This Friday, Oasis will play their first concert together since Noel Gallagher walked out of the band in Paris on August 28, 2009. It’s not much of an exaggeration to say the gig is one of the most eagerly anticipated live shows since Led Zeppelin’s one-off reunion in 2007, with fan footage recorded outside Cardiff’s Principality Stadium during their soundcheck on Monday quickly going viral.
Speaking to MOJO last year ahead of the announcement of Oasis’ reunion, Liam Gallagher discussed revisiting the band’s back catalogue live and performing Oasis albums in their entirety, as he did with their 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe later that year:
“Me, I love nostalgia,” he told MOJO’s Ted Kessler. “I’m doing the lot. Every album, even… what was the last one?”
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“Fucking right, man! You never enjoy them the first time round, so I’ll be milking the lot. People say it’s the comfort zone – I want to be in the comfort zone! Bring me my slippers and my little blankie and put me in the comfort zone, please. Life’s stressful enough.”
At the time of the interview, in which Liam and The Stone Roses guitarist John Squire discussed their recent collaboration, a rapprochement between Liam and Noel Gallagher appeared not to have been brokered.
Noel Gallagher had said on Talksport Radio in 2023 that all Liam had to do was call him up to see about healing the rift that had existed between them since Oasis split up.
“He should call me, he’s forever going on about it, you’d have thought that by now he’d have had some kind of plan,” Noel told Simon Jordan and Jim White. “If he’s got a plan… he should get some of his people to call my people and say, ‘Look, this what we’re thinking…’ And then we can have a conversation about it. Until then, he’s being a little disingenuous.”
“Call me…” he continued. “If you’ve got a plan, give me a ring. I’m open to a phone call, to a conversation.”
However, Liam claimed that an offer had been put on the table to his older brother to reform to mark Definitely Maybe’s 30th Anniversary.
“I did call him! Well, my people called Noel’s management team,” reported Liam. “We put an offer on the table for an Oasis thing – because we got offered it – and he said no. It was a big tour, a lot of money. He turned it down. I get it, he’s got a divorce going down. I’ll do the Definitely Maybe thing and have a nice time without him.”
In the end, Liam embarked on his own tour to mark Definitely Maybe's anniversary, performing the album, B-sides and rarely aired songs from the time (you can read MOJO's report of Liam's show at London's O2 Arena HERE).
When asked about the prospect of an Oasis reunion this year in time for the anniversary of second album Morning Glory?, a deluxe reissue of which was announced earlier this week, Liam seemed philosophical:
“It’s down to the universe,” he told Kessler. “It’ll happen when it happens, it’s not in our hands anymore.”
Evidently, the cosmos worked out in Liam, and Oasis fans around the world’s favour.
Oasis Live ‘25 UK tour dates are below, stay tuned to mojo4music.com on Friday night to read our report live from Oasis’ first show in 16 years, at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium:
JULY 2025
4th - Cardiff, Principality Stadium
5th - Cardiff, Principality Stadium
11th - Manchester, Heaton Park
12th - Manchester, Heaton Park
16th - Manchester, Heaton Park
19th - Manchester, Heaton Park
20th - Manchester, Heaton Park
25th - London, Wembley Stadium
26th - London, Wembley Stadium
30th - London, Wembley Stadium
AUGUST 2025
2nd - London, Wembley Stadium
3rd - London, Wembley Stadium
8th - Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
9th - Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
12th - Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
16th - Dublin, Croke Park
17th - Dublin, Croke Park
SEPTEMBER 2025
27th - London, Wembley Stadium
28th - London, Wembley Stadium
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Photo: Liam Gallagher shot exclusively for MOJO Magazine by Tom Oldham.