Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds @ Liverpool Echo Arena. April 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
As a regular performer and occasional organiser of the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series, Noel Gallagher‘s name had seemed like a glaring omission from this year’s line-up, so it was no real surprise when he was, at the eleventh hour, announced as the support for The Who‘s gig at Royal Albert Hall last night.
Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend were celebrating the 100th gig of TCT by performing their classic rock opera Tommy in its entirely, after Gallagher had been on acoustic guitar for a short set of (mainly) Oasis anthems.
It was a rare live outing with the focus at the moment on his third solo album, the deadline of Glastonbury 2017 now not all that far away. “I think we’re into the home straight now,” Noel told Steve Lamacq on BBC 6Music last December.
“I’ve been given the deadline which is to have everything finished – mastered, artwork, videos, the lot – done by the time I go to Glastonbury in June.”
