Though they may be back together for a lucrative world tour, Noel Gallagher believes Oasis would never have split up if he took “six months off” in 2009.
The infamous bust-up left the Gallagher brothers ignoring each other for over a decade. It seems they buried the hatchet in the last few years though, as the pair were on speaking terms in time for the Live ’25 tour. Oasis‘ sold-out tour and rumoured continuation in 2026 had some recalling why the band had first split up. Noel Gallagher believes the group would have carried on had they pushed through the final few shows of the fateful 2009 tour. Oasis were just two shows away from finishing their ’09 run of shows, supporting the release of Dig Out Your Soul, but it was too late. Gallagher would confirm the fight before their show at Rock en Seine in Paris, France was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” and the band would not tour until 2025.
Gallagher said: “All that being said, we had two gigs left and I reckon if I’d had got to the end of that tour and I’d had six months off I would have just forgotten about it, got on with it. But the straw that broke the camel’s back was the night in Paris and that was a fight. There’s no hidden darkness.”
The clarity of the fight being the reason for Oasis breaking up was elaborated on by Gallagher, who said an “unnecessary act of violence” had sparked a massive blowout. He said: “He goes out the dressing room, for whatever reason, he went to his own dressing room, and he came back with a guitar, and he started wielding it like an axe, and I’m not fucking kidding.
“And I’m making light of it because it’s kind of what I do, but it was a real unnecessary violent act, and he’s swinging this guitar around; he nearly took my face off with it. And it ended up on the floor, and I put it out of its misery.
“And then I said, ‘Well look, I mean, there were people who were in the band, looking the other way; it wasn’t even a big dressing room. And I was like, you know what? I’m fucking out of here. And at that point, someone came in and said five minutes!… I kind of got in the car, and I sat there for five minutes, and I just said fuck it, I can’t do it anymore”
Oasis’ disbandment at the festival was ridiculed by Bloc Party just a short while later. Frontman Kele Okereke told the crowd: “So I’d like to take this moment to say, ‘That’s a shame, isn’t it guys?’ So I guess by default, we are headlining.”
