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Oasis reunite for UK and Ireland tour / Noel and Liam Gallagher

As expected, Liam and Noel Gallagher have buried the hatchet and are getting Oasis back together for live concerts in the UK next summer.

Multiple dates at Stadia in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin are scheduled for next year, three months ahead of the 30th anniversary of the band’s second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, which is the fifth best-selling album of all time, in the UK.

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There is no confirmation of who else will return to the band and rumours of Oasis headlining next year’s Glastonbury festival (which will take place from 25th – 29th June) have not gone away. But we are told that there are plans for Oasis Live ’25 to visit other continents outside of Europe later next year.

The 14 shows that have been announced – see below – will go on sale at 9am on Saturday 31 August 2024. These will be available via Ticketmaster UK, Gigs and Tours and See Tickets. Dublin tickets with be available from 8am that same day from Ticketmaster in Ireland.

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Oasis reunite for UK and Ireland tour / Noel and Liam Gallagher

Live ’25 Oasis /

    • July 2025

      4th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
      5th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
      11th – Manchester, Heaton Park
      12th – Manchester, Heaton Park
      19th – Manchester, Heaton Park
      20th – Manchester, Heaton Park
      25th – London, Wembley Stadium
      26th – London, Wembley Stadium

    • August 2025

      2nd – London, Wembley Stadium
      3rd – London, Wembley Stadium
      8th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
      9th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
      16th – Dublin, Croke Park
      17th – Dublin, Croke Park

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  2. “Earlier this week, standing price tickets for Cardiff, London and Edinburgh were advertised as £135 plus fees. But angry fans online said they noted “in demand” pricing on Ticketmaster had increased prices to £355 plus fees.

    Ticketmaster say they do not set ticket prices.

    “Promoters and artists set ticket prices. Prices can be either fixed or market-based. Market-based tickets are labelled as ‘Platinum’ or ‘In Demand’.”
    Ticketmaster confirmed that fans did not get anything else for the price increase.
    Oasis and the band’s promoter were not commenting on the issue on Saturday evening.”

    BBC Culture website 01/09/24

    I first encountered dynamic pricing in a good way in London theatre land. A seat price was set (a sort of RRP) say £40. When the tickets first went on sale early bird buyers got them for £25 and the price slowly climbed to £40 as the show sold out. The last remaining seats going for £50. This was good practice rewarding the punter for their efforts and love of theatre. This soon disappeared and was replaced with starting at £40 and going up until none were left. I had to return an early bird ticket to Delfont Mackintosh that cost £25 I was given a credit and the ticket went back on sale at the dynamic price of £40. I know there was a lot of complaints (me included) and that practise seems to be abandoned or at least I have not come across it again yet.
    Oasis are working on a different scale. Seemingly taking the Stones doctorate of squeezing every last drop of cash out of the fans. Neither the band, promoters or venue taking the responsibility for price setting. Oasis tried warning the fans about tout prices while setting tout prices themselves. One fan said “got two tickets to see Oasis at Wembley – but paid more than £900 after failing to get cheaper tickets. A longstanding fan, she told the BBC that “we got caught up in the vibe,” adding that she “would never think I was that person who would spend so much on a concert ticket”.
    This is not the way forward. Young fans are being brain washed into accepting a normal ticket price is £200. That if they want to see their favourite band twice that year it will be all they can afford to see that year on a minimum wage. Oasis band of the people, shame on them. Football grounds are designed to keep sound in who thinks that is good for a concert?

    On a similar track I will yet again speak of RRP. SDE readers are very happy that Prince’s Diamond And Pearls SDE price being £69.99 on Amazon at the moment, down from the initial pricing of £120+. Also Amazon are trying to suggest the RRP was £75.99 an 8% saving!

    The tickets and SDE pricing all from the same bucket of swill.

    1. I can sort of understand the theory behind ‘in demand’ pricing. If demand massively outweighs supply then the only way to control that is to increase the prices. If all the prices were £150 for example (already a lot of money of course) but people are willing to pay £350 – which they clearly were – then it just encourages scalpers and ticket touts to buy at the cheaper price and resell for £350 on the resale market. So if you are a business selling tickets then clearly you would rather make the money that people are willing to pay rather than pass on that profit to the touts. I think if you remove all the emotion from the argument it makes some kind of sense.

