Oasis reunion tour LIVE: Excitement builds in Cardiff as Noel and Liam Gallagher reunite for first gig in 16 years 

Alex Schuetz, an Oasis fan from Germany now in Cardiff for tonight’s gig, told how he would travel any distance to see them perform.

Mr Schuetz said: ‘The first time I saw them was in 1997. The last time was in Manchester 2009, just before they broke up.

‘I even got a ticket for a small festival in Germany and on the ferry to that festival I heard they broke up. I was like, “Oh my God” – something was dying inside of me. It sounds a bit stupid, but it took me ages (to get over it).”

He added: ‘I’ve come from Germany. You cannot travel far enough – I’ve been a fan since 1995.’

Mr Schuetz said he was pleased they were back together but joked that the money might be the thing to stop them from fighting.

He added: ‘They need the money, it’s too much for them. Bonehead (Oasis’s guitarist) will be between them, he’s the good soul of the band, so he’ll sort them out.’

Mr Schuetz had been among the many fans enduring difficulties getting hold of a ticket when they went on sale last year.

He as far as putting his card information in before he was kicked back into the waiting room again, recalling: ‘I saw the screen, there was a technical issue, my number was 286,000 and something, and I was like, “Are you serious?”

Other fans arriving from overseas to catch the band in action have been showing national flags including Argentine and French.

Friday’s instalment of the ITV programme opened with the presenter duo dancing around to the iconic Oasis song, Wonderwall.

Both wore black bucket hats and green coats, while Alison donned small, round sunglasses, mimicking Liam and Noel Gallagher.

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Liam Gallagher lookalike Glenn Moss, 42, a window cleaning business owner from Essex, is at the gig.

He said: ‘A few people have refused to believe I’m not actually Liam.

‘I was followed around the town yesterday by a fan who had come up to me and said “I know you’re him”.

‘They followed me for two or three minutes so I just kept going and eventually managed to lose them.’

Mr Moss, who did his first ever professional event as Liam on Thursday in a pub in Cardiff, says he has started charging £1000 for his services posing as the Oasis lead vocalist.

Oasis mania is well and truly taking over the nation ahead of the iconic Britpop band’s first reunion concert at Cardiff Principality Stadium on Friday.

But some music lovers have been left scrambling for last minute seats, with some that boast a £489 face value being sold for as much as £2,500.

Viagogo has several seated spots on sale for more than £1,000 and reported on its page that 34,000 people had looked at tickets for Friday’s performance. With seats for Saturday’s second night in the Welsh capital have even higher price tags.

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Anais Gallagher, the daughter of Oasis star Noal, posted ‘Good morning Cardiff’ on her Instagram story this morning.

It comes as Oasis are due to perform at the Principality Stadium this evening for their first gig in 16 years.

Among those who camped out overnight last night was Marco di Maro, 41, a BnB owner from Palermo, Sicily.

He said: ‘It was horrible sleeping in the tent. I was freezing.

‘Two days ago I was lying on the beach in Sicily, with a Spritz. Now I’m in Cardiff.

‘But their music stayed with me in the bad period of my life, when my father passed away, when I lost my job.

‘So to see such a historic event, the trouble is nothing. I do not care about my wallet, or anything.

‘I’m also a guitarist so I would say Noel is my favourite, but Liam is Liam..’

Caroline Schadow, 26, an audio technician from Halle in Germany, had also joined the queue.

She said: ‘I’m trying to get Noel to hire me.

‘I brought him a Cherry Ripe chocolate bar because he said it was his favourite on a podcast. But you can only get it from Australia, so I had it imported.

‘To get the tickets, I had to refresh the page for six hours on a work day.

My supervisor came in and caught me at one point but he just said: ‘What point are you at in the queue?’ It turned out everyone in the office was doing it.

‘Some of my earliest memories are listening to their music because my brother was a huge fan.’

