Oasis at Wembley 2025: Fans’ First Memories of the Band That Soundtracked Our Youth
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I was a teenager when I first heard about Oasis. It was 1993, maybe 1994, and everyone was talking about this new band from Manchester. Some lucky so-and-sos had already seen them play in Cambridge. I had not. I had the singles, the albums and the radio, and then I had the parties, the ones we held at 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, where Oasis was forever on the stereo. They were the soundtrack of our youth.
So walking up to Wembley Stadium in the summer of 2025, with my mates and a camera, felt like a coming of age in reverse. I had not felt that sort of excitement since the 1990s. I asked as many fans as I could find one simple question: what is your earliest memory of Oasis? The answers are the film below, and this post.
Watch the film
On YouTube — Oasis Wasn’t Just Nostalgia – It Was a Reminder of Who We Were... — about half an hour of fan interviews outside and inside Wembley, from first albums and mixtapes to Danish bedrooms and Chilean cassettes.
Into Wembley — and almost backstage
We came in shouting that we were backstage. We were not. We were heading down to the right, towards the front, which on a night like this is almost as good. Cast were on first, and they were pretty good, actually. Later, Richard Ashcroft was playing while I was still grabbing interviews.
The people around me had come a long way. In one small patch of the pitch I met fans from England, Wales, Yorkshire (which, I was firmly told, is God's country), Australia, Malta, Denmark, Sweden, Chile and Denver, Colorado. A friend asked if I was collecting people like Pokémon cards. Fair question.
First albums, mixtapes and Sunday afternoons
The earliest memories tumbled out. One fan's school friend, Steven Walker, copied him a disc of (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, his first proper album. Another remembered a Sunday afternoon at home with his brother, listening to Don't Look Back in Anger. A third was in class in 1995 when a mate played him Live Forever, and he has followed them ever since.
Another fan bought Morning Glory as his very first album, at 12 or 13, with what was basically all his pocket money. That started the oldest argument in Britpop right there on the concourse: is Definitely Maybe the better record? One man said the band peaked with their debut, and that its cover looked just like his living room at the time. A Denver fan called Scott got Definitely Maybe for Christmas in high school and wore it out. It just sounded different, he said, to everything else around.
My favourite tape story came from a woman who brought her goddaughter. She heard Oasis on Radio One in the 1990s, pressed record and decided there and then that she would love them for life. Then came the double tape deck, the stop-start to cut out the DJ, and before you knew it, you had the whole album. Another fan's girlfriend put Roll With It on a mixtape for him in 199-something. It did not end well, he said, but here he was.
A new generation, mad for it
What struck me most was how young so many of the fans were. A lad from Yorkshire was six when the band split in 2009 and first heard Cigarettes & Alcohol on YouTube. Another's dad introduced him to it on the way to football when he was ten, which, he admitted, may not be textbook parenting. Tristan's dad got him into Oasis; the first song he heard was Lyla in 2005, and Wembley was his first time seeing them. His dad, a huge fan from Swansea, got a shout-out on camera.
For others it was mum and dad blaring the records out at home. One young man remembered his mum playing Supersonic in the kitchen. Another young fan said her song with her best friend was Wonderwall. An older fan's first memory was singing Wonderwall in the pub at 18, and another young fan's parents were playing it at home from her first footsteps.
A Danish fan told me his first memory was singing in his room in Denmark, and his favourite song was Slide Away. He had flown over only for this. A man from Chile had done the same. His uncle had taught him about music and handed down the cassettes, and he could not have imagined, as a 14-year-old in Chile, that he would one day be at Wembley listening to Oasis.
The tickets, the queue and the wait
Everyone had a ticket story. One pair got lucky on the ballot and found themselves right next to the stage, far closer than they expected. One man sat in the Ticketmaster queue for about six hours and got nowhere, then sorted a ticket in the pub a fortnight before the gig. Another was meant to see them at Wembley in 2009, but his mate's housemate ripped up the tickets, and then the band split.
Ray, who was at Knebworth in 1996, said his earliest memory was coming home from school, putting on Definitely Maybe, then playing Supersonic and Live Forever again before his paper round. On the way out, I asked him how it was. It was worth it, he said, and if they fall out over nothing again and split for another 25 years, we will still be alive. Definitely maybe.
Oasis tour dates: what is next
If the film has you reaching for tickets, here is where things stand in October 2026. The Oasis Live '25 tour is finished. It began in Cardiff on 4 July 2025, played Wembley across the summer and twice more in late September, and ended in São Paulo on 23 November 2025. The band then announced what they called a pause for a period of reflection. There are no Oasis shows in 2026.
