Oasis: Oasis ticket sales have started with high demand

There were problems and long queues at the start of ticket sales for the comeback tour of the Britpop band Oasis on Saturday morning. Several websites were temporarily unavailable or only partially accessible when sales started in the morning. In some cases, there were long queues of hundreds of thousands of fans. The band is planning 15 concerts starting in July 2025 Great Britain and two more in Ireland. Three of the performances are additional concerts that the band had announced due to high demand.

“Today will be the day when you can’t get tickets,” wrote one user on the online platform X, referring to the Oasis classic Wonder WallOther users reported long queues.

Band warns of resale websites and scams

More than a million tickets are for sale, with prices starting at around €88. Some fans were able to buy tickets via an advance ticket lottery on Friday. Within a few hours, advance tickets were being offered on resale websites for up to €7,100. The BBC reported on offers that were 40 times the actual price of a standing ticket.

Oasis had warned unauthorized resellers of concert tickets at prices. Tickets can only be resold at face value through authorized websites. “Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either fake or cancelled by the organizers,” the band said after sales began. They spoke of “unprecedented demand.”

Reunion after almost 15 years of separation

The band had announced their reunion a few days earlier after a separation of around 15 years. After an argument, the brothers Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher ended their collaboration in 2009. “The long wait is over,” they wrote in the announcement of their comeback. As a result, Oasis’ streams in Germany quadrupled within a day of the announcement, according to market research company GfK Entertainment.

The group from Manchester is one of the most successful bands in British music history. With their album Definitely maybe She rose to fame in 1994. Songs like Wonder Wall, Do not look back in anger and Supersonic are among her most successful works.