Oasis fans have been sharing details of the band’s last show before they broke up 15 years ago – watch it in full and check out the set list below.
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It follows the news this morning (August 27) that the band have reformed and will embark on a huge stadium tour next summer.
After reports that the Britpop giants would be returning in recent weeks, anticipation reached fever pitch last weekend when Liam Gallagher used his Reading Festival 2024 headline set on Sunday (August 25) to tease an announcement. The social media accounts of Oasis and brother Noel soon shared the same teaser, telling fans that news would be coming at 8am today.
After splitting up 15 years ago and a very public feud in the proceeding years since, the Gallagher brothers shared a statement that read: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
The band’s last gig took place on August 22, 2009 at the now defunct V Festival at Weston Park and the band performed a hit-filled set that included ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’, ‘Half The World Away’ and an acoustic cover of ‘Wonderwall’.
After this, the band were due to play Paris’ Rock en Seine festival on August 28 but the gig never took place after an alleged fight between the Gallagher brothers minutes before they were due to go on stage. Noel left the band soon after.
After this, years of a very public spat between the brothers followed. Ten years after the split, Liam reflected on the break up, telling Radio X he still “felt the pain” of the split and claimed “all was good” at the time of break-up. Noel, conversely, said the break up was the result of simmering tensions within the band.
Reflecting on the row, Noel told the new Sky Arts programme Noel Gallagher: Out Of The Now: “Oasis tours were always about the struggle, anyway. The incident in Paris, that was just the straw that broke the camel’s back, really.”
Check out the band’s last set here in full:
Oasis’ last set was:
‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’
‘Lyla’
‘The Shock of the Lightning’
‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’
‘Roll With It’
‘Waiting for the Rapture’
‘The Masterplan’
‘Songbird’
‘Slide Away’
‘Morning Glory’
‘My Big Mouth’
‘Half the World Away’
‘I’m Outta Time’
‘Wonderwall’
‘Supersonic’
‘Live Forever’
Encore:
‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ (Acoustic)
‘Champagne Supernova’
‘I Am the Walrus’ (The Beatles cover)
Today, the band launched the OASIS LIVE 25 world tour with 14 stadium dates set to take place between Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin next summer. These will be the band’s only shows in Europe in 2025, but a press release states that “plans are underway for OASIS LIVE 25 to go to other continents outside of Europe later next year.”
Tickets go on sale from 9am BST (8am IST) on Saturday August 31 and will be available here for UK shows, and here for the Irish dates.
Now, attention is turning to whether or not the band could headline Glastonbury before the tour kicks off in July.
As it stands, the tour schedule leaves Oasis free to headline Glastonbury 2025 – which takes place the week before, from Wednesday June 25 to Sunday June 29. Other acts rumoured to top the bill currently include Eminem, Rihanna, Sam Fender, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran.
Bookies are speculating that the Gallagher brothers could take to Glasto as headliners next summer, with OLBG reporting that the band currently have odds of 15/8 to headline the Pyramid Stage.
But some fans think that Oasis’ official announcement this morning quashes any rumours of a Glastonbury appearance with the fact it said the dates “will be the band’s exclusive European appearances” – and there being no mention of Glastonbury. Additionally, reports in The Guardian and Somerset Live also report that the band won’t be headlining the festival next year.
This hasn’t stopped fan speculation, however, with many convinced that Oasis could still top the bill at Worthy Farm next year.
There is also much speculation about who could support the band on the tour, with Blossoms, Kasabian and Manic Street Preachers being among those considered as possibilties.
The band have not yet revealed who’ll complete the line-up alongside Liam and Noel, but this week saw newspaper reports claim that “no other original Oasis member is expected to join the reunion” and that “the members of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will step in for the concerts”.
News of the highly-anticipated tour – reportedly set to make a colossal £400million – comes ahead of the band releasing a 30th anniversary reissue of their seminal 1994 debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ on Friday (August 30).
Liam has recently been playing the record in its entirety on a celebratory solo tour throughout this summer, including his bill-topping sets at Reading & Leeds last weekend.
At the southern edition of the twin site festival, the singer dedicated ‘Half The World Away’ (a classic song sung by his brother) to “Noel fucking Gallagher”. He further stoked rumours of a reunion when he played the same track during his Leeds gig, and told the audience: “It is very interesting innit? It is a very interesting situation we’ve found ourselves in.”
