Oasis paid tribute to Pep Guardiola at their first homecoming Heaton Park gig, after Liam and Noel Gallagher‘s children and Richard Ashcroft met the Man City legend backstage. See the photos below.

The reunion tour rolled into Heaton Park in the north of Manchester yesterday (July 11), having kicked off last week with two triumphant shows in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. The five-show residency will see them play to around 80,000 fans each night from July 12, 16, 19 and 20.

The Manchester City manager was in the audience at the first of the five shows, and even received a shoutout from Liam, who said: “I’d like to dedicate this next song to the greatest fucking manager of all time, Mr. Pep Guardiola,” before performing ‘D’You Know What I Mean?’.

The dedication was met with some boos from the crowd, presumably from Manchester United fans, to which Noel responded: “Who you fucking booing?”

Ahead of the show kicking off, Guardiola was also pictured with the Gallagher children, with Liam’s son Gene posting a photo of him and his brother Lennon, alongside Noel’s children, Donovan, Sonny and Anaïs with the manager alongside the caption “Pic of the century alright now everyone els fuck off.”

Ashcroft, who is opening for the band on the UK dates of the tour, also shared a photo of himself and Guardiola, with the caption: “Music is power”

It comes after Guardiola commented on the band’s reunion back in August, saying: “If we can go, we’ll go. Absolutely,” when asked in a press conference if he’d be attempting to get tickets.

He went on to say that the reunion is “good news” for music. “They’re back so it’s fantastic for the thousand million fans they have around the world, especially here in England,” he said.

Both Gallagher brothers are supporters of the club, with Noel being particularly vocal about it in recent years. In 2016, he was the first person to interview Guardiola when he became the new Man City manager, and in 2021 he revealed that he keeps a cardboard cutout of Guardiola in his studio to help inspire his songwriting.

Noel also revealed that he sends text messages to the City manager after each game and the pair share their thoughts on the side’s chances for the upcoming season.

Meanwhile, Liam shared that he was “buzzing” when Guardiola was appointed manager in 2016 and went on a Twitter/X spree to welcome him to the club.

Music is power pic.twitter.com/uCqux5Ze6f

— Richard Ashcroft (@richardashcroft) July 11, 2025

Elsewhere at their first homecoming gig, Liam dedicated ‘Fade Away’ to “all the people from Burnage,” shouting out the district where he and Noel grew up. Elsewhere, Noel paid tribute to Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash before playing ‘Half The World Away’ – the acoustic theme tune to their beloved sitcom, The Royle Family.

There were no changes at all to the setlist from the first two shows, as some fans had hoped for. You can find a full recap of the gig, and see the setlist, here.

The Heaton Park dates follow on from the Britpop giants kicking off their highly anticipated ‘Live ‘25’ tour in Cardiff last week (July 4 and 5) – breaking out some of the biggest hits from across their discography and bringing out both Cast and Richard Ashcroft as special guests.

Yesterday, a giant drone display showing the Oasis logo appeared in the skies above Heaton Park, just as it had done in Cardiff last week

Those who took the tram to the gig likely heard Liam Gallagher’s voice announcing the stops on the Metrolink, telling them: “The next stop is….Heaton Parrrk.”

After their five shows in Manchester, the Britpop icons will play seven nights at London’s Wembley Stadium, as well as stops in both Edinburgh and Dublin. Later on the Oasis Live ’25 trek, they’ll head to North America, South America, Australia, South Korea and Japan.

At the first of the 41 comeback shows, NME gave the historic night the full five stars. “After a ‘90s heyday and an often maligned post-millennium era, this is Oasis redesigned for the 21st Century,” the review read.

“Playing before a pop-art-meets-psychedelia visual spectacular that never distracts but will look sick on a phone, they seem the quintessential stadium band playing the greatest hits of greatest hits.”