Oasis tipped to announce even MORE touring glory dates

Oasis are tipped to announce even more dates for their long awaited reunion tour, which music insiders say will ‘sell out in less than three minutes’.

The band, set to be rejoined by original guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, will play 14 concerts in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin next summer.

Tickets to the Oasis Live 25 tour will go on sale at 9am on Saturday – and presale will be held on Friday for certain fans that will be selected from a ballot pool.

More than 4million fans are expected to be vying for the 1,066,888 tickets available across the 14 gigs, with sources telling The Sun that once they sell out ‘extra dates will be added for sure’.

Industry insiders have also claimed that Bonehead is ‘confirmed’ for the tour and ‘ecstatic’ that the band is back together – with Liam and Noel Gallagher reportedly ‘both wanting him in the fold’ after he was ‘one of the drivers of the reunion’.

Oasis split in 2009 after many years of infighting, with Noel officially leaving the band just before a performance at a festival near Paris, saying at the time he ‘simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer‘.

Even before the dissolution 15 years ago, the brothers had long had an antagonistic relationship and reportedly did not speak to each other for years after the breakup. 

Fans have been pleading with the brothers to regroup since they disbanded and are now preparing for what they have hailed as the ‘ticket bloodbath of the century’.

‘These shows will sell out in less than three minutes. Extra dates will be added for sure,’ an insider told The Sun.

The source also offered insight to the band’s line-up, alleging that Bonehead and members of Noel’s band High Flying Birds would be joining the tour. 

‘The Oasis family has really come back together. Bonehead is ecstatic,’ the source said, adding: ‘Noel has brought in some of his band too.’

The music industry insider claimed Bonehead, who overcame tonsil cancer in 2023, can be credited with helping to end the feud between brothers, while the band’s founder Alan McGee yesterday attributed the reunion to their 81-year-old mother Peggy. 

‘I’m sure she is behind the whole thing. Peggy is great, she is rocking on,’ McGee told Virgin Radio. He also claimed that the pair have been ‘really professional’ and ‘I don’t think it will be an issue.’

Another source close to the band echoed McGee’s claims, recalling how Noel and Liam agreed to meet for a shoot after the Oasis reunion ‘deal was signed seven weeks ago‘.

The source, who claims the meeting occurred three weeks ago, described how onlookers ‘could feel the magic and chemistry’ between the pair in the studio and alleged it felt  just like their glory days in the 1990s.

‘Noel and Liam haven’t had an easy relationship but they were very comfortable with each other and were messing around and having a laugh,’ the sourced told The Sun.

Liam and Noel this morning confirmed Oasis’s long-awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025 and also alluded to past tensions in the tour announcement.

‘The guns have fallen silent,’ Oasis said. ‘The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.’

A black and white image of the two brothers, both in dark jackets, was also released as part of the announcement. 

The Britpop band, who split nearly 15 years ago and released their chart-topping album Definitely Maybe around three decades ago, announced the series of dates will kick off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.

The UK and Ireland tour will also visit Manchester’s Heaton Park, London‘s Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh‘s Murrayfield Stadium and Dublin’s Croke Park throughout July and August next year.

Liam clarified on X, formerly Twitter, that the UK and Ireland leg of the tour is ‘the band’s exclusive European appearances’. 

The dates are as follows: Principality Stadium July 4 and 5; Heaton Park July 11, 12, 19, 20, 25 and 26; Wembley Stadium August 2 and 3; Murrayfield Stadium August 8 and 9; and Croke Park August 16 and 17.

Despite speculation that a Glastonbury slot could be in the works, the Worthy Farm event will not see Oasis on the bill, the PA news agency reported. Oasis previously played the festival in 1995 and 2004. 

There are also plans for dates outside Europe.

Reunion rumours had intensified recently after Liam and Noel teased an announcement for 8am today, and reports surfaced that the feuding brothers were ending their disagreement.

During a show in Cardiff, Liam made a point of dedicating Half The World Away to his ‘little brother’, saying he was ‘still playing hard to get’.

The 51-year-old songwriter also played Oasis hits during his headline performance at Leeds Festival on Friday night – where he teased the 8am announcement.

Noel, who fronts the group Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, recently paid Liam a string of compliments in an interview released last week with music journalist John Robb at Manchester’s Sifters Records in honour of the album’s 30th anniversary.

He also jokingly compared Liam’s voice to ’10 shots of tequila on a Friday night’ and his own as ‘half-a-Guinness on a Tuesday’.

In 2021, the documentary Oasis Knebworth 1996 was released to celebrate the band playing two concerts at Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire a year after the release of their 1995 album What’s The Story (Morning Glory).

Abbey Road Studios, the famous London recording studio where Oasis recorded multiple songs, described the band’s reunion as ‘history’.

The studio posted that single word as it joined tens of thousands who commented beneath the band’s announcement on Instagram, where BBC Radio 2 also commented: ‘They’re back!’

McGee, the music executive who signed Oasis to his label, Creation Records, in 1993, posted to the platform: ‘Good for music. Good for them. Good for us.’

In expectation of the official announcement of the reunion tour, Spotify said Oasis streams increased more than 160 per cent globally between Monday and the previous week.

‘The increase in streams was continuing to grow throughout yesterday,’ the music platform added.