Noel Gallagher has been pictured for the first time since it was announced that Oasis would reunite for a series of shows, 15 years after their sensational split.
The 57-year-old musician paid tribute to his hometown with an I Love Manchester keyring as he headed into his recording studio in north London on Wednesday.
Noel cut a casual figure as he appeared for the first time since fans were shocked by the news that he and his brother Liam are set to reunite in 2025.
The couple are expected to earn a whopping £50million from the shows, with the first show taking place in Cardiff on July 4.
Oasis are rumoured to be announcing even more dates for their long-awaited reunion tour, which music experts say will “sell out in less than three minutes”.
Noel Gallagher, 57, has been pictured for the first time since it was announced Oasis would reunite for a series of shows, 15 years after their sensational split.
The musician paid tribute to his hometown with an I Love Manchester keyring as he headed into his recording studio in north London on Wednesday.
Noel looked casual as he appeared for the first time since fans were shocked by the news that he and his brother Liam will reunite in 2025.
The band, who will be rejoined by their original guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, will play 14 shows in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin next summer.
Tickets for the Oasis Live 25 tour go on sale Saturday at 9am. A pre-sale will take place on Friday for select fans who will be selected from a voting pool.
More than four million fans are expected to compete for the 1,066,888 tickets available for the 14 concerts, and sources told The Sun that once they sell out, “additional dates will be added for sure”.
Industry sources have also claimed that Bonehead is “confirmed” for the tour and “ecstatic” that the band is back together.
Both Liam and Noel Gallagher reportedly “wanted to have him in their ranks” after he was “one of the driving forces behind the reunion.”
Oasis split in 2009 after many years of infighting, and Noel officially quit the band just before a performance at a festival near Paris, saying at the time that he “simply couldn’t continue working with Liam for another day”.
Even before their disbandment 15 years ago, the brothers had long had an antagonistic relationship and reportedly did not speak to each other for years after the breakup.
Fans have been calling for the brothers to reunite ever since they split up and are now gearing up for what they have hailed as the “bloodbath of the century.”
Following their dramatic break-up in 2009, Noel and Liam agreed to reunite for a series of concerts in the UK and Ireland.
The couple are expected to earn a whopping £50 million from the shows, with the first show taking place in Cardiff on July 4.
Oasis are expected to announce even more dates for their long-awaited reunion tour, which music experts say will “sell out in less than three minutes.”
More than four million fans are expected to compete for the 1,066,888 tickets available for the 14 concerts.
Liam and Noel confirmed Oasis’ long-awaited reunion with a tour in 2025 and also alluded to past tensions in the tour announcement on Tuesday.
“Tickets for these shows will sell out in less than three minutes. Additional dates will likely be added,” a source told The Sun.
Liam and Noel confirmed Oasis’ long-awaited reunion with a tour in 2025 and also alluded to past tensions in the tour announcement on Tuesday.
“The guns have fallen silent,” Oasis said. “The stars have aligned. The long wait is over. Come see it. It won’t be televised.”
As part of the announcement, a black-and-white image of the two brothers, both wearing dark jackets, was also posted.
The Britpop band, who split almost 15 years ago and released their chart-topping Definitely Maybe album some three decades ago, have announced the run of dates will kick off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.
The UK and Ireland tour will also visit Manchester’s Heaton Park, London’s Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium and Dublin’s Croke Park during July and August next year.
Liam clarified on X, previously Twitter, that the UK and Ireland leg of the tour are “the band’s exclusive European appearances.”
Liam and Noel are expected to pocket around £50million each, which will go a long way towards helping them recoup the money they lost during bitter divorce battles and rekindle their rock and roll lifestyle that peaked in the 1990s.
The eight-figure sum is said to have convinced Noel, who once said “I liked my mum until she gave birth to Liam”, to make peace with his younger brother. Liam has also openly spoken about being “short” of money, even complaining that he now has to make his own tea.
It was first reported over the weekend that Oasis were set to announce a reunion tour, with Liam hinting at the news while headlining the Reading Festival on Sunday.
Noel’s divorce from Sara MacDonald last year after 12 years cost him £20million of his rumoured £53million fortune.
His net worth is believed to be much higher than Liam’s rumoured £6m, as Noel wrote most of Oasis’ songs and continues to collect the bulk of the royalties.
Despite speculation that Oasis will be on the Glastonbury 2025 bill, it is known that the band will not be performing at Worthy Farm. However, plans are afoot for Oasis to head to other continents outside of Europe later next year.
Announcing the Oasis Live 25 tour alongside the first photo of the brothers together in years, the legendary band said: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come and see it. It won’t be televised.”
Oasis’ website crashed immediately after the announcement and fans went into a frenzy. The reunion comes one day before the band’s split date of 28 August 2009.
Formed in 1991, the Britpop group rose to fame with hits such as Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back In Anger and Stop Crying Your Heart Out.
They became one of the biggest bands in British music history before splitting up in 2009.
The brothers went on to have successful careers separately, with Noel fronting the group Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.