Oasis Release Third Cryptic Video. Europe 2027

Oasis have released a third cryptic video in as many days as the band's apparent 2027 teaser campaign continues, and this time the clues seem to be taking us beyond Britain.

The first video, released on Thursday, appeared packed with references towards Celtic Park in Glasgow, including apparent coordinates hidden around a chip shop, IRN-BRU and a deep-fried Mars bar. Friday's follow-up then switched towards Manchester, with football, Manchester City blue, eleven tally marks and a blue moon all seemingly pointing towards the Etihad Stadium.

Now, on Saturday, 5 September, Oasis have shared another unexplained video featuring the same two young lads, this time beside a Volkswagen parked in a field.

And one clue appears much more specific than anything else in the video.

The radio appears to take us to Munich in 1997

Listen carefully to the radio inside the car and the audio appears to come from Oasis' concert at Munich's Olympiahalle on 19 November 1997, during the ‘Be Here Now’ tour.

The German radio introduction from that show has survived alongside recordings of the concert, making the choice of audio particularly interesting. This is not simply a generic German voice or a random piece of old Oasis footage: if the identification is correct, somebody has selected audio connected to a specific Oasis concert in Munich.

That immediately makes Munich the strongest interpretation of the third teaser, particularly with reports surrounding Oasis' possible 2027 plans already including the Allianz Arena among a proposed run of European stadiums. Those reports remain unconfirmed by the band, but Munich has consistently appeared among the cities being linked with another enormous summer of Oasis shows.

There are other details around the scene which could reinforce the German connection. The car appears to be a Volkswagen and is left-hand drive, while fans have also suggested that some of the red and white clothing could be another small nod towards Munich through the colours associated with Bayern Munich.

Taken individually, none of those details would mean very much. Put them around a radio playing material connected specifically to Oasis in Munich, however, and the setting starts to look considerably more deliberate.

Is the play-fighting another Munich reference?

At one point, the two lads begin play-fighting beside the car. Considering they have effectively spent the teaser campaign acting as younger echoes of Liam and Noel Gallagher, the image of the pair fighting inevitably invites another round of Oasis detective work.

The first interpretation might be Paris. Oasis famously came to an end before their scheduled Rock en Seine appearance on 28 August 2009 after the backstage confrontation between Noel and Liam finally pushed their relationship beyond repair. With Paris also reportedly among the locations under consideration for 2027, two brothers fighting could be a deliberately playful reference to the place where Oasis' original run ended.

There is, however, another possibility which fits the rest of this particular video much more closely.

Liam Gallagher was involved in a notorious altercation in Munich in December 2002, losing two front teeth during a fight while Oasis were touring Germany. German police detained Gallagher and several other members of the band's party following the incident, while Oasis subsequently cancelled shows as a result of his injuries.
If the play-fighting is intended to reference a real moment from Oasis history, Munich therefore feels at least as plausible as Paris. A Munich concert is already playing through the radio, so dropping another notorious piece of Oasis' history in the same city into the scene would fit the way these videos appear to have been constructed.

It is worth stressing that Oasis have explained none of this. Two lads messing around can, of course, simply be two lads messing around. After three videos seemingly designed to make fans inspect every object in the frame, though, ignoring it completely would almost feel against the rules.

The second teaser ended with one detail that seemed particularly important.
Behind the boys, an Umbro garment hung on a washing line after similar clothing had featured prominently in the first video. Hanging alongside it was an Oasis Knebworth T-shirt, raising the possibility that these videos are connected: one contains a small clue which then leads into the setting or theme of the next.

If that theory was correct, video three should somehow take us towards Knebworth.

Instead, the strongest clues point towards Munich. But Knebworth may not have disappeared completely, because the Volkswagen has been parked in the middle of an enormous open field.

That is obviously nowhere near enough to identify Knebworth by itself. Britain is not exactly short of fields, and putting the car somewhere isolated also gives the video the visual space it needs. In the context of Friday's Knebworth shirt, though, it is difficult not to wonder whether the rural setting is another intentional reference.

Knebworth House has been heavily linked with Oasis' reported plans for 2027, with current reports even suggesting the band could conclude the tour with multiple concerts there, more than three decades after the two shows which came to define the scale of Oasis at their commercial peak.

Perhaps the Knebworth shirt wasn't telling us the entire third video would take place there. It may simply have been planting another venue clue, which continues running underneath the more obvious Munich references.

There is an even stranger detail sitting much further away from the action.

Look towards the background of the field and a distinctive hill can be seen with what appears to be a narrow structure standing on its summit. From a distance, the silhouette looks remarkably similar to Glastonbury Tor.

The Tor rises sharply above the surrounding Somerset landscape, with the surviving St Michael's Tower standing alone at the top. It creates a distinctive outline which is at least visually similar to the structure visible behind the Volkswagen in the Oasis teaser.

That absolutely does not mean Oasis have just teased a Glastonbury appearance.

At this stage, it is simply something worth noticing. The object in the distance may turn out to be an entirely different building, and even if the location really is intended to resemble Glastonbury Tor, there could be reasons for including it which have nothing to do with the festival.

But Oasis know what is happening whenever one of these videos appears. Thousands of people immediately freeze frames, inspect clothes, count markings on walls and search for meaning in objects sitting several hundred metres away. Putting something as recognisable as a tower on an isolated hill into the background would be a particularly effective way of starting another theory without actually saying anything

What makes the campaign so interesting is that each video appears to be revealing a little more without Oasis actually announcing anything.

The first appeared to lean heavily towards Glasgow and Celtic Park, while also carrying possible Manchester references through the brothers' Maine Road-inspired clothing. The second moved much more clearly into Manchester City and the Etihad Stadium, before leaving a Knebworth shirt hanging in the background.

The third now seems to have given us the first serious indication of mainland Europe. Audio from Munich in 1997, a German car, left-hand drive and potentially even a playful reference to Liam's infamous 2002 Munich fight make this considerably more difficult to dismiss as coincidence.

Around those stronger clues sit the unresolved questions. Is the field supposed to make us think about Knebworth? Is the fighting actually pointing backwards to Paris in 2009 rather than Munich? And is that genuinely something resembling Glastonbury Tor sitting on the horizon?

We may be reading far too much into some of it. That is presumably part of the fun.

Three days ago, Oasis had not officially said anything about another tour. Now their own social media accounts have apparently pointed towards Glasgow, Manchester and Munich while Knebworth continues to hover around the edges of the campaign.

Oasis still have not announced Live ’27, confirmed a venue or revealed a date. At this point, though, they appear to be doing everything except putting the tour poster online..