Oasis tickets: How to get them, mistakes to avoid and full UK tour dates

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August 27, 2024

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Oasis are finally reuniting 15 years after they split, having announced a huge UK tour.

The iconic Manchester band’s official social media accounts shared the dates of its 14 UK and Ireland shows, which will take place over July and August next year.

Speculation about a reunion grew in the weeks leading up to the announcement after years of Noel and Liam Gallagher’s public feuding had made fans question whether it would ever happen.

“Come see. It will not be televised,” they warned in their statement.

But when exactly are the dates for the brothers’ on-stage reunion and how can you get tickets? Here’s everything you need to know.

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When and where are the concerts?

• 4 July 2025 – Principality Stadium, Cardiff
• 5 July 2025 – Principality Stadium, Cardiff
• 11 July 2025 – Heaton Park, Manchester
• 12 July 2025 – Heaton Park, Manchester
• 19 July 2025 – Heaton Park, Manchester
• 20 July 2025 – Heaton Park, Manchester
• 25 July 2025 – Wembley Stadium, London
• 26 July 2025 – Wembley Stadium, London
• 2 August 2025 – Wembley Stadium, London
• 3 August 2025 – Wembley Stadium, London
• 8 August 2025 – Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
• 9 August 2025 – Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
• 16 August 2025 – Croke Park, Dublin
• 17 August 2025 – Croke Park, Dublin

When do tickets go on sale and how can I get them?

All tickets will go on sale on Saturday 31 August.

The Dublin dates will be on sale from 8am and the UK dates will go on sale at 9am.

Tickets for UK performances can be bought from the following sites:

• ticketmaster.co.uk
• gigsandtours.com
• www.seetickets.com

For the Ireland dates you need to go to ticketmaster.ie.

Be warned: you must register

The band’s official website has “strongly advised” anyone hoping to purchase tickets to register in advance of the sale with the relevant ticket agencies.

Top tips for getting tickets

The ticket sites offer key advice for fans looking to have an edge over others in the race for in-demand tickets.

Here’s a summary of their biggest tips:

• Don’t wait until Saturday morning to register. This will mean you have plenty of time to get your account set up with all the right billing and delivery information
• Verify your account. You have to add your phone number and confirm a one-time passcode with new accounts for protection. You only need to do it once
• If you already have an account, double-check it. It’s worth logging in before Saturday just to check you know your password, your delivery and billing information is all correct, and to ensure you’ve already completed your one-time passcode
• Make sure your card details are already saved to avoid last-minute scrambling
• Get your phones and laptops charged before the deadline
• Make sure you’re happy with your internet connection. Private WiFi is best, and if that isn’t working, Ticketmaster advises using your mobile data over public WiFi, which it says is “usually the least reliable”
• Don’t refresh the page while in a waiting room. Ticketing sites use a queuing system when they get busy, meaning you get put in an online waiting room with other fans. They warn that refreshing the page won’t move you further up the line, and that the page itself updates automatically. So once you’re in, wait it out…

How many tickets can I buy and how expensive could they be?

You can get a maximum of four tickets per transaction, and you aren’t permitted to sell them for more than you bought them for, according to event organisers.

The price of tickets hasn’t been announced yet, though the Manchester Evening News has reported they are expected to exceed £100.

Back in 2009, just over a month before Oasis split, the band performed at Wembley Stadium and charged £38.50 plus VAT (which at the time was 15%), meaning the total cost was just over £44.

When Sky News put those numbers into the Bank of England’s inflation calculator, the total was £68.02 – which is still considered low nowadays.

Do you even deserve tickets?

Since the announcement, social media has been flooded by debate about who this concert is really for.

“What’s your favourite B-side?” – an eligibility test being used by people who “were at Knebworth”.

Die-hard Oasis fans who were there in the 90s will say they are the ones who most deserve to get their hands on tickets.

“Imagine waiting 15 years for Oasis to reform only to lose out on tickets to Chloe, 21 from Stockport who just wants to hear Wonderwall live”, one X user posts.

In response, another writes: “Obsessed with all the men creating fictional young women who they might lose out on Oasis tickets to.”

Analysis by Gemma Peplow, culture and entertainment reporter

“Like most kids, my parents influenced my music taste growing up, from Bruce Springsteen and Tina Turner to the Rolling Stones.

“Kylie Minogue, obviously, was also a big feature in my cassette collection.

“But Oasis were the first band that felt like mine, not music I’d inherited.

“As a teenager I listened over and over, studied the album covers, and went on to see them live five times, each gig holding different memories and anecdotes. For those of us who grew up with them, they embodied our youth, the spirit of the ’90s.

“But that doesn’t mean these gigs belong to the older fans, which, like it or not, is the bracket I fall into now. You only have to see all the teenagers and younger adults at Liam’s solo shows to see how Oasis’s songs resonate with different generations. The music has stood the test of time, which can only be a good thing.

“Those gatekeeping fans are most likely the same as those complaining about how all music is rubbish these days. Well, you can’t have it both ways.

“If I’m lucky enough to get tickets, I hope to be singing along with bucket-hat wearing fans of all ages.”

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Teenage girl killed on M5 in Somerset after getting out of police car named

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November 15, 2024

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Teenage girl killed on M5 in Somerset after getting out of police car named

A teenage girl who was killed after getting out of a police car on the M5 in Somerset has been named.

Tamzin Hall, 17 and from Wellington, was hit by a vehicle that was travelling southbound between junction 24 for Bridgwater and junction 25 for Taunton shortly after 11pm on Monday.

