Dig Out Your Soul Tour
| Tour by Oasis | |
| Associated album | Dig Out Your Soul |
|---|---|
| Start date | 26 August 2008 |
| End date | 30 August 2009 |
| Legs | 8 |
| No. of shows | 116 (6 cancelled, 4 postponed) |
| Oasis concert chronology | |
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, Washington at the WaMu Theater on the 26 August 2008 and was planned to continue until 30 August 2009, 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."
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 minimising 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 14 August 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. Several songs from the band, including "Gas Panic!", "The Turning", and "Bag It Up", as well as new songs such as "Everybody's on the Run", "If I Had a Gun...", "Stop the Clocks", and "A Simple Game of Genius", all of which would later be recorded for Noel's solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, were played in soundchecks, but did not make any appearances at the band's actual concerts.
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