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Oasis are officially back.
The Brit rockers kicked off their highly-anticipated reunion tour July 4 with a dazzling set in in Cardiff, Wales that saw brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher play together on stage for the first time since 2009.
The Oasis reunion tour was first announced in August, with a handful of European dates. A North American run was announced in October, and tickets immediately sold out on Ticketmaster, with many fans complaining of Eras Tour-type wait times and ordering issues. Now that the tour has kicked off, you may technically still be able to find Oasis tickets on Ticketmaster.com, though the majority of them will likely be resale stubs.
Ticketmaster is the official ticketing partner for Oasis’ reunion tour, and a notice on the Ticketmaster website alerts concert goers that the tour has chosen to use Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange program. “If you need to resell your ticket,” the note says, “they recommend that you do so on Ticketmaster for the price you paid. The tour has also chosen to delay ticket transfer until shortly before the event.”
Of course, other third-party and resale sites also have Oasis tickets available online, though the band has warned that tickets appearing on sites other than Ticketmaster could be at risk of getting cancelled by promoters. That hasn’t stopped fans from flocking to sites like StubHub, for example, which currently has listings for all of Oasis’ North American dates available, with prices starting from the $200 range.
The mad scramble to see the British band on tour has desperate shoppers seemingly willing to take their chances, and StubHub’s website notes that Oasis tickets are “selling fast,” with some dates seeing seats sold just minutes before this article’s publication.
Vivid Seats, meantime, also lists hundreds of Oasis tickets available online, and a current check on the site shows more than 12,000 people browsing seats for the band’s North American kick-off show in Chicago in August. Vivid Seats is also one of the few sites offering a promo code for Oasis tickets, with discount code VR30 getting you $30 off at checkout (a decent savings considering the high prices to the concert).
Perhaps the biggest sign that fans aren’t deterred by the possible voiding of resale tickets: ticketing site Viagogo reported more than 35,000 people searching for Oasis tickets online in the hours following the band’s first show. Viagogo has Oasis tour tickets starting in the $300 range and it appears likely that they’ll sell quickly, despite the band’s pleas to avoid these sites.
Of course, StubHub, Vivid Seats and Viagogo all offer guarantees that any tickets sold through their platforms are authentic and valid for entry, despite not being the official ticketing partner for Oasis’ reunion tour. Viagogo says their “100% order guarantee means that if for some reason we can’t get you in the door, we’ll either provide replacement tickets – or a refund.”
There’s no doubt that searches for Oasis tickets online will only continue to increase as the band continues their European tour and heads to North America for a string of dates in August and September. While a “buyer beware” warning has been issued, it remains to be seen if the band will actually follow through on canceling or not accepting resale tickets. But as they say with any questionable purchase, proceed at your own risk.
