Touts sell tickets for Oasis' Murrayfield gigs for nearly 30 times face value

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Tickets for Oasis’ Scottish gigs were selling for £5,000 on tout sites last night - nearly 30 times their face value. The rock band have warned that anyone buying secondary tickets from unofficial websites would see them cancelled.But Scottish music industry experts last night said it’s nearly impossible to prevent touts from profiting on the huge gigs.

Noel and Liam Gallagher announced last week that they were reforming their band after a 15 year split and embarking on a massive tour next summer which includes three August dates at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield.Millions of fans scrambled for tickets, starting at £65, after they went on general sale yesterday morning at 9am.

But within hours, ticket tout resale website Viagogo was offering seating tickets for Section E14 for £4,977 - that’s more than 29 times their £167 face value.Last night, Donald McLeod, one of Scotland’s leading concert promoters, slammed the rip offs and said only government legislation would stop it.

He first promoted the band in 1993 in Glasgow when they were an up and coming support act and finally at Murrayfield in Edinburgh in 2009 when they had become global headlining superstars, shortly before they split.He backed the stern warning issued yesterday by Oasis promoters that they would cancel any tickets that had been sold on the black market, in breach of the original terms and conditions.He said: “The warning issued by the promoters to only go through the official channels is the only thing and the right thing to do.