Oasis reunion tickets live: Furious fans accuse Ticketmaster of upping prices as UK and Ireland shows sell out
Oasis, the biggest British band of the last 30 years, are finally reforming after brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher made peace
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Your support makes all the difference.Thousands of Oasis fans have been left empty-handed and frustrated after struggling to nab tickets to the group’s 2025 reunion tour.
Tickets went on sale at 9am on Saturday and were expected to be sold out in minutes, but instead many waited in online queues for up to 10 hours, only to be kicked off booking websites with “Error 503” messages appearing on their screens.
Just after 7pm, Oasis and Ticketmaster finally announced that tickets had sold out.
Some of those who did manage to make it through the queue to select tickets for Cardiff, Edinburgh, Dublin, London and Manchester found that the cost for general standing tickets had risen unexpectedly as a result of Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing policy, which saw the cost of tickets double in some cases.
For the Manchester shows, for example, a general admission standing ticket was expected to cost £150 but that price had risen to £355 under the dynamic pricing policy that reflects increased demand.
However, Oasis has warned against buying resale tickets at inflated prices with companies other than its promoter, saying those tickets will not be valid.
The British rock band announced their long-awaited reunion on Tuesday (27 August), with brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher set to join one another onstage for the first time since their split in 2009.
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One unsuccessful fan describes experience of being kicked-out of Ticketmaster queue
Scott McLean, 28, logged into Ticketmaster at 7.30am on Saturday ahead of Irish sales opening at 8am.
He was in a queue of 20,000 for around 30 minutes before selecting four tickets to see the band’s show at Croke Park.
However, his browser began buffering for half an hour as he tried to make the purchase, prompting him to contact the Ticketmaster customer service account on X/Twitter, for advice.
“I followed their advice, cleared my cookies and cache on my browser and then it kicked me out completely. It just came up to that error screen after I followed their guidance,” McLean told the PA news agency.
“I had to rejoin the queue and I ended up about 700,000 places worse off after following their guidance.”
He said he feels “frustration and anger, not much more than that”, adding: “It’s just tickets for a concert after all, but I really wanted to go.”
A success story...
A woman who has been a fan of Oasis for 10 years said she is “over the moon” to have secured two tickets for the band’s reunion tour and urged others “don’t give up”.
Isabelle Doyle, 21, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, was among the few thousands of people who received a pre-sale code and secured two tickets on Friday for Wembley for £150 each.
“I sat in my living room, booted up Ticketmaster and I was about 5,000 in the queue. I was in the queue for about 40 minutes and managed to get two seated tickets for Wembley,” the barista told the PA news agency.
“I’m over the moon. I’ve been a fan of Oasis for about 10 years now, literally since I was 11 years old. Finally to be able to see them after they got me through as a teenager, it’s absolutely amazing and I’m so excited.”
She urged fans trying to buy tickets on Saturday to “keep going”.
Wembley tickets on Viagogo range from £794 to £8,027
Tickets for the first night of Oasis at Wembley Stadium are available on the ticket resale site Viagogo– but come with a hefty price tag ranging between £794 and £8,027.
Oasis have warned fans against reselling tickets at inflated prices on websites not linked to their promoter Ticketmaster or Twickets, saying they will be “cancelled”.
Fans complain of expensive ticket costs
Fans had expected that general admission standing tickets would be priced at £150, but Ticketmaster users are reporting standing tickets are £355.
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MP Coventry South Zarah Sultana has been among those venting their frustrations at their Ticketmaster experience this morning.
#shambles is trending on X/Twitter in the UK
The word “shambles” is trending on X/Twitter, with many Oasis fans using it to vent their frustrations with their queuing experience. Many have been refreshing their browsers since 9am and still have no movement towards the front of the queue.
Among those expressing their annoyance is 5 News’ Dan Walker, who described his experience as: “In the queue, out of the queue, refresh / don’t refresh, wait in line, back of the line, accused of being a bot… timed out.”
Ticketmaster site says tickets are ‘still available’ but ‘inventory is now limited’
If you’re still waiting in the Ticketmaster queue, you may have seen a new message pop up – and things aren’t looking hopeful.
“Tickets for Oasis are still available, but inventory is now limited and not all ticket prices are available,” the message reads.
People are still queueing...
Some fans have been joking that the band could split up again in the time it takes to secure tickets, since the brothers have a notoriously fractured relationship.
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Former Oasis drummer Tony McCarroll speaks out on reunion tour
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