Live review

Oasis at London’s Wembley Stadium: Duo tease potential 2026 shows at triumphant penultimate UK gig

27th September 2025

Three months into the comeback, it’s still perfect, with no hint of the enthusiasm from either side abating.

Words: Lisa Wright
Photos: Harriet T K Bols, Jennifer McCord, Joshua Halling
29th September 2025

Even the most ardent of believers probably wouldn’t have dared dream how spectacularly Oasis’ long-awaited, constantly rumoured and finally delivered reunion shows have played out. Back in August last year when the news broke, the global excitement was undercut with ripples of questioning: will the Gallagher brothers keep it together? Will it feel authentic? Are they doing it for the cash (yes) or because they actually want to get the band back together again? (Also, it seems, thankfully yes).

Yet, since that first step back on stage in Cardiff on 4th July, emerging arm-in-arm in an unequivocal statement of unified intent, Oasis haven’t put a foot wrong. Touring totally sober to keep himself match-fit, Liam’s been treating his long-desired second round with the commitment of an athlete; Noel has looked happier with every passing show. The crowds, meanwhile, have been - to put it in the frontman’s own preferred parlance - biblical: the sort of once-in-a-lifetime energy that it’s hard to imagine any band or any moment ever being able to match. Gone are the days of lairy lads lobbing pints of god knows what; if you could bottle the sheer joy and camaraderie contained within these stadiums, you could probably sell it as a high-end, youth-giving elixir.

And so, as the band return to Wembley for a pair of final UK shows to round off a summer for the history books, it’s with nothing to prove but - as it turns out - something to suggest. “‘Champagne Supernova’. See you next year,” Liam intones before the final moments of their victorious encore. The rumour mill, it seems, will not get to rest quite yet.

It feels wholly plausible that Oasis would want to come back for another victory lap in 2026, too. This inaugural run of dates might have been planned with dollars in its eyes, but you get the sense that they’re genuinely loving it. As the screens kick into the opening press montage, revving up the energy with a swirling mass of news clipping rumours before unleashing the big announcement statement - ‘The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over’ - it’s a rare example of such a hyperbolic phrase actually ringing true. And if these 80,000 people have been waiting for 15 years since the band split back in 2009, then they’re ready to harvest the energy of every second lost and throw it into the next two hours fully.

There’s no real need for us to tell you how good Oasis’ back catalogue is, or how good this setlist is. A completely fat-free romp through one of the most heavyweight canons of all time, these songs are so ingrained in British culture that it’s hard to rationalise that these were the actual men that sat down and wrote them. If any busker attempted a run of ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Champagne Supernova’, you’d roll your eyes: the sheer volume of turbo-hits on offer here is staggering.

It begins with the occasion-acknowledging ‘Hello’ (“It’s good to be back”) and never relents. ‘Morning Glory’; ‘Some Might Say’; ‘Cigarettes and Alcohol’; ‘Roll With It’. Before they’ve even played 10 songs, they’ve already blown any other setlist out the water. Crucially, there’s no room for any hint of self-indulgence or attempting to rewrite their own legacy. Aside from ‘Heathen Chemistry’ cut ‘Little By Little’, the night is a ferocious run through their prime, largely ignoring their later wobbles in favour of hit after hit after hit.

Three months into the comeback, it’s still perfect, with no hint of the enthusiasm from either side abating. Oasis could probably have put on ten more Wembley Stadium dates and sold them out too. Maybe back then, the idea would have seemed risky. Now, it’s hard to imagine them going away.