Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher have confirmed a reunion of Oasis and a list of performance dates for 2025, almost 15 years to the day that the iconic Britpop band broke up.
The Gallagher brothers said in a statement on Tuesday: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
The Oasis Live 20 tour begins in July next year, with dates confirmed in the UK kicking off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, Heaton Park in Manchester, London Wembley Stadium, and Edinburgh Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium. Oasis then heads off to Ireland to perform at Dublin Croke Park.
It has not been announced who else will be performing with the brothers as part of Oasis.
The band had hits throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, including songs “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” and “Champagne Supernova” all which came off their 1995 album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”
‘History’
Reacting to the announcement, Abbey Road Studios—the famous London studio known for its work with The Beatles and where Oasis recorded a number of songs—defined the reunion as “history.”
Oasis was formed in 1991 in Manchester by the Gallagher brothers, with older brother Noel on lead guitar and Liam as lead vocalist. The original line up also included guitarist Paul Arthurs, bassist Paul McGuigan, and Tony McCarroll on drums.
The group had signed to independent record label Creation Records in 1993 and released their first album, “Definitely Maybe,” on Aug. 29, 1994.
Second album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” became the fifth biggest-selling album of all time in the UK. The band continued to see success with their subsequent five studio albums each charting at number one, with the 1998 compilation “The Masterplan”—Oasis’s last album with Creation before moving to their own label, Big Brother—charting at number two.
The Gallaghers were known to get into arguments over the years, but tensions reached a climax during the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in 2009 when Liam began swinging around a guitar. Noel said in subsequent interviews he had left the venue and while sitting in the back of a car, decided to leave the band.
Liam and Noel have gone on to continue to play music professionally post-Oasis and have taken digs at each other in interviews and during live shows.
Britpop
Rumours of the reunion had revived interest in the band, with Spotify saying that in the past week that Oasis streams on their platform had increased by more than 160 percent globally.The band was considered part of the Britpop genre in 1990s which included Blur, Pulp, and Suede. Oasis and Blur often faced off in chart rivalry, including in August 1995 when Blur’s “Country House” beat Oasis’s “Roll With It” to the number one slot in the UK, with Blur holding the position for two weeks and Oasis at number two.
Britpop was in part a reaction to the darker, raw grunge music coming from places like Seattle in the United States and was typified by a brighter sound, which evoked the 1960s era of British pop music.
The 1990s continued to see a dominance of British talent across genres in the music scene, including Radiohead with its dark poetry, pop rock group Texas, and post-Britpop bands like Coldplay, Snow Patrol, and the Stereophonics.
However, Oasis continued to be a major presence well into the 2000s, with the band considered one of the most popular musical acts to come out of the UK since The Beatles.
There are also plans for dates outside Europe.
Tickets go on sale on Aug. 31 at 9 a.m. in the UK and 8 a.m. in the Republic of Ireland.
