Cast follow their Oasis Live ’25 support run with a 2026 ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’ UK tour ending in a Liverpool homecoming. Tickets on sale July 17
Thirty years after standing on the Knebworth stage as Oasis conquered Britain, Cast are cashing in the second act nobody saw coming. The Liverpool band announced a headline UK tour for October behind Yeah Yeah Yeah, the acclaimed album they released in January, marking their first full run since spending last summer as the opening act on the Oasis Live ’25 reunion tour alongside Richard Ashcroft. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 17, and the routing ends exactly where it should: a homecoming show at Liverpool Dome.
The tour opens October 1 at Leeds University Stylus, followed by Edinburgh’s Queens Hall on October 2 and Manchester’s New Century Hall on October 3, with Trampolene supporting all three. After a break, the band returns October 22 at Newcastle University, plays London’s Electric Ballroom on October 23, and closes in Liverpool on October 24, with Pastel opening the final trio of dates.
From Support Slot to Second Wind
The momentum behind these shows is real, and it traces directly back to the Gallaghers. Cast and Oasis go back to the beginning: they shared bills in the ’90s from Paris to Loch Lomond, played the mythic Knebworth ’96 weekend, and earned one of Noel Gallagher’s great endorsements when he described frontman John Power as being “as cosmic as the day is long.”
Liam Gallagher, a lifelong fan, drafted the band for his Definitely Maybe anniversary shows in 2024 before Cast landed the coveted opening slot on the UK leg of the reunion tour itself. Power told NME beforehand that the shows would be about the present, not the past, about “creating the myth of tomorrow” rather than replaying yesterday.
He was more right than he knew. The stadium run lit a fire under the band, now the trio of Power, guitarist Liam “Skin” Tyson, and drummer Keith O’Neill, and the results are audible all over Yeah Yeah Yeah. The album came together after Alan McGee, the man who signed Oasis, heard Power’s demos and insisted he take them to the legendary producer Youth, who had an opening at his Space Mountain studio in Spain.
The sessions swapped the stripped-back approach of 2024’s Love Is the Call for cinematic strings, gospel-tinged backing vocals, and horns, with soul great P.P. Arnold, once a backing vocalist for Tina Turner, guesting on the swaggering “Poison Vine” and the roadhouse stomp of “Way It’s Gotta Be.” Critics largely agreed the gamble paid off, with reviews praising a band refusing to operate as a Britpop legacy act.
The Britpop Economy Is Booming
Cast’s resurgence is part of a bigger story. The Oasis reunion did not just fill stadiums; it reactivated an entire ecosystem, sending Richard Ashcroft back up the charts and giving the era’s craftsmen a fresh audience of both graying originals and curious kids. Cast, whose Power began his career playing bass in The La’s, were always among the most melodically gifted of the class of ’95, stacking up seven UK Top 10 singles in three years. The difference now is that the October shows will not lean on that catalog alone. On this evidence, the band that once chased the horizon is happy to headline the here and now.
Cast’s 2026 ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’ UK tour dates: October 1, Leeds University Stylus; October 2, Edinburgh The Queens Hall; October 3, Manchester New Century Hall (all with Trampolene); October 22, Newcastle University; October 23, London Electric Ballroom; October 24, Liverpool Dome (all with Pastel).
