A superfan from Oasis claims she has seen Liam and Noel Gallagher play 16 times and that she once gave him a birthday present he still treasures. She could be their number one fan.
Some Might Say Oasis fever is sweeping the world ahead of the Britpop band’s much anticipated reunion starting with their first gig together in 16 years. And as millions bag tickets to see them at their UK concerts, the Mirror might just have found their number one fan.
Oasis famously split in August 2009 after brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher got into a fight backstage before a concert in Paris. It wasn’t the first time they’d come to blows – but this public spat signified the end for the band who had had us all singing along to catchy 90s anthems like Roll With It and Wonderwall.
Now 16 years later – instead of Looking Back in Anger – they’re reuniting and touring the UK with their first gig kicking off in Cardiff tonight (July 4) much to the delight of millions of fans around the world. And while more than one million fans have been lucky enough to grab tickets at one of their concerts this summer, could we have found their number one fan?
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Oasis has been a devoted fan since 1995 when Katy Georgiou, a music therapist, first discovered them. She recalls how the lyrics “Live Forever at Glastonbury” really resonated with her when she was just 12-years-old when she saw them playing them on television while her grandmother was recovering from surgery.
She’s seen them play together and separately 16 times and met her idols several times over the years, but her favorite memory is when she called him in 2005 about a present she had given him eight years earlier.
“I have some beautiful and funny memories of meeting the Gallagher brothers,” Katy tells The Mirror. “I’ve met them a few times and in 1998 I gave Liam a gift for his birthday and to say thank you as a fan. It was a tiny, white, tasselled tambourine that I’d bought from a music shop in Camden market, along with a black and white print of John Lennon, because every fan knows that he loves John Lennon.
“Years later in 2005 when I was in my final year of university, I was sitting in my room one morning writing an essay when I got a phone call from my mum. She told me that she’d gone out shopping and that I’d never guess who’d just walked in: Liam Gallagher!”
Liam spotted Katy talking to her on the phone and asked if he knew her because he believed he could identify her. She informed him that she was speaking with her daughter, who is a huge fan.
He says, “The next thing I know, he has taken the phone off of her hands and greets me”! Katie recalls, and I said hello back before the quick conversation. I experienced shock. Even the worst part wasn’t there. I then said, “Liam, I have no idea if you remember me, but I’ve met you a few times in the past and I once gave you a tambourine as a present.” “
He then proceeded to explain the tambourine to me. Did it have skin on white? he inquired. Yes! ‘ I responded, ” ” Was there a tassel on it? ‘ he said. Yes! ‘ I responded. He claimed to still have it and that he remembered it. Eight years later, he still recalls the information I had given him. It really made my day and made me realize how important it is to remember people.
Katy first saw Oasis play live at Wembley Stadium in 1997 at the age of 14, before returning to see them at Wembley Stadium in 2000. Five years later, in Milton Keynes, she saw them there. Before they split up, she had the opportunity to witness them again in 2009, once at Wembley Stadium and once more at the Electric Proms at Camden Roundhouse.
After they split, Katy saw Liam Gallagher in Zurich 2017, at Knebworth in 2022 and at Manchester Co-Op in 2024. “I also saw Noel Gallagher’s High Flying birds in 2015 at the 02 arena, 2022 in Hampstead Heath, 2023 at Brighton on the Beach and in 2024 at Alexandra Palace,” she adds. “And I saw Noel acoustically at the Royal Albert Hall in 2007 and 2010, Beady Eye in 2011 in Madrid, and Liam with Bonehead at Royal Albert Hall 2013.”
What makes the 90s Britpop band so unique, though? When you listen to any Oasis song, Katy says, “It’s about us, we, you, and I. Second, love, loss, joy, and drawing on archetypes are universal themes that anyone of any age and culture can comprehend.
“This band has been around their entire life.” They never once left me a thought even in the 16 years that followed their split in 2009 and their 2025 reunification. The reunion is more than just two brothers coming back together; it’s about everyone whose lives they changed and touched and how they came to share that same experience of unity and nebulous emotion that Oasis first evoked in us.
Noel Gallagher will always make a point of praising the “people” who made his songs great in any interview he gives. It’s about how we interact with those songs, what we do with them, and what we do to make those songs special by passing them on to others.
Katy Georgiou is a music-industry therapist and author of How to Understand and Deal with Stress and the founder of Sound Affects Podcast exploring music and mental health.
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Source: Mirror
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