Noel and Liam Gallagher announce huge Oasis reunion tour across UK next year

Before today's announcement, Liam Gallagher was already scheduled to play three Oasis classics - as a solo artist - at Wembley next month as part of the Anthony Joshua/Daniel Dubois heavyweight boxing match.

The show will take place on 21 September, and precedes Oasis's dates at the stadium on 2 and 3 August next year.

Whatever has happened behind the scenes, the frost has definitely thawed. In 2020, Liam said Oasis had been offered £100m to reform - a claim quickly denied by Noel, who suggested the remark was a publicity move to promote a single. The deal they have signed now will undoubtedly be worth megabucks. But even before the announcement was made, Liam was quick to put anyone suggesting this was only about the money in their place.

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UK Music chief executive Tom Kiehl told the PA news agency that the first tour since 2009 will have “a lot of impact on local economies” due to the only European dates being across the UK and Ireland: in Dublin, Cardiff, Manchester, Edinburgh and London.

He added: “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.”

He also said it is “really interesting” Noel and Liam Gallagher have been able to put their differences aside following their acrimonious split.

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.”

The prime minister was asked about the Oasis reunion following his speech in the Downing Street rose garden this morning, with a reporter saying he had spent “a lot of time today looking back in anger”.

Sir Keir Starmer replied: “What can I say in relation to that? Very, very good. It’s a great song. I’m not sure I’m best placed to champion it after the last 20 or 30 minutes but, look, let’s see what happens with Oasis.”

It's not the first time Oasis and Downing Street have intersected. Noel Gallagher was famously invited to a drinks reception with Sir Tony Blair in 1997, when the band was at the height of its popularity.

He later dismissed the meeting, and Blair's leadership, saying: "Nothing really changes, does it? Same s***, different day."

He added: "I was convinced that I was going to get a knighthood that night. You live and learn don't you?"

Since their split, Liam and Noel have been locked in a war of words, often taking digs at each other in the media or at shows.

At the NME Awards in 2018, Liam told the PA news agency that his brother was the villain of the year, saying: “He’s worse than Donald Trump. He’s the biggest liar and biggest faker in the business.”

In 2015, Noel said he would “never forgive” his brother for walking out on the band during a series of live shows. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, he said: “You would have to go out and say in English to a load of perplexed Japanese people: ‘I know you don’t understand what I am f****** saying, but the singer has gone off, so I am going to sing the f****** rest of the songs.’ I could never forgive him for that, ever.”

But reunion rumours intensified recently amid the apparent thawing in the feud.

Last week, fans were surprised to hear Noel pay Liam a string of compliments in an interview with music journalist John Robb at Manchester’s Sifters Records in honour of their debut 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 as “half a Guinness on a Tuesday”.

During a recent solo show in Cardiff, Liam also made a point of dedicating Half The World Away to his brother.

Speaking in 2021 on Sky Arts programme Noel Gallagher: Out Of The Now, the guitarist admitted he felt the bitter 2009 break-up helped cement Oasis's legacy as one of the greatest British bands of all time.

“I’d written every meaningful song that was ever recorded by Oasis. And it was my life, I directed it and creatively it was my thing. With the benefit of hindsight it was the best thing for me and for the band.

“Because the band now… Oasis back in 2009 were not lauded as one of the greats of all time. There was a kind of undercurrent of: ‘Well, they should really call it a day.’ That’s what I felt anyway.

“I felt that people had stopped listening to the records and were coming to see us trot out the hits, and it’s a position I never wanted the band to be in. But now, of course, we’re seen as up there with all the greats.”

The opening song of an Oasis set would often vary through the 1990s and 2000s.

Where most bands launch a show with one of their biggest hits, Oasis were happy playing album tracks (such as Columbia at Knebworth in 1996) and even instrumentals (The Swamp Song at Maine Road the same year) as a set opener.

In its most recent set of gigs in 2009, however, Rock 'N' Roll Star - the opening track of first album Definitely Maybe - was the set opener.

