Despite what Oasis singer Liam Gallagher promised us 30 years ago, we are, sadly, not going to “Live Forever.” In fact, most of us didn’t think we’d live long enough to see the band perform again after they famously called it quits in 2009 due to the bitter sibling rivalry that both fueled and faltered their family band.
After years of soaring hits, swaggering boasts and a kind of feverish fame in the U.K. that reminded some of a previous generation’s Beatlemania — fitting, given Oasis’ hiding-in-plain-sight Fab Four fixation — songwriter/guitarist Noel Gallagher announced at the time (“with great relief”) that he’d quit the group because he simply “could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”
Alas, times change, money trucks are backed up, and despite years of public sniping and vows that they never, ever intended to look back with anything but anger, Liam and Noel have buried the hatchets they stuck in each other’s backs and announced a 2025 reunion tour. For now, the 17 dates of Oasis Live ’25 are confined to the U.K. and Ireland, with the promise of more shows around the world to come.
Which means it’s the right time to do some setlist manifestation for the songs superfans want to hear when Liam, Noel and whoever else they recruit for the reboot take the stage for the first planned gig on July 4 in Cardiff. Rest assured that such U.K. chart-toppers as “Some Might Say,” “Don’t Look Back In Anger,” “Lyla” and “D’You Know What I Mean” will be in the mix, along with stone-cold must-haves like “Rock n’ Roll Star,” “Supersonic,” “Cast No Shadow,” “Wonderwall” and, duh, “Live Forever.”
But what else do we want in the mix for the big comeback? Check out our 23-song wish list below.
