Noel Gallagher has been pictured for the first time since it was announced Oasis will be reuniting for a string of shows, 15 years after their sensational split.
The musician, 57, paid homage to the city from which he hails with an I Love Manchester keyring as he headed to his recording studio in north London on Wednesday.
Noel cut a casual figure as he emerged for the first time since fans were sent into meltdown by the news that he and his brother Liam will be reuniting in 2025.
The pair are expected to earn a huge £50 million payday from the shows, with the first show set to take place in Cardiff on July 4.
Oasis is tipped to announce even more dates for their long-awaited reunion tour, which music insiders say will ‘sell out in less than three minutes’.
Noel Gallagher, 57, has been pictured for the first time since it was announced Oasis will be reuniting for a string of shows, 15 years after their sensational split
The musician paid homage to the city from which he hails with an I Love Manchester keyring as he headed to his recording studio in north London on Wednesday
Noel cut a casual figure as he emerged for the first time since fans were sent into meltdown by the news that he and his brother Liam will be reuniting in 2025
The band, rejoined by their original guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, will play 14 concerts in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin next summer.
Tickets to the Oasis Live 25 tour will go on sale at 9am on Saturday. A presale will be held on Friday for certain fans that will be selected from a ballot pool.
More than four million fans are expected to be vying for the 1,066,888 tickets available across the 14 gigs, with sources telling The Sun that once they sell out ‘extra dates will be added for sure’.
Industry insiders have also claimed that Bonehead is ‘confirmed’ for the tour and ‘ecstatic’ that the band is back together.
Liam and Noel Gallagher reportedly ‘both wanted him in the fold’ after he was ‘one of the drivers of the reunion’.
Oasis split in 2009 after many years of infighting, with Noel officially leaving the band just before a performance at a festival near Paris, saying at the time he ‘simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer ‘.
Even before the dissolution 15 years ago, the brothers had long had an antagonistic relationship and reportedly did not speak to each other for years after the breakup.
Fans have been pleading with the brothers to regroup since they disbanded and are now preparing for what they have hailed as the ‘ticket bloodbath of the century’.
After their dramatic fallout in 2009, Noel and Liam have agreed to reuniting for a series of concerts around the UK and Ireland
The pair are expected to earn a huge £50 million payday from the shows, with the first show set to take place in Cardiff on July 4
Oasis is tipped to announce even more dates for their long-awaited reunion tour, which music insiders say will ‘sell out in less than three minutes’
More than four million fans are expected to be vying for the 1,066,888 tickets available across the 14 gigs
Liam and Noel confirmed Oasis’s long-awaited reunion with a tour in 2025 and also alluded to past tensions in the tour announcement on Tuesday
‘These shows will sell out in less than three minutes. Extra dates will be added for sure,’ an insider told The Sun.
Liam and Noel confirmed Oasis’s long-awaited reunion with a tour in 2025 and also alluded to past tensions in the tour announcement on Tuesday.
‘The guns have fallen silent,’ Oasis said. ‘The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.’
A black and white image of the two brothers, both in dark jackets, was also released as part of the announcement.
The Britpop band, who split nearly 15 years ago and released their chart-topping album Definitely Maybe around three decades ago, announced the series of dates will kick off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.
The UK and Ireland tour will also visit Manchester’s Heaton Park, London ‘s Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh ‘s Murrayfield Stadium and Dublin’s Croke Park throughout July and August next year.
Liam clarified on X, formerly Twitter, that the UK and Ireland leg of the tour is ‘the band’s exclusive European appearances’.
Liam and Noel are expected to pocket about £50million each, which will go a long way to raking back the money they lost during bitter divorce battles and reigniting their rock and roll lifestyle which peaked in the 90s.
The eight-figure sum is said to have persuaded Noel – who once said ‘I liked my Mum until she gave birth to Liam’ – to bury the hatchet with his younger brother. Liam has also opened up about money being ‘tight’, including moaning about how he now has to make his own teas.
It was first reported over the weekend that Oasis were set to announce a reunion tour, with Liam hinting at the news while headlining Reading Festival on Sunday
Noel’s divorce from Sara MacDonald last year after 12 years cost him £20million of his rumoured £53million fortune.
His net worth is believed to be far larger than Liam’s rumoured £6million, as Noel wrote most of the Oasis songs and continues to collect the lion’s share of royalties.
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.
Formed in 1991, the Britpop group rose to fame with hits like Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back In Anger and Stop Crying Your Heart Out.
They went on to become one of the biggest bands in British music history before their break-up in 2009.
The brothers went on to have successful separate careers, with Noel fronting the group Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
