No one wants to confirm or deny the Oasis Eden Park rumours.

Will the reunited Gallagher brothers play two shows here in November, 2025? An investigation.

Across the often histrionic and occasionally horrific coverage of the reformation of the British rock band Oasis, there’s been one thing you can count on, something that unites almost every news story written about the band over the past week.

You can almost see the smiles spreading across the faces of news editors around the world as they reach into their bag of puns, type two words into their content management systems then lean back in their chairs and smile contentedly.

Definitely. Maybe. Two diametrically opposed words that, when used together, form a perfect non-committal headline when writing about Oasis tour rumours.

A quick catchup for anyone living under a rock: after 15 years of bickering, Noel and Liam Gallagher decided to get the band back together for 17 reunion shows across the UK next year that cost punters up to £350 officially, £6000 unofficially, and netted the duo a reported £400 million.

Unless you’re made of money and prepared to endure the most brutal Ticketmaster queues ever, reading those headlines is the only way anyone living in Aotearoa is able to experience the hype surrounding the Oasis reunion.

Is another option about to come our way?

Band representatives told Billboard that the tour’s “international dates” are incoming.

According to this “leak”, the next round of dates will include shows in Mexico, Canada, the US, Asia and Australia.

There, down the bottom of this purported leak, are two dates not in Australia at all, but right here in our own front yard: Eden Park on November 7 and 8, 2025.

How close to the truth could this be?

Let’s take a closer look.

Only playing two shows in Australia seems incredibly strange considering most major stadium acts choose to perform in Melbourne and Sydney, with Perth only ever tacked on as an afterthought.

But that leak comes from the same source that also leaked the UK tour dates and got almost all of them right.

There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to any of the Oasis tour dates announced so far. The normal route would have been choosing a major festival like Coachella or Glastonbury as the first show, then booking a global tour out from that.

As we all should know very well by now, the Gallaghers do whatever the fuck it is that the Gallaghers want to do.

(Remember, Oasis only ever toured Aotearoa once, in 1998, and the results involved a kazoo, a headbutt, and some kind of backstage fist-fight. I spoke to the author of a book about this exact thing for a very fun story earlier in the year.)

I approached the band’s record label for comment, but they said they “honestly and genuinely have not heard anything solid”.

So I approached Eden Park, and they said they hadn’t heard anything concrete either.

But we do have something else to go on.

Eden Park’s CEO Nick Sautner went on Newstalk ZB to discuss this exact topic with Heather du Plessis-Allan for a very quick few minutes last week.

While he didn’t confirm it, he didn’t exactly deny it either.

When asked if Eden Park could be chosen as part of an Oasis world tour, Sautner said: “I’d be very confident that they’d be looking at New Zealand, and in particular Eden Park.”

So, are Oasis coming to Aotearoa for two shows in November, 2025?

I won’t say it.

I said I wouldn’t do it.

I can’t.

Ahh, fuck it.

It’s a definitely maybe.

(Sorry.)

Thanks to everyone who signed up to support Boiler Room last week. I’m all good after my Friday rant, I just wanted to get a few things off my chest. Judging by the comments, it sounds like I’m not the only one who’s experienced a touch of industry negativity towards journalists lately. Anyway, onwards and upwards. A quick reminder: I’m running a discount on subscriptions for the rest of the week.

Everything you need to know.

• While we’re talking about Oasis, Ticketmaster has been called out over its use of dynamic pricing (or “surge” pricing) after tickets rose from £135 to £355 for people who had spent hours sitting in digital waiting rooms. Politicians are calling for action, reports The Guardian. “It is scandalous to see our country’s biggest cultural moments being turned into obscene cash cows by greedy promoters and ticketing websites,” MP Jamie Stone said. Here’s a first-hand report from someone who spent six hours experiencing this hell for themselves.

• Public Enemy have canned their October show at Trusts Stadium over “unforeseen scheduling issues,” reports Stuff. The seminal rap group also cancelled some, but not all, of their Australian shows, which makes it seem likely that those “issues” might involve low ticket sales. They last played here at the Auckland Town Hall in 2011 (great show!), so perhaps Trusts was too big for them. It adds to a spate of recent concert cancellations, including Tenacious D, 30 Seconds to Mars and Xzibit, a trend we may not have seen the last of.

• With his full-throated yelps, Fatman Scoop added a certain type of gravitas to any hip-hop song he featured on. (My favourite example of this is Missy Elliott’s “Lose Control”.) So it’s extraordinarily sad that he’s passed away at the age of 53 after collapsing during a performance in Hamden. He was last here in 2018, hosting the absolutely rammed Friday Jams concert at Western Springs: Getty has a lovely photo of him in action.

• A few tours that should be on your radar: Strawpeople has announced a rare performance at The Hollywood on October 18; Bryan Adams is playing Wolfbrook Arena on February 1 and Spark Arena on February 4; Ladi6 is embarking on a six-date tour in November including a headlining set at The Others Way; Jess B is playing seven Australasian shows to celebrate her debut album; and, finally, I could not buy my ticket fast enough for New York rapper Roc Marciano, who is performing at The Tuning Fork on October 29.

• Finally, while watching TV on the Radio live shows recorded 10 years ago on YouTube recently (don’t judge me), the algorithm persuaded me to click on “100 bux”, a gentle, beatless anthem from the rising New Jersey singer Fousheé. She used to make more hard-edged stuff with big name rappers like Lil Wayne and Lil Uzi Vert, but I am very much liking her swerve into experimental wooze…