Oasis are to play two nights at Birmingham NIA as part of their Dig Out Your Soul tour, it was announced today.

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The tour, featuring 18 dates across the UK, stops off at the NIA on October 13 and 14.

Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9am on Wednesday August 20 and are priced £32.50, £38.50 and £44.50 plus booking and transaction fee. Tickets can be purchased on-line at theticketfactory.com or 0844 33 88 000.

A limited number of tickets will available to personal callers at the venue box office with no booking fee for cash. There is a maximum of four tickets per household per show.

Oasis have also announced that for the first time ever they will be making available a special, fully-loaded limited edition box set of the new album.

The set contains four heavyweight 12″ vinyl discs, two CDs, a DVD and hardback book all housed within an embossed hardback box, and is the only way to get the album and the complete set of all nine bonus songs, remixes and films that were recorded during the album sessions.

This unique collectors item will be available for purchase exclusively through the band’s website, www.oasisinet.com, and can be pre-ordered now, for worldwide delivery on the release date, October 6.

The Shock of the Lightning, the first single to be taken from new album, will be released on September 29.