One bookmaker, Casinos.com, has already provided odds on what the first song back on stage could be at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on 4 July next year.

It reckons The Masterplan, a 1995 B-side, is the most likely, with odds of 10/11.

One hitch, though: The Masterplan is sung by Noel. It's rather difficult to imagine Liam letting this big moment pass him by.

The bookmaker has a new song at 2/1 and Rock 'N' Roll Star 3/1.

There's no indication of new music from the band - yet.

But it wouldn't be a surprise.

Since Oasis broke up in 2009, Liam has released six albums: two with Beady Eye, three as a solo artist and one with former Stone Roses guitarist John Squire.

Noel, with his High Flying Birds band, has released four albums.

Meanwhile, tracks from the first recording session for Oasis’s debut album Definitely Maybe will be released on Friday, a day after the record marks 30 years since its release.

Unheard versions of songs including Live Forever, Cigarettes & Alcohol and Rock ‘N’ Roll Star were taken from their first recording session as a signed band, at Monnow Valley Studio in Rockfield, Monmouthshire.

The recordings were scrapped before the band re-recorded the album at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall.

Oasis formed in 1991, but it was only when Noel Gallagher joined the band - bringing his songwriting capabilities - that it took off.

But what is often forgotten is just how hard they worked in those early days. The band - the Gallagher brothers, rhythm guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and drummer Tony McCarroll - rehearsed several nights a week in the basement of Manchester's former Boardwalk venue.

The band's first single, Supersonic, was released in April 1994. By the time its first album, Definitely Maybe, was released, the buzz surrounding the band was such that it entered the charts at number one.

The rest is history... and here are some pictures of the band through the years.

The band's website states the 14 UK and Ireland dates are "their only shows in Europe next year".

It adds: "Plans are underway for OASIS LIVE ’25 to go to other continents outside of Europe later next year."

Liam has clarified on X, formerly Twitter, that the UK and Ireland leg of the tour is “the band’s exclusive European appearances”.

Fans have been pleading with the brothers to regroup almost since the day they disbanded.

The break-up was prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris on 28 August, 2009.

Liam reportedly threw a plum - followed by a guitar - at Noel.

While it was far from their first bust-up, it was the final straw for Noel, who said he “simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer”.

In expectation of the official announcement of the reunion tour, Spotify said Oasis streams increased more than 160% globally between Monday and the previous week.

“The increase in streams was continuing to grow throughout yesterday,” the music platform added.

Following speculation Oasis will be on the bill at Glastonbury next year, the PA news agency has reported the band will not be performing at the festival.

Oasis previously headlined in 1995 (pictured above) and 2004.

Tickets to see Oasis in 2025 will go on sale on Saturday at 9am (8am in Ireland).

Tickets will be available from Ticketmaster UK, GigsandTours, and Ticketmaster IE.

The dates are as follows: Principality Stadium July 4 and 5; Heaton Park July 11, 12, 19, 20, 25 and 26; Wembley Stadium August 2 and 3; Murrayfield Stadium August 8 and 9; and Croke Park August 16 and 17.

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

The Britpop band, who split nearly 15 years ago and released their chart-topping album Definitely Maybe around three decades ago, announced the series of dates will kick off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.

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Oasis had two core line-ups: one featuring rhythm guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan in the 1990s.

The second was from 2000 onwards, when they were replaced by Gem Archer and Andy Bell.

Oasis had four different drummers between 1991 and 2009: Tony McCarroll, Alan White, Zak Starkey and Chris Sharrock.

Of all these former members, McCarroll (who was sacked in 1995) and McGuigan (who has disappeared from the public eye) are the least likely to be involved in the reunion.

This black and white image of the two brothers, both in dark jackets, was released as part of the reveal on Tuesday.

It is believed they met in person for a photo shoot over the summer.

Tickets for the shows - which are in a year's time - will go on sale on Saturday.

The series of dates will kick off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.

The tour will also visit Manchester’s Heaton Park, London’s Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium and Dublin’s Croke Park throughout July and August next year.

The band has posted this announcement video on social media.