Oasis have finally announced their return in 2025 for a series of European shows, but it seems they also have plans to tour the rest of the world.
Now that it's officially been announced that Liam and Noel Gallagher will reunite for a series of massive stadium shows across the UK and Ireland next summer, fans around the world are anxiously awaiting news about any shows outside of Europe.
In a press release, Oasis announced that “plans are underway to hold OASIS LIVE 25 on a continent other than Europe later next year,” so it looks like we won't have to wait too long.
Regarding Oasis' plans to play shows outside of Europe, a fan said:
Ah, the Oasis World Tour. pic.twitter.com/o7SBkvf7n6
— Keith (@britpopbridgers) August 27, 2024
“OASIS LIVE '25 World Tour domestic performances”, yes, they're definitely coming to America! pic.twitter.com/vMeH748PX8
— ✭ Bane. ✭ (@CosmicPrime42) August 27, 2024
Ahhh hope this means Oasis are coming to Australia next year pic.twitter.com/6Y3ZfcmAmd
— Trent Williams (@trentwilliams21) August 27, 2024
I can't believe Oasis is actually going to do a world tour. I might actually get to experience an Oasis concert.
— Peach Fuzz (@thatfoltzkid) August 27, 2024
But some are skeptical that the Gallagher brothers can make it through a European tour, given the bitter 15-year feud that led to the band's breakup in the first place.
Oasis are on a “world tour” of the UK and Ireland. It's hard to imagine them going any further than that…
— Joe (@JosephT1888) August 27, 2024
Oasis reunites… can they complete a world tour without breaking up?
— Rasmus Mencke (@mencke) August 27, 2024
But first Liam and Noel will play together at Manchester's Heaton Park and London's Wembley Stadium, as well as shows in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin – the first time the previously estranged pair have performed together since 2009.
Tickets for OASIS LIVE 25 will go on general sale this Saturday (31 August) at 9am BST, with tickets for the UK date available here and tickets for the Ireland date available here.
The band are yet to reveal who else will complete the line-up besides Liam and Noel, but newspaper reports say that “the original members of Oasis are not expected to take part in the reunion” and that “members of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will take their place at the concerts.”
Oasis' Noel and Liam Gallagher in Munich, 1996. Photo by Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty Images
Due to their current touring schedule, Oasis are set to headline Glastonbury Festival in 2025. The festival will take place from Wednesday, June 25 to Sunday, June 29. Other artists currently rumored to be headlining the festival include Eminem, Rihanna, Sam Fender, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran.
News of the tour, which will reportedly gross a massive £400 million, comes as the band release an expanded reissue of their 1994 debut album, Definitely Maybe, on Friday (30 August), after celebrating their 30th anniversary the previous day.
The Oasis reunion announcement comes after a hectic weekend for fans, who sparked speculation about a possible reunion after Liam Gallagher headlined Reading Festival, which ended with the Oasis X Twitter account posting a cryptic date that hinted at some big news.
At Reading, Liam performed Oasis' debut studio album in its entirety, ahead of the 30th anniversary reissue, which arrives on August 30. And to mark the occasion, he dedicated “Half The World Away” to Noel Gallagher, further fuelling rumours of an Oasis reunion at his Leeds show this Friday (August 23). “It's a very interesting story. It's a very interesting situation we find ourselves in,” he said.
Liam Gallagher live at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
The rumours followed Noel praising Liam in a conversation with John Robb, saying: “I can't sing 'Slide Away' and 'Cigarettes and Alcohol' and 'Rock And Roll Star' and 'Columbia' and all that stuff.”
Liam's Reading show received a five-star review from NME's Jordan Bassett, who said: “Tonight's show was brilliant but what's truly groundbreaking is what it represents. By looking back, Liam Gallagher may have ushered in a whole new era. That will be fascinating given the situation we find ourselves in.”
Liam and Noel have not performed together since Oasis' acrimonious split in 2009, when an “altercation” between the pair occurred hours before their headline appearance at Paris' Rock en Seine festival. “It is with a bit of sadness but also a great deal of relief to announce tonight that I am leaving Oasis,” Noel wrote at the time. “People can write and say what they like but I simply could not continue working with (singer and his brother) Liam for even a day.”
Reflecting on the events that led to his departure in 2021, Noel described the band as being in a “terrible situation”. “Touring with Oasis was always a struggle,” he said. “The incident in Paris was the breaking point.”
