Oasis’s Reunion: the headlining pop culture moment for all fans of the British rock band. After an excruciatingly long—and abrupt—15-year hiatus, brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher are back, playing a sequence of stadium dates in both the UK and Ireland in 2025.
While this is a fun and momentous occasion for all Oasis fans, many believe the reunion is built on an unstable foundation and has the means to blow up at any feasible moment.
Oasis’s abrupt fallout happened on August 28th, 2009, after an intense backstage fight between the two brothers at the Rock-en-Seine Festival in Paris. The fight occurred minutes before the band was set to perform, causing their manager to announce the breakup live on the stage in front of thousands of distraught fans.
The brothers had reportedly been feuding for years, even publicly insulting one another to the press. Noel Gallagher, the band’s main songwriter and guitarist, officially left the group after the fight. He wrote in a statement at the time, “I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer,” according to the AP.
Within the years following the split, both brothers went their separate ways in the music industry, allegedly not speaking to each other for years. While the Gallagher brothers haven’t performed together since, they have not shied away from firing at each other in the press.
Noel Gallagher accused his brother of being so hungover they were forced to cancel a show in 2009. Liam rebuked the accusation and sued, later dropping the lawsuit. Then in 2011, according to NBC Chicago, Noel explained he had left the band after a supposed incident where Liam started “wielding a guitar,” Noel said, “like an axe…and he’s swinging this guitar around like he kind of you know, he kind of took my face off with it, you know?”
However, in 2019, Noel told the AP he was ready to reconcile with his brother.
“The most important thing is about me and him being brothers,” he said. “He thinks I’m desperate to get the band back together for money. But I didn’t join the band to make money. I joined the band to have fun and to see the world.”
Noel and Liam’s relationship is as sticky as it gets, but one thing we can be sure of is that the tour is, in fact, happening. “This is it. This is happening,” the brothers said.
With the tour looming and expectations running high for the iconic band, will the Gallagher brothers put their feuding ways behind? Or will they have a second public break-up in the eyes of a harsh media?
