section_path: Initial announcement and reactions
section_name: Initial announcement and reactions
paragraph_text: Initial announcement and reactions
  
  In 2024, around the time of the 30th anniversary of Oasis's debut album, Definitely Maybe, speculation grew that the brothers would reunite. At first Liam denied the stories, though his tweets became more open-ended over time. On 27 August, two days before Definitely Maybe ' s anniversary, the band announced a series of dates in the United Kingdom and Ireland between 4 July and 17 August 2025, including five dates each at Wembley Stadium in London and Heaton Park in Manchester. A press release stated that the band planned to visit other continents outside of Europe later that year. Three subsequent dates were announced for 16 July, 30 July, and 12 August due to high demand.
  
  Much of the media reaction focused on the Gallaghers' relationship, increasing the odds of getting tickets, and whether younger female fans deserved to be there. The last of these prompted Noel's daughter Anaïs Gallagher to accuse some fans of ageism and sexism. Alexis Petridis suggested that the brothers' reunion could have been precipitated by Noel's divorce from his wife, which had cost him £20 million. Manchester's nightlife economy adviser Sacha Lord expressed appreciation that the reunion could bring £15 million to the region. The Maldron Hotel chain in Manchester was accused of cancelling bookings in order to resell rooms at inflated prices, prompting them to state that the rooms were overbooked. Live Nation UK came in for criticism from housing activists and politicians in Edinburgh for scheduling that nation's dates during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as the city's hotels and Airbnbs were already stretched during its duration.
  
  Some felt that the band's return was an unwelcome 1990s throwback. The Independent ' s Ashley Davies suggested that fans worried about the Gallaghers assaulting each other should turn their attention to men assaulting women, as the era was notorious for laddishness. The Guardian ' s Simon Price called Oasis "the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history". The same paper's Barbara Ellen wrote on 31 August that, in four days, the band had been "castigated for everything from bad haircuts and 'football crowds' of middle aged fans in parkas and bucket hats who walk funny, to boorishness, sexism, the demise of 90s music culture, and spreading laddism like a virus". She described the tour as "the most controversial band reunion since the Sex Pistols ' 1996 Filthy Lucre Tour ". Brendan O'Neill wrote on Spiked that he welcomed the reunion due to what he perceived to be the dominance of middle-class artists with conformist views, such as The 1975.
  
  On 30 August, Time Flies... 1994–2009, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, and Definitely Maybe re-entered the UK Albums Chart at numbers 3, 4 and 5, respectively, and " Don't Look Back in Anger ", " Wonderwall ", and "Live Forever" re-entered the UK singles chart at numbers 16, 17 and 19, respectively. Time Flies and Morning Glory spent a further week at those positions, while Definitely Maybe peaked at number one the following week due to a 30th anniversary re-release; additionally, "Live Forever", "Don't Look Back In Anger", and "Wonderwall" peaked at numbers 8, 9, and 11, respectively. The new "Live Forever" chart position constituted a new peak for the track, as it had only managed number 10 on its original release.