oasis
Live performances of the eight-times platinum Britpop album will be accompanied by the band performing other songs from the same era
Mon 16 Oct 2023 08:00 BST
Liam Gallagher has announced he will be touring to mark the 30th anniversary of Oasis’ 1994 debut full-length album Definitely Maybe.
“I’m bouncing around the house announcing the Definitely Maybe tour,” Gallagher said. “The most important album of the 90s ever. Without them I would be nowhere and neither would you, so let’s celebrate together.”
The tour includes fan favorites released during Oasis’ Definitely Maybe tour, such as “Whatever,” “Fade Away,” “Listen Up” and “Sad Song.”
The tour begins in Sheffield on June 2nd 2024 and ends on June 27th – the day before Glastonbury.
Gallagher is likely to be joined by Oasis co-founder Paul Arthurs (aka Bonehead), who returned to tour with him after battling tonsil cancer earlier this year. In September 2022, he said that he had been given the all-clear by doctors and was in recovery.
It’s not quite the Oasis reunion that fans have been waiting for 14 years since brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher split the band and became estranged in 2009.
The couple once vehemently denied rumors of a reunion – not to mention turning down lucrative tour offers – but have kept fans entertained with the idea in recent years.
In August, during a live question and answer session, Noel was asked who would be in the Oasis line-up if they reunited.
“So I am, Liam. Well, it’s a funny thing because we’re all of a certain age now. Hair was a thing in Oasis, so we’ll have to see what everyone’s hair looks like. I’m there no matter what happens. This isn’t going fucking anywhere. I don’t know. See. Me, Liam and a bunch of damn fit birds.”
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“Definitely Maybe”, released in August 1994 on Creation Records, is a milestone in British music and helped shape the Britpop era. Upon release, it reached number 1 and became the fastest-selling debut album in British music history at the time. It was later certified eight times platinum.
In some ways it was a surprising success after an extremely strenuous period of creation with difficult sessions in various recording studios.
In a review of the album’s 2014 reissue, Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield wrote: “Twenty years later, Oasis’ debut album remains one of the most glorious odes to cigarettes, booze and stupid guitar solos ever to hit the British Isles.” “coughed.”
Liam often plays songs from the album – and from the Oasis catalog – at his solo performances. His last solo album was 2022’s C’mon You Know. This year, Noel released Council Skies with his High Flying Birds band.
Tickets for the Definitely Maybe anniversary tour go on sale October 20th at 9am BST.
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