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70,000 fans have been promised by Oasis frontman Noel Gallegher that they will receive their money back after the band experienced two major power outings during a show in Manchester.

The show, which was to be the band’s first homecoming gig at Heaton Park last Thursday night, was interrupted for half an hour because of problems with the electricity.  To see the British band’s first gig in Manchester in quite some time, fans paid £45 for tickets. 

Noel told fans: “Thank you very very much, this is a free gig – let’s have it. Anybody who has kept their ticket will get a full refund.”

If everyone at the show has kept their ticket, it will cost £3 million to fully refund those present.  However, not everyone wants a refund: some concert goers said that they did not planning on cashing their ticket it for the refund, as the Oasis gig was “well worth it.”

“I think we got our money’s worth, okay, there were a few problems but they played some brilliant songs,” one fan told BBC Radio Manchester. “Champagne Supernova – it gets me every time.”

Another fan told the radio station: “It was well worth it in the end, we got a bit annoyed when we had to stand around waiting for half an hour but they were brilliant.”
Six months of planning went into this event, which was the largest scale production to come to the park since a 1982 visit from the Pope.  The organizers at SJM Concerts proclaimed the show would be a “celebration of Manchester.”

The brothers Gallagher and their band Oasis stopped in Manchester as part the Dig Out Your Soul world tour.