Oasis tour announcement - Gallagher brothers reunite but not all rumours are true
Tomorrow at 8am, Noel, 57, and Liam, 51, will announce a huge tour for Oasis next summer that will see them perform in Ireland, London, Manchester as well as Scotland and Wales
Oasis will announce a full UK and Ireland tour next summer - and the previously warring Gallagher brothers have officially buried the hatchet while they teamed up for a photoshoot.
Tomorrow at 8am, Noel, 57, and Liam, 51, will announce a huge tour for next summer that will see them perform in Ireland, London, Manchester as well as Scotland and Wales. It is not thought that they will headline Glastonbury Festival, despite rumours suggesting otherwise. They will also not be performing 10 nights at Wembley Stadium.
It comes after Liam’s slot at Reading Festival, where he performed the group’s 1994 album Definitely, Maybe to mark its 30th anniversary, teased the announcement and dedicated the track Half The World Away to his brother Noel. To promote the tour, the estranged brothers have spent a photoshoot session together, marking the first time the pair have reunited since Noel quit the group 15 years ago, announcing he could not work “a day longer” with his brother Liam.
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At the time, he lashed out saying he had been subjected to “verbal and violent intimidation” after the pair had row backstage in Paris on August 28, 2009, when Noel claimed Liam picked up a guitar and swung it while “wielding it like an axe”.
The pair have frequently exchanged insults in the interim, with Noel describing Liam at various times as “the angriest However, rumours that a reunion could be on the cards swirled after Noel, 57, suggested he was open to the idea if Liam contacted him. He said: “You should never say never, but it would take an extraordinary set of circumstances. That’s not to say those circumstances would never come about.”
But earlier this year, Liam claimed Noel had rejected another offer to perform as Oasis again. He said: “I did call him. Well, my people called Noel’s management team. We put an offer on the table for an Oasis thing - because we got offered it - and he said no.” In January, Noel divorced Sara MacDonald, who Liam would frequently refer to as a “witch” and has previously claimed was the reason the group were no longer together.
After splitting from Sara, Noel gave an interview that saw him offer some rare praise to his brother, saying: “When I would sing a song, it would sound good. When he sung it, it sounded great. 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. 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.”
In 1996 the group performed to 250,000 people over two nights at Knebworth. Their popularity has remained throughout their hiatus, and they still currently have 21 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
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