      The problem these days is that social media and free music – streaming – has created a MASSIVE ‘funnel’ of fans that is disproportionately big compared to the amount of physical gigs a band is willing to put on or is capable of putting on. As we know the number of people who are willing to pay £12 for a CD of an album is much lower than those who will happily just listen to the music on Spotify of YouTube or wherever. The ‘having-to-buy-music-to-get-into-it-a-band’ was a mechanism that controlled demand, but that no longer exists.

      The only thing that doesn’t make sense to me are ‘kids’ who don’t want to pay for music but will spend ludicrous amounts on gigs. I remember as a teenage and when I was in my earlier 20s I always prioritised buying music over going to gigs, because I couldn’t afford to do both. It appears to be the other way around now.

      1. Prices will not revert now, much too late as the infrastructure around the arts has changed as well (catering, transport, merchandise) its all gone up. Artists will only lower prices if they are guilted into it or people stop buying and as you alluded too the youth seem happy to pay to see very little. I do think that’s because its all they have known. In part because the 50+ age group were willing to pay £300 for a pair of tickets, £200 on a hotel room and a £100 for travel.
        I have noticed since Covid, understandably, theatres have put their prices up in London. So many nearly went bust. Also they are not selling their tickets out for stars like Imelda Staunton and Sheridan Smith who normally would (general prices are starting to drop a little again) The shows that do sell out are ones who have a star popular with the youth audience (supporting your idea ) from film such as Normal People, Stranger Things & Game of Thrones.
        There is the odd mega hit like the new David Tennent / Cush Jumbo play (there are tickets left but they are £250) but as a whole things are bleak for young people wanting to experience different things as small theatres and new bands could struggle to exist.
        When the last Government got in the Arts was its lowest funded responsibility at £2b, it is now £450m.

    2. One (of the many) problem(s) with Saturday’s ticket sale was that no-one chose their place in the queue, so couldn’t either be rewarded for their effort or penalised for trying to buy when the majority of tickets had sold – ALL the tickets were ‘in demand’. This I think made dynamic pricing in this instance very unfair. One possible solution (assuming we are stuck with dynamic pricing, which sadly seems likely) is that once you join (get allocated your place in) the queue you can only be charged the ticket price at the moment you joined the queue. This would at least mean for a sale like the one on Saturday pretty much everyone could have got, for example, a standing ticket for the £150 ‘release’ price. Additionally, did people realise the ticket price would be subject to ‘dynamic pricing’ when they joined the queue? I don’t remember that being obvious on the Ticketmaster page (though suspect it may have been in the small print somewhere in the T&Cs, probably on another page which would have required leaving the queue page and opening another browser tab, with the peril that entailed).

      Imagine queuing to buy a pint in a pub – the person directly in front of you pays £4.80, you are next in line and get charged £9.60 for the same pint, from the same tap – “how come landlord” you ask politely? “Well there are now only 15 pints left in the barrel dear loyal local customer, the cut off for that beer being ‘in demand’ from that keg” is the reply …

      1. You are absolutely right Dolby.
        Its simple, the artist, management, venue etc want the money the touts and secondary selling sites are getting. The hotels treat it as an extension of putting prices up during school holidays. Only government legislation could change things.

  3. Only a few dates announced.
    150 quid for standing.
    500 quid for a seat.
    Official ticket prices on Ticketmaster UK.
    Going for multiple times these prices currently on Viagogo and the resellers.

    I’m not interested in supporting the pension plans of the Gallagher brothers.
    The time to see Oasis was in the 1990’s.
    Now they’re an expensive nostalgia act.

    So, prosecco all round dah-lings, along with the Berghaus jackets.
    Do enjoy yourselves, but let’s not pretend this is authentic anymore.
    It is a giant corporate sell-out and unfortunately nostalgia has become a lot more expensive than it used to be.

