Why a shocking number of Oasis fans don’t want Live ’27 tickets as dates are announced

You would think the announcement of another Oasis tour would send every fan who survived the first ticket scramble straight back into battle.

But after spending 16 years waiting for  Liam and Noel Gallagher to share a stage again, a surprising number of fans have decided that once was enough.

As excitement builds surrounding Oasis’ newly announced tour dates, one Oasis fan asked Reddit whether anyone else was ‘happily sitting back this time’ with no intention of buying tickets.

The fan had been at the opening night in Cardiff and called it ‘hands down one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to’, admitting they simply couldn’t imagine another show topping it.

Judging by the hundreds of responses, they are far from alone.

One fan who attended the first Manchester show said they would ‘love to go again’ but had no plans to actively chase tickets, explaining: ‘Live 25 was such a surreal moment and I’m glad I was part of it. But I don’t like to try and catch lightning in a bottle twice.’

Another Cardiff attendee agreed their first night ‘can’t really be topped’, adding: ‘If an opportunity presents itself then yes, we might look into it but no queue hell for me this time around!’

That feeling of having already witnessed the moment appears to be one of the biggest reasons for the surprising apathy.

Live ’25 wasn’t simply another Oasis tour, but the tour nobody knew would ever happen: Liam and Noel finally reunited after their famously bitter split, with an entire generation of fans getting to watch the impossible become very real.

One fan described it as ‘a cultural experience, a moment, a truly biblical event’, saying they had no desire to recreate something that already felt complete.

Another, whose first Oasis gig was Maine Road, said opening night in Cardiff felt like a ‘bookend’, while someone else simply declared: ‘I’ve filled that nostalgia.’

For those who do fancy another round, the difference between Live ’25 and Live ’27 seems to be one small but crucial word: need.

Last time, fans who had spent more than a decade believing Oasis might never reunite were faced with the prospect that this could also be their only chance. This time, the FOMO has considerably less bite.

As one fan put it, ‘Wanting to get a ticket is definitely far less stressful than having to get a ticket.’

Then, of course, there is the small matter of actually getting one.

The original reunion sale was plagued by fury over lengthy queues and dynamic pricing, with some fans finding ticket prices had soared by the time they reached the front.

One Reddit user recalled waiting in a virtual queue all day only to be confronted with tickets costing around £400, saying the experience ‘left a sour taste’.

Another said they had secured a normally priced Dublin ticket before the website crashed, only to return and find the price had doubled. They were then reportedly identified as a bot while trying for Manchester tickets and locked out of resale attempts.

Their verdict on another round was concise: ‘F*** ’em.’

One fan went further, saying they would refuse to take part unless prices were revealed before joining the queue, claiming a dynamically priced £355 Wembley standing ticket last time cost more than their football season ticket.

And the cost doesn’t stop once the ticket is safely in your account.

With some fans facing travel and hotels to reach the new dates, another commenter decided there was a rather more appealing use for the money: ‘For the price of tickets and a hotel I’m going on holiday instead.’

The bruising from Live ’25’s ticket sale has also fed into something slightly more existential for longtime fans: whether spending hundreds of pounds to participate in an enormous commercial machine still feels particularly rock ’n’ roll.

One fan said the prices last time were ‘ridiculous’ and that they now refuse to pay more than £70 for a gig, while another questioned whether Live ’27 would feel less like a glorious second chapter and more ‘like a cash grab’ if Oasis essentially repeated the same setlist.

That makes the reluctance around Live ’27 more interesting than fans simply deciding they have seen Oasis once and ticked it off the list.

For some, Live ’25 was magical despite everything surrounding it – the prices, dynamic pricing, hotel costs and hours spent fighting ticket websites – and the prospect of paying even more to recreate something inherently unrepeatable has taken some of the shine off round two.

Still, anyone hoping this means Live ’27 tickets will be sitting unwanted on the virtual shelf probably shouldn’t start celebrating just yet.

Plenty of fans who missed out last time are practically volunteering limbs for admission, with one declaring: ‘Couldn’t get tickets last year – I’d sell an arm to even get a glimpse of them.’

Others who went in 2025 have absolutely no intention of showing restraint either. ‘I got tickets last time and I will get tickets this time,’ one fan declared. ‘Call me greedy I dont give a bollocks.’

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