Oasis website crashes as fans clamour for reunion tour tickets
The Oasis website has crashed and Ticketmaster has put visitors to its website in a queue as fans clamour for a spot at the band’s reunion gigs.
Tickets for the tour went on sale on Saturday morning, with a select few fans able to buy theirs on Friday evening if they signed up to a pre-sale ballot and were lucky enough to receive an access code by email.
In the rush to get tickets, Oasis’s website has been replaced with a page telling visitors: “This page replaces the main site due to high loading.”
Visitors to the Ticketmaster website have been placed in a queue, with others reporting that their browsers have crashed entirely.
Manchester-based promoter SJM Concerts’ website Gigs and Tours has been unable to load since around 8.10am. It displays messages saying “Service unavailable” and “The service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later”.
For some of those trying to get tickets to the band’s Dublin shows, which went up for sale earlier on Saturday, Ticketmaster had crashed entirely.
Similar problems were encountered on the ticketmaster.ie page for the two shows at Dublin’s Croke Park, which went on sale at 8am.
Instead of a page opening to buy tickets, an error number was displayed, which usually indicates that a web page is unable to handle any more connections.
A similar code was visible at gigsinscotland.com/artist/oasis as Scottish fans had difficulties getting onto the website for the Edinburgh shows.
The website tickets.seetickets.com/tour/oasis, on which people can book for several UK shows, also appeared unavailable.
A message said: “Our website is very busy! We have lots of people looking for tickets and you are being held on this page until a space becomes available. This page will refresh automatically.”
UK tickets went on general sale at 8am through Gigs and Tours, ticketmaster.co.uk, gigsinscotland.com and seetickets.com.
It comes after Oasis issued a warning to people reselling early-release tickets at extortionate prices.
On Friday evening the band wrote on X: “We have noticed people attempting to sell tickets on the secondary market since the start of the pre-sale. Please note, tickets can ONLY be resold, at face value, via @Ticketmaster and @Twickets.”
Tickets sold in breach of the terms and conditions will be cancelled, the band said.
