The biggest question facing the rock band is whether or not they will: Oasis have announced that they will reunite in 2025 for a 14-concert tour of the UK and Ireland.

However, they will not be headlining Glastonbury festival, as was rumoured last weekend, nor will they be playing ten shows at Wembley and Etihad Stadium respectively.

Instead, the concerts will take place in July and August, in stadiums in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin. Tickets go on sale at 9am on 31 August, with prices announced on the day.

A press release announced the dates as the “domestic leg” of the tour and said that “plans are in the works” to take the tour outside Europe later in 2025.

Regarding the notoriously feuding brothers’ decision to get back together, the press release states: “There was no big revealing moment that sparked the reunion – just the gradual realization that the time was right.”

In a joint statement, the band said: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see it. It will not be televised.”

The dates for the 2025 UK and Ireland tour are: July 4, 5, Principality Stadium, Cardiff; July 11, 12, 19, 20, Heaton Park, Manchester; July 25, 26, August 2, 3, Wembley Stadium, London; August 8, 9, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh; and August 16, 17, Croke Park, Dublin.

The concerts come 16 years after the band split acrimoniously when Noel Gallagher left before a show at a French festival, and 30 years after the release of their second album, 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?. Unlike Liam Gallagher’s ongoing 30th anniversary tour for 1994 debut Definitely Maybe, the set list for the 2025 reunion shows will not be explicitly focused on that album.

The Oasis line-up has not yet been announced. The band also has no plans to enter the recording studio to make new music.

The Gallagher brothers had announced the news on social media in recent days, sharing a clip of the date “27.08.24” in the same font as the Oasis logo on their respective social media accounts, as well as the official Oasis accounts.

The clip was also shown at the end of Liam’s headline set at Reading Festival last weekend, where he dedicated their 1994 B-side Half the World Away to Noel, and 1994’s Cigarettes & Alcohol to people who say they hate Oasis. The clip was also shown after Blossoms played Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park this weekend.

Liam is currently touring Definitely Maybe with guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs; earlier this year he also toured with Stone Roses guitarist John Squire on their collaborative album, which was practically titled Liam Gallagher John Squire. Noel also recently wrapped up a run of festival dates with his band High Flying Birds.

The band have yet to elaborate on how they’ve buried the hatchet in the years since Noel walked out on Rock en Seine in 2009. Since then, the brothers have publicly lambasted each other and denied that a reunion would ever happen. In recent years, however, relations appear to have softened: in 2017, Liam tweeted Christmas wishes to his brother, saying he was “looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.”

This week, in a video celebrating the 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe, Noel praised Liam’s singing. “When I sang a song, it sounded good. When he sang it, it sounded great… I can’t sing Cigarettes & Alcohol, Rock’n’Roll Star and all that stuff. I don’t have the same attitude as him. My voice is half a Guinness on a Tuesday – it’s fine. Liam’s is 10 shots of tequila on a Friday.”

Despite Oasis’ inactivity, the band’s legacy has not waned: they have 21.6 million monthly listeners on Spotify and have a massive Gen Z audience. Earlier this year, Dua Lipa used the band’s instantly recognisable font in the marketing for her supposedly Britpop-inspired album Radical Optimism.

Some suspect that one of the reasons for a lucrative reunion could be Noel’s recent divorce from his second wife, Sara MacDonald, which reportedly cost around £20 million.