oasis, the band The band everyone loves to sing along to after drinking too many pints at karaoke is going on tour. Well, not really on tour – it’s more like 17 dates in the UK and Ireland in the summer of 2025. Still, considering that the band broke up in 2009 and just reunited, this is what most people are calling a big deal. If nothing else, the band’s leaders, the notoriously always feuding brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, could be at each other’s throats on stage at any moment, and hardcore fans (aka “Madferits”) really won’t want to miss that, even if it costs them over $1,000.
As pre-sales for the band’s upcoming shows went online on Friday, tickets — which start at around $100 a ticket — began appearing on resale sites, and fans at X reported they were seeing prices increase. $800 To $1,200 The band said it had put in place guardrails to keep ticket prices from getting out of control, despite the band saying it had put in place guardrails to keep ticket prices from getting out of control. The BBC reported Some tickets were priced as high as $7,800.
To be part of the presale, fans had to submit a ballot correctly answering questions about the band. Some who did so received a link to presale tickets; others did not and were denied a ticket to the band.devastatedFear of “one”ticketmaster bloodbath” during general sale, despite the fact that Oasis themselves had warned that tickets sold for above face value “Cancelled by promoters,
Things were no better on Saturday. Fans trying to buy tickets through online ticketing sites had to wait for a long time. hard-to-swallow fees, Error Message, Bot And, AllegedlyError Message Claiming that the fans themselves were bots,
“Efforts like presale ballots can help prevent the immediate rush and chaos associated with ticket sales,” says Benjamin Fabre, co-founder of the cyberfraud firm. DataDome“But they are not a surefire solution against sophisticated bot attacks.”
Not all inflated ticket prices were the result of bots, however. standing in queue for hours, Some fans rushed to the front just to see that ticket price Was more than double. The reason for this was dynamic pricingA model that means ticket prices can change if demand is high. When tickets went on sale Saturday, fans urged bands and artists to speak out against the use of dynamic pricing. (Ticketmaster did not respond to an email seeking comment for this story over the weekend.)
U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy confirmed Monday that the British government will consider dynamic pricing as part of a planned review of how event tickets are sold, which is scheduled for the autumn. The review will examine “transparency and issues around the use of dynamic pricing, including technology around queuing systems that encourage it,” Nandy said told the BBCJamie Stone, MP and culture spokesman for the UK Liberal Democrats, said in a statement, Statement given to The Guardian Over the weekend, he said it was “reprehensible to see our country’s biggest cultural moments being turned into obscene cash cows by greedy promoters and ticketing websites.”
