by Mick the Ram

Tens of thousands of tickets for the Oasis Live ’25 tour that are currently listed on re-sale websites will be cancelled by the band and the promoters Live Nation and SJM.

Just over 1.4 million tickets went on sale when the Gallagher brothers announced their UK tour in August, 2024, and over 10 million fans from across the world joined the online queues.

The demand was unprecedented and became so great that the websites of the prime vendors, Ticketmaster, Gigs and Tours and See Tickets, crashed immediately.

The price of the tickets then reached outrageous heights and many were purchased for re-sale and are now being sold for extremely inflated costs on sites such as Viagogo.

This has prompted a statement to be issued on behalf of Oasis in which they announced that they have partnered with Twickets, a site that allows fans to sell tickets at face value, and have instructed fans to stop buying from secondary sellers.

It is understood that upwards of 50,00 tickets for the UK dates are currently listed on secondary platforms and it is these that will become invalid and will now be made available via Ticketmaster, to be sold at face value.

Statement from the band

Oasis wrote in their statement: “Please note that Oasis ’25 tickets can only be resold at face value via Ticketmaster and Twickets; any tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit, or will be cancelled by the promoters.”

The estimate is that about four per cent of the 1.4 million tickets have ended up on re-sale sites, hence the 50,000 figure.

Terms & Conditions broken

The process of cancelling these tickets, which the promoters stress have broken their terms and conditions, will soon be rolled out. A spokesperson said: “These terms and conditions were successfully put in place to take action against secondary ticketing companies reselling tickets for huge profit.”

They urged fans to stay away from unauthorised websites, pointing out that could be fraudulent operations.

Sell-on site continuing to distribute irrespective of statement

Nevertheless, despite the strong warnings, Viagogo have confirmed that they are continuing to sell the tickets on their site, regardless of the fact that they are now aware that the tickets are subject to cancellation.

Incredibly Matt Drew, who is in charge of overseas International Business Development, insisted that they would carry on because the regulator was not stopping them, and in his opinion they were “serving a clear consumer need,” disregarding the fact that those same consumers could be paying good money for invalid tickets.

The resale of tickets in the UK is indeed legal, however the vital point is that all events that are listed on the Viagogo website MUST inform consumers whether the actual event prohibits tickets being resold and that does not appear to be the case.

Astronomical figures being quoted and paid for tickets

Worldwide there has been reports of extortionate sums of money being charged (and paid) for tickets by secondary sellers. One trader in Hawaii is believed to be selling a batch of 27 tickets for an eye-watering £793 each.

Live Nation and SJM have confirmed that they will continue to monitor these secondary sites and where appropriate, the results will be passed to law enforcement.

Oasis will play concerts in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Dublin, London and their home city of Manchester.