“The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
They’ve teased us for the best part of 16 years, following their famous bust-up ahead of a scheduled appearance at Paris’ Rock en Seine festival on 28th August 2009, following a no-show at Chelmsford’s V festival earlier that month. But today, the Gallagher brothers have finally put their infamous differences aside to announce live dates as Oasis! And check the date, it’s not 1st April as we teased you at Rockshot Magazine last year.
Oasis
14 dates of a purported world tour have been announced so far, including 4 massive dates at London’s 90,000+ capacity Wembley Stadium in addition to 4 dates at their hometown venue of Heaton Park in Manchester. With the tour kicking off in July 2025, this does leave the door open for the brothers and their band to slot in a heavily-rumoured Pyramid Stage headline slot at Glastonbury Festival. The comment “It will not be televised” made by the band suggests the Somerset festival is not on the cards, famously televised on The BBC. Of course Glastonbury usually announce their first acts long after tickets sell out, so watch this space.
Liam Gallagher @ Glastonbury Festival 2019
A press release billed the dates as the “domestic leg” of the tour and said that “plans are underway” for it to go beyond Europe later in 2025. If the brothers can share a stage for so many dates is yet to be seen, but the Gallaghers may just have to grin and bear each other to rake in their share of the guestimated £400m the tour is rumoured to generate.
This morning’s announcement follows both brothers teasing “27.08.24” on their social media accounts and Liam Gallagher sharing the teaser on screens at the close of his Reading Festival headline slot this past weekend, where he played his Definitely Maybe anniversary set, a tour that has been met with nothing but praise and which Rockshot Magazine went along to check out at one of Liam’s London O2 Arena shows.
It is, as yet, unclear who from any of the band’s previous official or touring members will join the Gallagher brothers for these dates given only the two have appeared in any materials released so far. It is, however, rumoured that Noel Gallagher’s band – The High Flying Birds – will form the rest of the touring group, although original rhythm guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs has joined Liam Gallagher’s recent shows on a number of dates. Oasis’ final touring drummer Chris Sharrock is currently a member of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Oasis guitarist Gem Archer has toured with the elder Gallagher’s outfit in the past.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ GMT 2018
The announcement was accompanied by a trailer for the tour, mixing up archive footage of the band along with footage from Liam Gallagher’s Reading Festival headline set where the tour was teased:
Tickets for the UK dates go on sale from 9am on Saturday, August 31st and will be available from ticketmaster.co.uk, gigsandtours.com and seetickets.com. Dublin tickets will be available from 8am that same day from ticketmaster.ie.
Announced UK & Ireland Oasis ’25 tour dates:
JULY
4th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
5th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
11th – Manchester, Heaton Park
12th – Manchester, Heaton Park
19th – Manchester, Heaton Park
20th – Manchester, Heaton Park
25th – London, Wembley Stadium
26th – London, Wembley Stadium
AUGUST
2nd – London, Wembley Stadium
3rd – London, Wembley Stadium
8th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
9th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
16th – Dublin, Croke Park
17th – Dublin, Croke Park
Liam Gallagher Embodies His Biblical Rock ‘N’ Roll Star At The O2
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