Liam Gallagher has told fans that he is “on the wind up” with his recent comments about “Swede and Manic Street Sweepers”, after saying that they were “shit”, “lack swagger and style” and “dress like estate agents”.
His initial comments were made earlier this week, following news of Suede and Manic Street Preachers announcing co-headline UK arena tour for 2026 – having already hit the road together in 1994, 2022 and 2024.
When asked by a fan what he thought of the news, the Oasis icon got fans talking when he simply wrote “Fuck them”, despite being friendly with the Manics over the years and touring with them multiple times.
He was then urged by fans on X/Twitter to expand on the comment, to which he replied that they were “both shit and lack attitude, swagger and style” and also “dress like estate agents”.
Now, Liam has told fans that he was simply “on the wind up”, and told those fixated on his tweets to “relax, go for a walk, bake a fucking cake, [or] go to the seaside”.
I’m on the wind up you lot need to relax go for a walk bake a fucking cake go to the seaside
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 30, 2026
He also responded to a fan who defended Manics, writing: “I never said they weren’t SEXY”, and also quipped that he wanted the two bands – who he playfully renamed “Swede and manic street sweepers” to open for Oasis if they embark on more tour dates in 2027.
Although clarifying that he was just looking to have some fun by winding fans up with the comments, Gallagher also kept the quips coming, agreeing with one fans that the joke was “very funny”, and joking that he was “devastated” and jealous that Oasis don’t have “any best mates to do a joint tour with”.
Swede and manic street sweepers
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 30, 2026
I never said they weren’t SEXY
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 30, 2026
He also made one more lighthearted jab at the two bands, replying to a fan who said that she couldn’t keep “fighting with their fans anymore” while defending his comments.
“They can’t have many,” he wrote, suggesting that there are more Oasis fans than there are fans for Manics and Suede.
Coz it is
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 30, 2026
DEVASTATED
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 30, 2026
They can’t have many
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 30, 2026
When the comments about the two bands were first made by Liam earlier this week, some were surprised to see Manics in the line of fire, particularly because James Dean Bradfield and co. have supported Oasis multiple times throughout their career.
The band joined Liam and Noel at Oasis’ first-ever stadium headlining shows in Manchester in 1996, as well as two huge shows at Balloch Castle Country Park, the iconic slots at Knebworth, and the US tour of 1996 that was infamously axed halfway through.
They had also spoken very fondly of Oasis over the years too, with bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire telling NME in 2021 that the latter was “a great tour” – despite the feud with Liam and Mark Lanegan – and adding last year in another NME interview that he saw them as “a band that transcend their own time”.
Manics also praised the band on Radio X, describing ‘Champagne Supernova’ stars as being capable of making stadiums “shake” in a way they had never seen before.
Before poking fun at them earlier this week, Liam also toyed with the idea of choosing Manic Street Preachers to join Oasis for their huge ‘Live ‘25’ comeback, saying that he was stuck between inviting Manics or The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft.
As for Suede, Brett Anderson and co. never toured with Oasis, but both bands were pivotal in the ‘90s Britpop scene – with Suede being praised as helping ignite the movement in the early ‘90s, and Oasis taking things to new heights when ‘Definitely Maybe’ dropped in 1994.
Ahead of the Oasis comeback in 2025, 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 (and Anderson in particular) were “too cocky”.
The comments seemed to stem from Anderson’s past comments about Britpop, where he described the ’90s genre as a “laddish, distasteful, misogynistic, nationalistic cartoon” in 2019 and said he wanted to “distance Suede from that”.
He 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 would later hit back at the comments, saying the comments about Britpop were “nonsense” and adding: “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.”
He also said at the time that “The Verve pissed all over Suede”, and wrote: “If it wasn’t for Britpop you’d never have heard of Suede. That’s my problem a lot of those bands it helped.”
Anderson clarified his stance on Suede’s history and place in the Britpop scene last year when speaking to NME about latest album ‘Antidepressants’, saying that he was “really proud” of their work and doesn’t think “there are 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,” he explained. “I never wanted to be the kind of band that rests on their laurels.”
As for the legacy of being a pioneer of the Britpop movement, Anderson said: “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 joint tour with Manics and Suede kicks off in November and includes a slot at London’s O2. Tickets are on sale now and you’ll be able to buy yours here.
