Oasis 2027 Tour: Drones over Manchester Reveal Announcement Date and Time
The latest hints towards another Oasis tour arrived only days after the band gathered in London for the UK premiere of ‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger’, the documentary capturing their enormous Live ’25 reunion.
Liam and Noel Gallagher walked the black carpet together at Cineworld Leicester Square on Monday 7 September, following the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival two days earlier. They were joined by almost the entire touring incarnation of Oasis, with Bonehead, Gem Archer, Andy Bell, Mike Moore and Christian Madden all attending. Drummer Joey Waronker was the notable absentee.
The premiere also became something of a gathering of generations of British guitar music. Johnny Marr was there alongside Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, while the newer generation was represented by Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten and Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell and Joel Amey. Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and Blossoms were also among the musicians in attendance, alongside Manchester City player Jack Grealish.
Perhaps most significantly, the entire next generation of the Gallagher family was there too. Liam was joined by Lennon, Gene and Molly Moorish-Gallagher, while Noel attended with Anaïs, Donovan and Sonny. The documentary itself reveals that the brothers’ children had only properly come together following the Oasis reunion, making the sight of all six attending the London premiere another small indication of how much had changed since Liam and Noel’s relationship collapsed in 2009.
It was a guest list that underlined the scale Oasis have returned at. Marr and Gilmour represented musicians who had already helped shape British guitar music before Oasis existed; Wolf Alice and Fontaines D.C. represented bands who had inherited some of the enormous audiences guitar music could still command decades later. In the middle of it were Oasis themselves, reunited not simply for a nostalgic run of concerts but now surrounded by their families, contemporaries and another generation of bands.
Within days, attention had already moved towards what might come next.
A succession of cryptic teaser videos began pointing towards locations for a potential 2027 tour, with clues appearing to indicate Glasgow, Manchester, Amsterdam, Paris, Boston and Rome. Rather than relying on obvious landmarks or simply displaying the names of cities, however, Oasis have built many of the clips around episodes from their own history.
Manchester was teased through footage of two children playing football beside a wall and a pair of makeshift goalposts, immediately turning attention towards the Etihad Stadium. The setting, football imagery and other Manchester City references appeared to point towards the home of the club Liam and Noel have supported throughout their lives.
Amsterdam's video reached much further back. It featured two young men around shipping containers before they were chased by police, an apparent reference to Oasis’ chaotic first attempt to play outside Britain in February 1994.
The band were travelling by ferry to the Netherlands to support The Verve when a fight broke out on board. Liam, Bonehead, Guigsy and Tony McCarroll were arrested and sent back to Britain, meaning Oasis never reached the Amsterdam show. Noel had stayed out of the trouble and continued to the Netherlands alone, with the fallout becoming another early example of the chaos that followed the band almost everywhere during their rise.
More than three decades later, Oasis turned the incident into the basis of an announcement teaser.
The Paris video was even more specific.
A man is shown eating before throwing away a plum, with a poster advertising Rock en Seine 2009 visible behind him. It is difficult to imagine a more pointed Oasis reference. The band were due to headline Rock en Seine on 28 August 2009 when a backstage confrontation between Liam and Noel finally brought Oasis to an end.
Noel later recalled a plum being thrown during the argument before Liam returned carrying a guitar. The band pulled out of the festival minutes before they were due on stage and, later that night, Noel announced his departure from Oasis.
Seventeen years later, the fruit and the poster have effectively become an inside joke between Oasis and an audience who know precisely what happened there. Paris was once the place where Oasis ended. The teaser appears designed to suggest that they are finally going back.
Other videos have continued to point towards locations including Glasgow, Boston and Rome, turning the campaign into something closer to a journey through Oasis mythology than a conventional tour announcement. Each city is being introduced through clues, old stories and details aimed directly at people who have spent years following the band.
Manchester, however, appears increasingly difficult to describe as speculation.
Reports had already suggested that Oasis were preparing to book the Etihad Stadium, the home of Liam and Noel Gallagher’s beloved Manchester City, before a huge drone display appeared above the ground on Thursday night, 10 September. The Oasis logo was formed above the stadium before the date ‘14.09.26’ appeared in the sky, seemingly setting Monday 14 September as the date for the full announcement.
Oasis later shared an official video of the drone display hovering above the Etihad Stadium and the Manchester skyline at night.
Other footage released by the band has added another potentially significant detail. The clips are soundtracked by ‘Lyla’, Oasis’ 2005 Number One single, and ‘The Shock of the Lightning’, released in 2008. Neither song appeared on the Live ’25 tour setlist, raising the possibility that the band may be hinting not only at new dates but at changes to the show itself when they return in 2027.
An Etihad residency would provide another considerable connection with Oasis’ past. The band famously played two homecoming concerts at Manchester City’s former ground, Maine Road, in April 1996, creating some of the defining images of their mid-1990s peak.
More than 30 years later, its successor now appears ready to host the next enormous Manchester chapter in the Oasis story.
The expected announcement also comes immediately after the release of ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, which arrived in cinemas on Wednesday, 9 September. The documentary captured the reunion everyone thought they might never see; within days of its release, Oasis were already beginning to tease what happens after it.
And judging by how they are announcing it, they are making sure every step toward 2027 comes with a reminder of everything that happened before.
Will you be trying for tickets, I know I will.