While kicking off Oasis‘ Dublin shows, Liam Gallagher told the crowd at Croke Park he was the “soberest” he’s been in Ireland since he was a child.
Liam and Noel Gallagher kicked off their long-awaited ‘Live ‘25’ tour dates with two nights at Principality Stadium in Cardiff last month, and have since made stops in Manchester, London and Edinburgh.
Last night (August 16), the Britpop legends returned to Ireland for the first time since 2008, and played to over 80,000 fans in Dublin, wheeling out fan-favourites like ‘Cigarettes and Alcohol’, ‘Acquiesce’ and ‘Little By Little’.
Before launching into ‘Some Might Say’, Liam joked about his sobriety, telling fans: “I think I’m a Croke Park virgin! We haven’t played here before, have we? All I do know [is] this [is] the soberest I’ve been in Ireland since I was about four or five or something like that.”
Elsewhere in the evening, ‘Stand By Me’ – which was previously dedicated to Susan Boyle – was dedicated to the Gallagher brothers’ mum, Peggy, who was in attendance last night.
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— Liam Gallagher Fans Club (@liamgfansclub) August 17, 2025
Both Peggy and their dad, Thomas ‘Tommy’ Gallagher, were born in Ireland, and Liam went on to dedicate ‘Roll With It’ to the small town their mum hails from.
“Is there anyone here from Mayo? Charlestown?” he asked the crowd, to massive cheers, which he met by joking: “You’re not all from there! “There’s only around five fucking people from there.”
Liam blowing kisses to Peggy and saying “i love you” to her
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Before playing Croke Park, Oasis performed three shows in Edinburgh, marking their first Scottish gig since 2009. Fans in attendance compared the shows to “a religious experience”, with one of the usual highlights of the gig being Liam chucking his beloved maracas and tambourines to the crowd at each concert – a move that’s since been banned.
The opening night saw Liam brand the City of Edinburgh council “a bunch of snakes”. He said the band were “still waiting for our apology” from the local authority over a report which suggested the band’s fans would be “rowdy” and “intoxicated”.
At another of the shows, opener Cast’s set was marked by a flyover from the Red Arrows.
Oasis will perform once more in Croke Park tonight (August 17), before heading across the Atlantic for the North American tour. Dates in Toronto, Chicago, East Rutherford, Pasadena and Mexico City will take them to the middle of September, when they head back for two final nights at Wembley.
Then, later in the year, they’ll play in South Korea, Japan, Australia, Argentina, Chile and Brazil.
NME gave Oasis’ first concert at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium a glowing five-star review, writing: “After a ‘90s heyday and an often maligned post-millennium era, this is Oasis redesigned for the 21st Century.”
“Playing before a pop-art-meets-psychedelia visual spectacular that never distracts but will look sick on a phone, they seem the quintessential stadium band playing the greatest hits of greatest hits,” it added.
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