Oasis are set to cancel thousands of tickets to their upcoming UK 2025 reunion tour that have been sold via resale websites.
Oasis planning to cancel tickets
As Liam and Noel Gallagher initially announced their highly-anticipated return, they revealed efforts to prevent touts from re-selling tickets at inflated prices by partnering with resale platform Twickets and issued a statement to say that tickets sold for profit on other sites would be cancelled.
Tickets for the UK dates first were up for sale in August, with 1.4 million up for grabs. They sold out after 10 million fans from 158 countries joined the queue.
However, despite warnings from the band, four per cent of tickets – equating to roughly 50,000 – ended up on resale sites, per BBC News.
The band’s promoters, Live Nation and SJM, have now revealed they will be cancelling all tickets sold via secondary ticketing sites. All invalidated tickets will then be made available again through Ticketmaster, at face value.
They are set to begin cancelling tickets soon. However, they say that any fans who believe they have had their tickets cancelled in error will be able to report it.
A company spokesperson said: “These terms and conditions were successfully put in place to take action against secondary ticketing companies reselling tickets for huge profit. Only four percent of tickets have ended up on resale sites. Some major tours can see up to 20 percent of tickets appearing via the major unauthorised secondary platforms.
“All parties involved with the tour continue to urge fans not to purchase tickets from unauthorised websites as some of these may be fraudulent and others subject to cancellation.”
There was controversy when tickets went on sale in the UK after some fans found huge price increases due to Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing policy upon accessing ticket pages.
The ticketing platform’s “surge pricing” scheme, introduced in 2022, increases ticket prices based on demand. Ticketmaster have clarified on their website previously that tickets that are “market-priced” and “may increase or decrease at any time, based on demand. This is similar to how airline tickets and hotel rooms are sold.”
