Dave Sweetmore - 12th September

Two days before Oasis's debut album 'Definitely Maybe' celebrated its 30th anniversary, the news broke that 15 years since splitting up, Liam and Noel Gallagher would be getting the band back together next year. If you had asked me a few years ago if i would like them to get back together, I probably would have said no, leave it in the history books just as The Beatles and The Jam did

Two days before Oasis's debut album 'Definitely Maybe' celebrated its 30^th anniversary, the news broke that 15 years since splitting up, Liam and Noel Gallagher would be getting the band back together next year. If you had asked me a few years ago if i would like them to get back together, I probably would have said no, leave it in the history books just as The Beatles and The Jam did. But as a DJ in clubs and at festivals, to still see how much all of those classic Oasis songs mean to young children, teenagers and young adults and to see them singing along and embracing every word to every song, and the music to still inspire more generations who idolise the brothers from Burnage, fast forward to 2024 and I am glad that they have now decided to reunite and I genuinely think that now is the right time.

Definitely Maybe is one of the best, most important, most iconic, influential, and life changing albums of all time, and just as it has turned 30 this year, next year will see their follow up album (What's The Story) Morning Glory also turn 30, just in time for the reunion dates. Another life changing and influential album for many. As I write this, dates have been announced in Manchester, Cardiff, London, Edinburgh and Dublin, with strong rumours of European and American dates to follow.  There have been many debates and comments about ticket prices which were around £150 each, set by the ticket outlets and management, not Noel and Liam themselves, but for a band who are one of the biggest of all time and are reuniting when many thought it wouldn't happen, I would have expected them to be about this price. The issues with prices rising as the gigs got closer to selling out is another story, but with less than 7% of fans who applied for tickets being fortunate to get them, for many the price of tickets really didn't matter.

The 2025 Oasis gigs, which will certainly have strong support bands on, will be the biggest gigs of all time, that is a fact. It is still unknown if new music will be released, and as a fan, I don't think it matters. Oasis are back together and even though the complete band line up is still unknown, the fact two brothers from this part of the world, one who happens to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and the other one of the greatest frontmen of all time, will be sharing a stage again singing some of the most anthemic songs of all time, is an amazing thing for the music world. They have inspired musicians and music fans for over thirty years and will continue to do so forever.

This reunion is in my opinion the biggest ever in music history, and even though there had been rumours that an announcement was to be made about Liam and Noel getting back together again, when Oasis's official social media channels did announce at 8am on Tuesday September 27^th , 2024, that 'The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised' the whole of the UK and beyond had only one topic of conversation. Oasis. Since Oasis burst into our lives in 1994 with 'Definitely Maybe', so much has changed. With mobile phones and the internet, people don't buy physical records, or queue for concert tickets in person anymore. There will never be another band as big and as iconic as Oasis, who changed so many lives, and reshaped culture. This reunion has been 15 years in the making and is the best thing Oasis fans could have ever asked for. I can't wait to see the band back together. Like for millons of other people, they changed my life. Long Live Oasis.