Liam Gallagher has appeared in a new interview following the Oasis ticket scandal.
Millions of fans have been left devastated after failing to grab tickets for the upcoming Oasis reunion tour – Live ’25 – taking place next year. Last week, frontman Liam and his brother Noel announced they were getting the band back together for the first time in 15 years.
But excitement soon turned to despair for many when they scrambled to get tickets for the highly-anticipated UK and Ireland dates. Fans trying to buy tickets on sites like Ticketmaster have been absolutely fuming after meeting 11-hour virtual queues and astronomical ticket prices for the gigs.
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And on Tuesday (September 3) Liam was announced as the face of Stone Island’s AW24 campaign after repping the clothing brand for years. In fact, he loves Stone Island so much that in 2017 he slammed the “c*** who stole my stone island parkas from my hotel room”.
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He cut a characteristically moody pose in a hooded beige Stone Island coat and answered some questions about his life. Asked what he collects, he simply replied: “Just souls.”
He went on to reveal that he usually gets up at four or five in the morning. Then I’m just waiting for something f****ng spectacular to happen.” No surprises when it comes to his favourite city in the world – it’s his native Manchester.
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Asked what advice he’d give his former self, he said: “Life’s been great. It’s had it’s ups and downs, but at the end of the day, you are playing it.” The Oasis frontman said he likes having porridge for breakfast, but admits he adds almonds and honey if he’s feeling “really rock ‘n’ roll”.
Quizzed on whether he prefers “classic, modern or both”, the Supersonic singer said: “All this new stuff doesn’t do it for me. It all stems from the past, which is classic.”
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Liam’s passion for life is infectious and absolutely clear. Asked what he’s grateful for, he replied: “Everything. I f****ng love being alive. It’s amazing.”
It comes after fans slammed Oasis after the ticket fiasco last Saturday. Some unlucky fans had over 200k people in front of them in a virtual queue. One heartbroken listener complained on X: “”Can someone just confirm Oasis is all sold out so I can be put out of my misery sitting in a queue.”
Another fumed: “Has anyone actually managed to get Oasis tickets this morning, or are we all just sat in this stupid queue for the laugh”. A spokesperson for Ticketmaster was forced to deny that their site had crashed amid the chaos.
She told fans to “hold their place in line”. They said: “The queue is moving along as fans buy tickets. As anticipated, millions of fans are accessing our site so have been placed in a queue.
It wasn’t just the queues that angered people, though, it was the fact that the price of their tickets had rocketed to over double what was first listed. Standing tickets had originally cost just under £148.50 a pop. The cheapest tickets – seats at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium and Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium – were £74.
Some fans later in the afternoon found that when they finally reached the ticket selection page on Ticketmaster, general admission would set them back £355. The reasoning for this was that the tickets were “in demand” and were therefore allowed to be sold at a higher price.
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Fans were absolutely livid at Ticketmaster and the band for the jump in prices for the tickets, with one fan writing: “It’s disgraceful to see standing tickets priced at £355.20 – pure exploitation.” A second user added: “That feeling when you wait in a queue for four hours only to be told the price of the ticket has risen from £148 to… £355? Because they’re ‘in demand’. How is this not illegal?”
Others slammed the band for not being “working class”. One fan on X fumed: “Not Oasis tickets being more expensive than my Taylor Swift ticket, that’s not very working class is it lads.”
Ticketmaster washed their hands of all responsibility for the jump. The site insisted it didn’t set any of the ticket prices and that the system is in place to discourage ticket touts.
It’s believed Oasis will have opted into the dynamic pricing. The extra cash from it also goes to the band rather than touts.
Many fans were certain that the band knew about the potential for price hikes, taking to social media to vent their frustrations. “I think dynamic pricing (aka ripping off fans) can only happen if a band agrees, if so, what Oasis have done to their fans is unforgivable – they became the touts,” wrote one furious fan.
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