Oasis ticket sales: Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy calls for review into “dynamic pricing” and secondary ticket sites
nme.comOasis‘ reunion tour went on sale over the weekend.The Britpop band announced a huge run of comeback gigs on Tuesday (August 27), dubbed Oasis Live ’25.
Set to take place next summer, the trek will see Liam and Noel Gallagher perform on stage together for the first time in 16 years and is expected to gross a staggering £400million.Tickets went on sale on Saturday (August 31) and promptly sold out at 7pm.However, some fans who managed to reach the other side of multi-hour long queues were left frustrated to find huge price increases on tickets, due to Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing policy.Ticketmaster have clarified on their website previously that tickets that are “market-priced” “may increase or decrease at any time, based on demand.
This is similar to how airline tickets and hotel rooms are sold.”NME has contacted Ticketmaster for further comment on the Culture Secretary’s remarks.Following Oasis’ pre-sale many tickets were also popping up on secondary ticket sites for as much as £10,000 prompting the band to warn fans “people attempting to sell tickets on the secondary market” will have them “cancelled by the promoters”.We have noticed people attempting to sell tickets on the secondary market since the start of the pre-sale.
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