The lacklustre momento is currently going for more than £7,700 on eBay and has inspired copy-cat postings by other attendees, including grass in an empty bottle of Corona beer for £10.
Oasis fans are selling grass from the park where the legendary rock band played their Manchester gigs for £7,000 online. By the end of Sunday (July 20), some 350,000 fans will have visited Heaton Park where Oasis will have played give epic shows.
Stores have cashed in on the hysteria by selling merch like shirts and bucket hats bearing the band’s name and lyrics. But fans have gone a step further. They’re now flogging pieces of the grass at Heaton Park as a souvenir.
One eBay listing offers “Atmosphere And Grass” from the band’s first gig at Heaton Park last Friday (July 11).
The pictures show blades of grass stuffed into a Pepsi Max bottle with a green wristband from the gig wrapped around the top. The seller is holding it at the show, albeit with their face blurred out. The bidding for this lacklustre momento currently stands above £7,700. There have been six bids.
Another listing offers turf from ‘Gallagher Hill’ – the field where ticketless fans gathered to listen to the band and soak up the good vibes.
The Gallagher Hill grass is stuffed inside an empty Corona beer bottle and is being sold alongside an official Oasis Live’ 25 merchandise bag and a trolley which pictures show being dragged up the hill.
It has been listed for a starting bid of £10.78 but currently has no bids.
Ticketless Oasis fans have clambered over Heaton Park fences in a desperate bid to see the show. Others tried to storm the arena.
Die-hard admirers were seen streaming over a fallen metal fence panel and disappearing behind a line of trees near the poignantly named ‘Gallagher Hill’ in Heaton Park last Saturday (July 12).
A clip of the rampage also show cops intervening as hundreds of fans realise there is a second line of taller wooden fencing. It was later confirmed the opportunistic Oasis lovers were not able to get into the concert area.
Huge crowds gathered after spotting massive screens behind the band, which had been blasting out their repertoire. It comes after 50 fans tried to jump the fence at the rock band’s first Manchester gig on Friday (July 11).
Desperate to maintain control, police issued a dispersal order around Heaton Park and the surrounding area.
Manchester Evening News reporter Chris Slater, who was outside Heaton Park talking to fans, said: “An eyewitness has told me that just before Oasis came on stage around 50 people tried to ‘rush’ one of the internal entrances to the gig area. They said around 10 appeared to get in but the rest were apprehended and turned away.”
One man was handcuffed and escorted away by officers while another carried a ladder.
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