Ticketmaster: millions of fans trying to buy ticketsTicketmaster said its website has not crashed.
A spokesperson said:
The queue is moving along as fans buy tickets. As anticipated, millions of fans are accessing our site so have been placed in a queue.
Fans are advised to hold their place in line, make sure they’re only using one tab, clear cookies, and ensure they aren’t using any VPN software on their device.
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Screens at Wembley Stadium advertise next year’s Oasis gigs Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/ShutterstockViagogo defends ‘legal’ resale practicesTicket reseller Viagogo has defended having Oasis tickets on sale for inflated prices on its platform as a “legal” practice after the band warned concertgoers that passes bought outside of the official websites will be cancelled.
Cris Miller, Viagogo global managing director, said in a statement to PA Media:
Our number-one tip for fans using secondary marketplaces is to continue to check prices outside of the first few weeks of sale. Demand will be at its peak when tickets hit the on-sale but it’s not a normal reflection of what tickets can and will go for. Just this summer tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in the UK sold on our platform for as low as £80.
“In the case of Oasis – a highly anticipated event – we saw the primary sites struggling to manage demand even before the on-sale, and site crashes…
“We know fans are frustrated with the process and we know there is a better way. Resale is legal in the UK and fans are always protected by our guarantee that they will receive their tickets in time for the event or their money back.”
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Pete Cross is looking forward to a summer “full of enthusiasm and joy” after bagging tickets to see Oasis next year with his family in the pre-sale on Friday.
He said his entire family, including his wife, 21-year-old daughter and 18-year-old son, put themselves on a ballot to receive a presale code but he was the only who was lucky enough to get one.
“My kids are as obsessed as I am about music – Oasis underpins it all. When my daughter was five she would take a Definitely Maybe CD [into her room] to play quietly while she went to sleep,” said Cross.
Some “loyal” Oasis fans received a separate email with a guaranteed presale code. He said he was “naffed off” not to have received one of these emails, considering he spent about £200 on two versions of Definitely Maybe on vinyl, a CD tape bundle and a T-shirt in recent months. “A mate of mine got a loyal customer presale code for seemingly signing up to the Oasis mailing list,” he said.
Nevertheless, he is delighted to have nabbed four tickets to see the band at the Wembley stadium. “The relief was massive as the screen changed. We were going to see Oasis as a family. Quick hugs. A lovely moment,” he said.
For Cross, next summer cannot come fast enough. “It’s going to be so full of enthusiasm and joy. Oasis are back.”
Another successful punter is Guardian marketing manager Michael Roberts, on the point of some fans being thrown off websites for being bots, he says:
We had that as well and refreshed when sent back into the queue and somehow managed to get back to our purchase page – it’s chaos out there!
He also says he had to make up his mind over the offered tickets almost immediately:
We only got 60 seconds to confirm or chuck the tickets we were allocated- which is a new one for us on Ticketmaster.
Michael is off to Wembley on 3 August next year and says it “feels like we’ve won the lottery”. He adds:
So we’re playing Oasis on the speaker and making a real moment of it – but now we’ve got our tickets we’re still in the queue trying to help others. And, yes of course I’m wearing my big green coat and sunglasses.
I am definitely feeling like I need a Gallagher emoji at this point.
Oasis tour ‘could make £400m’A report by Agence France-Presse on the Oasis reunion says that ticket sales, merchandise and possible film licensing could generate an estimated £400m.
After accounting for expenses and paying their teams, the Gallagher brothers could come away with £50 million each, Matt Grimes, a music industry researcher at Birmingham City University, told the news wire.
After accounting for expenses and paying their teams, the Gallagher brothers could come away with £50m each, he said.
‘Big buzz’ in Manchester for reunion, says night time tsarInternational news wire Associated Press has also covered the Oasis ticket sale, saying it got off to a “creaky start as online platforms strain under demand”.
It says that host cities anticipate an economic boost to hotels, bars, restaurants and shops – especially Manchester, the band’s home town.
Sacha Lord, Manchester’s official nighttime economy adviser, said “there’s a big buzz” in the city about the reunion.
“This is a homecoming gig,” he said. “When they set foot on that stage for the first time, it’s going to be a really special moment.”
Some fans have been joking that the band could split up again in the time it takes to secure tickets, given the brothers’ famously combustible relationship.
Some people have managed to secure tickets, including apparently this chap who says he will be travelling to Dublin (where tickets went on sale an hour before the UK ones) from Australia!!!
As we wait, let’s remind ourselves of Tuesday’s announcement that Oasis were reforming, “the stars have aligned”.
Ticketmaster: millions of fans trying to buy ticketsTicketmaster said its website has not crashed.
A spokesperson said:
The queue is moving along as fans buy tickets. As anticipated, millions of fans are accessing our site so have been placed in a queue.
Fans are advised to hold their place in line, make sure they’re only using one tab, clear cookies, and ensure they aren’t using any VPN software on their device.
Ticketmaster has responded to fans who were kicked off its site for being seen as bots.
Several users reported to the customer service accounts of Ticketmaster Ireland and Ticketmaster UK on X that their session had been “suspended”, says PA Media, and they were having to restart the purchase process.
Staff at the ticket-selling website replied saying: “Please make sure you are only using one tab, clear your cookies, and ensure you aren’t using any VPN software on your device.”
Ticketmaster.ie website at 08.04 of their virtual waiting room Photograph: Ticketmaster.ie/PAThis morning’s sale follows the announcement by Noel and Liam Gallagher on Tuesday that they had put their acrimonious split behind them.
They confirmed Oasis’s long-awaited reunion by saying: “The great wait is over.”
Fans have been urging the brothers to regroup since they disbanded 15 years ago, a split prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in 2009.
It has not been announced who will be performing with Liam and Noel as part of Oasis.
Noel, 57, quit the group on August 28 2009, saying he “simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer”, and the brothers have made negative comments about each other for more than a decade.