Oasis reunion: Liam & Noel Gallagher 'Knebworth gigs planning starts'
Speculation surrounding an Oasis reunion involving Liam and Noel Gallagher mounts as ‘planning for a run of huge gigs at Knebworth begins’
Speculation surrounding an Oasis reunion is ramping up, with Liam and Noel Gallagher reportedly flirting with the idea.
It is claimed an idea has been put forward by Liam’s agents Wasserman for four huge concerts to take place at the 125,000 capacity venue Knebworth in Hertfordshire in 2025.
The gigs would be the first time the band has played together since V Festival in the summer of 2009.
Brothers Liam, 50, and Noel, 55, performed in front of 250,000 at Knebworth in 1996, and Liam returned to the location to take to the stage for 170,000 in 2022.
A source told The Sun: ‘It’s very early days for the plan, and the proposed dates are a long way off. But if all members agree to do it, history will be made.
Born to perform: Speculation surrounding an Oasis reunion is ramping up, with Liam, 50 (pictured), and Noel Gallagher, 55, reportedly flirting with the idea (pictured in June last year)
Shows: It is claimed an idea has been put forward by Liam’s agents Wasserman for four huge concerts to take place at the 125,000 capacity venue Knebworth in Hertfordshire in 2025 (Noel pictured in June last year)
‘Tickets would sell like hot cakes and fans would rejoice in seeing the band together again.
‘It would be the perfect way for Oasis to come back together again and wouldn’t involve a tiresome touring schedule.’
Both Liam and Noel are currently working on their solo albums and are each due to tour next year.
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Liam and Noel for comment.
It comes after Blur’s Damon Albarn said he was willing to ‘put money’ on Britpop rivals Oasis reuniting.
The Parklife hitmakers have themselves reunited and released their comeback single The Narcissist this week.
They also have a slew of intimate warm-up gigs before two huge comeback shows at Wembley Stadium this July.
And frontman Damon, 55, has insisted he’s confident that feuding siblings Liam and Noel Gallagher will put their estrangement behind them to reform and have a much bigger reunion than them.
End: Oasis split in the summer of 2009, following a backstage bust-up between frontman Liam and guitarist Noel (pictured in 2005)
Damon told The Sun: ‘I can guarantee they’re going to reform. In fact, I’ve put money on it.
‘They’re brothers and it would be wonderful to see them reconcile.’
He quipped: The only funny thing is that our two nights at Wembley will be dwarfed by their SEVEN!’
Oasis split in the summer of 2009, following a backstage bust-up between frontman Liam and guitarist Noel.
Liam has been calling for an Oasis reunion for years but with no budging from his arch-nemesis brother.
Noel recently raised the hopes of fans when he urged his younger sibling to ‘get his people to call my people’.
Speaking in a radio interview in France on France Inter, Noel said: ‘There’s something in the papers back in England today.
‘[Liam] should get his people to call my people; they know who they are, they know where we are. Stop talking on the f****** internet, and let’s see what you’ve got to say.’
‘It would be wonderful to see them reconcile’: Blur’s Damon Albarn has revealed he’s ‘put money on Oasis reforming’ after his own rock band announce their reunion tour
The reporter then asked if that’s all it would take to reunite Oasis, to which he replied: ‘You would think, right? You would think. He’s got my number, he’s got my manager’s number, call us. But you know what? He won’t call.’
Noel had admitted earlier this year that he’d ‘never say never’ to a reunion.
He told BBC Radio Manchester: ‘You should never say never, [but] it would have to take an extraordinary set of circumstances.
‘That’s not to say that those circumstances would never come about.’
The Champagne Supernova hitmaker was then asked how he and Liam are getting on these days, to which he seemingly sarcastically replied: ‘Oh, brilliantly, yeah. Genuinely, yeah.’
The band isn’t reuniting to mark the 30th anniversary of their debut album Definitely Maybe this summer.
Dates: Blur (pictured in 2015) will be reuniting on stage for their 35-anniversary this summer, kicking off the tour on June 1 in Spain before their final concert in Japan at the end of August
However, Noel has put together previously lost songs from the recording sessions for the landmark 1994 LP.
He told the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera: ‘In the Sony archives we’ve found tapes dating to those sessions.
‘We thought they were lost, but they were mislabelled. They are wonderful versions of those songs, some acoustic versions.
‘There won’t be a tour – we won’t come back to play them together.’
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