Graham Coxon has weighed in on the information that Oasis are returning, arguing that it’s “good for them and it’s good for the followers”.
As guitarist and founding member of Blur, Coxon has a storied historical past with the Manchester band, with the 2 teams having gone head-to-head in a legendary rivalry that ran all through the peak of Britpop within the Nineteen Nineties.
In August, Liam and Noel Gallagher introduced that they had been ending their very own rivalry to deliver Oasis again to the stage for a collection of big stadium gigs within the UK and Eire in July 2025. From there, they’re because of head to North America earlier than returning for two further dates at London’s Wembley Stadium in late September, after which heading to Australia in October.
In a brand new interview with The Solar, Coxon has shared his optimistic reflections on the comeback. “It’s good for them and it’s good for followers,” he stated. “I’ve been saying, ‘Simply do it’.”
He was requested whether or not he had urged Noel to reunite the band earlier, replying: “God no, I wouldn’t have talked to him about that and it’s probably not my enterprise. I don’t know him properly sufficient to say that.”
“However hopefully it’s a real reunion as a result of some bands break up and don’t get that likelihood once more.”
Appropriately, it was introduced final month {that a} play is heading to the West Finish in London in 2025 that can doc the legendary Blur vs. Oasis rivalry. Reportedly titled The Battle, it’s presently in growth and can chart the strain between the 2 bands all through the ‘90s, specializing in the summer time of 1995, when the 2 bands’ respective singles ‘Roll With It’ and ‘Nation Home’ went head-to-head for the UK Quantity One spot, with Blur popping out on prime on that event.
The play has been written by John Niven, and is being produced by Simon Buddy, who has described it as “a comedy with tooth” and has teased the involvement of a “notable director”.
Coxon launched the second studio album together with his band The WAEVE – alongside Rose Elinor Dougall – final month. ‘Metropolis Lights’ follows on from the duo’s self-titled debut in 2023, and as the guitarist defined to NME forward of its launch, the album was influenced by the sleep deprivation of early parenthood.
“You change into extra alive to the horrors of the world whenever you deliver into it a lovely little being that it’s important to defend in any respect prices,” Coxon defined. “When you may have this little emblem of hopefulness sat in your lap, you then take a look at the information with all of the demise and destruction, it simply hits you otherwise. That’s knowledgeable my lyrics on this document in an enormous method.”
Oasis, in the meantime, have dominated out a headline efficiency at Glastonbury 2025 and stated they received’t be showing at another festivals subsequent summer time. Liam and Noel have shot down rumours of a return to Knebworth in 2026 too.
Followers have been speculating over who might be opening for Oasis on the reveals. Up to now, help has solely been introduced for the North American leg – which can see Cage The Elephant be part of the line-up.
It was reported final month that Liam Gallagher was looking for “established acts” to look on the invoice. The frontman has since recommended that Manic Avenue Preachers and Richard Ashcroft might tackle opening slots.
In different information, Liam has stated that he and Noel haven’t any plans to do any interviews collectively in regards to the reunion. “We’re petrified of the media asking us intrusive questions and attempting to select holes in our relationship,” he defined.
The frontman additionally instructed followers {that a} new Oasis album was “already completed”, and reaffirmed the assertion to a different fan, writing: “It’s within the bag mate fuck the air.”