Oasis kicked off their world tour tonight, July 4, in entrance of 74,500 followers at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.
The opening evening of the Manchester band’s 41-date Reside 25 world tour was the group’s first gig since August 22, 2009 after they headlined the opening evening of V Competition at Weston Park in Staffordshire. Six days later, forward of a scheduled present at Rock en Seine pageant in Paris, Liam and Noel Gallagher had a heated backstage argument, which led Noel Gallagher to stop the band that very same evening.
“It is with some disappointment and nice reduction to inform you that I stop Oasis tonight,” the guitarist stated on the time. “Folks will write and say what they like, however I merely couldn’t go on working with Liam a day longer.”
However after years of hypothesis and rumours, and the buying and selling of tons of of savage insults between the 2 brothers, the reunited band – that includes returning members Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, plus just lately recruited American drummer Joey Waronker – walked onstage at 8:15pm native time, opening the 12 months’s most eagerly-anticipated tour with Howdy, the opening music on their 22-million-selling (What is the Story) Morning Glory? album, launched in 1995.
The group followed-up their Gary Glitter-sampling opener with Acquiesce, initially launched as a B-side on their first UK primary single, Some Would possibly Say, then Morning Glory, as soon as described by songwriter Noel Gallagher as a “cynical” music about cocaine, the group’s drug of alternative within the ’90s.
Music 4 on the setlist was Some Would possibly Say itself, {followed} by Convey It On Down from the band’s debut album, Positively Perhaps, and now-classic early single Cigarettes & Alcohol. This was {followed} by the second B-side to make the setlist, Fade Away, which featured on the Cigarettes & Alcohol single, and Supersonic, the quintet’s debut single, launched by Creation on April 11, 1994.
Following Roll With It, Liam walked offstage to let his older brother take lead vocals on Speak Tonight, one other B-side, written by Noel Gallagher after he disappeared to San Francisco on his personal following a very messy gig at LA’s legendary Whisky A Go Go membership, throughout which he was hit by a tambourine thrown by his little brother.
Music 11 on the setlist was one other B-side, Half The World Away, famously used because the theme tune to BBC TV comedy The Royle Household, with Little By Little closing out the primary hour of the present.
Subsequent, the band took a dip into 1997’s Be Right here Now, for its epic first single and opening monitor D’You Know What I Imply, and stadium-singalong ballad Stand By Me. Then a rewind to 1995, for Forged No Shadow, a music Noel Gallagher wrote as a salute to his good friend, former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft, certainly one of tonight’s assist acts, alongside Forged.
A fourth choice from Positively Perhaps made the setlist subsequent, within the form of Slide Away. From the identical period, however not included on the album,No matter was carried out subsequent. Launched in December 1994, the music initially served as a bridge between Oasis albums one and two, and peaked at quantity 3 on the UK singles’ chart.
Because the gig entered it is closing stretch, Oasis served up fan favourites Reside Eternally, touchingly devoted to the late Diogo Jota, and concluded the principle set with the cocky Rock ‘n Roll Star, as soon as described by Liam Gallagher as “essentially the most smug music ever”.
The evening’s first encore was one other B-side, The Masterplan – “This one is for all of the folks of their 20s who’ve by no means seen us earlier than who’ve stored us shit sizzling for the final 20 years”, Liam Gallagher stated – {followed} by arguably the Manchester band’s greatest recognized anthems, Do not Look Again In Anger and Wonderwall, earlier than essentially the most anticipated gig of the 12 months closed with an epic Champagne Supernova.
“Was it definitely worth the £4000 you paid for a ticket?” Liam Gallagher requested cheekily at one level. There seemed to be only a few dissenting voices.
The tour continues tomorrow, July 5, with a second evening on the Principality Stadium.
Oasis setlist, Principality Stadium, Cardiff July 4, 2025
1. Howdy
2. Acquiesce
3. Morning Glory
4. Some Would possibly Say
5. Convey It On Down
6. Cigarettes & Alcohol
7. Fade Away
8. Supersonic
9. Roll With It
10. Speak Tonight
11. Half The World Away
12. Little By Little
13. D’You Know What I Imply
14. Stand By Me
15. Forged No Shadow
16. Slide Away
17. No matter
18. Reside Eternally
19. Rock n’ Roll Star
20. The Masterplan
21. Do not Look Again In Anger
22. Wonderwall
23. Champagne Supernova
Oasis Reside 25 tour dates
Jul 05: Cardiff Principality Stadium, UK
Jul 11: Manchester Heaton Park, UK
Jul 12: Manchester Heaton Park, UK
Jul 16: Manchester Heaton Park, UK
Jul 19: Manchester Heaton Park, UK
Jul 20: Manchester Heaton Park, UK
Jul 25: London Wembley Stadium, UK
Jul 26: London Wembley Stadium, UK
Jul 30: London Wembley Stadium, UK
Aug 02: London Wembley Stadium, UK
Aug 03: London Wembley Stadium, UK
Aug 08: Edinburgh Scottish Fuel Murrayfield Stadium, UK
Aug 09: Edinburgh Scottish Fuel Murrayfield Stadium, UK
Aug 12: Edinburgh Scottish Fuel Murrayfield Stadium, UK
Aug 16: Dublin Croke Park, Eire
Aug 17: Dublin Croke Park, Eire
Aug 24: Toronto Rogers Stadium, ON
Aug 25: Toronto Rogers Stadium, ON
Aug 28: Chicago Soldier Discipline, IL
Aug 31: East Rutherford MetLife Stadium, NJ
Sep 01: East Rutherford MetLife Stadium, NJ
Sep 06: Los Angeles Rose Bowl Stadium, NJ
Sep 07: Los Angeles Rose Bowl Stadium, NJ
Sep 12: Mexico Metropolis Estadio GNP Seguros, Mexico
Sep 13: Mexico Metropolis Estadio GNP Seguros, Mexico
Sep 27: London Wembley Stadium, UK
Sep 28: London Wembley Stadium, UK
Oct 21: Goyang Stadium, South Korea
Oct 25: Tokyo Dome, Japan
Oct 26: Tokyo Dome, Japan
Oct 31: Melbourne Marvel Stadium, Australia
Nov 01: Melbourne Marvel Stadium, Australia
Nov 04: Melbourne Marvel Stadium, Australia
Nov 07: Sydney Accor Stadium, Australia
Nov 08: Sydney Accor Stadium, Australia
Nov 15: Buenos Aires Estadio River Plate, Argentina
Nov 16: Buenos Aires Estadio River Plate, Argentina
Nov 19: Santiago Estadio Nacional, Chile
Nov 22: São Paulo Estadio MorumBIS, Brazil
Nov 23: São Paulo Estadio MorumBIS, Brazil