Oasis reunion: Liam and Noel Gallagher confirm reunion with tour dates announced

Oasis have announced they are returning for a string of shows 15 years after the warring Gallagher brothers broke the band up.

The band confirmed tour dates in 2025 in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin in a statement on X.

“This is it, this is happening,” the band wrote.

Tickets for the gigs will go on sale this Saturday Aug 31 at 9am.

There is also speculation that a Glastonbury headline slot could be in the works.

Shortly after the announcement, the Oasis website crashed. It is thought high amounts of traffic on the site led to the malfunction.

Celebrities shared their thoughts on the “massive” news that Liam and Noel Gallagher are getting back together for Oasis’s long-awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025.

Taking to Instagram, stars including television personality Jamie Laing, singer Tom Grennan and comedian and actor Noel Fielding reacted to the news. “Yikes,” wrote Laing, with Grennan calling the band’s return “massive, and Fielding saying: “Boom.”

Tom Kiehl, UK Music chief executive said Oasis reuniting could be a “once in a generation” moment for the UK music industry.

He said: “Having a big music event in your community has a knock on and spill over impact on the wider economy too, so great news for the UK.”

Mr Kiehl added: “Obviously, when rumours were mentioned a few years ago, it looked very unlikely that this would ever come to pass. So it could be a really once in a generation moment.”

A fantasy Oasis setlist for the comeback tour’s performance promptly appeared on Spotify.

Shortly after the announcement, hotel prices in cities Oasis would be performing shot up for the respective tour dates.

In Cardiff rooms at the Staybridge Suites saw a 483 per cent rise on normal rates, from ￡106 to ￡654.

Rooms at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Manchester Piccadilly increased 118 per cent compared with regular rates from ￡137 to ￡300.

Whereas prices at The Alex in Dublin have risen 78 per cent from ￡194 to ￡300 over the weekend that Oasis will be performing.

It comes as the band’s debut album Definitely Maybe is set to mark its 30th anniversary this week with a special edition.

Abbey Road Studios, the famous London recording studio where Oasis recorded multiple songs, described the band’s reunion as “history”.

Councillor Huw Thomas, leader of Cardiff Council said: “Like many from my generation, I’m hugely excited that Oasis are reforming, and the news that their reunion tour kicks off in Cardiff really is the cherry on top.”

Ahead of the announcement at 8am on Tuesday, rumours had been swirling that Noel and Liam had buried the hatchet and were planning a number of shows in summer next year.

Speculation escalated on Sunday after a short clip of a sign in the style of the Oasis logo was shared on both their Instagram accounts on Sunday night, as well as on the official Oasis page.

The black sign had the date “27.08.24” written in the middle before it flickered and changed to read “8am”.

During Liam Gallagher’s headline Reading Festival set on Sunday evening, he dedicated the Oasis track Half The World Away to his brother, and later said their hit Cigarettes & Alcohol was dedicated to people who hate the band.

At the end of the gig, the same clip teasing Tuesday’s date was shown on the stage’s main screens.

Fans of the Manchester band have pleaded for a reunion since they broke up in 2009, prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.

Some suggested the reunion was because the two brothers were enduring financial hardship.

Liam was forced to hit back at claims that Oasis were reuniting because they are “broke” following his brother Noel’s ￡20 million divorce last year.

He took to X to tell users “your attitude stinks” after they posted that the brothers would only be reforming the band because they needed money.

He responded after one user posted: “It’s better off left it the 90s … they must be skint.”

Another was told the same after claiming that “cash is drying up”.

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10:44 AM BST

A timeline of Oasis’s fallout

Here is a timeline of Oasis from their inception to their break up.

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Fantasy Oasis setlist appears on Spotify

A fantasy Oasis setlist has already appeared on Spotify. Surely having buried the hatchet, the at-peace siblings will open with their 1995 ode to brotherly love Acquiesce?

