Liam Gallagher has joked about the price of Oasis tickets after fans were left frustrated after being charged over-inflated prices for tickets.
In a series of expletive-laden tweets, the Oasis frontman said: “OASIS are back [you’re] welcome and I hear [their] ATTITUDE STINKS, good to know something’s never change F******.”
Asked by one fan if he had any spare tickets, he replied: “Shit loads but [they’re] really expensive 100 thousand pounds. Kneeling only.”
In response to someone who wrote: “Didn’t expect them to rip the fans off as much as they have done. It’s genuinely a shame,” Gallagher replied: “SHUTUP.”
When someone asked how his mother Peggy felt about the reunion, Gallagher responded: “She’s gutted she couldn’t get a ticket”.
Asked how he was feeling, he replied: “SMUG only kidding SMUG AS F*** I told you all we were gonna get back together one fine day.”
Liam and his brother Noel Gallagher announced the band would reunite for a tour in 2025 and on Saturday tickets for their UK and Ireland shows sold out in less than a day.
But fans suffered various problems with ticket websites, from being kicked out of the queue because they were labelled bots to some ending up paying as much as £355 for tickets originally advertised for £148.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Ticketmaster, looking at how ‘dynamic pricing’ may have been used, and whether the sale by Ticketmaster may have breached consumer protection law.
Ticketmaster maintains it does not set concert prices and its website says this is down to the “event organiser” who “has priced these tickets according to their market value”.
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A Ticketmaster spokesperson said: “We are committed to co-operating with the CMA and look forward to sharing more facts about the ticket sale with them.”
Meanwhile, Oasis said in a statement: “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.
“While prior meetings between promoters, Ticketmaster and the band’s management resulted in a positive ticket sale strategy, which would be a fair experience for fans, including dynamic ticketing to help keep general ticket prices down as well as reduce touting, the execution of the plan failed to meet expectations.
“All parties involved did their utmost to deliver the best possible fan experience but due to the unprecedented demand this became impossible to achieve.”
Ireland’s competition watchdog has also launched an investigation into Ticketmaster Ireland over Oasis ticket sales.
Ticketmaster Ireland has said it does not set concert prices.
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Oasis announced two new Wembley Stadium gigs on 27 and 28 September 2025, with tickets sold using a lottery system.
They will use a new “staggered invitation-only ballot process” with applications to join the ballot opened first to those who were unsuccessful in the initial sale.
The Advertising Standards Authority received 450 complaints alleging “misleading claims about availability and pricing” for the Oasis ticket sale.
