Oasis have announced that their reunion tour will take them to the US, Canada and Mexico in August and September 2025.
The band previously teased the news on billboards in New York, Toronto, Chicago and other cities. “Be careful what you wish for,” the advertisements said.
They will play Toronto Rogers Stadium on 24 August, Chicago Soldier Field on 28 August, New Jersey MetLife Stadium on 31 August, Los Angeles Rose Bowl Stadium on 6 September, and Mexico City Estadio GNP Seguros on 12 September. US rock band Cage the Elephant will support across all dates.
The dates will be Oasis’s first in those territories since 2008, when they toured Dig Out Your Soul. The band’s first American tour for Definitely Maybe from 1994-95 remains infamous: after an inebriated, messy gig at Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, Noel Gallagher left the band for several days.
The international dates come in addition to the 19 sold-out UK and Ireland dates already announced, which include five additional dates to the original total of 14.
After the initial sale in August left many fans without a ticket – after hours of technical issues and queuing frustrations – the band added two new shows at Wembley Stadium to be sold through a staggered invitation-only ballot, with fans who were unsuccessful in the initial sale first to be given access.
It remains to be seen whether the international dates will be subject to Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing policy, which saw £135 standing tickets hiked to £337.50 plus fees owing to demand.
In a statement, the band said they had been unaware that dynamic pricing would be used in the sale.
“Inevitably interest in this tour is so overwhelming that it’s impossible to schedule enough shows to fulfil public demand,” they said. “As for the well-reported complaints many buyers had over the operation of Ticketmaster’s dynamic ticketing: it needs to be made clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management, and at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used.”
In the wake of the ticketing fiasco, the government announced that it would include dynamic pricing in a review of ticketing promised in its election manifesto. Consumer law experts added that while the practice was not illegal, Ticketmaster may have breached consumer regulations if the potential price increase on basic standing tickets was not made clear to fans.
The consumer group Which? urged the band and Ticketmaster to refund fans who paid inflated prices.
Ticketmaster does not set ticket prices and has argued that dynamic pricing discourages ticket touts by aligning prices with market value. It is believed that the ticket prices for Oasis gigs were set by promoters SJM Concerts, MCD and DF Concerts & Events.
In a typically combative response, however, Liam Gallagher shrugged off criticism over the pricing by telling one complainant on X to “shut up” and another to buy “kneeling tickets”.