    1. If you take into account that the band splitting again before any gig is going to actually take place or perhaps midway into the tour, is unfortunately an option quite likely to happen, it makes this whole thing look like a bitter and ironic joke.
      I would have loved to see Oasis live again. But no concert should ask anyone more than 100£ to attend to.
      It’s madness.

  4. Good luck to them. I was at high school when they released their first album and it blew me, and pretty much everyone else at my school, away. The second album was bloated but good and after that I simply lost interest. I saw them at Knebworth and Wembley Arena and to be honest I can’t really remember any of it (and I was sober in those days!!). The world has moved on since the so-called glory days of Brit-Pop (whatever that actually meant) but Oasis, to me anyway, haven’t. ‘Definitely, Maybe’ is a great album but, like the saying goes, you have your whole life to write your first album, and only a few months to write your next.  Now they are both in their 50’s, maybe they have mellowed out and will put on a great performance….or maybe Liam will simply spend the gig ‘giving it large’. I imagine it will be like going to see the Stones, or Paul McCartney live in this day and age (which I have done in recent years)….you go along expecting  to experience them in all their heyday, but end up coming away thinking that maybe its time to simply to call it a day.  

    I saw a comment from Edith Bowman (she’s a radio presenter, for those outside the UK!) the other day, saying that Oasis were our generations Beatles….I’ll leave that there!

  5. Perspective from an American visiting London this week — this image is on posters everywhere announcing the reunion tour. I don’t think most in the U.S. (including myself) truly appreciated how huge Oasis is here. I agree with other commenters that it will be interesting to see whether these shows sell out in the States. My closest (rumored) venue is Gillette Stadium outside of Boston, which is an “American” football stadium and a horrible facility for concerts. I saw the Stones there a few months back and swore never to see another concert there (through no fault of the band; the acoustics and logistics of getting in and out are just awful). Though Oasis playing there may test my resolve.

  7. Never a fan and TBH never liked them always preferred Suede and Elastica. I found Oasis to be to much like ‘chav’ rock.

    Saying that lets hope support in the US is Lyle Lovett.

    They can be billed as ‘Gallagher’s and Lyle’ An interesting take on soft folk rock and perhaps sell a few more tickets.

    1. Sounds like a GREAT double bill!

      The ticket prices, though…

      I’m the EXACT opposite and preferred (early) Oasis over Suede, but I’ll take it ALL in original-recording, studio “SURROUND SOUND.”

      …mixed by SW, bien sür.

  10. Already there are warnings that if you buy tickets you may want to spend extra money and get cancellation insurance. With the way the Gallagher brothers have got along previously, they have 10 months to cancel the tour.
    Why they are getting together? Well, inflated prices for tickets will be because there is an estimated $400 million US to be gained from the tour.
    Liam [as not the chief writer to the band] didn’t pocket much in the royalties. So he hasn’t been doing as well as Noel. When you are the 5th highest selling album in the UK, plenty of royalties for the writer[s].
    As for coming to North America, with the rumours of going, I guess they are testing the water. Possible multiple nights in Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and maybe a few other spots.
    The question will be whether fans will fork an arm and maybe a leg to see them.
    I’m surprised of no filming of one of the concerts [at this time] or maybe a deluxe greatest hits prior to the tour.

    1. They’ve said not “televised” rather than “filmed”. They will definitely be filming at least one concert for future release

  11. I’m surprised they plan a stadium tour in the US. I don’t have data to back this up but I wouldn’t be surprised they can’t fill these stadiums and pull a Jennifer Lopez and cancel the US part of their tour “to focus on their families”.

  13. A lot of Oasis Derangement syndrome comments on here . I wouldn’t even put them in the top 5 of Manchester bands but those claiming they aren’t popular or have never heard of them are laughable. I’m not a fan of many artists featured on SDE e.g. Jethro Tull , Nik Kershaw, Sheena Easton et al but I don’t feel the need to come on the page to moan about them. It seems that Oasis bring out the adolescent music snob in lots of middle aged people. For that alone, as well as the many great tunes they’ve recorded, I salute them.

