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Oasis: Liam Gallagher announces 30th anniversary Definitely Maybe tour

Live performances of eight-times platinum Britpop album will be accompanied by other songs from the same era by the band

Liam Gallagher has announced that he will tour Oasis’s 1994 debut album, Definitely Maybe, in full for its 30th anniversary.

“I’m bouncing around the house to announce the Definitely Maybe tour,” Gallagher said. “The most important album of the 90s bar none. I wouldn’t be anywhere without it and neither would you, so let’s celebrate together.”

The tour will include fan favourites released while Oasis were touring Definitely Maybe, such as Whatever, Fade Away, Listen Up and Sad Song.

The tour begins in Sheffield on 2 June 2024 and concludes on 27 June – the day before Glastonbury kicks off.

Gallagher is likely to be joined by co-founding Oasis member Paul Arthurs (AKA Bonehead), who resumed touring with him earlier this year after a bout with tonsil cancer. In September 2022, he said that he had received the all-clear from doctors and was in recovery.

It is not quite the Oasis reunion that fans have been waiting 14 years for, since brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher split the band and became estranged in 2009.

The pair once vehemently denied rumours that they would reunite – not to mention declining lucrative offers to tour – but in recent years have humoured fans with the idea.

In August, Noel was asked at a live Q&A who would be in the Oasis lineup were they to reunite.

“So me, Liam. Well, it’s a funny thing because we’re all at a certain age now. Hair was a thing in Oasis, so we’ll have to see what everybody’s hair is looking like. I’m in no matter what. This is not fucking going anywhere. I don’t know. Look. Me, Liam and a load of fucking fit birds.”

Definitely Maybe , released on Creation Records in August 1994, is a landmark record in British music and helped define the Britpop era. It reached No 1 on release, becoming what was then the fastest-selling debut album in British music history, and was later certified eight times platinum.

It was a surprise success in some ways after a highly fraught creation, with difficult sessions at various recording studios.

In a review of the 2014 reissue of the album, Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield wrote: “Twenty years on, Oasis’ debut album remains one of the most gloriously loutish odes to cigarettes, alcohol, and dumb guitar solos that the British Isles have ever coughed up.”

Liam frequently performs songs from the album – and from Oasis’s catalogue – at his solo shows. His last solo album was 2022’s C’mon You Know . This year, Noel released Council Skies with his High Flying Birds band.

Tickets for the Definitely Maybe anniversary tour go on sale at 9am BST on 20 October.

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Liam Gallagher Announces Summer 2024 Tour Where He Will Perform Oasis' Debut Album 'Definitely Maybe'

The former Oasis singer will perform the album in full in honor of its 30th anniversary

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Liam Gallagher will definitely be bringing back an old favorite.

In an Instagram post , the British singer-songwriter, 51, announced the Definitely Maybe 30 Years Tour — a small 2024 string of shows where Gallagher will perform Oasis' former band’s debut LP, Definitely Maybe .

"I'm bouncing around the house to announce the Definitely Maybe Tour. The most important album of the ‘90s bar none. I wouldn't be anywhere without it and neither would you, so let’s celebrate together LG x," he wrote alongside a tour poster.

The tour is set to launch June 2 in Sheffield and will run through June 27, where it concludes in Manchester.

Liam will also be visiting cities including London, Dublin and Glasgow, Scotland, along the way.

In the post, he revealed that tickets for the tour will go on sale Oct. 20 on Friday, 9 a.m. BST.

Next year's tour will be the first time the "Wall of Glass" musician performed Definitely Maybe since the band split in 2009.

Definitely Maybe , which was released in 1994, solidified Oasis as one of Britpop's biggest stars, producing longtime favorite tracks like "Supersonic," "Live Forever" and "Slide Away.

At the time, it was the fastest-selling debut album in the U.K. ever, and it sold 8.5 million copies worldwide.

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Though it seems unlikely Liam's brother and Oasis bandmate Noel will be joining him for any of the dates, but in May, Noel, 56, spoke with SPIN about the prospect of performing the band's debut album.

“If Liam wants to do the show, great. He’s got to make a living and all of that,” he told the outlet. “Keep the flame alive. It’s not something I particularly would be able to put my heart and soul into.”

As Liam told fans who inquired about Noel on X Tuesday, "He’s been asked and he’s refused."

See the full list of 2024 tour dates below.

June, 2 – Sheffield, Utilita Arena June 3 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena June 6 – London, The O2 June 7 – London, The O2 June 10 – London, The O2 June 15 – Manchester, Co-op Live June 16 – Manchester, Co-op Live June 19 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro June 20 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro June 23 – Dublin, 3Arena June 24 – Dublin, 3Arena June 27 – Manchester, Co-op Live

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Liam Gallagher is heading out on tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oasis 's iconic debut album, Definitely Maybe . Released in 1994, the era-defining LP peaked at Number 1 and has so far spent an absolutely massive 541 weeks on the Official Albums Chart.

Arr Kid said when the 14-date UK and Ireland arena tour was announced last year: "I'm bouncing around the house to announce the Definitely Maybe Tour. The most important album of the ‘90s bar none. I wouldn't be anywhere without it."

Liam has pledged to play the album in full from start to finish, which means we're guaranteed renditions of classic Oasis singles Supersonic , Shakermaker , Live Forever and Cigarettes & Alcohol .

We can also expect to hear fan favourite Rock 'n' Roll Star and deep cuts including Digsy's Dinner and Married with Children.

Arr Kid has also revealed  that for the first time ever, he will sing  Half the World Away , a 1994 B-side which was sung on record by his brother Noel. It's probably best known as the theme song to BBC sitcom The Royle Family and appears on Oasis's 1998 B-sides collection The Masterplan , which returned to the charts at Number 2 last October thanks to a 25th anniversary reissue.

According to Liam, other "naughty B-sides" from the era will also be on the setlist, so it's going to be a joyous Oasis nostalgia fest all around.

Of course, Liam has also really made his mark as a solo artist in recent years. Back in January, he debuted at Number 1 with Liam Gallagher & John Squire , a collaborative album with The Stone Roses ' guitarist John Squire. It duly became Liam's sixth chart-topper outside of the band. 

Liam Gallagher's Definitely Maybe 2024 tour setlist

While no concrete setlist for the tour has been revealed, it stands to reason we can expect several (!) songs from the album itself to be performed, so as a quick reminder, here's the Definitely Maybe tracklist in full:

1. Rock 'n' Roll Star

2. shakermaker, 3. live forever, 4. up in the sky, 5. columbia, 6. supersonic, 7. bring it on down, 8. cigarettes & alcohol , 9. digsy's diner, 10. slide away, 11. married with children, liam gallagher uk and ireland 2024 tour dates:.

