Who’ll be supporting Oasis on their reunion tour? Fans and artists share theories and requests
nme.comOasis have reformed, speculation has turned to who could support the band during their huge run of UK and Ireland dates next summer.After reports that the Britpop giants would be returning in recent weeks, anticipation reached fever pitch this weekend when Liam Gallagher used his Reading Festival 2024 headline set on Sunday (August 25) to tease an announcement.
The social media accounts of Oasis and brother Noel soon shared the same teaser, telling fans that news would be coming at 8am today.The ‘OASIS LIVE 25’ tour will see the band deliver 14 stadium dates between Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin – and there are additional “plans” underway for the tour to “go to other continents outside of Europe later next year”, although no further details have been announced yet.Tickets go on sale from 9am BST (8am IST) on Saturday August 31 and will be available here for UK shows, and here for the Irish dates.Now, fans and artists are speculating who might be supporting the band on tour.Over the weekend, during their headline slot at Wythenshawe Park, Blossoms shared the same teaser on their big concert screens as Liam and Noel, leading many to suspect that the Stockport band will be one of the support acts on tour with the band next summer.
The band have also supported Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds previously.Likewise, Kasabian’s Serge Pizzorno was spotted with Liam backstage at Reading last weekend, ahead of the latter’s headline slot at the festival.Original Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs, aka Bonehead, uploaded a photo of Serge backstage at the gig.
This was posted around the same time as Liam and Noel teased their tour announcement, leading fans to think Kasabian could also be a support slot.
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