Oasis fans lash out at insane ticket prices as pre-sales for Melbourne and Sydney shows begin: ‘By far the most expensive tickets I’ve bought’

Oasis fans have lashed out at the ‘insane’ ticket prices for their concerts in Sydney and Melbourne.

Pre-sale tickets for the Australian leg of the British band’s reunion tour went on sale Monday, and Australian concertgoers were not happy.

The general admission (GA) tickets are reportedly selling out for more than $300 each.

Fans took to X to express their frustrations over the most expensive ticket prices they have ever encountered.

‘Oasis: By far the most expensive tickets I have ever bought. This queue for tickets is a high-pressure sales tactic,” journalist Andrew Fenton wrote to X.

He shared a photo of his confirmed purchase during one of the concerts in Melbourne.

“Did anyone get pre-sale Oasis GA tickets in Melbourne that weren’t $330?” another person wrote.

One person complained that they went to the box office with two tickets for the Melbourne show and then got an error message that “put me back in the queue behind 20,000 people.”

‘Is this a joke?’ they wrote on X.

“The last time I bought tickets to an Oasis gig you had to call or queue at a ticket office circa 90s,” posted one long-time fan who reported standing in a virtual queue behind 7,000 other hopefuls tickets.

While another said they waited for the payment to clear and then lost their tickets when the timer ran out.

Some diehard fans have gone so far as to post job openings on Airtakser to increase their chances.

A Melburnian woman offered to pay a helper $100 to queue online on her behalf.

Meanwhile, others decided it “just wasn’t worth it.”

“Minimum $250 for Oasis. Apparently the $140 advertised online quickly went to $180, which at the time was just for a single seat. Nosebleed, last row minimum $250. I can’t justify that,” one Melbourne fan wrote.

“First time I didn’t buy tickets to a concert because they were ridiculously expensive,” wrote one disappointed fan.

‘I can always find a reason for a show, but over $250 to sit in the back row of a stadium and watch Oasis? No.’

Australian fans who registered for pre-sale tickets last week and received a special code from OpenStage could access the pre-sale from Monday, October 14 at 12pm for the Melbourne concert dates and at 2pm AEDT for the Sydney concert dates.

The pre-sale codes were allocated through a voting system, with pre-sale registration now closed.

General ticket sales begin on Tuesday, October 15 at 10am in Melbourne and 12pm in Sydney.

Last week, Oasis caused a frenzy when they added more dates to the Australian leg of their 2025 reunion tour.

Noel and Liam Gallagher confirmed two concerts Down Under on their highly anticipated comeback tour.

Oasis took to Instagram last Friday to confirm the news to their followers, but many fans were upset that they will still only be performing in Sydney and Melbourne.

In addition to the previously announced show at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on October 31, the brothers will also perform at the venue on November 1.

They then head to Sydney, where they will now perform at Accor Stadium on both November 7 and 8, bringing their total number of Australian dates to four.

Many enthusiastic Aussie fans were quick to share their joy, although some also expressed disappointment that Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane were left out.

New Zealand has also apparently been excluded from the Oceania dates, meaning there will undoubtedly be even greater demand for the Australian concerts.

‘That’s great! Due to the high demand, the events in Melbourne and Sydney will be fantastic!’

Another commented: ‘Congratulations Australia’ and a fourth gushed: ‘So exciting to see Oasis adding more dates! I can’t wait to see them live in Melbourne or Sydney!’

But others weren’t so happy.

“Add Brisbane,” one wrote, while another added: “A tour usually doesn’t consist of just two cities.”

‘No! Still no show in Brisbane,” someone else said.

Tickets for the shows were made available on October 15 at 10am in Melbourne and 12pm in Sydney.

Ticketmaster registration opened 24 hours before the sale.

The Oasis website strongly advised fans to pre-register with Ticketmaster as another ticketing frenzy is expected following the chaos for the UK leg of the tour.

Many Oasis fans were left empty-handed when the highly anticipated 17-date UK reunion tour sold out within hours in an online fiasco.

About 14 million fans queued for eight hours to get the coveted tickets to see the rock band live, and many are still missing out.

While other lucky fans managed to get tickets, many were forced to spend huge sums on them after dynamic pricing almost doubled the cost within hours.

The Gallagher brothers then made tickets available for a further two Wembley shows via a staggered invitation-only ballot, but many fans were left disappointed after not being called for the sale, despite queuing for hours at the first sale.

During their 90s heyday, Oasis visited Australia in 1998 for the Be Here Now Tour following their worldwide success.

They delighted fans by returning Down Under for the 2001 Heathen Chemistry Tour, and returned again in late 2005 for the Don’t Believe the Truth Tour.

Their 2025 series of concerts marks their first tour Down Under in 19 years, and their first tour since their explosive fallout and disbandment in 2009.

The band infamously called it quits after a backstage altercation at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in 2009.

Oasis rose to fame in the 1990s when their 1994 debut album ‘Definitive Maybe’ became the fastest-selling debut album in British history.

The following year (What’s the story) Morning Glory? was released with the smash hits Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back In Anger and Champagne Supernova, with Wonderwall topping the ARIA Top 10 charts for eleven weeks in a row following its release.