The Oasis Live '25 Tour is an upcoming concert tour by the English rock band Oasis. It was announced on 27 August 2024, two days before the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Definitely Maybe. It is set to be Oasis's first live appearances since they split in 2009.
| Tour by Oasis | |
 Promotional poster for the tour | |
| Location |
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|---|---|
| Start date | 4 July 2025 |
| End date | 28 September 2025 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 19 |
| Website | oasisinet |
| Oasis concert chronology | |
Initially, seventeen dates across five cities in the United Kingdom and Ireland were announced, including five dates each at Wembley Stadium in London and Heaton Park in Manchester. Three extra dates were announced on 29 August 2024 due to high demand. The announcement of the tour prompted six of Oasis's works to re-enter the UK charts including "Live Forever", which outpeaked its original release. General sale tickets were released on 31 August 2024, with users reporting long queue times, 503 error messages, being mistaken for bots, frustrations with dynamic pricing, limited purchasing time windows, and high reseller fees. To satisfy demand, Oasis announced two additional concert dates.
Background
editOasis formed in Manchester in 1991[1] and became one of the defining bands of the Britpop era and one of the biggest bands in the world, releasing seven albums in the 1990s and 2000s. Its constant members, the brothers Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher, had a tempestuous relationship.[2] The brothers split acrimoniously in 2009 during their Dig Out Your Soul Tour, between an appearance at V Festival[3] and a scheduled performance at Rock en Seine in Paris[4] on 28 August 2009.[5] After the group disbanded, the Gallagher brothers each formed their own separate bands, Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, while regularly insulting each other in the press.[2]
Announcement
editIn 2024, around the time of the 30th anniversary of Oasis's debut album, Definitely Maybe, speculation grew that the brothers would reunite. At first Liam denied the stories, though his tweets became more open-ended over time. On 27 August,[2] two days before Definitely Maybe's anniversary,[6] the band announced a series of dates in the United Kingdom and Ireland between 4 July and 17 August 2025, including five dates each at Wembley Stadium in London and Heaton Park in Manchester. A press release stated that the band planned to visit other cities in Europe later that year.[2] Three subsequent dates were announced for 16 July 30 July, and 12 August due to high demand.[7]
Reactions to announcement
editMuch of the media reaction focused on the Gallaghers' relationship, increasing the odds of getting tickets, and whether younger female fans deserved to be there.[8] The last of these prompted Noel's daughter Anaïs Gallagher to accuse some fans of ageism and sexism.[9] Alexis Petridis suggested that the brothers' reunion could have been precipitated by Noel's divorce from his wife, which had cost him £20 million.[10] Manchester's nightlife economy adviser Sacha Lord expressed appreciation that the reunion could bring £15 million to the region.[11] The Maldron Hotel chain in Manchester were accused of cancelling bookings in order to resell rooms at inflated prices, prompting them to state that the rooms were overbooked.[12] Live Nation UK came in for criticism from housing activists and politicians in Edinburgh for scheduling that nation's dates during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as the city's hotels and Airbnbs were already stretched during its duration.[13]
Some felt that the band's return was an unwelcome 1990s throwback. The Independent's Ashley Davies suggested that fans worried about the Gallaghers assaulting each other should turn their attention to men assaulting women, as the era was notorious for laddishness.[14] The Guardian's Simon Price called Oasis "the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history".[15] The same paper's Barbara Ellen wrote on 31 August that in four days, the band had been "castigated for everything from bad haircuts and 'football crowds' of middle aged fans in parkas and bucket hats who walk funny, to boorishness, sexism, the demise of 90s music culture, and spreading laddism like a virus". She described the tour as "the most controversial band reunion since the Sex Pistols' 1996 Filthy Lucre tour".[16] Brendan O'Neill wrote on Spiked that he welcomed the reunion due to what he perceived to be the dominance of middle-class artists with conformist views, such as the 1975.[17]
On 30 August, Time Flies... 1994–2009, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, and Definitely Maybe re-entered the UK Albums Chart at numbers 3, 4 and 5, and "Don't Look Back in Anger", "Wonderwall", and "Live Forever" and re-entered the UK singles chart at numbers 16, 17 and 19.[18] Time Flies and Morning Glory spent a further week at those positions, while Definitely Maybe peaked at number one the following week due to a 30th anniversary re-release[19] and "Live Forever", "Don't Look Back In Anger", and "Wonderwall" peaked at numbers 8, 9, and 11. "Live Forever"'s chart position constituted a new peak for the track, as it had only managed number 10 on its original release.[20]
Sales
editBetween 19:00 and 22:00 that day,[21] select tickets were released during a pre-sale, with seats selling for between £73 and £205, standing tickets for around £150, and premium packages costing up to £506.[22] These tickets went on sale via a ballot,[16] with fans asked how many times they had seen the band and required to identify the name of the band's original drummer, Tony McCarroll. All of the presale codes had been allocated by 14:30 that day.[21] Within minutes of these tickets being released, presale websites were selling them for several thousand pounds; tickets for their 26 July show were being sold for £6,000, prompting responses from the band and the resale company Viagogo.[22] General sale tickets for the Ireland gigs were released at 08:00 BST on 31 August 2024, while sales for the gigs in Great Britain opened an hour later. Sales were handled by Ticketmaster, Gigs and Tours, and See Tickets, while resales were handled by Ticketmaster and Twickets.[23] The tour was promoted by SJM Concerts, MCD Promotions and DF Concerts, all of which had links to Ticketmaster's parent company Live Nation Entertainment.[24] At 13:23 on the day of the public sale, Ticketmaster Ireland announced that their Dublin gigs had sold out,[25] and at 19:00, Oasis tweeted that all tickets had sold out.[26]
Some users reported having over one million people ahead of them in the queue, and others reported waiting in a "queue for the queue".[23] Some users additionally reported 503 error messages[25] and being mistaken for bots.[27] Ticketmaster attracted criticism for selling "In Demand" and "Official Platinum" tickets for inflated dynamic pricing,[28] a practice they defended;[27] The Guardian's Josh Halliday reported having only ten seconds to make his purchasing decision.[29] As a result of users complaining about their experiences, "#shambles" started trending on Twitter[30] and several hundred fans complained to the Advertising Standards Authority.[31] Twickets also received criticism for their high reselling fees, prompting its founder to announce that they would cap their fees at the lower of "10% + a 1% transactional fee" or £25.[32] On 1 September, Loudersound reported that two nosebleed seats for their 26 July gig were available on Viagogo for £23,603 each[33] and the government of the United Kingdom announced that they would probe the practice of dynamic pricing.[34] Three days later, the band announced two additional dates at Wembley Stadium that would have an invitation-only ticket sale,[35] and the day after that, the Competition and Markets Authority later launched its own investigation as to whether Ticketmaster broke the law.[36]
Tour dates
edit| Date | City | Country | Venue |
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| 4 July | Cardiff | Wales | Principality Stadium |
| 5 July | |||
| 11 July | Manchester | England | Heaton Park |
| 12 July | |||
| 16 July | |||
| 19 July | |||
| 20 July | |||
| 25 July | London | Wembley Stadium | |
| 26 July | |||
| 30 July | |||
| 2 August | |||
| 3 August | |||
| 8 August | Edinburgh | Scotland | Murrayfield Stadium |
| 9 August | |||
| 12 August | |||
| 16 August | Dublin | Ireland | Croke Park |
| 17 August | |||
| 27 September | London | England | Wembley Stadium |
| 28 September |
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