Oasis decided to mount their newly announced Live '27 tour during the second night of their Wembley Stadium shows on the Live '25 run, Noel Gallagher has revealed. The guitarist and chief songwriter told TalkSPORT that the band settled on the idea after seeing the scale of the fan response at Wembley on July 26, 2025.
«It was after the second Wembley show,» Gallagher said. «Nobody really knew what was going to happen or how it was going to go. So we did Cardiff and Manchester, then by the time we got to Wembley, somebody said 'Well, you know?' and it was decided we were going to do it.» He added that the plan was «all set in motion then.»
The Live '27 tour was confirmed on Monday, September 14, with 38 shows scheduled to begin next May. The run opens with five nights at Glasgow's Celtic Park, followed by 11 gigs at Manchester's Etihad Stadium and dates across Europe. In August, the band will play three shows in Boston and three in Las Vegas, before wrapping up with two stops at Slane Castle in Ireland and four at Knebworth.
Gallagher said the European shows in Italy, France, Germany and Spain were always part of the plan because fans there have «been great with us throughout the years.» The US dates, he explained, were cities the band «were meant to do last time, but couldn't for some reason.» It was from there, he said, that the idea of a Live '27 tour took shape, and he found himself asking «what about Knebworth?» — particularly because they were «having such a great time, that why wouldn't we?»
The announcement follows the cinema release of the new Oasis documentary Don't Look Back In Anger, which was followed by a teaser campaign that culminated in a drone show over the Etihad Stadium.
Asked whether the band had been working on new music since reuniting — which would be their first since 2008's Dig Out Your Soul — Gallagher shut down the rumours. «There won't be any new music,» he said, echoing similar statements made by his brother Liam earlier this summer, when Liam said the pressure for new music to meet fan expectations made the idea too off-putting.
Fans have responded to the new dates with excitement online, though some are already dreading the ticket-buying process after the chaotic online queue and controversial dynamic pricing that marred the first Live '25 on-sale. Oasis have said they will adopt the same on-sale model used for their latter Wembley shows, inviting fans to register for the chance to buy tickets.
Registration is open until Thursday, September 17, at 4pm BST / 5pm CEST / 8am PT / 11am ET. Successful applicants will receive a code for an allocated on-sale window, with sales taking place across Friday, September 25, Saturday, September 26, and Sunday, September 27 in the UK. Standard ticket prices are fixed between £71.50 and £266.60, including fees.
The Live '25 tour opened in Cardiff to a five-star review, with the show hailed as «a supersonic reunion for a new generation.» The new documentary, directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern and written by Steven Knight, was given a four-and-a-half star review and praised for paying tribute to late Stone Roses icon Mani and celebrating the «genius» of Bonehead.