Chance to see warring brothers together again will ensure tickets sell like hot cakes Oasis reunion: Liam and Noel Gallagher to play Croke Park On July 22, 1995, Oasis played Ireland for only the second time. Eighty thousand people – this then-20-year-old included – were wowed at Slane Castle by a support slot so potent that it threatened to blow headliners R.E.
M. away. It didn’t – R.
E.M. were also outstanding that night – but anybody present would have been convinced that Oasis were destined to one day headline the great gig by the Boyne in their own right.
And they did just that, 14 years later, in 2009, in what turned out to be one of their last ever shows before they split in the most acrimonious of circumstances. A row in Paris was just one backstage fracas too many. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news.
