Oasis News - Liam & Noel Gallagher, World Tour Reunion

Gallagher brothers tease Oasis reunion..Tom McArthur & Noor Nanji, BBC News

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Liam and Noel Gallagher have ramped up speculation that an Oasis reunion could finally be on the cards as the brothers teased that a band announcement could be made on Tuesday.

A short clip in the same font and style of the band’s famous logo appeared on the brothers' social media accounts on Sunday, as well as the official Oasis page, external.

It shows the date "27.08.24" before flickering and then reading "8am".

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

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Formed in 1991, the group rose to fame with hits including Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger and Stop Crying Your Heart Out.

A Sunday Times report, citing unnamed industry insiders, claimed the brothers were set to perform a string of gigs next year, including shows at London's Wembley Stadium and Manchester's Heaton Park.

The article mentioned reports that Wembley may be booked for 10 dates – which, if true, would smash the eight-gig record set by Taylor Swift this year.

There is also speculation that a Glastonbury headline slot could be in the works.

Liam Gallagher spent much of Sunday responding to rumours on X, formerly known as Twitter: “I never did like that word FORMER,” he said, before sharing news articles about the reunion rumours.

At his headline Reading Festival set on Sunday evening, he dedicated the Oasis track Half The World Away to his brother, saying, external: "I wanna dedicate this song to Noel Gallagher."

He later dedicated Cigarettes & Alcohol to people who he said hate the band.

At the end of the gig, the same teaser clip showing Tuesday's date appeared on the stage's main screens.

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It has been 30 years since chart-topping Definitely Maybe album by Oasis turned the Gallagher brothers into stars in 1994 – helping to kick off the Britpop era and launching the hellraising pair, and their band, into mega-stardom.

In 1996, an incredible 2.5 million people applied for tickets to their two dates at Knebworth – which could hint at the demand any new gigs might see.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5Live, music journalist John Robb said Oasis defined the generation who grew up in the 1990s, adding that the atmosphere at any reunion events would be "amazing".

The hype has sent fans into a frenzy, with many people sharing their excitement – and criticism – online.

One fan said Heaton Park is a "terrible venue for concerts", with Liam responding: "See you down the front..."

When another asked when the reunion dates will be announced, he replied: "Next Friday..."

Fans outside Sifters record shop in Burnage, Manchester – which is mentioned in the Oasis song Shakermaker – gave their reaction.

"They're a big part of my life growing up," said one woman, who has an Oasis tattoo on her back. "I'm not going to sleep tonight, I am so excited."

"We've grown up around the corner from Noel and Liam," said another.

"You can't put a price on a band such as Oasis, can you?" she added. "Burnage people will pay [to see them], and so will everyone else."

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A third fan said: "You've dreamt about it in your dreams but never in person, thinking of them getting together... I think this is the one."

The brothers always had a combative relationship, and a string of tours have fallen apart over the years, ending in the backstage fight in 2009 that resulted in Noel leaving the band.

This has led some to question what the real motivation for any potential reunion might be.

Helen Brown, a music critic at The Independent, told BBC News: "After the decades of going at each other with cricket bats and fire extinguishers, it's extraordinary that [the Gallagher brothers] seem to be getting along better – and maybe money is an incentive here."

She added: "Maybe they can put aside their differences to fill their coffers."

The pair have since gone on to have successful careers separately, with Noel fronting the group Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Of the other original band members, Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs has recently toured with Liam, but drummer Tony McCarroll and bassist Paul McGuigan have not played with either Gallagher since Definitely Maybe and 1997's Be Here Now respectively.

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Where can you catch Oasis on their reunion tour?

As we've just reported, Oasis have just announced they will be reuniting for the first time since 2009.

Though they're calling it a world tour, the shows confirmed so far include sets only in the UK and Ireland.

Here are the shows where you can expect to see the English rock band playing in 2025:

4th & 5th July - Cardiff, Principality Stadium

11th, 12th, 19th & 20th July - Manchester, Heaton Park

25th & 26th July and 2nd & 3rd August - London, Wembley Stadium

8th & 9th August - Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium

16th & 17th August - Dublin, Croke Park


Tickets go on sale on Saturday 31st August

So far, only UK and Ireland dates for Oasis' world reunion tour have been announced.

