Oasis cancels tickets for reunion tours sold by retailers

Oasis is canceling around 50,000 tickets for its UK tour dates that were resold on secondary websites such as StubHub and Viagogo.

The band’s tour promoters are canceling tickets resold through unofficial secondary websites to stop price gouging, a spokesman for Live Nation and SJM, the Oasis tour promoters, told CNN.

Oasis fans are the latest to deal with the issue of ticket scalpers, who buy tickets at face value and resell them for a profit. The practice has captured — and enraged — fans of everyone from Taylor Swift to Coldplay, and has become the rare issue in Washington that lawmakers from both parties can agree on.

Oasis, who dominated the airwaves in the 90s, have not performed since 2009, when a row between feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher led to its split. The band’s reunion tour was announced in August, and its popularity has brought renewed attention to frustrations over ticket availability and fans being priced out of major concerts.

When tickets for Oasis’ UK and Ireland reunion tour went live in August, some fans took to social media to bemoan the rising prices, long wait times and even missing out on buying tickets. There were 1.4 million tickets available, with 10 million fans from 158 countries vying to buy them, according to Live Nation.

With huge demand and limited supply, tickets were immediately relisted on secondary websites at high prices. CNN saw the ticket prices as high as $7,294 for the Oasis tour on Viagogo, a secondary ticketing market.

Reselling tickets on secondary websites violated the terms and conditions of the Oasis tour, a spokesperson for Live Nation and SJM told CNN. Canceled tickets will be made available for face value on Ticketmaster, which is owned by Live Nation and is considered the designated outlet for Oasis tickets.

When tickets for the UK and Ireland leg of the tour were released in August, fans were informed that they could buy and resell tickets on Ticketmaster or Twickets, the official resale partner. However, about 4% of the tickets were bought and resold on unofficial secondary sites such as Viagogo, totaling about 50,000 tickets, a spokesman for Live Nation and SJM said.

Restrictions on the resale of tickets on unofficial secondary websites were put in place to prevent dealers taking advantage of fans, the spokesman said.

Full refunds will be given for canceled tickets and if fans believe their tickets have been canceled in error, they can speak to their relevant ticket agent to investigate their case.

“All parties involved in the tour continue to encourage fans not to purchase tickets from unauthorized websites, as some of these may be fraudulent and others may be cancelled,” the spokesperson told CNN. “If fans wish to sell Oasis tickets, they can do so at face value through Ticketmaster or the band’s official resale partner Twickets.”

Reselling concert tickets is legal in the UK as long as they were purchased legally to begin with and there are protections in place for consumers. Some sites such as Viagogo intend to continue to allow the resale of Oasis tickets.

“We want to assure fans who purchase tickets on Viagogo that we fully comply with the law and guidelines set by relevant regulators,” a Viagogo spokesperson told CNN. “Threats by promoters to cancel tickets unfairly target fans who chose to purchase on a safe, transparent and highly regulated resale marketplace. Such actions are clear examples of anti-consumer and retaliatory behavior.”

The Oasis Live ’25 Tour begins on 4 July 2025 with a series of shows in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin.

The North American leg of the Oasis tour will begin on August 24, 2025 at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, Ontario. Subsequent concerts are planned for Chicago, East Rutherford, New Jersey, Los Angeles and Mexico City.