I was 20 when Definitely Maybe hit the shelves in HMV and Virgin Megastores. I’m from the north of England and grew up looking towards Manchester for my sporting (football) and musical influences and allegiances. My mum spent a few years working for Electrolux in Manchester from 1969 and made lifelong friends in Burnage where the Gallagher family lived. I had built up enough disaffection and resentment from growing up in a low income single parent family to spending a year unemployed after leaving university to empathise with many of the themes in Noel Gallagher’s song lyrics.
I started playing guitar at school in 1991 but hadn’t progressed beyond strumming simple chord progressions four years later when Wonderwall cemented itself as one of the easiest and most recognisable songs for aspiring acoustic guitar players to learn. When I discovered The Verve’s and Stone Roses’ albums, I felt a deeper connection than just liking the catchy melodies. Obviously, I ended up getting sucked right to the centre of the Oasis Live ’25 hype vortex. I had to attend a concert and take somebody significant in my life or another committed Oasis fan with me.
No luck in the pre-sale ballot at the end of August 2024. Same frustration familiar to millions in the general sale the next day. I didn’t expect to be successful in getting any tickets for my preferred venue of Murrayfield, some 20 miles away from where we now live. I resolved to bide my time trusting that something would come up. It did. My son came home from school on 24 February and announced that some Oasis tickets were on sale. I grabbed a couple of official Platinum seats for the concert at Wembley Stadium on 30 July: section 126, row 44, seats 97 and 98 which offered a very good oblique view of the stage.
My highlights compilation YouTube video below gives you a flavour of what attending the concert was like including a 30 second introduction showing the walk down Olympic Way from Wembley Park station. Most of the earlier tracks are excerpts but I have included several of their most iconic songs in their entirety (or a shortened ‘radio edit’) where extensive footage was available including Cigarettes & Alcohol, Live Forever, Rock ‘N’ Roll Star, Don’t Look Back In Anger and Wonderwall. I have cut in any available good quality fan footage taken at the same concert to offer different viewpoints. A few songs including Supersonic, The Masterplan and Wonderwall have super close-up footage of the band thanks to Stanislav Rostvorov.
In terms of the set list, I anticipated that Cast No Shadow would be included as a tribute to Richard Ashcroft and songs with lyrics relating to return and reunion such as Hello and Acquiesce were nice touches. I wasn’t suprised that some ballads such as Talk Tonight and Half The World Away were included to give Liam’s voice a rest. However, I missed some of the old favourites including Columbia, Go Let It Out, Who Feels Love and Shakermaker; every fan will have their own favourites which weren’t included either.
This was my first stadium concert and first time at Wembley stadium. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to access and egress before and after the show. We travelled to Wembley Park underground station via the Jubilee Line from Canary Wharf which took 35-40 minutes. After the concert, we took the advice of the stadium PA system announcer and headed for Wembley Stadium National Rail station which was closest to our exit; we waited about 15-20 minutes for a train back to London Marylebone. Thanks to all the stadium staff for making our first visit a memorable experience that exceeded my high expectations. The crowd seemed generally well behaved except for the guy who let off some red flares. That’s not something you’ll get away with in London these days and he didn’t because he was eventually tracked down and escorted off the premises.
Oasis Live ’25 Wembley Stadium Set List (Including Support Acts)
Cast
Free Me, Sandstorm, Finetime, Live the Dream, Walkaway, Poison Vine with P.P. Arnold, Alright.
Richard Ashcroft
Weeping Willow, Space and Time, Break The Night With Colour, The Drugs Don’t Work, Lucky Man, Sonnet, Bittersweet Symphony.
Oasis
Hello, Acquiesce, Morning Glory, Some Might Say, Bring It On Down, Cigarettes & Alcohol, Fade Away, Supersonic, Roll With It, Talk Tonight, Half the World Away, Little by Little, D’You Know What I Mean? Stand by Me, Cast No Shadow, Slide Away, Whatever, Live Forever, Rock ‘n’ Roll Star, The Masterplan, Don’t Look Back in Anger, Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova.
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