Liam Gallagher has taken aim at Manic Street Preachers and Suede, saying that both are “shit”, “lack swagger and style” and “dress like estate agents”.
The comments come following the two bands announcing co-headline UK arena tour for 2026 recently, which will see them hit the road again following a run of joint North American shows in 2022 and a UK trek in 2024. They toured together back in 1994 too.
It marks the biggest collaboration to date for the groups, but when asked if he has seen the announcement, Liam Gallagher was quick to share that he had no interest in the tour.
“Fuck them,” he wrote on X, before being asked by fans why he felt that way despite being friendly with the Manics over the years and touring with them multiple times.
“Both shit and lack attitude, swagger and style,” he elaborated. “Dress like estate agents and if they want bring it fucking on.”
Fuck them
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 26, 2026
Both shit and lack attitude swagger and style
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 26, 2026
Dress like estate agents and if they want bring it fucking on
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 26, 2026
The Manics acted as the primary support for Oasis’s first-ever stadium headlining shows in Manchester in 1996, and also joined them for their two massive concerts at Balloch Castle Country Park and at the iconic Knebworth gigs later that year. 1996 also saw James Dean Bradfield and co. join them for their US tour, which Oasis cancelled halfway through.
In 2021, Manics bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire told NME about what it was like to be a part of that infamous US tour, and recalled how it led to a feud between Liam and Mark Lanegan.
“It was in catering, and Liam was calling them something like The Barking Branches and The Crazy Conkers. Mark was a very bruised individual at that point,” Wire shared. “It was a great tour. We just sat back and watched Oasis teetering on the edge and cancelling gigs. For once, we were the stable part of the touring party! It was the first time we’d had success on a global scale and we were enjoying it.”
The Manics also described the Oasis 1996 gigs as “some of the best gigs [they’ve] ever seen” in an interview with Radio X, and added that the Britpop giants were capable of making stadiums “shake” with energy in a way they had never seen before.
Speaking to NME last year about their shared history, Wire said: “We come from quite an important era, and that means something to me. It’s an era that people might not recognise now, and if I try to describe how much music ruled people’s lives – especially after 1995-1996.
“It’s nice to hear a big echo of it again. Oasis are the band who made the world sing. I was in a choir until I was 15 years old, so I like to hear people singing. They’re a band that transcend their own time.”
Liam also toyed with the idea of Manic Street Preachers joining Oasis for their huge ‘Live ‘25’ comeback tour in 2024, hinting that he was stuck between inviting Manics or The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft.
“Richard Ashcroft or Manic street preachers as support” he told fans, discussing plans for their US leg of the tour, before adding shortly after: “the manics it is”.
However, he went on to write: “Only kidding, we never set sail without the one and only RICARDO he’s our boy from day DOT come aboard Rkid.”
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As for Suede, the two bands never toured together, but were both dominant in the ‘90s Britpop scene, with Suede being praised as helping ignite the movement in the early ‘90s, while Oasis took things to new heights with their 1994 debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’.
Ahead of the Oasis reunion last year, Liam Gallagher hit out at Suede after a fan asked if the band would be supporting them. “Not happening,” he replied, adding that the group were “too cocky esp[ecially] that singer [Brett Anderson]”.
While he didn’t expand further, it seems likely that the comments stemmed from Anderson’s past comments about Britpop, when he described the ’90s genre as a “laddish, distasteful, misogynistic, nationalistic cartoon” in 2019 and wanted to “distance Suede from that”.
The singer was also asked if he had once described Oasis as “the singing plumbers” in the ’90s, to which he responded: “Well you know, I might have said that 25 years ago, but I’m not going to try and justify things I said a long, long time ago.”
Liam later hit back at the remarks, writing: “Check this shit out regarding this Britpop nonsense. I hear Burt out of Suede has said it was very laddish. See I disagree, I thought it was the opposite – I thought it was very BLOUSEY, which is why I distanced myself from it. LG x.”
He also said at the time that “The Verve pissed all over Suede”, and claimed that the former and Oasis “were on a different cloud” during the Britpop era. “If it wasn’t for Britpop you’d never have heard of Suede,” Liam argued. “That’s my problem a lot of those bands it helped.”
Speaking to NME last year about their latest album ‘Antidepressants’, Anderson said:”I’m really proud of the kind of position we seem to have found ourselves in, in the musical landscape. I don’t think there’s any other band of our generation that are still making records as vital as the records we’re making.
“I don’t think there’s any other band that look at making records as something other than a souvenir for a tour or something like that. I feel that we’re still making exciting music, pushing our sound and not just stuck as a self-parody. I never wanted to be the kind of band that rests on their laurels.”
Looking back over their legacy as the inadvertent and reluctant pioneers of ‘Britpop’, Anderson added: “I’m proud of the ‘90s stuff we did, but I don’t think about it all the time. What I think about is this record and the next one.”
The Manics and Suede’s UK dates kick off at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on October 28, ahead of stops at Leeds’ First Direct Bank Arena, Manchester’s Co-op Live, Cardiff’s Utilita Arena, and London’s O2.
Tickets go on general sale at 9:30am BST on Friday (May 1), and you’ll be able to buy yours here.