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Fifteen years after a stunning backstage fight drove the band apart, Oasis is back.

The Britpop band—led by previously feuding brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher and known for songs such as “Champagne Supernova,” “Wonderwall,” and “Slide Away”—shocked fans in late August by announcing a 2025 stadium tour across the United Kingdom, Ireland, and now North America.

“This is it, this is happening,” the band posted to its social media accounts on August 27. An hour later, they shared a photo of the two Gallaghers together with a caption that read, in part, “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over.”

More surprising than the tour itself is the apparent reconciliation of Noel, 57, and Liam, 51, who engaged in a bitter feud throughout the band’s run in the 1990s and 2000s. Their verbal sparring only continued following a 2009 confrontation in Paris that seemingly broke up the band for good.

Here is everything we know about their contentious relationship and the upcoming tour.

The brothers fought verbally and physically for years

Formed in 1991, Oasis and, specifically, the Gallagher brothers have a quarrelsome history.

Even before the band achieved worldwide renown with its second studio album, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (1995), Noel and Liam’s antics made headlines. During an infamous interview with NME magazine in 1994, the brothers traded a series of obscene insults—with the exchange later released as a 14-minute single called “Wibbling Rivalry.”

That same year during their U.S. tour, Liam hit his brother over the head with a tambourine during a performance in Los Angeles before walking offstage. Noel quit the band following the incident but rejoined days later.

Noel had his own blowout in 1995, when he became angry after Liam and some of his friends disrupted a recording session for Morning Glory? According to Variety, the older sibling picked up a cricket bat during the ensuing argument and tried to hit Liam in the head. “The whole studio got smashed to pieces, everything just got blitzed to bits,” Liam recalled. The absurdity of the spat not lost on the brothers, they later sold the bat at auction with a certificate of authenticity in 2011.

Their bickering even became the subject of parody, as claymation versions of the brothers fought during the first season of the MTV comedy Celebrity Deathmatch (the American prop comedian Gallagher defeated both of them).

The animosity continued over the ensuing years, as Noel and Liam repeatedly traded verbal barbs during interviews. “He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet,” Noel once said of his brother. “He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”

The band broke up over a backstage fight in 2009

noel gallagher sings during an oasis concert as liam gallagher plays the guitar to his right

Noel and Liam Gallagher perform with Oasis in November 2008.

Despite this, the band continued to tour and make new music, releasing five additional studio albums through 2008. The breaking point for the brothers finally arrived on August 28, 2009, when the band was set to perform at the Rock En Seine festival in Paris.

Their relationship had completely deteriorated. According to Noel, the brothers had a fistfight prior to their world tour and had begun traveling to shows separately. A week before the Seine festival, the band canceled another headlining set and cited Liam’s case of laryngitis, though Noel characterized it as a “hangover” instead.

The pair never made it to the stage in Paris, either. “[Liam] goes out the dressing room, for whatever reason, he went to his own dressing room, and he came back with a guitar, and he started wielding it like an axe, and I’m not f— kidding,” Noel said in a 2015 interview, according to Far Out Magazine. “And I’m making light of it because it’s kind of what I do, but it was a real unnecessary violent act, and he’s swinging this guitar around; he nearly took my face off with it.”

Noel retreated to his car after the dustup, ultimately deciding he had enough of the band and his brother. Both went on to pursue solo projects. Noel formed his own band in 2010, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, which has released four albums. Meanwhile, Liam created Beady Eye with other former Oasis members and also released the 2017 solo album As You Were.

Noel and Liam gave different accounts of their split

noel gallagher signing as he leans in close toward a microphone

Noel Gallagher formed his High Flying Birds band following the 2009 breakup of Oasis.

While the backstage incident catalyzed their professional breakup, the brothers have offered conflicting explanations for their bad blood.

In a 2009 statement following their severance, Noel hinted at toxicity within the band by saying, “the level of verbal and violent intimidation towards me, my family, friends, and comrades has become intolerable.”

Meanwhile, in a January 2024 interview with The Guardian, Liam claimed Noel objected to his drinking and always had intentions of becoming a solo musician. “If you want to do your little thing because you’re not getting enough attention, feel free, mate,” Liam said, referencing the acoustic performance his brother performed between Oasis tours. “I’ll go to Barbados and sit on a beach for six months, but don’t be pulling the plug on the band. That’s the way I saw it.”

As recently as earlier this year, a reunion for the siblings seemed highly unlikely. In that same Guardian interview, Liam revealed he hadn’t spoken to his brother since the Paris confrontation. “I haven’t seen him, and we won’t see each other,” he said.

This revelation made the announcement all the more unexpected and intriguing.

The brothers stand to make a lot of money thanks to the reunion

According to the band’s announcements, Oasis will play 24 concerts between July and September 2025. The tour is scheduled to kick off July 4 in Cardiff, Wales. Other major shows in the United Kingdom include seven concerts at London’s Wembley Stadium and another five in the Gallaghers’ native Manchester.

On Monday, the band fulfilled their promise to expand the tour beyond Europe. Oasis will perform in Chicago, Los Angeles, and East Rutherford, New Jersey, as well as Toronto and Mexico City. Pre-sale tickets for the five North American concerts begin Thursday at 11 a.m. E.T. ahead of the general sale on Friday.

While the brothers haven’t given a reason for their sudden reconciliation, there is speculation it’s at least partially financially-driven. According to The Independent, unofficial estimates show the brothers could each make as much as £50 million, or roughly $66 million, solely from the concerts. The entire tour could reportedly generate more than $500 million.

No matter the reason, fans are simply excited Noel and Liam are putting their differences aside—at least for one summer and perhaps longer.