Oasis reunion tour 2025

Speaking in the new issue of MOJO magazine, Liam Gallagher has revealed that Noel Gallagher turned down an offer to reform Oasis for the forthcoming 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe.

“Noel? He ain’t fucking doing it,” Liam tells MOJO’s Ted Kessler in this month’s MOJO cover feature.

In June, Liam Gallagher embarks on a UK arena tour to mark the anniversary of Oasis’ debut album. Noel Gallagher recently suggested on Talksport Radio that all Liam had to do was call him up to see about healing the rift that’s existed since Oasis split in 2009, but Liam claims an offer to reform was rejected by his older brother.

“I did call him! Well, my people called Noel’s management team,” reports Liam. “We put an offer on the table for an Oasis thing – because we got offered it – and he said no. It was a big tour, a lot of money. He turned it down. I get it, he’s got a divorce going down. I’ll do the Definitely Maybe thing and have a nice time without him.”

2025 will see the anniversary of Oasis’ second album Morning Glory? So perhaps Liam is holding out for a future rapprochement?

“It’s down to the universe. It’ll happen when it happens, it’s not in our hands anymore,” says Liam. “Me, I love nostalgia though. I’m doing the lot. Every album, even… what was the last one?”

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“Fucking right, man! You never enjoy them the first time round, so I’ll be milking the lot. People say it’s the comfort zone – I want to be in the comfort zone! Bring me my slippers and my little blankie and put me in the comfort zone, please. Life’s stressful enough.”

Noel and Liam Gallagher appear to have settled their differences and, if the truce holds, will play massive concerts in TCOTU and at Manchester’s Heaton Park in 2025

And so Sally, and indeed everybody else, must wait only a bit longer: 15 years to the week that Oasis played their last gig, rumours are swirling that finally, seriously this time, one of Britain’s biggest bands could be reforming.

Industry insiders are adamant that next summer will see Noel and Liam Gallagher reunite on the same stage for the first time since the V Festival in Stafford on August 22, 2009.

Cancel next year’s holiday plans, figure out the childcare, save the pennies — Oasis look set to take over Manchester and TCOTU in the summer of 2025 with multiple vast gigs planned at Heaton Park and Wembley Stadium respectively. One rumour suggests the latter venue is booked for ten nights, meaning the eight-gig record set by Taylor Swift this year will survive a mere 12 months.

There are also murmurings that a Glastonbury headliner slot may be added to the schedule, meaning that 30 years after the release of their second album, 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, turned them into global rock stars, the country will once again be gripped by the power and drama of arguably, and argumentatively, the nation’s most famous brothers.

Their frosty relationship certainly seems to be thawing. In the years since the night Liam damaged one of his elder brother’s guitars during a backstage altercation in Paris and Noel quit, bringing to an end the band that made them millions, the siblings have exchanged various hostile words. “A sad little dwarf,” said Liam about Noel. “I liked my Mum until she gave birth to Liam,” quipped Noel. The feud was real and the anger was volatile — but last week that seemed to be changing.

In a record label video released on Thursday to mark the 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe, their debut album, Noel was uncharacteristically complimentary about Liam. “When I would sing a song, it would sound good. When he sung it, it sounded great,” said Noel of his younger brother. He went on to say: “I can’t sing Cigarettes & Alcohol, Rock’n’Roll Star and all that. I don’t have the same attitude as him. My voice is half a Guinness on a Tuesday — it’s all right. Liam’s is ten shots of tequila on a Friday.”

This is some contrast to an interview five years ago when Noel said, “I don’t listen to [Liam’s] albums because I can’t stand his voice. It’s unsophisticated music for unsophisticated people made by an unsophisticated man.”

That was then, though. Last week Noel was praising his estranged brother’s career. “What he did was inspire the kids at the front to do something, do you know what I mean? ‘If he can do it, I can do it.’ And he’s still doing that now.”

But then Oasis have never really gone away. At the Reading and Leeds festivals this week, Liam ends a sold-out 12-date arena tour that has seen him play Definitely Maybe to enraptured crowds. Since the split, both men have enjoyed success with solo projects, but it was always the Oasis songs they played that got the strongest reactions. At Glastonbury this year, Don’t Look Back In Anger was played over the speakers before Coldplay came on, and the Oasis track received the biggest singalong of the night.

Because Oasis are far from a relic that appeals only to those old enough to remember CDs. Despite splitting back when Gordon Brown was prime minister, the band have ratcheted up a huge fanbase among teenagers who were not born when the Gallaghers were in their pomp. Oasis have 21 million monthly listeners on Spotify, compared with 11 million for their erstwhile Britpop rivals Blur. No wonder they feel confident in booking ten Wembley gigs compared with Blur’s two last summer. Oasis were huge back then, and they still are.