Saturday June 1 – Sheffield Utilita Arena

Monday June 3 – Cardiff Utilita Arena

Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday June 6, 7, 10, 11 – London The O2

Saturday June 15 and Sunday June 16 – Manchester Co-op Live

Wednesday June 19 and Thursday June 20 – Glasgow OVO Hydro

Sunday June 23 and Monday June 24 – Dublin 3Arena

Thursday June 27 and Friday June 28 – Manchester Co-op Live

Who are Liam Gallagher's 2024 support acts?

Liam will be supported by Cast  at his shows on June 1, 3, 10, 11, 23, 24, 27 and 28. The Liverpool band have seven Top 10 singles to their name, including 1996's Flying , which peaked at Number 4. 

At his shows on June 6, 7, 19 and 20, Liam will be supported by Dundee band The View . They peaked at Number 3 with their 2007 indie anthem Same Jeans – one of four Top 10 hits to date.

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Liam Gallagher has revealed a 2024 U.K. and Ireland tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Oasis album “Definitely Maybe.”

“I’m bouncing around the house to announce the ‘Definitely Maybe’ tour. The most important album of the ‘90s bar none. I wouldn’t be anywhere without it and neither would you, so let’s celebrate together,” Gallagher posted on Instagram.  

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The tour will kick off at Sheffield on June 1, 2024 and will have play dates at London, Manchester, Cardiff, Glasgow and Dublin.

Liam Gallagher’s representatives said: “It would be hard to top Liam Gallagher’s biblical Knebworth Park shows, which proved to be some of the biggest live events of 2022. But the always ambitious icon has once again excelled himself with news of a tour that will be bigger than biblical. Liam will celebrate the 30 th  anniversary of the release of Oasis’s all-conquering and massively influential debut album by embarking upon the ‘Definitely Maybe 30 Years’ arena tour in 2024. The tour will see Liam perform the ‘Definitely Maybe’ album in full for the first time, along with some select b-sides from the era. The sets will of course be packed with classics – ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’, ‘Live Forever’, ‘Supersonic’ and ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’, to name but a few. But it will also be a rare opportunity to see other album tracks that have rarely, if ever, been performed since the mid-‘90s, including ‘Up In The Sky’ and ‘Digsy’s Dinner.’”

Tickets go on sale Oct. 20.

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The View: Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June 2024

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Liam Gallagher has announced four shows at The O2, taking place on Thursday 6, Friday 7 and Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 June 2024.

It would be hard to top Liam Gallagher’s biblical Knebworth Park shows, which proved to be some of the biggest live events of 2022. But the always ambitious icon has once again excelled himself with news of a tour that will be bigger than biblical. Liam will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of Oasis’s all-conquering and massively influential debut album by embarking upon the ‘Definitely Maybe 30 Years’ arena tour in 2024.

The tour will see Liam perform the ‘Definitely Maybe’ album in full for the first time, along with some select b-sides from the era. The sets will of course be packed with classics  – ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’, ‘Live Forever’, ‘Supersonic’ and ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’, to name but a few. But it will also be a rare opportunity to see other album tracks that have rarely, if ever, been performed since the mid-‘90s, including ‘Up In The Sky’ and ‘Digsy’s Dinner’.

 And there are numerous fan favourites that could be performed from the other songs that were released during the ‘Definitely Maybe’ era, which could potentially include another big hit in the shape of ‘Whatever’ as well as deep cuts such as ‘Fade Away’, ‘Listen Up’ and ‘Sad Song’.

Liam says, “I'm bouncing around the house to announce the Definitely Maybe Tour. The most important album of the ‘90s bar none. I wouldn't be anywhere without it and

After becoming the foremost frontman of his generation with Oasis, Liam Gallagher’s solo career has been a story of a remarkable rebirth – and one that has introduced his talents to a whole new audience. It has seen him score five UK #1 albums in just six years: his three studio sets, ‘As You Were’, ‘Why Me? Why Not.’ and ‘C’MON YOU KNOW’ plus the live records ‘MTV Unplugged’ and ‘Knebworth 22’. His comeback has been capped by two unforgettable performances at the BRIT Awards, winning Rock ‘n’ Roll Star of the Year at the GQ Awards, and landing his highest position on the singles charts in thirteen years with ‘Everything’s Electric’.

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Liam Gallagher announces Definitely Maybe 30th anniversary tour

Describing Definitely Maybe as "the most important album of the '90s, bar none", Liam Gallagher has announced a special tour to mark the record's 30th anniversary in 2024. The album, Oasis's debut, included hits such as Supersonic, Live Forever, Rock 'n' Roll Star and Cigarettes & Alcohol.

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Liam Gallagher has announced a tour to celebrate 30 years since the release of Oasis's debut album, Definitely Maybe.

The singer will perform the seminal album in full for the first time at gigs across the UK in 2024.

Released in August 1994, Definitely Maybe features Oasis classics including Rock 'n' Roll Star, Live Forever, Supersonic and Cigarettes & Alcohol - the songs that helped shape the Britpop era and propelled Liam and his brother Noel Gallagher to fame.

Following the band's acrimonious split in 2009, the brothers famously no longer get on - and while fans have long hoped for a reunion, it has never materialised.

The Definitely Maybe 30 Years tour will be a rare opportunity to hear Liam sing tracks that have rarely, if ever, been performed since the mid-'90s, including Up In The Sky and Digsy's Dinner.

"I'm bouncing around the house to announce the Definitely Maybe tour," the star said. "The most important album of the '90s, bar none. I wouldn't be anywhere without it and neither would you, so let's celebrate together."

In a statement, representatives said the singer may also perform other fan favourites released during the era, including Whatever, "as well as deep cuts such as Fade Away, Listen Up and Sad Song".

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Liam will play 12 dates in June 2024, with highlights including three nights in his home city at Manchester's 23,500-capacity Co-Op Live - which will become the biggest indoor arena in the country when it opens next May - as well as three shows at The O2 in London.

Tickets go on sale at 9am on 20th October.

Since his time as frontman of Oasis, Liam has scored five UK number one studio and live albums as a solo star, and returned to Knebworth - the site of his former band's most famous gigs - to play his own shows in 2022.

Noel Gallagher, Oasis's songwriter, has also topped the album charts several times as frontman of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

The Mancunian brothers have been embroiled in an intense sibling rivalry since they became public figures in the mid-90s, which came to a head when the band split.

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Liam has often been publicly in favour of a reunion, with Noel usually the more reluctant of the two.

However, the older Gallagher has previously joked he would reunite the band for £100m.

He is yet to comment on his younger brother's latest announcement.

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How to get tickets for Liam Gallagher’s 2024 UK tour, including price and pre-sale details

The ex-Oasis singer has announced a special tour to celebrate 30 years of ‘Definitely Maybe’

Oasis’s 1994 debut and eight-times platinum album ‘Definitely Maybe’ has become a defining work of the Britpop era. Thirty years on, Liam Gallagher has announced a tour to celebrate the album's anniversary. Oasis fans waiting on a reunion, don’t get your hopes up. There are no signs of any bad blood being put aside for the occasion – it’s extremely  unlikely that Noel will be joining. 

