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Oasis announces North America reunion tour dates for 2025: “One last chance to prove that you loved us”
After ending a 15-year hiatus – and long-held feud between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher – Oasis shocked fans by announcing a reunion tour last month. The band announced Monday they are taking the long-awaited tour to North America in 2025.
“America. Oasis is coming. You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along,” the Britpop band said in a statement.
There are five new stadium dates for next summer in Toronto, Chicago, New Jersey, Los Angeles and Mexico City. American rock band Cage the Elephant will open.
Presale registration is currently open on the band’s website until Tuesday at 8 a.m. ET. The general ticket sale will begin on Friday at noon local time via Ticketmaster.
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According to a press release, the band will also tour other continents outside of Europe and North America later next year.
Last month, frustrated Oasis fans in the U.K. were met with error messages, hourslong online queues and dynamic pricing – the quick rise and drop of price due to demand – while they attempted to score tickets.
There may be a solution for at least one of those issues: a spokesperson for Oasis management shared in a statement Monday that “Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing model will not be applied to the forthcoming sale of tickets to Oasis concerts in North America.”
“When unprecedented ticket demand (where the entire tour could be sold many times over at the moment tickets go on sale) is combined with technology that cannot cope with that demand, it becomes less effective and can lead to an unacceptable experience for fans,” it continued. “We have made this decision for the North America tour to hopefully avoid a repeat of the issues fans in the UK and Ireland experienced recently.”
Band’s break up and reunion
Formed in Manchester in 1991, Oasis was one of the most dominant British acts of the 1990s, releasing hits like “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger.” Its sound was fueled by singalong rock choruses and the combustible chemistry between guitarist-songwriter Noel and singer-sibling Liam.
The group split in 2009 after many years of infighting. Noel Gallagher officially left the band just before a performance at a festival near Paris. Even before the dissolution, the two brothers had long had an antagonistic relationship.
“People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer,” Noel Gallagher, the band’s guitarist and songwriter, wrote in a statement at the time.
While the Gallagher brothers haven’t performed together since both regularly performed Oasis songs at their solo gigs.
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Last month, the Britpop progenitors ended a few days of fan speculation of an upcoming reunion. A short video on the band’s social media accounts Sunday night had revealed the date “27.08.24,” and time “8 a.m.,” written in the same font as the well-known Oasis logo. The brothers shared the same to their individual accounts.
Announcing the reunion, the band said fans would experience “the spark and intensity” that occurs only when they appear on stage together.
Oasis’ North American tour dates
Aug. 24: Toronto
Aug. 28: Chicago
Aug. 31: East Rutherford, New Jersey
Sept. 6: Los Angeles
Sept. 12: Mexico City
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In a move intended to troll former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, ahead of the first and only vice presidential debate of 2024, the Democratic National Committee on Monday night is digitally projecting various phrases — including Vance previously calling Trump an “idiot” — onto Trump Tower in New York City.
The projections appeared just hours after Vance arrived at Trump Tower on Monday ahead of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan.
“Vance on Trump: ‘What an idiot,'” one of the digital projections says, referring to a Vance tweet from October 2016, when he wrote, “My god what an idiot,” about Trump — part of a slew of criticisms Vance has since said he regrets.
The DNC’s projections are also aimed at the former president for saying he won’t again debate Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump has said “it’s just too late, voting has already started,” but Democrats note that he participated in October debates in the last two election cycles.
“Trump is a chicken!” says another message projected on Trump Tower, following Democrats sponsoring billboards near a Trump rally in battleground Pennsylvania last week with the same sentiment.
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Harris told supporters at a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday night the campaign will be cheering “Coach Walz” on Tuesday. But despite that the debate is the last scheduled matchup of the 2024 cycle, she cautioned that “their debate should not be the last word.”
With Democrats continuing to lean into Walz’s background as a high school social studies teacher and football coach, another projection reads, “Go Coach Walz!”
Monday’s final message labels Trump Tower as “Project 2025 HQ,” a line the DNC also displayed on Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower during the Democratic National Convention in August.
The former president has sought to distance himself from the conservative blueprint overseen by the Heritage Foundation for a second Trump term, calling it “Project 25” and saying he knows “nothing about it,” but Democrats continue to tie it to Trump and Vance.
DNC spokesperson Abhi Rahman told CBS News on Monday that the projections are intended to grab the attention of the Republican ticket and remind Americans that Trump won’t agree to debate again.
“As Vance takes the debate stage to attempt to make up for Trump’s own lackluster debate performance, these projections on Trump Tower NYC are a reminder that Trump and Vance are out for themselves while Trump remains afraid to go back on that debate stage and be held accountable by Vice President Harris for his failed record and his dangerous agenda,” Rahman said in a statement.
David Schwartz, a trial attorney in New York City, told CBS News it’s illegal to project digital signs in New York City for longer than 60 seconds without a permit.
“The Department of Buildings and the New York City code requires a permit, even for digital signs and animated signs. We have a very extensive sign law where you have to get a permit to put up a sign, but now, in the age of digital signs, the laws have been amended to include digital sign permits as well, as long as you’re keeping it up for over 60 seconds,” he said.
“It’s not like anyone’s going to go to jail over it, but it is punishable by a fine. And in this political season, maybe it’s just the cost of doing business,” Schwartz added.
Rohman, a spokesperson with the DNC, said they are aware of the law and complying with it because they’ll be rotating through individual messages which won’t be up for over 60 seconds.
CBS News will host the only planned vice presidential debate between Vance and Walz on Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on CBS and CBS News 24/7. Download the free CBS News app for live coverage, post-debate analysis, comprehensive fact checks and more.
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