‘If Oasis can do it, The Smiths can too’
Johnny Marr has responded to suggestions that The Smiths should get back together following the news that Oasis are reuniting.
On Tuesday morning, Oasis officially confirmed they would be reuniting for a run of 14 massive gigs next summer.
Some 15 years after they last performed live together, Noel and Liam Gallagher will be performing as Oasis once more across the UK and Ireland in summer 2025.
The band said: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
Oasis announced the dates and venues for a huge reunion tour in summer 2025, which included four dates at both Wembley Stadium in London and Heaton Park.
The band will also be playing dates in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin over July and August next year.
Tickets will go on sale on Saturday, August 31, at 9am in the UK and at 8am in Ireland.
Rumours had been swirling all weekend that the band were getting back together, and this prompted some to call for another set of Manchester icons to bury the hatchet and reunite – The Smiths.
After becoming one of the biggest British acts in the 1980s, the group – best known for their albums The Queen is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come – broke up in 1987. This came after growing tensions in the band , particularly between lead man Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.
In a post on X over the weekend, one fans wrote: “If Oasis can do it, The Smiths can too.”
They admitted that the idea was “delusional” though.
The post clearly caught the attention of Marr though, who decided to respond with a picture of Nigel Farage.
This is seemingly a reference to the political difference between Marr and his former bandmate Morrissey, who said back in 2019 that Farage would “make a good prime minister.”
In recent years, the former Smiths singer has voiced his increasing support for the far-right.
So, whilst many of us never thought we’d see the day the Gallagher brothers settled their differences, it seems a bit more of a long shot that the Smiths will be getting back on stage together.