Nevertheless, it will be a very exciting opportunity for fans to hear songs that have rarely, if ever, been performed live since the mid-nineties. Plus, Liam could be joined by other Oasis co-founder Paul Arthurs (aka Bonehead). To add to the anticipation, the tour includes three nights at the huge, yet-to-open Co-op Live Arena in Liam’s hometown of Manchester . Here are all the important deets. 

When is Liam Gallagher going on a UK tour in 2024?

The ‘Definitely Maybe’ tour is taking place across 12 dates in June 2024. 

When do tickets go on sale for the 30th anniversary Definitely Maybe tour? 

Fans will be able to try for tickets from 9am on Friday, October 20. They’ll be available on Ticketmaster  and other ticketing platforms. 

How can I register for tickets?

You don’t need to register for general sale tickets – just make sure you’re online and ready to press ‘buy’ on release day. If it’s presale tickets you’re after, you may have to register for priority access to whatever venue you’re hoping to attend. More info on that below! 

How much do tickets cost for Liam Gallagher’s tour? 

The cost will change according to each venue, but tend to be ranging from around £50 to £110, including booking fees. 

On See Tickets , p rices for Sheffield’s Utilita Arena start at £52.45 for seated tickets and £85.45 for standing tickets. Prices for London’s O2 Arena, seats start from £53.50 and from £86.50 for standing. 

Is there presale for the Definitely Maybe tour? 

Different venues announced their own pre-sales, with all presales having taken place this morning (October 18). 

For the dates in Glasgow , customers of OVO or SSE Energy Services could access early ticket sales at 9am, while   Manchester fans were able to gain access after downloading the Co-op Live app and becoming a member. Irish fans had to be Three+ members , while  those hoping to get pre-sale tickets for London must have signed up to O2 Priority . 

It’s worth noting, however, that presale saw unprecedented levels of demand. Co-op Live  tweeted  that presale tickets had completely run out just 20 minutes after they went on sale, while O2 Priority tickets reportedly also sold out quickly. 

If you missed out on presale, best of luck in trying for tickets on 9am on Friday! 

What UK dates have been confirmed for Liam Gallagher’s tour? 

So far, 12 dates have been confirmed for 2024. Those are: 

June 2: Sheffield, Utilita Arena

June 3: Cardiff, Utilita Arena

June 6, 7, 10: London, The O2

June 15, 16: Manchester, Co-op Live

June 19, 20: Glasgow, OVO Hydro

June 23, 24: Dublin, 3Arena

June 27: Manchester, Co-op Live 

What’s been said so far?

Liam Gallagher said: ‘I’m bouncing around the house to announce the Definitely Maybe tour. The most important album of the ’90s, bar none. I wouldn't be anywhere without it and neither would you, so let’s celebrate together.’

A press release teased that other ‘fan favourites’ from the ‘Definitely Maybe’ era could also be performed, potentially including ‘Whatever’, ‘Fade Away’, ‘Listen Up’ and ‘Sad Song’.

Any early news on the potential setlist?

‘Definitely Maybe’ is a classic album and much of it has long been a staple of Gallagher’s solo sets. We fully expect to hear classics from that album, including ‘Rock n Roll Star’, ‘Live Forever’,  ‘Supersonic’, ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’ and ‘Slide Away’. 

Here is an example of a Liam Gallagher set from earlier this year, when he played Japan in August. 

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• Wall of Glass
• Better Days
• Stand by Me
• Roll It Over
• Diamond in the Dark
• Champagne Supernova

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Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher announces 'Definitely Maybe' album tour

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher is going on tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the British rock band's 1994 debut album, "Definitely Maybe," the lead vocalist announced in a statement released on Instagram Monday.

"I'm bouncing around the house to announce the Definitely Maybe tour," read the statement. "The most important album of the '90s bar none. I wouldn't be anywhere without it and neither would you, so let's celebrate together."

The monthlong tour around the United Kingdom kicks off in Sheffield, England, in June 2024.

The tour will include performances of the tracks "Whatever," "Fade Away," "Listen Up," and "Sad Song." Gallagher made no mention of performing "Wonderwall," the group's biggest hit, which appeared on the band's second studio album, "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" released in 1995.

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Oasis unexpectedly disbanded in 2009, when Gallagher's brother, Noel Gallagher , chief songwriter and lead guitarist, left the group. Noel Gallagher went on to form his own group, Gallagher's High Flying Birds, while the remaining members of Oasis briefly continued as Beady Eye.

Until now, the band has denied ever reuniting .

The reunion could include Noel Gallagher and co-founding band member, guitarist Paul Arthurs. Arthurs, stage name Bonehead, began touring with Liam Gallagher again earlier this year after a battle with tonsil cancer.

However, on Live Nation, where tickets for the tour go on sale Friday, Liam Gallagher is listed as the performer, not Oasis.

It is unclear whether other previous band members, including Paul McGuigan, Tony McCarroll, Alan White, Gem Archer, Andy Bell and, most recently, Zak Starkey and Chris Sharrock, would return.

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This summer, Noel Gallagher was asked at a live Q&A who would be on a hypothetical reunion tour.

"So me, Liam. Well, it's a funny thing because we're all at a certain age now," he said. "Hair was a thing in Oasis, so we'll have to see what everybody's hair is looking like. I'm in no matter what."

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Fans who find themselves in the United Kingdom next year can get tickets for the "Definitely Maybe" anniversary tour at 4 a.m. ET Friday.

Tickets are available on Live Nation at livenation.co.uk , which lists Liam Gallagher as the performer, across 12 dates in Sheffield, England; Cardiff, Wales; London; Manchester, England; and Glasgow, Scotland. Tickets for the Dublin dates are available at Ticketmaster at ticketmaster.ie .

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30 years since Oasis kicked off their debut UK tour, only six of those venues remain open

"You could not afford to put on a similar show now featuring two new bands"

30 years on since Oasis ‘ debut UK tour, it’s been revealed that only six of the venues they played remain open today.

• READ MORE: Report shows “disaster” facing grassroots music venues: “The big companies and arenas are now going to have to answer for this”

In a new report from the  BBC , nine of the 15 venues from Oasis’ 1994 tour for ‘Supersonic’ have now stopped putting on gigs or have closed. This includes the recently shut Moles in Bath, which closed last December after a 45-year run. The remaining venues include London’s 100 Club, Bristol’s Fleece & Firkin and The Tunbridge Wells Forum.

Speaking to the  BBC , CEO of the Music Venue Trust (MVT) Mark Davyd shared the challenges the Forum would face booking a small band in our current economic climate. Davyd originally booked Oasis on their joint headline tour with Whiteout, who at that point were the more well-known band.

“On that night 30 years ago, that show – with the door take and the bar – probably made a little bit of money,” Davyd told the BBC . “You could not afford to put on a similar show now featuring two new bands. You will definitely lose money. Even if you sold all 250 tickets, you’d lose money.”

