Noel Gallagher’s love for Manchester Metropolis is well-documented, with the Oasis man being probably the most well-known celeb soccer followers in recent times.
Whether or not it was these early Oasis gigs at Maine Street or serving to design the membership’s newest equipment, Gallagher’s love for the membership will little doubt, er, reside perpetually (sorry).
It could due to this fact take a courageous man or lady to face between Noel and his boyhood membership. And to do this as a younger, up-and-coming help act seeking to make your title within the trade can be particularly daring.
The day Andrew Cushin crossed Noel Gallagher
Noel and his brother Liam at Maine Street within the Nineties (Picture credit score: Kevin Cummins)
Step ahead Newcastle -born singer-songwriter Andrew Cushin, who met Noel as an adolescent and shortly discovered a fan within the senior Gallagher brother, who produced, performed guitar and sang backing vocals on his 2020 single ‘The place’s My Household Gone’.
By the summer season of 2024, Cushin was a gap act for Gallagher on his summer season tour and it didn’t take lengthy for the pair’s footballing rivalry to come back to the fore.
Pep Guardiola and Eddie Howe meet pre-match forward of a Carabao Cup tie in 2023 (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
“I am in a WhatsApp group with Noel, and I at all times let him know when Newcastle are taking part in Man Metropolis and he lets me know once we’re dropping!,” Cushin tells FourFourTwo .
“I performed with Noel a couple of years in the past on the Rock N Roll Circus. He put his dressing room beside mine so he may are available and say hey.
“Exterior his dressing room, he had this large Man Metropolis flag. I believed it’d be humorous to stay a giant black-and-white Newcastle flag excessive.
“That didn’t go down too effectively. There’s a photograph of me having to face in entrance of the Metropolis flag with him, which was awkward – I appear like the stupidest Metropolis fan.”
Do not mess with Noel’s flag… (Picture credit score: Getty)
With Newcastle United and Manchester Metropolis each scrapping for a Champions League place over the ultimate month of the season, there might be a lot extra messages being exchanged over the approaching days.
Andrew’s album, Love Is For Everybody , is out now and he’ll be touring in Might and June. Head to andrewcushin.os.fan for info
