of Liam\u2019s voice and Noel\u2019s guitar as the winds carried it. The FOMO was rocket fuel.<\/p>\n Some 400,000 witnessed this show inside Heaton Park<\/a> over the past week – who knows how many thousands more were listening in around the perimeters?<\/p>\n I mean, imagine having the brass neck to casually saunter down Sheepfoot Lane in Prestwich with an 8-ft tall ladder under your arm, to try and clamber over a fence to get in? Only in Manchester.<\/p>\n Yet momentum has only continued to build over the past week of gigs at Heaton Park.<\/p>\n