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"This is it, this is happening," the band said on X, announcing
tickets would go on sale on Saturday. The first show will be
held in Cardiff, Wales on July 4 next year.
Oasis said they would play a total of 14 gigs in Cardiff,
Manchester – where the band was formed in 1991 – London,
Edinburgh and Dublin, in the domestic leg of a world tour.
"The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great
wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised," the band said
in a statement on their website.
Tuesday's announcement follows a weekend of speculation about a
reunion, which music streaming platform Spotify said had
prompted a 160% spike in streaming globally over a two hour
period on Monday compared with the previous week.
A tour in 2025 will mark the 30th anniversary of Oasis' second
album "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?", which included the
singles "Don't Look Back in Anger" and "Wonderwall".
The release of "Roll with It" from the album in August 1995 put
Oasis head-to-head with rival Blur's "Country House" in a chart
battle that was seized upon by the media. Blur won the coveted
number one spot.
"(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" went on to sell more than 22
million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album of the
1990s in Britain and the band's breakthrough in the United
States.
The Gallagher brothers were often at loggerheads when the band
toured in the 1990s and their hostility continued afterwards.
"He thinks he's the man and I think I'm the man, do you know
what I mean?" Liam said in 2017.
(Reporting by Paul Sandle, Kylie MacLellan and Sam Tobin;
Editing by Kate Holton and Alexander Smith)
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