Glastonbury bosses are hoping to lure brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher to reform their rock band Oasis in time to headline the event next summer.
The Mail on Sunday has learned that the Gallagher brothers have been told bosses would love them to headline the 2025 music festival following criticism over this year’s festival headliners. Coldplay headlined for the fifth time.
Organisers of next year’s event at Worthy Farm, Somerset, are determined to secure big new names for headline slots. Music industry sources told the Mail on Sunday that an Oasis reunion now looks “more feasible than it has for years”.
One said: “All the speculation about this reunion may be getting a little tiresome, but there’s a genuine feeling that next summer’s Glastonbury will be too big a draw for Liam and Noel to turn down. They’ve been informed of their rightful spot as headliners next summer. It’s all up to them now.”
The Manchester band split in 2009 following a tumultuous relationship between the brothers. They are still not on speaking terms, but there has been repeated speculation about reunions in the years since, and Oasis fans were sent into a frenzy after the band’s official Instagram page posted a cryptic video last May showing an aerial shot of a large property on the bank of a river with muted music playing in the background.
Glastonbury bosses are hoping to lure brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher to reform their rock band Oasis in time to headline the event next summer. Pictured: one half of singer Liam Gallagher
Pictured: Noel Gallagher. The Manchester band went their separate ways in 2009 following a tumultuous relationship between the brothers.
Liam and Noel Gallagher in Oasis at the Knebworth Festival, Great Britain, August 1996
One of the previous stumbling blocks had been a bitter split between Liam and Sara Macdonald, Noel’s ex-wife. Sara and Noel divorced last year, which also helped ease tensions between the two brothers.
Meanwhile, Liam has been enjoying huge live success with his own band, but the highlight has been a series of sell-out concerts where he has performed songs from his debut album Definitely Maybe, released in 1994. His brother has continued with his own band, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, which has its own considerable fanbase.
However, Glastonbury officials may have to convince Noel, who is a regular fan and was there this year but says that has changed in recent years.
He said: ‘Now that place is getting a bit more progressive, a bit preachy and a bit pretentious. I don’t like that in music: little idiots waving flags and making political statements and bands coming on stage and saying, “Hey, isn’t war terrible, is it? We’re going to boo the war. Fuck the conservatives,” and all that. It’s like, look, play your fucking songs and get out.”
Glastonbury organisers are also keen to secure American rap legend Eminem for a headline slot.
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