Oasis has added three more dates to its reunion tour of Britain and Ireland, citing “unprecedented demand” for tickets.
The new shows announced Thursday are at Heaton Park in the band’s home city of Manchester, England on July 16, 2025, at London’s Wembley Stadium on July 30 and at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium on Aug. 12.
The new shows announced Thursday are at Heaton Park in the band’s home city of Manchester, England on July 16, 2025, at London’s Wembley Stadium on July 30 and at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium on Aug. 12.
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00:00Oasis is the last big UK pop phenomenon before the digital tsunami hit.
00:07You can say that Take That was and you can say that the Spice Girls were,
00:11but the point about Take That and the Spice Girls,
00:13Spice Girls was a manufactured girl group and Take That was a manufactured boy group,
00:19but Oasis was the real thing.
00:22They come uncompromisingly out of Manchester
00:27and they represented a certain kind of attitude.
00:31So they weren't Britpop.
00:32I mean, Britpop was a little slightly phony kind of Blairite piece of branding.
00:38What they represent are the voice of the disenfranchised
00:41and the disenfranchised has grown in Britain.
00:44There are now 850,000 young people not in employment, education or training.
00:50I don't know what, you know, what are we doing here, right?
00:53There are all those kids all around the UK that actually Oasis anticipated in many ways
01:00because they were neats as well to use that expression.
01:04You know, you couldn't imagine Liam Gallagher working in Tesco's
01:08and you couldn't imagine, I mean, what jobs were those guys going to do?
01:13So what they represented has grown and spread in Britain.
01:17It's a disenfranchised young people.
01:19Now, they're not young people anymore, but that doesn't matter.
01:22Their music comes from a time where they were ahead of a curve
01:27and the other curve that they were ahead of was social media
01:30and they were ahead of digitization.
01:33So in many ways, they're the peak of Britain's pop music
01:38from the old way of doing things, making records and releasing records.
01:43Liam is so photogenic, it's unbelievable.
01:46And he's uncompromising, you know, he doesn't pose.
01:50You don't feel that he puts it on for the cameras.
01:53That guy is that guy.
01:54He's got those cheekbones.
01:56He's got that attitude.
01:57He's a really good looking guy and that really helped, you know.
02:01So, I mean, when I talk to my students, I say that all pop,
02:07people in pop music have three things in common.
02:09That they all make a noise, they all look in a certain way
02:14and they can all tell a story about why they make the noise they do
02:18and why they look the way they do, you know, the values that they represent.
02:22So everybody's got a sound, a look and a story.
02:24And Oasis ticked all three boxes in a big way.
02:29They sounded great, they look great and the story was always great
02:32because the story was authentic.
02:34I mean, they weren't messing around.
02:36I mean, I've met them on numerous occasions.
02:37I mean, that tension is a real tension.
02:41It isn't pretend, you know, they weren't play acting.
02:44There's a real rub between them.
02:46So in terms of the narrative, then the narrative is
02:52what happens behind the scenes?
02:54We all want to know what happens behind the scenes.
02:56What's it really like?
02:58And those two just let us know.
02:59It's like this, I ate him and, you know, I could give you this
03:02the string of expletives to go with it.
03:04But I mean, soap opera, isn't it?
03:06It was like a living soap opera.
03:08And that's why people, one of the reasons why people were so excited by it.
03:13So funny that, like, one of the great rivalries in music is within the same band.
03:19And then, of course, you know, the Oasis and Blur lore.
03:22But something must have happened where they're getting along
03:24and it'll be interesting to see what exactly that was.
03:29But I think culturally it makes a lot of sense for them to reunite too.
03:32Blur just played a bunch of dates.
03:34Pulp, I know, has reunited, played in the UK
03:37and they're coming to America next month in September.
03:41Culturally, I think Britpop is sort of experiencing a kind of revival.
03:46I mean, the Dua Lipa album from earlier this year was influenced by Britpop.
03:52A.G. Cook, who is known as the producer on Charli XCX's Brat,
03:55put out a Britpop album titled Britpop earlier today.
04:00I mean this year, excuse me.
04:02The Fontaine's DC album, I feel like very heavily I was, you know,
04:06listening to it and like there are a lot of Oasis-y moments on this.
04:08So it sort of makes sense for them to be like,
04:10all right, if we're back in the cultural zeitgeist, might as well get back together.