Fans of British rock band Oasis are scrambling for tickets to the group’s reunion and after 15 years.
Oasis is set to go on tour July 2025, but tickets have already been sold out as hundreds of thousands try online platforms and others endure long queue to get their hands on the tickets.
The Britpop-era behemoth led by brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher is scheduled to play 17 gigs — its first shows for 15 years — in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin starting July 4 next year.
More than one million tickets went on sale Saturday morning, with prices starting at about 74 pounds (just under $100).
But some people attempting to get onto the handful of authorised sales sites, including Ticketmaster and Gigs and Tours, received error messages, while many others were informed, they were in a lengthy queue.
Josh Jeffery, a videographer who lives near Edinburgh, spent hours moving up the online ticket queue, before “the whole site collapsed” at the last step.
“I’ve given up, my friends have given up,” Jeffery, who first saw Oasis in Manchester as a teenager in 1996, told The Associated Press news agency. “We just decided it’s too much hassle.
“As I was in the queue, I heard Wonderwall blasting out from my neighbour’s house,” he added ruefully. “He’d obviously got tickets.”
Some fans managed to buy tickets through a presale lottery on Friday.
