Thousands of tickets for Oasis’ upcoming reunion tour will be cancelled after being sold for inflated prices on resale sites.
The band’s promoters, Live Nation and SJM, told the BBC that it would cancel more than 50,000 tickets listed for sale for the Gallagher brothers’ UK dates on resale sites.
The cancelled tickets will then be sold on the official Ticketmaster platform.
Around 1.4 million tickets were made available for sale when Oasis announced their UK tour, but more than 10 million fans tried to get tickets from almost every country on Earth.
Some of those thousands of tickets then appeared on resale sites for inflated prices in an apparent breach of the sale’s terms and conditions - some with price tags of up to £11,000.
Around four per cent of the total tickets went on unpermitted sites, with fans told only those sold at face value through Ticketmaster or resale partner, Twickets, were valid.
SJM told the broadcaster any fans who believe their tickets are wrongly cancelled would be able to have their case investigated.
A company spokesperson said: “These terms and conditions were successfully put in place to take action against secondary ticketing companies reselling tickets for huge profit.
“Only four percent of tickets have ended up on resale sites. Some major tours can see up to 20 percent of tickets appearing via the major unauthorised secondary platforms.
“All parties involved with the tour continue to urge fans not to purchase tickets from unauthorised websites as some of these may be fraudulent and others subject to cancellation.”
Oasis earlier this month announced that Richard Ashcroft, the former lead singer of The Verve, will be joining them as a special guest on all of their UK and Ireland shows.
Ashcroft, a close friend of both Noel and Liam Gallagher, shares a history with the band as Oasis supported The Verve back in 1993.
He was tipped to be one of the support acts for the tour, with indie rockers Cast also reportedly being lined up.
The Verve, formed in Wigan in 1989 by Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury, became known for hits like Bittersweet Symphony and The Drugs Don’t Work.
