It's official: Noel and Liam Gallagher have officially decided to reform Oasis and the band is set to perform a series of major reunion concerts in 2025.
The band's official social media accounts have teased a big announcement set for 8am UK time on Tuesday. And the revelation will thrill fans, as it has confirmed feverish speculation in the British press about a reunion.
“It’s happening,” tweeted Oasis’ official X/Twitter account. Tickets go on sale at 9am UK time on August 31. Concerts 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 August 2/3), Edinburgh (Murrayfield Stadium, August 8/9) and Dublin (Croke Park, August 16/17).
News reports this weekend suggested that the Gallagher brothers had settled their long-running and very public feud. Citing music industry insiders, The Times of London reported on Saturday that Oasis were due to play a series of concerts in the summer of 2025, with “multiple major concerts” planned for Heaton Park in Manchester and Wembley Stadium in London. The times There are even rumours that Oasis could headline Glastonbury next year.
The concerts are sure to be a huge boon for the UK live music scene next year, which has struggled with a depressed UK economy, inflation and a cost-of-living crisis, factors that have seen at least 42 music festivals announce postponements, cancellations or closures in 2024, according to industry body the Association of Independent Festivals. Summer 2025 also looks relatively clear for Oasis to monopolise the spotlight and music lovers’ attention, with no major sporting events scheduled and no Taylor Swift-level concerts.
Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of (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 out in the US, contained the hit singles “Some Might Say”, “Roll With It”, “Wonderwall”, “Don't Look Back in Anger” and “Champagne Supernova”.
Oasis have not played together live since August 2009, when the band split 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.
Since the inception of Oasis, the prickly relationship between Liam and Noel has been a defining aspect of the Manchester band; their public falling outs were a reliable source of scandal throughout much of the 1990s and 2000s, and even led to both of them briefly leaving the group.