The Dig Out Your Soul Tour was a world concert tour by English rock band Oasis, in support of their album Dig Out Your Soul. The tour started in Seattle, WA at the WaMu Theater and was planned to continue until August 30, where they were scheduled to play their final show of the tour at the I-Day Festival in Milan, Italy. However, on 28 August 2009, after a fight between the Gallaghers in the backstage, their manager announced the cancellation of their concert at the Rock-en-Seine festival near Paris just minutes before it was about to begin, the cancellation of the European tour and that the group "does not exist anymore", referring a coming statement from Noel Gallagher.

Two hours later, a little before midnight, on the band website, a statement of Noel Gallagher read:"It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.""Apologies to all the people who bought tickets for the shows in Paris, Konstanz and Milan."

History

Before the band embarked on the tour, songwriter/guitarist Noel Gallagher jokingly said he considered outplaying The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour, which was the highest grossing tour of all time with $558 million earned, and lasted over two years. He fell back to minimizing it to a year and a half, citing exhaustion as a reason.

The band played a special show for fans in their rehearsal studio on August 14, 2008. The setlist included some of their oldest tunes, but surprisingly included a track from Be Here Now, "My Big Mouth". The band rarely play any of the album's songs live, other than special occasions and acoustic sessions.

So far, all of the tour's concerts are listenable on several forums and blogs.

Midway during their performance of "Morning Glory" in Toronto, Canada at the annual Virgin Festival, a man ran on stage and shoved Noel to the ground. He then went after singer Liam Gallagher as well, but Liam dodged the attack and the man was quickly tackled by stage security. The band left the stage, but after five minutes, the show continued. It is unknown how the man slipped past security, although he was seen coming from backstage. A 47-year-old Canadian was charged with assault.The incident sparked many well known media outlets all across the world, especially in North America, to report on the story.

Due to the injuries Noel sustained in the incident at the Virgin Festival, four concerts were postponed, including the September 9 show in London, Ontario, and the first three shows of the European leg. In addition, the September 12 concert in New York was cancelled.

Since the Toronto incident from early September, security for the rest of the 2008 shows had cracked down to disposing personal belongings. Since the start of the summer tour, it has loosened up, noticeably at the Slane Castle shows where many thousands of people had passed security gates without being searched, urging many other people who had not paid to see the band attend as well.

The Wembley Arena, London (October 16) gig was broadcasted live in the British isles on MTV One.

On the 24th Of October Oasis broke ticket sales for a single day in the UK selling over 500,000 tickets in 7 hours.

On the 2nd of February Oasis performed in Milan, Italy in front of a crowd of 12,000 for the first time in more than three years. The Italian leg of the tour also included Rome, Treviso, Bolzano and Florence.

On the 28th of February, Oasis were informed by their Chinese promoters that the Chinese authorities that they had their performing licenses revoked and their gigs in Shanghai and Beijing cancelled. According to the promoters, the Chinese government had recently discovered that Noel Gallagher had performed at a Free Tibet Benefit Concert in New York in 1997, and on their MySpace page the band expressed disappointment and bewilderment at the decision.

On 1st of April, Oasis performed at Seoul Olympic Stadium, 3 years after their last gig in Korea at 2006. The band met such a wild and passionate crowd that during the show Noel commented that he was "good to be back...you seem to have grown crazier." The crowd sang along with the band for almost all of the songs including those from Dig Out Your Soul. Throughout the concert, there were repeated requests for the band to play Live Forever. Noel played the song acoustic after the rest of the band left the stage because "somebody said people would be very upset if they didn't hear Live Forever. So this is special for Korean fans." This was a rare occasion for the band to play Live Forever live.

On 30th of April, Oasis played their first gig on Lima, Peru selling out all the tickets at Estadio Nacional, playing for more than 48,000 fans and thus surprising the band, who later on said that it was one of the best shows and crowds on the tour. During an interview in Chile before the show in Santiago, Andy Bell alongside Gem Archer said that the Lima gig was possibly his favourite gig and the best they have ever done, saying that it was "really incredible".

