By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-09-30 14:36:22 | Updated at 2024-10-02 20:39:19
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Oasis have announced they will perform five stadium shows across North American when their reunion tour gets underway in 2025.
The iconic Britpop band, fronted by warring brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, confirmed they will regroup for a series of lucrative summer shows in August - their first since 2009.
The tour, originally planned for the United Kingdom and Ireland, will now extend to the United States and Canada.
The new dates include Toronto on August 24, Chicago on August 28, New Jersey on August 31, Los Angeles on September 6 and Mexico City on September 12.
Confirming the news on X, formerly Twitter, they wrote: 'America is coming. You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along.'
Oasis have announced they will perform five stadium shows across North American when their reunion tour gets underway in 2025
The new dates include Toronto on August 24, Chicago on August 28, New Jersey on August 31, Los Angeles on September 6 and Mexico City on September 12
The band have also confirmed the North American tickets will not be affected by the same dynamic pricing controversy that affected the UK and Ireland
Pre-sale tickets will be available from 12:00pm EST on October 3, while the general sale will take place from October 4.
It's understood that registered applicants will be randomly selected for access to the ticket sale via a ballot, during which hopeful fans will be asked questions about the band in order to proceed.
Oasis had previously come under fire after unprecedented demand for tickets across Britain and Ireland led to chaos online, where fans waited in queues for hours or fell victim to a dynamic pricing system that resulted in tickets trebling in price.
But they have since confirmed the North American sale will not be subject to the same fiasco in a separate statement shared across social media on Monday.
It read: 'Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing model will not be applied to the forthcoming sale of tickets to Oasis concerts in North America.
It is widely accepted that dynamic pricing remains a useful tool to combat ticket touting and keep prices for a significant proportion of fans lower than the market rate and thus more affordable.
'But, when unprecedented ticket demand (where the entire tour could be sold many times over at the moment tickets go on sale) is combined with technology that cannot cope with that demand, it becomes less effective and can lead to an unacceptable experience for fans.
'We have made this decision for the North America tour to hopefully avoid a repeat of the issues fans in the UK and Ireland experienced recently.'
The news prompted an inevitably strong reaction across social media after it was announced on Monday morning
The iconic rock band includes brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher (pictured in 1998) - but was originally formed in 1991 with ex members Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll (pictured in 1998)
They previously shared snaps of giant billboards showing the siblings, with a headline reading 'be careful what you wish for'
On Sunday the band's social media platforms shared snaps of giant billboards showing the Gallagher brothers, with a headline reading 'be careful what you wish for'.
It also read 'MONDAY, 8AM ET', hinting at the announcement date and time, and adding #OasisLive25 in their latest X post.
UK and Ireland dates were subject to 'unprecedented' demand when tickets went on sale last month, with fans left enraged by prices skyrocketing due to Ticketmaster's 'dynamic pricing' - or by being kicked off the site once they had queued for hours to secure a spot.
Many devastated Oasis fans were left empty-handed when the hotly-anticipated 17-date UK reunion tour sold out in a matter of hours in an online fiasco.
Around 14million fans faced eight-hour queues in a bid to get their hands on the highly-sought-after tickets to see the rock band live, with many still missing out.
While other lucky fans managed to nab tickets, many were forced to splash out huge amounts on them after dynamic pricing saw costs soar to almost double within mere hours.
The Gallagher brothers have since announced two further Wembley shows and tickets will be made available via a staggered invite-only ballot to select fans who missed out the first time around on Ticketmaster.
Other fans were angry and disappointed after being left empty-handed, having battled website issues, being mislabelled as bots and waiting in an online queue for hours to buy tickets.
Last month, the band announced they were reuniting for the first time since 2009 after Noel and Liam Gallagher finally put their differences aside (pictured in 2003)
This year marks 30 years since the band released their debut studio album, Definitely Maybe, which sailed to the top of the UK charts earlier in the month again in occasion of the anniversary (pictured in 2009)
This year marks 30 years since the band released their debut studio album, Definitely Maybe, which sailed to the top of the UK charts earlier in the month, bolstered by the release of a deluxe edition celebrating its anniversary.
Oasis released two live records during their heyday back in the 2000s.
They released Familiar To Millions in November 2000 - four months after Oasis debuted at Wembley.
Their first release sold more than a million copies.
Knebworth 1996 was their second release, and this was recorded across two shows at the Hertfordshire venue and was released in September 2021.
Many devastated Oasis fans were left empty-handed when the hotly-anticipated 17-date UK reunion tour sold out in a matter of hours in an online fiasco with around 14million fans facing eight-hour queues (pictured in 2009)
