- Oasis’ reunion tour tickets sold out rapidly last week
- Liam and Noel were criticised for using Ticketmaster’s ‘in-demand’ pricing system
- A tweet of Liam’s from 2017 has resurfaced, blasting Noel for US tour prices
File this one under ‘there is always a tweet’. Liam Gallagher’s criticism of his brother Noel’s US tour prices from 2017 has started doing the rounds on X after the Gallagher brothers were widely chastised for utilising Ticketmaster’s ‘In Demand’ ticketing system to charge fans hundreds more for already expensive tickets for their 2025 reunion tour.
When tickets went on sale for Oasis’ 2025 reunion shows, it was stressed that tickets being re-sold for astronomic fees on popular touting websites would likely be cancelled and invalid. Both Ticketmaster and Twickets were announced as the official re-sale platforms for the tour and that only face value fees would be charged.
Only, when some people finally, after hours of being held in a seemingly neverending queue, were able to buy tickets, they discovered that Ticketmaster was, in fact, overcharging for their own tickets by several hundreds of pounds, in exactly the same way a tout would. The tickets, which already in most cases were costing in the region of £150, were now being sold for £360, despite just being the exact same tickets that other fans had already snapped up earlier in the day.
The outrage was, of course, widespread, with countless fans taking to social media to vent their disgust at the practice. Others, meanwhile, dug up a seven-year-old post from Liam calling out Noel’s ticket prices for his 2017 US tour.
Liam posted, “350 dollars to go and see rkid in USA what a c**t when will it all stop as you were LG x”.
One reply at the time now stands out, with one X user commenting, “Shocking price. But this tweet bodes well for if/when Oasis reunion tickets go on sale. Fair prices all round!!”
Othe replies, only from the current day, were not as excitable as John C’s from 2017.
Well over a million tickets were reportedly sold for the Gallagher brothers’ 17 dates across the UK and Ireland next summer, with European and American dates set to be announced in the coming weeks.
The British Government have also announced that they are going to look into the ‘dynamic pricing’ practice in an effort to prevent families being restricted from attempting to buy concert tickets, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer explaining to Matt Chorley on BBCRadio 5 Live, “This is really important, because this isn’t just an Oasis problem. This is a problem for tickets for all sorts of events, where people go online straight away, as soon as they can, and within seconds sometimes, sometimes minutes, all the tickets are gone, and the prices start going through the roof, which means many people can’t afford it. You have to stop that. We’re consulting on that.
“I do think there are a number of things that we can do and we should do, because otherwise you get to the situation where families simply can’t go, or are absolutely spending a fortune on tickets, whatever it may be. So we’ll grip this and make sure that actually tickets are available at a price that people can actually afford.”
