Oasis will be cancelling thousands of tickets to their upcoming UK 2025 reunion tour that have been sold via resale websites.
When Liam and Noel Gallagher initially announced their highly-anticipated return, they revealed efforts to prevent touts from re-selling tickets at inflated prices by partnering with resale platform Twickets and issuing a statement to say that tickets sold for profit on other sites would be cancelled.
Tickets for the UK dates first went on sale in August, with 1.4 million up for grabs. They promptly sold out after 10 million fans from 158 countries joined the queue.
However, despite warnings from the band, four per cent of tickets – equating to roughly 50,000 – ended up on resale sites, per BBC News.
Now, the band’s promoters, Live Nation and SJM, have revealed they will be cancelling all tickets sold via secondary ticketing sites. All invalidated tickets will then be made available again through Ticketmaster, at face value.
They’ll begin cancelling tickets soon, but say that any fans who believe they have had their tickets cancelled in error will be able to report it and have their case investigated.
A company spokesperson said: “These terms and conditions were successfully put in place to take action against secondary ticketing companies reselling tickets for huge profit. Only four percent of tickets have ended up on resale sites. Some major tours can see up to 20 percent of tickets appearing via the major unauthorised secondary platforms.
“All parties involved with the tour continue to urge fans not to purchase tickets from unauthorised websites as some of these may be fraudulent and others subject to cancellation.”
There was controversy when tickets went on sale in the UK after some fans found huge price increases due to Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing policy upon accessing ticket pages.
The ticketing platform’s “surge pricing” scheme, introduced in 2022, increases ticket prices based on demand. Ticketmaster have clarified on their website previously that tickets that are “market-priced” and “may increase or decrease at any time, based on demand. This is similar to how airline tickets and hotel rooms are sold.”
Now, a new law may be introduced that requires music and sports events to tell fans maximum prices at the beginning of a ticket-buying process. It follows Britain’s Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy condemning dynamic pricing and calling for a review of the policy.
At the time, Oasis responded with a statement which read: “Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management, and at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used.”
The band later confirmed that a dynamic pricing structure would not be applied to their North American reunion tour dates.
Following the UK and Ireland sale controversy, the issue was brought to the Advertising Standards Agency and the European Commission, with a separate call for an investigation brought by the UK government. Experts also suggested that not warning Oasis fans of the dynamic pricing may breach consumer law.
In other Oasis news, the band confirmed their return to North America last month, as well as a string of shows in Australia, which will take place in late October and early November. Already, the latter have been extended twice due to “phenomenal demand”.
Since the announcement, there have been reports that a documentary was in the works to chronicle their journey to their return and the colossal gigs, although the band have since denied this.
Sources close to the band and tour have told NME that further international dates are set to be announced for cities including Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan), São Paulo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).
More recently, Oasis ruled out a headline performance at Glastonbury 2025 and said they won’t be appearing at any other festivals next summer. Liam and Noel have shot down rumours of a return to Knebworth in 2026 too.
It was confirmed this month that Richard Ashcroft will be joining the band as a special guest for their 2025 UK and Ireland reunion tour, as well as Cast.