Oasis will announce MORE tour dates as Bonehead is confirmed to join Noel and Liam Gallagher on the road
ORIGINAL Oasis guitarist Bonehead will rejoin pals Noel and Liam Gallagher for their mammoth 14-date reunion tour next summer, The Sun can reveal.
Extra gigs will be announced amid overwhelming demand, with around four million fans wanting tickets to see the Be Here Now giants.
Oasis announced their epic comeback with a cheeky clip of Noel and Liam Gallagher kissing.
Guitarist Bonehead also featured in the 90-second video of past gigs.
In a nod to the brothers ending their 15-year feud, the X/Twitter footage ended with them laughing, joking and the peck on the lips.
A note added: “The guns have fallen silent, the stars have aligned, the great wait is over…”
Tickets for the shows in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin go on sale on Saturday morning and are expected to sell out within three minutes.
A total of 1,066,888 tickets will be available over the 14 gigs, and with demand expected to be four times that, insiders told The Sun that the band will announce extra concerts once this run sells out.
A source said: “These shows will sell out in less than three minutes. Extra dates will be added for sure.”
Bonehead, real name Paul Arthurs and part of Oasis’s founding line up in 1991, is officially signed on for the reunion.
He is close pals with the brothers and played on Liam’s Definitely Maybe tour this summer.
Some of Noel’s High Flying Birds band will also feature in next summer’s Oasis line-up.
A source said: “Bonehead is confirmed. They both wanted him in the fold and he was was one of the drivers of the reunion.
“Noel has brought in some of his band too.
“The Oasis family has really come back together. Bonehead is ecstatic.”
Bonehead, who overcame tonsil cancer in 2023, said of a reunion last year: “I’m ready, got me dancing shoes.”
Music insiders told The Sun how excitement levels between the once warring brothers reached fever-pitch at 8am yesterday when they confirmed Monday’s Sun story that they are reforming.
Last night Wembley’s iconic arches were lit up in blue and white in a nod to Noel and Liam’s devotion to Manchester City.
New photographs of the pair were also published, with insiders telling The Sun the top secret snaps were taken at a photography studio in London just three weeks ago.
A second source said: “Once the deal was signed seven weeks ago, Noel and Liam confirmed they would meet in person for a shoot.
“The shoot happened around three weeks ago and the few people in the room signed non-disclosure agreements to stop it leaking.
“Noel and Liam haven’t had an easy relationship but they were very comfortable with each other and were messing around and having a laugh.
“You could feel the magic and chemistry.
“Being with them in that studio felt like being transported back to the 1990s.”
The band’s founder Alan McGee yesterday told Virgin Radio that the brothers’ mum Peggy, 81.
Peggy was a major reason for the reunion.
Noel and Liam haven’t had an easy relationship but they were very comfortable with each other and were messing around and having a laugh
Sun source
He said: “I’m sure she is behind the whole thing. Peggy is great, she is rocking on.”
He added of the brothers: “I think they’re really professional. I don’t think it will be an issue.”
And insiders said Liam and Noel’s children were key in the shows coming together, with Noel’s daughter Anais, 24, with Liam before he went on stage at the Reading Festival on Sunday.
Anais has formed a tight bond with Noel’s sons Lennon, also 24, and Gene, 23, who said earlier this month they had discussed their parents reforming Oasis.
Gene said of Anais: “We have jokes about it. She knows what her dad is like and I know what my dad is like. Hey, we’re a big happy family everyone.”
Tickets for the tour go on sale on Saturday at 8am in Dublin and 9am for the rest of the UK.
Oasis play Wembley Stadium on July 25, 26 and August 2 and 3
The band start their tour at Cardiff Principality Stadium on July 4 and 5.
Next is Heaton Park in hometown Manchester on July 11, 12, 19 and 20.
Oasis play Wembley Stadium on July 25, 26 and August 2 and 3, Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium on August 8, 9, and end at Dublin Croke Park on August 16 and 17.
On Monday, Spotify revealed that streams of Oasis’ music had rocketed by 160 per cent globally compared to the week before thanks to fans listening to songs from the group’s eight No1 albums.
Music sources told The Sun bands including Fontaines DC and Kasabian were among acts being discussed to open the 16-shows.
They added: “Opening for Oasis is the hottest ticket in town.
“Talks are ongoing with groups like Fontaines DC and Kasabian, as well as Gene Gallagher’s band Villanelle who opened for Liam’s Definitely Maybe tour.
As Liam would say, the chance to perform at those shows would be “biblical”.
Bookies are offering 4/1 on the band splitting before the concerts are completed.
Rock ‘N’ Roll Star is evens favourite to be the curtain-raiser for their first Cardiff gig.
Ticket con fear
FANS were warned to be alert to ticket scams after it was estimated Taylor Swift followers lost about £1million to fraudsters.
Lloyds Bank fraud prevention director Liz Ziegler warned against buying tickets on Facebook or other social media platforms and said buyers risked losing all their money if they paid by bank transfer.
Reported scam cases relating to concert tickets increased 158 per cent last summer compared with the same period a year earlier.
Ms Ziegler said: “Hot on the heels of Taylor Swift’s UK tour, fraudsters will be anticipating another run of sell-out shows next summer.
“Missing out on these landmark gigs would be devastating for Oasis fans who have waited so long for this reunion. But you can be sure that criminals are getting ready to Slide Away with their cash.
“Most of these scams begin on social media, where impostors create fake profiles to sell non-existent tickets. The simple rule for fans is always to stick to official ticketing platforms and avoid deals which look too good to be true.”
By Richard Moriarty