OASIS’s sell-out reunion gigs next summer will not be televised, but you may still get a chance to hear the shows.
Insiders have told me that brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher will be offered the chance to record a live album to celebrate Oasis Live ’25.
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Those close to the pair are sure they will take up the offer, which will immortalise their comeback.
A source said: “The Oasis reunion is an historic moment and these concerts will be talked about for decades to come. Many people around the brothers think they have to capture the shows.
Homecoming shows
“A live album of the Oasis reunion could be as iconic as The Who’s Live At Leeds in 1970 or Queen’s Live At Wembley ’86.
“It would capture the rock ’n’ roll alchemy that happens when Noel and Liam are on stage together.
“By the time they’re playing next summer, it will have been 16 years since they last performed together and the sound will have evolved — and that is special.
A recording at Heaton Park or Wembley would make the most sense — given that Heaton will be the brothers’ homecoming shows in Manchester, and Wembley is one of the most famous venues in the world.
“The concerts are a long way off and Oasis are focused on those shows at the moment.
“But Noel and Liam would be mad not to record their reunion in a live album.”
Oasis released two live records, during their heyday.
Familiar To Millions was put out in November 2000, four months after Oasis’ two huge Wembley shows that summer, and it sold more than a million copies.
And Knebworth 1996, which was recorded across two shows at the Hertfordshire venue that year, came out in September 2021 and got to No4 in the albums chart.
Given how much the Oasis reunion shows mean to their fans, I imagine the proposed album would go straight to the top spot.
Sell-out concerts make Coldplay one in million
COLDPLAY will play to almost a million people at Wembley Stadium next summer – as all ten of their dates have sold out.
Fans fought to get tickets when they went on sale yesterday – but despite the band adding an extra four nights at the London venue, they still sold out within hours.
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The dates went on sale at 9am, and when I took a peek at midday, there were still 246,000 people in front of me in the online queue, which suggested that the tickets were already gone.
But I have to doff my hat to frontman Chris Martin and his band for turning off dynamic pricing, following the backlash over the Oasis reunion shows recently where the cost soared when fewer tickets were available.
There will still be a chance to see the shows for a very low price, though.
The group will make a limited number of “Infinity Tickets” available on Ticketmaster at 12pm on November 22, costing only £20 each, to make their gigs accessible to everyone.
Along with powering their shows exclusively with renewable energy, they really are proving they are the good guys of pop.
The name’s Bono . . .
DANIEL CRAIG must want to make it clear his days as 007 are done – as I wouldn’t trust a bloke looking like this to protect the country.
I can’t blame Daniel for being sick of wearing a tux after all that time as James Bond, but I didn’t expect him to transform into Bono.
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The hair, stubble and tinted round glasses were so like the U2 singer as he and wife Rachel Weisz attended Paris Fashion Week’s Loewe show.
As for the jumper and baggy trousers, Rachel must wish he’d dig out the tux again.
Padam sexy Kylie
GREAT to see Kylie Minogue back with new music – and a smouldering video.
The Padam Padam singer strikes this sexy pose in the promo for Lights, Camera, Action, out yesterday.
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It is the lead single from her new album Tension II, which follows on October 18.
Kylie sings: “I hate to be waiting, so hold the door. I got shades on my face and I’m looking like Lagerfeld’s in Vogue.”
And she later adds: “I look stellar tonight, my armour is by Gaultier.”
Yesterday tickets went on sale for the Aussie hitmaker’s 2025 tour, her first shows in six years – and I’ve no doubt Lights, Camera, Action will be high up on the set list.
You’re a big loser, Kanye
KANYE WEST has made a £27million loss on an oceanfront Malibu house, having sold it just three years after buying.
The rapper bought the super-pad in the sought-after area of California for £43million in 2021 and completely gutted it, with the strange idea to transform it into an, er, bomb shelter.
But after spending a fortune ripping out every-thing that had made the place special, he got bored of his plan and stuck the property on the market.
Unsurprisingly, there wasn’t that much buyer interest, given all the work that now needs doing to make it habitable, and he’s had to sell for a cut-price £16million.
I doubt we will be catching him on Grand Designs.
LADY GAGA thought fiance Michael Polansky was joking when he popped the question on April 1.
And on last night’s Graham Norton Show, she admitted leaking the news to French President Emmanuel Macron in July.
She said: “We were filmed at the Olympics saying hello to him and I was caught saying, ‘This is my fiancé.’ I had wanted to keep it a secret!”
Broudie a no-fly zone
THE LIGHTNING SEEDS frontman Ian Broudie has revealed he has terrifying claustrophobia which stops him getting on planes and means he even avoids lifts.
He opens up in a Lightning Seeds special on Virgin Radio at 7pm tomorrow, with a live session and interview by Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson.
He said: “I have developed like a claustro-phobia so I now find it really difficult to go in lifts or the Tube or something like that.
“I’m not very good with it. I’m fine here because I know I can get out of the door. It’s all about being able to get out, really.
“It’s illogical and I’ve been to doctors and they’ve said, ‘Oh, take these pills,’ and I’m going, ‘I don’t want to because maybe this is me, part of my creative thing.’”
Is it Pixie? Corset is
PIXIE LOTT showed off her curves in a tight corset as she launched her first record in ten years.
The singer invited Bizarre to a 14-song set to celebrate the release of album Encino in London on Thursday night.
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Pixie belted out big hits including Mama Do and All About Tonight, along with a raft of tracks from Encino, which shot straight into the iTunes chart when it was released yesterday.
I’m already excited about what she will do next.
LANA DEL REY will be swamped with well-wishes today after marrying alligator tour guide boyfriend Jeremy Dufrene.
The singer got hitched in Louisiana where her beau runs his boat trips.
The couple only went public in August and wed on Thursday. Earlier this month they attended singer Karen Elson’s wedding in New York.
Given she’s now loved up, the moody Summertime Sadness hitmaker might change her tone on her next record.