The ex-Oasis singer announces a tour for June 2024 during which he will perform songs from the first album of the flagship Britpop group in full. With or without his brother Noel Gallagher? Mystery.
Former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher announced on Monday a tour next year for the 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybethe album that launched the legendary Britpop group, keeping silent about a possible reconciliation with his older brother Noel, who was the group’s guitarist and main composer.
Some songs not played for thirty years
On his Instagram account, Liam was happy to celebrate “the most important album of the 1990s” during this series of concerts in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It will begin in Sheffield, in the north of England, on June 1, 2024, and will end on June 27 in Manchester, the band’s hometown, after stops in London and Dublin.
According to the tour description, this will be the first time that Liam Gallagher, 51, will sing this entire album. Besides his hits like Rock ‘n’ Roll Star, Live Forever, Supersonic or Cigarettes & Alcoholsome lesser-known pieces will be sung on stage for the first time since the 1990s.
After years of bickering, yet another altercation in the summer of 2009 between Liam Gallagher and his brother Noel, backstage at the Parisian Rock en Seine festival, resulted in the immediate separation of the group formed in 1991 in Manchester.
Since then, the enemy brothers have long exchanged acidities via social networks or the press, before a relative lull in recent times, giving fans hope for a reconciliation.
“You should never say nevers,” Noel told the BBC last January. “It would take extraordinary circumstances“, he warned, however.
After the dazzling success of Definitely MaybeOasis had reached the peak of their popularity with their second album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? released in 1995, which includes the hits Wonderwall And Don’t Look Back in Anger. Five albums followed until the breakup. Since then, Liam and Noel, each solo or accompanied, have never achieved this level of popularity with their music.