Liam Gallagher says the attitude about the Oasis reunion “stinks” amid fans airing their frustrations at being charged over-inflated prices for tickets.
The musician announced last week that he and his brother Noel Gallagher would come back for a reunion tour in 2025, and on Saturday the series of UK and Ireland shows sold out in less than a day.
Fans were beset with problems getting onto ticket websites, from being labelled bots and being kicked out of queuing.
Many Irish fans who waited in queues for more than three hours thinking they would pay the initially advertised rate of €176 ended up paying more than double at €400.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Thursday launched an investigation into Ticketmaster, including how so-called ‘dynamic pricing’ may have been used.
On Friday, Liam wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Oasis are back [you’re] welcome and I hear [their] attitude stinks, good to know something’s never change.”
When asked if he would do a free concert, he replied saying “don’t be silly”.
Another referenced his mother Peggy, saying how she might feel about ticket fiasco, and Liam responded saying: “She’s gutted she couldn’t get a ticket.”
He also said: “Smug only kidding, Smug as f***. I told you all we were gonna get back together one fine day.”
Liam also appeared to joke, he had “loads” of tickets left, but could only sell them for £100,000 and they would be “kneeling only”.
Due to unprecedented demand, three new UK dates will be added to Oasis Live ‘25 🔥
🎸Heaton Park - July 16th
🎸Wembley - July 30th
🎸Edinburgh - August 12th
Tickets on go on sale this Saturday, 31st August at 9am BST: https://t.co/ddMSPvu0TP pic.twitter.com/P7Fyn4VokAAdvertisement— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) August 29, 2024
The CMA will also scrutinise whether the sale of Oasis tickets by Ticketmaster may have breached consumer protection law.
Ticketmaster maintains it does not set concert prices and its website states this is down to the “event organiser” who “has priced these tickets according to their market value”.
A spokesman for the ticket sales company said: “We are committed to co-operating with the CMA and look forward to sharing more facts about the ticket sale with them.”
Oasis said in a statement: “It needs to be made clear that 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.
“While prior meetings between promoters, Ticketmaster and the band’s management resulted in a positive ticket sale strategy, which would be a fair experience for fans, including dynamic ticketing to help keep general ticket prices down as well as reduce touting, the execution of the plan failed to meet expectations.
“All parties involved did their utmost to deliver the best possible fan experience but due to the unprecedented demand this became impossible to achieve.”
Following the chaos over the weekend, Oasis announced new Wembley Stadium dates on September 27th and 28th, 2025 using a lottery system.
The final UK Live ’25 tour tickets released will use a new “staggered invitation-only ballot process” with applications to join the ballot opened first to those who were unsuccessful in the initial sale.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority reported receiving 450 complaints alleging “misleading claims about availability and pricing” from the Oasis ticket release.
