Thousands of fans spent their Saturday on ticket selling websites to try and bag themselves a way into one of the 17 shows across London, Cardiff, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin as part of the Oasis Live 25 tour.
Oasis fans have scrambled for tickets for the band’s reunion tour, battling technical issues and waiting for hours in virtual queues.
Noel and Liam Gallagher confirmed the band’s long-awaited reunion on Tuesday, saying: “The great wait is over.”
Tickets for the Oasis Live 25 tour sold out within hours, with the band posting on X at 7pm that tickets for all 17 shows across London, Cardiff, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin were gone.
The frenzy for tickets started way before they went on sale at 9am (8am for the two gigs n Dublin) as Manchester-based promoter SJM Concerts’ website Gigs and Tours, Ticketmaster and See Tickets all told website visitors they would need to wait for the page to refresh to join a queue.
Within minutes, online queues were in excess of 500,000 people.
Gigs and Tours and See Tickets then both appeared to experience issues from 8.30am until around 12.30pm.
A spokeswoman for Ticketmaster denied the website had crashed, despite fans posting grabs of their screens showing error messages, while others reported the website was being slow.
Some ticket hopefuls also reported being “suspended” by Ticketmaster UK and Ireland after it accused them of being “bots”.
The company advised people through its customer service account on X to ensure they are only using one tab, clearing cookies and not using any VPN software.
‘The countdown is on’
For those that did manage to get their hands on tickets, the countdown is now on for the live shows.
Olivia Bridge – who has a Live Forever tattoo in honour of her favourite Oasis song – told Sky News that she kept checking her email to “make sure it was real” after securing tickets for Manchester’s Heaton Park.