Ball Park Music are getting another boost from their career-defining support slot on Oasis’ blockbuster Australian reunion tour, with the Brisbane five-piece featured in the latest instalment of Live Nation’s Soundcheck series.
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The behind-the-scenes episode documents the band stepping onto the biggest stages of their career, performing to arena-sized crowds across the country as Oasis returned to Australian venues for the first time in more than a decade.
The new video follows Ball Park Music from soundcheck through to showtime, capturing the emotional and technical build-up before the house lights drop. The band — who have long cited Oasis as formative influences — are shown tuning up backstage, taking in the scale of the arena, and reflecting on the surreal nature of opening for one of the most culturally dominant bands of the ’90s and 2000s.
“It’s hard to even describe what it feels like to open for Oasis,” the band say in the episode. “We’ve all grown up with their music and to suddenly be standing there, playing before them, it’s surreal. You can feel the crowd buzzing from the moment you walk out. It’s a mix of nerves and pure joy. Nights like that remind you why you started playing music in the first place.”
The Oasis tour itself has been one of the major Australian live music stories of 2025, prompting rapid sellouts across multiple cities and adding extra dates to meet demand. For Ball Park Music, the run marks a significant step up following a strong year that already included major touring and chart success.
Earlier in 2025, the group scored their first ARIA No. 1 album with Weirder & Weirder, extending their streak of consecutive top-10 entries on the ARIA Albums Chart. Until then, three of the band’s releases had stalled at No. 2: Puddinghead (2014), Ball Park Music (2020), and Weirder & Weirder (2022).
The Soundcheck episode portrays this shift in real time. Cameras capture the band navigating the fast pace of arena production, walking onstage to tens of thousands of fans, and later watching Oasis’ performance from the side of the stage. There are quieter moments too: the group describing their pre-show nerves, laughing about technical mishaps, and taking in the “full-circle” nature of the moment.
Live Nation’s Soundcheck series has previously highlighted artists across the Australian touring landscape, including Anna Lunoe, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, Coterie and Dallas Frasca. The Ball Park Music instalment continues the focus on documenting live performance culture from the inside — showing the realities and emotions artists experience at key turning points in their touring career.
Watch the extended episode of Live Nation’s Soundcheck with Ball Park Music and Daphne Berry here.
