Oasis tickets seem on reselling web site for £1,700

Coveted Oasis tickets have already appeared on a reselling website for £1,700 before sales have even begun for the Gallagher brothers’ groundbreaking reunion tour.

Reselling website Ticombo, based in Berlin, Germany, claimed to have 189 tickets available to buy for the gig at Heaton Park in Manchester on July 12.

Tickets were being sold for between £450 and £1,659 and – despite the show occurring in a field – claimed to have options for the ‘upper tier’ and seating.

The inewspaper reported these were being sold along with a ‘booking fee’ of £149, and the listings were removed after it contacted the website.

Ticombo told the newspaper: ‘there is no reason to believe that any of the listings created by our users concerning the Oasis concert are not legitimate’.

The website said it has ‘requested proof from the sellers regarding their source, and are temporarily disabling sales for this event until the official sales begin or proof is provided by a seller’.

Consumer groups have repeatedly warned music fans about the dangers of using ticket reselling websites.

Buyers may not be able to get a refund and could be turned away at the door. 

There was an investigation into the industry which led to a series of recommendations to the government in 2021.

These included a ban on platforms allowing resellers to sell more tickets for an event than they can legally buy from the primary market.

But in a response published last year, the government said it was ‘too soon to conclude that the only way forward is further legislation focused on this market’.

It comes as ticket prices for Oasis’s upcoming reunion tour were revealed today, with the cheapest costing £73.

Gigs And Tours has revealed the prices to see them play in London, Manchester’s Heaton Park, Cardiff’s Principality Stadium and Edinburgh‘s Murrayfield.

Fans lucky enough to bag a ticket for the iconic Britpop band’s Wembley shows will end up having to pay more with standing tickets costing £151.25. 

The same tickets in Cardiff and Edinburgh are priced slightly cheaper at £150 and £151 respectively.  

The band announced earlier this week that they would be reuniting for the first time since breaking up in 2009. They will go on a 17-gig run in the UK and Ireland before embarking on a world tour with plans underway ‘to go to other continents outside of Europe’. 

Seated tickets at Wembley start at £74.25 with the most expensive an eye-popping £206.25. But those really want to splash the cash can fork out £506.25 for a pre-show party, exhibition and seated ticket package.

In the band’s home city of Manchester, tickets start from £148.50, with only standing available alongside a number of hospitality and luxury offerings.

The cheapest seats in Scotland will be priced at £74 while in Cardiff they will cost £73. It comes after the cheapest seated tickets for the band’s gigs at Dublin’s Croke Park were revealed to start at 86.50 euros (£72.75).

X users have today been reacting to the prices with one tongue-in-cheek response suggesting Noel and Liam are ‘in need of a good pension fund’.

Another told the Gallaghers to televise the concerts as he would be ‘happy to pay £20 for the privilege’. 

By comparison, Taylor Swift had three standing areas for her Wembley gigs this month.

General admission standing tickets were priced at £110.45, while they cost £172.25 for those who wanted to be at the front. 

Seated tickets ranged from £58 to £194.75.

The cost for Bruce Springsteen tickets when he played in the UK this summer ranged from £75 to £174. 

Jon Collins, chief executive of LIVE, the trade body representing the UK’s live music industry, told Sky News the rise in ticket prices was being driven by a ‘massive appetite’ from fans for ‘bigger spectacles’. 

‘You’ve got a couple of different factors – you’ve got the spectacle of the show and the production cost and everything that goes into the ticket price. But then you’ve also got the fundamentals,’ he said.

‘You’ve got the increase in the cost of people… very justifiable costs like increases in minimum wage and living wage. At every stage of the process we’ve got these cost increases that will all push through the pressure on the ticket price.’ 

Earlier in the day, more shows for the world tour were announced.

Noel Gallagher posted on X, formerly Twitter, that ‘due to unprecedented demand’, shows in Heaton Park, on July 16, Wembley on July 30 and Murrayfield Stadium on August 12 had been added.

Gig passes have not yet gone on sale, but the Manchester rockers invited fans to apply for a pre-sale ballot before Saturday’s general release.  

Oasis today extended the deadline for its fans to confirm entries to Friday morning after an ‘unprecedented’ number signed up for the reunion tour tickets. 

The band also reassured applicants that the confirmation emails for pre-sale ballot entries were still being sent on Thursday.

Oasis wrote on X: ‘The deadline to confirm your entry has now been extended to 10am BST tomorrow morning (Friday 30th August).

‘If successful in the ballot, you will be contacted tomorrow by 5pm BST with pre-sale access information. Thank you for your patience.’

Lucky fans will be notified by email that they have secured the opportunity to get pre-sale tickets.

Noel and his brother Liam put their acrimonious split behind them, confirming the band’s long-awaited reunion on Tuesday, saying: ‘The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.’

The UK and Ireland shows, which are the only European dates, were announced as follows: Principality Stadium July 4 and 5; Heaton Park July 11, 12, 19 and 20; Wembley Stadium July 25 and 26 and August 2 and 3; Murrayfield Stadium August 8 and 9; and Croke Park August 16 and 17.

It has not been announced who will be performing with Liam and Noel as part of Oasis.

The UK dates will be sold through Ticketmaster, Gigs and Tours and See Tickets, all of whom will be bracing for a frenzy when tickets go on sale. 

Those in the music industry say demand is set to rival or even exceed that of Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’, which saw the global pop star sell out several concerts across the UK.

The Oasis website crashed immediately after their announcement, indicating just how many people will be battling it out for tickets. 

Fans have been urging the brothers to regroup since they disbanded, a split prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.

More than 4million fans are expected to be vying for the 1,066,888 tickets available across the 14 gigs, with sources telling The Sun that once they sell out ‘extra dates will be added for sure’.

Industry insiders have also claimed that Bonehead is ‘confirmed’ for the tour and ‘ecstatic’ that the band is back together – with Liam and Noel Gallagher reportedly ‘both wanting him in the fold’ after he was ‘one of the drivers of the reunion’.

‘The Oasis family has really come back together. Bonehead is ecstatic,’ the source said, adding: ‘Noel has brought in some of his band too.’

Ahead of the ticket release date, fans have been warned not to wait until Saturday morning to register to ensure you have an account set up with all the correct billing and delivery information.

Fans have also been urged to make sure their accounts are verified, which can be done by adding your phone number and confirming a one-time passcode.

Those hoping to secure a ticket for the comeback tour should also make sure their card details are already saved to avoid last-minute panic.

Your devices, such as phones and laptops, should be well charged in advance of the deadline. Meanwhile, ticket success could come down to how strong your internet connection is and what device you are using.

Joshua Houston, an appliance expert at Household Quotes said: ‘Oasis have been away for 15 years, and in that time a whole new generation of their fans have formed who are yet to see them live.

‘So follow these tips to increase your chances, those that can go into the online queue first will get the tickets and part of this is down to how good your internet connection is.’

Ticketmaster says that there is usually a waiting room which opens 15 minutes before the sale. Once the queue opens, you will be told exactly where you are in line.

Ticketing sites warn that refreshing the page won’t move you further up the queue and that the page updates itself automatically.

Fans will be able to purchase a maximum of four tickets per transaction and you will not be able to sell them for more than you bought them for. The price of tickets has not been revealed but the Manchester Evening News reports it will exceed £100.

Noel, 57, 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 a reunion, concerns have been raised about high ticket prices and accommodation, and the prospect of Liam and Noel having another falling out.