The announcement of Live ’25, the Oasis reunion tour, has taken the world by storm. But will the iconic English rock band make it to the stage in September 2025?
Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, members of Oasis, have announced their return to the stage following a 15-year split. But following a post on their Instagram page highlighting tour dates on Aug. 27, fans around the world have been speculating on whether they think the turbulent duo will make it through the year.
Oasis was founded in Manchester, England in 1991 under their original band name The Rain. Younger brother Liam Gallagher (vocals and tambourine) formed a group around friends Paul Arthurs (guitar), Paul McGuigan (bass guitar) and Tony McCarroll (percussion) who were later joined by older brother Noel Gallagher (lead guitar and vocals).
After being signed to the independent record label Creation Records, the band recorded their debut album Definitely Maybe in 1994. The following year, Oasis went on to release their hit album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? which included world-renowned singles “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and “Champagne Supernova.” The band continued their ascension to all-star status when they released their third album Be Here Now, which quickly became the fastest-selling album in UK chart history.
But in 2009, 12 years after the success of Be Here Now, Noel Gallagher announced that he would no longer be a part of the band minutes before Oasis was set to perform at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
While it may have come as a shock to some Oasis fans, anyone who had seen the band perform at the iTunes Festival in July of the same year likely had a pretty clear idea of the band’s future. Clips of the Oasis set at the festival are still widely circulated and are often cited as being an example of the tension running rampant between the two Gallagher brothers.
While the band managed to stay together for over nearly 20 years, the relationship between these famous siblings had been tumultuous from the very start.
In April 1994, Liam and Noel spent the entirety of an interview with NME’s John Harris bickering over a variety of topics, one of which was how much they hated each other.
In September 1994, Liam hit Noel over the head with his tambourine during a concert in LA before insulting him, resulting in Noel storming off the stage and briefly “quitting the band.”
In the spring of 1995, Noel is said to have hit Liam over the head with a cricket bat after he invited a group of visitors into the studio.
In May 2000, Liam questioned the paternity of Noel’s daughter which resulted in Noel leaving the band again. This time, he did not return for the rest of Oasis’ European tour.
In October 2005, Noel told an interviewer that Liam was “frightened to death” of him, going on to say “I can read him and I can f**king play him like a slightly disused arcade game. I can make him make decisions that he thinks are his but they’re mine.”
And finally in 2009, a few months before he officially left the band, Noel told Q magazine that his brother Liam “is the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
Yet, somehow after all of this, the Gallagher brothers have come together once again to bring their iconic masterpiece, Oasis, back to stages in the UK. While we may never know exactly how they came to resolve their decades-old dispute, it isn’t improbable that Liam called Noel, something that Noel predicted he wouldn’t do in an interview before a gig in Seattle in June 2023.
During the interview, Noel speaks to the camera as if he is speaking directly to his brother, saying “I f***king dare you to call me. I dare you to call me. And you won’t call me, because if you do call me I go, ‘Actually that’s a good idea. Actually, that might work.’ Then the ar*e falls out of his trousers because then you’ve got to be in the same room as me and we both know how that ends up.”
It isn’t as though there isn’t love between the two men, with Liam confirming on X (formerly known as Twitter) that he saves a seat at every one of his shows for his brother Noel.
While the demand for said tickets is predicted to ‘absolutely dwarf’ that seen for Taylor Swift, with all of the shows selling out almost immediately even after the band added multiple additional dates, fans around the world are already joking about the need for concert cancellation insurance for their tickets.
Although Liam and Noel’s turmoil-filled history suggests that they might struggle to remain amicable with one another until next fall, the answer to the question of whether Oasis will make it on stage in September 2025 can only come with time.
