As usual, Liam Gallagher hasn’t minced his words
Liam Gallagher has told people complaining about the price of Oasis tickets to ‘shut up’.
Last weekend, tickets for the Gallagher brothers’ huge reunion tour went on sale, with millions hoping to bag a ticket to one of the 17 dates the band are playing next July and August.
However, after queueing for hours to try and get tickets on Ticketmaster, many were left aghast when they finally got to the front of the queue. They found tickets were only available at much higher prices than they had been when they first went on sale that day.
Many were only given the option of purchasing ‘in demand standing’ tickets, for more than £350, three times more than the tickets had initially gone on sale for just hours earlier.
Since then, Oasis have claimed they had nothing to do with the ‘dynamic pricing’, saying it was decided by “promoters and management.”
Now, Liam Gallagher has taken to social media for the first time since the controversy.
In a post on X, he wrote: “OASIS are back your welcome and I hear there ATTITUDE STINKS good to know something’s never change LF***ING x”
Some took the opportunity to confront the singer about the ticket prices to see him and his brother perform next summer.
One fan commented: “Didn’t expect them to rip the fans off as much as they have done. It’s genuinely a shame.”
In response to this, Liam simply said: “SHUTUP.”
And when another fan asked if he had “any spare tickets”, Liam replied: “Shit loads but there really expensive 100 thousand pounds Kneeling only.”
Oasis added they had “at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used” during the general sale.
Since the controversy, the government has confirmed it will be looking into the practice as part of a wider consultation into ticket resale websites that had already been announced. This consultation will get underway in the autumn.
On Wednesday, Oasis announced they would be playing two extra UK dates at the end of September. However, the process of buying tickets for these shows will be different than it was for the first release of dates.
The Britpop hitmakers explained tickets for the Wembley shows will be sold by a “staggered, invitation-only ballot process,” which sounds like it will prioritise people who didn’t manage to get tickets for the initial run of concerts.
