The band’s 41-date tour began in Cardiff on July 4 and saw them take in five homecoming shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park, seven at Wembley Stadium in London, and gigs across the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.
“And so it came to pass,” wrote the band in a message to fans, before quoting a damning article from journalist Simon Price: ‘The most damaging pop cultural force in recent British history’ found its way into the hearts and minds of a new generation.
“From Gallagher Hill to the River Plate, from Croke Park on the banks of the Royal Canal to the City Of Angels, the love, joy, tears and euphoria will never be forgotten.”
“There will now be a pause for a period of reflection,” they finished, signing off simply as Oasis.
Rumours of more tour dates next year, as well as potential new music, have been rife in recent months. Earlier this month, Liam teased more shows on X (Twitter), writing, “I know things you don’t know” to a fan who asked him if he was sad the tour would be ending soon.
And, at the last Wembley show of their comeback run in September, he told fans “See you next year” before jokingly slapping himself on the wrist.
He later said that this comment led to “a few tuts and raised eyebrows,” when a fan asked him directly about it on X.
In October, a British peer seemed to accidentally reveal that Oasis would be playing Knebworth next summer – in what would mark 30 years since the band’s famous shows at the Hertfordshire stately home – before backtracking on her claims.
Lady Taylor of Stevenage stood up in the House of Lords on October 22 and said, via The Guardian, “Next July, I have the benefit of five days of Oasis concerts in the fantastic venue of Knebworth House, which is just about a mile from my house.”
She then told the broadsheet: “I was speaking hypothetically following speculation that they would play Knebworth again as they did in August 1996. I understand the band have not confirmed this.”
What has been confirmed, however, is that a new film documenting Oasis’ return and comeback tour is also on the way, and is being produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
In a glowing five-star review of the opening night of Live’ 25 in Cardiff, NME wrote: “Playing before a pop-art-meets-psychedelia visual spectacular that never distracts but will look sick on a phone, they seem the quintessential stadium band playing the greatest hits of greatest hits.”
