Rumours about the set proved true: the brothers tore through “Morning Glory,” “Some Might Say,” and deeper cuts such as “Fade Away,” before Liam leaned into the microphone to dedicate “Live Forever” to the late footballer Diogo Jota, triggering a wave of applause and tears.
Visually, little had changed—Liam in a parka, tambourine aloft; Noel steady behind his Epiphone—but the old combativeness felt tempered by shared purpose. When they harmonised on “Acquiesce” the stadium howled, sensing truce in every perfectly colliding note.
Outside, ticketless fans gathered just to absorb the noise seeping through concrete walls, some of them children of original Britpop devotees. Inside, millennials and Gen Zers belted lyrics discovered on TikTok, proving Oasis’s anthems now belong to three generations.
Cardiff is only the spark. The UK-Ireland leg races through seven sold-out nights at Manchester’s Heaton Park and a brace of Wembley Stadium dates before hopping to Edinburgh and Dublin.
From there the caravan crosses oceans: Toronto, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Melbourne, Buenos Aires and finally São Paulo on 23 November, where the tour is scheduled to end—fifty-one concerts in five months.
July 5, 2025. Across social media the hashtag #OasisLive25 trends at number one in twenty-two countries; live clips from the second Cardiff show rack up millions of views before the encore even finishes.
For those shut out, a paid livestream offers front-row intimacy and a forty-eight-hour replay window, a nod to fans who once swapped bootlegs in back alleys but now gather on Discord servers to dissect every chord change.
Tour merch has already sparked debate—£70 hoodies and £10 keyrings—but city economists estimate the Cardiff weekend alone injected more than £20 million into local businesses, proof that nostalgia can be lucrative as well as cathartic.
Beyond money and metrics, the reunion rewinds the clock to 1995 while admitting the scars of 2009; it reminds aging listeners who they used to be and offers younger ones an origin story in real time.
When the final feedback fades in São Paulo, Oasis may fracture again—or perhaps survive—but these nights of legends, loud guitars, and lost time will stand as proof that even broken stories can find a second chorus, sung louder than the first.
