{"id":160100,"date":"2025-09-16T05:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160100\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T05:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:02:03","slug":"will-oasis-add-more-dates-to-their-blockbuster-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160100\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Oasis Add More Dates to Their Blockbuster Tour?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBack in 1994, Oasis<\/a>\u2018 first U.S. tour didn\u2019t go very well. After a legendarily disastrous<\/a>, crystal-meth-fueled performance at Los Angeles\u2019 Whisky a Go Go, they canceled nine shows. Thirty-one years later, things are a little different: The reunited band just blazed through five sold-out stadium concerts<\/a> in the States that seemed to have more cultural impact than many other acts\u2019 year-long runs, with grown men weeping, strangers embracing, and U.K. flags waving in New Jersey\u2019s swamplands.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a>, Andy Greene joins host Brian Hiatt for a discussion of Oasis\u2019 triumphant U.S. stint, and all that preceded it. The chat also touches on the band\u2019s possible future, including inevitable speculation about a new album and more tour dates.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe try to figure out just how Oasis got so big during their years off, pondering the fact that the band\u2019s songs have somehow gained relevance over the last couple of decades. We also look at the collective hunger for live rock, the lack of new stadium-level bands, and the fact that Sixties and Seventies classic rock bands are starting to fade away. Another obvious point: So many legendary Gen X bands have lost key members, but Oasis have managed to stick around.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong the way, the episode includes relevant selections from Noel and Liam Gallagher<\/a>\u2018s previous appearances on Rolling Stone Music Now, in 2023 <\/a>and 2017<\/a>, respectively. To hear the whole episode, go here<\/a> for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>, or just press play above. Some highlights follow:<\/p>\n

\u200aNoel explains why he wanted to sing lead vocals on either \u201cWonderwall\u201d or \u201cDon\u2019t Look Back in Anger.\u201d \u201cLiam at the time had got into the habit of walking offstage,\u201d says Noel. \u201cI would always have to finish the fucking gig because there would be a riot if he didn\u2019t finish it. And I thought, \u2018I better start writing a few songs for me to sing in case this kind of thing carries on happening.\u2019 I kind of got the sense that both those songs were gonna be big, and I remember saying, \u2018I\u2019m singing one or the other.\u2019 He didn\u2019t like \u2018Wonderwall\u2019 when he heard it. In fact, he fucking hated it, as did pretty much everyone else until somebody from a record label came down and went, \u2018Whoa, that\u2019s the song that\u2019s gonna make us all fucking rich and famous.\u2019 And then he changed his mind and was like, \u2018Well, you know, I\u2019ll sing that one then.\u2019 And I sang \u2018Don\u2019t Look Back in Anger\u2019\u2026. I\u2019m glad I chose that one. I think \u2018Don\u2019t Look Back in Anger\u2019 is a better song.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tLiam explains why he ignores memes and jokes about \u201cWonderwall.\u201d \u200a\u201dIt\u2019s not a joke to me, man,\u201d he says. \u201cBut if people have a laugh at it, feel free. It\u2019s a free world, man. Yeah. But when I sing it, it ain\u2019t no joke, man. I\u2019m doing it for real\u2026. It\u2019s been good to me and I\u2019ve been good to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNoel says people shouldn\u2019t expect him to write the same kind of songs he did in the Nineties. \u201c\u200aI\u2019m not fucking 27 anymore,\u201d he says. \u201cI was 27 once and I fucking changed people\u2019s lives. You can\u2019t carry on doing it. Did it once, twice, even three times even\u2026. Bob Dylan\u2019s the fucking same. Bob Dylan, that guy changed the course of fucking history with those first three albums. You don\u2019t do that anymore. He\u2019ll tell you, even if he wanted to write \u2018Like a Rolling Stone\u2019 now, he couldn\u2019t do it, \u2019cause he\u2019s not that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u200aLiam defends the band\u2019s sometimes-maligned third album, Be Here Now. \u201cI like that album,\u201d he says. \u201cI think it\u2019s a great album. I guess in hindsight it could have been better, but what\u2019s hindsight mean when you\u2019re living the dream? You\u2019re doing it in the moment, aren\u2019t you.\u200a We know we took our eye off the ball a little bit, but we\u2019d been grafting since Definitely Maybe. Money started coming in. Buying houses and cars and nice clothes and that\u2026 You feel a bit fearless. We were probably drinking too much and, you know, other things, but fuck it. We\u2019d been grafting our asses off, so it\u2019s time to have a bit of a party. We thought, \u2018Rock & roll will take care of itself.\u2019 And it kind of did.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tDownload and subscribe to Rolling Stone\u2018s weekly podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on Apple Podcasts<\/a> or Spotify<\/a> (or wherever<\/a> you get your podcasts). Check out six years\u2019 worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth interviews with Mariah Carey, Bruce Springsteen, Questlove, Halsey, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, Brandi Carlile, John Fogerty, Phoebe Bridgers, Rick Ross, Alicia Keys, the National, Ice Cube, Taylor Hawkins, Willow, Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Dua Lipa, Killer Mike, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Liam Gallagher, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Donald Fagen, Charlie Puth, Phil Collins, Justin Townes Earle, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, Tom Petty, Eddie Van Halen, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, and Gary Clark Jr. And look for dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions, debates, and explainers with Rolling Stone\u2019s critics and reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 1994, Oasis\u2018 first U.S. tour didn\u2019t go very well. After a legendarily disastrous, crystal-meth-fueled performance at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,91072,91073,2872,8247],"class_list":{"0":"post-160100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-liam-gallagher","10":"tag-noel-gallagher","11":"tag-oasis","12":"tag-rolling-stone-music-now"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}