Robbie Williams has spoken about Oasis‘ comeback tour saying that the reunion will “be nostalgia on steroids”.
The former Take That star is going on tour at the same time as the Gallagher brothers’ return.
Williams previously commented on the Oasis reunion, saying: “The soap opera alone will either be exciting and or ghoulish to watch. As for the shows? They’re gonna be incredible, off-the-scale special,” before going as far as calling it a “healing moment for our country.”
He continued: “Liam Gallagher reading his phone on the toilet would be more charismatic and intriguing than 99.9% of the world’s population at their most enigmatic. All he has to do is stand there and sing for the audience to be guaranteed their money’s worth,” before taking a slight jibe at his brother: “Noel will be there too.”
Now, Williams has hailed the reunion ahead of his own tour. He told The Mirror: “Liam’s voice is peerless. And he was, and is the voice of a generation. So I think that for British people – and Manchester – it will be a very important moment. Hopefully it’ll be healing for the lads too.”
He continued: “Entertainment, at its best, is liberation. And what I want to do with my gigs is take people on the journey and make them forget about their own lives for a bit. And the great thing about the Oasis reunion is they will facilitate that for people.
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“But not only that, it will be nostalgia on steroids, and remind us who we were, what we were, how we felt and what we wanted.”
Williams also said he’d recently been listening to Oasis’ back catalogue.
“I was just looking at those songs, especially the first three years worth of songs, and it’s literally a lifetime and decades worth of bangers created over that three year period. The songwriting is sensational,” he added.
The trio have had a somewhat complicated relationship over the years. They were all formerly on good terms, with Williams previously speaking about how partying with the band at Glastonbury 1995 was “the start of his new life”.
However, a feud between Williams and Noel ignited when Noel referred to him as “the fat dancer from Take That”. Williams later went on to challenge Liam to a £100,000 fight at the 2000 Brit Awards.
Later Williams branded the brothers as “bullies” in a 2022 interview. He also took a dig at Liam upon the news of his return to Knebworth Park that same year, which staged some of Oasis and Williams’ biggest shows to date.
Oasis famously played the iconic venue in 1996, performing to 250,000 people across two nights. Robbie, meanwhile, played to 375,000 fans across three nights in 2003. Given Noel’s previous insult targeting Williams as the “fat dancer”, Williams sent the guitarist a pair of tap dancing shoes with a note that read: “Dear Mr. N Gallagher. You said [onstage] that two nights at Knebworth is history. Well, I guess three is just greedy. Yours, Rob.”
When asked whether he would revisit his Knebworth stint, Williams recently told NME, “To go and do three again? I dunno.
“I don’t know if you revisit [Knebworth], though,” he continued. “Do you revisit it? I’m sure we’d do OK if we sold tickets as cheaply [as Liam].” Tickets for Liam Gallagher’s Knebworth shows were priced at £65.
The singer then clarified: “Can I just apologise for saying the ‘cheaply’ thing – if you write that, can you say I apologise; I was being bitchy,” before adding: “[Knebworth] is not something that’s on my radar. Glastonbury, on the other hand – I’d like to do that.”
Elsewhere, Williams also recently came to the defence of Oasis following the controversy around the dynamic pricing tickets of their reunion tour.
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