Oasis have finally confirmed their return for a slew of European shows for 2025 – but it seems like they’re planning to hit the road across the globe.
Now that it’s official that Liam and Noel Gallagher will reunite next summer for a series of huge stadium shows across the UK and Ireland, fans across the world are eagerly crossing their fingers for news on shows outside of Europe.
It appears they won’t have to wait too long, as Oasis have teased via a press release that “plans are underway for ‘OASIS LIVE 25’ to go to other continents outside of Europe later next year”.
Here are what fans have had to say about Oasis planning for non-European shows:
oh it’s an oasis WORLD tour pic.twitter.com/o7SBkvf7n6
— kace. (@britpopbridgers) August 27, 2024
“Domestic leg of their OASIS LIVE ‘25 world tour,” yeah they def coming to the States! pic.twitter.com/vMeH748PX8
— ✭ Bane. ✭ (@CosmicPrime42) August 27, 2024
My god I hope this means that Oasis are coming to Australia next year pic.twitter.com/6Y3ZfcmAmd
— Trent Williams (@trentwilliams21) August 27, 2024
i cant believe oasis is actually doing a world tour like seriously i might actually get to experience an oasis concert
— peachfuzz (@thatfoltzkid) August 27, 2024
Some, however, are skeptical that the Gallagher brothers can make it past their European tour dates intact, given their intense 15-year feud that caused the band to split in the first place.
Oasis is doing a ‘world tour’ of the UK and Ireland. It’s hard to imagine it will go much further afield than that…
— Joe (@JosephT1888) August 27, 2024
Oasis is back together …. Can they make it through a full world tour without breaking up ????
— Rasmus Mencke (@mencke) August 27, 2024
But first, Liam and Noel will share the stage at Manchester’s Heaton Park and London’s Wembley Stadium, and are also set to perform in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin. It will mark the formerly estranged pair’s first gigs together since 2009.
Tickets for ‘OASIS LIVE 25’ go on general sale at 9am BST this Saturday (August 31) and will be available here for UK shows, and here for the Irish dates.
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”.
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.
News of the tour – reportedly set to make a colossal £400million – comes as the band release the expanded reissue of their seminal 1994 debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ on Friday (August 30), after it celebrates in 30th anniversary the day before. The re-release comes with previously unheard and abandoned versions from the Monnow Valley session for the album, as well as outtakes from the Sawmills sessions – both mixed by Noel for the first time.
The confirmation of Oasis’ reunion comes after a whirlwind weekend for fans. Oasis fanned the flames for a potential reunion after Liam Gallagher’s Reading Festival headline set, which concluded with the Oasis X/Twitter account posting a mysterious date suggesting some giant news.
At Reading, Liam played Oasis’ debut studio album in full ahead of its 30th-anniversary reissue dropping on August 30. And, in honour of the occasion, he took a moment to shout out his brother, dedicating ‘Half The World Away’ to “Noel fucking Gallagher”, and further stoked rumours of an Oasis reunion earlier this Friday (August 23) at his Leeds headline set: “It is very interesting init? It is a very interesting situation we’ve found ourselves in.”
The rumours also follow Noel’s recent praise of Liam in a conversation with John Robb, saying: “I can’t sing ‘Slide Away’ and ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’ and ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Star’ and ‘Columbia’ and all that.
Liam’s Reading performance scored a five-star review from Jordan Bassett, who wrote for NME: “Tonight’s gig is excellent, but what makes it truly epochal is what it may represent. In revisiting the past, Liam Gallagher has perhaps ushered in a whole new era. It’s very interesting, innit? It’s a very interesting situation we’ve found ourselves in.”
Liam and Noel have not performed together since Oasis’ acrimonious split in 2009, following an “altercation” between the pair at Paris’ Rock en Seine festival, just hours before their headline appearance. “It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight,” Noel wrote at the time. “People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with [singer, his brother] Liam a day longer.”
Looking back on the event that led to his departure in 2021, Noel described them as a “shitstorm”. “Oasis tours were always about the struggle, anyway,” he said. “The incident in Paris, that was just the straw that broke the camel’s back, really.”
