Rush for Oasis tickets, reunion concerts sold out within twelve hours

AFPIn total, Oasis will perform seventeen concerts next summer

NOS News•yesterday, 13:34•Modified yesterday, 21:00

The expectation that the reunion concerts of the British band Oasis would be extremely popular has been fulfilled. The band itself reports on Instagram that the more than one million tickets for the tour in the United Kingdom and Ireland sold out in just twelve hours.

Tickets for the seventeen concerts in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin flew over the online counter of Ticketmaster today. As is often the case, it did not go entirely smoothly.

Sales for the two shows in Dublin started this morning at 09:00 Dutch time. The other shows started exactly one hour later. There was a maximum of four tickets per person. The two reunion shows in the Irish capital Dublin are now sold out.

“It was a bit of a rollercoaster this morning, with a site that didn’t work and being logged out against your will,” says Bram from Utrecht. He was ready for it well before 9:00 this morning. He managed to get tickets for one of the concerts in Edinburgh. He is of course very happy about that. “It’s really cool.”

He eventually got number 13,000 in the queue. “Then you think: ‘Will it, will it, will it?’ And yes, it worked! I am especially very happy and relieved.” He does not yet know exactly how he and his friends will travel to Scotland next summer. “We will see.”

Lots of queues

Ticket seller Ticketmaster seemed to be able to handle the large numbers of visitors at first. As far as is known, there were no difficulties during the first round of sales, for the Irish tickets.

But many fans who tried to get tickets in other cities a little later had a different experience. Initially, fans were put in a queue to access the site. “Many fans are currently using our site, so you have been placed in a queue,” they were told.

The lucky ones then ended up in an online waiting room just before the sale started. After 10:00 they got a spot in the actual queue, now with a number that indicated how many people were ‘standing’ in front of them in the queue.

A fan complained on X about the long queues, summing it up as follows: “Queuring to get on a website to get in line to get in the waiting room to get in line to get Oasis tickets.”

Several fans also reported receiving error messages, being unable to log in or being suddenly logged out. There were also people whose site completely crashed once they reached the front of the line.

“As expected, Oasis is incredibly popular,” Ticketmaster wrote in one of the last updates fans saw. “We are processing orders as quickly as possible, so please hold your place in line.”

Warning for resale

Some fans were already allowed to buy tickets last night. They received an invitation to register for a special pre-sale and thus had a chance to be drawn. It is not clear how many tickets were involved last night, but tickets were immediately offered for sale on other sites for high prices last night.

For example, tickets are for sale for 6,000 pounds, about 40 times the official price. An advertisement for tickets of 1,500 euros each also appeared on Marktplaats last night.

Oasis warned about this last night and this morning. “We have noticed that people are trying to sell tickets on the secondary market,” the band wrote. “Please note that tickets can only be resold for face value via Ticketmaster and Twickets.” According to Oasis, tickets that appear on these “secondary sites” are fake or are cancelled by the official sales sites.

Fifteen years ago, Oasis split up after years of feuding between brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher. This week, it was announced that the band will reunite next summer for a series of shows in the UK and Ireland.

Oasis made a splash in the 1990s during the heyday of Britpop, selling millions of albums including Definitely Maybe in (What’s the Story) Morning Glory. It included hits like Live Forever in Wonder wall.

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