The Last Oasis Performance Ever Ended With a Beatles Cover

While an Oasis reunion could possibly happen soon, the famed British band played their last performance back in 2009. It’s been years, but fans fondly remember that very last set.

Their very last show on August 22, 2009 was quite the set. The band headlined V Festival at Weston Park in Staffordshire, UK for the Dig Out Your Soul Tour, which took Liam and Noel Gallagher across the globe for almost an entire year. Oasis was promoting their most recent (and still most recent today) album Dig Out Your Soul.

Those in attendance had no clue that they were witnessing what was quite possibly the very last Oasis show. The set was impressive, too. They opened with hits like “Rock ‘N’ Roll Star” and threw out “Wonderwall” and “Superstar” as well. Noel returned for the encore to play a stripped-down acoustic rendition of “Don’t Look Back In Anger”.

The finale of the show, though, was a rousing rendition of “I Am The Walrus” by The Beatles. It was quite an English way to go out, but we have to admit their cover was excellent.

Why Did Oasis Break Up?

Oasis had been together since 1991. Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher struggled to work together almost from the very start. There were even allegations of physical fights backstage. And it came to a head in 2009, with both brothers deciding that they outright hated each other’s guts. Quite publicly, too.

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“I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer,” said Noel in a statement shortly after their V Festival set. He also went on to say that Liam used “verbal and violent” intimidation towards him and his family while they were working together.

“It takes more than blood to be my brother,” Liam said in an interview with NME. “He doesn’t like me and I don’t like him.”

There’s something so odd about “I Am The Walrus” by The Beatles being the last song and performance we’ll likely ever hear from Oasis live, but it’s also somewhat fitting. The original was a psychedelic joke meant to throw off listeners who were looking for some deeper meaning behind the Fab Four’s lyrics. It’s a playful song by an otherwise tumultuous band that couldn’t hold it together; there are definitely some parallels there with Oasis as well.

Photo by Theo Wargo

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