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29th August 2024
12:35pm BST
It's the news that has got the whole of the UK talking - Oasis are back for a reunion tour.
After days of speculation - and years of pleas to get back together - Liam and Noel Gallagher seem to have buried the hatchet. The Manchester brothers are returning as Oasis, and have announced a huge tour across the UK and Ireland for summer 2025.
Millions of music fans across the nation will be hoping to bag themselves a ticket to one of the 14 dates that have been announced for July and August next year.
Now, the band have revealed how much it will cost for the hottest ticket in town!
As expected, there are a number of different ticketing options with prices ranging from £70 and around £500 for the most premium options.
All prices vary depending on the venue and date but most standard standing tickets in the United Kingdom appear to be at the expected price of £150.
These prices were announced on the Gigs and Tours website with seats going from £73, standing from £150, and premium packages from £215.
Tickets for the gigs at Croke Park start from €86 (£72) plus booking fees.
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.
Announcing the news after a weekend of intense speculation, 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.
The full list of dates for Oasis Live '25 is as follows:
JULY 2025
AUGUST 2025
Tickets for the UK dates go on sale from the later time of 9am on Saturday and will be available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk, www.gigsandtours.com and See Tickets.
Tickets for the Dublin dates will go on sale an hour earlier at 8am.
There will be a pre-sale before this, on Friday morning, but it's not as simple as it might be for other tours or acts. You'll need to register for a ballot, and if successful in this, you can then access the pre-sale. Even then, there's far from any guarantee you'll get a ticket, which will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
Registration for the ballot is open now, and will close at 7pm on Wednesday 28 August.
To register for the ballot, fans will need to sign up with their email, name, location and contact info, before having to correctly answer a question about Oasis.
Oasis have said the ballot is intended to "ensure the maximum number of fans have a fair opportunity to access tickets".
There's been huge demand though, with some people not receiving an email confirming they are registered. In a statement on Wednesday, the band said there had been an "unprecedented volume of entries", but reassured fans they would get their confirmation emails before the registration deadline.
Oasis have also urged fans to take measures before trying to buy tickets.
In their announcement confirming the reunion, the band said: “We strongly advise that those wishing to purchase tickets register in advance of the sale with the relevant ticket agencies.”
Meanwhile, Ticketmaster and See Tickets have both outlined the measures fans should take before trying to get tickets on Saturday.
There seems to be plenty of signs that the Gallaghers don't plan on this being the end of their comeback.
Whilst the band said these shows would be their only European performances, they did say they had plans for more concerts on other continents.
Meanwhile, the Sun reports that Oasis are planning on announcing more dates once these initial 14 shows sell out. It's not yet clear if these could be in the UK or not.
And, of course, there's the Glastonbury question. The festival takes place from 25-29 June 2025, the week before Oasis’s tour gets underway in Cardiff on July 4.
Oasis have headlined twice before, in 1995 and 2004 - although the less said about the second time the better - and with 2026 being a fallow year for Glastonbury, their return to the Pyramid Stage could be the perfect way for the festival to finish with a bang before it takes a summer off.
But all the noises seem to be suggesting this won't be the case. As already mentioned, Oasis have said the shows next summer will be their only European performances, and the PA news agency also understands the Mancunians will not be on the lineup for next year’s festival.
However, the band haven’t explicitly ruled out a Glastonbury performance, and until the lineup has been confirmed you can never say never.
Oasis were formed in Manchester in 1991, with the original lineup being made up of Liam and Noel, guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and drummer Tony McCarroll.
Bonehead will reportedly be returning for the reunion tour, with the musician having remained good friends with Liam and touring with him occasionally.
The lineup has changed plenty of times over the years though. McCarroll left in 1995 when he was replaced by Alan White, before Bonehead and McGuigan were replaced by Gem Archer and Andy Bell in 1999.
White left the band in 2004 and was replaced by Zac Starkey, who was then swapped out for Chris Sharrock in 2008.
And the Oasis story then came to an end in 2009, when the Gallagher brothers were involved in a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
Noel later claimed his brother had tried to attack him with a guitar after a row over whether Liam could advertise his clothing brand in the programme for V Festival.
Since then, the animosity between the pair seemed to be irreparable, but here we are, in the year of 2024, looking forward to more Oasis concerts.
That's if their truce can hold until then of course...
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