Are the Gallagher brothers performed wanting again in anger?
Noel and Liam Gallagher, the Oasis rockers whose bitter feud introduced an finish to the seminal Britpop band 15 years in the past, teased a doable reunion with enigmatic posts on social media Sunday.
The brothers every posted brief movies exhibiting a date — “27.08.24” — rendered in the identical font and elegance because the band’s era-defining brand. The video sparkles earlier than flashing to a time: “8am.” The brief clip was additionally posted on the band’s official X account.
The posts got here as The Sunday Occasions, citing unspecified “trade insiders,” reported that Noel (lead guitarist, primary songwriter) and Liam (lead vocalist) deliberate to carry out subsequent summer time at Heaton Park in Manchester, the place the band was fashioned in 1991, and at Wembley Stadium in London.
NBC Information has not independently confirmed that report. The brothers’ representatives didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Oasis followers world wide have dreamed of the brothers getting again collectively since they break up up acrimoniously in 2009 following a reported backstage brawl on the Rock en Seine pageant in Paris. Within the years since, 57-year-old Noel and 51-year-old Liam have traded barbs within the press and through social media, typically in vulgar phrases.
“The angriest man you’ll ever meet,” Noel has mentioned of Liam, calling his youthful brother “a person with a fork in a world of soup.” Liam has referred to Noel as a “potato.” The social media platform X accommodates examples of different alternative insults not match for publication on a household information web site.
The brothers clashed repeatedly even on the peak of their worldwide fame and inventive affect, a interval that included the chart-topping albums “Positively Possibly” and “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” — that includes hit singles akin to “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Again in Anger” and “Champagne Supernova.”
If the sparring siblings truly reunite, their 2025 tour would are available time for the thirtieth anniversary of “Morning Glory,” the bestselling album of the Nineteen Nineties within the U.Ok. and the group’s industrial breakthrough within the U.S. The hypothetical reunion would additionally doubtless be a chilling reminder of growing old and mortality for folks of their 40s and 50s.
Liam Gallagher fanned the hypothesis on X, replying on to customers who tweeted information articles in regards to the doable reunion. “I by no means did like that phrase FORMER,” he mentioned in a single submit.
He additionally didn’t let insults go unanswered. “Your perspective stinks,” he repeatedly mentioned to X customers who joked the band have to be going broke. “SHUTUP,” he wrote in response to posts calling the band overrated.
Liam’s message appeared clear: Oasis will probably be again within the information whether or not the haters prefer it or not. “See you down the entrance ya large fanny kiss kiss x,” he posted Saturday.