{"id":239224,"date":"2025-07-05T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239224\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T04:48:10","slug":"oasis-honour-late-liverpool-star-diogo-jota-with-live-forever-at-first-reunion-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239224\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis honour late Liverpool star Diogo Jota with &#8216;Live Forever&#8217; at first reunion show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/oasis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oasis<\/a> have paid tribute to late Liverpool star Diogo Jota at their comeback concert in Cardiff \u2013 find out more below.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier tonight (July 04), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/oasis-setlist-cardiff-principality-stadium-songs-played-footage-photos-3875996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oasis made their grand return after 16 years away<\/a>, playing to a sold out crowd at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. Throughout the set, the band rocked through their greatest hits.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most unexpected moments of the night took place during Oasis\u2019 performance of all-timer \u2018Live Forever\u2019, when an image of Diogo Jota in his jersey appeared onscreen. The tribute came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/led-zeppelin-icon-pays-tribute-to-liverpool-star-diogo-jota-who-has-died-aged-28-3875811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jota was killed in a car crash on Thursday (July 03) at just 28 years old<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His tragic death came just after his wedding less than two weeks ago. His 25-year-old brother was also killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Live Forever and a beautifully poignant tribute to Diogo Jota as his LFC shirt flashed on to screen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oasis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@oasis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3zAVkkQOHi\">pic.twitter.com\/3zAVkkQOHi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dianne Bourne (@diannebourne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/diannebourne\/status\/1941237701585621267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oasis has performed &#8220;Live Forever&#8221; in tribute to Diogo Jota <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pMea20rZjg\">pic.twitter.com\/pMea20rZjg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\udfb8 Rock History \ud83c\udfb8 (@historyrock_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/historyrock_\/status\/1941240268306645153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oasis pay tribute to Diogo Jota during their performance of Live Forever in Cardiff tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DxzFEZY7Rp\">pic.twitter.com\/DxzFEZY7Rp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Away Fans (@theawayfans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theawayfans\/status\/1941247335633490156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It marked the second tribute of the night made in Jota\u2019s honour at the Principality Stadium. Earlier in the night, opening act <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/oasis-live-25-in-cardiff-heres-what-cast-played-in-their-opening-set-3876021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cast paid homage with a rendition of \u2018Walkaway\u2019: \u201cDedicated to Diogo Jota. Take it easy brother.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/oasis-setlist-cardiff-principality-stadium-songs-played-footage-photos-3875996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elsewhere during Oasis\u2019 gig<\/a>, the band kicked things off with \u2018Hello\u2019, \u2018Acquiesce\u2019 and \u2018Morning Glory\u2019. Other hits included the aforementioned \u2018Live Forever\u2019, \u2018Cigarettes &amp; Alcohol\u2019, \u2018Supersonic\u2019, \u2018Half The World Away\u2019 and more. They closed out their first gig in 16 years with a powerhouse trio of hits: \u2018Don\u2019t Look Back In Anger\u2019, \u2018Wonderwall\u2019 and \u2018Champagne Supernova\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/noel-and-liam-gallagher-joke-about-ticket-price-controversy-at-first-oasis-live-25-cardiff-show-3876096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brothers took turns poking fun at Ticketmaster\u2019s dynamic ticket pricing system<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 something they\u2019ve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/oasis-reunion-tour-band-say-they-at-no-time-had-any-awareness-that-dynamic-pricing-was-going-to-be-used-3790679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly denied knowing anything about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out their complete setlist and footage of the gig\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/oasis-setlist-cardiff-principality-stadium-songs-played-footage-photos-3875996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oasis have paid tribute to late Liverpool star Diogo Jota at their comeback concert in Cardiff \u2013 find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,480,393,4884,481,3982,12,1144,453,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-239224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-britpop","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-indie","13":"tag-live-music-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-rock","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114798821827448611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}