Due to the rise in fees, bills, rent and wages, he added, ticket and drink prices are no longer covering costs.

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In January this year, the MVT further   reported a “disaster” facing grassroots music venues , with calls increasing for a ticket levy on larger arenas and investment from the wider industry.

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Some of the key findings into their “most challenging year” include the discovery of 125 UK venues abandoning live music, with over half of them shutting entirely. Other pressures that venues reported facing included soaring energy prices, increased rent, supply costs, business rates, licensing issues, noise complaints  and the  continuing shockwaves of COVID-19 .

Since the publication of that report, the MVT slammed the UK Government budget as a “missed opportunity” for not delivering a cut on VAT charged on tickets.

The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) also found that  31 per cent of UK nightclubs closed last year,  with an average of two closures per week.

In other news, Liam Gallagher will be touring ‘Definitely Maybe’ in full for its 30th anniversary – find tickets here and see dates below.

JUNE 2024 02 – Sheffield, Utilita Arena 03 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena 06 – London, The O2 07 – London, The O2 10 – London, The O2 15 – Manchester, Co-op Live 16 – Manchester, Co-op Live 19 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro 20 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro 23 – Dublin, 3Arena 24 – Dublin, 3Arena 27 – Manchester, Co-op Live

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Live Forever: Oasis's 'Definitely Maybe', 30 Years On

The Manchester band released their debut album in 1994 and changed the course of music history forever. Writer Jon Savage, who saw them perform four times that year, remembers a pivotal moment in British pop, culture and politics

It’s late January, 1994. Alerted by a friend, I go to see a new Manchester group, Oasis, at The Water Rats near King’s Cross in London. There’s a buzz: the smallish venue is packed, which makes it difficult to see what is happening on the low stage. A couple of numbers in, I get it: they’re good. The four musicians, dressed in scally/baggy/sportswear, erect an overdriven wall of sound, while the vocalist — wearing what looks like a Marks & Spencer’s pullover —commands the crowd with a definite attitude.

This isn’t Oasis ’s first London show, but it’s a kind of showcase: full of journalists and fans, the curious and the competitive. The band carry it off with what many people will, soon enough, recognise as their customary blithe insouciance. On the way out, I’m accosted by an EMI press officer: why didn’t I go see Blur rather than this lot, she demands; I reply that if I wanted to go to see Blur then I would, and I don’t. Seems like unprofessional behaviour, but the needle is already there.

Nineteen-ninety-four was a good year for music. The dominant sound that I heard emanating from cars, shops, pubs and clubs in London was dance music and its myriad derivatives: the seemingly infinite and proliferating varieties of house, techno, rap, hardcore. I absolutely loved the multiple times of jungle — hyper-speed breakbeats jamming up against half-speed reggae bass — and heard it at its best at that summer's Notting Hill Carnival, where the record of the year — Shy FX’s Sound of the Beast — sampled the Carnival song of 1976, Junior Murvin’s “Police and Thieves”.

At the beginning of 1994, the UK charts were the usual mix of contemporary dance music (Chaka Demus & Pliers’ great Latin/ragga cover of “Twist and Shout”), novelties (Doop), and boy-band pop (Take That). There wasn’t much sense of the rock style of the moment — grunge — and the great UK hope, Suede, were temporarily stalled after a banner year in 1993. There was a pre-echo of the future in February’s number one, “Things Can Only Get Better” by D:Ream, which would have an afterlife that no one could have predicted.

Britain was living under the 15th year of four consecutive Tory governments and, by the beginning of 1994, the party and the public were definitely getting fed up with each other. The week before Oasis played The Water Rats, a Mori poll had the Labour Party at 48 per cent, 20 points ahead of John Major’s government that, despite improving economic data, was beset by sleaze, misguided “back to basics” rhetoric and an irreversible momentum of decline. There was a sense of light at the end of a long tunnel.

Oasis were determinedly a part of this from the beginning. In the middle of 1993, they had produced a few copies of a demo cassette with an artwork that depicted the Union Jack going down a plughole. Asked about the image, Liam Gallagher replied that, “It’s the greatest flag in the world, and it’s going down the shitter. We’re here to do something about it.” Along with their coevals and competitors Blur, the group would be involved in nothing less than an attempt at redefining Britishness — one that would gain political impetus as the year went on.

There was a definite British-rock resurgence at the start of the year. In February, the female-fronted Elastica went top 20 with their stuttering, sarcastic “Line Up”, followed shortly afterwards by Suede’s magnum opus “Stay Together”, which went top three. In March, Blur released “Girls & Boys”, the first and best single from Parklife , their next album, which, aided by a launch at Walthamstow dog track, went top five. In early May, Parklife entered the charts on its way to number one and an ultimate chart run of 106 weeks.

By that time, Oasis were making waves. An incident that February, when every member of Oasis except Noel Gallagher was arrested after a brawl on a ferry to Amsterdam, made for amused coverage from the music press. In late April, John Harris began his agenda-setting NME article with the following set piece: “Liam Gallagher is poised above his elder brother, pressing his hand into Noel’s face, and occasionally barking frantic questions, like the one about whether or not he fancies being pushed through the window. ‘Let’s f—ing go then, you DICK!’ says Liam. ‘Let’s have a f—ing FIGHT.’”

Bad boys; battling brothers — rock archetypes all. In their early days, Oasis were both reassuringly familiar — mashing up rock history from the 1960s to the 80s: The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, The Stone Roses — and strangely adapted to the times. Their first generally available single, “Supersonic”, pushed baggy tropes onto apparently random lyrics that chimed with post-rave hedonism as well as offering affirmative advice: “You need to be yourself/You can’t be no one else”.

“Supersonic” was released within a few days of a shattering event: Kurt Cobain’s suicide, on 5 April. Nirvana had long seemed poised, like Joy Division, between the light and the dark, and the darkness had won. The news cast a black pall, marking the end of grunge and a definite change in pop culture: after the shock and sadness, people wanted something different, if not uplifting and joyful — which was precisely what Oasis were constructed to provide.

Noel Gallagher already had lots of songs, including one called “Live Forever”. As he recalled in 2006, “It was the tune that changed everything. It was written in the middle of grunge… Nirvana had a tune called ‘I Hate Myself and I Want to Die’ and I thought, ‘that’s fucking rubbish’. Kids don’t need to hear that nonsense. We had fuck all, and I still thought getting up in the morning was the greatest thing ever, ’cos you didn’t know where you’d end up that night. And we didn’t have a pot to piss in but it was fucking great.”

Early that summer, I went to see Oasis for the second time, at Manchester’s Academy 3, the university’s students’ union. “Supersonic” had gone to number 31, and the group had a second single, “Shakermaker”, which opened the show. The reasonably sized audience were interested, but not manic. Seeing the five clearly for the first time, I turned to their manager Marcus Russell and told him that I understood: it was the brothers, that was it. Russell protested that, no, they were a tight unit, but time would prove otherwise.

