Liam Gallagher has responded to calls for the long-running Irish band The Wolfe Tones to open up for Oasis at Dublin's Croke Park next summer.
“What about the @wolfetones opening at Croke Park?” the X account @IrishUnity asked Gallagher on Sunday.
"I'm up for it let's do it," Gallagher replied. His response has drawn more than 6k likes as of Monday morning.
I’m up for it let’s do it
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) September 15, 2024
The Wolfe Tones caught wind of Gallagher's response and later added "See you at the foot of Hill 16," referring to a section of Croke Park.
See you at the foot of Hill 16 👍🇮🇪🤝
— The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 (@wolfetones) September 15, 2024
Calls for The Wolfe Tones to open the Oasis concerts in Dublin's Croke Park on August 16 and 17 next summer kicked off nearly immediately after the Gallagher-fronted band announced their long-awaited reunion.
On August 27 - the day Oasis announced their reunion and new concert dates - @IrishUnity encouraged its more than 100k followers to "manifest" The Wolfe Tones opening for Oasis next year.
Accompanying its post was a clip of the Gallagher brothers reminiscing about a record shop that used to "have some good old Wolfe Tones records."
wolfetones opening oasis at croke park
manifest it pic.twitter.com/jz0emfQJ3z
— Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 (@IrishUnity) August 27, 2024
The Wolfe Tones, who formed back in the 1960s and are now in the midst of a farewell tour, responded positively to the early calls for them to open for Oasis.
“The main ambition for the future is Croke Park with Oasis," Brian Warfield, the band's frontman, told RSVP Live last month.
"That would put the icing on the cake.”
He continued: “I don’t know. We’ve already created an interest that we would love to do it. I guess it’s up to them and their management."
He added: “We would just do our spot opening up for them and they would be part of their spot. People want to see Oasis and they might want to see The Wolfe Tones. They would want to see each of us doing our own thing.”
Coincidentally, the day after The Wolfe Tones drew throngs of crowds at Electric Picnic earlier in August, Warfield told The Irish Independent: "I don‘t think we can cap last night.
“Well, unless we do Croke Park.”
The Wolfe Tones opening for Oasis in Ireland would be a sort of full-circle moment for both of the iconic bands.
The Gallagher brothers, whose parents are from Co Mayo and Co Meath, have pointed to Irish rebel music as an inspiration.
"I feel as Irish as the next person," Noel told The Irish Times in 2008.
"The first music I was ever exposed to was the rebel songs the bands used to sing in the Irish club in Manchester.
"Do you know, I think that's where Oasis songs get their punch-the-air quality - from me being exposed to those rousing rebel songs. It was all rebel songs and that godawful Irish country and Western music."
Meanwhile, Warfield previously said that he recalls the young Gallagher brothers attending the band's gigs in Manchester years ago.
“There were two kids who always showed up in Manchester to see us — Noel and Liam," Warfield told The Irish Sun in 2019.
“I remember them telling us, they were starting a band, it was only years later when I switched on the TV and saw them, I realized it was Oasis.”
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