Noel Gallagher has reflected on Oasis‘ historic reunion run, and has fuelled rumours of new music with the admission that he was “back at work”.
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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.
On Friday (January 16), Noel appeared on Radio 5’s Football Daily, and was asked about the infamous ‘Gallagher Hill’ – where ticketless fans gathered in droves to listen to their Heaton Park gigs.
At one of them, Liam Gallagher dedicated ‘Definitely Maybe’ classic ‘Bring It Own Down’ to the crowds that had gathered on the mound despite Manchester City Council trying to fence it off, and the band later handed out shirts to fans.
“Oasis fans are the best in the world,” he said of their dedication. “They’re the most loyal, and the fact that there was an arena-sized crowd outside the venue every night was just amazing, you know what I mean? And hats off to them. We gave away a few T-shirts, and we put the video screen up there towards the end of the run, but they were amazing.”
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The conversation then turned to how it felt to have his children in attendance across the global trek, with Noel joking that they’d shown “virtually no interest” in his job until the first night in Cardiff.
“They went from never seeing Oasis once, to seeing Oasis 38 times in six months, which has got to be some kind of record. They loved it.”
Turning his attention to hosts “Darren Fletcher, Don Hutchison, Kevin Nolan and Glenn Murray, he said: “I mean, you were there, you seen them there, they’re great, great lads. And, you know, they were buzzing off all the City players that were coming. Pep was there, Foden and John Stones and Rodri, and, you know, they were buzzing just kind of seeing it all.
“And I didn’t think they thought I was that cool until halfway through, they were like, ‘God, he knows John McEnroe as well, what’s going on here?’ So I’m well worthy of the ‘Dad Of The Year’ mug that I got for Christmas.”
This prompted the show hosts to ask how his holiday was, prompting Noel to reply: “The holiday was good. But, yeah, back at work on Monday. So it’s all good, mate. It’s all been going great.” As for his busy and successful 2025 with Oasis, he said: “It went rather well, didn’t it?”
During another football-related appearance earlier this month (January 5), Noel stopped by Talksport and shut down rumours that the band were in line to pen a James Bond theme, though he added that it would be “an absolute honour” and that these things “should be done by Brits not Yanks”.
It comes after Oasis announced a “pause” last year as they reflected on their huge ‘Live ‘25’ reunion tour, which ended in Brazil on November 24.
“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. Liam recently teased more shows on X, 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 playfully 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.
As for the setlists, Liam has already teased that there are “loads more classics” that could make the cut in the future. They played the exact same 23 songs in the same order at all 41 shows earlier this year, although guitarist Gem Archer recently revealed that the original setlist was four songs longer.
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.”
