50 thousand tickets for the Oasis reunion are back on sale

Bad news for some, excellent for others: fifty thousand tickets for the Oasis reunion tour they will be put back on sale (this is the good news) because just as many will be canceled after being sold on secondary ticketing circuits (and this is the bad news). The band’s tour promoters, Live Nation and SJM, told the BBC that all invalidated tickets will be made available again through the official seller, Ticketmaster, at nominal value.

More than 10 million fans from 158 countries queued for one of the 1.4 million tickets put on sale in August when Oasis announced their UK tour. Within hours, thousands of tickets appeared on resale sites at inflated prices despite the purchase conditions specifying that the only authorized channels were Ticketmaster or resale partner, Twickets. The move was deviated to combat the inflated prices and touting.

Live Nation and SJM said fans who believe they have had their tickets canceled in error will be able to speak to the relevant ticketing agent to have their case reviewed. A company spokesperson specified that only 4% of tickets ended up on resale sites, compared to peaks of 20% recorded for other major tours. Despite the cancellations, the main secondary ticketing company, Viagogo, will continue to sell tickets for the tour. Matt Drew, a company executive, told the BBC that “two percent of Oasis tickets are on Viagogo and Stubhub”. “We will continue to sell them in the way the regulator tells us we can. We are meeting a clear consumer need, we will continue to do so on that basis,” he explained.

Reselling tickets in the UK is legal as long as they are purchased legitimately and there are laws in place to protect consumers. On secondary ticketing sites there have been sensational cases such as that of a trader from Hawaii who sold 27 tickets for Oasis at 953 euros eachanother in Brazil that offered up to 10 tickets for each concert on the tour; as well as sellers in Dubai, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Ukraine. A ticket on Viagogo is on offer for 13,225 euros and another on StubHub for 1243,000 euros.Ticketmaster said that on the day of the Oasis sale, it blocked 250 million suspicious shares. Live Nation and SJM said they will continue to monitor the subsites and that the findings will be passed on to law enforcement.

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The Gallagher brothers will return to perform together in public for the first time since 2009 in Cardiff on 4 July 2025, before playing shows in Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin. The tour will then move to the United States, Japan and Mexico. Last month Oasis announced they would abandon dynamic pricing for the US leg of their tour. This is a system that increases the price of concert tickets during periods of high demand. When Oasis’ UK dates went on sale, some fans were charged more than €400 for tickets that had an initial face value of €180.

The band faced strong backlash and the UK Competition Regulator launched an investigation into whether Ticketmaster breached consumer protection law. In a statement announcing dates in the US, Canada and Mexico, the group’s managers said they were forgoing dynamic pricing to “avoid a repeat of the problems” faced by fans in the UK and Ireland.