Oasis Australian tour: Oasis to play gigs in Sydney, Melbourne in 2025 reunion tour
Written by admin on October 4, 2024
Oasis have announced they will be heading Down Under as part of their highly anticipated reunion tour.
Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher will performgigs in Sydney and Melbourne next year, marking the first time the band will touch down in Australia in nearly 20 years.
On Friday, it was revealed the band will be in Melbourne on October 31 before playing in Sydney on November 7.
Oasis last toured Australia in 2005 for their Don’t Believe the Truth tour, the album of which brought tracks Lyla and Keep The Dream Alive.
The Britpop rockers 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.
Oasis announced their reunion tour in August, initially dropping 2025 dates across UK and Ireland.
“There has been no great revelatory moment that has ignited the reunion – just the gradual realisation that the time is right,” a press release for the UK and Ireland tour read.
An Instagram post from the band following the release stated “the stars have aligned”.
“The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned,” the Instagram post read.
“The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.”
The band infamously called it quits after a backstage argument at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in 2009.
Noel Gallagher released a statement at the time revealing he was relieved to be quitting the band.
“It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer,” Noel said.
The announcement follows speculation the band were going to drop Australian tour dates, with many fans Down Under — and across the globe — left disappointed the initial tour drop was scheduled just for the UK and Ireland.
However fans in the UK and Ireland ran into their own issues while trying to score tickets, with costs skyrocketing due to Ticketmaster’s use of dynamic pricing, The Guardian reported.
The UK competition regulator has since launched an investigation, while the European Commission is reportedly looking into the controversial practice.
The controversial ticketing method allows the giant to adjust prices in line with supply and demand, according to the Ticketmaster website, with Aussie Green Day fans recently slamming the ticketing model as “shameful and elitist”.
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“In Demand Tickets are tickets to concerts and other events made available by artists and Event Organisers through Ticketmaster. They give fans fair and safe access to sought after seats at market driven prices,” the Ticketmaster website states, emphasising they are not resale tickets.
“In Demand Tickets are tickets offering sought after views and seats from Ticketmaster. The prices are adjusted according to supply and demand. The goal is to give fans fair and safe access to the best tickets while enabling artists and other people involved in staging live events to price tickets closer to their true market value.”
NewsWire previously contacted Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation, for comment over the use of dynamic pricing during the Green Day presale.
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