It's the biggest comeback tour of recent years (and not without its controversy), and now it's official! Britpop legends Oasis are making their way to Australia.
Setting aside their legendary sibling rivalry, Liam and Noel Gallagher are getting the band back together after 16 years and have confirmed they'll make their way Down Under for the first time since 2005.
Oasis have expanded their reunion tour with 2025 Australian dates, which will follow hugely anticipated dates across the UK, Ireland, North America, Canada and Mexico through next year. All 28 shows have sold out.
What are Oasis's Australian tour dates?
The band will headline shows at Melbourne's Marvel Stadium on October 31 and Sydney's Accor Stadium on November 7. The shows are presented by the Australian and New Zealand arm of global touring titan Live Nation.
Registration for tickets is open now for a 24-hour period before they officially go on sale on Tuesday October 15, with an artist pre-sale happening on Monday October 14 (from 12 midday AEDT).
In a press release, the band said:
"People of the land down under,
'you better run-you better take cover.'
We are coming. You are most welcome."
The band broke news of their reunion tour in August. They later clarified that they would only be playing headline shows, eschewing performances at music festivals, shutting down rumours of a headlining set at Britain's Glastonbury festival in 2025.
The reunion news coincided with the 30th anniversary of the group's debut album, Definitely Maybe. A new anniversary reissue of the record earned Oasis their 8th UK number-one album and hit the Top 10 on the ARIA Charts in early September.
Will the Oasis shows use dynamic ticket pricing?
No. Tour promoters have confirmed with Double J that Oasis are taking the same stance as their US shows and will not apply dynamic pricing to the Australian leg of their 2025 tour.
A practice used by Ticketmaster and designed to decrease scalping and adjust prices "based on market demand", dynamic pricing is common in the US. But it has only been applied before in Australia to sporting events, including the Formula One and Australian Tennis Open.
Oasis's management said dynamic pricing caused "an unacceptable experience for fans" after 10 million people from 158 countries logged on to purchase tickets to the band's UK and Ireland shows earlier this year.
Some fans complained of spending hours queuing online only to be met with surging prices, from around $260 to upwards of $892 for a standing ticket in some instances.
However, the backlash drew the attention of several British MPs, looking into claims the ticketing agent may have breached consumer laws by failing to warn Oasis fans ahead of tickets going on sale.
It was enough for the UK government to declare it would include examining dynamic pricing as part of a forthcoming consultation on consumer protections against ticket reselling and touting.
Following the controversy, Oasis's management confirmed the band wouldn't use Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing model for the North American tour to "hopefully avoid a repeat of the issues fans in the UK and Ireland experienced".
The management statement added: "When unprecedented ticket demand (where the entire tour could be sold many times over at the moment tickets go on sale) is combined with technology that cannot cope with that demand, it becomes less effective and can lead to an unacceptable experience for fans."
Referring to the statement, and regarding the band's upcoming shows in Melbourne and Sydney, the tour publicist for Oasis's Australian visit says: "The same will apply here."
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Artists including Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and the Cure have chosen not to use dynamic pricing in recent years, while Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were criticised for using the model in 2022.
Live Nation said it was up to artists and events whether they would employ the model when selling tickets.
Why did Oasis break up?
The feuding between the Gallagher siblings is almost as central to Oasis's legacy as their arena-sized singalongs.
Their in-fighting was increasingly hostile until, on August 28, 2009, it boiled over into a scuffle backstage, moments before the band were set to arrive on stage to play Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
The next day, Oasis was no more.
"It is with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight," Noel wrote in a statement at the time.
"People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."
The writing had been on the wall before then. Noel described the "terrible, terrible time" he had during the group's "dreadful" final year in the second season of ABC TV's Take 5 with Zan Rowe.
"That last tour was not happy. Nobody was happy at the time. The other fellas trying to rewrite history that it was all f***ing great. It wasn't all great," he said.
"It had come to an end, you could feel it. it was time to move on."
Over the past 15 years, the brothers have traded enough foul-mouthed, funny insults to fill a phone book (Noel once described Liam as "the angriest man you'll ever meet. He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup") while continuing with their own solo careers.
Liam fronted Beady Eye with former Oasis members Gem Archer, Andy Bell, and Chris Sharrock. The band released two albums before Liam went solo. He's currently on tour celebrating 30 years of Definitely Maybe, joined by original Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs, aka Bonehead.
Noel Gallagher formed his titular band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in 2010. They've released four studio albums, including last year's Council Skies.
Why is an Oasis reunion such a big deal?
In addition to being one of the defining rock bands of the 90s Britpop boom, Oasis was also one of the decade's biggest-selling acts, with more than 75 million records sold worldwide to date.
The band's headlining concerts at Knebworth, England in 1996 were some of the biggest gigs in British history, playing to a total of 250,000 fans over two nights.
It was a record for the UK's biggest outdoor concert until 2003 when Robbie Williams played to 375,000 people over three nights at the same venue.
Oasis enjoyed massive success in Australia as well: nearly every single they released between 1994 and 1998 made it into the ARIA charts.
Their biggest hit was the chart-topping second album, (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, which has gone eight-times Platinum Down Under.
Anthemic breakout single 'Wonderwall' also spent several weeks at #1 and topped triple j's Hottest 100 of 1995.
The song made it to #12 in a special "All Time" edition of the youth broadcaster's countdown in 2009, and in 2013 topped the countdown of the biggest songs of the past 20 years.