Oasis Announces Australian 2025 Tour Dates, Following Controversial Ticket Sales

Oasis has expanded its highly anticipated 2025 worldwide reunion tour, announcing their first Australian concerts in 19 years, according to NME.

The famous Manchester rock band will perform a pair of stadium concerts in Melbourne and Sydney next fall on Oct. 31 and Nov. 7 respectively, as announced by Live Nation on Tuesday morning.

“People of the land down under, ‘You better run – you better take cover..’ We are coming, you are most welcome,” said Oasis in their Live Nation press release.

The news follows a series of controversial ticket sales over the past couple months that have reflected the high demand surrounding Oasis’ first tour in more than 15 years.

 The band’s initial sale for 2025 concerts in the United Kingdom and Ireland saw fans charged more than triple the advertised ticket price as a result of Ticketmaster’s controversial “dynamic pricing” model, according to BBC.

Oasis’ management delivered a statement ahead of the recent North American tour sale that said they would not use this same model due to a lack of effectiveness that led to “an unacceptable experience for fans.”

Despite this, not everything was smooth sailing when the band’s North American tour dates were made available, as many fans were met with extremely high ticket prices and difficult experiences using Ticketmaster.

Among them was Robby Abrahamian, a 28-year-old policy director with the Wisconsin State Legislature and a lifelong Oasis fan.

“I think artists are trying their best to keep the bots out of the process to give actual fans tickets,” said Abrahamian. “But I do not trust Ticketmaster or Live Nation at all… there needs to be some anti-trust enforcement or something.”

When trying to buy tickets for Oasis’ Aug. 28 concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field next year, he experienced nearly an hour-long wait in Ticketmaster’s queue only to experience a system glitch that resulted in a message that said the sale had concluded.

While Abrahamian did eventually buy a ticket on the secondary-market site Seat Geek, he believes that bad sales such as this one are signs of corruption in the ticketing industry.

According to Bloomberg, Oasis sold out their nine North American tour dates in less than an hour with many sections having premium seats and ticket packages that cost fans more than $400 a ticket.

Oasis’ management team has made no mention of altering ticket prices or bringing back “dynamic pricing” for the recently announced Australian tour dates. However, they will once again utilize a pre-sale ballot that gives fans the opportunity to register for tickets before they go on sale to the general public.

In Live Nation’s initial announcement, it was revealed that pre-sale registration for the newly announced shows in Melbourne and Sydney will remain open until 8 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 9. The on-sale date and time for fans selected for the pre-sale has not yet been announced. However, the general sale will occur on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 10 a.m. EDT for Melbourne tickets and noon EDT for Sydney tickets.

Oasis is made up of brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher. The Manchester-based group was active from 1991 until 2009, reaching their commercial peak in the mid-1990s with massive singles such as “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” and “Champagne Supernova.”

The band acrimoniously broke up in 2009 with their 2025 reunion shows serving as the first time they have performed together since. They first announced their return in late August with a run of shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland for next year, including seven nights at London’s Wembley Stadium.

They have since been expanding their reunion tour internationally, with NME claiming that they are still planning to announce shows in South America and Asia.

As reported by Billboard, the Gallagher Brothers’ 2025 tour may not be all they offer fans as part of their reunion, as Liam Gallagher has since gone to X (formerly Twitter) to confirm that a new Oasis album is “already finished.”