    1. People don’t moan about Jethro Tull, Nik Kershaw and Sheena Easton on here because those artists don’t get rammed down people’s throats when they announce a comeback tour.

      You’d think it was The Beatles announcing a comeback yesterday judging by all the hype. Oasis were all over the national and regional news yesterday, and on the front of today’s papers.

      Anyone who thinks that the quality of that band’s back catalogue (2 good albums and 5 rubbish/mediocre albums) justifies the massive hype, is probably suffering from Oasis Devotion Syndrome.

      Even the Rolling Stones have a better good album/bad album ratio.

      1. We get it…you don’t like them…how about giving it a rest and stop spending so much negative energy and time posting anti Oasis stuff on this forum…it’s boring.

      2. Hype? Its not the 1990s anymore. If you can’t recognise that Oasis who were the biggest band in the UK if not the world at one time are reforming merits attention then you obviously have Oasis derangement syndrome. I agree about the two great LPs and a lot of mediocre Ls but it doesn’t give me the right to police what other people enjoy.

        1. How is giving an opinion (whether you agree with it or not) “policing”? I never understand that POV as if all comments are one sided there is very little point of a comments section at all. Without criticism of any kind you would be giving musicians, directors, authors let alone politicians free reign to release or inflict any old crud upon their adoring masses…

          1. Anyone can give an opinion, my point is that what makes SDE different from other music sites is that no one tries to tell others what to like. Opinions are usually on the product not the merits of the artist. There are endless forums where it is just : that band sucks etc. This site is different.

      3. My whole point of reading comments is to feel superior by projectile vomiting my misery and crap on other’s favorite artists. Wait, I’m sorry, I confused myself with you.

  14. Yesterday’s hype reminds me of summer 1997 before the release of Oasis’ third album. People were going crazy then after a few weeks started to whisper, this album’s not actually that great is it?

    I was a student back then and loved this kind of music so for me it was perfect timing. Looking back now and judging only the music, I still think those first 2 albums are genuine classics. After that they were just decent enough. The hype outweighed the content but it wasn’t so easy to see that in those days with everything else that went with it. 

    And here we go again only this time there’s no new music. There’s still time for that but I doubt there will be an album. Maybe 1 or 2 new songs that are almost as good as Mucky Fingers. The concerts could be great but the people saying yesterday how Oasis transcend generations and are part of the musical fabric of Britain should re-listen to Don’t Believe The Truth and calm themselves down a bit.

  15. A band of diminishing returns. First album was fabulous (Columbia still blows me away), 2nd had some great moments but Don’t look back in anger? Seriously? I lost all interest after that. I did see them live once but won’t bother again.

  16. I seem to be in a minority here, but I really like them. I was hooked from the very minute MTV 120 Minutes (or Alternative Nation, can’t remember what it was called in 94) played Supersonic for the first time. As an avid indie fan in the early 90’s it was amazing to see an indie band storm the charts the way they did. Their output in 94-96 was almost flawless, and they were incredible live. I was fortunate enough to catch them twice before they even released Live Forever. Even Be Here Now could have been a great album had they swapped half the LP for the immsensly superior b-sides from that era. They still did some amazing songs later in their career, The Importance Of Being Idle for instance is up there with their best songs. I saw Noel Gallagher in Wigan this summer and it was great. I’m definitely going to stand in line to get tickets this Saturday.

  18. When Noel split from his wife last year he moved into a £2,500 a night suite in Claridges & has been living there for the last year – nearly £1 million for a hotel room – truly a man of the people ! I’m guessing the divorce itself is putting a strain on the finances too — enough to (temporarily) suspend hostilities while they milk the cash cow.

    I have a feeling it’ll be like the later Police tours with everyone travelling separately, staying in separate hotels & only ever meeting onstage.

  19. Never understood their critical acclaim. Hoping REM reunites for the Shiny Happy People Tour. I figure these guys will likely get into a huge fight at the last rehearsal, and have to deal with the cancelation terms of their deal. I don’t know a single Oasis fan in the US. Good for them if they can get along and actually fill stadiums here. Gotta win the lottery to put up tons of money for REM and their favorite charities.

