Oasis 2027: Knebworth return confirmed as well as Manchester and Glasgow gigs
The band have officially announced the anticipated second wave of their hit reunion tour shows.
**Oasis 2027: Knebworth return confirmed as well as Manchester and Glasgow gigs**
The band’s 2025 tour brought in an estimated £300 million.
After weeks of dropping hints on social media and beneath the Manchester sky, Oasis have confirmed a second leg of their hugely successful reunion tour for summer 2027.
The band will go back to the site of their iconic 1996 Knebworth House shows to play four nights at the 125,000-capacity venue in September next year.
They will also stage an 11-night residency at the home of their beloved Manchester City in June, after opening the tour with five shows at Glasgow’s Celtic Park in May.
The announcement came on Monday afternoon with a new trailer and a photo of the band. “Start the celebrations!” a message on the band’s social media said.
“After a period of reflection, ‘The Most Damaging Pop Cultural Force In Recent British History’ has declared itself fit for purpose and will once again return to lift the spirits of the people.
“Come witness the fitness. It shall be a sight to behold.”
Oasis will also return to Slane Castle in County Meath, Ireland, for two dates in September, after shows in Europe in July and the US in August.
The newly confirmed dates represent the next stage of Oasis’s comeback after their widely praised 2025 reunion tour, which generated an estimated £300 million at the box office.
A new ticket registration system, similar to the one used for Glastonbury Festival, has been introduced in an effort to avoid the noise and confusion of last time.
Registration opened on Monday with the announcement and closes at 16:00 BST on Thursday 17 September.
In the UK, tickets will go on sale on Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September.
Singer-songwriter Noel Gallagher recently hinted at the band’s 2027 return - after a year off - telling TalkSport: “There must be something happening.”
He added: “Well, let’s put it this way: there’s no football tournament on next year, so we’ve got to do something in the summer, right?”
The band then shared a run of cryptic videos on their official social media accounts that appeared to tease gigs across the UK and Europe.
That was followed by a drone display outside the Etihad Stadium last week, pointing to Monday’s announcement, along with something similar in Rome and gig posters on the Paris Metro.
A few months after Maine Road, the band played to 250,000 fans on the grounds of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire over two nights in August 1996 - performances now seen as Britpop’s defining moment.
More than 4% of the UK population applied for tickets to see the Gallaghers perform, alongside the Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers, The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers.
Speaking at the premiere of a Knebworth documentary film in 2021, Noel said Oasis had had “no fear” about the scale of the shows, adding that if they were to do it again now they would be “petrified”.
The band’s 2025 comeback began shakily before an E minor chord had even been played, with fans criticising the ticket sales process after being made to queue for hours, and some ending up paying hundreds of pounds more than they had expected.
The fiasco prompted a UK government response. After an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Ticketmaster agreed to several voluntary changes, including warning fans 24 hours in advance if a tiered pricing system is being used and providing clearer information about ticket prices while people wait in the queue, as well as not using misleading ticket labels.
Demand and anticipation were enormous among both old and new fans. But the band delivered, with the BBC’s review saying they had not sounded so good since the 1990s.
Halfway through the world tour, Noel told TalkSport that he and his bandmates had been “blown away” by the response to their return after 16 years away.
Last week, another emotional documentary about the tour - featuring the reconciled brothers’ first joint interview since their bitter split in 2009 - was released in UK cinemas after premiering in Venice.
In it, Noel confirms the band is “not a power struggle any more”.
Noel and Liam appeared together on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, which premiered their comeback tour film, *Don’t Look Back in Anger*.
Renewed interest in Oasis recently saw their second album *(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?* officially overtake the biggest-selling album by their heroes The Beatles in the list of the UK’s most popular albums of all time.
And *Wonderwall*, from that album, became a bittersweet England World Cup anthem this summer.
Excitement for Knebworth has been building for years - ever since it was rumoured to be on the itinerary for Oasis’s 2025 tour.
Earlier this summer, it emerged that the band’s promoters had applied for an events licence that would cover the Knebworth gigs.
Other major acts to have performed at the grounds of the listed country house venue include Led Zeppelin, Queen, Sir Paul McCartney, Metallica and, in 2022, Liam Gallagher as a solo act.
Oasis made history over two nights in 1996, but in 2003 Robbie Williams beat their combined attendance record by playing three straight nights, drawing a total crowd of 375,000 people.
That record now appears set to be broken again.
This is history - as Noel once put it - repeating itself.
Celtic Park, Glasgow - 21, 23, 25, 28, 29 May
Etihad Stadium, Manchester - 6, 8 11, 12 15, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26 June
Slane Castle, Ireland - 4,5 September
Knebworth, Hertfordshire - 11, 12, 18, 19 September
Allianz Arena, Munich - 2, 3 July
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona - 10, 11 July
Johan Cruijff Arena, Amsterdam - 16, 17 July
Stade de France, Paris - 23, 24 July
Stadio Olimpico, Rome - 29, 30 July
Gillette Stadium, Boston - 10, 13, 14 August
Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas - 20, 21, 24 August