Liam and Noel Gallagher aren’t the only ones reuniting on the upcoming Oasis Live ’25 World Tour. Bassist Andy Bell, who toured with the band for a decade and contributed to studio recording sessions across multiple albums, will be joining them on the road.
“I’m in and I’m really looking forward to it,” Bell told the Austrian outlet Oe24. “We’ll see each other on tour. Or rather, you’ll see me – I’ll hardly be able to see you in the audience.” The musician’s history with Oasis dates back to 1999, when he first started playing bass with them, through 2009, when they disbanded. Bell also contributed to songwriting on Dig Out Your Soul (“The Nature of Reality”), Don’t Believe the Truth (“Turn Up the Sun,” “Keep the Dream Alive”), and crafted the instrumental “A Quick Peep” on Heathen Chemistry.
The Gallaghers are only getting the band back together for the limited run of the tour. Earlier this week, the band’s manager, Alec McKinlay, said that Oasis have no plans to return in a musical capacity or perform additional live shows outside of the 41-date trek. “This is very much the last time around, as Noel’s made clear in the press,” McKinlay told Music Week. “It’s a chance for fans who haven’t seen the band to see them, or at least for some of them to.” He added, “There’s no plan for any new music.”
But Bell hasn’t spent the past 15 years waiting by the phone for Oasis to call. The musician joined fellow bandmates Liam, Gem Archer, and Chris Sharrock in forming the rock band Beady Eye. He’s also been in the shoegaze-pioneering band Ride since 1988, years before Oasis formed.
“The group of people who knew about it in advance was very limited,” McKinlay said of the tour. “We were working with people we trusted. We’d obviously been planning it for a while and the moment when it went live was a little bit of a step into the unknown in terms of how big the reaction would be.”
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Bell was one of the first people within the Oasis orbit to vaguely mention the idea of a reunion in the sense that it would be an unexpected, but celebrated moment, if it were to happen. But when the idea started to morph into a rumor in April 2024, Liam shot it down. “Andy bell from ride the shoe gazing phenomenon should really not be getting people’s hopes up it’s not big and and it’s not clever,” he wrote on X. “I’ve never mentioned oasis reunion it’s over we must all really move in for our own mental health.”
The reunion was announced four months later.
