Don’t expect Oasis to drop a new album around their reunion tour. The band’s manager, Alec McKinlay, said that the highly-anticipated concerts will be the musicians’ final stand in terms of both live shows and recorded music.
“This is very much the last time around, as Noel’s made clear in the press,” McKinlay told Music Week. “It’s a chance for fans who haven’t seen the band to see them, or at least for some of them to.” He added, “There’s no plan for any new music.”
The tour reunites brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher after years of disharmony and has led to some speculation about whether there will be more from the band after the concerts. It is set to kick off on July 4 in Cardiff, and includes 41 dates across the U.K., Ireland, North America, Asia, Australia, and South America.
“Probably the biggest and most pleasing surprise of the reunion announcement is how huge it was internationally,” McKinlay said. “Honestly, we knew it would be big here, and that doesn’t take much intuition. But looking outside the U.K., we knew they had a strong fanbase, we did all the stats. We were quite cautious about what that would mean when it came to people actually buying tickets but we were just bowled over by how huge it was. We could have sold out half-a-dozen Rose Bowls in Pasadena and probably eight MetLife stadiums in New York in a day.”
McKinlay also explained that it was a challenge to keep the tour announcement under wraps. “The group of people who knew about it in advance was very limited,” he said. “We were working with people we trusted. We’d obviously been planning it for a while and the moment when it went live was a little bit of a step into the unknown in terms of how big the reaction would be. When it all hit home, it was just phenomenal. The reaction was very much one of, ‘Finally, some good news after all the nonsense that’s been going on in the world.’”
Although Oasis won’t drop any new music, they have teamed up with Peaky Blinders scribe Steven Knight and director by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace for a film around the tour. The Oasis Live ‘25 film does not currently have a title or a release date, and no specifics have been confirmed about its format or whether it’s even considered a documentary. A press release noted, “No further details regarding the content of the film will be released at this moment in time.”
Oasis initially announced their reunion tour in August with a series of U.K. tour dates. They later added a run of North American concerts that will bring them to the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Tickets for all shows were in extremely hot demand, leading to a controversy around dynamic pricing and Ticketmaster canceling legitimate purchases thinking they were made by bots.
In November, Liam joked on X that Oasis had, in fact, recorded a new album. He dropped the original crumb of misinformation back in September, responding to an extremely eager tweet, “is it true that oasis will have a new album???” with the conspicuously casual, “Yep it’s already finished.” The musician kept the bit going in response to another fan who said it felt like an “albums in the air,” saying, “It’s in the bag mate fuck the air.”
Oasis’ last album was 2008’s Dig Out Your Soul. Since then, musicians have focused on their solo careers, although the group has reissued several of their formative albums in recent years.
