Oasis fans have lashed out at the ‘insane’ ticket prices for their Sydney and Melbourne concerts.
Pre-sale tickets for the Australian leg of the British band’s reunion tour went on sale on Monday, and Australian concertgoers were not happy.
The general admission tickets (GA) are reportedly flying out the door for more than $300 a pop.
Fans took to X to vent their frustrations over the most expensive ticket pricing they have encountered.
‘Oasis: By far the most expensive tickets I’ve ever bought. That queue for tickets is a high pressure sales tactic,’ journalist Andrew Fenton posted to X.
He shared an image of his confirmed purchase to one of the Melbourne concerts.
‘Did anyone get presale Oasis GA tickets in Melbourne that weren’t $330?’ another person wrote.
Oasis fans have lashed out at the ‘insane’ ticket prices for their Sydney and Melbourne concerts
One person complained that they went to checkout with two tickets to the Melbourne show and then received an error message that ‘put me back in the queue behind 20K people’.
‘Is this a joke?’ they wrote on X.
‘The last time I bought tickets to an Oasis gig, you had to phone up or line up at a ticket window, circa the 1990s,’ one longtime fan who reportedly joined a virtual queue behind 7000 other ticket hopefuls posted.
Meanwhile, another said they waited for payment to process and then lost their tickets when the timer ran out.
One Melbourne woman even went as fa as offering to pay a helper $100 to queue online on her behalf.
Aussie Oasis fans have lashed out at the dynamic ticket pricing seen in the pre-sales for Oasis concerts in Sydney and Melbourne
‘$250 minimum for Oasis. Apparently, the $140 advertised online quickly went to $180, which was then for only an odd single seat. Nosebleed, last row $250 minimum. Can’t justify that,’ another Melbourne fan posted.
‘First time I’ve ever not bought tickets for a concert because they were ridiculously overpriced,’ one disappointed fan wrote.
‘I can always find a reason for a show, but over $250 to sit in a back row of a stadium to watch Oasis? Nah.’
Aussie fans who registered for pre-sale tickets last week and received a special code from OpenStage were able to access the pre-sale from 12pm on Monday, October 14, for the Melbourne concert dates, and from 2pm AEDT for the Sydney concert dates.
The pre-sale codes were allocated by a ballot system, with registrations now closed.
General ticket sales are slated to open on Tuesday, October 15, at 10am in Melbourne and 12pm in Sydney.
Last week, Oasis caused a frenzy when they added more dates to the Australia leg of their 2025 reunion tour
Amid sky-high demand for the shows, Oasis added more dates to the Australia leg of their 2025 reunion tour before the ticket sales even kicked off.
Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher confirmed two further concerts Down Under on their long-awaited comeback tour.
As well as the previously announced show at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on October 31, the brothers will also perform at the venue on November 1.
They will then head to Sydney to perform at the Accor Stadium on both November 7 and 8, taking their total run of Australia dates up to four.
Many eager Aussie fans were quick to share their delight, though some also voiced their disappointment over Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane still being left out.
New Zealand has also seemingly been snubbed from the Oceania dates, meaning there will be no doubt be even higher demand for the Australian concerts.
The general admission tickets (GA) are reportedly flying out the door for more than $300 a pop
‘Add Brisbane please,’ one wrote, while another added: ‘A tour usually isn’t just two cities.’
‘Nope! Still no Brisbane show,’ one more said.
However, others were over the moon at the news as they shared their excitement for the upcoming gigs, which marks Oasis’ first time Down Under in 19 years.
‘That’s awesome! The high demand means the events in Melbourne and Sydney will be fantastic,’ one said.
Another commented: ‘Congratulations Australia’ and a fourth gushed: ‘So exciting to see Oasis adding more dates! Can’t wait to see them live in Melbourne or Sydney!’
Many Oasis fans have already been left empty-handed when the hotly-anticipated 17-date UK reunion tour sold out in a matter of hours in an online fiasco.
Around 14 million fans faced eight-hour queues in a bid to get their hands on the highly-sought-after tickets to see the rock band live, with many still missing out.
While other lucky fans managed to nab tickets, many were forced to splash out huge amounts on them after dynamic pricing saw costs soar to almost double within mere hours.
The Gallagher brothers then made tickets available for another two Wembley shows via a staggered invite-only ballot, but many fans were left disappointed after not being called up for the sale despite queuing for hours in the first sale.
Oasis shot to global stardom in the ’90s, with their 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe becoming the fastest-selling debut album in British history.
The following year (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? was released with smash hits Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back In Anger and Champagne Supernova, with Wonderwall topping the ARIA Top 10 charts for 11 weeks in a row following its release.
During their 90s heyday, Oasis visited Australia in 1998 for the Be Here Now Tour after their chart-topping global success.
They delighted fans by returning Down Under for the 2001 Heathen Chemistry Tour, and again came back in late 2005 for the Don’t Believe the Truth Tour.
The band infamously called it quits after a backstage argument at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in 2009.
