News: Oasis Reunited At Last?

The music industry are ready for what would be the return of the biggest britpop band, Oasis, telling the Sunday Times Wembley Stadium is booked for 10 nights, smashing Taylor Swift's eight-gig record set earlier this month. The band were set to perform a series of gigs next year at London's Wembley Stadium and Manchester's Heaton Park, and a sort of speculation that a Glastonbury headline slot could be possible.

Liam and Noel Gallagher have ramped up speculation that an Oasis reunion could finally be on the cards as the brothers teased that a band announcement could be made on Tuesday. A short clip in the same font and style of the band’s famous logo appeared on the brothers' social media accounts on Sunday, as well as the official Oasis page. It shows the date "27.08.24" before flickering and then reading "8am".

Fans of the Manchester rock band have pleaded with the brothers to regroup since they broke up in 2009, after a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris. The band formed in 1991, the group rose to fame with hits including Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger and Stop Crying Your Heart Out.

Liam Gallagher spent much of Sunday responding to rumours on X: "I never did like that word FORMER", he said, before sharing news articles about the reunion rumours. At his headline Reading Festival set on Sunday evening, he dedicated the Oasis track Half The World Away to his brother, saying: "I wanna dedicate this song to Noel Gallagher." He later dedicated Cigarettes & Alcohol to people who he said hate the band.

At the end of the gig, the same teaser clip showing Tuesday's date appeared on the stage's main screens. It has been 30 years since chart-topping Definitely Maybe album by Oasis turned the Gallagher brothers into stars in 1994 helping to kick off the Britpop era and launching the band, into mega-stardom. In 1996, an incredible 2.5 million people applied for tickets to their two dates at Knebworth – which could hint at the demand any new gigs might see.

The brothers always had a combative relationship, and a string of tours have fallen apart over the years, ending in the backstage fight in 2009 that resulted in Noel leaving the band. Helen Brown, a music critic at The Independent, told BBC News: "After the decades of going at each other with cricket bats and fire extinguishers, it's extraordinary that the Gallagher brothers seem to be getting along better and maybe money is an incentive here."

Both brothers have since gone on to have successful careers separately, with Noel fronting the group Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Of the other original band members, Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs has recently toured with Liam, but drummer Tony McCarroll and bassist Paul McGuigan have not played with either Gallagher since Definitely Maybe and 1997's Be Here Now respectively.