Oasis Reunion. Its finally happening😱

Whineline gonna be busy Monday 🤣

May both concerts be littered with empty bot seats and may the heavens split open like a hairy axe wound.

Failing that, may they both kill each other in Cardiff.

Amen.

Ive a feeling they will be a huge let down. Extra dates won't sell out with that pricing, and would only create further anger if folks paying less than the original dates. Was content that I'd pick up tickets next year as people shift then due to circumstances but wouldn't be paying any of those prices for them. Liam was great in Thomond but not €153+ great 😃

they may not have space to add more dates

Like it sucks, but people miss out on tickets, it happens. Demand was simply insane

When a business has a monopoly in any market it is the responsibility of a regulator or government to act. TicketMaster and MCD effectively have a monolopoly in ticket sales and promotion respectively.

Do Oasis themselves not take any of the blame here?

The words are coming out all weird.

people have had tickets cancelled today in similar enough circumstances. So she needs to get an answer on those tickets asap.

They don't have a monopoly on promotion. Aiken also exist.

All Ticketmaster do is sell tickets at the request of the artist.

The media reports the other day quoted a specific amount that N&L would earn from the shows (£95M or something like that). That suggests to me that their cut of the takings is set in stone and that it is MCD/TM who is benefiting from the dynamic pricing. But maybe that’s an incorrect interpretation on my part.

Where are you now, when I need you?

The commentary today seems to be all about how ticketmaster are screwing people.

Now ticketmaster have a lot to answer for from a technical point of view. Being in queues and getting to the top of the queue and then having it crash, having their servers being unable to cope, that's on them. Do better ticketmaster.

But the underlying anger seems to be about the price, and the random increased prices (this surge pricing). This is for Oasis to own. They would have agreed a price for tickets and would have agreed for the surge pricing too; they elected to make more money knowing that the market would be there. Whether it's right or wrong is another question, but it's up to them to own it.

I've seen a clip loads of times of Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl being amazed thst Madonna was charging like $50 for tickets when they charged something like $15. I'm guessing Dave Grohl today also charges crazy prices (I haven't seen how much Foos charge). They need to make money to survive, but they can decide whether they want to make some money or more money. Which is fine, they're entitled to it. But they should be asked about it.

At the Coldplay gig on Thursday Chris Martin thanked people for coming and acknowledged how much of a pain it can be to get to gig. I don't know how much my ticket was (it was a gift), but I'd imagine they also could have charged less and still made a tidy profit.