Noel in an interview yesterday after the gig.
"I was asked to do it a long time ago and... to be frank.. they were being so secretive about it," he explained.
"I was like... 'who else is playing?' and they were like 'we can't tell you, you've got to sign a confidentiality agreement' - it's like it's the Iran nuclear programme or something.
"I mean what do they think is going to happen? ITV are going to get hold of it and put on a gig the night before with the same bill?!
"And then they wanted me to do it acoustically and then they wanted me to mime... and I'm all for miming in TV shows - I'm all for that - but if you're in a stadium with 80,000 people and you're pretending? I can play live! One of the organisers... I said [to him] 'why do you want me to mime?' and he said 'it's a big gig'. Really?! I do this shit for a living!'"
"In the end, I was just like... you know what I'd rather watch it on the telly."
He also performed D'ya wanna be a spaceman and Angel Child