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“Shakermaker” continued the slightly lightweight feel of Oasis’s trajectory so far, with burbling lyrics, taken from a Trebor Mints commercial, about Mr Soft, and a tune distinctly reminiscent of The New Seekers’ “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”. Noel Gallagher rationalised the lift that August: “The Beatles, the greatest band in history, write ‘Hey Jude’, and it’s a cheap-shot melody. Our singles — ‘Supersonic’, ‘Shakermaker’ — are cheap-shot melodies. Never be afraid of the obvious, because it’s all been done before.”

The CD single of “Shakermaker” contained three extra tracks, one of which was a live version of their first released masterpiece, “Bring It On Down”: “Good evening Great Britain! Hello,” Liam Gallagher intones over a fast, tribal beat, while the lyrics addressed contemporary realities: “What was that sound ringing around your brain?/You’re here on your own who you gonna find to blame?/You’re the outcast, you’re the underclass/But you don’t care, because you’re living fast”. It was this song that made me realise that Oasis had intention.

“It was a tribute to The Stooges, MC5 and punk rock,” Noel Gallagher remembered 20 years later. “We smashed it when we used to play it live. For my part, all those songs that have a political undercurrent are real because I was just writing from the heart. At that point I was unemployed, in rented accommodation, trying to make it in the world, living from one week to the next, not knowing if you’re gonna have enough money for a pizza. You are in a political situation even if you don’t realise it, ’cos that is the battleground, that is the essence of politics: accommodation, food and trying to make a living.”

“Shakermaker” occasioned Oasis’s first performance on Top of the Pops , where they played to an enthusiastic crowd in front of the Union Jack design from their first demo tape. Coming after a successful appearance at that year’s Glastonbury, it propelled the single up to their highest chart position thus far, number 11. Along with Blur — who had headlined the NME stage — Oasis seemed to embody the new pop mood: British, guitar-led, hedonistic, upbeat and laddish.

Class was a strong element. The Gallagher brothers were from Burnage, a district in South Manchester whose suburban appearance masked deep poverty. As shaped by Noel, Oasis were defiantly Northern and had a working-class work ethic: as he told me at the end of the year, “We’d always get in a van and go anywhere to play a gig, whereas your middle-class groups will say, ‘I’ve got college in the morning.’ We just say, ‘Fuck it, we wanna play.’ I like working hard.”

They were committed to the classic, mainstream idea of a good time: cigarettes, alcohol and the white lines. “I think our music is quite universal,” Noel Gallagher said in 1995. “I wouldn’t consider myself a great lyricist. I’m not a poet or anything. I write like an average person would write. ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’ means the same to some kid in Brooklyn as it would to someone from Belfast. Go out, get drunk and have a good time. That means the same in any language.”

The group’s early publicity played up the hedonistic-lad aspect: the drugs, the drinking, the fights, the football. They appeared in the third issue of a new magazine aimed at young men: Loaded . The influence of this lad bible would prove baleful but, like the antics of Oasis themselves, it had seemed fresh and light-hearted. Blur attempted to tap into this mood with Damon Albarn’s Sergio Tacchini sportswear and support of Chelsea Football Club — a pose that was successful in the short term but ultimately unconvincing.

What went unnoticed in all the laddish cosplay and sibling rivalry was Oasis’s optimism. As Noel Gallagher said that year, “I know how shit it was living in Burnage, so I don’t have to write about it. You want to write about how great life could be if only you could pluck up the courage to ask that girl out, or if only you could fly.” The group’s third single, “Live Forever”, made this explicit, as Liam sang: “Maybe you’re the same as me/We see things they’ll never see/You and I are gonna live forever”. It was their first top 10.

This poptimism found its parallel in party politics. After the sudden, shocking death of John Smith in April, Tony Blair was elected Labour leader in July. At 41, he was young enough to have been a pop fan — even to the extent of singing with a rock band at university — and, unlike the Tories, understood the importance of British music to the country’s economy and its youth. In early August, the first poll since he became leader had Labour at 56 per cent, a 33-point lead over the Conservatives.

At the end of that month, two days before I saw them for the third time in the decidedly unglamorous surroundings of The Tivoli in Buckley, North Wales, Oasis’s first album was released. With 11 tracks, four of which had been or would be singles, Definitely Maybe was a greatest hits before its time. As well as the archetypal wish fulfilment of rousing opener “Rock’n’ Roll Star”, there was another statement of Oasis ideology in “Digsy’s Dinner”: “These could be the best days of our lives”.

With a power belying its troubled gestation — the finished album was the third attempt — Definitely Maybe included rerecordings of the relentless “Columbia”, betraying its origin as a house-inspired jam, and “Bring It On Down”, which attained a new level of ferocity. As John Harris wrote in his definitive history of the period, The Last Party , “Some of their best songs — ‘Columbia’, ‘Bring It On Down’, ‘Supersonic’ — pulsed with a kinetic sense of confrontation as if, despite the absence of a real agenda, the Gallaghers could not help but vent some deep-seated rage.”

On 4 September 1994, Definitely Maybe entered the UK album chart at number one, beating The 3 Tenors in Concert and End of Part One: Their Greatest Hits by Wet Wet Wet, the Scottish group whose version of The Troggs’ “Love Is All Around” lodged at number one for 15 weeks that summer. Two weeks later, Oasis left for their first US tour — a fraught, drug-sodden affair that resulted in Noel Gallagher going AWOL for over two weeks, leaving a question mark over the group’s future.

In the middle of the turmoil, Oasis released their fourth single, “Cigarettes & Alcohol”, featuring the most concise of their live-for-the-day lyrics: “You could wait for a lifetime/To spend your days in the sunshine/You might as well do the white line.” It went to number seven in the UK charts, no doubt boosted by the feral cover of “I Am the Walrus” included in the package. “The Beatles, to us, were the be-all, end-all,” Noel later recalled. “Where it starts and where it finishes. Everything we do is inspired by The Beatles.”

The day before the release of “Cigarettes & Alcohol”, there was a huge march in London protesting against the Criminal Justice Bill, introduced by the then Home Secretary Michael Howard, principally to prevent illegal raves and to clamp down on the traveller festival circuit, the popularity of which had been highlighted by the huge Castlemorton Common Festival of 1992. This presented as a direct attack on rave music — famously, and rather loosely in legal terms, defined as “repetitive beats”.

If the Tories wanted to alienate a large section of the young, they couldn’t have planned it better. There had already been two demonstrations against the bill, in May and July, but the third — held on 9 October — attracted a crowd of 20,000 to 30,000 (according to the police; the organisers put it at 100,000). When protestors tried to bring sound systems into Hyde Park, there was a confrontation, and the day ended in a full-scale riot, with tear gas, charging police horses and random beatings. That weekend, Tony Blair addressed the Labour Party conference.

