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Yahoo
02-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rome City Councillor claims 'negotiations are underway' to bring Oasis to the Italian capital in 2026
The Rome City Councillor for Major Events, Alessandro Onorato, has fuelled speculation Oasis are set to perform in Italy in 2026. Despite claims the Oasis Live '25 Tour will not go beyond 2025, Onorato has alleged "negotiations are underway" to bring the Britpop legends back to the European country for the first time in 17 years. Speaking on Radio Sei this week, as quoted by La Cronica De Roma, Onorato said: 'In 2026, Oasis could take their tour to Europe. And yes, we've applied to host them in Rome.' He continued: 'Oasis in the capital? These are live shows for companies that organise events all over the world, and the financial aspect is crucial. Negotiations are underway.' As it stands, the Slide Away rockers are due to wrap their first jaunt since 2009 on November 23, 2025 in São Paulo, Brazil. Frontman Liam Gallagher recently insisted he and guitarist Noel Gallagher - who were embroiled in a messy 15-year feud before agreeing to put the past behind them to give Oasis fans the reunion they'd always dreamed of - will "take it one day at a time" with regards to the future. The band's manager, Alec McKinlay, insisted the Oasis Live '25 Tour isn't the beginning of new releases from the band. He told Music Week magazine: "This is very much the last time around, as Noel's made clear in the press. "It's a chance for fans who haven't seen the band to see them, or at least for some of them to. But no, there's no plan for any new music." The news sent shockwaves through fans, with one asking frontman Liam on X: "liam I don't know who the manager of Oasis is, but his attitude of telling us that after this tour there will be nothing more was not very biblical. (sic)" However, it seems the Live Forever singer isn't ruling anything out with his brother. Liam replied: "Neither do I and the only people that will be making any kind of decisions on the future of OASIS will be ME n RKID so let's just take it 1 day at a time. (sic)" The Shockwave singer followed up his response by suggesting he could even do another album with John Squire, after he and The Stone Roses guitarist released a joint self-titled LP last year. He penned: "I might do another album with John who knows I might join the spiritual space invaders I might do nothing that's the groovy thing about the future nobody knows."
The Guardian
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Oasis have ‘no plan for any new music', says band manager
Oasis's co-manager has said the band have no plans for new music, and that their 2025 reunion tour will be their last. Speaking to Music Week, Alec McKinlay said: 'This is very much the last time around, as Noel's made clear in the press. It's a chance for fans who haven't seen the band to see them, or at least for some of them to … there's no plan for any new music.' The tour, which reunites the Gallagher brothers after years of fractious relations and verbal sniping in the press, will kick off on 4 July in Cardiff, and encompass 41 dates across the UK, Ireland, north America, east Asia, Australia and south America. There was phenomenal demand for tickets, with millions queuing online – and some consternation when fans were forced to pay more than they were expecting, thanks to dynamic pricing technology. McKinlay is co-director of management company Ignition, who have managed Oasis since 1993, and is also the director of Oasis's label Big Brother. He added: 'Probably the biggest and most pleasing surprise of the reunion announcement is how huge it was internationally. Honestly, we knew it would be big here, and that doesn't take much intuition. But looking outside the UK, we knew they had a strong fanbase, we did all the stats. We were quite cautious about what that would mean when it came to people actually buying tickets but we were just bowled over by how huge it was. We could have sold out half-a-dozen Rose Bowls in Pasadena and probably eight MetLife stadiums in New York in a day.' In the runup to the tour, Oasis recently reissued their single Some Might Say in a vinyl edition. A reissue of debut album Definitely Maybe for its 30th anniversary took them back to No 1 in September 2024, and their 2010 best-of compilation Time Flies hasn't left the UK Top 100 since 2017, going as high as No 3 amid the excitement of the reunion announcement. In April it was reported that the Gallaghers performed together for the first time since their 2009 split, filming promotional material at a members' club in north London.
