Oasis to Cancel 50,000 Tickets for Reunion Tour Sold on Secondary Markets

More than 50,000 tickets sold for Oasis 2025 U.K. reunion tour will be cancelled, promoters Live Nation and SJM confirmed to the BBC on Monday.

The promoters said that all invalidated tickets will be made available again through the official seller, Ticketmaster, at face value.

The problem-plagued British on-sale for the tour, announced in August, was the latest in a series of ticketing debacles, due to the demand far outweighing the supply. Around 1.4 million tickets were on sale, but more than 10 million fans from 158 countries attempted to buy them. Inevitably, within hours, the secondary market was flooded with tickets at vastly inflated prices.

When tickets went on sale, fans were told they could only purchase tickets at face value through Ticketmaster or resale partner, Twickets, in an effort to prevent scalping; they later claimed that approximately 4% of the inventory — around 50,000 tickets — landed on resale sites. The promoters said they expect to cancel those tickets in the coming days, noting that fans who believe they have had their tickets cancelled in error will be able to speak to the relevant ticket agent 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.”

However, a rep for the U.K. secondary ticket company Viagogo told the BBC that it will continue to sell Oasis tickets.

“We will continue to sell them in the way the regulator says we can,” the rep said. “We are serving a clear consumer need, we will continue doing it on that basis.”

Last month, the group announced they will not use Ticketmaster’s controversial dynamic pricing model, which raises ticket prices in tandem with demand, for the American leg of their reunion tour. In addition to the problems the model caused in the U.K., it led to similar issues in the U.S. in 2022 when Bruce Springsteen’s tour went on sale, leading prices to soar deep into four figures shortly after going on sale.