On 3rd of May, Oasis played their fourth gig on Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the end of "Don't Look Back In Anger", Noel Gallagher got sentimental due the accompaniment of the public towards him. Before "I Am The Walrus", the people started to sing "Live Forever" (this also happened in Lima), suggesting the brothers to play it. The band didn't accept and then continued with the final song. After that, Noel Gallagher said it was one of the best shows of his life.

During interviews in early 2009, Noel had stated that this may be the last tour they will ever embark on or at least for several years due to growing older.

On 4 June 2009, Oasis played the first of three concerts at Manchester's Heaton Park and after having to leave the stage twice due to a generator failure, came on the third time to declare the gig was now a free concert, much to the delight of the 70,000 ticket holders inside the venue. Although in his diary entry he said the gig ended "in fuckin' shambles", he later admitted he still enjoyed himself under the circumstances. An estimated 20,000 fans had taken up the offer to receive a refund, to which Noel Gallagher had jokingly called them all 'Cheeky cunts!'

On 9th of July 2009 at Wembley Stadium, Noel dedicated "Live Forever" to the lead singer of "The Verve" Richard Ashcroft who was in the crowd watching the show.

On 9th of July 2009 at Wembley Stadium, Oasis suffered yet another sound problem whilst playing their hit song "Wonderwall " towards the end, but fans at the show were able to sing a long and help the band finish of the song in one piece.

On August 20, at 'The Spa', Bridlington. Yorkshire, Oasis played what seemed to be their last ever gig. The show was watched by under 3000 people, having been hosted in such a small venue. The gig was described as "colossal" and "Very Intimate" by a small number of fans, who were greeted by members of the band, Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell, Chris Sharrock and Jay Darlington, who were signing autographs and allowing pictures to be taken with their fans, outside the venue bar shortly after the gig. Fans were allowed to look inside the Oasis tour bus briefly, moments after Liam Gallagher offered a fan his half drunk beer. Noel Gallagher, however, had disappeared moments after the end of the gig, due to the increasing sibling fall-outs of which the Gallagher's were experiencing.

On August 23 2009, The band pulled out of their headlining slot at V Festival in Chelmsford. The official reason given was that Liam was suffering with Laryngitis, but rumours started speculating that a split was imminent. This makes the V Festival slot at Weston Park, Stafford on 22 August 9 as the last Oasis gig.

This marked the end of Oasis. On the 28th of August 2009, Noel admitted he could no longer work with Liam, and that the tour was now finished.

Support Acts

Cachorro Grande, Caesars, Estelares, Everlaunch, Free Peace, Glasvegas, Howie Payne, Kasabian, Los Tipitos, Matt Costa, Primavera de Praga, Reverend And The Makers, Ryan Adams, Sergeant, The Blizzards, The Cardinals, The Enemy, The Floor Is Made Of Lava, The Peth, The Prodigy, The Secret Machines, The Sixteen Tonnes, Tomte, Turbopotamos, Twisted Wheel

Setlist

Other songs Performed:

• "Whatever" (Noel acoustic) (Several concerts in Japan) (London, 12.07.2009) (Cornwall, 14.07.2009)
• "Live Forever" (Noel acoustic) (Seoul, 01.04.2009)
• "Half the World Away" (Brussels, 13.01.2009)
• "My Big Mouth" (Liverpool, 07.10.2008, Edinburgh 17.06.2009)

Soundcheck songs that were used but not included in any of the setlists during the course of the whole tour:

• "The Turning"
• "Gas Panic!"
• "Bag It Up"
• "Everybody is on the Run"

Credits:

• "The Meaning Of Soul", "Songbird", "Ain't Got Nothin'" and "I'm Outta Time" written by Liam Gallagher
• "To Be Where There’s Life" written by Gem Archer
• "I Am The Walrus" written by Lennon/McCartney
• All remaining tracks written by Noel Gallagher

It is the longest and most diverse setlist since the Standing on the Shoulder Of Giants era

• (Definitely Maybe) = 5 songs
• ( Morning Glory?) = 5 songs
• (Be Here Now) = 1 song
• (The Masterplan) = 3 songs
• (Standing on the Shoulder of Giants) = 1 song
• (Heathen Chemistry) = 1 song
• (Don't Believe The Truth) = 3 songs
• (Dig Out Your Soul) = 6 songs
• (Other) = 1 song

