The Oasis’ brother’s reunion tour, “Oasis Live ’25 Tour,” occupied media spaces as one of the biggest musical comebacks ever by a band with so much influence.
Oasis’s influence on their fans was one of the reasons they were devastated when Oasis went under the radar. Their upcoming tour is a future that a lot of people have lost sight of since it’s been more than a decade since Oasis disbanded.
But all that is now in the history books, as they’re set to kick off their reunion tour in Europe after more than 14 years of being away. The “Oasis Live ’25 Tour” is also going to be their 10th career tour since their emergence in the music scene in 1991…
Ascertaining the fact that Oasis has indeed come a long way as an English band. They had it together all those years they were active with 7 studio albums and 9 career tours before they disbanded.
Even though their disbandment was a bit sad, relief came in the guise that they continued the life of music, just separately. Now, we have more than just Oasis to look forward to. But also, a taste of “Beady Eye” and “Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds.”
The “Oasis Live ’25 Tour” is starting in Cardiff, Wales, on July 4th, and tickets have already gone on sale in some parts of Europe. While they appear to have prepared well enough to entertain many of their fans, there seems to be a scarcity of tickets, cutting short some fans’ excitement already.
But Oasis has been gone a long time to be missed again due to ticket scarcity, especially with ground plans to entertain as many of their fans as possible. Besides, there are other options to explore for Oasis tickets, like secondary ticket marketplaces such as Seatsnet.
Ahead of July 4th, let’s take a brief walk down Oasis’ memory lane. The rise of Oasis from small European gigs to headlining big tours on some of the iconic European stages like the Wembley Stadium. They’ve indeed come a long way for their past to be ignored. Let’s walk…
The Manchester Beginnings: Oasis’s Early Gigs and Influences
When one speaks of how far Oasis have come as a band, it’s important to note their early beginnings and some of the obstacles, as well as decisions they had to make to ensure they changed pop and rock as we knew it and leave a solid mark in the hearts of their fans.
The Oasis band started with four members, which were Chris Hutton, the group’s singer; Tony McCarroll, the group’s drummer; Paul McGuigan, the group’s bassist; and Paul Arthurs, the group’s guitarist. These four formed Oasis, which was called Rain at the time.
Liam Gallagher only joined the team as a suitable substitute for Chris Hutton, who was the group’s singer at the time. The need for a substitute came to be due to Hutton’s inconsistency with the band. Upon his arrival, Liam suggested a name change for Rain to Oasis, with his brother approaching the band shortly after their first-ever performance in Manchester on the 14th of August 1991.
The band performed at the Boardwalk Club, marking their first-ever live performance to a European audience. The rest, as they say, is now history.
Breaking Through: The Impact of “Definitely Maybe” and “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”
Oasis currently has 7 albums in their career track record, with the first one being “Definitely Maybe,” released in 1994. This was 3 years after they had held their first live gig in Manchester.
While they were only beginning to make some waves within that time frame, “Definitely Maybe” served as an expository album to people who eventually discovered and became new fans of Oasis after it sold millions of copies and reached No. 1 within one week of release.
The fact that “Definitely Maybe” became the fastest-selling debut album in the United Kingdom ascertained the fact that Oasis was at the peak of their career, right from their first album. They went on to release “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” which was also a commercial success.
Picking off from where “Definitely Maybe” left off, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” became one of the best albums, accompanied by a great tour by Oasis. They held back-to-back shows in Europe, with one of the most notable ones being on the 10th and 11th of August, where more than 125k people made it to the concert each night, and over 250k tickets sold.
The main idol moment was reserved in the fact that more than 2.5 million people requested the tickets, raising the speculation that Oasis would’ve had 20 sold-out shows in Knebworth, England, just four years into their career.
Solo Careers: Liam and Noel’s Separate Journeys
The solo careers observed by the Galagher brothers during Oasis’ breakup are mostly tagged sad because it put an end, as at then, to the band, “Oasis” as we knew it. Aside from that, we presumably owe most of the entertainment we now look forward to to this separation.
It created an avenue for the Galagher brothers to explore life individually, and the fact that they both succeeded in their course means they are individually great. Such greatness was already attested to through the amount of crowd they pulled into their shows, and we can expect even more than what they displayed before in the forthcoming tour.
The Oasis separation was a devastating period. They’ve been apart for 14 long years, over what many described to be because of a “conflicting personality.” But is that the case? As far as we know, the Gallagher brothers had numerous differences when it came to Oasis.
But the most notable were creative differences, personal tensions, and notably, Liam’s behaviour, which was more of him being inconsistent with the band’s rehearsals and appearance in some cases.
This conflict birthed both “Beady Eye” by Liam and “High Flying Birds” by Noel. Both brothers excelled in their respective journeys, with Liam, alongside other members of Oasis, dropping two albums between 2011 and 2013 under “Beady Eye,” and Liam, alongside his mates, dropping four albums between 2011 and 2023 under “High Flying Birds.”
While Oasis’s separation in 2009 was indeed sad, the silver lining to their separation is that we now have more faces to anticipate meeting during the “Oasis Live ’25 Tour” in Europe soon.
“The Oasis Live ’25 Tour: A New Era?”
The “Oasis Live ’25 Tour” is indeed a new era of live musical performances to behold from Oasis. Even though there’s currently no news of a new album, who needs one when they have tonnes of their old tracks that are timeless?
If they dropped a new album, all good. But vibing with the Galagher brothers, alongside their new team members, with or without a new album is a sure thing. Oasis fans have missed them.
We’ve thought about different ways that the “Oasis Live ’25 Tour” could go. Maybe more like Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” or Coldplay’s “Music of the Spheres World Tour.” Or perhaps even better. Whichever be the case, in due time, we shall know. Thank heaven, time flies these days.
