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Oasis are set to earn a staggering £15 million for a series of UK shows.


The British rockers are in talks with AEG - owners of London's O2 arena - about playing 10 dates this year in support of their hotly-anticipated new studio album.

A source said: "The dates will be a really special event - and the first major rock residency at The O2. There have been lots of acts there, like the Spice Girls and Prince. Led Zeppelin played one date. But no band has yet set up camp there for a whole run.

"They are lining up 10 dates some time in the autumn before taking on the rest of the world. Each London show will net them a cool £1.5 million."

The band - singer Liam Gallagher, guitarist Noel Gallagher, bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer - are already confirmed to play the Virgin Festival Toronto, in Canada, this September.

They also have a series of US dates planned.

David Campbell, the European chief executive of AEG, recently revealed Oasis, Coldplay and U2 would be his "dream bookings" for 2008.

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Oasis' Noel Gallagher has stated that his band will never perform at the London O2 Arena, quashing rumours of a residency.

As previously reported on NME.COM, the Sunday Mirror quoted an anonymous source as saying that Oasis were close to announcing a ten-date London O2 Arena residency at the venue for this autumn.

Despite quashing the rumours, Gallagher suggested to BBC News that Oasis have plans to play live dates in the UK in 2008.

"We'll never play the O2," he said. "We went there to see Led Zeppelin [last December] and, to be honest, the gig was fantastic, but it was the most soul-destroying venue I've ever been to.

"Much to our manager and agent's disappointment we came back and said we would never play there. So it means we are going to have to do 640 nights at Earl's Court, I would have thought.

"[The O2 Arena is] too Americanised for me, and it's too far away. Any gig you can get to by boat that hasn't got a beach is wrong."

Noel Gallagher also spoke about this year's Glastonbury Festival and the event's decision to put on Jay-Z as headliner.


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