But for those keen to catch the band reunite, mark the date Saturday, 31st August 2024 in your calendar.

For the UK shows, tickets will go on sale from 9am - Dublin tickets will be available from 8am on that same day.

Oasis fans' accommodation scramble sparks fury at 'rip off' prices: Hotels in Manchester cancel bookings during tour dates and resell at triple the cost - while 99% of rooms in Cardiff are already booked up..by Mark Duell

Oasis fans were infuriated today by 'rip-off' hotels amid an extraordinary scramble for accommodation among those desperate to see the band on their reunion tour.

The Manchester band yesterday announced their first run of gigs since 2009, with 14 concerts in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Dublin and Edinburgh next summer.

But those trying to secure a hotel room ahead of tickets for the Oasis Live 25 tour going on sale this Saturday have faced skyrocketing prices and high demand.

Research by MailOnline today has established 99 per cent of hotels on Booking.com in Cardiff on July 4 and 5, the dates of the band's first gigs, are already sold out.

There is also intense demand in Manchester, with 98 per cent booked on the night of the city's first concert on July 11 and only 23 now remaining. One of the priciest options is the Townhouse Hotel, where rooms are £1,388 - or £119 two weeks later.

And the Maldron hotel chain was accused by furious customers of cancelling bookings coinciding with Oasis gigs in the city then reselling the rooms for triple the price - but the business later claimed this was due to a series of technical issues.

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Greater Manchester's night-time economy adviser Sacha Lord later urged Maldron Hotels to 'do the right thing' after he received numerous complaints.

In a post on X, he wrote: 'Hey @maldronhotels. I'm being contacted by several people who booked your hotel for the Oasis concert, to say their rooms have just been cancelled and are now back up for three times the price.

'I'm sure this is a 'computer error'... easy to correct. Do the right thing.'

A number of disgruntled customers posted screenshots on X of an email appearing to be from Maldron Hotels, stating that 'due to a technical error, you have received a confirmation for a booking that was not successfully made'.

Recipients were told they will be sent a 'cancellation request' and asked to 'accept promptly'.

Among those angered by what happened was Oasis fan Lily Stroud from Newcastle, who said she 'took a risk ' by reserving rooms on two weekends at the hotel in July 2025 amid speculation about dates online before the official announcement.

But the 26-year-old's bookings were then cancelled by the hotel after the tour announcement due to a 'technical error'.

Manchester City councillor Pat Karney confirmed that trading standards will now investigate.

He told BBC Radio Manchester: 'If this is the case then they have let themselves down and they've let Manchester down.

'We're not daft, we know prices are going to be high, so long as people in hotels are fair about it. There's no justification for ripping off people.'

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Customers booking for the Maldron Hotel Manchester City (above) had their rooms cancelled

The company operates two hotels in Manchester. This morning, they both had no rooms available from the start of July next year onwards.

Oasis are playing at Manchester's Heaton Park on July 11, 12, 19 and 20.

Maldron Hotels said in a statement: 'Due to a technical error with our booking system on 26 and 27 August, substantially more rooms were booked than were available for the nights of the Oasis concerts on 11, 12, 19 and 20 July 2025 at Maldron Hotel Manchester City and Maldron Hotel Cathedral Quarter.

'As a result, we are unable to honour all bookings made on these dates, and we are actively engaging with customers regarding their bookings.

'The hotels are currently not taking any bookings while we investigate the issue.

'This is not an attempt to resell rooms at inflated prices, rather an overbooking issue due to a technical error with our booking systems.

Has ticket row taken the shine off Oasis reunion ?..by Ian Youngs, Culture reporter, BBC News

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The excitement about the Oasis reunion turned sour for some fans when they were faced with prices that had more than doubled while they had spent hours in a virtual queue. Will the ensuing row over "dynamic pricing" have a lasting impact?

Oasis fan John and his family planned a major operation to buy Oasis tickets on Saturday - him on his phone and iPad while at work, in Burnley, his wife and son on their phones and laptop at home, in Cumbria, and his daughter on her phone, in Leeds.

