Liam Gallagher fuels Oasis reunion speculation – with a rumoured record-breaking stint at Wembley
Liam Gallagher continues to fuel rumours of an Oasis reunion, writing on X: “I never did like that word FORMER.”
Industry insiders are adamant next summer will be the return of the biggest band in Brit-pop, telling the Sunday Times Wembley Stadium is booked for 10 nights, smashing Taylor Swift’s eight-gig record set earlier this month.
When The Times tweeted about it, Liam appeared to confirm shows were planned, telling a user on X: “See you down the front”.
Glastonbury will also be hoping to lure the bickering brothers to the pyramid stage, with a headline slot open to them – if they decide to go for it.
It would be the first time the pair have appeared on the same stage since 2009. It was backstage in Paris that Liam damaged one of his elder brother’s guitars and caused Noel to dramatically quit, ending a partnership that had rocketed them to fame and fortune.
“It is with some sadness and great relief…I quit Oasis tonight,” Noel later said in a statement. “People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”
Liam and Noel Gallagher at the Oasis Knebworth gigs. Pic: Times Newspapers/Shutterstock
Oasis at the Knebworth Festival, Britain – Aug 1996
Liam and Noel Gallagher
Aug 1996
The remaining band members continued for five more years, under the name Beady Eye and Liam since enjoyed success with his own band, particularly his recent tour which involved performing songs from Oasis’s debut album, Definitely Maybe, released in 1994.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds has its own sizeable fan base, headlining festivals, including the Isle of Wight, in recent years.
Glastonbury bosses may find it difficult to persuade Noel to return though. He regularly attends as a fan and was there this year, but he says it has changed in recent years.
He said: ‘It’s getting a bit woke now, that place, and a bit kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling. I don’t like it in music – little f***ing idiots waving flags around and making political statements and bands taking the stage and saying, ‘Hey guys, isn’t war terrible, yeah? Let’s all boo war. F*** the Tories man’, and all that.
Liam at a concert at Knebworth in Hertfordshire in 1996. Pic: PA
“It’s like, look – play your f***ing tunes and get off.’
Sky News has contacted representatives for Noel and Liam.
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
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