Oasis announce Australian tour dates in 2025 reunion run after UK, Ireland and North American leg sell out

Oasis have announced they will be heading to Australia as part of their hotly-anticipated reunion tour.

In news that will come as a welcome relief to Australian fans who missed out on tickets to their UK and Ireland dates, may find themselves stocking out to Supersonic at home — if they manage to get a ticket.

Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher announced on Friday the band is set to perform in Sydney and Melbourne next year, the first time Oasis will play Down Under in nearly 20 years.

The band will be in Melbourne on October 31 before playing in Sydney on November 7.

The announcement comes a week after rumours swirled among NME sources that Oasis had a list of international stops for their reunion tour which purportedly included Sydney and Melbourne.

Oasis last toured Australia in 2005 for their Don’t Believe the Truth tour, and both Noel and Liam have separately played Down Under with their solo acts since the band broke up.

The band have a dedicated fanbase in Australia, with their smash hit Wonderwall from their sophomore album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? topping the ARIA Top 10 charts for 11 weeks in a row after its release.

The announcement of Australian tour dates comes days after the band announced (and sold out) their five-stop North American leg of the reunion tour.

Noel and Liam Gallagher revealed in August Oasis would reform after breaking up 15 years ago, and decades of bitter feuding between the brothers.

The band initially announced 14 concerts across the UK and Ireland in London, Dublin, Cardiff, Edinburgh and, of course, their hometown of Manchester. Feverish demand saw three extra shows added before tickets went on sale.

The ticket-buying process was a debacle with fans experiencing frustrating online queues that ran into the hundreds of thousands while trying to secure tickets for a single venue that only held 90,000 people.

There were also numerous reports of would-be ticket buyers waiting hours before reaching the front, only for Ticketmaster’s system to accuse them of being a bot and kicking them back to the end of the line.

The use of dynamic pricing drew the ire of fans and the band itself, with even standing tickets priced at £355 despite being publicly advertised at £148, and including no extra benefits or access.

In response, the band issued a statement. It said, “While prior meetings between promoters, Ticketmaster and the band’s management resulted in a positive ticket sale strategy, which would be a fair experience for fans, including dynamic ticketing to help keep general ticket prices down as well as reduce touting, the execution of the plan failed to meet expectations.

“All parties involved did their utmost to deliver the best possible fan experience, but due to the unprecedented demand this became impossible to achieve.”

The European Commission announced it would investigate the impact of dynamic pricing following the torrent of complaints. This would apply only to the EU which includes Ireland.

Oasis also added two extra Wembley shows after the first ticket release which was only available through a ballot system for fans who missed out earlier.

Oasis’s heyday was in the 1990s as Britpop dominated the charts, starting with the Definitely Maybe album in 1994. The Gallagher brothers were notoriously tempestuous, especially towards each other, and Oasis disbanded in 2009 after Noel quit ahead of a 2009 Paris concert.