Bullish after Labour’s success in May’s council elections, his speech set out a programme that included investment in public services, an accommodation with market forces and enthusiasm for “the information revolution”. He concluded: “The next election will offer us the chance to change our country, not just to promise change, but to achieve it — the historic goal of another Labour government. Our party: New Labour. Our mission: New Britain. New Labour. New Britain.” The hall rose in a standing ovation.

Nineteen-ninety-four was the year of two novel coinages. Blair’s speech was peppered with the word “new”, an attractive concept after years of Conservative stasis. New Labour soon entered the political lexicon, along with another term that was invented to mark the upsurge of popular British rock groups: Blur, Elastica, Oasis — and the others in their wake, most notably Sheffield’s Pulp, whose The Sisters EP had made the top 20 in summer 1994. Suddenly the time seemed right for a short, sharp style that harked back to mod and punk, while still remaining contemporary.

The idea had begun with the famous April 1993 Select magazine front cover, which featured Suede with the sub-head: “Yanks Go Home! St Etienne, Denim, Pulp, The Auteurs and the Battle for Britain.” In May 1994, The Face coined the term Brit Pop, which by the autumn had turned into its more familiar form: as The Guardian wrote in September 1994, “We are in the middle of a Britpop renaissance.” As a term it was useful, but exclusive: Britpop was more like Eng-rock, omitting any Afro-Caribbean, Anglo-Asian or Afro-American influences.

Nevertheless, New Labour and Britpop were joined in time and place, and soon the connection would become more definite. Six days after the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act became law, Noel Gallagher met Tony Blair at the Q Awards on 9 November: the meeting was brief but affirmative, with the rock star apparently exhorting the politician to “fucking do it for us, man”. Blair’s speech at the event celebrated the British music industry and the importance of rock’n’roll to the British “way of life”.

The next month, I went to see Oasis for the fourth time, at Manchester’s Academy 1, a large venue packed with an enthusiastic crowd. The set included most of the first album, a few B-sides and a three-song acoustic feature by Noel Gallagher. I liked the punky thrash of tunes like “Bring It On Down”, but I noticed that Oasis weren’t a moshpit group: the crowd would leap up and down for the first 20 seconds of a song and then subside into the more mid-paced tempos. That didn’t denote a lack of enthusiasm, but a different way of responding.

The previous day, I’d travelled to the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool to interview Noel Gallagher for The Guardian . I was spending a lot of time in the North West then, reconnecting with my father’s Irish roots. Oasis seemed to me to be in a direct line of Anglo/Irish revenge, where “Bring It On Down” sat next to The Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen”, Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ “Dance Stance”, The Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead”, and “I Am the Walrus”. I asked Noel about his Irish background:

“Mam was born in Mayo, and Dad was born in Meath, which is just outside Dublin. They would have come over in the early 1950s, looking for work, and they met in a place called the Carousel, which was an Irish club, which was part of the National 2. My dad was a DJ, plays country and western. It makes a difference to yourself that you have an Irish background, I think it makes you more passionate about music. Obviously, you’re always brought up Catholic and you always end up denouncing that.”

He talked about his lyrics: “I always say the whole song doesn’t really mean anything, but if you ask about a certain line, I could talk for days about what it means. Then you try and make them all rhyme and it becomes a song and has a title and has to be about something. But they’re just sentences: ‘All I want to do is live by the sea…’ Lyricists can be a bit too clever for their own good; the audience has to be part of it, or I don’t think it’s any fucking fun. I hate that division that says: “We’re the band, you’re the audience.” I’d rather involve the audience in what we do.”

I got the impression of a serious musician who was sure of his own talent and his achievements: “I’m in for the rest of my life now,” he told me. “Even if I don’t have the band, or never write another song, I can always pick up an acoustic guitar and walk out in front of 2000 people and sing ‘Live Forever’ — not even bother singing it, ’cos everyone else sang it last night. I just sat there and played it. I’ll always be able to do that, and so I’ve earned it, writing that song.”

On 18 December, Oasis released their fifth single of 1994, a six-minute, string-laden epic called “Whatever”, full of Christmas communality and hints of freedom. On the CD version, there were the customary good-value extra songs, including the tender “Half the World Away” — written by Noel on the US tour — and the anthemic “(It’s Good) To Be Free”, a song about pressure and release that ended with an Irish jig. That line — “All I want to do is live by the sea” — stuck in my mind. Within a few years, that would be my life.

The year ended with Tony Blair triumphant as the latest Mori polls showed Labour support at 61 per cent, nearly 40 points ahead of the Conservatives. In the charts for 25 to 31 December, “Whatever” entered at number three, bested only by Mariah Carey and East 17. In the last album chart of the year, Blur were at 15 with Parklife after 35 weeks, while Definitely Maybe was on the rise again at number 27 after 17 weeks. The Beatles were back, with the Live at the BBC compilation of 1960s radio shows at number six.

It was the 1960s redux: competitive, ambitious pop groups being courted by an ambitious, media-savvy Labour politician. At the March 1995 Brit awards, Oasis won British Breakthrough Act, while Blur swept the board with Best Group, Best Album, Best Single and Best Video. That same month, Damon Albarn — who had registered his intention to vote Labour the previous December — spoke to Tony Blair at a meeting arranged by Darren Kalynuk of deputy leader John Prescott’s office, which reaffirmed the link between new pop and new politics.

Early the next month, the Labour Party contested their first UK local elections with Tony Blair as leader. The results were shattering for the Conservatives, who lost over 2,000 councillors. Labour received 48 per cent of the vote, a record high for the party. I remember the feeling of euphoria and hope at the results: at last, it seemed that the 16-year Tory nightmare might be coming to an end. It was as though a door had opened in a dusty, dark room.

On 24 April, Oasis released their first single of 1995, “Some Might Say”, an uplifting tune with a soaring, surging chorus — Liam at his best — and lyrics that, again, cemented the group’s connection with their audience: “Some might say you get what you’ve been given/If you don’t get yours I won’t get mine as well”. Backed by the acoustic “Talk Tonight” and the tender “Acquiesce”, “Some Might Say” went straight into the charts at number one in early May. Oasis had caught the mood and the time, and it was their first zenith.

Thirty years later, it’s easy to remember the decadence and demise of Oasis, the disaster of lad culture, the failure of Labour to capitalise on the 1997 election landslide, the creeping march of populism. But in 1994, both politics and pop were moving in the same direction, towards a more hopeful and inclusive Britain. For me, that move was soundtracked by Oasis songs: “Bring It On Down”, “Columbia”, “(It’s Good) To Be Free”. They gave me hope in a personally very difficult year, and they were the last rock group ever to have that effect on my life.

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Taylor Swift’s expected Eras Tour setlist for UK as Paris gig reveals huge changes

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The Lover house is burned down, Speak Now is fighting for her life, and we’re all afraid of little old Taylor Swift as she overhauls her Eras Tour setlist.

