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Wembley Park has announced a new outdoor exhibition, showing iconic photos of Oasis ahead of their London shows.
The exhibition comes as the Britpop giants are currently underway with their long-awaited comeback shows – embarking on their first official tour dates since their split in 2009. They have kicked off the UK dates with two shows at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on July 4 and 5, and recently completed five homecoming shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park, playing to over 80,000 people each night at the latter.
Now, Liam and Noel Gallagher are set to bring their ‘Live ‘25’ tour to London for seven huge shows at Wembley Stadium. These start this weekend (July 25 and 26), and continue with further dates in early August and late September.
To celebrate the return to the UK capital, Wembley Park has launched a new open-air photography exhibition, titled Brothers: Liam and Noel Through the Lens of Kevin Cummins.
As shared in the title, all 20 large-format photographs on display were taken by British music photographer Kevin Cummins, who worked closely with the band in their early days and maintained a personal relationship with the members for over three decades. He is also recognised for his era-defining work with Joy Division, The Smiths, and New Order, and as NME’s chief photographer throughout the ‘80s and ’90s.
The 20 photographs on display appear across landmark locations at Wembley Park, including outside the stadium and the OVO Arena, and along Olympic Way.
The photos were shot across various months in 1994, just before the band rocketed to fame with the release of ‘Definitely Maybe’, and capture the two brothers at a formative moment in their career. Images on display include shots from the band’s first-ever studio session at Sly Street Studio in February 1994, with Liam in a vintage jumper and Adidas tracksuit bottoms, while another sees Noel pictured alone in Amsterdam after the rest of the band was deported for fighting Chelsea fans on a ferry.
Another shows the Gallaghers jumping onto the back of a No.73 bus in central London, while others share insight into their backstage moments, hotel rooms, and roots in Manchester.
Many were first shared as part of the photographer’s recent book Oasis: The Masterplan. Speaking of the Wembley exhibition, Cummin said: “When the Oasis album, Morning Glory, was released in 1995, we were all living in Oasis world. In every bar, shop, restaurant, football stadium, even the sound floating down the street through open windows, this album was the soundtrack to Britain for at least six months.”
I never thought I’d see anything like it again, but here we are; back in Oasis world again. It’s the most exciting event of the year, and we’re lucky enough to be part of it,” he added. “The gigs will be great. The mood is great, and I love the idea that those of us who were there first time round, are sharing it with excited younger fans who are seeing the band for the first time.”
Claudio Giambrone, Head of Cultural Programming at Wembley Park, who curated the show, continued: “We wanted to show a different side to the Gallaghers — not the usual narrative of conflict, but the emotional depth and connection that Kevin captured so clearly. These photographs reveal moments of humour, tension, closeness and trust. We hope the exhibition speaks not just to Oasis fans, but to anyone who understands the beauty and complexity of sibling relationships.”
At the final of their Manchester shows this weekend, Oasis surprised fans who were gathered on ‘Gallagher Hill’ by handing out t-shirts and giving them a shoutout mid-performance. This comes as hundreds of people who were unable to secure tickets gathered at the site outside the venue to watch the show from afar – despite repeated efforts from the council to stop them.
“For the last 10 days, the eyes of the world have been on this city of Manchester, and I just want to say to all Mancunians you’ve done yourself fucking proud,” Liam said while on stage. “We’ve got people coming in from all over the world… what I can see by staying in the city, you’ve still fucking got it, Manchester.”
“It’s been amazing being here the last fucking 10 days. You’ve actually blown whatever brain cells I had left; they’re well and truly gone. All I can say is I fucking love you, I adore you, we love you, nice one for making this happen.”
NME gave the band’s first show of the tour in Cardiff a glowing five-star review: “After a ‘90s heyday and an often maligned post-millennium era, this is Oasis redesigned for the 21st Century.
“Playing before a pop-art-meets-psychedelia visual spectacular that never distracts but will look sick on a phone, they seem the quintessential stadium band playing the greatest hits of greatest hits.”
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