Liam Gallagher tells Oasis followers to ‘shut up’ over tickets | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV | EUROtoday
Liam Gallagher says the perspective in regards to the Oasis reunion “stinks” amid followers airing their frustrations at being charged over-inflated costs for tickets.
The musician introduced final week that he and his brother Noel Gallagher would come again for a reunion tour in 2025, and on Saturday the sequence of UK and Ireland reveals offered out in lower than a day.
Fans had been beset with issues getting onto ticket web sites, from being labelled bots and being kicked out of queuing to some ending up paying greater than the marketed worth of £148 as prices surged previous £355.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Thursday launched an investigation into Ticketmaster, together with how so-called ‘dynamic pricing’ might have been used.
Today, Liam wrote on X, previously Twitter: “Oasis are back (you’re) welcome and I hear (their) attitude stinks, good to know something’s never change.”
When requested if he would do a free live performance, he replied saying “don’t be silly”.
Another referenced his mom Peggy, saying how she would possibly really feel about ticket fiasco, and Liam responded saying: “She’s gutted she couldn’t get a ticket.”
He additionally stated: “Smug only kidding, Smug as f***. I told you all we were gonna get back together one fine day.”
Liam additionally appeared to joke, he had “loads” of tickets left, however might solely promote them for £100,000 and they’d be “kneeling only”.
The CMA will even scrutinise whether or not the sale of Oasis tickets by Ticketmaster might have breached shopper safety regulation.
Ticketmaster maintains it doesn’t set live performance costs and its web site states that is right down to the “event organiser” who “has priced these tickets according to their market value”.
A spokesman for the ticket gross sales firm stated: “We are committed to co-operating with the CMA and look forward to sharing more facts about the ticket sale with them.”
Oasis stated in a press release: “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 conferences between promoters, Ticketmaster and the band’s administration resulted in a optimistic ticket sale technique, which might be a good expertise for followers, together with dynamic ticketing to assist hold basic ticket costs down in addition to scale back touting, the execution of the plan failed to fulfill 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.”
Following the chaos over the weekend, Oasis introduced new Wembley Stadium dates on September 27 and 28 2025 utilizing a lottery system.
The last UK Live ’25 tour tickets launched will use a brand new “staggered invitation-only ballot process” with functions to affix the poll opened first to those that had been unsuccessful within the preliminary sale.
The Advertising Standards Authority reported receiving 450 complaints alleging “misleading claims about availability and pricing” from the Oasis ticket launch.
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1945385/liam-gallagher-oasis-concert-uk-tour-tickets