What’s The Story? A Look At Oasis’ Touring History

It’s been 15 years since the famous backstage dust-up at Rock en Seine finally shattered the uneasy, contentious relationship between rock’s most famously belligerent brothers, Liam and Noel Gallagher. Oasis, it seemed on that hot August night outside Paris, was forever finished.

But the Gallaghers, with the passage of time, have come to some kind of understanding and made enough peace to announce what is now a 17-show stadium tour of the U.K. and Ireland for 2025 with plans allegedly in the works for a longer tour that will take them around the world.

The Oasis reunion shows will be promoted globally by Arthur Fogel and Denis Desmond for Live Nation, and UK promoter SJM Concert’s Managing Director Simon Moran. As chairman of Live Nation Global Touring, Fogel has helmed many global blockbusters, including serving as Live Nation’s worldwide promoter for U2, Madonna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga, among others. Fogel also helmed the hugely successful Police reunion tour for Live Nation in 2007—2008 that grossed $352 million from 140 shows, according to Pollstar Boxoffice reports.

In many ways, the routing parallels Oasis’ last proper tour in 2009, which squeezed in headlining shows around festival appearances. They’ll again play Heaton Park in their hometown of Manchester where, in 2009, the first night of a three-night stand at Heaton Park — the largest municipal park in Europe — was delayed multiple times due to electrical problems and eventually declared a free show. Those shows drew 70,000 each night, according to contemporaneous local news reports. Manchester’s night mayor announced the capacity for the 2025 run will be 80,000.

That capacity matches with the most recent reported total for an Oasis show in the Pollstar Boxoffice: 80,241 tickets for a gross of $8.12 million at Slane Castle in Dublin June 20, 2009. Oasis led a bill that included The Prodigy, Kasabian, Glasvegas and The Blizzards.

Shows at Murrayfield in Edinburgh, Principality Stadium in Cardiff (then known as Millennium Stadium) and a run at Wembley Stadium were not reported. All are included with Heaton Park on the latest routing, as is Croke Park in Dublin.

Those looking for hints at the potential for success outside the UK and Ireland can look to an early set of South American shows in 2009. Though largely in arenas — many of which were under 10,000-cap — the band did play a few stadiums. Oasis drew 36,216 to Estadio Monumental — better known as River Plate Stadium — in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 3, 2009, grossing $1.4 million. That followed an April 30 show at the National Stadium in Lima, Peru, which grossed $1.6 million on 41,729 tickets, according to Pollstar Boxoffice reports.

The band toured the U.S. arenas the year before, selling out Madison Square Garden for a $777,050 gross on 15,200 tickets.

It’s most successful American tour was likely 2005’s “Don’t Believe The Truth Tour,” which included a 19,900-ticket sellout at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts — that’s the highest-reported ticket total for an American Oasis show — on June 24, grossing $502,942; that’s a now-quaint average price of $26. The band had a near sell-out of the Hollywood Bowl that year as well, grossing $846,688 on 16,574 tickets; that’s the band highest reported gross stateside.

All told, Oasis has sold 959,791 tickets on 105 headline reports submitted to the Pollstar Boxoffice (noting, of course, the stadium shows from 2009 went unreported), grossing more than $46 million.