Oasis announce US tour dates – and promise to ‘avoid a repeat’ of UK 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 their tour dates in the United States, Canada and Mexico on September 30.

Hoping to avoid the mess that occurred last month when tickets went on sale in the United Kingdom, the group’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 it means, why things went wrong with UK sales, and how to get US tickets

What just happened?

The group, known for the brothers’ long-running feud as much as for hits such as “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” dropped its North American tour dates Monday. Here are the shows:

• August 24: Rogers Stadium, Toronto, Canada

• August 28: Soldier Field, Chicago

• August 31: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey

• September 6: Rose Bowl Stadium, Los Angeles

• September 12: Estadio GNP Seguros, Mexico

Shortly after, the group’s management announced that Ticketmaster’s controversial dynamic pricing model – in which the cost of tickets can increase based on demand – would not be applied to North American dates.

“It is widely accepted that dynamic pricing remains a useful tool to combat ticket selling (also known as ticket reselling and ticket scalping) and keep prices for a significant proportion of fans lower than the ticket prices. market and therefore more affordable. But when unprecedented demand for tickets (where the entire tour could be sold multiple times by the time tickets go on sale) is combined with technology that can’t meet that demand, it becomes less efficient and can lead to to an unacceptable experience for fans.

The statement concluded by saying the change would “hopefully avoid a repeat of the problems recently experienced by fans in the UK and Ireland”.

What happened with sales in the UK and Ireland?

When long-awaited reunion tickets went on sale in late August, there were numerous frustrating technical issues – including error messages and fans being kicked out of the virtual queue before finalizing a sale – in no more long waiting times on the three sites (Ticketmaster, See Tickets and Gigsandtours) selling tickets.

The biggest problem was dynamic pricing. Also known as surge pricing, this practice allows businesses selling products online to raise their prices – automatically and almost instantly – as market demand increases. Many Oasis fans who were lucky enough to get through the queue complained that ticket prices had increased significantly 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 arm of the UK government responsible for curbing anti-competitive activity, the Competition and Markets Authority, is investigating Ticketmaster over Oasis’ UK dates.

Ticketmaster claimed that the purpose of dynamic pricing is to discourage resellers from purchasing tickets and reselling them at higher prices. The company said it does not set ticket prices, unlike “promoters and artists”, and that prices can be either fixed or market-based.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke about the Oasis debacle on the BBC’s Radio 5 Live show, saying: “It’s not just an Oasis problem. This is a problem for tickets to all kinds of events, where people log in immediately, as soon as they can, and within seconds sometimes, sometimes minutes, all the tickets are gone and prices start to go up skyrocketing, which means a lot of people can’t afford it. We have to stop this.

In the United States, Ticketmaster’s sales model has long been controversial, notably when tickets for Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” went on sale in 2022. In May 2024, the Department of Justice filed suit in antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster (and its parent company Live Nation), alleging that it has a monopoly on the live ticketing industry.

How do I get tickets to see Oasis in the United States?

To get tickets for the U.S. tour dates, the band’s first since 2008 amid the brothers’ epic feud, there is a pre-sale registration on the band’s website. You answer fan-focused questions (how many times you’ve seen the band play) plus collect buyer information (email, location you’d attend, etc.) and the submissions are put into a pool . If selected for the presale, fans will receive a code from Oasismynet “no later than midnight local time this Wednesday, October 2” with details on the presale schedule for Thursday, October 3 on Ticketmaster.

The “Oasis Live ’25” tour kicks off on July 4, 2025 in Cardiff, Wales. He will arrive in the United States for a show in Chicago on August 28 and is scheduled to conclude at Wembley Stadium in London on September 28, 2025.