‘I think everybody is going to try and get a ticket’
The demand for Oasis tickets will “absolutely dwarf” that seen for Taylor Swift’s concerts this year, a music expert has said.
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.
These will be their only shows in Europe next year, but there are plans for them to go to other continents later in 2025.
Tickets will go on sale on Saturday, August 31, at 9am in the UK and at 8am in Ireland.
The news of the Oasis reunion comes off the back of a summer that saw millions across the UK gripped by Taylor Swift fever as the popstar brought her Eras tour to stadiums across the country.
And whilst demand for tickets to these gigs was huge when they went on sale, one music expert has predicted this will be nothing compared to when Oasis tickets are released this weekend.
Former music journalist and DJ Kevin McManus told ITV News that the ticket demand will likely be even bigger than it was for the band’s legendary Knebworth concerts in 1996, when an estimated four per cent of the UK population tried to get tickets.
He said: “I think people forget but the two Knebworth shows they did almost four per cent of the population tried to get tickets.
“They sold out 250,000 tickets, but it was a ridiculous amount of people who tried to buy tickets, they were that huge.
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“But this, because people have been talking about it for the past decade, it’s going to be even bigger.
“I think everybody is going to try and get a ticket.
“Taylor Swift was obviously the big deal this summer, I think it’s going to absolutely dwarf that, just because it’s them and there’s that talk.”
McManus added that the history of the Gallagher brothers’ tumultuous relationship means there will be even more demand due to fears that they may “fall out after five shows.”
“There’s always going to be that air of jeopardy,” he added.
It’s been 30 years since their debut album Definitely Maybe topped the charts and launched the Gallaghers to worldwide stardom.
A cornerstone of the Britpop era, Oasis went on to release their acclaimed sophomore album ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’ and played two mega concerts at Knebworth, which saw some 2.5 million people apply for tickets.
Since their split in 2009 following a backstage brawl between the brothers at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris, both have followed their own separate paths.
Noel went on to front his group Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, whilst Liam has forged a successful solo career.
It remains to be seen whether any of the bands other previous members will be joining the Gallaghers for the 2025 tour. Multi-instrumentalist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs has recently toured with Liam, but drummer Tony McCarroll and bassist Paul McGuigan have not played with either Gallagher since Definitely Maybe and 1997’s Be Here Now respectively.
