close
close
Skip to main content
metropolis
Oasis live: Noel and Liam Gallagher confirm North America leg of their massive reunion tour

Oasis live: Noel and Liam Gallagher confirm North America leg of their massive reunion tour

Vaseline 1 month ago

Liam Gallagher will perform for the first time since the Oasis reunion was announced

Oasis have announced the North American leg of their highly anticipated 2025 reunion tour.

Following news of a UK and Ireland tour in August – as brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher patched up their once-bitter feud – the British rock band have now revealed they will perform a series of shows in the US next summer.

The concerts take place 16 years after their last performance in North America.

Oasis commented: “America… Oasis is coming. You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all this time.” On Saturday evening (September 29), the British rock band unveiled photos of huge billboards in various locations around the world, with the tagline: “Be careful what you wish for.”

The social media posts also included the time and date of 8am ET (1pm BST) on Monday (September 30), and added the hashtag #OasisLive25.

The “Champagne Supernova” stars initially teased the news with billboards in cities like Toronto, Chicago and LA.

View the latest updates below:

In short: The story of Oasis

Formed in 1991 in Manchester, Oasis became one of the best-selling bands of the time, a phenomenon even among their Britpop colleagues such as Blur, Pulp and Suede. All seven of their studio albums topped the charts, and that success translated into ticket sales – most famously when 125,000 fans turned up for each of their two Knebworth shows in 1996. They headlined Glastonbury twice, first in 1995 and then again in 2004. won six Brit Awards and two Ivor Novellos.

Oasis were undoubtedly one of the defining bands of the 1990s, as infamous for their headline-grabbing antics – from public brawls to arrests – as they were beloved for their stadium-filling anthems. At a glance, they had it all: Liam was the swaggering, hot-headed frontman, Noel the stoic songwriter and guitarist.

But the fraught relationship between Liam and Noel ultimately spelled the band’s demise. The band’s career was peppered with bickering and physical fights. Noel infamously went after his younger brother with a cricket bat after bringing a pub full of new friends back to the studio while they were recording their second album.

Both brothers went to shows more than once. Noel later claimed that he figured out that messing with Liam’s head worked better than physical fights, such as moving furniture when he didn’t want to play with his fear of ghosts. They regularly criticized each other in interviews. Speaking to Q magazine in 2009, Noel described Liam as “the angriest man you’ll ever meet… he’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”

Then came the Rock-en-Seine festival in Paris, the scene of the final standoff where – according to Noel – Liam wielded his brother’s guitar “like an axe” and “almost took my face off with it”. Noel left the band, saying he couldn’t work with Liam for “one more day”.

When they launched their respective solo careers – Liam as a singer-songwriter and Noel with his band High Flying Birds – they started insulting each other on Twitter. Most of it came from Liam, whose least offensive insults included comparing Noel to a potato and mocking him after he was accompanied by a woman playing the scissors in an episode of Later… With Jools Holland.

For his part, Noel was convinced that Liam had gone too far – more than once. Without a proper apology, he told reporters, they would never be on good terms. It could explain why Liam, who has often spoken about his desire for a reunion, has toned down the insults considerably in recent years. Just weeks before the reunion was announced, Noel returned in kind by praising his brother’s stage presence. “I don’t have the same attitude as him,” he said. “Liam’s (voice) is 10 shots of tequila on a Friday night,” he joked. ‘Mine is half a Guinness.’

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 12:50

Oase: ‘Be careful what you wish for’

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 12:41

Oasis shut down reports of a return to the iconic Knebworth Park

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 12:31

Who will be supporting Oasis on their reunion tour?

Oasis have yet to figure out which acts will support them on their big reunion tour in 2025, but frontman Liam Gallagher is apparently keen to give fans the best show possible.

Although several reports claim that several bands are already lined up to open for the British rock band at their shows in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh and Manchester, The independent understands that brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher have yet to discuss which artists they want.

However, Liam would like to get some big rock acts on board.

“Liam likes established acts, so it will probably take a bit of back and forth before anything is confirmed,” a source close to the band said. The independent.

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 12:21

‘We were all incredibly stunned’: 30 years of Oasis’ masterpiece debut ‘Definitely Maybe’

Hell has frozen over as the famously feuding Gallagher brothers put their differences aside and announced their reunion tour for next year. To mark this occasion, Mark Beaumont revisits the album that started it all…

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 12:10

WATCH: The trailer for Oasis documentary ‘Supersonic’

Supersonic – Oasis documentary trailer

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 12:00 PM

Nelly Furtado remembers the confrontation between Liam and Noel during Oasis performance in Vancouver: ‘It made it extra special’

“I just answered Don’t mind the Buzzcocks in the UK wearing my Oasis T-shirt – and this was before they announced the reunion, so my love for Oasis is not trendy,” she replied.

“It started when I was 17, with the first two albums. I feel like Noel Gallagher taught me how to play guitar without him knowing, because I played along. My song ‘Turn Off the Light’ has the same chords as ‘Wonderwall’.”

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 11:41 am

Paul Heaton responds to Oasis fury after fans compared ticket prices

The English singer, who fronted The Housemartins and The Beautiful South, will embark on a solo arena tour in November and has limited tickets for the shows to £35, a move that has won praise from fans.

In August, amid the furor over the price of tickets for Oasis reunion shows and Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” program, Heaton’s name began to become popular as fans compared the rock band unfavorably to Heaton.

Heaton himself has now suggested that the awards were to be expected from the “Champagne Supernova” stars.

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 11:21 am

VIDEO: Louis Tomlinson reveals he couldn’t get Oasis tickets

Louis Tomlinson reveals he failed to get Oasis tickets

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 11:01 am

Noel and Liam Gallagher: A look into Britain’s most infamous rivalry – and what led them to reunite

Roisin O’ConnorSeptember 30, 2024 10:51 am