Just in time for their 30th anniversary release of "Definitely Maybe", Oasis has reunited and are preparing for a 2025 Summer tour. The band has been releasing singles to lead up to the Deluxe Edition, including a release of "Cigarettes & Alcohol".
When it came out Definitely Maybe was the fastest-ever selling debut in the U.K. making Oasis a cultural phenomenon, with the classic singles Supersonic, Live Forever and Cigarettes & Alcohol. The album sold over 6.9 million copies, and is the second-most streamed album of the ’90s, behind (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?.
The Deluxe Edition features the unreleased recording sessions from Monnow Valley, with outtakes from Sawmills Studios and a demo of Sad Song featuring Liam Gallagher.
The Gallagher brothers have buried the hatchet and their reunion is official, as the band will play 14 shows next summer, in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin, and tickets are already going on sale Saturday!
"The guns have fallen silent," The Brothers have said. "The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised."
The news came after a video teaser came out which fans thought was just going to be a deluxe edition box set, instead it brings an end to 15 years of bickering.
Ahead of the release of the 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe, Oasis shared a previously unheard version of "Up in the Sky."
Another new mix by Noel Gallagher, "Up in the Sky (Monnow Valley Version)" is a scrapped studio session of the song recorded at Monnow Valley Studio in Monmouth, Wales.
The band have been releasing material for their Deluxe edition of ‘Definitely Maybe’, which contained recordings from the abandoned session at Monnow Valley Studios, and outtakes from the recording session at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall, which has been mixed for the first time by Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho.
‘Columbia’ was the first Oasis song to be written, and was released as a white-label 12” vinyl.
“The Monnow Valley recordings and Sawmill outtakes, now unearthed for the first time, offer a new and compelling understanding of the process that led to the finished article. With its raw edges and restless energy, ‘Definitely Maybe’ always sounded like an album that had arrived fully formed – however the newly revealed versions provide fans with a fascinating new insight into the album; demonstrating the self-belief that drove the early years of Oasis and the determination it took to create their debut.”