"My wife and son were travelling across on the train over to Leeds, changing trains, and were on their phones constantly, in the queue," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"My wife said she saw loads of other people in the same situation, all staring at their phones, trying to buy tickets."

By mid-afternoon, after six hours in the online queue, John had given up, but his wife was eventually offered tickets - for £355 each.

"I find that just disgraceful," he said.

Oasis have "built their career on the connection they've got with ordinary folk", John said.

"But when you've queued all day and the price of the ticket has more than doubled, I just think they've broken their contract with the working class.

"They're pretty dead to me now."

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John and his family were among many stung by dynamic pricing for the Britpop band's long-awaited reunion tour.

Some standard standing tickets advertised at £135 plus fees were relabelled "in demand" and changed on Ticketmaster to £355 plus fees.

"You can't spend your whole day online trying to buy tickets expecting to pay one price, and you get to the front of the queue and it more than doubles," John said.

"It's outrageous."

Another fan, Nicholas, from Macclesfield, in Cheshire, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Nicky Campbell: "It's greed, purely and simply.

"They will be looked at very differently.

"There should be difficult questions asked of the band."

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Ticketmaster has said it does not set the prices, which are down to the "event organiser", who "has priced these tickets according to their market value".

Performers can opt in or out of the dynamic-pricing system but it is hard to know how much the Gallagher brothers themselves actually knew about the arrangement.

The "event organiser" ultimately means the promoters - SJM, Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, MCD and DF.

The tour deal would also have involved the band's booking agents and managers, who would have discussed it with the two reuniting bandmates.

And opting in to dynamic pricing would mean a bigger payday.

But were those choices offered to the Gallaghers themselves?

In the past, some artists and their teams have decided against using dynamic pricing - Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are not thought to have used it for their latest UK tours.

And The Cure frontman Robert Smith has called it "a greedy scam".

"All artists have the choice not to participate," he wrote in 2023, external.

"If no artists participated, it would cease to exist."

Other stars have said they had it applied without their direct knowledge.

In 2020, Crowded House said: "The band had no prior knowledge of these 'In Demand' tickets and did not approve this programme."

So they told Live Nation to refund the difference between the original face value price and the higher "in demand" cost.

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Live Nation has tried to make dynamic pricing a common feature in recent years, especially in the US.

But there was a furore when it was used for Bruce Springsteen's 2022 US tour, as top ticket prices briefly rose to $5,000 (£3,800), before dynamically dropping again.

The Boss later said most of his tickets were "totally affordable" but the money should go into the pocket of the artist and not a tout who would only resell the ticket for a similar or higher price.

"I’m going, 'Hey, why shouldn’t that money go to the guys that are going to be up there sweating three hours a night for it?'" he told Rolling Stone, external.

"It [dynamic pricing] created an opportunity for that to occur.

"And so at that point, we went for it.

"I know it was unpopular with some fans.

"But if there’s any complaints on the way out, you can have your money back."

Live Nation's boss has also said dynamic pricing reduces touting - and he wants to use it more widely in Europe as well as the US.

"Promoters are anxious for it," chief executive Michael Rapino said in February, external.

"Artists are anxious for it because they see, when they sell an arena in Baltimore versus Milan right now, they look at the grosses and say, 'Wow, we're leaving too much on the table for the scalpers. Let's price this better.'"

Better for whom, though?

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Ultimately, the Oasis shows did sell out by Saturday evening.

"It basically comes down to demand and supply," Schellion Horn, competition economist at accounting firm Grant Thornton, told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"There are people out there for whom this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and people are willing to pay that [much]."

But the real issue was a "lack of transparency".

People expected prices to vary for other services such as flights and hotels - but "here, people had in their mind that they were going to get these lower ticket prices".

"A lot of people finally got to the front of the queue, had invested four, five, six hours of their life [and] felt very invested, and suddenly had five minutes to decide whether to pay these higher prices," Ms Horn said.

Wonder what the odds are that the ' lovely boys' would have a massive fall out prior to the whole event.......must be worth a £1:00 whatever the odds