Oasis Announces 2025 North American Concert Dates
· Ultimate Classic RockOasis is coming to North America next year. The band has announced five new 2025 concert dates, which will begin Aug. 24 in Toronto and conclude Sept. 12 in Mexico City.
In between the band will visit Chicago, the New York City area and Los Angeles. Cage the Elephant will serve as the opener on all dates.
A complete list of Oasis' 2025 North American concert dates is available below.
"The guns have fallen silent," brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, who have not performed together since Oasis broke up in 2009, said in a previous joint statement when the band's U.K. dates were announced. “The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.” An explanatory addition noted: “There has been no great revelatory moment that has ignited the reunion – just the gradual realization that the time is right."
Before traveling to America, Oasis will perform in five U.K. cities: Cardiff, Manchester (their hometown), London, Edinburgh and Dublin.
Oasis Promise Not to Use Dynamic Ticket Pricing
Oasis' management has announced that Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing model will not be used for tickets to the North American dates. "We have made this decision for the North American tour to hopefully avoid a repeat of the issues fans in the UK and Ireland experienced recently," explained their social media statement.
When tickets for Oasis' U.K. concerts went on sale earlier this month, fans were shocked to discover just how expensive they were being sold for, in some cases jumping up to several times the originally advertised price. This is known as dynamic pricing, in which the cost of a ticket fluctuates based on demand, often with no warning to the buyer. (Additionally, third party resale sites were also listing tickets for extraordinarily high prices – as much as $8,000.)
According to a statement from Oasis, the band members themselves “at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used” (via The New York Times), but also added that their managers and promoters agreed to “a positive ticket sale strategy, which would be a fair experience for fans, including dynamic ticketing."
The uproar was so great that even the newly minted Prime Minister of the U.K. Keir Starmer, who has only held the position since July, commented on the matter.
"About half the country was probably queuing for tickets over the weekend," he said in early September. "But it is depressing to hear of price hikes."
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Liam Gallagher did not directly address the pricing issue, but did express his dismay that fans were left without tickets.
"I'm seriously gutted for people that can't get tickets I can't even go there it hurts my heart," he said on social media. "I know people will think I'm taking the piss but I'm not I want to celebrate this biblical moment with everyone I gotta go I'm sorry."
Oasis 2025 North American Tour Dates
Aug. 24 - Toronto, ON - Rogers Stadium
Aug. 28 - Chicago, IL - Soldier Field
Aug. 31 - East Rutherford, NJ - MetLife Stadium
Sept. 6 - Los Angeles, CA - Rose Bowl Stadium
Sept. 12 - Mexico City, MX - Estadio GNP Seguros
7. 'Heathen Chemistry' (2002)
It was in 2002 that Oasis made an album that, for the very first time, featured significantly more songwriting contributions from members other than Noel. On Heathen Chemistry, that was a good thing, as it yielded an impressive track called "Hung in a Bad Place" by their brand new guitarist Gem Archer, and a pleasing closing song by Liam, "Better Man." But there's a reason Noel has called this LP his least favorite Oasis release — it sounds like a band that doesn't really know what direction to take after experiencing enormous success, and has lost some sight of the things that make them stand out the most.
6. 'Standing on the Shoulder of Giants' (2000)
Like Heathen Chemistry, 2000's Standing on the Shoulder of Giants also comes across as a bit muddled, something that seemed to put off Oasis fans at the time who were used to much more direct material. Ironically, this album's saving grace lies in the fact that it doesn't sound like previous Oasis albums — it leans more toward psychedelic rock, Middle Eastern influences and even some prog. It was also the first time Liam contributed a song to an album, "Little James." It's not Oasis at their best, but at least it showed they were willing to take some creative risks.
5. 'Dig Out Your Soul' (2008)
Noel had big ambitions for what would turn out to be Oasis' very last release. "I think since Standing on the Shoulder of Giants we've been trying to prove a point of just bass, drums, guitar and vocals and nothing fancy," he told NME in 2007. "But I kind of like fancy! I'd like to make an absolutely fucking colossal album." Dig Out Your Soul seemed to hit both marks — the essence of what made Oasis a great rock band in the '90s mixed with just enough variation and surprise that one doesn't feel like the needle's gotten stuck. It wasn't a bad way to go out.
4. 'Don't Believe the Truth' (2005)
After the mild confusion that was Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and Heathen Chemistry, 2005's Don't Believe the Truth arrived like an answer to a prayer. To the non-fan, there may not seem like anything all that astounding about it, but here was the Oasis fans had been missing for half a decade — mostly stripped down rock with contributions from every member of the band, complete with hues of the Beatles, Stones, Velvet Underground and others. This LP did not necessarily earn Oasis a whole lot of new listeners, but it did prove that when they worked together cohesively, the result could hit the target their fanbase was looking for.
3. 'Be Here Now' (1997)
Of the three albums Oasis made in the '90s, Be Here Now is the weakest, but mostly because the pressure on the band to follow up two of the biggest releases of the decade clearly took a toll. It's isn't as cohesive as their first two albums, lacking the same sense of striking (and a smidge naive) confidence, and some tracks are simply too long. Yet, Noel's songwriting is still something to behold — "D'You Know What I Mean?" became their third No. 1 hit, with "Stand By Me" at No. 2. You won't find their very best songs on this album, but you will find a certain level of consistency.
2. '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' (1995)
If there is one thing Noel knows how to do, it's write a big, memorable chorus. You will find plenty of those on 1995's (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, the album that took Oasis from pretty popular British band to global superstar. You really can't tell the story of Britpop — or of '90s rock 'n' roll in general — without bringing up "Wonderwall," this album's crown jewel. Pulling from the Beatles, Bowie and the Clash, What's the Story is brash in the best way, with occasional moments of tenderness to balance it out. Noel's songwriting here was only triumphed by the number one album on this list...
1. 'Definitely Maybe' (1994)
Not everyone in rock music has the great fortune of hitting the nail directly on the head the very first time. But Oasis is one of those groups who happend to find their sound almost instantaneously on their debut album, Definitely Maybe. Noel's ability to write a stupendous chorus, combined with Liam's half-sneering vocal delivery made for something that at once reminded listeners of previous great rock bands and also showed them something entirely new. Each of the songs on Definitely Maybe is a mini rock epic on their own, and put together they make one of the strongest releases of the '90s.