Oasis Co-Manager Confirms There’s No New Album in the Works: “This Is Very Much the Last Time Around”

Oasis are set to embark on a much-anticipated reunion tour this year, but according to their co-manager Alex McKinlay, there won’t be a new Oasis album coming along with it.

In a new interview with Music Week, the Ignition and Big Brother Recordings boss confirmed that the Gallagher brothers have no plans to release any new music. “This is very much the last time around, as Noel’s made clear in the press,” McKinlay said. “It’s a chance for fans who haven’t seen the band to see them, or at least for some of them to. But no, there’s no plan for any new music.”

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While McKinlay knows some fans might have wanted to keep the Oasis celebrations going with a new album, he’s more satisfied with the tour’s reception in their native England and overseas. “We’d obviously been planning it for a while and the moment when it went live was a little bit of a step into the unknown in terms of how big the reaction would be,” McKinlay said. “When it all hit home, it was just phenomenal. The reaction was very much one of, ‘Finally, some good news after all the nonsense that’s been going on in the world.’”

He continued: “Probably the biggest and most pleasing surprise of the reunion announcement is how huge it was internationally. Honestly, we knew it would be big here, and that doesn’t take much intuition. But looking outside the UK, we knew they had a strong fanbase, we did all the stats. We were quite cautious about what that would mean when it came to people actually buying tickets but we were just bowled over by how huge it was… We could have sold out half-a-dozen Rose Bowls in Pasadena and probably eight MetLife stadiums in New York in a day. We saw the ticket stats, we were watching what was happening and the demand was way beyond our expectations.”

McKinlay’s definitely correct about outsized demand for the Manchester band. Ticket sales in the UK were so chaotic that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched an investigation into Ticketmaster’s handling of the process and suggested that the platform may have “breached consumer protection law.”

Elsewhere in the interview, McKinlay discusses the 25th anniversary of Big Brother Recordings (which was launched in 2000 following Alan McGee’s dissolution of Creation Records), and how he views Oasis as the biggest independent band in the world. “Nobody with their kind of history sits well on a major [label],” McKinlay said. “It was in their DNA then and it is to this day.” Read the full interview here.

Oasis’ reunion tour kicks off on July 4th in Cardiff, Wales, and continues with a handful of dates in Ireland and the UK; the band will then make their way to North America for a highly anticipated run of stadium shows. They’ll also hit South America and Asia this year. See the full list of dates below, and check out our list of 10 Oasis deep cuts we’d love to see them bust out on their 2025 reunion tour.