“Because we need each other/We believe in one another,” would go down a storm as an opening gambit. Will any tracks from their disappointing final, er, five albums make the cut, or will they focus on their ’94-’96 imperial phase? Only ten months of fevered speculation to go…

10:14 AM BST

The great wait is over, says Oasis

Taking to Instagram to announce the news on their official page Oasis wrote: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”

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Celebrities react to Oasis announcement

Celebrities have shared their thoughts on the “massive” news that Liam and Noel Gallagher are getting back together for Oasis’s long-awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025.

Taking to Instagram, stars including television personality Jamie Laing, singer Tom Grennan and comedian and actor Noel Fielding reacted to the announcement.

Laing commented: “YIKES.”

Grennan wrote: “MASSSSSSSSSSSIVE.”

Fielding said: “Boom.”

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Oasis website crashes following announcement

The Oasis website crashed soon after the band announced their comeback tour.

It is thought high amounts of traffic led to the website crashing.

However the site now appears to be functioning as normal.

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How to buy Oasis reunion tickets: Price, release date and advice

After 16 years spent languishing in the memory as Britain’s former biggest band, Oasis will officially reunite to perform in stadiums and parks across the country next summer.

Liam and Noel Gallagher have apparently gotten over their decade-long feud, buried the hatchet and decided to treat millions of music lovers to a show they’ll never forget.

Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming dates.

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Who will join the Gallagher brothers on stage

So we know the Gallagher brothers have buried the hatchet (for now) - but who else will be joining them on stage?

The Oasis line-up is likely to include Gem Archer on bass, Chris Sharrock on drums, and, if Liam gets his way, original member Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs on guitar.

09:06 AM BST

Why did Oasis break up? A timeline of Britpop’s most painful fallout

For the past 15 years, Oasis fans have looked back in anger at the implosion of the Britpop kingpins following one bust-up too many between Noel and Liam Gallagher.

“Noel was acting like a d---, I was acting like a d---,” as Liam told me in 2011 when the dust was still settling from their fateful backstage row at the Paris Rock En Seine festival, which culminated with Liam wielding Noel’s guitar “like an axe”. “Two d---- in a room – f------ hell. Band over.”

But now these “two d---- in a room” have reconciled and a reunion widely regarded as unimaginable just a few months ago is happening.

Read the full story here.

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International dates include a string of US cities

Rumours suggest that international dates next August and September will comprise Toronto, Chicago, New Jersey, Boston, Los Angeles and Mexico City. Oasis return to the Americas.

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Tickets go on sale on Saturday

After the announcement at 8am, Oasis has confirmed tickets will go on sale this Saturday.

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Everyone will want a piece of this tour

Everyone will want a piece of this tour - and I don’t just mean revellers or VIPs.

Nabbing a support slot could make any new band or artist coming up in Britain at the moment, so who are the contenders?

Indie bands Fontaines D.C. and Catfish and the Bottlemen have been dealt the unfortunate hand of having their own outdoor and stadium gigs clash with Oasis, so they’re out; but Stockport outfit Blossoms - whose gig this weekend at Wythenshawe Park had one of the teasing dates pop up on screen - are surely nailed on.

Elsewhere, rumours range from Richard Ashcroft and Cast to Liam’s son Gene’s band, Villanelle.

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Comeback starts with headline slot at Glastonbury 2025, claim sources

Rumour is that the comeback actually starts with a headline slot at Glastonbury 2025, which is the weekend before the tour kicks off.

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Liam Gallagher blocked me on Twitter – but I can’t wait to see Oasis play again

What version of Oasis we get we have yet to find out. It is not going to be the line-up that first rocked Britain, that’s for sure, though perhaps rhythm guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs (who frequently appears on-stage with Liam) might find a role.

Drummers Tony McCarroll and Alan White both fell out of favour, whilst original bassist Paul McGuigan has stayed out of the music business since quitting Oasis in 2002.

Most likely replacement guitarist Gem Archer and session drummer Chris Sharrock will reappear, who both currently play in Noel’s High Flying Birds (or High Flying Turds, as Liam calls them) but also played in Liam’s post-Oasis band Beady Eye.

