Liam Gallagher has made a playful dig at the kiss cam scandal that’s enraptured the internet, saying that there won’t be any jumbotron revelations at the upcoming Oasis shows.
Speaking from the stage during the band’s final show of their six night stand at Manchester’s Heaton Park (July 20), Gallagher made reference to the incident at a Coldplay show in San Francisco last week, which saw a pair of attendees embracing but sheepishly hiding from view when they appeared on stage’s jumbotron.
The couple were later identified as colleagues at IT company Astronomer. The viral TikTok clip showed Andy Byron (CEO) with his arms around Kristin Cabot (chief human resources officer) at the event. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy,” Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said from the stage. Byron has since resigned from his position at the company.
On Sunday, Gallagher was speaking before the band’s performance of “Slide Away” and asked the crowd “do we have any love birds in the house?” He added, “don’t worry, we won’t have none of that Coldplay snidey f–ing camera s–t here.”
“Doesn’t matter to us who you’re f–ing, mingling with, tingling with, fingering with… it’s none of our f–ing business. This one’s for the love birds anyway,” he said to laughs and cheers from the crowd.
Throughout Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres global jaunt — the biggest rock tour of all time, according to Billboard — the group have used a segment where they film audience members and Martin sings an impromptu song to them. In June, Celine Dion was the subject of one song alongside other fans.
At Coldplay’s following show in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday (July 19) Martin warned the crowd before starting the segment. “We’d like to say hello to some of you in the crowd,” he said. “How we’re gonna do that is we’re gonna use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen.” Flashing a grin, he added, “So please, if you haven’t done your makeup, do your makeup now.”
It’s not the first time that Gallagher has made a quip at Martin’s expense, famously dubbing the frontman as looking like a “geography teacher” and called the band a “bunch of students.” In 2017 the pair performed together at the One Love concert in Manchester following the terror attack at the city’s arena. “I take back everything I’ve ever said about you,” Liam later said to Martin. “You sound f–ing really good.”
Oasis are in the midst of their Live ‘25 reunion tour, with a run of shows set to kick off on Friday (July 25) at London’s Wembley Stadium, before the U.K. leg concludes in Edinburgh, Scotland and then heads to Dublin, Ireland.
