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The Enemy Cancel Oasis Show - Because Of Food Or Feud?

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 09:21 AM PDT

Today (June 4) sees Oasis play the first of three huge concerts at Heaton Park in Manchester. It’s a bit of a homecoming for the band as the Gallagher brothers are originally from Burnage, just up the road from the venue.

The concerts, which are today, Saturday (June 6) and Sunday (June 7) are all sold-out, with 70,000 fans attending each night. The gigs have been planned for the last six months, with transport links, park and ride schemes, and road closures all organized in advance.

Unfortunately, something has already gone wrong, with The Enemy, one of the two main supports along with Kasabian, pulling out of tonight’s show. The official reason is that lead singer Tom Clarke has contracted serious food poisoning but you do have to wonder if the recent feud between the two bands has anything to do with it.

Tom Clarke gave an interview about the tour, on which The Enemy are scheduled to provide support for each concert, and one of his comments upset the usually-so-calm and mild-mannered Liam Gallagher. He then called Clarke a “little f**ker” in a Twitter rant, forcing Clarke to apologize for any offense caused.

Noel announced that The Enemy had pulled out of tonight’s gig on his blog, saying:

“The Enemy have pulled out of tonight’s show. Tom’s got food poisoning. Shame. Was looking forward to seeing them for the 1st time.”

“While I’m on the subject of The Enemy. There’s been an attempt by the NME to try and start some juvenile, pathetic feud between the bands in the run up to these gigs.”

“Can I assure everyone that there is not and never will be anything between the working classes and its heroes.”

OK, so it probably is the food poisoning rather than the feud that’s to blame for the absence. The band claim they’ll be back on stage on Saturday and if that happens then that’ll prove the rumors are untrue. But until then it’s fun to speculate about two of Britain’s biggest Indie bands having a ‘handbags at dawn’ bitch fight.

As for Noel’s comments about “the working classes and its heroes,” is he saying The Enemy are working class and Oasis are the heroes? Not to start another fight or anything but isn’t that a little derogatory?

The Enemy are being replaced by Reverend and The Makers for tonight’s show. Which isn’t a bad swap.

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