  21. Will never understand the negative comments. If you don’t like them that’s fine. Pretty sure it’s not compulsory people have to go to any of the gigs.

    I liked the first two albums, particularly the second one. Saw them early on and thought they were a breath of fresh air.

    Good on them for doing this, they’ll make hundreds of thousands of people very happy.

    1. Agree, the first two albums were decent along with some ‘b’ sides which makes ‘The Masterplan’ a better album which is a compilation of ‘b’ sides than their later output.

      It was downhill from ‘Be Here Now’ though there is the odd decent single. Ironically, I’ve been enjoying their solo material.

  23. Have they actually buried the hatchet? Not entirely convincing. Strikes me a bit like the Stone Roses. Thought their reunion gigs were awful – just going through the motions for the dosh. Won’t be bothering.

    1. At least The Stone Roses were good at one point. I don’t think Oasis is awful, just never got all the hype. Someone joked The Kinks should open, I counter with The Black Crowes. Rich and Rory? Uh Noel can trade places. Roey Gallagher…now that would be something.

  24. Likely in the minority but I have never been a fan, never owned one of their records, likely cannot name any of their songs. Just one of those acts I completely ignored (and will continue to do so). I just hope they don’t disappoint all those who are excited (and I hate to think about the price of the tickets).

    1. You are not alone. There’s at least two of us! Not a fan, never will be. Bought a High Flying Birds CD from a charity shop recently, just to give it a try. I think it may be going to another charity shop soon, to make space for something more worthy on my shelves!

    2. not very likely that you haven’t come across WONDERWALL in the almost thirty years that have passed … if you in fact managed to avoid the song completely: respect!

  25. Good for fans that never got to see Oasis live that this is happening. I’m glad I got to see them twice in the 90’s in the US at theater-level venues. I also think they shouldn’t even bother with an opening act; what they should do is run a reel of their social media feed from the last 10 years or so on a jumbotron, just the bits where they bickered back & forth with each other. Might as well lean into it & have fun with it before walking on stage. Here’s hoping the brothers are truly getting along enough to get through the dates they’ve announced.

  26. For me Oasis were musically inferior to Suede, Pulp and Blur who all had significantly more talent and were far more versatile.

    Oasis were all hype and mouth but in fairness they were very very raw in a punk way.

    However each to their own and if Oasis is your thing then you’re going to love the hype, the theatre and shows.

    Enjoy, music is personal.

    1. I was more in to Blur at the time, but Oasis grew on me as I got older, and I appreciate the first two albums at least as classics of that era, and actually think theyre better than Blur in some respects, was Country House really better than Roll With It ? hmm, opinion is still divided nearly 30 years later.

      whether they can recreate what I would consider peak Oasis live, which is 95-96 Knebworth era, I doubt, they got criticised alot for phoning in performances live back in the day, even though that should by far be their best medium to play in with a largely supportive crowd.

    2. I will go several deep on better bands..mostly older bands…Stone Roses, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Human League,They Might Be Giants, Radiohead, The Fixx, Smashing Pumpkins, Counting Crows, 38 Special, Black Crowes, Just about any other Crows or low flying birds, U2, J. Geils Band, Men At Work, Morris Day And The Time, Nik Kershaw. I went off kilter so maybe Paul and company nix this rambling. Hope I don’t get banned for this.

    3. For me Radiohead were the clear standout band of that period, they still sound fresh today. Whereas the above and Oasis sound of their era and rather dated although for nostalgia purposes kinda take you back and this is likely the big draw for many. A reminder of much simpler and happier times at least in blighty…

  28. Wembley sucks the soul out of a gig. Probably only Springsteen and Taylor Swift can pull that place off.
    Ninety thousand people singing every word, who would want to hear that? I suspect Liam will hate it, will he tell them to shut up? that I would not mind seeing. I will make do with the memories of the Cambridge Corn Exchange & RAH Creation 10th anniversary, what a line up, Liam did a bunk and Noel filled in.
    I saw AC/DC at Wembley earlier this summer. They looked like ants and the sound was dreadful.