She had exited a police vehicle that had stopped on the northbound side of the motorway while transporting her.

A mandatory referral was made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is now carrying out its own investigation into what happened.

Avon and Somerset Police said: “Our thoughts and sympathies go out to Tamzin’s family for their devastating loss.

“A specially-trained family liaison officer remains in contact with them to keep them updated and to provide support.

“The family have asked for privacy at this difficult time.”

The police watchdog, the IOPC, has been asked to investigate.

In a statement, director David Ford, said: “This was a truly tragic incident and my thoughts are with Tamzin’s family and friends and everyone affected by the events of that evening.

“We are contacting her family to express our sympathies, explain our role, and set out how our investigation will progress. We will keep them fully updated as our investigation continues.”

Paramedics attended the motorway within minutes of the girl being hit but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The motorway was closed in both directions while investigations took place. It was fully reopened shortly after 11am on Tuesday, Nationals Highways said.

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Mohamed al Fayed’s brother Salah also abused women, say female Harrods employees

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November 15, 2024

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Mohamed al Fayed's brother Salah also abused women, say female Harrods employees

A survivors group advocating for women allegedly assaulted by Mohamed al Fayed has said it is “grateful another abuser has been unmasked”, after allegations his brother Salah also participated in the abuse.

Justice for Harrods Survivors says it has “credible evidence” suggesting the sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated at Harrods and the billionaire’s properties “was not limited to Mr al Fayed himself”.

The group’s statement comes after three women told BBC News they were sexually assaulted by al Fayed’s brother, Salah.

One woman said she was raped by Mohamed al Fayed while working at Harrods.

Helen, who has waived her right to anonymity, said she then took a job working for his brother as an escape. She alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted while working at Salah’s home on Park Lane, London.

Two other women have told the BBC they were taken to Monaco and the South of France, where Salah sexually abused them.

The Justice for Harrod Survivors representatives said: “We are proud to support the survivors of Salah Fayed’s abuse and are committed to achieving justice for them, no matter what it takes.”

The group added it “looks forward to the others on whom we have credible evidence – whether abusers themselves or enablers facilitating that abuse – being exposed in due course”.

Salah was one of the three Fayed brothers who co-owned Harrods.

The business, which was sold to Qatar Holdings when Mohamed al Fayed retired in 2010, has said it “supports the bravery of these women in coming forward”.

A statement issued by the famous store on Thursday evening continued: “We encourage these survivors to come forward and make their claims to the Harrods scheme, where they can apply for compensation, as well as support from a counselling perspective and through an independent survivor advocate.

“We also hope that they are looking at every appropriate avenue to them in their pursuit of justice, whether that be Harrods, the police or the Fayed family and estate.”

The Justice for Harrods Survivors group previously said more than 400 people had contacted them regarding accusations about Mohamed al Fayed, who died last year.

One of those alleged to have been abused is Bianca Gascoigne, the daughter of former England player Paul.

Speaking to Sky News in October, Gascoigne said she was groomed and sexually assaulted by al Fayed when she worked at Harrods as a teenager.

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Wes Streeting ‘crossed the line’ by opposing assisted dying in public, says Labour peer Harriet Harman

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November 15, 2024

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Wes Streeting 'crossed the line' by opposing assisted dying in public, says Labour peer Harriet Harman

Wes Streeting “crossed the line” by opposing assisted dying in public and the argument shouldn’t “come down to resources”, a Labour peer has said.

Speaking on Sky News’ Electoral Dysfunction podcast, Baroness Harriet Harman criticised the health secretary for revealing how he is going to vote on the matter when it comes before parliament later this month.

MPs are being given a free vote, meaning they can side with their conscience and not party lines, so the government is supposed to be staying neutral.

But Mr Streeting has made clear he will vote against legalising assisted dying, citing concerns end-of-life care is not good enough for people to make an informed choice, and that some could feel pressured into the decision to save the NHS money.

He has also ordered a review into the potential costs of changing the law, warning it could come at the expense of other NHS services if implemented.

Baroness Harman said Mr Streeting has “crossed the line in two ways”.

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“He should not have said how he was going to vote, because that breaches neutrality and sends a signal,” she said.

“And secondly… he’s said the problem is that it will cost money to bring in an assisted dying measure, and therefore he will have to cut other services.

“But paradoxically, he also said it would be a slippery slope because people will be forced to bring about their own death in order to save the NHS money. Well, it can’t be doing both things.

“It can’t be both costing the NHS money and saving the NHS money.”

Baroness Harman said the argument “should not come down to resources” as it is a “huge moral issue” affecting “only a tiny number of people”.

She added that people should not mistake Mr Streeting for being “a kind of proxy for Keir Starmer”.

“The government is genuinely neutral and all of those backbenchers, they can vote whichever way they want,” she added.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has previously expressed support for assisted dying, but it is not clear how he intends to vote on the issue or if he will make his decision public ahead of time.

The cabinet has varying views on the topic, with the likes of Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood siding with Mr Streeting in her opposition but Energy Secretary Ed Miliband being for it.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is being championed by Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater, who wants to give people with six months left to live the choice to end their lives.

Under her proposals, two independent doctors must confirm a patient is eligible for assisted dying and a High Court judge must give their approval.

The bill will also include punishments of up to 14 years in prison for those who break the law, including coercing someone into ending their own life.

MPs will debate and vote on the legislation on 29 November, in what will be the first Commons vote on assisted dying since 2015, when the proposal was defeated.