Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Oasis reuniting for 2025 tour after 15 years

British rock band Oasis said today they would reunite after 15 years, with brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher planning a series of live shows in 2025.

The pair confirmed on social media that tickets would go on sale on August 31, with first show taking place in Cardiff on July 4 next year.

UK correspondent Enda Brady recalls his experience meeting Noel Gallagher.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And a Brady Ow UK correspondents with me now into.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hello, Hey Heather, great to speak to you, Againe.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's fifteen minutes and we're going to find out what
Oasis are up to. What do you reckon they're up to?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm on the website right now. I mean, I'm just
I'm looking at I'm way, I'm as anxious. I'm a
huge fan, absolutely huge fan of Oasis. I love their music.
They're from an Irish family and they're genuine characters. I mean,
you just don't seem to have people like Leam and
Noel Gallagher in world music anywhere. Certainly I don't see

(00:33):
them and this is going to be huge. I mean,
if this turns out that they are getting back together.
There's rumors of ten nights booked at Wembley next year,
which will break Taylor Swift's record she just set of eight.
There's rumors of a headline gig at Glastonbury Festival. It's
going to be the event in Europe of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
What are you doing sitting on the website it so
you can buy tickets immediately or something like that.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Something's going to happen in let me work it out
fifteen precisely fifteen minutes. Yeah. I mean, look, it's it's huge,
and if you're not a fan, that doesn't mean anything
to you. But this was the defining music of the
nineties really for a lot of people and everyone who
followed the band. The rouse, the sibling rivalry, the physical
violence between them, all the nasty interviews they've said about

(01:20):
each other. I mean, it's just the next chapter. It's
such a rock and roll thing, and part of me
is a little bit kind of cynical thinking this is
all being driven by Noel's recent divorce, yeah, and the
payment to his ex wife, but happening.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean, I just thought it was that Bird didn't
like Liam and she was getting in the way, and
now that she's out of the way, they can actually
have a brotherly relationship.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's a good take. Look, I think the woman always
gets blamed when bands break up, whether it's the Beatles
or Oasis. But let's see, I think it's just going
to be seismic and it will give certainly the whole
of the UK a big lift of people have something
to really look forward to next summer. But because they
just tore it up, they broke all the record books.
They made amazing music. I drove into London this morning

(02:05):
and I put on Definitely Maybe It's thirty years old
that album and it still gets you going. I mean,
I was just buzzing and it's just going to be
so exciting. My only fear is can they actually be
in each other's company for ten nights on the spin
without something going wrong?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
This is true, This is true. You ever met them,
by the way.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I've met no All a few times, and this sounds
like a really kind of nuts so humble brag. He's
a huge fan of my work, which I was not
aware of until he came up to me. Not a
word of a lie. He came up to me and
he throw airport one day and he explained that them
he spends a lot of time in hotels traveling for
his music, for his work, and he listens to a

(02:48):
lot of news and he just randomly started. This was
years and years ago, and I was hugely humbled, and
there was people watching in the queue as he throw
airport security, and he was asking me where I was
going and what I was reporting on next and did
he keep listening? We shook hands, got a picture, and
then I met him again. He came into Sky one

(03:10):
day and I had a load of footballs in the car.
It's quite a funny story. I run a lot of marathons,
as you know, for bread cancer charities, and when I
saw Noel, I realized I had a bag of soccer
balls in the boot of my car and I asked them.
I said, would you mind signing a few footballs for me,
just for the cancer charity. And he came over to
my car and he was brilliant and he signed them all.
And it was really funny because the first ball he

(03:32):
picked up, I'd had an autographed by Paul Merson, who
used to play for Arsenal, and he misread the autograph
and he said, oh, my god, you got Paul Weller
on this. And I didn't have the heart to tell
him that it was Paul Merson the soccer player and
not Paul Weller the musician. And he said, oh, he said,
I've got to sign all these if Weller has done
it for you. So the end result was I got
a load of soccer balls signed. They raised tens of

(03:54):
thousands of dollars. They're really good guys. I don't know
Liam at all, but anytime I've run to knowl he
has just been brilliant.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Right, what's the best tuned you reckon?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Ah, Morning Glory? What's the story Morning Glory? I'll love
Wonderwall master Plan. I mean, there's just so many hits.
The album is a classic, and I wish them well genuinely.
I just think they're such characters, and certainly the fact
that they're of Irish stock and when they go home
to where their parents are from in the West of Ireland,
they sit, they drink ginness, they play the guitar in

(04:28):
the local pub and nobody bothers them. And that makes
me really proud to be Irish that global rock stars
can go and sit in a pub in County Mayo,
have a sing song in a session and people basically
leave them alone because ultimately they're Peggy's kids who've come home.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Isn't that cool? I really appreciate you into sharing my
enthusiasm for it. I feel like you're the first person
I've actually run into all day who's here for this
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