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Angus Jenner
Oasis' Noel and Liam Gallagher walk out to perform at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, for night 1 of their Oasis Live '25 Tour on Friday, July 4, 2025.
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Oasis Share Live Recording of Fan Favorite From Comeback Show in Cardiff
The Gallagher brothers kicked off their Live '25 reunion tour in Wales last Friday (July 4)
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Last Friday (July 4) Oasis came good on rock’s most anticipated reunion with a show for the ages at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. The two-night stand was the first of 41 dates on their Live ‘25 tour, which runs through the U.K. and Ireland until mid-August, and then heads to North America and beyond.
As they prepare for their five homecoming shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park over the next week (July 11-20), the band have shared an official live recording of “Slide Away” from their first show back. The song has been released to all streaming platforms, and is available to listen to below.
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The song’s artwork features a picture of punters at the show doing the “poznan,” a celebration adopted by fans of their beloved soccer team Manchester City which involves linking arms, facing away from the pitch and bouncing up and down. Liam Gallagher asked the audience to do the move while playing “Cigarettes & Alcohol” at Friday’s concert.
“Slide Away” was featured on the band’s 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe, and was one of many ‘90s classics to appear in the 23-song setlist over the first two shows. The Gallagher brothers’ hit-packed setlist also included “Live Forever,” “Wonderwall,” “Supersonic,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” and more.
The live recording is the first new original release from the band since 2009’s Falling Down EP, which included outtakes from their 2008 LP Dig Out Your Soul. The group have reissued a number of live and acoustic recordings from the archive in the interim, including a demo of “Don’t Stop” (2020), first believed to have been written in 2005 by Noel Gallagher. He later recorded the song for his solo venture, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, on a deluxe edition of their 2023 LP Council Skies.
On Wednesday (July 9), the group announced the release of a huge box set reissue of all seven studio albums (and B-side collection The Masterplan, 1998) on CD and vinyl. Billboard also reports that streams of their back catalog has leapt 93% since their comeback show on July 4.
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Listen to the live “Slide Away” below
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