Millions will be hoping to get a presale code

Unless you've been living under rock, you'll no doubt know that Oasis are back.

After days of speculation – and years of pleas to get back together – Liam and Noel Gallagher seem to have buried the hatchet. The Manchester brothers are returning as Oasis, and have announced a huge tour across the UK and Ireland for summer 2025.

Millions of music fans across the nation will be hoping to bag themselves a ticket to one of the 14 dates that have been announced for July and August next year.

How does the presale ballot work?

After announcing the tour and that tickets would go on general sale at 9am on Saturday morning (August 31), Oasis then confirmed there would be a presale taking place the day before, on the Friday (August 30).

People could apply for this presale by signing up and answering a question about the band correctly. This then put them into a ballot, where winners would be sent a code to access the presale.

The deadline for registering for the presale has now passed, but huge demand for the ballot meant some were struggling to receive the email needed to confirm their entry.

And a late surge in applications forced the deadline for applications to be extended, with the band assuring people they would get their confirmation email.

The deadline for people to confirm their ballot entry through the email was 10am this morning.

What happens next?

Receiving the confirmation email does not mean you will definitely get a code for the presale. This is where the ballot part comes into play.

Once received, the confirmation email says ballot winners will be contacted "no later than 5pm BST, this Friday 30th August."

It continues: "Only those selected will receive an email with full details and timings. If you have not heard by then, please consider you haven't been selected for pre-sale access."

So when does the actual presale start?

On Friday afternoon, fans started to be contacted with emails containing pre-sale codes. This also confirmed that the pre-sale window will be from 7pm to 10pm on Friday evening.

Just like with the confirmation emails earlier in the week, you should check your spam and junk inboxes to see if the pre-sale code email has landed in there.

If you've been lucky enough to get a pre-sale code, you'll need to log into your chosen ticketing website - either Ticketmaster, See Tickets or Gigs and Tours - and then enter the code to join the no doubt very long virtual queue for tickets.

Are there any rules for buying tickets?

Ticket sales are limited to four per household, per show. For the stadium dates, venues will not allow people under the age of 14 onto the pitch, while anybody aged 14-15 will need to be accompanied by an adult in order to attend.

How much will tickets cost?

There are a number of different ticketing options with prices ranging from £70 and around £500 for the most premium options.

All prices vary depending on the venue and date but most standard standing tickets in the United Kingdom appear to be at the expected price of £150.

These prices were announced on the Gigs and Tours website with seats going from £73, standing from £150, and premium packages from £215.

The full list of prices is as follows:

Manchester Heaton Park

• Standing - £135 (£148 including fees)
• Hospitality area - £250 (£268 including fees)

Cardiff Principality Stadium

• Pitch standing - £135 (£150 including fees)
• Seats - Ranges from £65 (£73 including fees) to £185 (£205 including fees)
• Premium seats - £250 (£270 including fees)

London Wembley Stadium

• Pitch standing - £135 (£151 including fees)
• Seats - Ranges from £65 (£73 including fees) to £185 (£206 including fees)

Edinburgh Murrayfield Stadium

• Pitch standing - £135 (£151 including fees)
• Seats - Ranges from £65 (£73 including fees) to £185 (£206 including fees)

Dublin Croke Park

Tickets for the gigs at Croke Park start from €86 (£72) plus booking fees.

When and where are Oasis playing?

Some 15 years after they last performed live together, Noel and Liam Gallagher will be performing as Oasis once more across the UK and Ireland in summer 2025.

Announcing the news after a weekend of intense speculation, the band said: “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”

Oasis announced the dates and venues for a huge reunion tour in summer 2025, which included four dates at both Wembley Stadium in London and Heaton Park.

The band will also be playing dates in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin over July and August next year.

On Thursday, they added three more dates in London, Manchester and Edinburgh to the initial run.

The full list of dates for Oasis Live ’25 is as follows:

JULY 2025

• 4th, 5th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
• 11th, 12th, 16th – Manchester, Heaton Park
• 19th, 20th – Manchester, Heaton Park
• 25th, 26th, 30th – London, Wembley Stadium

AUGUST 2025

• 2nd, 3rd – London, Wembley Stadium
• 8th, 9th, 12th – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
• 16th, 17th – Dublin, Croke Park

Will any other former Oasis members be returning?

Oasis were formed in Manchester in 1991, with the original lineup being made up of Liam and Noel, guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, bassist Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan and drummer Tony McCarroll.

Bonehead will reportedly be returning for the reunion tour, with the musician having remained good friends with Liam and touring with him occasionally.

The lineup has changed plenty of times over the years though. McCarroll left in 1995 when he was replaced by Alan White, before Bonehead and McGuigan were replaced by Gem Archer and Andy Bell in 1999.

White left the band in 2004 and was replaced by Zac Starkey, who was then swapped out for Chris Sharrock in 2008.

And the Oasis story then came to an end in 2009, when the Gallagher brothers were involved in a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.

Noel later claimed his brother had tried to attack him with a guitar after a row over whether Liam could advertise his clothing brand in the programme for V Festival.

Since then, the animosity between the pair seemed to be irreparable, but here we are, in the year of 2024, looking forward to more Oasis concerts.

That’s if their truce can hold until then of course...