Oasis Warns Fans About Sale of Fake Tickets Ahead of Reunion Tour

Undated handout photo provided by Fear PR of Liam Gallagher (left) and Noel Gallagher (right) who have announced they will reunite for Oasis's long-awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025, beginning in Cardiff. Simon Emmett/Fear PR/PA Wire

Britpop group Oasis, known for hit songs such as “Wonderwall” and “Stop Crying Your Heart Out,” has issued a warning to its fans about the emergence of fake tickets sold online ahead of the band’s upcoming reunion tour.

“Please be aware. Thousands of fake Oasis tickets have already been discovered on StubHub and Vivid Seats before the North American tour has even gone on sale!” the Grammy-nominated band cautioned in an Instagram story on Thursday.

In the post, Oasis shared a link to a press release published on Oct. 2 by the National Independent Venue Association, a trade organization representing independent music venues and festivals, which provided further details regarding the fraudulent tickets.

The association indicated that it had sent a letter to Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), calling for urgent intervention against the “widespread deceptive practices perpetuated by predatory ticket brokers and resale platforms.”

“The letter highlights the alarming evidence of at least 9,000 fake tickets already listed for sale for the highly anticipated U.S. shows of Oasis, despite the fact that the promoter has yet to make U.S. tickets available for anyone to purchase until October 4, with pre-sale tickets going live October 3,” the association wrote.

“Not only are these tickets fake, they are estimated to be exceedingly higher than the face value of real tickets.”

Reunion Tour

Singer-songwriter Liam Gallagher, 52, and several of his friends—including guitarist Paul Arthurs, 59; bassist Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan, 53; and drummer Tony McCarroll, 53—founded Oasis in Manchester, England, in 1991.

The singer later enlisted his older brother, Noel Gallagher, 57, to serve as the group’s lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist, and the band went on to release its debut studio album “Definitely Maybe” in 1994.

Subsequent albums included “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” (1995), “Be Here Now” (1997), “Standing on the Shoulder of Giant” (2000), “Heathen Chemistry” (2002), “Don’t Believe the Truth” (2005), and “Dig Out Your Soul” (2008).

Members of British rock band Oasis pose for photos ahead of a concert, in Hong Kong, on Feb. 25, 2006. Lo Sai Hung/AP Photo

However, on Aug. 28, 2009, the band unexpectedly announced that it had broken up just minutes before Oasis was set to take the stage at the Rock en Seine festival, held annually in Saint-Cloud, France, located just outside of Paris.

Noel Gallagher remarked in a statement at the time that the reason for the group’s disbandment was his conviction that he “simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer,” per NPR.

On Aug. 27, 2024—just one day shy of the 15th anniversary of the band’s infamous breakup—the brothers announced on social media that Oasis would be reuniting for a tour next year. “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised,” the Gallaghers wrote online.

The Oasis Live ‘25 Tour is slated to kick off in July of next year, with concerts scheduled throughout the UK, including Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, Heaton Park in Manchester, London’s Wembley Stadium, and Edinburgh’s Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium. The band is also set to perform at Ireland’s Croke Park in Dublin next August.

Ticket Sale Issues

On Aug. 31, the band announced via Instagram that their upcoming shows in the UK and Ireland had completely sold out. Oasis also issued a warning to fans about fake ticket sales.

“Please be aware of counterfeit and void tickets appearing on the secondary market,” the group implored.

Earlier this week, Oasis revealed that it had expanded its 2025 tour to include shows in North America, with stops in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.

The band promptly released a follow-up statement to address the controversy surrounding dynamic pricing—the practice of adjusting prices in response to fluctuations in the market—of its tour tickets.

Due to the high demand, fans in the UK saw standard ticket prices more than double on Ticketmaster from £148 ($194) to £355 ($466), per BBC. However, Oasis assured prospective concertgoers that this would not be an issue once its North American tour tickets were made available to the public.

“Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing model will not be applied to the forthcoming sale of tickets to Oasis concerts in North America,” the band’s management team wrote in a statement.

“It is widely accepted that dynamic pricing remains a useful tool to combat ticket touting and keep prices for a significant proportion of fans lower than the market rate and thus more affordable,” the statement continues.

“But, when unprecedented ticket demand (where the entire tour could be sold many times over at the moment tickets go on sale) is combined with technology that cannot cope with that demand, it becomes less effective and can lead to an unacceptable experience for fans.”