    1. Me too. Some joker on the radio today claims they haven’t put out a bad song. Honestly have you not heard the lyrics to She’s Electric? Not not much original about the music either. The drum and guitar strum pattern is the same on most of their songs.

      1. I heard that punter on the radio! “She’s electric, the lyrics are bloody pathetic, so easy for me to forget it, don’t need more time”

      1. Liam doesn’t move at all. He’s probably the worst front man ever, though Oasis fans seem to think that he’s the best.

        Oasis fans are a strange lot. In the 90s, they use to say ridiculous things like “Oasis are the biggest band in the world” and “Oasis’ B-Sides are better than everybody else’s A-Sides”.

        1. To be fair to them, the b-sides were good from 1994-95. And I did buy their stuff in the 90s. I had to bail out though at ‘Standing On The Shoulder of Giants’. That was awful, and coming after the endless dirge of Be Here Now, enough was enough. Haven’t played them since. They were ok, but there are hundreds of better bands to listen to.
          And I agree, Liam is a very poor front man, but the hype has always had us believe that wearing a rain coat, standing motionless, whining into the microphone, is ‘attitude’, and that’s bizarrely what makes him great. Nonsense.

        2. I got the “Stop the Clocks” compilation years ago after hearing the hype for so many years they were the greatest band since the Beatles. But I found, like so much music from the 90s, it was overhyped and not to my taste.

  31. The UK/IRE dates announced today match with an itinerary that was leaked yesterday, which also included the following North American dates, so I expect this leg will be announced soon:

    Aug 24th – Toronto – Downsview Park
    Aug 27th – Chicago – Soldier Field
    Aug 30th – East Rutherford – MetLife Stadium
    Sep 2nd – Boston – Gillette Stadium
    Sep 6th – Los Angeles – Rose Bowl
    Sep 11th – Mexico City – Foro Sol

    All of the dates except Boston have a 2nd date penciled in as well.

    I honestly wasn’t much of a fan back in the day – Pulp and Blur were more my thing – but I’ve come around to liking the first couple of albums since then, so I’ll probably go to the Toronto show if it happens and isn’t ridiculously expensive.

  32. I wouldn´t be surprised if with these concerts they prove all doubters wrong and afterwards ask themselves why the hell they stopped in the first place.

    1. Seriously? They were running on fumes in the late 00s. Splitting was the best thing they could have done, their output had become distinctly average and live they were mediocre.

    3. If we’re playing ‘How Low Can We Go?’, my vote is for The Lighthouse Family…

      Little Jimmy: “Mum, can ya help me wiv me homework? How do you spell BEIGE?”
      Mum: “L-I-G-H-T-H-O-U-S-E–F-A-M-I-L-Y, Jimmy… every bloody time.”

      1. They toured a couple of years ago…the Lighthouse Family, as for how low….how much time do you have, I read something about Adam Ricketts the other day…even he couldn’t believe it.

  34. I’m glad they buried the hatchet for their mother’s sake, in a Liam Gallagher documentary from a few years ago she was hoping Liam and Noel would speak to each other again.
    I’ve actually really enjoyed Liam’s solo career. His first and third albums were excellent. I also enjoyed his show last time he played in Melbourne.
    As much as I like the first 2 Oasis albums, I think my favourite is Dig Out Your Soul – The Shock Of The Lightning is my favourite song of theirs and Falling Down and I’m Outta Time are right up there. Heathen Chemistry and Don’t Believe The Truth are great too.

  35. I never liked Oasis to begin with because I thought they were unpleasantly arrogant and derivative. Then I saw them at Glastonbury in ’95 and was very impressed by their edge and energy so I bought the first two albums and the two cigarette box CD singles collections. I still like the first LP but the second now feels a bit hackneyed and that word derivative again. I just think the lyrics are weak. (It’s not helped by me having had to sing and play “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger” endless times in pub gigs in the noughties until I got so sick of them I can’t stomach listening to them now.) 

