Here’s a full timeline of all the Oasis beef over the years for the girlies who don’t know

Following the release of tour dates for the long awaited Oasis reunion, it’s likely that everyone from your parents to your driving instructor is harping on about it, how long they’ve waited for it and more importantly, how they thought it could never happen.

The Oasis squabble lore runs incredibly deep and maintains to be one of the most infamous feuds in music history. However, if you’re like the rest of us girlies and the reunion is plaguing your entire social media timeline but you don’t know what the beef was about, buckle up.

Matty Healy once said “being in potentially – right now, still – the coolest band in the world, and not doing it because you’re in a mard with your brother?”. Well, the mard has finally been quashed, as after 15 years apart, Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis have announced their long-awaited reunion, with 14 headline shows scheduled for 2025.

From physical altercations involving cricket bats to dissing one another at award ceremonies, the brothers have famously feuded over the span of their lives, beginning in their childhood and developing across their 30 year long musical careers. Here’s a full rundown of the Oasis fall out, for the girlies who don’t know.

Childhood

Born five years apart, the Britpop band mates grew up sharing a singular bedroom in their parents homes, resulting in Liam claiming there’s rarely been peace between them, even into their adolescent years.

The Supersonic documentary further revealed that the grudge began as a result of Liam urinating on Noel’s brand new stereo after coming home drunk. Funny from Liam but a valid reaction from Noel.

The tambourine incident: September 1994

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During a performance in LA following the release of Definitely Maybe, Liam began his ritual of changing lyrics either to annoy Noel, or their American crowds.

The gig also sparked the downward spiral series of events to come when Liam attacked his brother with a tambourine whilst allegedly high on meth and insulted the audience.

Noel told Uncut magazine: “It was Liam’s birthday as we crossed the International Date Line on the way from Japan to L.A. to start our first proper American tour. It’s the first night of the tour at the Whisky A Go Go, and everyone but me were wasted on crystal meth, someone got hit in the face with a chair, there was a big fight, the press called us a bunch of drug addicts and I got the tour float, my passport and f***ed off to San Francisco.”

Being battered in the face by a tambourine didn’t go down very well with Noel, as he went missing from the tour and nearly quit the band.

The cricket bat incident: 1995

The Oasis fall outs continued in 1995, when during the recording of Whats The Story, Morning Glory, Liam was said to have brought a group of inebriated people to the studio from the local pub, infuriating Noel and resulting in him allegedly hitting Liam over the head with a cricket bat.

The cricket bat incident has become a key part of rock folklore and was eventually sold in auction.

‘Wibbling Rivalry’: 1995

A recording of the boys being interviewed by John Harris for NME a year prior was released as a 14 minute long record, which depicted an argument between them about a drunken brawl in the Netherlands (allegedly incited by Liam), which resulted in the band being arrested and deported.

The record consisted of two singles: Noel’s side (alot of swearing and cussing) and Liam’s side (even more swearing and cussing).

Holding the record for the highest charting interview release, the recorded brawl drew the public’s attention to the siblings strained relationship, at the height of their success.

MTV Unplugged drama: 1996

Ahead of a performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London for MTV Unplugged, Liam pulled out due to an illness, however, watching from a balcony, he heckled the band.

Cracks in the brothers relationship were more than evident at this point and that same year Liam pulled out of the US tour, leaving Noel to be a solo front man.

THAT Barcelona trip: 2000

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Whilst out drinking following a cancelled gig in Barcelona, Liam questioned the paternity and legitimacy of Noel’s daughter, Anais.

The outbreak of an intense physical altercation lead to Noel dropping out of the European leg of the tour.

Years later, Noel revealed to Q magazine: “Ive never forgiven him because he never apologised.

“He’s my brother but he’s at arm’s length until he apologises for what he’s done.”

Stage walk outs: 2002-2005

The strains on Noel and Liam’s relationship was damaging their careers and impacting their stage presence.

In 2002, Liam continuously walked off on stage and tour eventually ended when he supposedly kicked a German police officer (does this man ever learn?!).

At a gig in Italy in 2005, Liam once again walked off stage resulting in the iconic quote from Noel that his brother was “frightened to death of him” as he would work on Liam’s psychology whenever he was in a mood.

In an interview with Spin magazine in October of that year, Noel said of his brother: “I’ve kind of learnt that instead of arguing stuff out with him and ending up in a fight, I work on his psychology and he’s completely freaked out by me now, he’s actually frightened to death of me.”

The last straw: 2009

After years of altercations, walk outs on stage and cussing out one another in interviews, the feud between Oasis was defined by the complete separation of the band in 2009.

Prior to going on stage at the Rock En Seine festival in Paris, an argument broke out over an ad for Liam’s clothing line, Pretty Green, being in the festival’s programme.

Liam then famously came into the dressing room, holding a guitar “like an axe” and he nearly “took my face off with it”, according to Noel.

Solidifying the Oasis fall out for good, the guitar incident promoted Noel’s departure from the band, which in a statement he said “I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”

What has happened since?

I see Noel Katie Hopkins Gallagher is talking out of his slack arse again go and polish your SAXAPHONE Ha ha LGx

— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) May 6, 2015

Since the band’s split in 2009, the brothers have been no stranger to taking to the internet and dishing it out on one another.

Liam particularly loves a good bashing at Noel via X and his account is famously a gold mine for nonsensical, brash quotes that deserve to be in a museum. His most ridiculous and hilarious tweets consist of posting photographs of Noel with the simple heading of “POTATO” on multiple instances, as well as lambast him on X for “talking out of his slack arse again”.

POTATO pic.twitter.com/yPPwh3BwNx

— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) July 9, 2016

The consistency and ongoing nature of the famous Oasis fall out has always deemed the possibility of a reunion to be a near impossible task, until now.

Has the famous rivalry been well and truly diminished or will they be able to successfully perform alongside one another without involving a cricket bat, tambourine or a guitar as a weapon?

You can now use your new found knowledge on the catty rivalry to impress your mullet owning, Gazelle wearing, Dark Fruits drinking friends!

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