Liam and Noel Gallagher have announced they have put their past behind them and will reform Oasis 15 years after the band split.
The Britpop band revealed they will embark a big stadium tour including four nights at Wembley during summer 2025.
“This is it. This is happening,” the brothers both wrote on their social media pages in a highly anticipated announcement at 8am on Tuesday morning.
Confirming the Oasis Live 25 tour, they added: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
Oasis posted a 91 second video announcing their reunion on social media including clips from some of the band’s biggest gigs and quotes from the Gallagher brothers.
The brothers can be heard saying “I’d do it all again in a f***ing heartbeat” and “people will never, ever forget how you made them feel” while footage of them performing played in the background.
The UK and Ireland tour will start at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium and visit Manchester’s Heaton Park, Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium and Dublin’s Croke Park throughout July and August next year.
Publicists for the band said: "Oasis today end years of feverish speculation with the confirmation of a long awaited run of UK and Ireland shows forming the domestic leg of their Oasis live 25 world tour.
"Oasis will hit Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin in the summer of 2025. Their only shows in Europe next year, this will be one of the biggest live moments and hottest tickets of the decade.
"The Oasis live experience is unlike anything else. The roar that greets them as they step on stage. A set full of wall-to-wall classics. The spine-tingling sensation of being in a crowd singing back every word. And especially the charisma, spark and intensity that only comes when Liam and Noel Gallagher are on-stage together.
"The brothers have flourished with their own projects since the band split in 2009, with ten UK #1 albums between them as well as countless festival headline sets and stadium and arena shows.
"But Oasis is something else. There has been no great revelatory moment that has ignited the reunion - just the gradual realisation that the time is right. Yet the timing must be a subconscious influence. This Thursday represents thirty years to the day since their electrifying debut album Definitely Maybe was released, while 2025 will see the equally essential second record (What's The Story) Morning Glory? reach that same anniversary."
Liam and Noel are understood to have met for a photoshoot in London last month. A new photo of the brothers together was released alongside the tour announcement.
“This is it, this is happening”
— Noel Gallagher (@NoelGallagher) August 27, 2024
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/zDm2N5f9XQ
Noel, 57, quit the Manchester rock group on August 28 2009, saying he “simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer”.
Fans have been begging the brother’s to reform the Manchester rock band since they broke up following a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
Rumours of a reunion escalated on Sunday evening after the pair shared the same video on social media, written in the Oasis style, teasing an announcement on Tuesday at 8am.
The same date and time also appeared on big screens as Liam finished his headline slot at Reading Festival on Sunday.
Ahead of the official announcement of the reunion tour, Spotify said Oasis streams increased more than 160 per cent globally between Monday and the previous week.
“The increase in streams was continuing to grow throughout yesterday,” the music platform added.
There is also speculation that a Glastonbury headline slot could be in the works. The band have previously played the festival in 1995 and 2004.
Tracks from the first recording session for Oasis’s debut album Definitely Maybe will be put out on Friday, a day after the record marks 30 years since its release.
Unheard versions of songs including Live Forever, Cigarettes & Alcohol and Rock ‘N’ Roll Star were taken from their first recording session as a signed band, at Monnow Valley Studio in Rockfield, Monmouthshire.
The recordings were scrapped before the band re-recorded the album at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall.
Tickets for UK dates go on sale from 9am on Saturday, with Dublin tickets available from 8am the same day.