    Their subsequent albums just seemed to go creatively downhill until I gave up buying later products altogether. Their childish violent behaviour was pretty off-putting as well. I still think there is something special about the first LP though. I bought the 25th Anniversary silver vinyl edition. I’ll listen to the extra tracks on Apple Music to see if like them enough to pick up the new CD or 4LP set. I’m interested to hear the Welsh recordings for sure. 

    My 19 year old son is a huge fan as are many of his generation so I may end up accompanying him to Wembley to check out one of the shows but I wouldn’t be heartbroken to miss them in ’25 because I’ve already seen them in their heyday. 

    I’m really happy for the younger fans that they are doing more shows though because for them it will feel like they are seeing a band coming back from the dead. I got that eerie magical vibe when I saw the reunited Sex Pistols and Velvet Underground a couple of times and it was a special and odd feeling to see acts I was too young to see first time round in the flesh. I somehow doubt they’ll make it to the end of the tour though and suspect there will be no new product because there are self-destructive dysfunctional personalities involved. I hope I’m wrong on that.

  36. So who are the other members of Oasis in 2024 or doesn’t it matter?
    Actually did it ever matter as long as you’ve got the Noel and Liam soap oprea.

  37. Got into them early on and bought all their releases at the time including the rare vinyl up to about 2000. Lost interest after that. Never saw them live and this tour is not for me. Don’t like stadium gigs and the price will be extortionate. And we don’t know who the rest of the band will be. So it is basically Noel and Liam singing and playing Oasis songs.

  38. Often the setlists major bands choose to perform does not always correlate with what the paying fans want to hear,so I will be intrigued to discover what the brothers select to play,and what songs they decide to omit.

    I notice too that both Liam and Noel have been performing quite short sets in their own solo tours i.e not much longer than 90 mins.It will also be a bit disappointing if they aren’t willing or able to do a more epic well-over 2hr Oasis set.Would also be sad if a few great Noel-sung tunes get omitted i.e Masterplan,Half a World Way etc . Just because Liam aint much involved on stage when he performs these!

    Anyway,I always feel for the singer when major ‘summer’ tours like this are announced.They can never be re-scheduled if illness strikes(especially anything effecting the vocal chords). So poor old Liam will have to take lot of care during the weeks before this tour starts as he and the band will be totally screwed if anything nasty comes along to mess with his voice!

    It is also interesting to note that no major rock band has materialised in this new century that has inspired any
    ‘huge’ mass- generational following.Where are the big
    new rock bands?There aren’t any!That’s the prime reason this Oasis Tour will probably be a huge success!There is a thirst out there for a ‘rock’ event,for a swagger-band to arrive and entertain the masses!

    In the 90’s you had Take That performing to a 95% female crowd with a few men dragged along by their partners,and then you had Oasis who used to perform to a 95% male crowd with a few females dragged along by their partners.So it will also be interesting to see whether this time around more females attend or not!Whether this gender inbalance still exists between fans of rock bands and ‘pop’ bands!

    1. The same happened to Duran Duran, up until the early 1982 the crowd was mixed/balanced and pretty “cool” then 82-84 it was 95% screaming young girls but since early 2000 from the reunion tour it has been balanced again.

    2. I cant remember which group it was Id watched or gone to that had reformed, one of them in the last few years at least, and did exactly that (and no it wasnt SClub or Girls Aloud though they followed this exact format too). 90mins was all you got, and all the memorable singalongable songs you thought you were going to get as like a greatest hits compilation they saved for the encore, the rest were all those middling to not great tunes from the “difficult” albums, some of which they found difficult to sing live. and the overwhelming feeling is always one of disappointment.

      I dont know what the crowd will be like, just a bunch of middle age 50 year old blokes in Stone Island gear that are mad for it ? or a bunch of GenZ Swifties? Whether you like or appreciate the music or not Taylor Swift appears to have created a kind of new concert phenomenon, thats bigger than just oh this is Taylor Swift doing a tour, and people end up going almost, just to say they went for the experience. This for Oasis feels like the same kind of thing, people are going to want to go just to say they went to see Oasis live, regardless of their music tastes, so it will probably be quite evenly split gender and age wise

  41. The dates are almost a year away, that gives them plenty of time to at least attempt new material, both are still very active in their solo careers. Liam sang the Noel lead vocal “Half A World Away” on Sunday at Reading Festival, which is a start.

