‘Not aging well!’: Oasis fans slam Liam Gallagher after old tweet criticising his own brother for selling $350 tickets resurfaces as outrage grows over reunion tour ticketing troubles

Oasis fans are furious after an old tweet from Liam Gallagher resurfaced in which he criticised his brother for selling tickets for $350.

The tweet dates back to 2017, during the long-running feud between the Oasis frontmen.

Liam hit out at his brother for charging $350 (£266) to perform in America.

“$350 to go see rkid in the US what a load of crap when will it stop because you were LG X,” Liam wrote on Twitter/X.

The event comes amid controversy after Noel and Liam announced an Oasis reunion and around 14 million people in the UK vied to get their hands on the coveted tickets.

Fans who had to queue for hours for tickets to the 2025 tour were shocked by the price of standing room tickets, which had increased due to Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing policy, which in some cases more than doubled the price of tickets.

For the Manchester shows, a general admission ticket was expected to cost £150, but that price has increased to £355 due to dynamic pricing policy responding to increased demand.

Oasis fans accused Liam of hypocrisy over the post, as he has now sold tickets equivalent to the price of Noel’s US gig in 2017.

Someone wrote in response to the resurfaced post: ‘This hasn’t aged well…’

Another said: ‘£380 for a ‘reactively priced’ GA when people had been queuing for 3 hours. What kind of arsehole would do something like that?’

Someone added: ‘Well, this is always green.’

And another added: ‘You’re not getting old, Liam.’

At least 450 people have now filed an official complaint with the advertising watchdog about dynamic pricing.

The government has promised to investigate the use of peak rates in its upcoming review of the secondary gig sales market.

Ticketmaster claims that prices are set by the event organizer and that Oasis could have rejected the pricing model and kept prices lower for fans.

But other bands have previously criticised dynamic pricing, including The Cure frontman Robert Smith, who once called it a “greedy scam” and added: “All artists have the choice not to participate – if no artists participated, it would cease to exist.”

A spokesman for the UK advertising regulator confirmed that complainants alleged the adverts contained “misleading claims about availability and pricing”.

They added: ‘We are reviewing these complaints carefully and are therefore unable to comment further at this time. To emphasise, we are not investigating these ads at this time.’

Ticketmaster first announced plans to implement “dynamic pricing” in the US in 2011, which allows prices to rise or fall based on demand.

But the concept only began to catch on in the UK more than a decade later, when it was used in 2022 for much-requested performances by artists including Harry Styles, Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay.

Ticketmaster uses a form of dynamic pricing called “demand-based pricing.” This means that it can significantly increase the price of a ticket to a highly anticipated event while it’s on sale, and the ticket can still sell out — as happened with the Oasis concerts.

Ticketing and security expert Reg Walker told the Guardian: ‘The reason they’re pushing it is because if you sell a ticket for £100, with a 10 per cent service charge you get £10. If you sell it for £400 you get £40.

“So it’s in Ticketmaster’s interest to push this model. I’m not convinced artists know what they’re getting into.”

An explanation from Ticketmaster regarding the ‘in-demand standing ticket’ price for Oasis read: ‘The event organiser has priced these tickets based on their market value. Tickets do not include VIP packages. Availability and prices are subject to change.’

When asked about the issue, a Ticketmaster spokesperson said the company does not set prices. He shared a link to its website, which states that fees can be “fixed or market-based.”

Ticketmaster also said that artists will decide for themselves whether to opt for this approach, which will see the value of the ticket change based on demand.

It has been argued that Oasis, seen by some as a working class hero, could have ditched the dynamic pricing model and kept prices lower for fans.

Ticketmaster is secretive about how its dynamic pricing model works, but claims that event organizers set the prices. It is therefore likely that ticket prices will be automatically adjusted within a range set by the promoter before they go on sale.