Oasis promoters have thanked Manchester City Council for "first class delivery" of the city's "most significant" music event after the band's five homecoming shows.
The rock legends, brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, wrapped up their final Manchester concert on Sunday as part of their reunion world tour Oasis Live '25.
The highly anticipated performances marked the band's first Manchester shows in more than 16 years and saw thousands of concert goers singing Oasis lyrics back at the brothers, with thousands of ticketless fans also gathering outside the concert arena just to hear the band play.
Manchester fully embraced the homecoming spirit in the lead-up to the concerts. The tram network replaced its usual announcement voiceover at Heaton Park with Liam Gallagher's distinctive voice on concert dates. An Aldi supermarket in Prestwich even changed its store sign to "Aldeh", celebrating the Mancunian pronunciation of the name.
The logistics involved to ensure that the concerts went ahead safely was not overlooked by the concert promoters who recognised Manchester City Council, the emergency services and members of the Safety Advisory team for its support.
Rob Ballantine, director of SJM Concerts, said the band had proved "they are the most culturally important band in the UK".
"Those concerts will live in the memories of hundreds of thousands of music fans for years to come and will live in the folklore of Manchester music history for decades," he said.
Ballantine also heaped praise on Manchester City Council's role in the success.
"Manchester City Council played a huge part in the success of the concerts and helped the City embrace the excitement with their promotion of Manchester Live '25 across the city," he said.
"Along with the emergency services and TfGM (Transport for Greater Manchester) the safety and comfort of almost 350,000 fans was of paramount importance and a great success," he added.
The group announced their reunion tour in August last year, 16 years after their dramatic split in 2009. Noel had quit the Britpop band following a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
While fans celebrated the reunion, controversy erupted over ticket pricing. Some standard tickets in the UK and Ireland jumped from £148 to £355 due to dynamic pricing, prompting the Government and the UK's competition watchdog to pledge investigations into the practice.
Oasis are set to perform five nights at London's Wembley Stadium before heading north to Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium and then Dublin's Croke Park. The world tour will then take the band to Japan, South Korea, South America, Australia and North America.
Note: This article has been edited with the help of Artificial Intelligence.