  42. Good for them. Life is too short for never-ending quarrels. I doubt their relationship will be as volatile now. The one time I saw them, in 1995 they had a fight onstage and Noel had to sing Wonderwall. They’ve both proved they can do it on their own, time has passed and now they are more revered than they were at the end, welcome back, time to make some real money. Also, does any one else think that photo has a Tennant/Lowe vibe?

    2. Fortuitous timing – coming just as Noel is finalising his divorce ! I’m sure half the ticket price will be going to his ex-wife LOL

  43. Not sure why but it just seems so anti-climatic. It doesn’t bother me they are doing it for the money like so many other people seem to think more the fact it should have been sooner. Now if they announced new music together that would be a different story. I also hope both of them can reign theirs gobs in as with the current insane levels of PC correctness in the UK they may find themselves in deep water…

  45. This day was inevitable and unfortunately it has arrived. I’m surprised that they’ve only been away for 15 years. I thought it was a lot longer than that as like most people, I don’t remember any of the crap they did after their 2nd album.

    No surprise that the stadium tour only includes the UK and Ireland as these chancers were only ever big in the UK and Ireland. I look forward to seeing men in their 40s and 50s wearing bucket hats, swaggering around thinking they are Liam Gallagher. It’ll be like 1996 again.

      1. You’ll probably find that the likes of Echobelly, Sleeper, Cast and bloody Menswear all had top 10 albums in the mid 90s. Oasis are about as relevant outside of the UK and Ireland as those long forgotten Britpop bands are in their own country.

        1. The fact remains that Oasis did have some significant success outside UK at the time, so it’s simply incorrect to say “they were only ever big in the UK”. You are now arguing about “relevance” now, which is something completely different

          1. US reader here. Oasis were certainly nowhere near as popular here as they were in the UK/Ireland – they only had one top 40 single here (I’ll let you guess which one).

            But they consistently played for 10K-20K crowds on their tours here.

            And if the leaked itinerary proves correct, they’ll be playing a series of stadium shows in North America in August – Toronto, Chicago, NY, Boston, LA, and Mexico City.

            Can’t wait.

          2. As I expected, they’ll play only the largest cities (Chicago is a surprise, to be honest, since I’d anticipated only coastal cities). I’ve listened to them throughout their existence, living in Japan, Korea, and all over the USA, but I’d guess that USA audiences would only recognize “Wonderwall,” “Champangne Supernova,” and perhaps “Don’t Look Back In Anger.” The first album’s promotion was ruined by the US record company ignoring all the singles that had been hits in the UK and choosing “Rock ‘N’ Roll Star” as the leadoff “single” (i.e. video on MTV). Nobody in the general public knew who these guys were at all in the pre-internet era. I did, but only from reading imported British magazines, and was wondering where “Shakermaker,” “Supersonic,” and “Cigarettes And Alcohol” were in the USA promotion. We had to pay $10-$12 to just get a chance to hear those songs we’d read about back then. Someone stop me before I go full “back when I was a kid…”

        2. ‘What’s The Story…’ sold 22m copies worldwide of which ‘only’ 5m in the UK…Definitely Maybe sold 15m copies worldwide of which 2.4m in the UK…even ‘Be Here Now’ sold 10m worldwide with just under 2.0m sales in the UK… So, those combined sales of in excess of 37m sales outside of the UK I think would indicate that they were very popular and extremely relevant outside of the UK…

    2. Brilliant post couldn’t have said it better myself brian, was thinking exactly the same thing about USA dates this morning when I read it.

  46. It may not be televised, but I’m sure we will get the Blu-Ray! Hopefully Liam’s voice will be improved from what I heard over the weekend on the BBC.

  50. What can I say ? They are the last rock-stars of the XXth century. I guess that it’s now or never for those who were not here the first time… I don’t know if they will record a new album, so I guess it will be a nostalgic affair. But who not ? It can be interesting to go back, once in a while. And don’t forget the reissue of their first album, out this friday !!

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