Oasis Confirm Reunion, Plan Series of U.K., Ireland Gigs in 2025
It’s official: Noel and Liam Gallagher have decided to reform Oasis, with the band set to perform a series of massive, money-spinning reunion concerts in 2025.
The band’s official social media accounts teased a big announcement set for 8 a.m. U.K. time on Tuesday. And the reveal will excite fans, as it confirmed feverish speculation in the British press about a reunion.
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“This is it, this is happening,” Oasis’ official X/Twitter account tweeted. Tickets are set to go on sale 9 a.m. U.K. time on Aug. 31. The gigs announced so far include Cardiff (Principality Stadium July 4/5), Manchester (Heaton Park, July 11/12/19/20), London (Wembley Stadium, July 25/26 and Aug. 2/3), Edinburgh (Murrayfield Stadium Aug. 8/9) and Dublin (Croke Park, Aug. 16/17).
News reports this weekend suggested that the Gallagher brothers had squashed their long-running and very public feud. Citing music industry insiders, The Times of London reported Saturday that Oasis was set to play a series of concerts in the summer of 2025, with “multiple vast gigs” planned for Heaton Park in Manchester and Wembley Stadium in London. The Times reports there are even early murmurings of Oasis potentially headlining Glastonbury next year.
The gigs are sure to be a huge boon to the live music scene in the U.K. next year, which has been struggling with a depressed British economy, inflation and a cost of living crisis — factors which has seen at least 42 music festivals announce postponements, cancelations or closures in 2024, according to the industry body the Association of Independent Festivals. Summer 2025 also looks relatively clear for Oasis to hog the limelight and attention of music lovers, as there are no major sporting events and no concerts at the level of Taylor Swift scheduled.
Next year will mark the 30th anniversary since the release of the album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, Oasis’ best known, best-selling and most critically acclaimed album. The album, which has sold more than 22 million copies worldwide and broke the band in the U.S., contained the hit singles “Some Might Say,” “Roll With It,” “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and “Champagne Supernova.”
Oasis haven’t played live together since August 2009, with the band breaking up before a performance at the Rock en Seine festival near Paris that same month. News reports at the time suggested there had been a series of verbal and physical altercations between Liam and Noel leading up to and during the French festival.
Since the birth of Oasis, Liam and Noel’s prickly relationship has been a defining aspect of the Manchester band, and their public squabbling was reliable tabloid fodder for much of the 1990s and 2000s, and also led to both quitting for short periods.
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