{"id":39997,"date":"2025-07-05T05:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39997\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T05:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:41:15","slug":"oasis-reunite-for-first-show-in-16-years-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39997\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis Reunite For First Show in 16 Years: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt only felt truly real when\u00a0Liam<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Noel Gallagher<\/a>\u00a0strode out on stage together in Cardiff hand-in-hand, raising them aloft as one to a crowd that had waited 16 years for this moment. \u201cIt\u2019s good to be back,\u201d Liam sang a few minutes later, opening a gig many thought would never happen with \u201cHello.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAsk people over the last year and they\u2019ll tell you a hundred different reasons why\u00a0Oasis<\/a>\u00a0are back together. \u201cLiam and Noel have finally buried the hatchet!\u201d \u201cThe paycheck was just too good to refuse!\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re doing it for their mum!\u201d Come out of Cardiff Central train station on this muggy summer night though, and it felt like no other reason could exist above reuniting for the millions upon millions of fans who who built their lives on this band. \u201cWas it worth the \u00a340,000 you paid for the ticket?\u201d Liam said, grinning, halfway through the show, not even waiting around for the affirmative reply.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show didn\u2019t need any extra hype, but hosting it at Cardiff\u2019s Principality Stadium on a Friday night certainly helped. An outlier in the U.K. stadium circuit, the venue sits slap bang in the middle of the Welsh capital, within a five-minute walk of the train station and with countless pubs and bars along that route.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCardiff\u2019s bouncing already!\u201d came a report over 24 hours before the gig, and there were merch pop-ups, murals made entirely from bucket hats and more in the bustling streets around the stadium. It felt more like FA Cup Final day than a gig, such is the jubilant, raucous atmosphere around the city. Once inside, it also helped that the stadium had a retractable roof which, when closed like it was tonight, made this feel more like a comparatively intimate arena show than a stadium gig.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll this led to a thick, fervent energy in the stadium by the time Oasis took the stage just after 8 p.m. and launched into the opening song from\u00a0(What\u2019s the Story) Morning Glory<\/a>. Questions around set-lists, the band line-up (poor Zak Starkey isn\u2019t here, on top of being\u00a0fired multiple times from The Who<\/a>\u00a0this year), murky phone recordings of rehearsals in London warehouses and beyond swirled around ahead of the tour opener, but it all melted into insignificance once the ear-splitting singalongs began.<\/p>\n

The band sound, to use Liam\u2019s favorite phrase, absolutely biblical. Within half an hour, we\u2019re through \u201cAcquiesce<\/a>, \u201cMorning Glory,\u201d \u201cSupersonic\u201d and \u201cCigarettes & Alcohol\u201d at tremendous volume. Oasis\u2019 arsenal of generation-defining hits is hardly a secret, but when confronted with them one after another like this, it was truly overwhelming and didn\u2019t let up for over two hours.<\/p>\n

\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNoel Gallagher<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGareth Cattermole\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tA mid-set couplet from Noel \u2014 \u201cHalf the World Away\u201d and \u201cLittle By Little\u201d \u2014 surprisingly got some of the biggest singalongs of the night, while Liam sang \u201cSlide Away\u201d and \u201cWhatever\u201d with impassioned energy. There was also time for a little poignancy, when the shirt of late Liverpool striker Diogo Jota, killed in a car crash yesterday, came on screen for the final bars of \u201cLive Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBritish music\u2019s greatest sitcom took a pause on a particularly apt note in 2009, when Noel left the band in a blaze of glory before a gig at Paris\u2019 Rock en Seine festival. The subsequent 16 years have been a swirl of solo projects, reunion rumors and consistently entertaining mud-slinging between the brothers. Since the tour was actually announced<\/a>, fans speculated that the press images shared of the pair were actually composites, and that Liam and Noel hadn\u2019t met face-to-face once in the process of agreeing to reunite. When tickets went on sale, it sparked a global conversation about \u2018dynamic pricing\u2019 that was\u00a0investigated by the UK government. So far, so dramatic. Or as Liam put it before closing the show with \u201cChampagne Supernova\u201d: \u201cWe\u2019re hard work, I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tCompared to the build-up, the gig itself was largely drama-free. They played the hits superbly, backed by a band on top form, and look suitably nonplussed while doing it. The brothers took up their old roles \u2014 Liam was the rabble rouser, asking fans to do the Poznan dance of his beloved Manchester City during \u201cCigarettes & Alcohol\u201d while Noel was his composed sidekick \u2014 as if they never left.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe symbolic arm-raising at the start of the gig was bookended by a truly enormous cheer when the brothers embraced, slightly gingerly, before leaving the stage. Largely though, they let the tunes do the talking, which feels fitting. Through all the scuffles and spats, the High Flying Birds and Beady Eyes, these generation-defining anthems are what have always remained, and will continue to do so long after Cardiff got one of its best nights out in history.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet List<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFuckin\u2019 in the Bushes\u201d (tape)
\u201cHello\u201d
\u201cAcquiesce\u201d
\u201cMorning Glory\u201d
\u201cSome Might Say\u201d
\u201cBring It on Down\u201d
\u201cCigarettes & Alcohol\u201d
\u201cFade Away\u201d
\u201cSupersonic\u201d
\u201cRoll With It\u201d
\u201cTalk Tonight\u201d
\u201cHalf the World Away\u201d
\u201cLittle By Little\u201d
\u201cD\u2019You Know What I Mean?\u201d
\u201cStand By Me\u201d
\u201cCast No Shadow\u201d
\u201cSlide Away\u201d
\u201cWhatever\u201d
\u201cRock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Star\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tEncore
\u201cThe Masterplan\u201d
\u201cDon\u2019t Look Back In Anger\u201d
\u201cWonderwall\u201d
\u201cChampagne Supernova\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story was originally published<\/a> on Rolling Stone\u00a0UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It only felt truly real when\u00a0Liam\u00a0and\u00a0Noel Gallagher\u00a0strode out on stage together in Cardiff hand-in-hand, raising them aloft as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31860,51,31861,50,31862,31285,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-39997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-beady-eye","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-liam-gallagher","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-noel-gallagher","13":"tag-oasis","14":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114799029997780490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}