Some of the highest priced tickets for the Oasis reunion tour at Croke Park cost fans almost €500 each.
Prices to watch the band at the Dublin venue in August 2025 started at €96.50, but soared to as high as €490.50 when tickets went on general sale on Saturday.
Both comeback gigs at Croke Park are reported to have sold out within minutes of going on sale, with just higher priced ‘official platinum’ and ‘in demand’ categories left for many fans.
The categories were deployed by concert promoters MCD as part of a so-called dynamic pricing model, with some pitch level tickets costing €415, while stand tickets were being officially listed by Ticketmaster for around €500.
The scramble by fans to get their hands on Irish tickets from 8am on Saturday resulted in websites crashing due to the massive demand.
More than 550,000 users were at one stage in the Ticketmaster queue hoping to get tickets, with reports that around one million people were vying for access to the gigs at Wembley Stadium.
Issues were encountered on the Ticketmaster page for the two shows in Dublin. Instead of a page opening to buy tickets, an error number was displayed, which usually indicates a webpage is unable to handle any more connections.
A long-time fan trying for tickets to see Oasis in Dublin next year said he feels “frustration” and “anger” after he was kicked out of the Ticketmaster queue.
Scott McLean, 28, logged into his account on the ticket-selling website at 7.30am on Saturday ahead of Irish sales opening at 8am.
He was in a queue of 20,000 for around 30 minutes before selecting four tickets to see the band’s show at Croke Park.
However, his browser began buffering for half an hour as he tried to make the purchase, prompting him to contact the Ticketmaster customer service account on X, formerly Twitter, for advice.
“I followed their advice, cleared my cookies and cache on my browser and then it kicked me out completely. It just came up to that error screen after I followed their guidance,” the business analyst from Belfast told the PA news agency.
“I had to rejoin the queue and I ended up about 700,000 places worse off after following their guidance.”
He said he feels “frustration and anger, not much more than that”, adding: “It’s just tickets for a concert after all, but I really wanted to go.”
The UK shows in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Cardiff went on general sale at 9am.
But it wasn’t long before tickets were being resold at inflated prices.
Viagogo defended reselling Oasis tickets for thousands of pounds on its website following the Britpop group warning fans that passes would be “cancelled” if not sold on an official site.
As the Manchester rockers’ shows went on general sale, they told their followers that Ticketmaster and Twickets should only be used for resales, and they should only be bought at “face value”.
On X, Oasis also wrote: “Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will be cancelled by the promoters.”
🚨Please note, Oasis Live ‘25 tickets can only be resold at face value via @TicketmasterUK and @Twickets!
— Oasis (@oasis) August 31, 2024
Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will be cancelled by the promoters.
A similar post by the band had also been shared on Friday following pre-sale tickets being released.
That same day, Viagogo put Wembley Stadium shows on sale for up to £5,909, and by Saturday following the general sale beginning in the morning, two tickets for a London show had been listed for £11,313 each.
Manchester, Edinburgh and Cardiff shows also had high prices with some Heaton Park shows listed at £26,005 each for two tickets.
However, there did not appear to be tickets being sold on the Viagogo website for the two Croke Park shows in Dublin.
The Irish government introduced a law banning ticket touting in 2021.
It prevents the resale of tickets at above face value, and warns people violating the rule can face a 100,000 euro (£84,245) fine or up to two years in prison.
