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Oasis fan Olivia Bridge has offered up her garden to fans needing accommodation (Picture: Olivia Bridge)

Oasis’ reunion has everyone in panic mode over tickets and pre-sale ballots but one woman in Manchester has come up with an unusual solution.

Olivia Bridge, 29, decided on a whim she would offer up her garden to anyone needing a place to stay to see Noel and Liam Gallagher perform — if they can source her a ticket.

The lifelong Oasis fan is happy to pay for her spot at the Heaton Park gigs but simply wanted to ‘increase her odds’ of actually attending the tour next year.

However, her kind offer to strangers on the internet has spiralled into a viral moment with thousands flooding her DMs hoping for a spot on her lawn.

‘I obviously didn’t think, did I?’ she laughed to Metro.co.uk after her post amassed 1.5k retweets and 5.3million views.

The gig is set to be huge with the Gallagher brothers reuniting after a nearly two-decade-long feud which has consisted of public jabs fired back and forth.

Liv is now overwhelmed by the response from fans (Picture: Olivia Bridge)

She’s a lifelong Oasis fan and wanted to help others – and up her odds of going (Picture: Olivia Bridge)

Oasis is set to play Heaton Park next summer with five gigs lined up in July, marking a return to their hometown in an epic reunion.

The tickets are like gold dust and haven’t even gone on sale yet but Liv, who has never forgiven her dad for not securing tickets in 2009, is determined to go.

‘I live right by Heaton Park,’ she posted on X. ‘If you’re an Oasis fan and don’t want to fork out £100s for a place to kip, you can camp in my garden. For free.

‘The only condition is that you get a ticket for me too. I’ll pay for it, and I’ll even throw in brews, breakfast and a driveway.’

In the follow-up posts she assured fans she was deadly serious and showed off the garden in question — as well as her tattoo dedicated to Oasis.

‘I didn’t expect to get so many responses in the first place,’ Liv explained. ‘It was just a passing tweet; an idea I put it out into the universe just to see what happens.’

The now-viral tweet was on a total whim and she hadn’t even asked her housemate if they were okay with strangers camping in their garden.

Thankfully, Liv’s friend saw the funny side although she was initially ‘worried’ over the post going ‘crazy’.

Her mum branded her a ‘nutcase’ while her dad was just hopeful ‘Liam might see it’, which Liv said would ‘make her whole life’.

Born the same year as Definitely, Maybe’s debut, the journalist is a dedicated Oasis fan and even saw Liam on the 30th-anniversary tour.

Liv joked: ‘I’ve never been able to forgive my dad for not being able to get a ticket in 2009 for me when I was at school. But you know … it’s Oasis. It’s the sound of my generation.

‘We all grew up to it and we never thought the band getting back together would happen, it’s what dreams are made of. It means so much to millions of Oasis fans.’

Liv promises the garden is bigger than it looks (Picture: Olivia Bridge)

She believes a few two-person tents could fit (Picture: Olivia Bridge)

Liv isn’t asking for money from anyone staying, nor is she asking for a free ticket — she simply wants to help out other fans after the hotel pricing crept up.

‘They’ve completely ramped up the prices, they’re extortionate,’ she vented. ‘There’s some which if I was to book a hotel tonight would be £35, whereas when Oasis are playing, they’ve got up to £500.

‘People are profiting out of Oasis fans and I don’t think it’s right because you’re going to be spending hundreds of pounds anyway on a ticket. So I’ve got a space. I need a ticket. Why not? Why not go together?’

She feels honoured that her post has inspired other Manchester-based fans to offer out their gardens to people, seeing it as a huge boost in community that the music scene has been sorely missing.

She and her friend even have matching Oasis tattoos (Picture: Olivia Bridge)

Fingers crossed Liv lands tickets(Picture: Olivia Bridge)

Liv added: ‘Music does bring people together and that nostalgia and living for that time, it’s just it means everything.’

However, the prospect of the feuding brothers not making it to the gigs is weighing on her mind.

‘They’ll see the bigger picture and realise that this means so much to people,’ Liv concluded optimistically. ‘They need to put aside the differences and just give us the music and give us those tunes.’

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