How Noel Gallagher revealed his angle to stay reveals on Soccer AM
Oasis songwriter Noel Gallager made no secret of his attitude towards gigs in a resurfaced Soccer AM clip from 2006.
Tim Lovejoy and Helen ‘Hells Bells’ Chamberlain, who are now hosts of Soccer A-Z, were keen to get to quiz the rebellious rocker after he returned from 2006 tour.
The Don’t Believe The Truth Tour saw the Manchester band perform to screaming fans at 123 packed-out gigs.
But when Helen asked Noel how he felt about finishing his biggest tour in the last decade, he was quick to give a money gesture.
After rubbing his fingers together with a devilish smirk, the singer described the series of shows where the iconic band played for 1.7 million fans as ‘pretty good ‘.
Noel Gallagher was quick to let ex-Soccer AM Helen Chamberlain know how he felt about Oasis’s Don’t Believe The Truth tour (Pictured)
‘Get in there, play the songs, give us the money and let’s get out of it,’ said Noel when he was quizzed by TIm Lovejoy and Chamberlain
He also revealed the 2005-2006 tour was their first-ever where Oasis hadn’t cancelled a gig.
When queried about how the band kept track of where they were when addressing the crowd, Noel was quick to say he wasn’t much of a talker at shows.
‘I don’t talk to the crowd at all if I can help it. I let Liam do all that, and he doesn’t say much anyway,’ he quipped.
‘I mean not one for going out going you know “Chicago how you doing?” I’m not into that rubbish.
He added: ‘Get in there, play the songs, give us the money and let’s get out of it.’
Noel later recalled the ‘mega-night’ they played the UEFA Champions League final between Liverpool and Milan at a gig before heading on The Coronet stage.
‘We was at in the dressing room half time with [colleague] and he was devastated and we were laughing our head off,’ Noel said.
‘It goes to penalties and the owner of the pub says: “You’re going to have to go on or you’re going to have a pay a fine.”
Noel also recalled a gig where he and his rocker brother Liam played a UEFA Championship final as a support act
Noel and Liam Gallagher proved they had buried the hatchet on their 15-year feud as they met up this summer to pose for a photo together to mark Oasis’ comeback tour
The 1996 Oasis gigs at Knebworth saw the largest ever demand for gig tickets in UK history
While the band assured measures to avoid resales of the tickets above face value, fans have criticised ticket selling websites over the pricing of their ‘in demand’ tickets online
‘We was like: “You can’t take the screens down now there’s a penalty shoot out going on.”
Speaking on the atmosphere after Liverpool managed to back a win after being 3-0 down at half-time, Noel said: ‘When they eventually won, we thought we’ll milk this for all its worth.
‘So somebody got on a computer and downloaded you’ll never walk alone by Jay and the Pacemakers and we came on to that, stood there and milked it.’
This comes shortly after Oasis fans blasted Ticketmaster for its ‘disgusting’ inflated ‘In Demand’ pricing as fans scrambled for tickets to the latest tour.
Some of the ticket were priced at £350 each, plus fees, amid the wait for sought-after reunion tour tickets this morning.
Some 14 million fans are expected to have joined queues on select websites to be in with a chance of securing one of around 1.4 million tickets for one of the 17 UK and Ireland shows.
Ticketmaster assures lines are still moving forward and has shared tips on avoiding issues with the website, though Oasis devotees are still reporting outages.
But others fortunate enough to be in the position of buying tickets are now sharing their horror to discover various sites offering dynamic prices for ‘in demand’ tickets, at multiples of the original price, with tickets only reserved for a limited time.
Many thousands of fans have been waiting in online queues since the early hours of this morning in the hope of securing a ticket for one of next year’s shows. Standing tickets were originally listed from £151.25, and seated from £74.25 in London.
Before the price surge, tickets for the Irish dates were offered at up to £220
Labour councillor Darragh Moriarty said there was ‘no difference between’ the site and touts
Journalist Gavan Reilly hit out at the in-demand pricing offered for the Ireland dates
The Ticketmaster website acknowledges dynamically-priced tickets based on demand
Journalist Gavan Reilly shared in the frustration at inflated ticket prices in a post now seen more than 400,000 times.
He wrote on Twitter/X: ‘After 105 minutes in the queue: only tickets left for Oasis on Sunday are “official platinum tickets” (€490.50) and “in demand standing tickets” (€415.50).
‘Neither has any VIP element: it’s literally just Ticketmaster incorporating tout pricing into the ‘face value’ proposition.’
Darragh Moriarty, City Councillor for South West and Inner City, and Labour Leader on Dublin City Council, chimed in: ‘”In demand standing ticket” is just a standard standing ticket except double the price. No difference between Ticketmaster and touts.’
Mr Moriarty shared apparent screenshots from the Ticketmaster website offering In Demand standing tickets for 415.50 euros each, plus fees – equivalent to around £350.
Once through the queue, fans have a limited time in which their tickets are reserved to decide whether or not to pay the offered price.
Ticketmaster explains: ‘In Demand Tickets are dynamically-priced tickets.
‘Based on demand the prices of these tickets may change.
Viagogo defended the decision to sell tickets at inflated prices during high demand
Oasis fans reacted to the discovery of prices much higher than they expected
‘These tickets are not part of VIP packages – they are tickets only.’
MailOnline contacted Ticketmaster for further comment.
Ticketmaster notes that they do not have any say on the face value price of a ticket.
‘That is decided by the event organiser. What we do have a say over is the price that is displayed to you and we always ensure that you see the total price you will need to pay right from the beginning – we never hide our fees.’
The first batch of tickets went on sale yesterday at 7pm for those lucky enough to get a pre-sale code.
But within minutes of the sale going live, tickets were being resold for up to £10,000 by greedy touts.
Oasis soon assured on social media that tickets ‘can only be resold at face value via Ticketmaster and Twickets’.
‘Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will be cancelled by the promoters.’
Users have since responded to the post sharing some of the In Demand prices offered, calling on the band to ‘tell Ticketmaster as they are not selling at face value’.
Emma Munnelly, queuing for tickets since 8:30 this morning, told MailOnline she spent three hours waiting in a queue and a waiting room queue to buy tickets for herself, her husband and her daughter.
She said her daughter ‘has been desperate to see Oasis and couldn’t believe her luck when they announced they were touring’.
‘Expected to pay £148:50 for standing at Manchester, absolutely disgusted that when we had the chance of purchasing the tickets, Ticket Master had increased them to £355 each.
‘This was unaffordable and devastating for my daughter.’
‘It is such an unaffordable cost for many families and it should not be allowed to happen,’ she said.
Tickets on Stubhub are being sold for more than £6,300 – while others on Viagogo appear to be up for grabs thousands of pounds
Catherine Kremer said she had finally reached the front after four hours of queuing and now ‘can’t even buy a ticket ‘whatever option is chosen’, with in-demand tickets priced at £358.10 to stand.
Heidi Tringe told MailOnline she got up at 3:45am local time in Montpelier, USA – and was horrified to discover the ‘In Demand’ prices when she finally got to the front of the queue, three and a half hours later.
‘The Ticket Options that were showing on the screen were the ridiculously Ticketmaster-inflated “dynamic pricing” tickets…
‘I attempted clicking on various buttons and “Find Tickets” to no avail for the last 30 minutes. I finally hit refresh – nothing changed. I hit refresh a few more times and then it said I had lost my place in line and could rejoin the queue.
‘This is so maddening, heartbreaking. If companies are going to have a monopoly on tickets, inflate the prices well above the prices the band has set, they damn well better have systems in place that can handle fan demand. Something needs to be done, both in Europe and in the US.’
