Outside a shuttered Sifters Records shop near Burnage station, a small but devoted band of Oasis pilgrims gathered on a grey bank holiday afternoon.
Some just wanted to take in a bit of Oasis history, or be around other fans to soak up the excitement around the band’s long-awaited reunion, while others had hoped to pick up an Oasis record.
The shop, immortalised with the lyrics “Mister Sifter sold me songs, when I was just 16” in the hit Shakermaker, is where the Gallagher brothers would buy records in their younger days.
Although Mr Sifter – otherwise known as Peter Howard, who has run the shop in Fogg Lane since 1977 – had not ope...
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