Alternative Set Lists

Tour dates

First North American Leg

Date	City	Venue
26 August 2008	Seattle, United States	WaMu Theater
27 August 2008	Vancouver, Canada	General Motors Place
29 August 2008	Edmonton, Canada	Rexall Place
30 August 2008	Calgary, Canada	Pengrowth Saddledome
1 September 2008	Winnipeg, Canada	MTS Centre
4 September 2008	Ottawa, Canada	Scotiabank Place
5 September 2008	Montréal, Canada	Bell Centre
7 September 2008	Toronto, Canada	Virgin Festival
9 September 2008	London, Ontario, Canada	John Labatt Centre Postponed to December 15
12 September 2008	New York, United States	Terminal 5 Cancelled

First European Leg

Date	City	Venue
27 September 2008	Bodelva, England	Eden Project Postponed to July 14 2009
29 September 2008	Cologne, Germany	Gloria Theatre Postponed to November 7
30 September 2008	Paris, France	Bataclan Postponed to November 10
7 October 2008	Liverpool, England	Liverpool Echo Arena
8 October 2008	Liverpool, England	Liverpool Echo Arena
10 October 2008	Sheffield, England	Sheffield Arena
11 October 2008	Sheffield, England	Sheffield Arena
13 October 2008	Birmingham, England	National Indoor Arena
14 October 2008	Birmingham, England	National Indoor Arena
16 October 2008	London, England	Wembley Arena
17 October 2008	London, England	Wembley Arena
20 October 2008	Bournemouth, England	Bournemouth International Centre
21 October 2008	Bournemouth, England	Bournemouth International Centre
23 October 2008	Cardiff, Wales	Cardiff International Arena
24 October 2008	Cardiff, Wales	Cardiff International Arena
26 October 2008	London, England	Roundhouse
29 October 2008	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Odyssey
30 October 2008	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Odyssey
1 November 2008	Aberdeen, Scotland	Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre
2 November 2008	Aberdeen, Scotland	Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre
4 November 2008	Glasgow, Scotland	Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
5 November 2008	Glasgow, Scotland	Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
7 November 2008	Cologne, Germany	Gloria Theatre
8 November 2008	Copenhagen, Denmark	Falkoner Theatre
10 November 2008	Paris, France	Bataclan

Second North American Leg

Date	City	Venue
25 November 2008	Mexico City, Mexico	Palacio de los Deportes Cancelled
26 November 2008	Mexico City, Mexico	Palacio de los Deportes
28 November 2008	Guadalajara, Mexico	Arena VFG
29 November 2008	Monterrey, Mexico	Arena Monterrey
3 December 2008	Oakland, United States	Oracle Arena
4 December 2008	Los Angeles, United States	Staples Center
6 December 2008	Las Vegas, United States	The Pearl
8 December 2008	Denver, United States	Broomfield Event Center
10 December 2008	Minneapolis, United States	Target Center
12 December 2008	Rosemont, United States	Allstate Arena
13 December 2008	Detroit, United States	Palace of Auburn Hills
15 December 2008	London, Ontario, Canada	John Labatt Centre
17 December 2008	New York, United States	Madison Square Garden
19 December 2008	Camden, United States	Susquehanna Bank Center
20 December 2008	Fairfax, United States	Patriot Center

Second European Leg

Date	City	Venue
12 January 2009	Nantes, France	Zenith
13 January 2009	Brussels, Belgium	Forest National
15 January 2009	Dresden, Germany	Messehalle
16 January 2009	Hamburg, Germany	Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
18 January 2009	Berlin, Germany	Arena Berlin
21 January 2009	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Heineken Music Hall
22 January 2009	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Heineken Music Hall
24 January 2009	Copenhagen, Denmark	Forum Copenhagen
25 January 2009	Gothenburg, Sweden	Scandinavium
27 January 2009	Oslo, Norway	Oslo Spektrum
28 January 2009	Stockholm, Sweden	Stockholm Globe Arena
30 January 2009	Lille, France	Zenith
31 January 2009	Bordeaux, France	Medoquine
2 February 2009	Milan, Italy	Datchforum
4 February 2009	Düsseldorf, Germany	Philips Halle
12 February 2009	Madrid, Spain	Palacio de Deportes
13 February 2009	Barcelona, Spain	Pavello Olimpic de Badalona
15 February 2009	Lisbon, Portugal	Pavilhão Atlântico
17 February 2009	Toulouse, France	Zenith
18 February 2009	Marseille, France	Dome
20 February 2009	Rome, Italy	Palalottomatica
21 February 2009	Treviso, Italy	Palaverde
23 February 2009	Bolzano, Italy	Palaonda
24 February 2009	Florence, Italy	Nelson Mandela Forum
26 February 2009	Vienna, Austria	Stadthalle
27 February 2009	Munich, Germany	Zenith
1 March 2009	Zurich, Switzerland	Hallenstadion
3 March 2009	Paris, France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy

