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Oasis fans fight over tickets as band warns against reselling
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Oasis fans fight over tickets as band warns against reselling

Tickets for Oasis’ comeback tour have gone on sale after the band warned against reselling at inflated prices.

Users attempting to access the three websites selling tickets for the UK dates (Ticketmaster, See Tickets and Gigsandtours) reported problems even before ticket sales started at 09:00 BST.

Within minutes of tickets going on sale for the August 2025 concerts at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, some users reported having trouble accessing the Ticketmaster website.

Others in line for the concerts in Ireland reported more than 500,000 people ahead of them trying to buy tickets.

Shortly after a three-hour advance sale for a limited number of fans began on Friday, tickets for the UK concerts were being offered online for more than £6,000 – around 40 times the face value of a ticket.

Oasis urged people not to resell tickets at higher prices on websites not linked to their promoter, saying they would be ‘cancelled’.

Shortly after pre-sales began on Friday, tickets began appearing on resale websites such as StubHub and Viagogo, including:

  • £6,000 for Oasis’ show at Wembley Stadium in London on July 26
  • Between £916 and £4,519 for the first concert of the tour at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on July 4
  • Over £4,000 for standing room at Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh on August 12
  • Over £2,500 for the band’s homecoming concert at Manchester’s Heaton Park on July 12

Ahead of the pre-sale, organisers have said that standing tickets will cost around £150, while standard seats will cost between £73 and £205. Official premium packages will cost up to £506.

It is expected that around 1.4 million tickets will be available for the 17 open-air concerts in the UK and Ireland in July and August.

On Friday evening, while pre-sales were still ongoing, Oasis intervened and released a statement saying: “We have noticed that people have been trying to sell tickets on the secondary market since pre-sales began.

Please note, tickets can ONLY be resold at face value via Ticketmaster and Twickets.

“Tickets sold in violation of the terms and conditions will be cancelled by the organizers.”

Oasis organisers had issued a similar warning ahead of the pre-sale, saying that tickets sold through “unauthorised resale platforms” were in breach of terms and conditions and “may be cancelled”.

On Tuesday, Noel and Liam Gallagher announced that they had put their split behind them, confirming the band’s long-awaited reunion.

The decision came 15 years after the group split following a brawl backstage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.

As the excitement builds for the gigs, sales and streams of the band’s albums have soared, with three more albums in the top five of the UK charts on Friday.

The greatest hits collection Time Flies is at number three, 1995’s What’s The Story Morning Glory is at number four, and debut Definitely Maybe – released on 29 August 1994 – is at number five.

The 30th anniversary edition of Definitely Maybe was released on Friday.

Oasis was formed in Manchester in 1991. The original line-up consisted of Liam and Noel Gallagher, guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, bassist Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan and drummer Tony McCarroll.

The band officially broke up in 2009 after an altercation backstage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.