15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Oasis reunion tour to feature Andy Bell as he confirms he's part of band line-up
The bassist is ideally suited to handle any unexpected consequences of Liam and Noel Gallagher being in close proximity for long spells having played with Oasis between 1999 and 2009 and Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis project Beady Eye.
Andy Bell has confirmed he plans to rejoin Oasis for the band's long awaited reunion tour which will see them head to Scotland later this summer. The bassist is ideally suited to handle any unexpected consequences of Liam and Noel Gallagher being in close proximity for long spells having played with Oasis between 1999 and 2009 and Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis project Beady Eye.
Bell, who was also a member of the Creation Records band Ride and Mantra of the Cosmos, has confirmed his involvement in the tour in a new interview. He told Austrian newspaper Oe24, 'I'm in and I'm really looking forward to it. We'll see each other on tour. Or rather, you'll see me. I'll hardly be able to see you in the audience.'
Bell has long been rumoured to be a shoe in as bassist on the tour.
He is expected to be joined by his Beady Eye bandmate and longtime collaborator Gem Archer, who played on his recent solo album Pinball Wanderer.
Also said to be part of the live band are Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs on guitar and drummer Joey Waronker.
Oasis have 41 dates booked for 2025, kicking off at stadiums around the UK and Ireland in July before moving across multiple continents. Support will come from Cast, Richard Ashcroft, Cage The Elephant and Ball Park Music.
The band - led by brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher - will play sold out shows at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium on August 8, 9 and 12.
10 million people from over 100 countries attempted to snap up the tickets which sold out in record time.
Yesterday, we told how the band's manager Alec McKinlay had ruled out new material by the band and also put to bed rumours on new dates being announced.
Explaining how the team kept the news of a comeback tour under wraps last year, McKinlay said: 'The group of people who knew about it in advance was very limited. We were working with people we trusted.'
He added: 'We'd obviously been planning it for a while and the moment when it went live was a little bit of a step into the unknown in terms of how big the reaction would be. When it all hit home, it was just phenomenal. The reaction was very much one of, 'Finally, some good news after all the nonsense that's been going on in the world.''
Rumours about new material from Oasis emerged last year, when Liam Gallagher took to X/Twitter to tell fans that the Manchester icons had 'already finished' a new album.
He then took to social media again to fan the flames, claiming that he had listened to the new material Noel had written for the record and that he was 'blown away by it.'
Alec – who is also the Ignition and Big Brother Recordings director – also shed light on whether fans can expect to see the band working on more material, but put a dampener on the hopes of more tour dates later down the line.
'This is very much the last time around, as Noel's made clear in the press,' he said. 'It's a chance for fans who haven't seen the band to see them, or at least for some of them to.'
He added: 'No, there's no plan for any new music.'
