Millions of people rushed to buy tickets for Oasis’ comeback tour scheduled for summer 2025 on Saturday morning, causing crashes on overloaded sales sites, much to the disappointment of the band’s fans.
Tickets for the 17 concerts of the legendary Britpop group, who announced on Tuesday their reformation after fifteen years of estrangement between Liam Gallagher and his brother Noel, were available from 9am in the UK and 8am in Ireland on several platforms at the same time.
Completely overwhelmed, some websites like Gigs and Tours were already no longer allowing people to join the virtual waiting room in the hour before it opened.
Please be patient, many people are currently logged into the site to get a ticket, it read, before the site became completely inaccessible in the morning, like several other platforms.
A spokesperson for Ticketmaster UK assured that the site was working, with millions of fans. […] placed in a virtual queue.
A few tickets are still available, but in very limited quantities and only in certain categories, the site showed at midday.
However, many people have had the unpleasant surprise of discovering, often after several hours of waiting, that the price had almost doubled due to high demand.
Accused of being responsible, Ticketmaster UK indicates on its website that the organizer of the event set the price of these places according to their market value, pointing instead to the promoters of the tour.
Other fans were abruptly sent to the back of the line without any explanation.
Unfortunately, Oasis has already split up again while you were waiting, quipped one user on the X network, where disappointed buyers shared their frustration with rather humorous remarks.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in line
Irish fans, meanwhile, have lamented the absolute madness of opening sales for both European dates in Dublin an hour before the UK, posting screenshots showing hundreds of thousands of people ahead of them in the queue.
The day before, a few people were able to buy exclusive tickets after winning a draw to access the pre-sale. And given the enthusiasm, some of them were quick to try to resell them for several thousand pounds.
Please note that tickets can ONLY be resold at face value via Ticketmaster and Twickets. Tickets sold in breach of the terms and conditions will be cancelled by the organisers.
A quote from the music group Oasis, on their X account
In addition
Oasis will perform in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin, and have already added three dates to the 14 originally planned, due to the enthusiasm of fans. That’s around 1.4 million tickets, according to BBC estimates.
In the absence of an international tour, fans from all over the world have indeed rushed to this sale.
Although preparations are underway to take Oasis Live ’25 On other continents next year, some doubt the solidity of the truce between the sworn enemies of British rock.
The return of the duo, who split up in 2009 after yet another altercation at the Parisian Rock en Seine festival – involving a broken guitar – was announced on Tuesday.
The reconciliation of the Gallagher brothers, who have attacked each other on social media and in interviews for 15 years, comes not from a big revelation, but from a gradual realization that the time is right, they explained.
It comes thirty years after the album Definitely Maybereleased on August 29, 1994, which launched the group.
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Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, left, and instrumentalist Noel Gallagher, right, in 1999.
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For this tour, which is already shaping up to be historic, the most affordable tickets are around 75 pounds (133 Canadian dollars) for the concerts in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff, and around 150 pounds (265 Canadian dollars) for those in Manchester, the group’s hometown.
If they succeed, some fans will also be able to afford a 506.25 pound (895 Canadian dollars) ticket that gives access to a pre-concert party, an exhibition and special seats at Wembley Stadium in London.