Will Noel’s long-serving sideman Russell Pritchard be recruited on bass, or will Andy Bell (currently back leading his own admired Britpop era band Ride) return? Does it even matter?

Read the full story here.

08:31 AM BST

More than one million likes on announcement post

Just 12 minutes after the news was announced, more than a million people have liked posts across the band and Gallagher brothers’ profiles on X and Instagram, writes Culture Assistant Poppie Platt

These 15 dates are quickly shaping up to be the most in-demand live performances ever to take place on British soil — fans will already be crossing their fingers that they’re lucky enough to nab a ticket on Saturday morning.

Questions moving forward: could they announce even more dates at Heaton Park and Wembley, is Glastonbury off the cards (it’s just one week before the first night in Cardiff) and will there be any special, intimate warm-up shows that take place (similar to those performed by Oasis’s fellow Britpop heroes Pulp and Blur last year).

08:30 AM BST

Noel Gallagher hasn’t lost gift for clunky and overblown phrasemaking, says Telegraph music critic

Liam Gallagher’s announcment about the Oasis reunion stated: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”

It confirms that Noel Gallagher hasn’t lost his gift for slightly clunky and overblown phrasemaking. We can actually be thankful that it’s not a new song, writes Telegraph Chief Music Critic Neil McCormick.

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Room for more concert dates

Dates leave room for more concert dates, according to Telegraph music writer James Hall.

“Notice all the dates are all Fri/Sat or Sat/Sun. Leaves plenty of space for extra dates to be announced once these sell out,” he said.

“Fourteen dates feels like just the start. This tour could become massive.”

08:18 AM BST

Telegraph Chief Music Critic comments on announcement

A bunch of gigs have been announced as expected, emphasising sibling unity with a historic kiss, writes Telegraph Chief Music Critic Neil McCormick.

Mind you, the announcement was almost brutally to the point, no excess of information, which is very much the Oasis style. They know what they’ve got, and they know the public want it.

Fourteen gigs were announced with a ticket sale date, so not quite the record breaking Wembley Stadium residency of rumour, but as demand surges there will probably be more to come.

08:13 AM BST

Oasis Live 25 tour confirmed

Liam and Noel Gallagher are getting back together for Oasis’s long-awaited reunion with a tour in 2025.

Noel, 57, quit the Manchester rock group on August 28 2009, saying he “simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer”.

Fans have been pleading with the brothers to regroup since they disbanded, prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.

Confirming the Oasis Live 25 tour, they said: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”

08:01 AM BST

‘This is it, this is happening,’ says Oasis

Oasis has announced they are reuniting for a string of shows 15 years after the warring Gallagher brothers broke the band up.

Liam and Noel Gallagher have confirmed they will join together after fuelling speculation of the reunion days before Tuesday’s announcement.

08:01 AM BST

Oasis have reunited

Oasis have reunited after speculation was rife that Liam and Noel Gallagher had put their years-long feud to bed.

Posting on the band’s official page on X, the band wrote: “This is it, this is happening.

“Tickets on sale this Saturday 31st August (8AM IST / 9AM BST).”

The band included information about a string of concert dates across the country in the tweet.

They are:

• Cardiff Principality Stadium - 4th/5th July

• Manchester Heaton Park - 11th/12th/19th/20th July

• London Wembley Stadium - 25th/26th July & 2nd/3rd August

• Edinburgh Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium - 8th/9th August

• Dublin Croke Park - 16th/17th August

07:59 AM BST

Announcement expected any minute

An announcement from Liam and Noel Gallagher is expected any minute.

Oasis have teased a reunion with the news expected at 8am today.

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Oasis will play four Wembley dates, according to reports

Oasis will play four concerts at Wembley with other dates across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, according to The Sun.

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Pictured: Liam Gallagher performs live on stage during day three of Reading Festival

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Oasis was one of biggest British bands before break-up

Formed in 1991, the Britpop group rose to fame with hits like Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back In Anger and Stop Crying Your Heart Out.

