Jamie Whitehead
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Well the worst-kept secret in music is now officially out. Oasis - without question one of the biggest bands this country has ever produced - are back for a string of reunion shows next year.

It's been a long-time coming. When Noel and Liam Gallagher walk on stage in Cardiff next July, it'll be the first show the brothers have played together since the V Festival in 2009 - provided they don't crowbar a Glastonbury appearance in the preceding weekend.

We're bringing this page to a close now, but there is still so much more across the BBC to keep the adrenaline pumping until the tickets go on general sale on Saturday.

• Here's all you need to know about the reunion
• Want to look back on the glory days and what came after, BBC 6 Music have made The Rise and Fall of Oasis
• Looking for some new Oasis music? There's none yet, but you can hear some unreleased versions of old classics coming later this week
• Tickets go on sale on Saturday - with prices being announced on Thursday

Today's page was brought to you by Johanna Chisholm, Matt Spivey, Alex Taylor, Noor Nanji, Yasmin Rufo, Thomas Copeland, Jared Evitts and me.

And to paraphrase Liam in a reply to a fan on Twitter: See you down the front.

Howard Irwin from Cardiff has just got in touch to say he's hoping to get tickets to see the reformed Oasis in the Welsh capital in July.

"Oasis were unapologetically working class, arrogant and displayed everything good and bad about rock 'n' roll," he says.

"Their early music was anthemic and hopeful, and brutal honesty was probably their greatest charm."

The band's reunion is important for him on a personal level, he admits, but he also thinks it's part of something bigger.

"Oasis is important culturally in terms of rock and roll as pop dominates at the moment."

The 55-year-old has a friend 20 years his junior who is desperate to see Oasis, and he hopes the pair will get to see them together next year.

Alex Taylor
Culture reporter

As Oasis prepare to dominate stadiums next year, it's worth remembering the typically helter skelter way in which the band were originally signed.

The events are steeped in rock and roll mythology.

On 1 May 1993, Oasis decide, on a whim, to make the 200-mile (320km) trip across the border to Glasgow, to gatecrash onto the bill of a gig their friends (The Sister Lovers) are playing at King Tuts Wah Wah Hut.

After fighting to get themselves onto the bill, they have to settle for an early slot. But the stars align. In the sparse crowd sits Alan McGee, boss of Creation Records, home to Teenage Fanclub, The Boo Radleys and Primal Scream.

He claims a terrible day had seen him miss his train and pop into the bar for a quick drink.

It proved a life-changing pint.

"There was one kid just sitting at a table, and he looked amazing... handsome... like Paul Weller. I had no idea this was Liam [Gallagher]," McGee said.

"Sure enough this band came on with this kid as the front man. He was so confrontational as a front man, that you just thought 'god, he's really got attitude'," McGee reflected, saying that by the third song "I'd already decided I was going to sign them".

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Speaking on the BBC's Rise and Fall of Oasis podcast, 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq tempered the story, but added "it all depends on which version you want to believe".

But, he continues, "they've played less than 20 gigs at this stage. How many bands get signed having done less than 20 gigs? There was obviously electricity in the air".

Three decades on, the story continues, ready to delight, divide (and make) millions.

Seatbelts on.

Noor Nanji
Culture reporter

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Cast your mind back to 2009, when a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival resulted in Noel Gallagher leaving the band.

Several of my colleagues were working on the story then. They summed up the mood as “weary resignation”.

Liam and Noel had been publicly at each other’s throats for years. No one was surprised to see the feud come to a head.

Of course, die hard fans would’ve been devastated.

But this wasn’t like Take That or the Spice Girls breaking up. Those events came as much more of a shock.

If anything, it seems some were surprised Oasis were still together.

Ewan Gawne
Reporting from Manchester

Oasis fans in Manchester say they are "over the moon" at the return of a band whose "mythical" legacy influenced a generation of "haircuts, swagger, and attitude".

Liam and Noel Gallagher, who grew up in Burnage, are set to perform on four dates at Heaton Park as part of their 2025 reunion tour.

It marks a return to the venue where the brothers last performed together in the city as Oasis in 2009, shortly before they broke up.

"It's a very, very special day to be a Manc", said self-confessed superfan Raz Ashraf.

Read more here.

Jasmine Sandhar
BBC Newsbeat

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If you’ve been at any festivals this summer, you might have caught a glimpse of people wearing Oasis T-shirts (something our entertainment correspondent, Colin Paterson, has also picked up on).

Music journalist Katie Macbeth feels the band have an enduring appeal, and the gigs next summer will feature a mix of older and younger fans.

"They’re like a generational band that people know," she tells BBC Newsbeat.

"Even if you don’t know anything deeper, everyone knows Wonderwall or Don’t Look Back in Anger."