On 14 September 2026, Live Nation announced Oasis Live '27, with Richard Ashcroft as special guest at every show. Four extra dates were added on 23 September, taking the tour to 42 shows, and one Paris date was moved because of railway engineering works, according to Music Business Worldwide. The full list, as reported:
Glasgow, Celtic Park: 21, 23, 25, 28, 29 May 2027
Manchester, Etihad Stadium: 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26 June
Munich, Allianz Arena: 2, 3, 6 July
Barcelona, Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys: 10, 11 July
Amsterdam, Johan Cruijff ArenA: 16, 17 July
Paris, Stade de France: 20, 23 July
Rome, Stadio Olimpico: 26, 29, 30 July
Boston (Foxborough), Gillette Stadium: 10, 13, 14 August
Las Vegas, Allegiant Stadium: 20, 21, 24 August
Slane Castle, Ireland: 4, 5 September
Knebworth, Hertfordshire: 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 September
There is no London date this time. Apart from the Manchester homecoming, every city is new compared with 2025. And if you have not got a ticket yet, I am sorry to say the whole tour sold out during three days of registration-only sales from 25 to 27 September, and the band says no more shows will be added. Oasis's own site says resale tickets will only appear nearer the dates, at the price originally paid, through Ticketmaster and Twickets, and warns fans about fake tickets on social media. In the UK, the Guardian reported standard prices of £71.50 to £266.60.
How much money is the reunion making?
A lot, though the totals depend on who is counting and which shows they count. Pollstar's year-end chart put Oasis Live '25 at an estimated $405,428,435 gross from 36 shows, with 2,228,471 tickets sold at an average price of $181.93. That made it the second-highest-grossing tour in the world in 2025, just behind Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour at $407.6m.
Pollstar's chart year missed the last five South American shows. Celebrity Net Worth adds those back in and estimates the full box office at around $443m. It also estimates, and it is only an estimate, that each brother could clear about $125m once costs, merchandise and the film are counted. Other trackers publish higher totals, so treat every figure as an estimate rather than an audited account.
The knock-on effect was bigger still. The band's own Live '27 announcement says more than 10 million fans from 158 countries queued for tickets, and puts the money generated for the UK economy at an estimated £1bn. The Guardian reports that, according to UK Music, the five Heaton Park nights helped push music-tourist spending in the north-west up 16% year on year to £1.4bn. Meanwhile, Morning Glory overtook Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in July 2026 to become the UK's best-selling studio album of all time, the band's announcement says.
The records to start with
If a fan in the film has sent you back to the records, start where they did. Definitely Maybe (1994) is the debut: Supersonic, Live Forever, Cigarettes & Alcohol and Slide Away. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) has Wonderwall, Don't Look Back in Anger and the closing Champagne Supernova. For everything in one go, the Time Flies… 1994–2009 singles collection does the job. And if you are a London visitor, the Morning Glory cover was shot on Soho's Berwick Street, which I walked in Berwick Street – Soho – Mad for it!.
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Going to a gig at Wembley — the practicals
Getting there: Wembley Park station on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines is the classic approach, straight down Olympic Way to the stadium. Wembley Stadium station has Chiltern trains from Marylebone, and Wembley Central is on the Bakerloo line and the Overground. After a big gig, expect queues at every station and give yourself time.
Arriving from abroad: Like the fans I met from Chile, Denmark and Colorado, you will probably fly into Heathrow. A private transfer is the easy option if you have bags, and a Roamless eSIM keeps your tickets and maps working the moment you land. Use code WONDERING.
Make a weekend of it: London has more music history than you can fit into one trip, from Berwick Street to Carnaby Street, where Oasis ran a pop-up store during the 2025 tour. Browse London tours and experiences on Viator if you would rather have a guide.
Where to stay
For a Wembley gig, stay near the Jubilee or Metropolitan lines and you can be back at your hotel without a second change of train. The map below shows hotels across London; Booking.com and Airbnb are worth checking too if you are travelling as a group.
Flights
Flying in for a gig? Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton all serve London. Compare fares below before you book.
Why it stays with you
Oasis never really went away. Every lyric was still sung, every record still played and every pub still echoed with their songs. That is why the reunion mattered. Wembley was proof of it: three generations, fans from across Europe and beyond, and one question, with nearly everyone's answer ending in the same place. Their songs are more than music to the people I met. They are memories.
What is your earliest memory of Oasis? Tell me in the comments of the film.
Photo credits: Liam and Noel at Wembley and Oasis on stage at Wembley by Raph_PH; Oasis Live '25 store, Carnaby Street by Matt Brown. All via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0.
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Safe travels, The Wondering Englishman
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