Oasis followers aren’t discovering a lot glory this morning whereas making an attempt to purchase tickets for the band’s extremely anticipated reunion tour, with many reporting technical points.
After tickets for the band’s 17-date U.Okay. and Eire run went on sale Saturday morning through three web sites — Ticketmaster, GigsAndTours and See Tickets — followers took to social media to submit error messages or ridiculously lengthy queues, with some exceeding half one million folks.
In an announcement to Selection, Ticketmaster mentioned its website had not crashed and the queue is “shifting alongside.”
“As anticipated, thousands and thousands of followers are accessing our website so have been positioned in a queue,” a Ticketmaster spokesperson mentioned. “Followers are suggested to carry their place in line, make sure that they’re solely utilizing one tab, clear cookies and guarantee they aren’t utilizing any VPN software program on their machine.”
As followers scrambled for tickets, Oasis repeatedly warned towards scams and ticket reselling. In a message posted to X in a while Saturday morning, the band wrote: “Please notice, Oasis Stay ‘25 tickets can solely be resold at face worth through @TicketmasterUK and @Twickets! Tickets showing on different secondary ticketing websites are both counterfeit or will likely be cancelled by the promoters.”
Quickly after the presale for the tour began on Friday evening, tickets started showing on reselling web sites reminiscent of StubHub and Viagogo for as a lot as £6,000. Face worth for a standing ticket to the tour is £150, and seated tickets vary as much as £205.
The opposite two web sites, GigsAndTours and See Tickets, have been reported to be holding followers in a “momentary queue” earlier than directing them to the acquisition web page.
“Please bear with us while the positioning manages the capability. Clients are put in a short lived queue prematurely of shoppers reaching the reserving web page when website reaches heavy site visitors,” a consultant for GigsAndTours replied to a consumer on X. “The demand for tickets is extraordinarily excessive. We want you one of the best of luck with securing them!”
