Manchester taxpayers WON'T fork out for Oasis' Heaton Park homecoming

Taxpayers will not to foot the bill for Manchester’s hosting of Oasis’ huge Heaton Park hometown shows next year.

The Gallagher brothers have reunited to play with original bandmate Paul Arthurs, aka Bonehead, in a UK, Ireland, and North American tour in 2025. It includes five gigs at Heaton Park, where an estimated 80,000 fans will attend each night.

The 600-acre park is no stranger to hosting mega-events, being the site of Parklife festival every year and The Stone Roses’ reunion in 2012. It is owned by Manchester council.

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Oasis will also play at Murrayfield in Scotland next year, where Taylor Swift performed earlier this summer. But Edinburgh council had to fork out £40,000 to support the American songstress’ shows, and now has new rules in place which mean Oasis will be billed for work done by the authority to make the comeback shows happen.

Now, Manchester council has confirmed similar rules are in place — and the five gigs will ‘come at no cost to the public purse’.

That’s according to John Hacking, executive councillor for leisure. He said in a statement: "The staging of next year's concerts at Heaton Park come at no cost to the public purse.

"Obligations are placed on the concert organisers as part of licensing requirements for them to provide all necessary infrastructure and services needed to support the concerts, and any additional costs outside of the licence are met through the charges levied to hire the space."

Interest in Oasis’ return has been enormous, with millions of fans attempting to buy tickets in August. Some fans sat in a digital queue for hours, only to be presented with an option to buy