The general public ticket sale for Oasis’ 2025 reunion tour sparked reminiscences of the fiasco surrounding Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” in 2022, as hundreds of followers confronted a myriad of technical points and different obstacles that in the end prevented them from securing tickets.
Tickets to Oasis’ first live shows in 16 years went on sale Saturday by way of Ticketmaster. Within the days main as much as the on-sale, followers had been required to join a pre-sale lottery to ensure that an opportunity to buy tickets. It’s estimated that solely 2.3% of followers who signed up for the lottery ended up receiving a purchase order code. Nonetheless, these fortunate sufficient to advance to the general public on-sale weren’t assured a ticket.
Throughout Saturday’s public on-sale, followers reported ready in queues for as much as three hours, solely to finally see Ticketmaster’s web site “crash” or redirect to an “Error 503” web page. Different followers, comparable to British politician Zarah Sultana, an MP for the Labour Occasion, had been redirected to a web page accusing them of suspicious “bot”-like habits.
Some followers had been additionally infuriated to to find that Ticketmaster had applied a surge pricing choice for choose tickets. These “In Demand Standing” tickets had been priced at three to 4 occasions the face worth of ordinary tickets. Moreover, Ticketmaster provided “platinum” and different premium packages, with costs beginning at €350 per ticket.
All of the whereas, Oasis is looking for to restrict the variety of tickets accessible on secondary ticket platforms. Forward of as we speak’s public on-sale, the band warned patrons that any tickets that appeared “on secondary ticketing websites are both counterfeit or shall be cancelled by the promoters.” As a substitute, Oasis is advising followers to make use of Twickets or Ticketmaster’s Fan-to-Fan service, which limits the gross sales quantity to face worth.
Nonetheless, as of Saturday afternoon, there aren’t any tickets in the stores on Twickets, whereas a whole lot of tickets can be found to buy on secondary resellers comparable to Viagogo. In a press release to BBC, Viagogo’s world managing director, Cris Miller, mentioned that Oasis followers can use the platform with out concern as “resale is authorized within the UK.”
Oasis’ reunion tour is ready to get underway in summer time 2025 with exhibits in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. Further plans are underway for the band to play live shows in different continents exterior of Europe later subsequent 12 months, however extra particulars are nonetheless forthcoming.
Three hour anticipate Oasis tickets and @TicketmasterUK crashes 😫 pic.twitter.com/H9BSXXTSCM
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 31, 2024
Humorous that, with all of the speak of tickets solely to be bought at face worth and so forth that #ticketmaster themselves are literally the most important touts #oasis #Oasis25 pic.twitter.com/XXMzFLw1rg
— Keith Lee (@KeithRichardLee) August 31, 2024
That is problematic guys 😑😑
It is disgraceful to see standing tickets priced at £355.20—pure exploitation. They need to be ashamed, turning fan pleasure right into a cash seize. This greed is ruining what needs to be a joyful expertise.#Ticketmaster #Oasis #Oasis25 #oasisreunion… pic.twitter.com/G7cHHeZ5QQ— 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐚❥ (@Trusha_reacts) August 31, 2024
A brief story of how I misplaced my thoughts #Ticketmaster #oasis pic.twitter.com/6Fcb4WpTMN
— Jessie Gallier (@JessieGallier) August 31, 2024
