After a 15-year hiatus, Oasis and their famously feuding brotherly team of Noel and Liam Gallagher, will reunite for a series of massive shows next summer, beginning July 4-5 in Cardiff, Wales. So far, 14 dates have been announced there and in the band’s Manchester hometowm, London, Edinburgh and Dublin, through Aug. 17. Tickets go on sale Saturday (Aug. 31).
“The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised,” the Gallaghers said.
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The Sunday Times broke the reunion news over the weekend, reporting that as many as 10 nights could be on hold at London’s Wembley Stadium. Oasis has not performed since Aug. 22, 2009 at the V Festival in Stafford, and the brothers have frequently traded barbs in the press and online ever since.
“There has been no great revelatory moment that has ignited the reunion – just the gradual realization that the time is right,” reads a press release, which also says further 2025 shows outside of Europe are in the works. “Yet the timing must be a subconscious influence. This Thursday represents 30 years to the day since their electrifying debut album Definitely Maybe was released, while 2025 will see the equally essential second record (What’s the Story) Morning Glory reach that same anniversary.”
A rarities-packed 30th anniversary Definitely Maybe will be out later this week. Released on Aug. 29, 1994, it launched Oasis as worldwide sensations and is regarded as both one of the best Britpop albums and one of the best rock albums of the 1990s. It has sold more than 8.5 million copies worldwide and features signature tracks such as “Live Forever,” “Supersonic” and “Cigarettes & Alcohol.”
Earlier this year, Liam performed the album in full for the first time on tour, a concept Noel rejected in a May 2023 interview with SPIN.
“I’m not going to perform it in its entirety on the banjo, if that’s what you mean,” he said. “I prefer to live in the moment and keep making new music. I acknowledge the past. Definitely Maybe is great and Oasis were great. It was an amazing moment in everybody’s lives, but you’ve got one life. I don’t intend to fucking live it in the past. If Liam wants to do the show, great. He’s got to make a living and all of that. Keep the fucking flame alive. It’s not something I particularly would be able to put my heart and soul into. If Oasis hadn’t fulfilled its potential, I might have a different attitude towards it. But as Oasis did everything it set out to do and more. I don’t see the point. It was a moment in time and if you missed it, tough shit. I missed the Sex Pistols and I’ve managed to get over that. So, people should get over it.”
Noel was more emphatic in a 2021 interview with The Project in Australia when he said, “people ask me that [reunion[ question on a daily basis and I can only say to you that, I just don’t feel like it. When you’re in a band, it’s an absolute compromise, so no I don’t think I could come up with an idea and then run it by four people and then six weeks later, somebody knocks it back because their cat’s got a cough. I like to march to the beat of my own drum. Oasis is done, I’m afraid.”
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