The fighting brothers who unite generations have returned to Brazil

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The Gallaghers dominated, faced decline, ended in 2009, and now, in a new miracle, the comeback tour concludes in São Paulo, on Saturday and Sunday, with sold out tickets, at MorumBIS Stadium, the comeback tour, Oasis Live ’25.

In the case of a group that spent 15 years on hiatus because lead guitarist and composer Noel tired of constant fights with vocalist Liam (the last straw came on August 28, 2009, when, shortly after taking the stage at the Rock En Seine festival, in France, the singer waved a guitar in his brother’s face), a tense tour was to be expected – but Liam, 53; Noel, 58, continued the tour smoothly from the start, on July 4, in Cardiff (Wales), to other dates in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia and Australia.

With rave reviews from the press for Liam’s good vocal form, the interaction of the brothers and a steady repertoire of 23 songs, which favors hits – from the albums “Definitely Maybe”, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory” (1995), “Be Here Now” (1997) and “Main Chart” (a collection of b-sides from the singles) -, Oasis brought sighs of relief to the 14 million people who rushed to buy tickets as soon as the tour began. It was announced (surprisingly, with no dates set in South America yet), for August 2024.

Last weekend, the band opened the final leg of their tour in Buenos Aires. It marked the return of founding guitarist Bonehead to the stage (under treatment for prostate cancer, he had to be replaced for shows in Asia and Oceania) and he also paid tribute to the great Diego Maradona during “Live Forever”.

Fan and singer-songwriter Samuel Rosa says he saw “four or five Oasis shows during their original run.” In two of them, his then band, Skank, played an opening act: in Rio, in 2009, weeks before Noel pulled out, with Gaucho Cachorro Grande (“I had the pleasure of being with Cachorro playing the Beatles and all of Oasis, except I think Noel is watching”), and in Portugal, at the Sudoeste Festival, in 2005, with the Englishman Kasabian and the Portuguese. That’s a weasel. For Samuel, Oasis’s return “leaves more questions than answers.”

— (Last time in Brazil), they played to 8,000, 10,000 people, roughly. 60,000 people are expected each night in Morumbi this weekend. Where were those 110,000 people last time? – a question. – When Oasis broke up, the band was no longer the band for those huge concerts in England, as it had been in the second half of the 90s (In 1996, they gathered 250,000 people for two outdoor concerts). The revivals end up with a larger scope than the band had during its existence.

For Nadia Vladi, professor and researcher at the Federal University of Reconcavo da Bahia (UFRB), author of the thesis “Music creates its genre: an analysis of the importance of labels for understanding indie rock as a genre,” the success of Oasis’ comeback in 2025 is due to many factors.

– Album “(What’s the story) Morning Glory?” She became a British pop icon (It reached number four on the US albums chart and spent 78 weeks in the top 200 albums chart). It’s another variable that helps explain the return effect, and the press has even dubbed it Britpop Summer (“Britopop Summer”) – says Nadia. — Another interesting point is the legend of the Gallagher brothers. Thanks to their battles and bravery, they became a charismatic duo of 90s pop legends. There is also an important social and political point: the oasis symbolized working-class youth in the post-Margaret Thatcher UK (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1979 and 1990).

For her, more than anything else, it is the fact that Oasis have timeless songs that are passed down through generations, “like the Beatles”:

– People continue to listen and enjoy “Hello” (with which the band started their performances) and “Champagne Supernova”. Parents who heard these songs at that time continued to listen, and their children began to listen. This has always happened, but streaming plays a crucial role in redistributing other decades’ catalogs.

Oasis reaches a new audience: Spotify data indicates an increase in the band’s streams, with the band gaining more than 16 million new listeners in 2025 (50% of whom came from Generation Z, born between 1995 and 2010). This is the case of Sao Paulo singer Bella Peruzzi, 24, who grew up listening to Oasis at home. She goes to the two shows in São Paulo with three friends – one of whom, Jasmine, is from Manchester, the band’s hometown, who came to Brazil for the occasion (“I’ve actually been to seven of their shows, and we met on Oasis’ Twitter”).

-At the same time I was listening to Oasis (With parents), I didn’t know the band that deeply. In 2017, I started playing guitar and the first song I learned was “Wonderwall”. I started looking for them. At the beginning of last year, I saw that Liam posted many things on Twitter and responded to his fans, today we talk almost every day. “After that, I started looking for solo albums and I fell in love with Noel Gallagher’s albums,” says Bella. “They say a lot about youth, about freedom, about doing what we want. This comeback brings a bit of nostalgia to Gen Z fans for a moment that we haven’t experienced. I don’t know people who lived in the 90s in England, but I think it was a liberating time in terms of musical styles.”

The often rude behavior, often seen as misogynistic and homophobic, of Oasis members (Noel Gallagher, of his Blur rivals, said in 1995: “I hate Alex and Damon, I hope they get AIDS and die!”) is, according to Bella Peruzzi, a frequently discussed topic among fans of X.

– In the 1990s there was no Internet, and subscriptions were not cancelled. Liam cheated, it was in the newspaper, but then he disappeared. Today, everything is on the Internet, you have to be more careful. He remembers that younger, more connected fans are more aware that words can hurt others. -Liam was recently canceled on X because he said a completely unnecessary word. But I understand that this is common in his mind. They lived in this time of talking and having no consequences, a completely different scenario (Qingzhong, a derogatory term for people of Asian descent; The singer apologized). Liam is like this, Noel is like this, they are going to die like this. It’s rock and roll.

For Bella, Oasis comes to address the “lack of authenticity in rock bands” among Generation Z:

– Today there are no longer those bands that used to play in garages, and which started out in small shows. We miss that connection with rock and roll.

Nadia Vladi asserts that Oasis embodies the nostalgia of an authentic rock band.

— It embodies the idea of ​​the dirtiest, least polished, most organic rock, real rock. Younger generations often look back to the past in search of this authenticity. He asserts that “politically incorrect” situations end up seeming almost theatrical: a tantrum between brothers, a ’90s aesthetic. — Oasis has become a legend, and emotional memory plays a central role in this timeless success.

“Maybe rock music has kind of out of sync with the modern age” of the digital world, TikTok, and no longer has the capacity to fill stadiums — except for older bands like Oasis, says Samuel Rosa.