Oasis is getting back together, the band announced Tuesday, 15 years after the group spectacularly unraveled.
Its sibling stars, Noel and Liam Gallagher, confirmed the news in social media posts. They’ll play a 14-date tour in the U.K. and Ireland in 2025, with a press release on the band’s website saying that plans “are underway” for the group to play in other continents outside Europe later in the year.
“The guns have fallen silent,” the band said in a statement. “The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
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Some rumors about the form the tour would take have proved unfounded—they won’t be playing a headline slot at Glastonbury Festival as speculated, according to The Guardian.
Instead, the Britpop icons will play dates next July and August in stadiums in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Cardiff. They won’t be playing 10 nights at London’s Wembley Stadium as some reports suggested, which would have broken Taylor Swift’s record-setting eight-show run at the venue set earlier this month.
Tickets are set to go on sale at 9 a.m. U.K. time on 31 August. Prices won’t be revealed until the day of the sale.
Formed in Manchester, northwest England, in 1991, the rock band became one of the best-selling groups in history with hits including “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” and “Live Forever.” After recording seven studio albums together, Noel Gallagher—the main songwriter and lead guitarist—quit the band in August 2009 following a backstage fight before playing the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
The new shows will coincide with the 30th anniversary of their second album, What’s the Story (Morning Glory)?, but the setlists won’t be specifically oriented around that record. Liam is currently on a 30th anniversary tour of the band’s debut, Definitely Maybe.
Noel and Liam’s tempestuous relationship had been a central part of the band’s notoriety even from their early years—a recording of them arguing during a 1994 interview was released as a single and almost cracked the top 50 in the U.K. the following year.
It’s also not clear how much their apparent truce will last, with some fans joking that it’s a risk to buy tickets for anything other than the opening night of the reunion tour. A source told MailOnline on Monday that Noel would only countenance getting back on stage with Liam if the money to do so was “astronomical.”
“They haven’t buried the hatchet and Noel will always have huge reservations about being in a band with Liam as he’s so unpredictable—both on and off stage,” the source was quoted as saying.