Oasis hit out at Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing system in September last year after their ticket sale was mired in controversy.

However, screenshots from the Ticketmaster website offering In Demand standing tickets being listed for hundreds of pounds each.

Oasis said of Saturday’s chaotic ticket sale: ‘As for the well reported complaints many buyers had over the operation of dynamic ticketing: it needs to be made clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management, and at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used.’

The band announced they would be doing two more shows, with tickets allocated using a ballot system.

Noel Gallagher’s close pal Jo Whiley has said she ‘wouldn’t be surprised’ if he has written new music for the Oasis reunion tour.

But fans could possibly be in for a treat, Radio 2 DJ Jo has hinted, as she speculated as to whether Noel could have written new music for the tour.

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Dedicated Oasis fans from around the world have already started queuing in Cardiff to try and grab the best spots for the gig.

Photos show lines forming and tents set up outside the the Prinicipality Stadium in the Welsh Capital.

Some fans have come from countries as far away as Chile, Colombia and Chicago in the US.

Earlier this week, Oasis shared a breakdown of their first show on their official X account.

Doors to the Cardiff Principality Stadium will open at 5pm, before Oasis take to the stage at 8.15pm.

For more than a year, Tom Ceze lovingly tended to the bougainvilleas and citrus trees in the grounds of Liam Gallagher’s spectacular hideaway home on the French Riviera.

The professional gardener seemed to get on well with the Oasis singer who hired him personally and would often encourage him to break off from his horticultural endeavours and join him for a coffee or a cold beer.

But he says their relationship ended on a sour note when he received a call out of the blue – telling him he was being given the chop.

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Lidl has launched a limited-edition ‘Lidl by Lidl’ parka-style jacket, inspired by Oasis ahead of the band’s highly anticipated reunion tour.

It was unveiled via a 30ft wonderwall in the Gallagher boys’ hometown just outside Manchester’s Etihad Stadium on Wednesday morning.

The jacket, which has been named in homage to the 2002 single Little By Little, features drink-cooling pockets, a bottle opener zip, and even a detachable tambourine.

All proceeds from the jacket, which retails for £30, will be donated to the NSPCC.

An Oasis fan is gutted after her tickets were deemed invalid because the reseller sold them twice.

Beth North, 31, spent £730 on four tickets for tomorrow’s Principality Stadium gig in Cardiff, Wales, via the official ticket reselling website Twickets on June 27.

And just five days before the gig, she went onto the app to download them into her digital wallet – only to find they had been revoked.

The reseller had listed the same four tickets for sale twice – after a delayed response from the first buyer.

They told Beth the tickets were awarded to the first buyer, who wasn’t her, after they were downloaded by the first buyer.

She’s still awaiting a refund and has had to fork out another £480 for two tickets to the June 30 gig at the same venue via Ticketmaster.

Richard Davies, founder of Twickets, said: ‘We’re really sorry to hear about Bethany’s experience and completely understand how disappointing this must have been.

‘As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we issued a full refund on 1st July, and this normally takes 2-3 days to transfer.

‘We advised her to keep checking the platform, as we know from experience that more tickets often appear closer to the event date.’

The Gallagher brothers still don’t appear to be getting along, despite their lucrative come-back tour kicking off tonight.

But, some might say, they could learn a thing or two from their children, who appear to be enjoying each other’s company ahead of the band’s first appearance in 16 years.

Rumours of the Oasis reunion tour being a ‘cash grab’ have been fuelled by speculation the famously warring siblings are still at loggerheads.

Yet their offspring seemed closer than ever as they chatted about their childhoods in the spotlight.

Noel’s daughter Anais, 25, was joined by Liam’s children Molly, 27, Lennon, 25, and Gene, 24, at a photo shoot for the July issue of W Magazine.

An Oasis superfan who has been to over 40 gigs and spent £14,500 on memorabilia has said he will be camping out before a Wembley performance to show Liam Gallagher a tattoo of his face.

