Liam Gallagher has said he’s been banned from chucking his tambourine and maracas into the crowd at future Oasis gigs.
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Liam and Noel Gallagher kicked off their long-awaited ‘Live ‘25’ tour dates with two nights at Principality Stadium in Cardiff last month, and have since made stops in Manchester and London.
This week, the band played three shows in Edinburgh, marking their first Scottish gig since 2009. Fans in attendance compared the shows to “a religious experience”, with one of the usual highlights of the gig being Liam chucking his beloved maracas and tambourines to the crowd at each concert.
However, Gallagher told the Murrayfield Stadium crowd at one of the shows: “I can’t throw my tambourine out tonight or my maracas I’ve been told not to.” Per The Sun, he added: “I’ve just been told, ‘Don’t do any of that shit anymore,’ because you don’t know how to behave yourselves.”
Explaining that the ban was introduced because of crowd behaviour after fans would wrestle over the instruments, he continued: “You keep pinching each other on your nipples and ears and fucking shit like that and kneeing each other in the bollocks.”
There is telling us all about it Tuesday night 🤣 pic.twitter.com/pG2m17UJkc
— Sean Mason (@Seanmason21) August 15, 2025
The wife is buzzing with her new maracas. Probably should’ve caught them with her hands and not her head 😂 Thanks @liamgallagher 😂 pic.twitter.com/RwtFbKBuej
— Lee Fisher (@leefisher47) July 4, 2025
Although the announcement was widely booed, fans that have managed to catch the maracas have taken to social media to show off their war wounds, with one woman left with a visible bump on her head.
Likewise, one woman reportedly left a recent gig with multiple cuts on her hands and bruising her legs, after two men attempted to wrestle the maracas from her, per The Metro.
Elsewhere, their opening night in Edinburgh saw Liam brand the council “a bunch of snakes”, and said the band were “still waiting for our apology” from the local authority over a report which suggested the band’s fans would be “rowdy” and “intoxicated”.
Separately, tributes have poured out after an Italian fan who’d flown in to see Oasis tragically died in his hotel room just hours before he was due to see the band on August 9.
The 30-year-old fan was reportedly getting ready to attend a gig at Murrayfield Stadium when he suddenly fell ill. His friends attempted to resuscitate him while they waited for paramedics to arrive, who also tried to save him, but ultimately, all efforts were unsuccessful, Sky News Italia reported.
This weekend, Oasis will head to Dublin’s Croke Park for a pair of performances on August 16 and 17, before heading across the Atlantic for the North American tour. Dates in Toronto, Chicago, East Rutherford, Pasadena and Mexico City will take them to the middle of September, when they head back for two final nights at Wembley.
Later in the year, they play in South Korea, Japan, Australia, Argentina, Chile and Brazil.
NME gave Oasis’ first concert at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium a glowing five-star review, writing: “After a ‘90s heyday and an often maligned post-millennium era, this is Oasis redesigned for the 21st Century.”
“Playing before a pop-art-meets-psychedelia visual spectacular that never distracts but will look sick on a phone, they seem the quintessential stadium band playing the greatest hits of greatest hits,” it added.
