On Saturday evening, a few hours after tickets for the seventeen dates announced for the summer of 2025 for the reunited Gallagher clan went on sale, it was already too late to hope to obtain a precious ticket.
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Oasis’ summer 2025 comeback tour sold out on Saturday night, ending a stressful and frustrating day for thousands of fans who had to battle for hours with crashed websites, or at best, pay more for tickets than advertised.
In the absence of an international tour, millions of fans from around the world rushed to sales platforms on Saturday morning, August 31, to get a ticket for one of the 17 dates of this iconic Britpop group in the United Kingdom and Ireland. A real emotional rollercoaster, a few days after the announcement, the previous Tuesday, of the reformation of Oasis after fifteen years of falling out between Liam Gallagher and his brother Noel following a final argument at Rock en Seine.
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Four days after the announcement of Oasis’ return, the ticket office was stormed. The sale sparked anger among many fans with websites down.
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“The tickets Oasis Live ’25 for the UK and Ireland are all sold out”, announced the group on Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. GMT (8:00 p.m. French time), ten hours after the sale opened. “Be aware that counterfeit and void notes may appear on the black market,” he added. The 17 dates should have sold out within minutes, but overwhelmed by the crowds, websites such as Gigs and Tours and SeeTickets went down before the sale even began, asking fans to be patient but struggling to restore access.
Oasis Live ’25 UK and Ireland tickets have now SOLD OUT.
Please be aware of counterfeit and void tickets appearing on the secondary market.
Tickets can ONLY be resold, at face value, via @TicketmasterUK and @Twickets. pic.twitter.com/gWW5xDDzL8— Oasis (@oasis) August 31, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of buyers were placed in virtual queues for hours for each date, or asked to join a waiting list. A spokesperson for Ticketmaster UK, the world’s largest ticket sales platform, said the site “worked”. Many fans, however, had the unpleasant surprise of discovering, when accessing the ticket purchase page, often after waiting several hours, that the price had almost doubled due to a strong “request”.
“That feeling when you queue for four hours only to find out that the ticket price has gone from £148 to… £355??? Because they’re in such high ‘demand’. How is this not illegal? an Internet user on X (ex-Twitter) protested. Accused of being responsible, Ticketmaster UK responded on its site that “the event organizer set the price of these places based on their market value”, pointing the finger instead at the tour promoters.
Other fans were also abruptly sent to the back of the line without any explanation, behind nearly 200,000 people, like an AFP journalist who had reached the last stage of the purchasing process and was never able to acquire a ticket.
“Unfortunately, Oasis has already broken up again while you were waiting,” joked one Internet user on the X network, where the thousands of humorous diversions quickly gave way to real bitterness. Irish fans also deplored “absolute madness” to open an hour before the sale for the two Dublin dates in mid-August 2025, for which there were no tickets left to sell by midday, according to Ticketmaster Ireland.
The day before, Friday, a few people were able to buy them exclusively after being drawn at random for a pre-sale. And given the craze, 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,” thus warns the group on his account X
Oasis are scheduled to perform in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin and have added three dates to the 14 originally scheduled, representing nearly 1.4 million tickets, according to the BBC. A windfall for hotels and pubs. For this tour which promises to be historic, the cheapest tickets had initially been announced at around 75 pounds (89 euros) for a seat in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff and 150 pounds (178 euros) in the pit.
Even if “Preparations are underway to take Oasis Live ’25 on other continents later next year,” Some doubt the solidity of the truce between the sworn enemies of British rock. The reconciliation of the Gallagher brothers, who attacked each other on social networks and in interviews for 15 years, does not come after “a great revelation” but “a gradual realization that this is the right time,” they explained. It comes thirty years after the album Definitely Maybe, released on August 29, 1994, which launched Oasis with Liam as vocalist and Noel as guitarist and composer.