As the 34-year-old superstar kicked off the European leg of her tour in Paris, fans gathered around livestreams and X to discover what she had in store.

Paris night one didn’t disappoint and ticket chaos was forgiven as the Tortured Poets Department took centre stage and the entire Eras Tour was changed, from bodysuits to choreography.

Fans had already speculated there might be a switch up after she released the Eras Tour film before her tour had finished but this was more than our wildest dreams.

It’s no surprise that Taylor has added in the new album but at already three and a half hours long , some songs were left on the cutting room floor.

The Archer, tis the damn season, and even the last great American dynasty were all brutally ripped from the setlist.

New glittering bodysuits and dresses were rolled out for every era except Reputation, which is the last in the album in the show to get it’s Taylor’s Version.

So far no vault track appears on her main setlist, only core album songs have a permanent place on the Eras Tour.

Swifties have been left in utter disbelief as Folklore and Evermore were combined into one era, known as the sisters era, to keep time down.

Speak Now was reduced back down to one song — RIP Long Live — and debut remains reserved for surprise songs in the acoustic set.

Let’s be honest Taylor could perform for six hours and fans would still want more but even she would probably find that exhausting.

It’s been a whirlwind 24hours for Swifties so lets see what the setlist has been left looking like and what that means for the UK.

We’re still going strong opening with Lover but even her seventh studio album and big opener couldn’t survive Taylor’s great setlist war. We’ll miss you, The Archer.

• Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince
• Cruel Summer
• You Need To Calm Down

Fearless Era

The album that made her a superstar remains unscathed but since there were only three songs for this era it’s hardly surprising.

However, a new tasseled bodysuit was revealed and it looks incredibly similar to one worn on the Our Song hitmaker’s original Fearless tour in 2009.

• You Belong With Me

I’m never recovering from this pic.twitter.com/rNTY9smbVH — B R I T T A N Y 🤍 (@sobrittgoes) May 9, 2024

In a position switch up, the setlist now moved from Fearless into Red instead of evermore but the songs remain unchanged and All Too Well remains firmly in pride of place.

• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
• I Knew You Were Trouble
• All Too Well (10 Minute Version)

Speak Now Era

Justice for Speak Now, already balding but now scalped as Long Live has been once more removed.

We’re begging Taylor, I will sacrifice I Knew You Were Trouble for just one more purple painted dream.

Reputation Era

Yet to have it’s Taylor’s Version released, Reputation remains unchanged on the mammoth set but has been moved to after Red and Speak Now rather than before.

It’s also the only section that has not had an outfit change, the day that red and black bodysuit goes we’re all going to lose our minds.

• …Ready For It?
• Don’t Blame Me
• Look What You Made Me Do

Folklore/Evermore Era

Once separate totalling 12 songs, Taylor’s lockdown albums have been combined into one – with a lot of casualties.

‘We have reunited the sister albums,’ the singer told the Paris crowd, joking it could be called ‘everlore’ or ‘folkmore’.

Removed from the setlist are: Tis the damn season, the last great american dynasty, invisible string, and tolerate it.

• Cardigan (folklore)
• Betty (folklore)
• Champagne Problems (evermore)
• August (folklore)
• Illicit Affairs (folklore)
• My Tears Ricochet (folklore)
• Marjorie (evermore)
• Willow (evermore)

reunited the sisters and combined folklore and evermore “folkmore” she also removed the 1, tis the damn season, the last great american dynasty and tolerate it from the setlist pic.twitter.com/yoryodUHiQ — Taylor Throwbacks (@ThrowbackTaylor) May 9, 2024

Mother’s favourite child remains safe and sound with no changes and still following the Folklore set. Honestly, we would have loved to see some of this swapped out for the vault tracks which stormed the charts last year.

Bad Blood remains on the setlist, we wonder if Kendrick Lamar is free to come do a surprise live feature…

• Blank Space
• Shake It Off
• Wildest Dreams

this 1989 outfit is EVERYTHING 😭 pic.twitter.com/hr01OgoCzz — Je ϟ (@_jeanea) May 9, 2024

The Tortured Poets Department

Initially Swifties weren’t sure if this would be added and if so how could the 31 tracks possibly be whittled down into just a handful.

A new era brings blessings of brand new outfits, a floating stage set piece, gun shot choreography, and of course some insane vocal moments.

Taylor has spoken and these are (probably) her favourites off TTPD.

• But Daddy I Love Him
• So High School
• Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me
• The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
• I Can Do It with a Broken Heart

The stage she’s gliding around on during Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? IS A MIRROR!!!!! The audience can see themself in the mirror as she’s singing “You caged me and then you called me crazy. I am what I am ’cause you trained me” 💀💀💀 pic.twitter.com/YuV6A21dLs — 🩶beatriz🤍 – ttpd (@coneyisland131) May 9, 2024

Surprise songs

Each night Taylor plays two surprise songs from her vast discography, these have included This Love and Clean from 1989 and Dear John and Last Kiss from Speak Now.

She’s taken to doing mashups of the tracks, sometimes leading to fan speculation that the lyrics are somehow intertwined in inspiration.

Also known as the acoustic set, Paris night one fans were (obviously) treated to Paris from her album Midnights played on piano and loml on guitar from TTPD.

this might be the best midnights bodysuit yet pic.twitter.com/edqJw45yYC — Tayvis Nation 🏈🫶🏻 (@tayvisnation) May 9, 2024

Midnights Era

Closing out the show is the iconic era which gave us ‘Karma is the guy on the chiefs ’ and that chair choreography — Midnights.

Her 2022 album gets sparkling new outfits, although the Lavender Haze fluffy lilac jacket has not been swapped out.

• Lavender Haze
• Midnight Rain
• Vigilante Shit

What is the old Eras Tour setlist?

With so many changes, here’s what Taylor’s Eras Tour used to look like for a setlist run

• tis the damn season
• champagne problems
• tolerate it
• invisible string
• the last great american dynasty
• illicit affairs
• my tears ricochet

When is the Eras Tour in the UK?

The Eras Tour will come to the UK next month , beginning in Edinburgh for three nights before heading to Liverpool, Cardiff, and London .

Who knows what Taylor will have in store for fans given her penchant for keeping everyone on their toes.

Given the huge overhaul, this is likely to be the setlist for the UK gigs and all her European dates but might have minor tweaks thrown in.

Of course, if you’re sad your favourite track is not on there is always a chance it could be one of the surprise songs as she has no rules around what she can and can’t sing here.

We’re hoping for Electric Touch, Now That We Don’t Talk, The Black Dog , or Hits Different but that tells you far too much about us.

What is Paramore's Eras Tour setlist?

The iconic pop punk band Paramore will be opening for Taylor Swift at the UK gigs and they revealed their setlist in Paris.

Of course, it is much shorter but still packed with hits from the chart-topping band, fronted by Taylor’s long time friend Hayley Williams.

