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Devastated Oasis fans ‘give up’ as they get through queue to find ticket prices have soared

OASIS fans have been left furious with tickets more than doubling in price on site Ticketmaster due to demand.

The highly-anticipated reunion tour will kick off in 2025, with general sale tickets going on sale this morning.

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Liam and Noel Gallagher are reuniting for a 17-date tour next year[/caption]
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Fans were left raging over the inflated price due to them being ‘in demand’[/caption]

However, after being trapped in an online queue for hours, fans were left disheartened to discover the inflated price.

Already prepared to fork out over £140 for the chance to see Noel and Liam Gallagher back on stage together, fans flocked to X in rage over how they were now more than £350.

One wrote: “That feeling when you wait in a queue for four hours only to be told the price of the ticket has risen from £148 to… £355??? Because they’re ‘in demand’. How is this not illegal?”

“This is problematic guys,” wrote another, adding: “It’s disgraceful to see standing tickets priced at £355.20—pure exploitation.

“They should be ashamed, turning fan excitement into a money grab. This greed is ruining what should be a joyful experience.”

“Just @Ticketmaster raising the price of regular standing tickets for @oasis and re-naming them ‘in demand standing tickets’,” said a third. “They’re just as bad as the touts.”

The ticket-buying process descended into chaos for thousands of fans, with site crashes and time-outs kicking them out of the queue to the back of the line.

Other fans were accused of being “bots” with their accounts getting suspended as a result.

“hope #Oasis are happy in their choice of the totally incompetent #Ticketmaster to promote their generational extravaganza only to f**k it up I had mine my wife’s and son’s accounts suspended,” wrote one fan.

“I wonder if they are still suspended when they want my money for next gig”

Fans were waiting so long that memes joking the band had already split up again started to circulate.

On top of that, touts have already started flogging tickets for an increased price of up to £6,000 on alternative sites.

The issue became so severe the official Oasis account warned against purchasing from touting sites and will be taking action against those who sell on them.

“Please note, Oasis Live ‘25 tickets can only be resold at face value via @TicketmasterUK and @Twickets!” they wrote.

“Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will be cancelled by the promoters.”

Manchester lads Liam, 51, and Noel Gallagher, 57, revealed the 17-date domestic leg of their Oasis Live 25 tour this month.

They confirmed to loyal fans all their dreams of a reunion – which many thought would never transpire – had come true with the words: “This is it, this is happening.”

However, they added that the show “would not be televised” meaning fans have to buy tickets to get in on the action.

The Sun Online has reached out to Ticketmaster for comment.

Oasis - The Gallagher Feud Timeline

Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have a long history of ongoing fights - both physical and verbal - here's the full history of the band and what they've said to each other.

1991 – Liam Gallagher forms Oasis with Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll, later asking Noel to join.

1993 – The band sign to Creation Records and start work on their debut album.

August 1994 – Oasis shoot to fame with their debut album, Definitely Maybe, with tracks including Rock n Roll Star, Live Forever and Supersonic. It’s one of the fastest selling debuts ever for a British band.

September 1994 – Noel temporarily leaves the band’s tour after Liam smacks him in the face with a tambourine on stage in Los Angeles.

1995 – The band release their second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? which features Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Champagne Supernova.

1996 – Liam is forced to sit out a leg of tour shows due to laryngitis, but causes chaos when he was filmed heckling his brother from a balcony while a taping of MTV Unplugged.

2000 – Noel quits the band temporarily for a second time when, while partying in Barcelona, Liam riles Noel by questioning if his daughter, Anais, is actually his. The pair get into a fist fight.

2005 – Noel tells Q Magazine that he’s ‘never forgiven’ Liam for his comments about Anais and he’s ‘never apologised. He tells the mag: “He’s my brother. I hope he’s reading this and realises that. He’s my brother but he’s at arm’s length until he apologises for what he’s done.”

2009 – Noel admits in an interview with Q that he ‘doesn’t like Liam’, branding him “rude, arrogant, intimidating, and lazy”. “He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet,” he added. “He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”

Liam later retaliates and tells NME: “It takes more than blood to be my brother. He doesn’t like me and I don’t like him.”

August 23, 2009 – Oasis pull out of a headline slot at V Festival in the UK due to Liam having laryngitis.

August 28, 2009 – Ahead of the Rock en Seine festival, Noel and Liam get into another fight, during which time Liam breaks one of Noel’s guitars after “waving it like an axe” according to Noel.

August 28, 2009 – Noel quits the band for the third and final time, saying in a statement: “It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”

2010 – Oasis win ‘best album of the last 30 years’ at the Brit Awards for (What’s the Story) Morning Glory. Liam picks up the gong, and thanks everyone except Noel. He later says this was misinterpreted as a dig.

2011 – Liam tries to sue Noel after he claims in the interview they cancelled their V Festival performance due to Liam being hungover. Liam disputed it said the comment “questioned my professionalism”. He later apologised and the lawsuit was dropped.

2011 – Noel admits regrets at quitting before the Paris gig, telling Absolute Radio and admits if he did “we may never have split up.”

2011 – 2014 – Liam and the other bandmates continue under new name, Beady Eye, while Noel forms new band, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

2015 – After years of jabs online, especially through media and Twitter, Liam teases he’s buried the hatchet with Noel by sharing an All Areas pass from a High Flying Birds gig. However, the fight would recommence two months later after Noel publicly dismissed suggestion Oasis would reunite for Glastonbury 2016.

2017 – Liam performs at Manchester’s One Love concert after the bombing at Ariana Grande’s show, with Don’t Look Back In Anger becoming a unifying anthem for the incident. He then slams Noel for not attending. Noel later tells Sunday Times: “Young music fan were slaughtered, and he, twice, takes it somewhere to be about him. He needs to see somebody.”

2018 – Liam suggests a reunion for the 2018 World Cup on Twitter, writing: “let’s get the big O back together and stop f***ing about the drinks are on me”. When it fell on deaf ears, he added: “I’ll take that as a NO then.”

2019 – Noel speaks out after Liam sends ‘threatening messages’ to Anais after a comment made about then wife Sara McDonald. Liam later apologises publicly to Anais.

2020 – Liam urges Noel to reunite for a one-off charity gig.

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The band have not performed together in nearly 15 years[/caption]
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The group have already warned they will cancel tickets from touted sites[/caption]

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