Noel Gallagher at Delamere Forest: A master at work

Noel Gallagher played to a packed out crowd in an idyllic forest in Cheshire last night who were hanging on his every word. There are few artists out there that could pull off decades-old music as confidently as he can.

Noel has crafted a great career post-Oasis and his new style was on full display, as songs from his newest albums and EPs were greeted gleefully. We’re on our Way Now could slide into any Oasis album and Black Star Dancing is a great David Bowie influenced tune that shows his evolution since his split with Liam nearly 13 years ago, and I’m a big fan of this.

But Noel isn’t daft and he knows legions of fans have come to hear the hits. “We’re playing some stuff from the new album then it’ll be hit after hit after hit,” he says. And this it was. His Manc humour on great display throughout.

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The Importance of Being Idle , Little by Little , and S top Crying Your HeartOut were a good nod to Noel’s moments of brilliance in Oasis’s post-90s days. I can admit at this point that I’m not a huge Oasis man, barring Definitely Maybe, so I didn’t think Wonderwall would bring out that much in me, but it's impossible to deny how big a song it is. Whatever and Half the World Away ("from the Royle Family," he says), B-sides from the early Oasis days were also very welcome here.

This was followed by an encore of arguably Noel’s biggest solo tunes, AKA...What a Life and If I Had a Gun , which were incredibly powerful live. Ending with Don’t Look Back in Anger felt like an out of body experience.

It’s a song that is so ingrained into Britishness and the 90s that it almost didn’t feel real actually hearing it live. But it was real and it