Oasis have today broken their silence over rumours they will be playing at Glastonbury next summer to confirm they will not be at the festival.
Speculation was rife Liam and Noel Gallagher would be returning to Worthy Farm in 2025 ahead of their comeback tour.
But in a statement posted on the band’s X account just after lunchtime today, they ruled out appearing at Glastonbury or any other festival.
Oasis said the only way to see the band in 2025 was by attending one of their shows during their world tour.
The statement read: ‘Despite media speculation, Oasis will not be playing Glastonbury 2025 or any other festivals next year.
‘The only way to see the band perform will be on their Oasis Live ’25 World Tour.’
Oasis last performed as a headliner at Glastonbury in 2004 in a gig that Liam later admitted he ‘hated’.
Oasis have today broken their silence over rumours they will be playing at Glastonbury next summer
In a statement posted on the band’s X account just after lunchtime today, they ruled out appearing at Glastonbury or any other festival
Oasis last performed as a headliner at Glastonbury in 2004 in a gig that Liam later admitted he ‘hated’
The Gallagher brothers sensationally confirmed at 8am yesterday ‘the stars have aligned’ for the iconic Britpop band to reform for a mammoth UK and Ireland tour, which includes four blockbuster shows at Wembley Stadium.
Oasis will perform 14 concerts in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Dublin and Edinburgh as part of the Oasis Live 25 tour.
There are also plans ‘underway… to go to other continents outside of Europe later next year’.
Rumours had swirled ahead of the hotly anticipated announcement that Glastonbury bosses had ‘left the door open’ for Oasis to headline next year’s festival.
Today fans appeared nonplussed after they ruled out playing at the festival, with one quipping: ‘Don’t look back at Glasto.’
Another simply said ‘I think that’s fair enough’ while a third added: ‘Knew it.’
The Rock n Roll Star singer, 51, spoke to BBC 6 Music’s Matt Everitt in 2019 in which he admitted he ‘hated’ their Glastonbury headline performance in 2004.
‘I didn’t enjoy that because that was when I’d first started using in-ears [monitors to hear the music] and it spun me out for 15 years… Our kid wanted to go Slash and turn everything up,’ Liam said.
‘So, I put them in for the sake of the band and my voice and all that, but I couldn’t get my head round it.’
Liam moaned that ‘those in-ear things’ ruined the interaction with fans.
‘You need the interaction,’ he said, ‘you need the vibe, so yeah it was horrible, I didn’t like it.
‘I enjoyed myself after it because you soon put it to bed, you get off your head and all that and I enjoyed the vibe. But the gig, nah, wasn’t for me.’
Noel Gallagher playing at Oasis’ last Glastonbury headline appearance in 2004
A new photograph of Liam and Noel Gallagher as they confirmed that Oasis have reformed
Oasis have announced a series of dates in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin
It comes as Oasis fans were infuriated today by ‘rip-off’ hotels amid an extraordinary scramble for accommodation among those desperate to see the band on their reunion tour.
Those trying to secure a hotel room ahead of tickets for the Oasis Live 25 tour going on sale this Saturday have faced skyrocketing prices and high demand.
Research by MailOnline today has established 99 per cent of hotels on Booking.com in Cardiff on July 4 and 5, the dates of the band’s first gigs, are already sold out.
There is also intense demand in Manchester, with 98 per cent booked on the night of the city’s first concert on July 11 and only 23 now remaining. One of the priciest options is the Townhouse Hotel, where rooms are £1,388 – or £119 two weeks later.
And the Maldron hotel chain was accused by furious customers of cancelling bookings coinciding with Oasis gigs in the city then reselling the rooms for triple the price – but the business later claimed this was due to a series of technical issues.
Greater Manchester’s night-time economy adviser Sacha Lord later urged Maldron Hotels to ‘do the right thing’ after he received numerous complaints.
Liam Gallagher teased an official reunion during his set at Reading Festival on Sunday night
Customers who had booked for the Maldron received an email asking them to cancel the room
In a post on X, he wrote: ‘Hey @MaldronHotels. I’m being contacted by several people who booked your hotel for the Oasis concert, to say their rooms have just been cancelled and are now back up for three times the price.
‘I’m sure this is a ‘computer error’… easy to correct. Do the right thing.’
A number of disgruntled customers posted screenshots on X of an email appearing to be from Maldron Hotels, stating that ‘due to a technical error, you have received a confirmation for a booking that was not successfully made’.
Recipients were told they will be sent a ‘cancellation request’ and asked to ‘accept promptly’.
Among those angered by what happened was Oasis fan Lily Stroud from Newcastle, who said she ‘took a risk ‘ by reserving rooms on two weekends at the hotel in July 2025 amid speculation about dates online before the official announcement.
But the 26-year-old’s bookings were then cancelled by the hotel after the tour announcement due to a ‘technical error’.
Manchester City councillor Pat Karney confirmed that trading standards will now investigate.