Simon Emmett
Liam and Noel Gallagher have confirmed Oasis will reunite for a series of live shows next year.
In a press release on Tuesday morning, they confirmed summer 2025 gigs in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin.
In a statement, Oasis commented: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
The shows will mark the group’s first live dates in 16 years. Organisers said tickets would go on sale on Saturday (31 August).
The tour dates are:
4, 5 July – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
11, 12, 19, 20 July – Manchester, Heaton Park
25, 26 July and 2, 3 August – London, Wembley Stadium
8, 9 August – Edinburgh, Murrayfield Stadium
16, 17 August – Dublin, Croke Park
The band said these dates would be their only dates in Europe next year.
A rumoured Glastonbury appearance was not confirmed by the band.
The band also confirmed the release of a 30th anniversary edition of their album Definitely Maybe.
Fans of the Manchester rock band have pleaded with the brothers to regroup since they broke up in 2009, after a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
It is 30 years since the chart-topping album Definitely Maybe turned the Gallagher brothers into stars – helping to usher in the Britpop era and launching the hellraising pair into mega-stardom.
However, the brothers have always had a fractious relationship, and a string of tours have fallen apart over the years, ending in the backstage fight in 2009 that resulted in Noel leaving the band.
On Sunday, a short clip in the same font and style of the band’s famous logo appeared on the band’s social media accounts.
It shows Tuesday’s date before flickering and then reading “8am”.
Liam Gallagher fuelled the rumours further at his headline Reading Festival set on Sunday evening, where he dedicated the Oasis track Half The World Away to his brother.
He later dedicated the song Cigarettes & Alcohol to people who he said hate the band.
At the end of the gig, the same teaser clip appeared on the stage’s screens.
The speculation sent fans into a frenzy, with many people sharing their excitement online.
Some also questioned what the real motivation for the potential reunion after so many years of acrimony might be.
Helen Brown, a music critic at The Independent, told BBC News: “After the decades of going at each other with cricket bats and fire extinguishers, it’s extraordinary that [the Gallagher brothers] seem to be getting along better – and maybe money is an incentive here.”
She added: “Maybe they can put aside their differences to fill their coffers.”
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