Have the Gallagher brothers finally buried the hatchet? There is growing speculation that Liam and Noel have put aside their legendary differences to reunite Oasis and undertake what is sure to be one of the most anticipated series of gigs in the U.K. in decades.
Citing music industry insiders, The Times of London reported on Saturday that Oasis is set to play a series of concerts in the summer of 2025, with “multiple vast gigs” planned for Heaton Park in Manchester and Wembley Stadium in London. The Times reports there are even early murmurings of Oasis even potentially headlining Glastonbury next year.
The Times report has been confirmed by a number of other U.K. newspapers. Liam also seemed to confirm the Times report, when he replied to the publication on X/Twitter, “See you down the front.”
The speculation went into overdrive on Sunday, when the official Oasis social channels posted a short video with just the date, Aug. 27, suggesting an announcement was incoming. Noel’s Twitter account also tweeted the same short video.
Oasis haven’t played live together since August 2009, with the band breaking up before a performance at the Rock en Seine festival near Paris that same month. News reports at the time suggested there had been a series of verbal and physical altercations between Liam and Noel leading up to and during the French festival. On Oasis’ official website at that time, Noel released a short statement that said he was leaving and effectively breaking up the band. “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,” Noel wrote.
Since the birth of Oasis, Liam and Noel’s prickly relationship has been a defining aspect of the Manchester band, and their public squabbling was reliable tabloid fodder for much of the 1990s and 2000s, and also led to both quitting for short periods. After they officially broke up, the Gallagher brothers have continued their very public, often very funny, feud ever since. Noel once described Liam as “the angriest man you’ll ever meet … a man with a fork in a world of soup,” and Liam has routinely referred to Noel in mocking terms on social media, with a fondness for referring to his older brother as a “potato.”
A rapprochement between the siblings has been discernible in recent years, with Liam very keen on a reunion and Noel suggesting in interviews that he would consider it if the price was right. In a May 2021 interview, Noel said he would do it if he was offered $130 million.
If Oasis does confirm that they will reform for gigs in 2025, next summer will also mark the 30th anniversary since the release of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, the band’s best known, best-selling and most critically acclaimed album. The album, which has sold more than 22 million copies worldwide and broke the band in the U.S., contained the hit singles “Some Might Say,” “Roll With It,” “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and “Champagne Supernova.”
Coming to prominence during the Britpop era in the early to mid-’90s, Oasis’ other notable albums include their 1994 debut Definitely Maybe (which features the singles “Supersonic,” “Shakermaker,” “Live Forever” and “Cigarettes & Alcohol”), 1997’s Be Here Now (which features the singles “D’You Know What I Mean?,” “Stand by Me,” “All Around the World” and “Don’t Go Away”), 2000’s Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (featuring the singles “Go Let It Out,” “Where Did It All Go Wrong?,” “Who Feels Love?” and “Sunday Morning Call”) and 2002’s Heathen Chemistry (featuring the singles “The Hindu Times,” “Stop Crying Your Heart Out,” “Little by Little,” “She Is Love” and “Songbird”).
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