Asian Leg

Date	City	Venue
18 March 2009	Nagoya, Japan	Nihon Gaishi Hall
20 March 2009	Tokyo, Japan	Makuhari Messe, Hall 9
22 March 2009	Sapporo, Japan	Makomanai Ice Arena
24 March 2009	Osaka, Japan	Intex Osaka
25 March 2009	Osaka, Japan	Intex Osaka
28 March 2009	Tokyo, Japan	Makuhari Messe, Hall 9
29 March 2009	Tokyo, Japan	Makuhari Messe, Hall 9
1 April 2009	Seoul, South Korea	Olympic Gymnastics Arena
3 April 2009	Taipei, Taiwan	Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall
5 April 2009	Singapore	Singapore Indoor Stadium
7 April 2009	Hong Kong, China	AsiaWorld Arena

South African Leg

Date	City	Venue
10 April 2009	Johannesburg, South Africa	Riversands Farm
13 April 2009	Cape Town, South Africa	Lourensford Wine Estate

South American Leg

Date	City	Venue
28 April 2009	Caracas, Venezuela	Campo de Futbol USB
30 April 2009	Lima, Peru	Estadio Nacional
3 May 2009	Buenos Aires, Argentina	River Plate Stadium
5 May 2009	Santiago, Chile	Movistar Arena
7 May 2009	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Citibank Hall
9 May 2009	São Paulo, Brazil	Arena Anhembi
10 May 2009	Curitiba, Brazil	Expotrade Arena
12 May 2009	Porto Alegre, Brazil	Gigantinho

Summer open-air shows

Date	City	Venue	Attendance
4 June 2009	Manchester, England	Heaton Park	70,000
6 June 2009	Manchester, England	Heaton Park	70,000
7 June 2009	Manchester, England	Heaton Park	70,000
10 June 2009	Sunderland, England	Stadium of Light	55,000
12 June 2009	Cardiff, Wales	Millennium Stadium	70,000
14 June 2009	Vienne, France	Théâtre Antique de Vienne
17 June 2009	Edinburgh, Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium	90,000
20 June 2009	County Meath, Ireland	Slane Castle	100,241
2 July 2009	Werchter, Belgium	Rock Werchter
3 July 2009	Roskilde, Denmark	Roskilde Festival
7 July 2009	Coventry, England	Ricoh Arena	40,000
9 July 2009	London, England	Wembley Stadium	90,000
11 July 2009	London, England	Wembley Stadium	90,000
12 July 2009	London, England	Wembley Stadium	90,000
14 July 2009	Bodelva, England	Eden Project
16 July 2009	Benicàssim, Spain	FIB Benicàssim
18 July 2009	Berne, Switzerland	Gurtenfestival
19 July 2009	Gräfenhainichen, Germany	Melt! festival
21 July 2009	London, England	iTunes Festival, The Roundhouse
24 July 2009	Naeba, Japan	Fuji Rock Festival
26 July 2009	Jisan Valley, South Korea	Jisan Valley Rock Festival
20 August 2009	Bridlington, England	The Spa
22 August 2009	Staffordshire, England	V Festival
23 August 2009	Chelmsford, England	V Festival Cancelled
28 August 2009	Paris, France	Rock en Seine Cancelled
29 August 2009	Konstanz, Germany	Rock Am See Festival Cancelled
30 August 2009	Milan, Italy	I-Days Festival Cancelled

References

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