Fans Face Long Night Waiting For Gold-Dust Tickets To Oasis Gig

Band’s return trip to Aberdeen expected to sell out fast

Legions of Oasis fans will queue through the night next week to try to get their hands on gold-dust tickets for their heroes’ long-awaited return to the Granite City.

The Gallagher brothers confirmed yesterday they would be making a fourth trip to the north-east in the autumn.

Oasis will play two nights at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre’s Press and Journal Arena on November 1 and 2.

The scramble for the 17,000 tickets begins at 9am on Wednesday.

No more than 500 tickets for each night will be made available to buy at the venue that morning. The rest can be booked on the internet or by phone.

Both gigs are expected to sell out in minutes.

Brian Horsburgh, acting manager director at the AECC, said last night: “Oasis still hold the record for selling tickets faster than any other concert in Aberdeen, which was as fast as physically possible at the time.

“We have absolutely no doubt that tickets will be sold out within a couple of hours on Wednesday.”

The UK tour will coincide with the release of the Manchester band’s seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, due out in October.

Noel Gallagher revealed details of the tour during a lively appearance on Chris Moyles’s Radio 1 breakfast show yesterday. Not one for keeping things bottled up, he went on to reveal his feelings for pop contemporaries Amy Winehouse (“a destitute horse”), Mark Ronson (“he needs to write his own tunes instead of ruining everyone else’s”) and Scouting for Girls (“Scouting for Idiots”). He added: “I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say ‘You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant’.”

Other big names heading for the AECC this year. Others include Stereophonics and Paul Weller.

Tickets for Oasis, priced £38.50 each plus booking fee, can be bought by calling 08444 779000 or from www.aecc.co.uk after 9am on Wednesday.

The gigs are for over-14s only and under-16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Ticket sales are limited to four per buyer, or two in person at the AECC.

Source: www.pressandjournal.co.uk