2024-08-31 06:29:27
British band Oasis confirmed on Tuesday morning that they are getting back together. Brothers Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher will play a series of concerts together in 2025, when they will mark three decades since the release of their seminal record called (What’s the Story) Morning Glory.
“So it’s here. It’s true,” they wrote on social network X on Tuesday morning, confirming that tickets for the 14-date UK and Ireland tour will go on sale this Saturday.
The first one will take place on July 4 next year in Cardiff, Wales, followed by Manchester, four evenings at Wembley Stadium in London, Edinburgh and Dublin. Fifty-one-year-old Liam Gallagher and fifty-seven-year-old Noel Gallagher indicate that they could also head beyond the borders of the British Isles at the end of the year, writes the British newspaper Guardian.
“This is it, this is happening”
Tickets on sale this Saturday 31st August (🇮🇪8AM IST / 🇬🇧9AM BST)
Dates:
Cardiff Principality Stadium – 4th/5th July
Manchester Heaton Park – 11th/12th/19th/20th July
London Wembley Stadium – 25th/26th July & 2nd/3rd August
Edinburgh Scottish Gas… pic.twitter.com/5hRQ3sJihb— Oasis (@oasis) August 27, 2024
The five-member group, which was formed in 1991 in Manchester and became famous for the hits Wonderwall or Champagne Supernova, belonged to the stars of the genre called Brit-pop.
It was inspired by the melodic guitar sound of bands from the 60s and 70s of the last century, at the same time it contrasted with the then popular grunge wave that reigned in the USA and emerged from heavy metal and hard rock.
Oasis have sold over 75 million records worldwide and won the Brit Awards six times. Next to London’s Blur, they were the most famous island group of the 1990s.
Their fame was fueled all along by the jealousy between the two siblings, as well as their confident demeanor. “We’re the biggest band in the world, we’re bigger than God,” proclaimed Noel Gallagher, for example.
In 1996, the group held two huge concerts in Knebworth Park, north of London, which together attracted 250,000 people. The following year, visitors to a concert in Prague’s Sportovní hall, which Oasis filled by roughly two-thirds, could also convince themselves of its qualities.
The formation broke up in the summer of 2009. In August of that year, after a wild backstage argument before a Paris concert at the Rock en Seine festival, the manager had to cancel the band’s performance. Lead guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher subsequently announced that he could no longer work with his brother, singer with the charismatic rasp Liam Gallagher.
Since then, the brothers have played the Oasis repertoire independently with their lineups, as Noel Gallagher did in 2018 in Prague’s Lucerna. A year later, Liam Gallagher was the star of Prague’s Metronome festival.
Their popularity has not disappeared – Oasis have 21.6 million monthly listeners on the Spotify platform, and people from generation Z also subscribe to them, according to the British newspaper Guardian. The font used on Oasis posters and records, for example, was used by singer Dua Lipa in an advertising campaign for her album Radical Optimism, inspired by the Britpop fever of the 90s.
Speculation about a possible reunion of the Gallagher brothers has been ongoing, but only intensified last week, around the 30th anniversary of the release of the debut album Definitely Maybe. “There was no breakthrough moment that prompted this reunion, we just gradually realized that the time was right,” the brothers now explain. “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come hear it. You won’t see it on TV,” they tell fans.
Video: Oasis played at Knebworth Park for 250,000 people
A 2021 documentary recalled the famous British Oasis concerts at Knebworth Park. | Video: Aerofilms