Katie, 23, recalls growing up and hearing Oasis as a child, but says these days through TikTok and streaming, they’ve managed to "still have the draw".

"It’s something everybody has delved into," she adds.

Dan Moffat
Reporting from Cardiff

Kellys Records in Cardiff is one of the most popular places for music fans in the city.

When we arrived at just after 10:00 it was fairly quiet, but as the morning went on, people started to gather, and many headed straight towards the "O" section to look at the selection of Oasis albums.

Owner Allan Parkins says he can't wait for the Gallagher brothers to return to the Welsh capital next July, and hopes they'll come and visit his store again.

He first met Liam and Noel back in 1999, when the pair caught the record store owner off guard with a surprise visit.

“They were good as gold, we had a bit of banter before they left for the gig that night," Parkins told the news outlet InterCardiff, external back in 2015.

Noor Nanji
Culture reporter

If you’re counting down the minutes till Saturday’s ticket sale (I know I am), a word of warning.

Scammers usually target the most in-demand events.

Lloyds Bank has issued the following tips to stay safe when buying tickets:

• Stick to official ticketing platforms
• Avoid deals which look too good to be true
• Steer clear of social media, where fraudsters create fake profiles to sell tickets that don’t exist

As we reported in our previous post, tickets go on sale on Saturday at 09:00 BST for the UK shows, and 08:00 for the Dublin dates.

Bonnie McLaren and Annabel Rackham
Culture reporters

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After days of speculation, the Gallagher brothers have finally confirmed Oasis will be reuniting.

Noel and Liam will - hopefully - put their differences aside to play a series of dates across the UK and Ireland, in a tour named Oasis Live '25.

Here's everything you need to know:

• Where and when are Oasis playing? They will be playing four dates in both Manchester and London, along with two nights in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin
• Tickets go on sale Saturday, 31 August 2024. For the UK shows, tickets will go on sale from 09:00 BST. Dublin tickets will be available from 08:00 BST on that same day
• How much? This is the all-important question, but it has not been confirmed how much tickets will cost yet. All ticket prices, including Platinum and VIP, will be announced on Thursday, 29 August

For more on the Oasis reunion including if a Glastonbury appearance is on the cards and who else is in the band, click here.

Barry O'Connor
Reporting from Belfast

In Belfast fans have been reacting to the news of the Oasis reunion tour.

Fans Conal, Deaglan and Ryan are in the 90s mood with their retro football tops, and are hoping to travel to the gig in Dublin, currently the only confirmed location outside the UK.

For Conal, the excitement of the announcement is like “Christmas and his birthday rolled into one.”

“It’s magical,” he adds.

Deaglan says: “I was eight when they broke up.”

He recalls times growing up and his father showing him tickets from Oasis gigs he had gone to. He never thought he would get the chance to go.

Ryan says: “It is great, people who never got to go see them live are finally getting the chance.”

Noor Nanji
Culture reporter

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As we’ve been saying, Oasis are seen as a formative band of nineties Britpop – and many of us still know all the words to their songs.

I still remember belting out Wonderwall in summer camp.

And that’s a tradition that’s carried through to my 20s and 30s, where strangers at events, pubs and bars will come together and sing along to Oasis’s biggest hits.

Definitely Maybe was a seminal album, with hits including Rock ‘n’ Roll Star and Live Forever.

And tracks from its follow-up (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? Like Don't Look Back In Anger and Champagne Supernova remain classic anthems to this day.

I can already picture the giant singalongs next summer…

An Oasis tribute band says they woke up to a "crazy" amount of requests on Tuesday morning following the announcement the real Oasis will hit the road again.

Definitely Oasis lead singer Brian McGhee tells the Press Association that he’s booked every weekend in June and July for hotels in London on Monday as speculation mounted that the reunion would happen.

The 42-year-old Scottish musician says: "Buzzing, to be honest, can't wait. It's been a long time coming, just can't wait to go and finally see them again and like the whole country. It's just that, everything's great again."

When asked about how it has been for his tribute group, he said: "The amount of emails I woke up to this morning's crazy, all these festivals, it's just wild.

"So yeah, I'm (going to) have to try and get through them all later on today... It's going to be a busy few days."

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Jared Evitts
BBC Newsbeat, reporting from Manchester

I'm sitting in a coffee shop opposite a record shop you might recognise from one of Oasis' early songs - Shakermaker.

"Mr Sifter sold me songs when I was just 16," the Gallagher brothers sang in the 90s.

Mr Sifter's not sold any records yet today - the shop isn't open until 1pm - but it's been surrounded by reporters all morning.

In the coffee shop I'm in, for much of my time here most punters have come with a microphone and camera.

