Glastonbury headliner rocks out at Oasis gig despite Noel Gallagher beef
The 1975’s Matty Healy was spotted rocking out at Oasis’ Heaton Park gig this weekend despite his public spat with Noel Gallagher two years ago.
The 36-year-old frontman put his pride aside over the weekend and sang along to Oasis’ hits from the crowd as Noel and Liam Gallagher hugged on stage and looked the picture of brotherly love following their famous 15-year feud.
Matty could be seen singing along at the homecoming leg of Oasis Live ’25 while wearing a cap and a simple grey T-shirt and jeans, while he posed for pictures and mingled with fans.
Oasis fans were surprised to see Matty in the audience after his sparring match with Noel in 2023, which ended in the eldest Gallagher brother branding him a ‘slack-jawed f**kwit’.
It all started when Matty said the bickering Oasis brothers should put their differences aside and reunite one of the ‘coolest’ indie bands of all time.
In an interview with CBC, a public broadcaster in Canada, he said: ‘What are Oasis doing? Can you imagine being in potentially the coolest band in the world, and not doing it because you’re in a mard with your brother?’
The star then pointed to Oasis for getting ‘so serious’ about being in a band.
‘They’re men of the people and they’re sat around in Little Venice and Highgate, crying over an argument with their brother. Grow up! Headline Glastonbury!’ he said.
At the time, reunion rumours were rife, but Noel swiftly squashed them.
In an interview with Spin, in which the Live Forever hitmaker was asked what he thought of the 1975 frontman’s call to action, Noel said: ‘Oh, that f***ing slack-jawed f***wit. What did he say?’
The journalist explained Matty’s words, to which the indie rocker responded: ‘He would never be able to imagine it. He needs to go over how s*** his band is and split up.’
After these unforgiving words, Matty gave Noel a shout-out while on stage.
‘Noel Gallagher called me a slack-jawed f**kwit,’ he said, continuing: ‘‘I love Noel Gallagher. We asked Liam to open up and he said he would have done it but he was busy.
‘I love Noel Gallagher. Give it up for Noel Gallagher.’
Continuing with a chuckle, Matty said: ‘The difference between me and Noel is I do a series of interviews to promote an album, whereas he does an album to promote a series of interviews.’
‘But we love you Noel, get Oasis back together.’
5 artists Noel and Liam Gallagher have beef with
Noel and Liam Gallagher famously don’t mince their words when giving their opinions on other singers, and they’ve made some pretty biting comments over the years.
Blur
Oasis and Blur – who appeared at Glastonbury Festival this year in a surprise set – were the ultimate 1990s Britpop rivals.
However, this competition sometimes got personal, especially when Noel famously told The Observer, ‘I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.’
Noel later retracted his words and apologised.
Robbie Williams
While Robbie and the Gallagher brothers enjoyed a short-lived friendship back in the day, their relationship soon soured after Noel called him ‘the fat dancer from Take That’ at the 2000 Brit Awards.
What followed was a 25-year feud.
In 2021, Robbie spoke about how ‘unbearable’ the feud was.
‘Every time I watched TV programmes, there were people being hateful about me. That was just wrong and grotesque. It was unbearable. I just left the country,’ Robbie told Talent Takes Practice.
‘I remember every single syllable of every single thing they’ve ever said about me.
‘Liam said that I should be hung, Noel said I was “the fat dancer from Take That”,’ (not to mention Liam calling him a ‘fat f**king idiot’ in 2013.
In a 2022 interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Robbie reflected: ‘They were gigantic bullies too, to the whole industry, everybody in it—and I didn’t like that.’
Liam admitted he was a ‘p**-taker’ but said he stopped short of hurting peoples’ feelings.
Eminem
In a 2019 interview, Noel said of the rapper: ‘He is one of those guys that goes into rehab and then they sing about it for the next 20 years. “You did a bit of f***ing coke. You had a drink. Haven’t we all”. [Claps hands].
Noel previously called out Eminem, real name Marshall Mathers, and fellow rapper 50 Cent, aka Curtis Jackson, in 2005, telling The Sun: ‘I despise hip-hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life.’
And three years before that, Noel said: ‘Eminem is a penis. He’s just titillation for the middle classes. He’s neither funny nor shocking nor outrageous.’
George Harrison
In a 1996 interview, Beatle George Harrison told Q Magazine said Oasis’ music ‘lacks depth’.
‘The singer, Liam, shouts instead of sings,’ he said, adding: ‘The rest of the band don’t need him.’
This must’ve hurt for the Gallagher brothers, who have long worshipped the Beatles as a core musical inspiration.
While also acknowledging his love for the band and George, Liam soon retaliated in an MTV interview, saying: ‘George was always the quiet one, and maybe he should have stayed that way. I love The Beatles, but what the f**k does he know about rock ‘n’ roll?”
Liam also described him as a ‘f***ing nipple’.
Bob Dylan
‘I know all about him and that, but he’s a bit of a miserable c**t as far as I’m concerned,’ Liam told The Times in 2011 of the country icon.
‘I like that tune he did, Lay Lady Lay. People go nuts for him, but he doesn’t really do it for me.’
Matty’s gig appearance comes weeks after he headlined Glastonbury Festival with The 1975 on the Friday evening in what was an unusually tame performance by the rocker.
At one point, Matty declared himself the ‘best songwriter of my generation’ but later insisted this was a joke.
However, he seemed to be on his best behaviour, after previous worries that the frontman would get up to his usual antics which have included chomping on raw meat, kissing fans and generally being pretty outrageous.
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