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Fans queued overnight to buy tickets for Oasis' two huge Heaton Park gigs before they went on sale this morning.

The Gallagher Brothers will play in front of 140,000 fans at the park as part of their Dig Out Your Soul World Tour next June.

About 200 eager gig-goers queued from 11pm yesterday (Thursday) at Zavvi, in the Arndale Centre, to be the first to get their hands on Oasis tickets when they went on sale at 10am today.

The two 70,000 crowds at the 650-acre Heaton Park will be the biggest since the Pope visited north Manchester 26 years ago in 1982.

Online retailers said they had no more tickets available minutes after they were released to the public.

The sought-after tickets were sold for £45 - but online retailers were selling them for more than £100 even before box offices opened this morning.

Hit bands Kasabian and The Enemy will be supporting Oasis at the gigs on Saturday June 6 and Sunday June 7 next year.

Emma Guqiarrez, 18, and her friend Marie-Laure Simon, 20, who work as au pairs in Urmston, but are from Marseille, in France, queued from 11.30pm.

Emma said: "I've never seen Oasis I have to take the opportunity to see them in Manchester now I am here, I'm so excited I can't believe I am going to see Oasis in their home town.

"We've been queuing for ages, it feels like I have been here forever but it's been quite fun. We've got to know quite a few people here."

Nikul Shaw, 21, from Fallowfield, an economics student at Manchester University was in the queue from 11pm.

He said: "I had to be here early to guarantee I would get a ticket, I'm a massive fan of Oasis, I saw them in Wembley last week. I've seen them dozens of times but it's going to be amazing to see them in Manchester at Heaton Park.

"It has been a long night but it's definitely been worth it, they just keep getting better and better.

"The atmosphere's going to be amazing, now I just have to wait for the gig."

The Gallagher brothers will also play at The Stadium Of Light, Sunderland, Slane Castle in Dublin, Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, Murrayfield in Edinburgh and at Wembley Stadium next summer.

An estimated 250,000 people visited Heaton Park for the visit of Pope John Paul II on 31 May 1982.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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