Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds @ Liverpool Echo Arena. April 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Noel Gallagher has been speaking to BBC 6Music about his headline performance at the reopening of Manchester Arena last weekend.
“It was great,” he told Matt Everitt. “It was the first time I’ve ever got nervous going on stage; because of what happened with that song in the aftermath of the bombing it became an anthem for defiance and how the people rallied round it in the minute’s silence which I was watching live on the news when it happened, I was rendered kind of speechless. So as it was getting closer I was thinking, ‘I hope we pull this off because it’s quite an emotional thing’.”
“I think we, everybody who performed, honoured the victims properly, and the survivors, and then we had a great time afterwards. The thing that happened with Don’t Look Back In Anger, the one thing I’ve learned, is music is of the upmost importance.”
Gallagher topped a bill which also included appearances from The Courteeners, Blossoms and more.
