Noel and Liam Gallagher shared a hug during the last show of the Oasis reunion tour in Brazil last night (November 23) – watch the moment, and check out some more photos from São Paulo, below.
After Liam handed Noel his tambourine and maracas, the brothers went in for an embrace to cheers from the crowd. It came during their second night at MorumBIS in São Paulo, the final night of their massive 41-date ‘Live ‘25’ reunion tour, which came over 15 years after Oasis last performed together.
The pair’s long-running feud caused the band’s breakup in 2009, Noel deciding to quit the band following an “altercation” hours before they were supposed to headline Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
“It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight,” Noel wrote at the time. “People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”
In the years since, both brothers embarked on solo careers while occasionally making jabs at each other in the press – Liam calling Noel a “Tory boy” and a “corporate gobshite” in 2017 and Noel calling him a “fat man in an anorak” two years later, among other comments.
In August last year, however, they appeared to have buried the hatchet by announcing their reunion tour, stating: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
Despite reports that the brothers would be separated from each other backstage, they’ve regularly been hugging and laughing together during shows with Noel saying in August that he was enjoying being back in Oasis with his brother. “I guess when it’s all set and done, I’ll sit and reflect on it, but it’s great being back in a band with Liam,” he told Talksport. “I’d forgotten how funny he was.”
And rhythm guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, who joined back up with Oasis for their South American dates after taking a break from their tour to continue his cancer treatment, reflected on 2025 as “the best year of my life” on Instagram this morning.
He was given the all-clear from tonsil cancer back in 2022, but shared at the start of October that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this year, and would sit out of Oasis’ Asia and Australia shows so he could have “the next phase of care”.
During those shows, the band performed with an honorary cut-out of Bonehead. In his absence, Mike Moore from Liam’s solo band filled in.
In July, Noel revealed that Bonehead was the one responsible for the Oasis reunion tour. He said on stage during their second show in Cardiff, when introducing the rest of the band between songs, “On guitar, if it wasn’t for him, none of this would have happened.”
Bassist Andy Bell also posted on Instagram today, simply writing “THANK YOU ALL” alongside a heart emoji. Back in March, NME revealed that Bonehead and Bell would be part of the Oasis reunion, alongside Gem Archer and Joey Waronker.
Anaïs Gallagher, Noel’s daughter, also shared her thoughts. She wrote on Instagram that she’d had the “greatest year of my life, spent with the greatest people, soundtracked by the greatest band,” and added: “What was once thought impossible became possible.”
The tour started in Cardiff on July 4, Noel and Liam walking on stage hand in hand, and has taken in seven dates at London’s Wembley Stadium, six at Heaton Park in Manchester, two in Ireland, five in the US, five across Australia and two in Japan, among others.
The entire tour has seen the band perform the same setlist across all 41 dates, kicking off with ‘Hello’, before diving into ‘Acquiesce’ followed by ‘Morning Glory’ and more.
Other constants on the setlist have been ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’, ‘Fade Away’, ‘Supersonic’, ‘Roll With It’, ‘Half The World Away’, ‘Slide Away’, ‘Live Forever’, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’, ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Champagne Supernova’.
NME gave Oasis’ first gig back five stars, the review reading: “After a ‘90s heyday and an often maligned post-millennium era, this is Oasis redesigned for the 21st Century. Playing before a pop-art-meets-psychedelia visual spectacular that never distracts but will look sick on a phone, they seem the quintessential stadium band playing the greatest hits of greatest hits.”
Earlier this month, Liam implied that more Oasis shows could be on the way next year, but he later clarified on X (Twitter): “You will see me next year and the year after and so on just not sure yet if it’ll be with Oasis we need to sit down and discuss these things if it was all up to me then you know we’d be touring till the day we die as it’s the best thing in the world but UNFORTUNATELY it’s not.”
There have also been rumours of more Knebworth shows, with next year marking 30 years since Oasis’ iconic gigs at the Hertfordshire stately home.
A British peer in the House of Lords seemed to accidentally reveal that Oasis would play Knebworth next summer last month before backtracking. On October 22, Lady Taylor of Stevenage claimed that the band would play five back-to-back anniversary gigs at Knebworth House next year.
She then told The Guardian, “I was speaking hypothetically following speculation that they would play Knebworth again as they did in August 1996. I understand the band have not confirmed this.”
Rumours about new material from Oasis emerged last year, when Liam took to X to tell fans that a new album from the Manchester icons was “already finished”. He then posted on social media again to fan the flames, claiming that he had listened to the material Noel had written for the record and was “blown away” by it.
However, he very soon went back on his comments and said on X that there was “no Oasis album in the making”. When a fan account messaged him and questioned why he made the previous statements, he said he “was fucking joking” and did it for “a laugh”.
