A Norwich barber has reminisced about the time he cut Liam Gallagher's hair just weeks before Oasis’ Glastonbury debut.
The Britpop band, made up of Liam and his brother Noel, have just announced a huge comeback tour after breaking up in 2009.
Tickets go on general sale this Saturday and are set to be highly sought after with prices starting at £75 to see the band at Wembley Stadium.
Stuart Saunders, who now runs Shears Gentleman's Haircutters in the Norwich Lanes, cut Liam's hair for their gig at the Norwich Arts Centre which was just two weeks before their Glastonbury debut in 1994 on the NME Stage.
The 60-year-old said he would “love to see Oasis” on their 2025 tour but it won’t be the same as their city gig 30 years ago.
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"I'd love to see them again,” he said. "But when you've seen them in a 300-capacity venue, shared beers with them and cut their hair, why would you want to be one of thousands of people in a packed stadium?
"That would be such a comedown. It was a triumph of a gig."
Mr Saunders already had tickets for Oasis that night when he spotted Liam in St Gregory's Alley.
"We just knew they were going to be big. He wanted that archetypical Liam Gallagher mod cut which I was proud to do.
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"To me, it was the equivalent of having John Lennon come in for a haircut in 1963."
Oasis' only-ever Norwich gig came just two months after the debut of their first single Supersonic.
"During the haircut, I reassured him that I thought their album was going to do well but he was genuinely worried about it.
"Now I think how sweet, to have been that worried about money when they're now doing this reunion for something like £50 million.”
Oasis will start their reunion run on July 4 in Cardiff before dates in Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin.
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