Oasis drops Wembley 'Acquiesce' on War Child sequel album

Oasis has quietly slipped a live recording from their 2025 reunion tour onto the new War Child charity album 'Help(2)', because apparently saving children affected by war wasn't enough reason to avoid the obvious sequel title. The track is 'Acquiesce', captured during their final Wembley Stadium show last September, when 90,000 people discovered they still knew every word to a B-side from 1995.

This marks the first physical release from the Manchester band's historic comeback run, tucked away as both a 7-inch single in the vinyl gatefold and a hidden track on the CD version. The gesture arrives nearly three decades after Oasis opened the original 'Help' album with 'Fade Away', back when they and Blur appearing on the same compilation was genuinely shocking rather than just Tuesday.

The new collection features contributions from Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, Depeche Mode, Foals, Wet Leg, and others who apparently didn't find the cause "too political" as some unnamed artists did, according to producer James Ford. Olivia Rodrigo also appears, bridging the gap between Britpop nostalgia and Gen Z angst with the efficiency only a charity compilation can achieve.

The original 'Help' album raised over £1.25 million and sold 700,000 copies in 1995, proving that British musicians could temporarily set aside their egos for a good cause. The sequel arrives during conflicts in Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan, suggesting some things unfortunately require more than one charity album to solve.