When Oasis announced their reunion and accompanying 2025 tour, the running jokes practically wrote themselves. Some lauded whatever miracle-worker had convinced Liam and Noel Gallagher to share a stage again, wondering why that savant wasn’t brokering peace in the Middle East. Others doubted the brothers’ ceasefire would survive even until the first show in Cardiff, Wales.

I was among the 50,000 fans who packed into Toronto’s Rogers Stadium for Oasis’s first North American date. (The other local gag was whether the venue itself, still an empty lot when the tour was announced, would exist in time or join the city’s pantheon of never-ending construction projects. Liam Gallagher wasted no time in poking fun at the hastily assembled venue, jesting, “It’s nice to be in Legoland.”)