Oasis announce historic comeback tour for 2025: ‘The great wait is over’
We can't believe we're writing this: OASIS ARE BACK.
By Nick Reilly
It’s official: Oasis will reunite in 2025 for a massive comeback tour, sixteen years after a massive backstage bust-up between Liam and Noel Gallagher spelled the end of the iconic band.
Now, they’ve finally buried the hatchet and will reunite for a string of massive gigs at venues including London’s Wembley Stadium and Manchester’s Heaton Park next summer.
The first photo of the pair together in over fifteen years has also been released, while the first statement from the band reads: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
The tour will kick off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on July 4, before a run of dates across the UK and Ireland concludes at Dublin’s Croke Park on August 17th next year. Those shows include four dates at London’s Wembley Stadium and four at Heaton Park. All tickets will go on sale this Saturday (August 31) and you can see the dates in full below.
JULY 2025
4th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
5th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
11th – Manchester, Heaton Park
12th – Manchester, Heaton Park
19th – Manchester, Heaton Park
20th – Manchester, Heaton Park
25th – London, Wembley Stadium
26th – London, Wembley Stadium
AUGUST 2025
2nd – London, Wembley Stadium
3rd – London, Wembley Stadium
8th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
9th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
16th – Dublin, Croke Park
17th – Dublin, Croke Park
Those Europe shows are the only ones announced so far, but they say that “plans are underway for OASIS LIVE 25 to go to other continents outside of Europe later next year”
The band haven’t confirmed who will be in the rest of the line-up bar Liam and Noel, but tabloid reports over the weekend claimed that “no other original Oasis member” was expected to join the reunion shows and that the backing members of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will instead join the tour.
Speculation regarding the reunion grew over the weekend when both brothers shared a cryptic video message shared in Oasis’ classic font style, which teased the date 27.08.24 and an announcement at 8AM.
Liam Gallagher also dedicated ‘Half The World Away’ to his brother Noel at Reading Festival – suggesting a thawing of relations – while Noel also shared a softened stance towards his brother in recent weeks.
A new video saw Gallagher speak to journalist John Robb at Manchester’s Sifters Records, for a new video interview as Oasis gear up to celebrate 30 years of Definitely Maybe next Friday.
Hailing Liam’s vocal abilities in the clip, Noel said: “I can’t sing ‘Slide Away’ and ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’ and ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Star’ and ‘Columbia’ and all that.
“I mean I can do it but it’s not the same. It’s the delivery or the tone of his voice and the attitude. I don’t have the same attitude as him.”
In June 2023, Rolling Stone spoke to Noel — who was seemingly more reluctant to reunite than Liam — about making peace with his brother. “I’ve accepted now that this is never gonna go away.” Noel said of reunion rumors.
“I’ve put it out there that if Liam really wants to do it, he should fucking call me, and he hasn’t called me, so I’m just assuming that he doesn’t want it either. Well, I know for a fact he doesn’t want it either, but he likes to paint this picture of, you know, this little fucking guy who’s sitting with his suitcase packed by the door, you know, like the little fucking cat from fucking Shrek, you know, the little fucking Spanish cat with these big fucking teary eyes. ‘I’m [gonna] go and do it now for you fans. I love you.’ It’s like, well, fucking call me then. And he hasn’t called me. And until he does, it’s fucking going nowhere.