Oasis 'super gigs' sell-out

Oasis have announced a third gig in their home town next summer after tickets for two planned shows sold out. More than 140,000 tickets were snapped up within two hours for the open air shows as part of their Dig Out Your Soul World Tour. The band will play the extra show on June 4, set to take place before the previously-announced shows at Manchester's Heaton Park on June 6 and 7. The Gallagher brothers will also play at Sunderland's Stadium Of Light, Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium, Dublin's Slane Castle and London's Wembley Arena. The band are bringing fellow rockers Kasabian and the Enemy - both bands from the Midlands - as support for the shows. Frontman Noel Gallagher said the bands were an obvious choice. "Kasabian, we toured with them in the States a couple of year ago and we've since become quite close to them," he said. "So we've always said when we were doing the big super gigs again we'd give them first option and as they're gonna have an album out it fits perfectly. "And the Enemy, I've liked since I heard their first ever single. And I think with all three bands their on the one night, if I was 16 o17 I'd be there."

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ITN | October 24, 2008

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