Colin Paterson
Entertainment correspondent, reporting from Manchester

Even when they didn't exist, Oasis were still the biggest band in Britain. Since they split in 2009, at almost any indie gig by a young band there would be fans there wearing Oasis T-shirts.

Their greatest hits compilation Stop The Clocks has been in the top 40 every week for years. Last night, I was at an 80th birthday party - the talk of the event was speculation about Oasis getting back together.

They are a band who truly span generations and, intriguingly, these dates start the week after Glastonbury. Could their comeback be on the biggest stage in British music?

If it's not, they will still be creating their own huge event next summer.

Noor Nanji
Culture reporter

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Oasis are definitely not the first to regroup after calling it a day.

Think about the Spice Girls, Guns N' Roses and Girls Aloud, just to name a few.

These reunions can last for just one event, or they can mark the start of a new chapter for the band in question.

Band reunions can make a lot of money. They’re tapping into their old fan base and winning some new ones along the way.

But BBC 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq says success can depend on whether bands have the energy that they used to possess, as well as the songs to carry it off.

“The thing about Oasis is a lot of their songs are a part of the fabric of the musical landscape of Britain,” he tells BBC Radio 5 Live.

“There are some people that have come across them since they've split that haven’t had a chance to see them," Lamacq says, noting that they'll be motivated "partly because of excitement and partly out of curiosity".

Noor Nanji
Culture reporter

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In short - a lot.

It’s not just tickets. Fans will be splashing out on travel, accommodation, outfits, and food and drinks.

UK Music chief executive Tom Kiehl told the PA news agency that the gigs in cities including Manchester, London and Edinburgh will have "a lot of impact on local economies".

He adds: "Having a big music event in your community has a knock on and spill over impact on the wider economy too, so great news for the UK."

A recent comparable is the Taylor Swift Eras tour. The US pop sensation has just finished playing 17 UK dates, including a record-breaking eight nights at London’s Wembley stadium.

Estimates of how much the Eras Tour would boost UK spending have differed, but are generally in the hundreds of millions of pounds.

Let’s see if Oasis can top that.

Matt Spivey
Live reporter

I never thought I'd get my chance to see them, but the reality that what seemed impossible "is happening" is slowly sinking in.

Oasis has always been a staple of my Mancunian household and would often dominate car journeys or Sunday mornings in the kitchen.

Growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, tracks such as Little by Little and The Importance of Being Idle were the soundtrack to my childhood, but only available on the radio or my iPod, not in “real life”.

I've seen each of the brothers perform live - individually, of course - and would wait with baited breath as they announced a special guest - in the hopes it would be the other Gallagher joining them on stage.

Desperate to see Oasis live, but fearing I'd never get my chance, I would attend fellow Mancunian band The Courteeners' concerts sporting my best Oasis T-shirts and hoping they'd sing a cover of Don't Look Back in Anger.

For a whole generation of Mancunians whose love of Oasis has essentially been passed down through our genes, the announcement of a Live Tour in 2025 feels to be Half The World Away, but I'm going to Roll With It - given I never thought this day would come.

Nabiha Ahmed

An Oasis fan from Bristol was so convinced the band would get back together, he recently inked his convictions on his sleeve.

Chris, who moved to Malaysia, tells the BBC how he got a tattoo of the English band two weeks ago. He told the tattooist at the time: “Oasis are getting back together."

Upon hearing the news today, he says he "never thought" it would happen so quickly.

But he's since texted his tattooist, telling them "you're some kind of magician".

Having been at Oasis' last gig 15 years ago with his sister and late mother, Chris already has a plan in place for securing tickets for the newly announced world tour.

"My sister will try for Cardiff tickets, her husband will try for Wembley and I’ll try for Manchester,” he says.

“I’ve always wanted an Oasis tattoo. And I’ve always felt in my heart they’d reunite.”

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Alex Taylor
Culture reporter

This morning's reunion announcement follows Liam Gallagher's solo tour in support of Oasis' debut album Definitely Maybe, which turns 30 this week.

But it seems a reconciliation with elder brother Noel has never been too far from the singer's mind.

In June, an eagle-eyed fan at one of the tour dates spotted a seat reserved for Noel in hospitality, external and posted it on X, formerly Twitter.

When questioned about it in a separate post on the social media platform, Liam confirmed a seat has been kept aside at every show.

"Yes, you never know," he wrote, external.

We do now.

Oasis got a shout out in Prime Minister Keir Starmer's speech, which ended a little while ago.

After the PM's address - which you can read more about here - Starmer was asked by The Sun's Jack Elsom: "You've spent a lot of time today looking back in anger, but are you happy that Oasis have decided to reform on your watch?"

Starmer quipped back: "What can I say in relation to that? It’s very, very good. It's a great song but I'm not sure I'm best placed to answer it after the last 20-30 minutes, but let's see what happens with Oasis."