• Hard Times (+ Heart Of Glass)
• Burning Down The House
• Still Into You
• Caught In The Middle
• Brick By Boring Brick
• The Only Exception
• That’s What You Get
• Ain’t It Fun
• This Is Why

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Airbnb reveals ultimate Swiftie stays, inspired by albums on the Eras Tour

Key Takeaways

• As Taylor Swift’s Eras tour is just weeks away from kicking off in the UK, Airbnb unveils picture-perfect stays inspired by the songstress’s vast back catalogue.
• From a Taylor Swift-inspired oasis in the heart of Nashville – where she began her musical journey – to a London-boy loving apartment right by Camden Market, these Airbnb stays will help ‘Swifties’ take their fandom to new heights.

With Taylor Swift soon set to embark on the UK leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour , Airbnb is offering ‘Swifties’ the chance to go one step further in their fandom  – with an array of stays inspired by the singer-songwriter’s different ‘Eras’ (AKA albums). 

Taylor Swift continues to break records across the board – from retaining her crown as the world’s no. 1 recording artist last year – to her world tour becoming the first ever to gross more than $1 billion , and her ‘Swifties’ form one of the most dedicated fan bases in the world. 

So, it’s only right that devoted Swifties have the opportunity to take their fandom with them on their next holiday. To celebrate the arrival of the Eras Tour in the UK this June, Airbnb has rounded up its top Taylor-inspired stays across the globe – all in locations with features that nod to the lyrics of her songs, or epitomise one of her iconic Eras. 

Whether you’re hoping to live it up in Florida , like Taylor’s song of the same title from The Tortured Poets Department album, or dreaming of living your Forever Winter fantasy in Iceland – Airbnb is helping fans – with or without tickets – to step into the eleven iconic Eras. 

Amanda Cupples, General Manager for the UK and Northern Europe at Airbnb , said: “A huge part of what we do at Airbnb is offer unforgettable travel experiences that tap into the parts of culture people love the most – whether that be musicians, TV shows, or films. 

We’re seeing the ‘passion tourism’ trend rise across the board, and Taylor Swift is no different. When tickets for the UK leg of the Eras Tour went on sale last July, searches for Airbnbs in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Liverpool during the concert dates increased by 337%*, compared with searches for those dates the previous month. With people willing to travel further afield to celebrate their fandom, we hope our curated list of extraordinary stays help bring Taylor’s iconic Eras set list to life.”

Taylor Swift-inspired stays on Airbnb around the world

Three-bedroom apartment in Camden, London, UK – ‘London Boy’, Lover Era

Like Taylor herself, why not enjoy strolling around Camden Market in the afternoon, or find yourself in a pub watching the rugby. This Camden stay keeps you close to the beating pulse of the electric neighbourhood, and the apartment’s oak, leather, marble and steel finishes promise a refined experience for the modern resident.

One-bedroom loft in Manhattan , NY, United States – ‘ Welcome to New York’, 1989 Era

Welcome to New York and this beautiful, spacious, and bright loft, conveniently located in Chelsea – a great Manhattan experience boasting some of the most amazing restaurants and bars in the world.

Luxury Riverside Retreat with Stunning City Views , Vauxhall London, UK – ‘ The Black Dog’, The Tortured Poets Department Era

This modern and spacious 2-bedroom apartment offers breath-taking panoramic views of the River Thames and London’s iconic skyline. Better still, it’s located closeby to The Black Dog, a pub, restaurant, and beer garden in Vauxhall that Taylor sings about on the 17 th track of her latest album.

One-bedroom guest house in Malibu, California, United States – ‘Snow on the Beach’, Midnights Era

Your chances of having a relaxing time at this venue are a lot higher than that of seeing snow on the beach … Nestled on the side of a mountain, this intimate guest home has unobstructed, spectacular views of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Because of its size, this stay is best suited for couples or solo travellers.

Ocean Front Villa , near Blue Lagoon, Iceland – ‘ Forever Winter’, Red Era

Enjoy your very own ‘forever winter’ in this newly renovated farmhouse from 1929, fit with strikingly beautiful Icelandic architecture references. Located on a large private property between Reykjavik and the airport, it has outstanding ocean and mountain views, a private beach and a jacuzzi. 

Lower East Side Sanctuary , New York, United States – ‘Cornelia Street’ (New York), Lover Era

Enjoy a stylish tranquil stay in this quintessential Lower East Side loft apartment. Located in a vibrant downtown neighbourhood, you’ll be an 11-minute cab ride from (the now synonymous with Taylor’s fans), Cornelia Street.

The Cäz – Mulzac Brooklyn Townhome , Brooklyn, United States – ‘Coney Island’, Evermore Era

Not far from Coney Island, this entire apartment boasts its very own waterfall and is located in the vibrant neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Its sleek, modern, interior invites you to experience the best of city living, with a rich tapestry of culture, history, and diversity on your doorstep.

Apartment with panoramic View – 29th floor , Paris, France – ‘Paris’, Midnights Era

Situated on the 29 th floor, this beautiful Parisian apartment has a panoramic view of Paris and is located near the Eiffel Tower and the Champs de Mars. This chic stay strikes the perfect balance of old-world charm and modern elegance, exactly like Taylor’s song Paris . 

The Red House , in Cedarville, Ohio, United States – ‘ Red’, Red Era

This newly remodelled home comfortably sleeps seven guests – fitted with a spiral staircase, loft, fully-equipped kitchen, luxurious king-size bed and cosy living room. There are several outdoor spaces to relax and take in the red exterior – with the backyard leading to a large fishing hole along Massie Creek which has a rope swing.

Four-bedroom home , Orlando, United States – ‘Florida!!!’ The Tortured Poets Department Era

This stunning home is in the most central location you can get in Orlando – so if you’re looking for a roller coaster kind of rush, you’ll only be three minutes from all Universal Studios and 15 minutes to the Disney parks. When you’re done chasing the adrenaline high, you can kick back and relax by the pool.

The Swiftie Shangri-La Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Fully immerse yourself in all things Taylor Swift when staying at this oasis in the heart of Nashville, where Taylor began her music career. The chic loft features a breath-taking outdoor terrace, with stunning city views and playful decor. 

The Coach House in Dublin, Ireland 

Live your very own Taylor Swift experience in this cosy coach house in Dublin, Ireland. As Taylor herself once stayed here, while enjoying a low key visit to Dublin. Kick back for a quiet retreat in this elegant and charming home. Perfect for those looking for a lowkey retreat away from the limelight!

For guests who are booking their travel plans this year and need help finding the cream of the crop, Airbnb has launched Guest Favourites , a collection of the 2 million most-loved homes on Airbnb based on ratings, reviews, and reliability. Whether guests are travelling internationally or domestically, Guest Favourites make it easy for guests to find the best place to stay to make the most of their trip. Head to Airbnb to explore the Guest Favourites filter further when planning your next trip.