By Suban Abdullah and Sarah Mills
LONDON – Tickets go on sale in Britain and Ireland on Saturday for the group Oasis’ long-awaited reunion, likely to draw fans old and new for what has been billed as “the big event of 2025”.
The Britpop band announced their comeback to much fanfare this week, 15 years after their band broke up when lead guitarist and main songwriter Noel Gallagher said he could no longer work with his lead guitarist and brother Liam after a number of public feuds.
Music business consultant and journalist Mark Sutherland said the audience would likely include people who had spent “the best years of their lives” through Oasis’ music, as well as younger fans who knew some of the hits and wanted to hear them live.
Oasis have opened a pre-sale ballot for those who can answer a question about the band, before tickets go on general release at 9am in the UK and 8am in Ireland.
Fans have also been advised to be cautious of fraud.
Harry Kind, from consumer group Which?, said Oasis and ticket sellers had taken measures to prevent people trying to profit from a clamour for tickets such as the ballot.
Oasis had originally announced 14 shows in Cardiff, Manchester (where the group formed in 1991), London, Edinburgh and Dublin, but on Thursday added three dates after “unprecedented demand”.
Fans aren’t just trying to watch the show.
In cities such as Manchester, cheap hotel rooms have been replaced by more expensive ones on travel sites, and some people reported on social media that hotels had tried to cancel bookings made before travel dates were announced in order to relist them at a higher price.
These events are expected to provide a multi-million pound boost to the UK hospitality sector and economy.
“A huge amount of money will be spent on goods, travel, hotels, bars and restaurants, as well as job creation, all of which are directly linked to these activities,” said Paul Haywood-Schiffer, senior managing director at tax advisory firm Blick Rothenberg.
Although Oasis, one of the biggest British bands of recent decades, has said plans are being made to tour other continents, fans are likely to come from abroad for British shows.
“If you want to see Oasis, the best place to do it is in Britain, where they have a lot of prominence,” Sutherland said.
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