John Smallbones, 50, a window surveyor from Andover, Hampshire, has been a fan of the band since 1992 and said he will be sleeping out the night before the July 26 concert in his van, which is Oasis themed.

He is hoping to meet Liam, his favourite Gallagher, to tell him that he is not ‘just a random fan’.

Describing what he would say if confronted with his idol, whose face he has tattooed on his back, he said: ‘A lot of people meet him. Obviously they are fans but they probably don’t have what I’ve got.’

Meg Mathews proved she is still Noel Gallagher’s top fan as she confirmed she will attend Oasis’ reunion tour and posted more loved-up snaps with her ex-husband.

The columnist, 59, famously wed the rocker, 58, in June 1997 in Las Vegas, but they were together for just four years before they went their separate ways and divorced.

Meg was forced to deny she had rekindled things with Noel – who she shares her daughter Anaïs, 25, with – this week when she flooded her Instagram with loved-up snaps of them ahead of Oasis’ reunion tour.

But Meg hasn’t let the rumours get in the way of her countdown as she continued to share more PDA-filled snaps with Noel in the days before Oasis’ first show at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on Friday night.

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Formed in Manchester in 1991, the rock band was led by lead guitarist Noel and his brother, lead vocalist Liam, during their 18 years together.

Oasis signed to independent record label Creation Records in 1993, rising to fame with the release of their debut chart-topping album Definitely Maybe on August 29, 1994.

They had hits with songs including Don’t Look Back in Anger, Champagne Supernova, Wonderwall and Live Forever.

Dig Out Your Soul, the band’s last studio album, was released in 2008, just months before the Paris row.

By Alison Boshoff, Chief Showbuisness Writer for the Daily Mail

When the moment comes – scheduled for 8.15pm at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium today – it will surely be instantly iconic.

Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher will appear on stage together for the first time in 16 years after one of the nastiest feuds in pop history.

We shall find out soon enough if the enormously-hyped return of Oasis actually lives up to its billing – and if those expensive tickets deliver anything more than just a blast of nostalgia.

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The Oasis Live ’25 tour with two dates in Cardiff tonight and tomorrow, before heading across the UK and Ireland.

Oasis will then visit Manchester’s Heaton Park, London’s Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium and Dublin’s Croke Park throughout July, August and September.

The group will then head to Japan, South Korea, South America, Australia and North America.

A movie, produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, is being made in conjunction with the reunion tour.

Fearful residents are demanding a dress code as 340,000 Oasis fans are due to flood their streets ahead of five concerts later this month.

Locals living near Heaton Park, Manchester, says they are concerned about nudity, drunken behaviour and people peeing in their gardens during the sell-out gigs.

The park’s neighbours say they’ve even been given temporary fencing to place in front of the houses to defend themselves from hordes of concert-goers.

The launch of Oasis’s reunion tour last year was plagued by controversy surrounding Ticketmaster.

Website issues and a controversial dynamic pricing system brought outrage, with many fans failing to secure a spot.

After tickets for the UK and Ireland shows went on sale last year, some standard tickets appeared to have jumped from £148 to £355.

The controversy prompted the Government and the UK’s competition watchdog to pledge to look at the use of dynamic pricing.

Fans across the Cardiff have heard what they believe to be rehearsals in the city’s Principality Stadium throughout the week.

Passersby have said they have been treated to snatches of songs such as Cigarettes & Alcohol, Wonderwall and Champagne Supernnova.

‘It’s sounding huge,’ Noel Gallagher told talkSPORT radio. ‘This is it, there’s no going back now.’

Oasis’s 23 songset list for their much-anticipated reunion tour, which kicks off on Friday, can be exclusively revealed by MailOnline.

It comes as the eldest of the duo Noel Gallagher, 58, was seen arriving in Cardiff on Wednesday as rehearsals for their opening gig at the city’s Principality Stadium on Friday have started.

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