LAST UPDATE | 14 Sep

OASIS’S NOEL GALLAGHER has ruled out making new music with the band after the announcement of their 38-show Live 27 world tour.

The band, led by Noel and his brother Liam, will return to Slane Castle, more than 30 years after first taking to the stage at the famous Co Meath venue.

The Gallagher brothers will play two shows on 4 and 5 September, as part of a newly announced run of concerts in 2027.

It will be a similarly long gap before they reappear at Knebworth, where the band played two fan favourite concerts at the venue in August 1996, to an audience of more than 100,000 each night.

The band’s new tour also includes dates across the UK, mainland Europe and the USA.

Appearing on Talksport radio, Gallagher told the station: “There won’t be any new music, no.”

He was then asked whether “there won’t at all?” to which he replied “nah”, and replied “I don’t know”, when he was asked whether the band would continue beyond their upcoming tour.

Asked when the band decided to do another tour, Gallagher added: “It was after about the second Wembley show.

“Nobody really knew what was going to happen at the (time), well, you can see it on the documentary, but nobody really knew how it was going to go.

“So we did Cardiff and Manchester, and then by the time we got to Wembley, somebody said, ‘well, you know’, and it was decided we were going to do it, and it was all set in motion then.”

Ticket pricing and sale plan

In Ireland, standard ticket prices will be fixed and range between €181.25 to €501.25 including booking fee. Each ticket subject to max €10.50 service charge. Tickets limited to 4 per person.

Onsale will take place across Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September.

Fans will be informed directly which of the onsale windows they can access, and at what time. The registration process is the only public way to buy tickets for Oasis Live ’27. Further details about the ticket registration process are available at www.oasisinet.com.

The confirmation came by way of a video released on social media this afternoon, which also said that people who wished to buy tickets would need to register their interest on the band’s website. 

“There will be no general onsale,” the post states.

The Oasis gigs at Slane Castle will not clash with next year’s Electric Picnic festival, which will take place from Friday, 27 August to Sunday, August 29, 2027 at its usual venue in Co Laois.

The announcement also confirms other dates for the 2027 tour and includes four dates in the iconic Knebworth venue in the UK to round out the tour on 11, 12, 18 and 19 September.

Other cites Oasis will hit include Glasgow, Manchester, Munich, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Boston and Las Vegas

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The announcement finally confirms weeks of speculation that Liam and Noel Gallagher were planning a return to Slane as part of a new tour. 

The band dropped their biggest hint yet on Saturday, sharing a black-and-white image which appeared to show Liam standing in the grounds of the venue with his back to the camera and a tambourine in his hands.

It closely recreated an iconic photograph taken by Jill Furmanovsky when Oasis first played Slane in July 1995, showing Gallagher in the same pose in front of a sea of concertgoers.

Music journalist and DJ Niall Byrne, better known as Nialler9, told The Journal at the weekend that the new image was “absolutely” designed to emulate the 1995 photograph.

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Oasis have played Slane twice before.

They first appeared at Slane in July 1995 as a support act for REM, before returning as headliners in June 2009, with The Prodigy and Kasabian among the support acts.

That 2009 show proved to be Oasis’s final concert in Ireland before the band split later that summer. 

Liam and Noel reunited 16 years later for their hugely successful Live ’25 tour, which included two sold-out shows at Croke Park last August attended by more than 160,000 people.

Though that tour was a massive success for Oasis, the use of dynamic pricing for some tickets for Croke Park and elsewhere led to massive criticism and ticket seller Ticketmaster is currently defending a case taken by Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC).

Oasis will join Fontaines D.C. in playing Slane next year, with the Dublin band already due to headline two shows at the venue in June.

- With reporting by Rónán Duffy