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Full details for Oasis Heaton Park gigs

2025-07-09 18:00:14
Oasis's long-awaited reunion gig began in Cardiff on Friday

The wait is almost over for the lucky Oasis fans who managed to get their hands on tickets for the Gallagher brothers' hometown shows.

The highly-anticipated comeback tour kicked off on Friday at Cardiff's Principality Stadium to a crowd of about 74,500 fans.

Heaton Park is set to be awash with bucket hands as Oasis take to the stage with a series of shows, starting on Friday.

Here's everything you need to know ahead of the gigs.

Tram

Transport for Greater Manchester said travelling by tram was the "best option" to get to Heaton Park.

Services will run every six minutes from Victoria tram stop in Manchester city centre to Heaton Park.

Heaton Park tram stop will be closed after the event so fans should head to Bowker Vale to get to the city centre.

There is planned engineering at Piccadilly, so no trams are operating from Piccadilly railway station to the city centre stops.

Park and ride

There are two park and ride sites on the Bury line.

Crowds sang along as Oasis reunited on stage

Shuttle bus

The Oasis shuttle bus service will depart from Lever Street in the Northern Quarter area of Manchester.

Buses will run from Lever Street from 13:30 each day, with last bus at 19:30.

Buses will start running back to Manchester after the event from a temporary bus station inside Heaton Park, from 22:00.

Buses will continue to run until all passengers have cleared the bus station.

The drop-off point in the city is Shudehill Interchange.

Tickets are £10 and are available on the Bee Network app.

On foot

If you would rather walk back to Manchester after the gig, then there is a recommended walking route that you can follow.

​Bus diversions

Some local bus services will running diverted routes. More information can be found here.

From 12:00 until 20:00 on event days, the following roads will be closed with diversions in place in Manchester city centre.

From 21:.30 on event days until 01:00 the following day, there will be a road closures in place near Heaton Park.

The gates at Heaton Park will open at 15:00 BST on Friday, Saturday, 16, 19 and 20 July.

The latest time that the music will finish is at 22:30.

Food vendors, which are card only, will remain open until 23:00.

Richard Ashcroft opened up for Oasis at the Principality Stadium on Friday

Oasis' support comes in double from Richard Ashcroft, frontman of The Verve, and Liverpool-based Britpop band Cast.

Fans will be hoping Ashcroft performs some of his biggest hits from The Verve days, including Bitter Sweet Symphony, The Drugs Don't Work and Lucky Man, among others.

The connection between Ashcroft and the Gallagher brothers goes back decades as the band supported The Verve in 1993 during their early days.

More recently, Ashcroft joined Liam on stage at Finsbury Park in 2018, and the two collaborated again in 2022.

John Power, frontman of the '90s indie band Cast, who rose to fame with The La's, also has a long history with Oasis.

Cast shared the stage with the band at one of their legendary Knebworth Park shows in 1996, and more recently supported Liam on his Definitely Maybe 30th anniversary tour in 2024.

Oasis rolled back the years with a greatest hits set on the first night of their tour

After Oasis have played five nights at Heaton Park, they will then play the following dates:

25, 26, 30 July, 2, 3 August and 27, 28 September at Wembley Stadium, London

8, 9, 12 August at Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh

16, 17 August at Croke Park, Dublin

Oasis will then fly to Toronto, Canada, to begin the international leg of their tour before it wraps up on 23 November in São Paulo, Brazil.