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Tickets for Oasis’s 2025 reunion tour have now officially sold out but one site has urged fans who didn’t get tickets not to worry.
Liam and Noel Gallagher will perform live together for the first time since 2009 when they play concerts in Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester and Dublin in July and August next year.
When they announced the reunion tour, anticipation for the dates was at fever pitch, with some predicting demand for tickets would be greater than it was for Taylor Swift’s concerts this year.
The hype did not disappoint either with a reported 500,000 people in online queues in supersonic speed causing all the ticket distributors to encounter problems.
Gigs and Tours and See Tickets seemed to experience issues from 8:30am until 12:30pm.
A spokesperson for Ticketmaster claimed the site did not crash despite the hundred, maybe even thousands, of screenshots online of the same 503 error.
Fans kept their hopes up all day as they desperately searched for a last gasp grab at (morning) glory, however were ultimately left crying their hearts out when prices on sites sky rocketed as availability dwindled.
Oasis made the announcement at 7pm last night that every last ticket for every single gig had sold, with the band selling out in under 12 hours (not bad for a couple of middle aged blokes!).
The band warned fans of counterfeit tickets and that tickets could only be resold at face value on the relevant sites they were bought from.
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People were fuming with what appeared to be Ticketmaster taking advantage of fans as they more than doubled prices of standing places calling it ‘in demand standing’ at a rate of £200 more than a regular standing ticket.
This left fans in a rage, accusing Ticketmaster of being ticket touts as the ‘in demand standing’ was never mentioned or listed before it appeared on site.
However, Ticketmaster has since redirected people to a page on their site which explains the ‘in demand’ tickets which it says are not priced by the site, but by the event organisers and artists themselves.
Just minutes after tickets went on sale in the UK at 9am yesterday (31 Aug) reports claimed that tickets were being resold for £7000.
But now, ticket resale site, Twickets, have urged fans not to worry if they didn’t get tickets, as Twickets will have tickets soon as face value prices (what a mouthful that was).
Taking to X, Twickets wrote: “If you haven’t secured @oasis tickets then don’t panic, and certainly don’t buy on unofficial sites such as Viagogo & StubHub as these tickets will be cancelled.
“Twickets will have tickets available soon. Register to receive our newsletter and we’ll let you know.”
Keep the faith.