Don’t expect to see the Gallagher brothers at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony this month.
Earlier this week, Rolling Stone came through with an exclusive, saying brothers Noel and Liam would not be in attendance at the Los Angeles event, where Oasis is set to be inducted in the performers category. Noel, for one, is slated to be busy with a solo gig in London at the time. As for Liam, he has since provided his own reasoning on the platform formerly known as Twitter, a place where he’s always unfiltered and frequently hilarious.
For one, it’s the holiday season. Or, as Liam put it in a post shared Tuesday (Nov. 10), he’s “got shit to do” in the lead-up to Christmas.
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“It’s too far to be going for the night,” he said. “I got shit to do. It’s Christmas.”
In subsequent posts, Liam added that awards shows, in general, “freak me out” due to “weird vibes” and being “scared of the air conditioning.” As always, it’s difficult to parse whether he’s being entirely genuine here, but at any rate, it does indeed sound like both Liam and Noel are sitting this one out. Sade is too.
In a post shared earlier this year, Liam called the induction “a real honor,” telling a fan he had changed his mind about the Rock Hall at large after speaking with his mother.
As has already been pointed out elsewhere, the Gallaghers opting not to attend their own induction is far from the first instance of a noteworthy absence in Rock Hall history. Axl Rose, for example, famously turned down the opportunity in connection with Guns N’ Roses’ induction back in 2012, saying in an open letter that “no one is authorized nor may anyone be permitted to accept any induction for me or speak on my behalf.”
Rock Hall absence aside, times are good for Oasis fans at the moment. Against what long felt like potentially insurmountable odds, the band is active again. Their victorious comeback was recently documented in Steven Knight’s documentary Don’t Look Back in Anger, which fittingly takes its title from the classic Oasis song of the same name.
The Rock Hall induction ceremony will be taped this Saturday (Nov. 14) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with the general public getting a chance to watch the proceedings the following month. Other 2026 inductees include Wu-Tang Clan, Luther Vandross, Phil Collins, and more.
