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Oasis In Talks Over £15m Dome Dates
















Some might say they're more suited to a pipe and slippers these days.

But I can reveal Oasis frontmen Liam and Noel Gallagher are planning a return to their cigarettes and alcohol heyday. I hear the lads have been in talks with AEG - the owners of the O2 - about a series of gigs later this year.

And I'm told the dates at the Dome will pocket the Britpop boys a supersonic £15million. The gigs will follow a series of shows in Canada and the US in August marking the release of the seventh Oasis studio album - recently finished in Los Angeles. A band insider says: "The dates will be a real special event - and the first major rock residency at the O2.

"There have been lots of pop acts there - the Spice Girls and Prince. And Led Zeppelin did one date. But no band has yet set up camp there for a whole run.

"They are lining up 10 dates some time in the autumn at the Dome before taking on the rest of the world."

Their London shows alone will net the band around a cool £1.5million a night.

The shows will eclipse Liam and Noel Gallagher's legendary weekend at Knebworth in 1996 when they earned a staggering £6million playing to 250,000 fans.

As yet no other UK shows have been announced, but I also hear they will be announcing a load more US dates.

Superfans like me will remember the early years, when every trip to America turned into a nightmare - with Noel famously quitting one tour in 1994.

Let's hope the older and wiser Gallaghers have put their warring ways behind them and finally bury the hatchet - just not in each other.

Source: www.sundaymirror.co.uk

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