Oasis Manchester Landmarks: A Fan's Map for June 2027

Eleven nights at the Etihad give you three weeks of daylight hours to fill, and Manchester rewards an Oasis fan who walks it. This is a map of the places that made the band, grouped by area rather than listed, with what happened there, what is there now, and whether it is worth the trip. Dates, tickets and travel for the shows themselves are on the Oasis Manchester 2027 page.

Burnage and Sifters Records

Burnage, in south Manchester, is where Liam and Noel Gallagher grew up, about two miles from the Maine Road ground their band would later fill. The childhood homes are ordinary terraced and semi-detached houses on residential streets, and they are private: walk the area if you want the sense of it, but the addresses are not attractions, so do not call at them or photograph them close up.

The one genuine stop here is Sifters, the record shop on Fog Lane that still trades. Noel bought records here as a teenager, and the shop is the “Mr Sifter” of the song “Shakermaker”, which is why fans keep coming back. It is a working second-hand shop rather than a museum, so treat it as one. Burnage is a short train ride or a bus from the city centre, and Sifters is the reason to make the trip rather than the area itself.

The Boardwalk

The Boardwalk, on Little Peter Street near Deansgate, was one of the rooms where Oasis became a band. They rehearsed in the basement and played early gigs upstairs before the record deal, in the stretch when the line-up and the songs were still forming. The club closed at the end of the 1990s and the building has since been redeveloped, so there is no venue to go into. For most fans it is a brief detour on the way between the city centre and a show rather than a destination, but it is the spot where the live band was built.

Maine Road and Moss Side

Maine Road, in Moss Side, was Manchester City’s home until 2003 and the site of the band’s defining hometown shows. Oasis headlined two nights there on 27 and 28 April 1996, playing to around 40,000 people each night with the Manic Street Preachers supporting, a run documented in the ”…There and Then” live film. For a band that had started two miles away in Burnage, filling City’s ground was the clearest measure of how far and how fast they had gone.

There is nothing of the stadium left. It was demolished in 2003 and the site is now housing, the Maine Place development, with the former centre circle marked in the landscaping. The full story of those nights, the setlist and why they mattered is on the Maine Road in 1996 page. As a place to visit it is a quiet residential street, so go for the history, not the view.

Heaton Park

Heaton Park, a large public park in north Manchester, is the city’s other Oasis stage. The band played here in 2009, on what became the final tour before the split, and the reunion returned to the park for the Live ‘25 shows. Unlike Maine Road, the park is still very much there and open, so it is the one past-show site you can actually stand in. It is reachable by Metrolink on the Bury line and makes an easy half-day if the weather holds. The detail on the 2009 concerts is on the Heaton Park in 2009 page.

City-centre music landmarks

The city centre ties the map together. The Northern Quarter, a few minutes’ walk from Piccadilly, is the heart of the independent music scene the band came out of, with record shops, bars and small venues still trading. It is also where you will find the best pre-show food and drink before heading out to the Etihad by tram. If you only have an afternoon before a gig, the Northern Quarter plus a trip to Sifters covers the most ground, and leaves you on the right side of town for the tram east to the show.