Oasis reunion tickets live: Furious fans accuse Ticketmaster of upping prices as UK and Ireland shows sell out
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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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Ticket reseller Viagogo has defended having Oasis tickets on sale for inflated prices as a “legal” practice, after the band warned concertgoers that passes bought outside of the official websites Ticketmaster and Twickets will be cancelled.
Cris Miller, Viagogo global managing director, told the PA news agency: “This is a dream event anticipated by millions worldwide.
“Our number-one tip for fans using secondary marketplaces is to continue to check prices outside of the first few weeks of sale.
“Demand will be at its peak when tickets hit the on-sale but it’s not a normal reflection of what tickets can and will go for. Just this summer tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in the UK sold on our platform for as low as £80.
“In the case of Oasis – a highly anticipated event – we saw the primary sites struggling to manage demand even before the on-sale, and site crashes.
“We know fans are frustrated with the process and we know there is a better way. We continue to support industry collaboration to ensure the entire ticketing market works for fans and the live entertainment industry.
“Resale is legal in the UK and fans are always protected by our guarantee that they will receive their tickets in time for the event or their money back.”
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Tickets have now been on sale for around an hour and a half, with many fans sharing their successes on social media. Others have given up trying, after failing to access the queue or otherwise struggling to complete payment.
Oasis today reshared their warning that tickets being resold at highly inflated prices on sites such as Viagogo or StubHub risk being cancelled, as the only official resale channels are through Ticketmaster and Twickets.
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Ticketmaster denies website crash as fans asked to continue waiting in line
Oasis fans face a struggle to secure general sale tickets for the band's comeback tour as booking websites experienced outages.
Manchester-based promoter SJM Concerts' website Gigs and Tours faced issues even before tickets went on sale for the UK shows at 9am.
The site displayed messages saying: “Please bear with us. At the moment there are a lot of people on the site looking for tickets, so we have put a queuing system in place, which is completely normal.
“This page will refresh automatically and we'll get you where you want to be as soon as a space opens up. Thank you for your patience!”
Similar issues were encountered on the ticketmaster.ie page for the two shows at Dublin's Croke Park, which went on sale at 8am.
Instead of a page opening to buy tickets, an error number was displayed, which usually indicates a webpage is unable to handle any more connections.
The same issue was reported by some UK fans for ticketmaster.co.uk.
However, the page refreshed after a period to tell concertgoers that they were in queue, and “when it's your turn, you will automatically be able to browse events and shop for tickets”.
A spokeswoman for Ticketmaster denied the website had crashed, and advising that customers “to hold their place in line”.
A similar error was visible at gigsinscotland.com/artist/oasis as Scottish fans tried to get onto the website for the Edinburgh shows.
The tickets.seetickets.com/tour/oasis weblink, where you can book for several UK dates, also appeared unavailable.
A message said: “Our website is very busy! We have lots of people looking for tickets and you are being held on this page until a space becomes available. This page will refresh automatically.”
Some Oasis ticket hopefuls also reported being “suspended” by Ticketmaster UK and Ireland after it accused them of being “bots”.
Staff at the ticket-selling website replied on X, formerly Twitter, through its customer service account, saying: “Please make sure you are only using one tab, clear your cookies, and ensure you aren't using any VPN software on your device.”
It also shared a link with its guide on “how to improve your chances for getting popular tickets”.
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Fans share their success stories on social media
“I F***ING GOT TICKETS! I’m crying,” one fan wrote on X/Twitter after successfully securing her seats for Wembley.
“I got four Oasis tickets!” another excited fan said.
Surely they must have sold out by now...
Sales of Oasis vinyl and CDs soar more than 500% ahead of comeback gigs
Sales of Oasis’s back catalogue have surged by more than six times the number the previous week, amid huge demand ahead of their comeback concert tickets going on sale, according to HMV.
The entertainment retailer said it also witnessed a jump in pre-orders for the band’s 30th anniversary edition of their Definitely Maybe album, which was released on Friday.
HMV said the announcement has sparked demand for the band’s back catalogue and its latest release.
This week, sales across its full catalogue of records and CDs was 526% higher than during the previous week at HMV.
Sales of their Definitely Maybe LP rose by 443% week on week, while What’s The Story (Morning Glory) and Knebworth 1996 rose 684% and 209% respectively.
The retailer added that pre-orders for Oasis’s 30th anniversary edition of Definitely Maybe were double compared with where they were a week earlier.
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Tickets listed on Viagogo for as much as £7,025
Shocking scenes on ticketing resale websites such as Viagogo, where tickets to the reunion are being sold for as much as £7,025 for a single seated ticket at Wembley Stadium in London.
This is despite Oasis’s warning that tickets being resold at inflated prices will be “cancelled”, with the band instead pointing fans towards official resale sites Ticketmaster and Twickets, where tickets must be resold at face value plus the cost of the booking fee.
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