Nice review petwasbristol. Happy to hear it was so good.

First 5 songs, Liam sounding better than in years.
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Don't Look Back In Anger.
Great atmosphere, Noel totally on it.
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Oasis, review: Ridiculous, fantastic... and back where they belong
The second coming of Britpop’s biggest stars was magical, exhausting and uplifting

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Liam Gallagher led Cardiff in a blizzard of noise as thousands of fans joined him in song
Liam Gallagher led Cardiff in a blizzard of noise as thousands of fans joined him in song Credit: Big Brother Recordings/Harriet T K Bols
Neil McCormick
Chief Music Critic, in Cardiff
05 July 2025 10:51am BST
The band was loud. The crowd was louder. Waves of noise crashed off the stage and bounced back as the 74,000-strong audience in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium sang every word as if they were ready and willing to bust their lungs.

Song after song engulfed us all in an incredible blizzard of noise, distorted guitars, bombarding drums, rumbling bass and tens of thousands of voices raised in song.

“Yes, beautiful people, it’s been too long,” said Liam Gallagher.

And so, 16 years since they broke up, Oasis returned as if no time has passed at all.

The Gallagher brothers put their arms up and
After more than a decade away, the Gallaghers’ return was deafening Credit: Big Brother Recordings
Oasis reunited for their first performance in 16 years
Oasis reunited for their first performance in 16 years Credit: Big Brother Recordings
The hi-def screens were bigger, wider and more dynamic than anything Oasis would have dragged out on tour back in the glory days. But otherwise nothing had really changed. A band of men stood spread across the front of a stage, playing hard and loud. Their frontman stood in the centre, roaring at the top of his sharply cutting voice. And the audience was right there with them all the way, a mass extension of the band, punching their arms and singing until we were all swallowed in a big, rocky vortex of sound and community.

It was ridiculous and it was fantastic. These things are not mutually exclusive.

The first half setlist was 100 per cent proof Britpop bangers, one piledriving rocker after another, including Hello, Acquiesce, Morning Glory, Some Might Say, Cigarettes and Alcohol, Supersonic and Fade Away.


Liam sported an unseasonable green parka and sharp buzz cut, greying at the temples. There was no nuance to his singing, because there was no room at this concert for subtlety. He just cut through with raw power and vocal energy. Noel Gallagher stood to his left in a denim blue shirt, peeling off lead guitar lines, unshaven and grimly focused.


The rest of band (Gem Archer and Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs on guitar, Andy Bell on bass and session players on drums and keyboards) were as anonymous as they have always been. Sporting bald pates, spectacles and studious expressions, they could have been a band of geography teachers playing a university reunion. But Liam has enough charisma for all of them, and Noel’s songs took care of the rest.

Noel Gallagher joked about ticket prices, but none of the 74,000-strong crowd seemed to mind
Noel Gallagher joked about ticket prices, but none of the 74,000-strong crowd seemed to mind Credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images Europe
When Noel took the lead for an interlude of melodious, semi-acoustic B-sides the crowd kept singing as if they were all classic smash hits. “Thank you very much,” said Noel, then made a joke about the controversial dynamic ticket pricing. “I hope it was worth £175 of anybody’s money. Sorry, £210. Sorry, £250.”

I don’t think anyone who managed to get their hands on a ticket for this reunion could feel short changed. Because really it was a reunion between an audience and their favourite band, a reunion between Britain and rock and roll.

Oasis fans in the 'loudest, lairiest choir in the world'
Oasis fans in the ‘loudest, lairiest choir in the world’ Credit: NC
Liam swaggered back for an absolutely storming second half of monster anthems, including a psychedelic stomp through D’You Know What I Mean?, an unapologetically cheesy romp through Whatever, an utterly immense Slide Away and furiously supercharged Rock ‘n’ Roll Star, with the whole stadium bellowing “it’s just rock and roll”. But it’s not, it is something bigger, more universal, more all encompassing.

There were walls of guitars, walls crashing down, and the crowd singing like they were meeting noise with noise. Flares went off. Live Forever echoed around the stadium to a projected image of tragically deceased Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota.


Noel led Don’t Look Back in Anger as if it might lift the roof off the stadium. Liam led Wonderwall like he was leading the loudest, lairiest choir in the world. Champagne Supernova blasted out into the cosmos on a rocketing lead solo.

It was very loud, it was simplistic to the point of banality and it was magically, exhaustingly uplifting.


It was the second coming of Oasis. One of Britain’s greatest ever bands, back where they belong. Man, I’ve missed this.

It's a bit like the 89 Stones comeback right?

Will def see them if they are coming near. Great songs and a great sound

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It's a bit like the 89 Stones comeback right?

Will def see them if they are coming near. Great songs and a great sound

This is BIGGER. Well, in the U.K., anyway!

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It's a bit like the 89 Stones comeback right?

That tour pretty much set the blueprint for the big reunion tours. Eagles tour felt like that, KISS reunion in the 90s felt like that, GNR a decade ago to an extent felt that way. Kinda McCartney when he reemerged around the same time in 89. These guys all come back and give you exactly the show you want and expect after so much time away. And on a large stadium level.

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It's a bit like the 89 Stones comeback right?

That tour pretty much set the blueprint for the big reunion tours. Eagles tour felt like that, KISS reunion in the 90s felt like that, GNR a decade ago to an extent felt that way. Kinda McCartney when he reemerged around the same time in 89. These guys all come back and give you exactly the show you want and expect after so much time away. And on a large stadium level.

I don't think so. Oasis had a 16 years break, the Stones only 7. And the Stones never really quit or broke up - it was just Jagger trying out some solo stuff.
The reason for the Oasis comeback tour is, from what I understand, money. They don't even have a new album to show up.

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It's a bit like the 89 Stones comeback right?

That tour pretty much set the blueprint for the big reunion tours. Eagles tour felt like that, KISS reunion in the 90s felt like that, GNR a decade ago to an extent felt that way. Kinda McCartney when he reemerged around the same time in 89. These guys all come back and give you exactly the show you want and expect after so much time away. And on a large stadium level.

I don't think so. Oasis had a 16 years break, the Stones only 7. And the Stones never really quit or broke up - it was just Jagger trying out some solo stuff.
The reason for the Oasis comeback tour is, from what I understand, money. They don't even have a new album to show up.

Sure, but that Stones tour really felt like (at least to me when I look back on it historically) as setting the template for rock bands in stadiums. Yeah it had happened with the Beatles in the 60s, The Who in the 80s, hell even Grand Funk Railroad in the 70s, but in the modern era they really kicked off the trend of established bands doing a very "professional" show in a stadium. Didn't matter that they hadn't been gone as long, just felt like it kicked off the modern concert machine business for modern day rock acts. Maybe it felt less like that at the time.

Actually that would be Pink Floyd in 87/88 and their hugely successful tour promoted by Cohl convinced Mick and he dumped Bill Graham...

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Demand for the '87 Floyd tour was immense. Since Cohl was the promoter, his hometown of Toronto was the testing ground for demand where they announced one show at CNE stadium which sold out immediately, then another, then another, playing to almost 150 000 people.



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