https://www.billboard.com/lists/oasis-reunion-tour-wembley-stadium-london-best-moments/
07/26/2025
Oasis’ Reunion Tour Is Only Getting Better: 7 Best Moments From Wembley Stadium’s Opening Night
The Live '25 tour rolled into London and saw the group on red-hot form.
By Thomas Smith
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Back in 2000 the Gallagher brothers swaggered Wembley Way for their maiden appearance — but Liam was distinctly unimpressed. “If you think I’m over the moon to be here, then you must be trippin,’” he said on the second of their two-night stand, later calling it a “s—t hole.” This was prior to the stadium’s renovation, and the band returned in 2009 on their final tour.
But that 2000 show — dubbed one of their most “disastrous” shows — still lives long in the memory. It was immortalised on the Familiar to Millions live LP and broadcast live on U.K. television. The show included instances of LG mouthing off about his divorce (“I don’t even have a f—g teabag to my name”) and whatever substances were rattling around the dressing room (“I’m in one of them moods,” he warned). The performance itself was sloppy and languid compared to their previous highs at Maine Road and Knebworth in 1996.
A quarter of a century later, the vibes could not be more different. The band’s Live ‘25 tour — which has so far visited Cardiff and Manchester — has seen them on red-hot form: Liam’s vocals are on top notch, Noel and the rest of the band’s playing is as unified as its been for decades and, thus far, no dramas from the pair. They’re sounding crisper and more energised as the tour rolls on, and the U.K. public are properly mad fer it, as they dominate the Albums Chart once more and the populus proudly sport Oasis-branded clobber.
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The tour’s kick-off in Cardiff earlier this month (July 5) had an air of mystery — and tightness, perhaps. Now the boys are feeling comfortable back on stage together, arriving on stage arm-in-arm again, and chatting with the audience just like old times. “I seem to get myself in a lot of trouble these days,” Liam said, perhaps referencing his quip about the Coldplay kiss cam scandal earlier this week. Before “Don’t Look Back in Anger” Noel paid tribute to his favourite boozer The Chiltern Firehouse in London, which suffered a fire earlier this year, and dedicated the song to all the barmaids. We weren’t getting this level of chat on opening night.
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