Oasis reunion tour promoter granted licence for Knebworth

Promoters who worked with Oasis on their huge 2025 reunion tour have secured a licence to host events at Knebworth, the site of the band's most famous gigs.

With speculation of a follow-up tour ramping up, and just days from the 30th anniversary of the 1996 gigs at the venue, details of SJM Concert's granted application appeared on the North Hertfordshire Council website.

The licence application does not say which artists would be performing.

Details include expected capacity - that up to 125,000 people could attend the site at any one time - as well as requests to cover live music, filming, late-night refreshments, and alcohol.

Besides Oasis, SJM have worked with dozens of big-name artists, including tours with music acts like Take That and Muse, and comedians such as Peter Kay and John Bishop.

Last year's much-anticipated comeback tour saw brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher reunite on stage for the first time since the infamous fall-out which led to Oasis's split in 2009.

A documentary about the reunion, titled Don't Look Back In Anger, is due to premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September, and will feature the first joint interviews with the brothers in more than 20 years.

Following the UK shows last year, Noel told talkSPORT that he was proud of his younger brother, and that the shows had been bigger than even they were expecting.

"I've done stadiums before... but I don't mind telling you, my legs had turned to jelly after about halfway through the second song," he said of the band's first show in Cardiff.

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Back in 1996, an estimated 2.5 million people applied to go to Oasis gigs at Knebworth, breaking box office records at the time.

The huge shows took place less than two years after the release of their debut album, Definitely Maybe, and the line-up included The Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, The Chemical Brothers, and The Charlatans, depending on which night you were there.

Knebworth Park staged its first music shows in the 1970s, and has hosted famous gigs including Queen's last show with Freddie Mercury in the 1980s, and Robbie Williams's shows to 375,000 people in one weekend.

Liam Gallagher also returned to play his own solo shows in 2022, before Oasis reunited.

Sky News has contacted SJM, Knebworth House, and representatives for Oasis.

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