They went on to become one of the biggest bands in British music history before their break-up in 2009.

The brothers went on to have successful separate careers, with Noel fronting the group Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

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Oasis teases return on social media

A post from the official Oasis account on Sunday teased the return of the band.

The short clip shows the date “27.08.24” on an Oasis-style logo, before morphing into “8am”.

Many have suggested Liam and Noel Gallagher will announce a reunion of the band at the above date and time.

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Fans surprised as Noel Gallagher pays brother Liam string of compliments

Fans were also surprised to hear Noel Gallagher pay his brother Liam a string of compliments in an interview released last week with music journalist John Robb at Manchester’s Sifters Records in honour of the album’s 30th anniversary.

Reflecting on Liam’s performance on a number of their hits, Noel said: “It’s the delivery or the tone of his voice and the attitude.

“I don’t have the same attitude as him.”

He also jokingly compared Liam’s voice to “10 shots of tequila on a Friday night” and his own as “half a Guinness on a Tuesday”.

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Liam played Oasis hits during Leeds Festival

Liam Gallagher has been touring the UK this summer on his Definitely Maybe tour to celebrate the 30 years since its release in 1994.

Noel has been absent from the concerts but during a show in Cardiff, Liam made a point of dedicating Half The World Away to his “little brother”, saying he is “still playing hard to get”.

Liam also played Oasis hits during his headline performance at Leeds Festival on Friday night.

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Liam Gallagher fuels speculation

Liam Gallagher fuelled the rumours by offering some tongue-in-check responses to fans who flooded him with messages on social media asking for confirmation.

After The Times posted the article on X, formerly Twitter, a fan said Heaton Park is a “terrible venue for concerts”, with Liam responding: “See you down the front.”

When another asked when the reunion dates will be announced, he replied: “Next Friday.”

The rocker also tweeted on Sunday morning that he “never did like that word FORMER”.

07:37 AM BST

Fans’ hopes of reunion grow as feud thaws

Fans of the Manchester rock band have pleaded with the brothers to regroup since they disbanded in 2009, prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.

Reunion rumours have intensified recently amid the apparent thawing in the feud between the pair.

A report in The Sunday Times cited industry insiders who claimed the brothers were set to perform a string of gigs next year, including shows at London’s Wembley Stadium and Manchester’s Heaton Park.

There is also speculation that a Glastonbury headline slot could be in the works.

Hours before the announcement, posters began circulating online which featured potential Oasis tour dates with special guests including LCD Soundsystem, Blossoms, Fontaines DC and Kasabian.

07:35 AM BST

Liam Gallagher teased a return of Oasis on social media and at Reading Festival

Rumours escalated on Sunday evening after the pair shared the same video on social media, written in the Oasis style, teasing an announcement on Tuesday at 8am.

The same date and time appeared on big screens as Liam finished his headline slot at Reading Festival on Sunday.

07:32 AM BST

Liam Gallagher hits back at claims Oasis are reuniting because they are ‘skint’

Liam Gallagher has hit back at claims that Oasis are set to reunite because they are “broke” following his brother Noel’s ￡20 million divorce last year.

The band’s former lead vocalist took to X, formerly Twitter, to tell users that “your attitude stinks” after they posted that the brothers would only be reforming the band because they needed money.

He responded after one user posted: “It’s better off left it the 90s … they must be skint.” Another was told the same after claiming that “cash is drying up”.

Read the full story here.

07:31 AM BST

Oasis reunion is a definitely maybe as Noel and Liam Gallagher’s feud cools off

Hopes are growing of an Oasis reunion as the years-long feud between the Gallagher brothers appears to cool off.

Rumours are gathering pace that Noel and Liam are burying the hatchet and planning a record-breaking number of shows at Wembley Stadium in summer 2025.

With the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Definitely Maybe, this week, music fans are dreaming of a return of Oasis glory – and possibly the days of Cool Britannia in the mid-1990s.

Read the full story here.

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