Fans react to Catfish & The Bottlemen’s London stadium show now falling on the same day as Oasis’

27 August, 2024

Catfish And The Bottlemen and Liam Gallagher. Credit: Andy Ford for NME

Catfish And The Bottlemen fans have been reacting to the band’s London stadium show falling on the same day as Oasis‘ reunion gig.

Last week, Vann McCann and co announced the new details of their first ever headline stadium shows for 2025. The ‘Cocoon’ hitmakers are set to take over London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on August 3, 2025. That same day, Oasis are set to reunite with a gig at Wembley Stadium.

There has been some online discourse regarding Catfish And The Bottlemen’s stadium shows and how it seemed like an ambitious attempt at a live show. The band will be playing at the venue which has a capacity of 62,850 whereas Oasis are set to take over the 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium which will most likely sell out. The clash of the two gigs has led fans to share their thoughts on the shows.

“Something beautiful and undeniably Spursy about Catfish And The Bottlemen announcing their biggest ever gig at our stadium just before Oasis reunite to play Wembley on the same day,” wrote one X/Twitter user while another shared: “Catfish and the bottlemen finding out their already very ambitious stadium date in London is on the same day as a newly reformed Oasis playing Wembley.”

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Catfish And The Bottlemen headlined this year’s edition of Reading & Leeds festival this weekend. In a four-star review of their performance, NME shared: “They see where they’re headed. There’s a cheeky, brief nod to their stadium-dwelling countrymen Stereophonics with a snippet of ‘The Bartender And The Thief’, while the spotlight and theatrics of ‘2all’ show they’ve got the moves for the big spaces.

“The widescreen psych wig-out and breakdown of ‘Outside’ even has a smack of Pink Floyd to it. They’re playing with a damn sight more compulsion than last time, and they certainly know what an enormodome band should look, sound and feel like. The crowd before us lap it up. Will they multiply to fill those spaces? Maybe the long shot will pay off.

Elsewhere, after years of rumour and speculation, Oasis have now finally reunited to announce a UK and Ireland stadium tour for 2025.

Today (August 27), the band launched the OASIS LIVE 25 world tour with 14 stadium dates set to take place between Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin next summer. These will be the band’s only shows in Europe in 2025, but a press release states that “plans are underway for OASIS LIVE 25 to go to other continents outside of Europe later next year.”

Tickets go on sale from 9am BST (8am IST) on Saturday August 31 and will be available here for UK shows, and here for the Irish dates.

JULY 2025
4 – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
5 – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
11 – Manchester, Heaton Park
12 – Manchester, Heaton Park
19 – Manchester, Heaton Park
20 – Manchester, Heaton Park
25 – London, Wembley Stadium
26 – London, Wembley Stadium

AUGUST 2025
2 – London, Wembley Stadium
3 – London, Wembley Stadium
8 – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
9 – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
16 – Dublin, Croke Park
17 – Dublin, Croke Park

News of the highly-anticipated tour – reportedly set to make a colossal £400million – comes ahead of the band releasing a 30th anniversary reissue of their seminal 1994 debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ on Friday (August 30).

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