Iron Maiden recently stated that there will be no dynamic pricing on tickets to their 2025 Run For Your Lives tour dates. It is quite different to how Oasis dealt with it.
Iron Maiden takes stance against dynamic ticket pricing
The London metal superstars made their stance clear via X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, September 22nd. They wrote in a reply to a previous X post announcing the tour, “There will be no dynamic ticket pricing for the 2025 Run For Your Lives tour.”
The band also announced that any tickets to the UK dates which are resold will have prices capped at face value, stopping fans from getting gouged by exorbitant fees nearer to the tour.
“Ticket resale in the UK will be capped at face value and won’t open until much closer to the start of the tour,” they put (per Planet Rock). “As always, we urge fans to only purchase tickets from approved outlets.”
Dynamic pricing became a subject of widespread outrage earlier this year. It happened after Britpop icons Oasis announced their reunion and a series of UK and Ireland tour dates.
demand led to fans staying in online waiting rooms on the ticketing site Ticketmaster for hours, just for the chance to purchase tickets, with the prices then often being inflated. According to The Guardian, Ticketmaster pushed the cost for some tickets from £135 up to £350.
Both the UK government and the European Commission are currently investigating Ticketmaster. Oasis’ Gallagher brothers acknowledged the controversy in a statement, then did nothing except distance themselves from it.
They said, “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.”
