Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher broke his silence to comment about the ticket scandal surrounding the band’s reunion tour. On September 6, he took to his personal X account and wrote a pun-intended statement about the ticket fiasco. According to NME, tickets for the reunion tour went on sale during the weekend but the booking process reportedly posed issues.
This left many fans disappointed. Reacting to the incident, Liam Gallagher wrote;
“OASIS are back your welcome and I hear there ATTITUDE STINKS good to know something’s never change LF*****G x.”
Reportedly, the American ticket sales and distribution company Ticketmaster crashed even before the sale started. Due to massive online queues, it became impossible for many buyers to browse ticket options. Numerous users expressed frustration after being removed from the queue despite waiting for hours.
Additionally, the ones who tried to buy accessible tickets reportedly struggled to get through to the phone lines, with some reporting they had called the designated number over 400 times without success.
However, those who made it through the queues were disappointed to find that the prices of the remaining tickets had surged due to Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing policy, which increases prices in response to high demand.
In response to Liam Gallagher’s tweet, fans replied with various comments regarding price hikes, tour dates, his grammar, etc. One X user asked whether he got any spare tickets, to which the singer replied affirmatively by adding that they were expensive over 100 thousand pounds.
Oasis was unaware of the surge in ticket prices
When the ticket fiasco arose after the sale went live, many fans were reportedly asked to pay £200 more than the advertised amount due to the increase in demand. However, Oasis released a statement via a news agency in which they claimed they were unaware of the pricing policing as other parties made decisions about tickets. The statement read;
“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.”
Oasis then added that although promoters, Ticketmaster, and the band’s management had earlier agreed on a good ticket sale plan to give fans a fair experience. It included dynamic pricing to keep general ticket costs low but despite that, the plan didn’t work as expected.
The band added two more live shows at Wembley Stadium on September 27 and 28, 2025. There will be a special invitation-only ballot strategy for buying tickets only for the new show addition.
Earlier, the European Commission announced it would launch an investigation into dynamic pricing after the recent controversy. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) also received 450 complaints regarding Ticketmaster's advertisements for the Oasis concerts. The upcoming reunion tour will be the band’s first series of concerts after splitting in 2009.
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