Mark SavageMusic correspondent
It’s been 16 years – or 5,795 days, to be precise – since the last Oasis gig. But hardly a day has gone by without Liam or Noel Gallagher being asked about the potential for a reunion.
Why? Because there was always a sense of unfinished business. This was a band who defined a generation of British guitar music. A band whose second album sold 22 million copies. A band who were dubbed by The Face magazine as “The Sex Beatles”.
Their story shouldn’t have ended with Noel quitting after Liam threw a plum at his head backstage in Paris.
But that’s how it happened… Well, kind of.
According to eyewitness reports, Liam also marched into a dressing room and started threatening people with a guitar, but as Noel later said, “plum throws plum and finishes Oasis”, is a much better story.
Ever since, fans have clamoured for the band to re-form. Liam hinted at a truce in 2017 but called it off a month later. In 2018, he tweeted his brother to suggest a reunion, but after Noel failed to reply, he wrote, 鈥淚鈥檒l take that as a NO then.鈥 During the Covid-19 pandemic, he suggested getting back together to support the NHS, again to silence.
We don’t know what’s changed to make it happen. But if the band can recapture the electric, confrontational energy of their 1990s heyday, this tour could be the greatest rock reunion since Led Zeppelin’s legendary one-off show in 2007.