Oasis announces U.S. tour dates — and vows to 'avoid a repeat' of U.K. ticket fiasco
While who knows exactly what will happen when Noel and Liam Gallagher are on stage together again, Oasis is officially coming to North America. The band announced its U.S., Canada and Mexico reunion tour dates on Sept. 30.
Hoping to avoid the mess that occurred last month when tickets went on sale in the U.K., the band’s management announced that Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” feature would be disabled for the North American leg of the “Oasis Live '25” tour.
Here’s what that means, why things got messy with U.K. sales and how to get tickets in the U.S.
What just happened?
The band, known for the brothers’ longtime feud as much as hits including “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger” as much as t dropped its North American tour dates on Monday. Here are the shows:
August 24: Rogers Stadium, Toronto, Canada
August 28: Soldier Field, Chicago
August 31: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J.
September 6: Rose Bowl Stadium, Los Angeles
September 12: Estadio GNP Seguros, Mexico City
Soon after came a message from band management saying Ticketmaster’s controversial dynamic pricing model — in which the cost of tickets can surge based on demand — will not be applied to the North American dates.
“It is widely accepted that dynamic pricing remains a useful tool to combat ticket touting [also known as ticket resales and ticket scalping] and keep prices for a significant proportion of fans lower than the market rate and thus more affordable. But when unprecedented ticket demand (where the entire tour could be sold many times over at the moment tickets go on sale) is combined with technology that cannot cope with that demand, it becomes less effective and can lead to an unacceptable experience for fans.”
The statement concluded by saying the change would “hopefully avoid a repeat of the issues fans in the U.K. and Ireland experienced recently.”
What happened with U.K. and Ireland sales?
When the long-awaited reunion tickets went on sale in late August, there were a lot of frustrating technical issues — including error messages and fans getting kicked off the virtual queue before completing a sale — in addition to long wait times on the three sites (Ticketmaster, See Tickets and Gigsandtours) selling tickets.
The bigger problem was dynamic pricing. Also known as surge pricing, it’s the practice allowing companies selling products online to increase prices — automatically and almost instantaneously — as market demand rises. Many Oasis fans who were lucky enough to make it through the queue complained that ticket prices significantly increased from what they expected to pay. NPR reported that some tickets on Ticketmaster had increased by four times the starting price by the time ticket selections were made.
Due to complaints, the branch of the U.K. government responsible for reducing anti-competitive activities, the Competition and Markets Authority, is investigating Ticketmaster over this related to Oasis’s U.K. dates.
Ticketmaster has claimed that the purpose of dynamic pricing is to deter scalpers from buying tickets and reselling them at higher prices. The company has stated that it does not set ticket prices, "promoters and artists” do, and prices can be either fixed or market-based.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke about the Oasis debacle on BBC’s Radio 5 Live show, saying, “This isn’t just an Oasis problem. This is a problem for tickets for all sorts of events, where people go online straight away, as soon as they can, and within seconds sometimes, sometimes minutes, all the tickets are gone, and the prices start going through the roof, which means many people can’t afford it. We have to stop that.”
In the U.S., Ticketmaster’s sales model has long been controversial — including when Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” tickets went on sale in 2022. In May 2024, the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster (and parent company Live Nation), alleging that it has a monopoly in the live ticketing industry.
How do I get tickets to see Oasis in the U.S.?
To get tickets for the U.S. tour dates, the band’s first since 2008 amid the brothers epic feud, there’s a presale signup on the band’s site. You answer fan-focused questions (how many times you’ve seen the band perform) in addition to collecting buyer info (email, venue you’d attend, etc.) and the submissions are put into a pool. If selected for the presale, fans will get a code from Oasismynet “no later than midnight local this Wednesday, October 2” with details on timing for the Thursday, Oct. 3 presale on Ticketmaster.
The “Oasis Live '25” tour kicks off on July 4, 2025, in Cardiff, Wales. It comes to the U.S. for a Chicago show on August 28, and is slated to wrap at Wembley Stadium in London on Sept. 28, 2025.
