Oasis announces North American concert dates

NEW YORK – Oasis announced a North American leg of their reunion tour on Monday, after selling out dates across Britain and Ireland.

The Britpop rockers have announced they will play starting late next summer in Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago, Los Angeles and East Rutherford, New Jersey, which is home to a stadium outside New York.

“America. Oasis is coming. You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along,” the band wrote in a statement.

Oasis, whose hits include “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back In Anger” and “Champagne Supernova,” last performed together in 2009.

News that brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher were putting aside their infamous 15-year feud to reunite for a series of concerts has sparked a frenzy among fans.

The chaotic rush to secure valuable tickets to the original 17 concerts has led to sudden price hikes – known as dynamic pricing – hours of waiting in line and hopes dashed for some by technical glitches.

A fan uses a smartphone to access an online ticketing site to buy tickets for Oasis’ ‘Live ’25’ tour in 2025, at his home in Marsden, North Australia. ‘England, August 31, 2024. AFP PHOTO

This enraged many fans and Britain’s competition watchdog said it was investigating Ticketmaster over its handling of sales.

Following the brouhaha, the band scheduled two more UK dates, with the brothers denying they had anything to do with dynamic pricing.

America is no stranger to ticketing chaos: Ticketmaster’s pricing practices for concerts and other events, with high prices and a lack of alternatives, have long been a political problem in the United States, and historically little has been done to open the market to more competition.

The 2022 pre-sale of Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” saw Washington lawmakers hold hearings questioning Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation – a massive concert promotion company – over its practices.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a major antitrust lawsuit aimed at ending the alleged monopoly between Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster.