Gallagher and Squire set the debut and the first dates

Liam Gallagher and John Squire have fixed 1 March 2027 as the release date for their self-titled debut album and confirmed the first tour as a duo. The announcement, made around 24 September 2026, also names Mars To Liverpool as the record’s second single and sets out dates across the UK and Ireland for next March, with further shows in France, Germany, Italy and the US.

The sole Irish date so far is 16 March 2027 at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. The British run takes in Glasgow’s Barrowland on 13 March, Wolverhampton Civic Hall on 14 March, Newcastle’s O2 City Hall on 18 March, two nights at Manchester’s O2 Apollo on 20 and 21 March, Leeds O2 Academy on 23 March, the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London on 25 March and London’s Troxy on 26 March. Tickets will go on sale in due course. No further Irish dates have been announced at this stage.

Barrie Cadogan will play bass and Joey Waronker on drums in the live band. Jake Bugg is billed as special guest on every show except Brooklyn. The gigs are the first live outings planned for the new material and follow the pair’s earlier studio collaboration.

A partnership built in stages

Gallagher’s path is familiar to anyone who has followed British guitar music since the early 1990s. He was the lead vocalist of Oasis from 1991 to 2009, the only constant member alongside his brother Noel through the band’s line-up changes, and went on to front Beady Eye from 2009 to 2014. His solo career began in 2017 with As You Were and continued with 2019’s Why Me? Why Not. He has played live sets including Down By The River Thames and Knebworth 22, and released further studio work and EPs into the mid-2020s. The voice and the stance remain the centre of that work.

Squire’s route has been more stop-start. As guitarist and songwriter with Ian Brown in the Stone Roses, he helped define a generation of British indie rock, then formed The Seahorses after leaving that group. Two solo albums followed — Time Changes Everything in 2002 and Marshall’s House in 2004 — before he stepped away from music to concentrate on painting. He returned when the Stone Roses reformed in 2011; after they split again in 2017, he largely went back to the canvas, though he still picked up the guitar for occasional appearances.

One of those appearances mattered. Squire guested with Gallagher for two shows at Knebworth in 2022. By late 2023 the two were working on a collaborative studio album. The single Just Another Rainbow arrived in 2024. The self-titled debut, now dated 1 March 2027, turns that partnership into a full-length record, with Mars To Liverpool already in place as its second single.

First nights for the new songs

What changes with this announcement is practical rather than rhetorical: there is a release date, a second track on the table, and venues booked for the first time under both names. For listeners who have tracked Gallagher’s solo catalogue and Squire’s rare returns to the stage, March 2027 is when the new songs leave the studio. The Olympia night gives Ireland a confirmed place on that opening leg; the double?header in Manchester and the two London rooms underline how the UK run is weighted towards cities where both men have long histories with audiences.

Further dates in France, Germany, Italy and the US sit beyond the British and Irish core. The full shape of those legs, and any extra Irish shows, remains open. Until tickets go on sale and the album arrives, the frame is the one set this week: a March record, Mars To Liverpool as the next signal from it, and a first tour that finally puts Gallagher and Squire on the same bills night after night.