Breaking News

Oasis Tour Tickets Souled Out














Tickets for Oasis' Scottish concerts sold out in record time yesterday.

Thousands of fans were left very disappointed as websites and phone lines crashed under the weight of demand.

Hundreds more were gutted after queueing up at the venues in the vain hope of bagging a ticket.

Liam and Noel will play Aberdeen and Glasgow in November, having just played on Scots soil over three years ago.

The last time they performed in December 2005, tickets were like gold dust and had sold out within two hours.

Yesterday, fans who had camped out from the night before tried to get a ticket, alongside those who were applying electronically.

Glasgow's SECC was the first to sell out 10,000 tickets for November 4 and 5 in less than five minutes.

A spokeswoman for the SECC said: "Tickets sold out in minutes - at 9am on the dot there were 6000 people on our website while the rest were sold just minutes later."

The SECC say demand for Oasis briefs was one of the highest volume of inquiries they have had for some time. And the spokeswoman added: "It was crazy as our phones were jampacked.

"Oasis is one of the hottest tickets we've had for a while and everyone wanted one. We had 50 per cent of the allocation with their official website having the other half.

"We are delighted Oasis are making a return to the SECC. This highlights we are one of the premiere venues for live music in Scotland and we are delighted they're back."

In Aberdeen's Exhibition and Conference Centre, Oasis play nightly to 8500 fans on November 1 and 2, and sales also exceeded previous expectations and records for that venue.

Brian Horsburgh, acting managing director of AECC, said: "Oasis were previously the fastest selling act to visit the AECC and this time they've sold out faster.

"It is amazing when you consider it's for two nights and other shows are just one. Some 17,000 tickets sold in seven minutes which is as fast as the box office could process the sales."

The briefs were on sale at £32.50 and £38.50, but on eBay many are going for more than triple that.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

1 comment

stopcryingyourheartout.com said...

From THE SUN

THE first day of OASIS gig ticket sales was always going to be a bunfight.

Hundreds of thousands of fans hoping to hear new album Dig Out Your Soul live on the forthcoming tour hit the phones and t’internet hard yesterday.

Bizarre Lord NOEL had been plugging the album on Radio 1 the previous night.

The 180,000 tickets sold out in an hour – leaving the same number of fans fuming as demand jammed phones and froze the website.

By midday one pair for the Wembley Arena gig had attracted 30 bids on an auction site, the top one being £2,550.

That’s quite a hike on the original £50 single ticket price.

The 18-date run – the second leg of their world tour – begins in Liverpool on October 7 and ends in Glasgow on November 5.