Oasis, which marked history and a great cultural stage in pop music, was born in the city of Manchester and popularised ‘britpop’ around the world. However, the brothers had a conflictive relationship and, after a fierce fight before a performance in Paris, the band split in 2009 and each brother pursued a solo career.

The historically feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher ended the band in 2009, but this week the iconic British band Oasis confirmed their return to the stage on a world tour for 2025.

‘The guns have gone silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come and see. It won’t be televised,’ the band posted on their social media alongside a current photo of Liam and Noel Gallagher.

‘This is it, this is happening,’ they wrote as they announced dates for upcoming gigs in the UK and Ireland. The band will perform at Manchester Heaton Park and London Wembley Stadium. They will also visit Cardiff Principality Stadium, Edinburgh Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium and Dublin Croke Park.

Tickets go on sale this Saturday in Ireland and the UK. A total of 14 dates will see the brothers play Cardiff, Manchester, Wembley, Edinburgh and Dublin between 4 July and 17 August.

‘Today, Oasis puts an end to years of feverish speculation with the confirmation of a long-awaited series of concerts in the UK and Ireland as part of their Oasis Live 25 world tour,’ the band’s representatives said. They also remarked that these will be ‘their only European shows next year’.

Although Liam and Noel Gallagher have announced a world tour, only the dates for Europe have been announced.

Why did the band break up? 

Fifteen years ago, the band Oasis announced their break-up. And the truth is that the end of a group that defined the sound of Britpop in the 1990s was not a quiet or amicable outcome. In 2009, brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, who had been the heart and soul of the group, had one of the most notorious fights in rock history, which ended with the band splitting up. The famous night of 28 August, known as the ‘Paris altercation’, marked a point of no return in the Gallaghers’ relationship.

It all happened at the ‘Rock En Seine’ festival, where Oasis were scheduled to headline the night. However, minutes before they were due to take to the stage, an argument between the brothers broke out backstage. Noel Gallagher, the elder of the two, recounted years later that the fight began when Liam walked into the dressing room, picked up a guitar and began using it as an axe in an attempt to assault him.

‘He came out of the dressing room (Liam). For some reason he went to his own dressing room and came back with a guitar and started swinging it like an axe, and I’m not kidding. I got in the car and sat there for five minutes and just said fuck it, I can’t do it anymore,’ Noel described in an interview with Esquire magazine in 2015. 

The fight in Paris was not an isolated incident, but the pinnacle of years of tensions between the two brothers. The constant bickering between Liam and Noel, often in public, became part of the band’s narrative. However, what happened in Paris was the final straw.

That night, the band did not take the stage and the concert was cancelled, leaving thousands of fans shocked and disappointed. Shortly afterwards, Noel announced his final departure from Oasis, stating that he could no longer work with his brother under such circumstances. 

The split of Oasis left an open wound in the music world, but also in the relationship between the Gallaghers. In the years that followed, tensions continued to manifest themselves in the form of hints and statements of intent in interviews and on social media, fuelling expectations of a possible reconciliation. Now, the theories that have emerged over the last decade about the possibility of a reunion between the Gallagher brothers have become a reality.