Huge country Oasis will never tour as Anais Gallagher reveals Noel has lifetime ban
Anais Gallagher has revealed that there's one country that Oasis will not be able to tour in as her father Noel has been banned from it.
Oasis returned to touring in 2025, with dates at Heaton Park in their home town of Manchester in the UK before setting off around the world after not playing together for 16 years.
While the prospect of a further tour is still open to speculation and rumours, if it does come to pass then there's one country which is most certainly not on the list.
Anais revealed that the band will not be performing in China, because her dad Noel was branded as an 'enemy of the people', the Daily Mail reports.
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Noel himself had previously opened up about his ban, believing that it had been enforced because he had done something 'pro-tibetan'.
Speaking in a video posted to YouTube, Anais said: "I would love to go to China, I would love to see The Great Wall. I would love to travel China. My Dad is banned for life, an enemy of the people I actually think it is. So I'm not sure if that will affect me."
She went on to speculate about how she might be able to get around it, including whether there would be conditions on her entry into the country.
"t's probably something I've got to look into with the embassy or something like that," she said. "Trying to get a visa and that, I'm not sure it'll be the easiest thing but I would love to go to China. That's definitely something on my bucket list."
Speaking about the ban back in 2022, Noel told the Daily Star that even he didn't realise that he had been banned from China until he was refused a visa.
''I've got a letter somewhere from the Minister of The Interior saying, 'You are an enemy of the people,' or something like that'," he said.
It's possible that this is connected to a concert that Noel performed in 1997, without the rest of Oasis, which was a Tibetan Freedom Concert in New York City.
"I only found out I was banned when Oasis got invited to go to China a good 20 years ago," he said.
"We'd agreed to go and all the paperwork came and you had to send through a list of your songs and the Chinese government sent you back a list of songs that weren't appropriate and we'd agreed to do all that."
He added: "About a month before we were about to leave I got a letter saying you lot can come but you can't because of this thing you did for the Tibetan people. I'd forgot I'd even done it."
In a statement released after they found out about the ban in 2009, Oasis said: "Oasis are extremely disappointed that they are now being prevented from undertaking their planned tour of mainland China and hope that the powers that be within China will reconsider their decision and allow the band to perform to their Chinese fans at some stage in the future."
Kit Roberts