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Oasis comeback tour wasn't ‘sold out' after all
Oasis will sell more tickets for the band's comeback tour despite it previously being billed as 'sold out'.
Fans were told 'a very limited number of additional tickets' could be released for the Manchester Britpop group's summer tour.
Millions scrambled to buy tickets for the Oasis Live '25 tour after brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher appeared to reconcile last August.
However, the sale provoked a pricing row after the cost of tickets more than doubled.
Oasis fans now have been alerted through email that more tickets for their shows in Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Dublin and Manchester will be released 'over the coming days'.
The extra tickets will be sold to fans after being held back for production teams, The Telegraph understands. Sources insisted this was a 'common practice in the industry'.
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It comes after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that Ticketmaster, the ticketing giant, may have misled Oasis fans – some of whom paid more than £350 for tickets with a face value of £150 – in the way it priced tickets for the comeback gigs.
Oasis insisted at the time they did not know so-called 'dynamic pricing', in which ticket prices rise when demand is high, would be used in the ticketing of their reunion tour.
Responding to a fan on X who told Liam Gallagher in September that he 'didn't expect them to rip the fans off as much as they have done', the musician simply wrote: 'Shutup [sic].'
Hayley Fletcher, interim senior director of consumer protection at the CMA, said of the group's findings: 'Fans reported problems when buying Oasis tickets from Ticketmaster, and we decided those concerns warranted investigation.
'We're concerned that Oasis fans didn't get the information they needed or may have been misled into buying tickets they thought were better than they were.'
Some tickets had been offered as 'platinum' and sold on the platform for almost 2.5 times the price of standard equivalent tickets without sufficient clarification that they did not offer any additional benefits, which was in breach of consumer protection law.
The brothers said that while their management agreed to surge pricing being used to try to keep general ticket pricing down and reduce ticket touting, they accepted that 'the execution of the plan failed to meet expectations'.
Demand for tickets was so high at the time of the release that many fans entered a ballot to apply for a pre-sale of tickets ahead of the general sale – also prompting the band to add more dates following this 'unprecedented demand'.
The band will kick off the tour with two performances at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on July 4 and 5.
The next performances will take place at Manchester's Heaton Park, before they move on to London to play at Wembley Stadium and then Murrayfield in Edinburgh. Dublin's Croke Park will be the final venue of the tour in August.
Fans have been pleading with the brothers to regroup since they disbanded 16 years ago after a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
Noel, 58, quit the Manchester rock group on August 28 2009, saying he 'simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer', and the brothers have made negative comments about each other for more than a decade.
Though fans have been positive about the reunion, concerns have been raised about the high ticket prices and the prospect of the brothers having another falling out.
