Oasis confirm reunion and announce comeback shows in 2025
It has been announced by both Noel and Liam Gallagher that Oasis has reformed and will perform a number of comeback shows in 2025.
It’s been 15 years since Oasis played their final gig at V Festival, where Noel Gallagher announced the acrimonious split of the band. In the interim years, a reunion has been constantly hinted at, but with feuding an ever-present among the Mancunian brothers, there were plenty of times when it looked like a comeback would never come to fruition. But now, fans of the rock ‘n’ roll band finally have a chance to rejoice.
It was announced this morning, August 27th, that Oasis has reformed. The Gallagher brothers have put their differences aside and will hit the road, playing a string of dates in London and Manchester. After 15 years of fans baying for the Britpop comeback of the ages, tickets are certainly set to be hot property.
By confirming a long-awaited run of UK and Ireland shows as part of the domestic leg of their Oasis Live ’25 world tour. The band will perform in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, and Dublin in the summer of 2025.
In an official statement, the group commented: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
Oasis 2025 world tour dates:
July 2025
- 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 2025
- 3rd – London, Wembley Stadium
- 8th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
- 9th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
- 16th – Dublin, Croke Park
- 17th – Dublin, Croke Park
While the announcements have already been met with divided debate, the fact that they are already shining such a huge spotlight on guitar music is already refreshing.
So, why are Oasis reuniting now?
At times during the last 15 years, Noel Gallagher, in particular, couldn’t have made it clearer that he wasn’t interested in even seeing his brother again, never mind playing a show with him. Meanwhile, Liam continually called his older brother a “potato”, and while he was always more open to the prospect, he never shied away from some pretty intense feuding.
Nevertheless, despite the ongoing war of words, speculation has always persisted that the band might eventually reunite. For a slew of rather mundane industry reasons related to contracts, 2024 has frequently been suggested as the likely year for an announcement. Recently, Noel added fuel to the fire by hinting to Liam that if he’s serious about a reunion, he should give him a call. This subtle nudge only intensified the buzz surrounding a potential comeback.
Aside from this chatter, it was also recently remarked that Noel is considering selling the rights to his Oasis catalogue. “Well, I get mine [the rights to his catalogue] back, all of it, in 2025, because I’ve been knocking years off the deal as opposed to taking money advances,” Noel told Apple Music. When he fully owns them in 2025, he is considering selling the rights to a licensing company.
With this motion coming to the fore contractually in 2024, it makes the Oasis reunion optimally profitable for Noel for a period. Meanwhile, with a divorce to pay for and an ex-wife out of the picture who also famously didn’t get on with Liam, it made more sense than ever before for Noel to answer Liam’s call.
Why did they even break up in the first place?
After a lifetime of barely holding it together, Oasis split in August 2009. The band were due to perform at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris, but instead, Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke emerged and told the crowd that the Gallagher brothers would not be playing.
Two hours later, Noel released a statement on the band’s website, reading: “It is with some sadness and great relief… I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”
This statement followed years of the band existing in a state of flux with feuds and diminishing returns on their records, causing cracks to appear. In the end, brotherly anti-love was paired with a revolving cast of band members, adding to the instability, the waning of the music industry’s previously freewheeling ways, a decline in the Britpop style that they defined, and critical criticism mounting with each new album, it becomes more of a question of how they make it to 2009 rather than why did they break-up.
There were about 30 incidents that would’ve broken up most bands, including no-shows at gigs, Noel repeatedly braying Liam on the head with a cricket bat for bringing a party back to the studio while he was trying to work, a string of personal matters, brawls, and so on. Ultimately, as Liam told Radio X, Noel was not able to “handle the vibes any more. He couldn’t handle the rock ’n’ roll. He was too scared of it. So now he’s gone all cosmic pop and Leo Sayer.”
However, it seems that with millions on the line and some of the biggest shows in British history ahead, the pair are finally happy to bury the hatchet.
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