Oasis announced earlier this week that they were reforming almost 15 years to the date of their acrimonious 2009 split and fans felt like all their Christmases had come at once – until they saw the eye-watering ticket prices that is.
A seat to watch the Mancunian rock band at London’s Wembley Stadium in summer 2025 begins at £74.25, with the most expensive ticket a £506.25 pre-show party, exhibition and seated package.
But that’s if you can even make it through the Hunger Games-style pre-sale sign up process.
I for one won’t even be bothering to try and while I may be in a minority here, just don’t care about an Oasis reunion. Truth be told, I was more excited about S Club 7 and Girls Aloud getting back together.
The Wonderwall hit-makers are reportedly set to pocket £400m from their reunion tour – if they can get through it without fighting so much that they break up again, that is.
Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher infamously hate each other to the point of they can’t stand to be in the same room as one another – it’s the reason Oasis split up and it isn’t all water under the bridge.
How are they going to manage to get through 10 dates at Wembley? If they do, it would break Taylor Swift’s current record with her mammoth Eras Tour at the venue, but I will believe it when I see it.
The stakes are certainly higher for Noel, who is facing a reported £20 million divorce from second wife Sara McDonald, but will it be enough to get them on stage? Inevitably, and with excellent foresight, the bookies are already offering odds on when Oasis will split up.
With a 30th anniversary deluxe reissue of their debut album Definitely Maybe confirmed and tie-in clothing merchandise lines revealed, it’s ultimately just one big money grab – while we might like to believe that they are ‘for the fans’, they are generally not, and seldom live up to the hype.
As a journalist, I’ve been lucky enough to see the likes of Adele, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and Dolly Parton live, but there are very few artists I would actually pay to see, especially in the age of dynamic ticket pricing.
Good luck to those who decide to persevere with Oasis tickets, but they won’t be getting my money and there are no definitely maybes about it.
