(5 Jul 2025)
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Cardiff, Wales – 4 July 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Jill Lawless, The Associated Press:
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"Oasis have kicked off their reunion tour in, I think if you’re a fan, pretty satisfactory if not spectacular fashion. They performed to capacity crowd in Cardiff, Wales at the Principality Stadium. And from the moment Liam and Noel Gallagher walked on stage, briefly hand in hand, the crowd was absolutely on its feet, absolutely backing them to deliver a really, really powerful show, featuring all the hits that they know and love, and that is pretty much what Oasis did."
2. Exterior of Principality Stadium
3. Mid of girls whooping
4. Mid of fans leaving the stadium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jill Lawless, The Associated Press:
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"And I think, it was classic Oasis, really. I think the fans will be very satisfied to know that Liam still sounds great, still has that swagger that fans know and love. Noel has still given us an absolutely classic songbook of 1990s hits that, well, as you can see from the number of people here tonight really endure. So I think if this show is any indication, this is going to be a very big tour indeed. I guess it remains to be seen how it goes from here, but the opening night can be considered a success."
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STORYLINE:
Oasis ended a 16-year hiatus on Friday with a punchy, powerful trip through one of Britpop’s greatest songbooks, kicking off a reunion tour in Cardiff, Wales to a crowd ecstatic for the band’s 1990s hits.
Fans traveled to the Welsh capital from around the world for a show that many thought would never happen.
Noel and Liam Gallagher, the heart of Oasis, had not performed together since the band’s acrimonious split in 2009.
The brothers had a brief hand-in-hand moment but largely kept their distance onstage.
Noel, 58, focused on his guitar while a parka-clad Liam, 52, snarled into the microphone with a swagger that has not dimmed in the three decades since the band released its first album, “Definitely Maybe.”
A crowd of more than 60,000 in the Principality Stadium was treated to a well-paced two-hour set that drew heavily on the first album and its 1995 followup, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory,” alongside a smattering of later tracks and fan-favorite B-sides.
The show in Cardiff kicked off a 19-date Live ’25 tour in the U.K. and Ireland.
Then come stops in North America, South America, Asia and Australia, ending in Sao Paulo on Nov. 23.
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