Liam Gallagher rants at fans on social media over Oasis ticketing saga
Someone should really tell Liam Gallagher not to look back in anger with the rocker unleashing an astonishing tirade ahead of the Oasis reunion tour.
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Oasis crooner Liam Gallagher has spewed a torrent of abuse at his loyal fans who were left reeling after the band’s reunion ticket sale was plagued by technical issues and staggering price surges.
When fans flocked to his X, formerly known as Twitter, page and commented about their frustrations, Liam replied with a simple “shut up”.
He doubled down with a new tweet directed at those complaining.
“OASIS are back you’re welcome and I hear their ATTITUDE STINKS good to know something’s never change,” he wrote unrepentantly.
When a fan asked how he was feeling ahead of the big tour, the younger Gallagher replied in cavalier fashion.
“SMUG only kidding SMUG AS F*** I told you all we were gonna get back together 1 fine day,” Liam Gallagher wrote.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS REIGNITES FEUD WITH OASIS
Meanwhile, Robbie Williams has taken a cheeky swipe at Liam’s brother Noel Gallagher.
The singer’s feud with Noel and his younger brother Liam goes back decades after Williams left Take That.
Things turned sour when Noel, the elder Gallagher brother, publicly called Robbie the “fat dancer from Take That”.
According to The Mirror, Williams said on an uncredited podcast: “The soap opera alone will either be exciting and or ghoulish to watch.
“As for the shows? They’re gonna be incredible, off-the-scale special. Oasis getting back together is going to be a healing moment for our country.”
Williams, 50, continued: “Liam Gallagher reading his phone on the toilet would be more charismatic and intriguing than 99.9 per cent of the world’s population at their most enigmatic.
“All he has to do is stand there and sing for the audience to be guaranteed their money’s worth.”
He then added: “Noel will be there too.”
It comes as lawyers said Oasis fans are entitled to sue Ticketmaster after ticket prices to the Oasis reunion tour spike by hundreds of dollars.
Fans of the 1990s rock legends were left outraged after standard tickets more than doubled from $290 to $695 for the 2025 UK tour, the band’s first since splitting in 2009 after Noel and Liam came to blows backstage in Paris.
But there’s some good news for fans who missed out on tickets after the band announced they would play two more London shows on September 27 and 28.
“UK. Two extra Wembley Stadium shows have been added due to phenomenal demand,” they wrote on X.
“Tickets will be sold by a staggered, invitation-only ballot process. Applications to join the ballot will be opened first to the many UK fans who were unsuccessful in the initial on sale with Ticketmaster. More details to follow.”
The Gallagher brothers had called on their teams to try to put a new ticketing system in place after a huge backlash over TicketMaster’s dynamic pricing – which saw tickets for their reunion tour double in price after just a few hours.
Following the ticket uproar, the British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 450 complaints about Ticketmaster ads for the Oasis shows.
According to The Sun, a spokesman for the UK’s regulator of advertising said the complainants argue that the adverts made “misleading claims about availability and pricing”.
Ticketmaster has said it does not set prices and its website says this is down to the “event organiser” who “has priced these tickets according to their market value”.
Lawyers have said that using the system – which sees prices rise when supply is low and demand is high – could have breached consumer law.
Customers were not forewarned that costs would surge from the advertised $290 to more than double that amount.
Fieldfisher partner Richard Pike said people who bought tickets could bring collective High Court claim against Ticketmaster.
“I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t expecting there to be this dynamic pricing. It only became apparent after I’d been on the phone for quite some time already,” Mr Pike told The Telegraph.
“You can see psychologically there’s commitment there. When you’ve waited that long already, you’re liable to pay more than you otherwise would. They are taking advantage of you.”
But, he added, the legal costs of bringing such an action could well be greater than a potential award, which would only be in the hundreds of dollars per person.
Tickets to the tour were only available through online retailer Ticketmaster.
Lawyers said that queuing customers not being told how many tickets remained could have potentially breached consumer protection rules.
While dynamic pricing is not banned by those rules, businesses are not permitted to mislead customers about the cost of a product.
Trading Standards said earlier this week that Ticketmaster could have broken the law by not telling customers that prices would rise amid high demand before they started queuing for tickets.
Leigh Day solicitor Maksymilian Hara said if there was a breach of competition rules, customers could in theory be entitled to bring joint action at the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
But he echoed Mr Pike’s comments that any potential reward may be outweighed by legal costs.
On August 31, Oasis announced that general sale tickets for their upcoming UK and Ireland gigs had sold out in less than a day.
But many fans missed out as they battled website issues and being mislabelled as bots.
Other international dates are still to be announced.
Earlier this week, an Oasis electronic billboard in New York’s Times Square had fans speculating the Gallagher brothers would tour the US.
There was also a caption, which read: “If we need to put up a billboard to get these guys to come to the States, here it is.”
An Australian tour has also been speculated.
The British government pledged to look into the use of dynamic pricing in its forthcoming review of the secondary gig sales market.
A boss of a major resale site has claimed ticket surge pricing could have a “huge impact” on the leisure industry if people are priced out of attending events,
“The impact is bigger than just this one event,” Oscar Kriek, director of partnerships at TicketSwap, told The Sun.
“If these very popular events are implementing these kind of pricing strategies, it means that there’s less room for other events, because the consumers can only spend a specific amount of money once.
“Which means that if they spend these huge amounts on these single events, then (the) leisure budget overall throughout the year will be significantly impacted, which means that there is less room to visit other leisure experiences, so other concerts or festivals.
“So this has a huge impact. Therefore, I don’t think this is something that we should want as an industry.”
British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy released a statement on Sunday calling the inflated selling of Oasis tickets “incredibly depressing”.
“This Government is committed to putting fans back at the heart of music,” she said.
“So we will include issues around the transparency and use of dynamic pricing, including the technology around queuing systems which incentivise it, in our forthcoming consultation on consumer protections for ticket resales.”
The CMA has said it is “urgently reviewing” the ticketing market and that it is looking forward to working with the British government on the issue.
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