Oasis Dig Out Your Soul Tour: The Final Tour Before the Split
The Dig Out Your Soul tour of 2008 to 2009 was Oasis's last, ending with the 2009 split in Paris. Its shows, its place in the story and how it compares to Live '27.
The Dig Out Your Soul tour was the last tour of the original Oasis. Running through 2008 and 2009 behind the band’s seventh and final studio album, it was a confident, heavier-sounding campaign that took in arenas and stadiums worldwide, including the Heaton Park shows in Manchester in the summer of 2009, with Chris Sharrock on drums for the final stretch.
For a while it suggested a band settling into a durable later career rather than one on the brink. That changed suddenly and permanently in August 2009, when Noel Gallagher walked out backstage at the Rock en Seine festival near Paris, cancelling the show and ending Oasis. What was meant to be another date on a routine tour became the full stop on the band’s first life.
It would be fifteen years before the brothers shared a stage again. That long silence is what gives Live ’27 its weight. The tour is the direct sequel to the one that ended in Paris. Read how it finished on the Paris page, how the band came back on the reunion page, and see the 2027 dates.