Oasis at Celtic Park: From King Tut's to Five Nights at Parkhead

The venue and its history

Celtic Football Club was formed in November 1887. A first Celtic Park opened in Parkhead in 1888, and the club moved to the current site in 1892 after the rent on the first site rose sharply. The current ground opened on 20 August 1892 with a first match against Renton, on a disused brickyard site about 200 yards from the old ground.

A fire in May 1904 destroyed the older north grandstand and damaged the pavilion. A new Main Stand followed in the summer of 1929. Roofs and floodlights were added between 1957 and 1971, and capacity was later constrained by safety law before it was raised again.

The Taylor Report all-seater requirement and financial pressure in the early 1990s led to a phased rebuild from 1994 to 1998, costing 40 million pounds. Celtic played home games at Hampden Park in 1994-95 during the work. The rebuilt ground reopened in stages, with the North Stand in 1995, the East Stand in August 1996 and the Jock Stein Stand in August 1998, giving a football capacity of 60,411.

Celtic Park is described as the largest club football stadium in Scotland. It has also hosted Scotland internationals and cup finals when Hampden was unavailable, and it hosted the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Its concert history includes The Who on 5 June 1976, Prince on 28 June 1992, Bryan Adams on 11 July 1992, U2 in August 1993 and Wet Wet Wet in September 1997.

Oasis at Celtic Park

No verified prior Oasis performance at Celtic Park was found in the sources checked for this article. The checks covered the Concert Archives Celtic Park venue list, the Wikipedia Celtic Park concert list, Oasis concert and setlist listings searched for Celtic Park, and the September 2026 Celtic announcement coverage.

A primary Celtic FC concert archive check is still outstanding, so the status is confirmed-none-found in the archives checked, not conclusively proven absence. This page does not claim that Oasis never played Celtic Park. It states only what the reviewed records show.

The 2027 shows are therefore presented here as a first at Celtic Park on current evidence, not as a proven first in absolute terms. Support acts for 2027 are not set out in this history page. They are covered separately once verified city by city, and they must not be read into this history.

Oasis in Glasgow at other venues

The Glasgow story is a small-room to stadium arc inside one city, and every step below happened somewhere other than Celtic Park. The venues are named each time so that no Glasgow show is mistaken for a Celtic Park show.

It starts at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut on 31 May 1993, when Oasis played an unbilled four-song set and Alan McGee signed the band after seeing it. The reported songs were Rock 'n' Roll Star, Bring It On Down, Up in the Sky and I Am the Walrus. That signing story belongs to Glasgow alone in this network, and it is the reason the 2027 Parkhead run carries extra weight here.

The band then played the Tramway on 7 April 1994 as support to The Boo Radleys, and the Cathouse on 12 and 13 June 1994. Barrowland Ballroom followed on 7 December 1994, a show curtailed when Liam Gallagher lost his voice after three songs, with Noel Gallagher singing an acoustic set before the band returned, and again on 27 December 1994 as the promised return show.

The SECC, now the SEC Centre, hosted the band on 7 and 8 December 1997. The first of those nights ended early after bottles were thrown. Glasgow Green hosted the Gig on the Green headline show on 26 August 2000. Barrowland hosted two nights again on 13 and 14 October 2001.

The stadium step in Glasgow before 2027 came at Hampden Park on 29 June 2005, on the Don't Believe the Truth tour, with a set reported by NME the following day. The SECC hosted two more nights on 14 and 15 December 2005. None of these venues is Celtic Park, and none of their histories should be folded into the Celtic Park record.

• 31 May 1993: King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, unbilled set, band signed by Alan McGee
• 7 April 1994: Tramway, support to The Boo Radleys
• 12 and 13 June 1994: The Cathouse
• 7 and 27 December 1994: Barrowland Ballroom
• 7 and 8 December 1997: SECC, now SEC Centre
• 26 August 2000: Glasgow Green, Gig on the Green
• 13 and 14 October 2001: Barrowland Ballroom
• 29 June 2005: Hampden Park
• 14 and 15 December 2005: SECC, now SEC Centre

Liam and Noel Gallagher solo in Glasgow, separately

Solo and post-Oasis shows are listed here only so that they are not mistaken for Oasis shows. Liam Gallagher played Barrowland solo on 11 June 2017, the SSE Hydro, now OVO Hydro, on 15 November 2019, and Hampden Park solo on 26 June 2022. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played the SSE Hydro on 7 March 2015, 21 April 2016, 24 April 2018 and 20 December 2023. Beady Eye, Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis band, played Barrowland on 3 and 4 March 2011. None of these is an Oasis concert, and none of them counts as an Oasis show at Celtic Park.

The acoustic section of the Barrowland show on 7 December 1994, when Noel sang after Liam lost his voice, is also not a solo concert. It was part of an Oasis show, and it is listed in the research notes only to prevent it being moved into a solo table in error.

Why the 2027 shows matter

Oasis play Celtic Park on 21, 23, 25, 28 and 29 May 2027, five nights that open the Live '27 tour. On the evidence reviewed, this is a return to Glasgow at stadium scale, but a first at this particular stadium, after a gap of more than 30 years since the ground last hosted a major concert.

The geography matters as much as the scale. Barrowland and the Barras sit in the East End, close to Celtic Park, while King Tut's sits in the city centre. The 2027 move is therefore both a step up in scale and a return to the part of Glasgow where the band's later Glasgow story was played out, from Barrowland to Hampden.

This page does not set out ticket prices, gate times or a 2027 lineup. Those details belong to the show pages and to separate lineup coverage once verified, not to a history of what happened before 2027.