But the behaviour of at least one crowd member drew the ire of Gallagher, known for his frequent unfiltered posts on X, formerly known on Twitter.<\/p>\n
As the band played one of their most enduring hits, Champagne Supernova, a red flare was launched into the air. According to stadium management, no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Gallagher took to X this morning, calling out the person who let the flare go: “To the massive C*** who launched that flare into the crowd last night at the gig in Melbourne you are 1 seriously f***** up individual and you will get yours trust me”.<\/p>\n
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Liam Gallagher on stage at Oasis’s first Melbourne concert on Friday night. (AAP: Joel Carrett)<\/p>\n
Stadium management told the ABC that security procedures, including bag searches and wanding, had been in place, and security would be extra vigilant ahead of tonight’s concert.<\/p>\n
They noted the lead singer had best described how everyone felt about the situation.<\/p>\n
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The flare was let off as the band played one of their most famous hits, Champagne Supernova. (Supplied: Corina Aych)<\/p>\n
Concertgoer Brad Bultman, who described himself as an Oasis superfan, said the group “absolutely killed it” on night one of the Australian leg of the band’s world tour.<\/p>\n
He said when the flare went off, he first thought it was part of the show.<\/p>\n
“Then very quickly I saw it explode and expand a bit further, and then somebody actually pick up the live flair and toss it back in the air and create more fire and smoke in a different area,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I was like, ‘Oh geez’ \u2014 you hope nobody gets hurt.”<\/p>\n
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Fan Brad Bultman was at the band’s first Australian show in Melbourne on Friday evening. (ABC News: Costa Haritos)<\/p>\n
He said after Champagne Supernova \u2014 the final song in the set \u2014 came to an end, Gallagher said “naughty, naughty, naughty” in reference to the flare.<\/p>\n
Victoria Police said there were no arrests at the stadium last night, and the flare had not been reported to them.<\/p>\n
Tickets to the event started at $107.<\/p>\n
After its three Melbourne shows, the band is due to perform twice at Sydney’s Olympic Park.<\/p>\n
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Liam (left) and Noel Gallagher perform for tens of thousands of fans during their first Melbourne show. (AAP: Joel Carrett)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flare let off by a crowd member at the first of three Oasis concerts in Melbourne has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,74789,134,11048,63533,647,136,63532,45961,8824,2024],"class_list":["post-254842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-docklands","tag-entertainment","tag-flare","tag-liam-gallagher","tag-melbourne","tag-music","tag-noel-gallagher","tag-oasis","tag-stadium","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}