The senior partner in Oasis was responding to some booing from the crowd when he dedicated his song “Half The World Away” (whose lyrics are about escaping the torpor of a humdrum city) to “all Mancunians everywhere”. Gallagher faced down the crowd: “You dress like us, you talk like us. You wanna fucking be us,” he said. “So what you fucking booing for?”
Like Gallagher, I was born in the same city and, like him, I have lived in London for decades. We may have become naturalised Southerners – Gallagher even referred to his “Maida Vale Mandem” during the show – but that doesn’t make our attachment to the city of our birth any less powerful, or indeed legitimate. Maybe even more so, fuelled by the zeal of the expatriate.
But does the fact that Gallagher lives in one of London’s most exclusive postcodes, or that I now live in the Cotswolds, render loyalties to our home city inadmissible? Of course not, and it’s a story as old as time that someone leaves their home town in search of fame and fortune. What’s more, you can argue that, in a globalised world where identity is suffused and the cult of the individual holds sway, identification with a bigger entity, whose values you espouse and in whose history you feel pride, is to be encouraged. We all need something to believe in, beyond our own Instagram feed.
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Liam Gallagher hardly moves for Oasis’s coruscating two-hour performance, his face barely visible under the bucket hat, his entire persona speaking of provocation, non-conformism and audacity. Using the lingua franca of the band, it’s what you might call a fuck-off attitude.
On many occasions, my affiliation to Manchester, and my identity as a Mancunian first and a Briton second, has been challenged by Londoners. “If you like Manchester so much, what are you doing down here?” they would say. My answer has always been the same: “Missionary work.”
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