Have the Gallagher brothers finally buried the hatchet? Speculation is rife that Liam and Noel have put aside their legendary differences to reunite Oasis and embark on what is sure to be one of the UK's most anticipated concert series in decades.
Quoting music industry insiders, The Times of London reported on Saturday that Oasis are set to perform a series of concerts in the summer of 2025, with “multiple major concerts” planned for Heaton Park in Manchester and Wembley Stadium in London. Times There are even rumours that Oasis might even headline Glastonbury next year.
THE Times report was confirmed by a number of other UK newspapers. Liam also appeared to confirm the Times reports, when he responded to the post on X/Twitter, “See you out there.”
Speculation went into overdrive on Sunday, when Oasis' official social media channels posted a short video with only the date, August 27, suggesting an announcement was imminent. Noel's Twitter account also tweeted the same short video.
Oasis have not played together live since August 2009, when the band split up before a performance at the Rock en Seine festival near Paris that month. News reports at the time suggested that there had been a series of verbal and physical altercations between Liam and Noel before and during the French festival. On Oasis' official website at the time, Noel posted a short statement saying he was leaving and effectively disbanding the band. “It is with some sadness and great relief… I am leaving Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they want, but I simply could not continue working with Liam one more day,” Noel wrote.
Since the inception of Oasis, Liam and Noel's prickly relationship has been a defining aspect of the Manchester band, and their public spats have been a reliable news story throughout much of the 1990s and 2000s, and have even led to both of them briefly splitting up. Having officially split up, the Gallagher brothers have continued their very public, often very funny, feud ever since. Noel once described Liam as “the angriest man you'll ever meet… a man with a fork in a world of soup”, and Liam has regularly referred to Noel in derisive terms on social media, with a fondness for his older brother as “potato”.
The brothers have been seen to be warming up in recent years, with Liam keen to reunite and Noel suggesting in interviews that he would consider it if the price was right. In a May 2021 interview, Noel said he would do it if offered $130 million.
If Oasis confirm they will reform for concerts in 2025, next summer will also mark the 30th anniversary of the release of (What's the story) Morning Glory?the band's best-known, best-selling, and most critically acclaimed album. The album, which has sold more than 22 million copies worldwide and made the band break out in the United States, contained the hit singles “Some Might Say,” “Roll With It,” “Wonderwall,” “Don't Look Back in Anger,” and “Champagne Supernova.”
Having achieved fame during the Britpop era of the early and mid-1990s, Oasis' other notable albums include their 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe (containing the singles “Supersonic”, “Shakermaker”, “Live Forever” and “Cigarettes & Alcohol”), from 1997 Be here now (which contains the singles “D'You Know What I Mean?”, “Stand by Me”, “All Around the World” and “Don't Go Away”), 2000s Standing on the shoulders of giants (with the singles “Go Let It Out”, “Where Did It All Go Wrong?”, “Who Feels Love?” and “Sunday Morning Call”) and 2002 Pagan Chemistry (with the singles “The Hindu Times”, “Stop Crying Your Heart Out”, “Little by Little”, “She Is Love” and “Songbird”).