Oasis will play Manchester’s Heaton Park in emotional homecoming

Oasis are set for an emotional homecoming as part of their epic comeback tour next summer.

Warring brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher have put their 15-year feud on ice to announce they will be performing together again, 34 years after their first gig.

And the Burnage-raised siblings will head to Manchester for what is set to be a biblical homecoming back at Heaton Park – 16 years after last performing there.

They will play four nights at the park – across two epic weekends in the summer as part of what is expected to be a £400million tour. 

The dates announced on Tuesday for Manchester are on Friday July 11, Saturday July 12 and then the following weekend on Friday July 19 and Sunday July 20.

Oasis last played Heaton Park in June 2009 with three memorable gigs just before they split and are openly proud of their Manchester roots. 

Among their final gigs together Oasis played the three sold-out dates at Heaton Park in before months of explosive rows, show cancellations and backstage fights signalled the end.

Soon after Noel released a statement on their official website saying he could ‘not go on working with Liam a day longer.’

On Tuesday Liam and Noel sensationally confirmed that Oasis – one of the biggest bands in British music history – have reformed for a mammoth tour around the UK and Ireland.

Excitement reached fever pitch on Sunday after the pair shared the same video, written in the Oasis style, teasing an announcement for Tuesday 8am. 

The same poster appeared on big screens as Liam finished his headline slot at Reading Festival on Sunday. 

And on Tuesday morning, the iconic Britpop band ended all speculation by confirming a string of gigs – which will not be televised – in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin for next summer. 

The 14-show tour will run from July 4 to August 17, kicking off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium before the brothers pack out Heaton Park in Manchester, Wembley in London, Murrayfield in Edinburgh and Croke Park in Dublin.

Despite speculation that Oasis will be on the bill at Glastonbury 2025, it’s understood the band will not be performing at Worthy Farm. However, plans are underway for Oasis to go to other continents outside of Europe later next year. 

Announcing the Oasis Live 25 tour alongside the brothers’ first picture together in years, the legendary band said: ‘The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.’ 

The Oasis website crashed immediately after the announcement as fans were sent into a frenzy. 

The reunion comes a day before the date the band split on August 28 2009.

Tickets to see the Don’t Look Back In Anger hitmakers will go on sale in the UK from 9am on August 31, while Dublin tickets will be available from 8am on the same day. 

Oasis fans have hailed it as the ‘ticket bloodbath of the century’ and have vowed ‘to go to war’ to get their hands on them. Others have fumed that it is set to be a complete ‘free-for-all’ because there appears to be no pre-sale links and it is simply one big general sale.

It’s understood the brothers buried the hatchet during a late night phone call to embark on a £50million reunion tour. 

Today’s announcement comes before tracks from the first recording session for Oasis’s debut album Definitely Maybe are released on Friday, marking its 30-year anniversary.

Unheard versions of songs including Live Forever, Cigarettes & Alcohol and Rock ‘N’ Roll Star were taken from their first recording session as a signed band, at Monnow Valley Studio in Rockfield, Monmouthshire.

The recordings were scrapped before the band re-recorded the album at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall.

Fans of the Manchester rock band have pleaded with the brothers to regroup since they disbanded in 2009, prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.

Their last concert together was at V Festival at Weston Park, Staffordshire, in August 2009. Days later, they cancelled the headline gig at the Rock en Seine festival following the argument.

Noel explained at the time: ‘It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.’

In recent years, Liam has been keen to make amends with his brother and reform the iconic Britpop band, but his older brother poured cold water on the idea.

But after Noel’s £20m divorce from ex-wife Sara MacDonald last year, the elder Gallagher is said to have been persuaded of the financial merits of getting the band back together.

According to The Sun, the pair reunited for a ‘top secret’ photoshoot to promote the comeback shows.

Staff present even reportedly had to sign non-disclosure agreements in a bid to keep it under wraps. MailOnline contacted Noel and Liam’s reps for comment.