Tens of thousands of Oasis fans face having their tickets cancelled

Thousands of tickets sold connected resale websites volition beryllium cancelled by Oasis up of their upcoming reunion tour.

The band’s promoters, Live Nation and SJM, has told BBC File connected 4 that it volition cancel much than 50,000 tickets for the band's UK dates listed connected secondary platforms.

It said that each invalidated tickets volition beryllium made disposable again done the authoritative seller, Ticketmaster, astatine look value.

There were 1.4 cardinal tickets connected merchantability erstwhile Oasis announced their UK circuit successful August, but much than 10 cardinal fans from 158 countries joined the queue.

Within hours, thousands of tickets appeared connected resale sites astatine inflated prices.

When tickets for the 2025 Oasis reunion circuit went connected sale, fans were told they could lone acquisition tickets astatine look worth done Ticketmaster oregon resale partner, Twickets.

The band's promoters said this was done successful bid to combat terms ostentation and forestall summons touting.

Live Nation and SJM told the BBC that 4 percent of tickets ended up connected resale sites. That's adjacent to 50,000.

It said the process of cancelling tickets, believed to person breached the presumption and conditions enactment successful place, volition hap soon.

It added that immoderate fans who judge they person had their tickets cancelled successful mistake volition beryllium capable to talk to the applicable summons cause to person their lawsuit investigated.

A institution spokesperson said: “These presumption and conditions were successfully enactment successful spot to instrumentality enactment against secondary ticketing companies reselling tickets for immense profit. Only 4 percent of tickets person ended up connected resale sites. Some large tours tin spot up to 20 percent of tickets appearing via the large unauthorised secondary platforms.

"All parties progressive with the circuit proceed to impulse fans not to acquisition tickets from unauthorised websites arsenic immoderate of these whitethorn beryllium fraudulent and others taxable to cancellation.”

Despite the informing from Oasis' promoters, starring secondary summons institution Viagogo says that it volition proceed to merchantability tickets for the tour.

Matt Drew, who oversees concern improvement for Viagogo, told File connected 4: “Two percent of Oasis tickets are connected Viagogo and Stubhub.

"We volition proceed to merchantability them successful the mode the regulator says we can. We are serving a wide user need, we volition proceed doing it connected that basis.”

The resale of tickets successful the UK is legal. All events listed connected the Viagogo website indispensable pass buyers if the lawsuit prohibits the resale of tickets.

File connected 4 has seen examples of summons sellers from each implicit the satellite utilizing secondary sites, including a trader successful Hawaii selling 27 Oasis tickets astatine £793 each, different successful Brazil offering up to 10 tickets for each gig connected the tour; arsenic good arsenic sellers successful Dubai, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Ukraine.

One summons connected Viagogo is connected connection astatine £11,000; and different connected StubHub is listed for £119,000.

Ticketmaster said that connected the time of the Oasis sale, it blocked 250 cardinal suspicious actions.

Live Nation and SJM said it volition proceed to show secondary sites and that results volition beryllium passed to instrumentality enforcement wherever appropriate.

The circuit volition beryllium the archetypal clip the Gallagher brothers person performed unneurotic since 2009.

Beginning successful Cardiff connected 4 July 2025, the brace volition besides play further dates successful Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin.

The set volition besides execute successful countries including the US, Japan and Mexico.

Last month, Oasis announced they volition ditch dynamic pricing for the American limb of their reunion tour, aft it caused "an unacceptable experience" for UK fans.

The strategy raises the terms of performance tickets astatine times of precocious demand. When Oasis' UK dates went connected sale, immoderate fans were charged much than £350 for tickets with an archetypal look worth of £150.

The set faced important backlash, and the UK's contention regulator launched an probe into whether Ticketmaster breached user extortion law.

In a connection announcing dates successful the US, Canada and Mexico, the group's managers said they wanted to "avoid a repetition of the issues" faced by fans successful the UK and Ireland.

BBC File connected 4 investigates the online ticketing marketplace and discovers however touts are utilizing progressively blase methods to get tickets which they sell-on for immense profits. Gig Economy: The Ticketing Business

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