Tickets for the Oasis comeback tour gigs have gone on sale, after the band warned in opposition to reselling at inflated costs.
Customers attempting to entry the three web sites promoting the tickets for the UK dates – Ticketmaster, See Tickets and Gigsandtours – reported points even earlier than they went on sale at 09:00 BST.
Inside minutes of them happening sale, individuals within the queue for the London gigs at Wembley Stadium in July and August 2025 have seen multiple million individuals forward of them.
Others have been put into what they described as a “queue for the queue” with all three ticket sellers redirecting individuals to a web page saying their web sites have been experiencing excessive demand.
Tickets have been on sale an hour earlier in Eire for the August 2025 gigs at Dublin’s Croke Park.
Some customers there additionally reported points accessing the Ticketmaster web site, whereas others mentioned they have been behind greater than 500,000 fellow followers attempting to safe a ticket.
Ticketmaster’s web site referred to as for persistence from followers, posting a message which learn: “As anticipated Oasis is extremely standard. We’re processing orders as shortly as attainable so please maintain your home in line.”
In a separate assertion on Saturday morning, the corporate mentioned the queue was “transferring alongside”, reporting hundreds of thousands of individuals have been accessing their web site.
“Followers are suggested to carry their place in line, ensure that they’re solely utilizing one tab, clear cookies, and guarantee they are not utilizing any VPN software program on their system”, Ticketmaster added.
On Friday, shortly after a three-hour pre-sale for a restricted variety of followers started, tickets for the UK gigs have been being listed on resale web sites like StubHub and Viagogo for greater than £6,000 – round 40 instances the face worth of a standing ticket.
They included:
- £6,000 for Oasis’s present at Wembley Stadium in London on 26 July
- Between £916 and £4,519 for the primary live performance of the tour at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on 4 July
- Over £4,000 for standing tickets at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium on 12 August
- Greater than £2,500 for the band’s homecoming live performance at Manchester’s Heaton Park on 12 July
Forward of the pre-sale, promoters mentioned standing tickets will value about £150, whereas customary seated tickets vary from £73 to about £205. Costs for official premium packages go as much as £506.
About 1.4 million tickets are anticipated to be accessible for the 17 out of doors live shows within the UK and Eire subsequent July and August.
Oasis urged individuals to not resell tickets at larger costs on web sites not linked to their promoter, and mentioned these tickets can be “cancelled”.
It added that they may solely be resold at face worth on the web sites Ticketmaster and Twickets.
“Tickets offered in breach of the phrases and situations shall be cancelled by the promoters,” the band mentioned.
On Tuesday, Noel and Liam Gallagher introduced that that they had put their acrimonious break up behind them, confirming the band’s long-awaited reunion.
The transfer got here 15 years after the group disbanded following a backstage brawl on the Rock en Seine competition in Paris.
As anticipation for the gigs builds, gross sales and streams of the band’s again catalogue have surged, with three albums going again into the highest 5 of the UK charts on Friday.
Best hits assortment Time Flies is at quantity three, 1995’s What’s The Story Morning Glory is at 4, and debut Positively Perhaps – launched on 29 August 1994 – is in fifth place.
A thirtieth anniversary version of Positively Perhaps was launched on Friday.
Oasis have been shaped in Manchester in 1991 – their authentic line-up comprised of Liam and Noel Gallagher, guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, bassist Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan and drummer Tony McCarroll.
The band formally break up in 2009 after an altercation backstage on the Rock en Seine competition in Paris.
