By Damon Wilkinson

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They’ve been all around the world and back again. This weekend the Oasis reunion tour has returned to the UK for two huge Wembley concerts. After months of hype, anticipation and mass singalongs, the second summer of Britpop is almost over. By the time the 41 date tour ends in Sao Paulo, Brazil on November 23, the band will have played to an astonishing 1.9m fans in 13 countries. So, as the Gallaghers prepare to put their feet up, here we take a look back at the reunion many thought would never happen – and ask where Oasis could go from here. A staggering 14 million people are said to have applied for tickets for the band’s initial run of 17 UK and Irish concerts. So the 60,000 fans who crammed into the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on Friday, July 4, for the tour’s opening night could count themselves among the lucky few. And when Liam and Noel walked out on stage together arm-in-arm for the first time in 16 years the noise nearly blew the roof off. Manchester Evening News lifestyle editor Dianne Bourne witnessed the comeback. And it’s fair to say she was blown away. “Stop the clocks, the stars really did align, because yes, Oasis are back – and they’ve just reclaimed their crown as rock ‘n’ roll stars,” she wrote in her review of the night. Stay connected with our City Life newsletter here “You can throw as many clichés as you like at this show and it still wouldn’t quite sum up what the 60,000 plus fans cramming into the Principality Stadium in Cardiff saw, heard and felt, on Friday night. “It was biblical, celestial, majestical – all of the superlatives that Liam likes to self-anoint himself with. But on this occasion, it was no hyperbole. This show meant everything.” After tuning up in South Wales, the Gallaghers returned to Manchester for an epic five night run of homecoming gigs at Heaton Park . And for 10 remarkable days the city was absolutely buzzing. From the Poznan, to Pep belting out Don’t Look Back in Anger to the growing hoards who made a nightly pilgrimage to Gallagher Hill , the shows will live long in the memory of anyone who was there. M.E.N. What’s On editor Jenna Campbell tried to sum up what it all meant. “Not for a long time has the city felt so euphoric and celebratory in atmosphere,” she wrote. “I only wish we could bottle it up. “It all feels quite surreal. Liam and Noel back on stage, the city resembling the atmosphere of a cup final, and a hill overlooking Heaton Park becoming the best ticket in town. “So even when pints of something that wasn’t Carlsberg were being thrown, or there was a bit of a wait for trams, and everyone in town seemed to be wearing the same adidas shirt, we’ll look back at these ten days and wish they could Live Forever.” Oasis, famously, never quite cracked America the first time round. In their 90s pomp Wonderwall reached the Billboard top 10, while What’s The Story made it to number two in the album charts. But it was nothing like the status they received at home and elsewhere across the globe. Fast forward to 2025 and all that seem to have changed. It seems absence really does make the heart fonder. The band played a string of triumphant sold out shows at stadiums across the States, culminating at the Rose Bowl in LA last month . And the rapturous reception prompted Liam to ask fans: “Are we dating? America, Oasis, the new hot couple, yeah?” With the tour estimated to have earnt them both somewhere between £50m and £100m each, Noel and Liam could be forgiven for hanging up their microphones for another 16 years at least. But those rumours about playing at the home of their beloved Manchester City and a possible return to Knebworth next summer just won’t go away. Maybe it’s because 2026 will mark the 30th anniversary of their iconic shows at City’s former Maine Road home and the sprawling Hertfordshire estate of Knebworth. Join our Oasis WhatsApp group HERE Last month Pep Guardiola dropped a hint the band could play at the Etihad telling TNT Sports: “It will happen, I am pretty sure. I will talk with Noel.” And when earlier this week Take That announced three shows the Etihad Stadium on June 19 and 20 – marking a return to live music shows at the football ground for the first time in three years – it sent the rumour mill into overdrive.