International. Oasis' Live '25 tour marks Liam and Noel Gallagher's return to the stage together for the first time in 16 years, offering 41 sold-out concerts in stadiums in 17 cities around the world between July 4 and November 23.
With three additional concerts added due to high demand, the tour has become the live music event of the year. To accommodate the massive crowds that pack the stadiums at each stop, Britannia Row Productions, a Clair Global brand, features an L-Acoustics K-Series concert sound system.
While this is Oasis' first tour with the French speaker manufacturer, L-Acoustics has been part of the Gallagher brothers' sonic evolution for more than a decade. When Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds kicked off their tour in 2011, room engineer Dan Lewis specified K1 and K2 arrays with subwoofer arrays finely tuned to achieve Noel's signature controlled bass. Meanwhile, Liam's solo tours delivered just as much power, using a K-Series setup for his explosive 30th anniversary tour, Definitely Maybe, in 2024, with K1 arrays over K2 and K1-SB subwoofers strung.
"Supersonic" Stadium System: K1, K2 and KS28 Cardioid Subwoofers
For the current Oasis Live '25 tour, the implementation of the system is even more large-scale than the individual initiatives of each of the brothers. The system features main arrays of four L-Acoustics K1-SB subwoofers over 14 K1s and two K2s per side, with left and right columns of 16 K1-SB subwoofers adjacent to each main column, while the 270° rear columns add a dozen more K2s per side. The filler arrangements were identical to those of the main arrangements for the European tour, but the audio team changed the four K1-SBs to four K1s in North America due to the higher height of the venue.
On the floor, four dozen KS28 subwoofers are deployed in 16 stacks of three, all in cardioid configuration, with six K3s as front fills. Twenty A15s are used as output fills, while another eight A15s are used as FOH shade fills.
The tour's delay system usually consists of four 12 K1 towers over four K2s, although it was extended to six towers for the band's concert in their hometown of Manchester to cover the field.
And in venues where a ring delay system can be hung from the ceiling of the stadium, between eight and eleven systems of eight K2s each have been hung. The entire system is extensively controlled by an impressive total of 136 LA12X amplified drivers, along with an in-room P1 processor, which is primarily used to run an analog backup system and to use the M1 to tune the system.
Tour crew chief and systems engineer Ben Webb, who has also worked with Peter Gabriel, Thirty Seconds to Mars and K-pop band ATEEZ in recent years, is very familiar with L-Acoustics, having earlier in the year brought Brit Row's first L-Series stadium touring system equipped with L-ISA with Andrea Bocelli. For Oasis, Webb is responsible for creating the Soundvision design for each stop on the tour and manipulating the system for room engineers Dan Lewis, who mixes Noel and the band, and Sam Parker, who mixes Liam's vocals and effects.
Soundvision: A Glorious Sunrise for a Big Night
"The original design of the system was done by Dan Lewis and Josh Lloyd, Britannia Row's head of engineering, even before the tour went on sale," says Webb, who estimates that he takes more than 35,000 steps a day touring each venue as he tunes up the system, then for soundcheck, and finally during the concert.
He noted that "I'm adjusting Josh's original designs to suit the characteristics of the venue and any production changes. That said, I have to say that the new version of Soundvision is better than ever. The consistency of the show with Autofilter is flawless and is a vital tool in my workflow. I strive for a consistent and uniform frequency response throughout the venue, and Autofilter helps me achieve this."
"We're also completely outdoors with this tour and in different climates, which can change dramatically from soundcheck to the start of the show, so Autoclimate has been instrumental in helping us maintain that consistency throughout the show," he notes, adding that the "optimal delay tower placement" has also kept the sound consistent across the huge stadiums they perform in. "But of course, Dan and Sam are also doing an amazing job with the mix, which certainly helps to achieve that sonic consistency every night."
