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Oasis' UK tour sells out within an hour of going on sale

Fans snap up 180,000 tickets for the dates

August 20, 2008 | 12 Comments
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Oasis' first UK tour since 2006 sold out within an hour of going on sale this morning (August 20).

All 180,000 tickets for the 18-date tour were snapped up by fans over the phone and internet - with no reported network problems.

NME.COM also understands that several thousand fans queued for tickets outside London's Wembley Arena, Bournemouth and Sheffield.

A spokesperson for Oasis said: "The demand for tickets this morning was just immense. All the ticket sites slowed down severely but nothing crashed and the system worked very smoothly. We want to thank the fans for their patience and look forward to seeing you all at the shows."

Oasis' new album, 'Dig Out Your Soul', is released on October 6.

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markcocky1986

Aug 20, 2008

Got my Sheffield tickets at 9.52am... Close Call!!!

Cirs1892

Aug 20, 2008

'Nothing crashed'?!?! Yeh right.I had standing tickets for Sheffield in my basket on 2 seperate occassions with all of my details entered and when I clicked 'Buy Tickets' the site crashed.Eventually got seating tickets

neweducation

Aug 20, 2008

the early tout catches the ticket.

wesley1

Aug 20, 2008

not bad for such an 'irrelevant' band....eh knob-heads.got me ticks for sheffield & b'ham in the bag!

psj3809

Aug 20, 2008

No problems ? Phone lines were either off or if you held for 5-10 minutes just cut off. The website was dire, at 9am it couldnt find any tickets for London (cant have sold out in seconds), kept crashing, one minute they had tickets, then none available, then they had some ?!The link from the oasis website was just as bad, crashing with network errors. Its 2008 not 1994, surely sites can keep going despite a bit of heavy traffic ?Disappointing for many fans, within minutes tickets on ebay for 240 quid were appearing and ticketmaster were just as bad with their sister website with ridiculous prices.

jjbeeson

Aug 20, 2008

There's a typo in your articleDont you mean"TOUTS! snap up 180,000 tickets for the dates"GRRRR!!!

andyc53

Aug 21, 2008

To be perfectly honest it was absolute chaos this morning to say the least. I was up and on the PC infact we had 3 laptops on the go trying to get tickets for the birmingham dates. After being stuck in a que onlinethat was quite literally going nowhere I just on the offchance at about 10:15 phoned up and was on hold for about 15mins and then luckliy managed to get through and purchased 4 standing tickets, I count myself to be very lucky! However I won't sleep soundly until the tickets arrive in the post and are safely in my grasp.

jamesisthebest

Aug 21, 2008

got ma standing tickets for cardiff even though i live in manchester ha ha "wesley1" what the fuck do you mean irrelevent band. there one of the best bands to come out fo the brit pop era you nob :) long live oasis

itzokayy

Aug 21, 2008

people still listen to Oasis?

LouisBoys

Aug 21, 2008

who the hell would pay to go see this repetitive, over-hyped, over-rated filth. haha apparently 180,000 people. Geez, never realised how culture-less the world is. Good luck to you people! haha i haven't heard Oasis's name mentioned in like.....................10 years? Gee, must be doing well for themselves.

Johnza

Aug 21, 2008

Thought Oasis had lost their touch when i got through first time at 8:58am to book 4 standing Wembley, Friday. Then tried to book another 4 on my birds card and couldnt get back through. Sold out within the hour, the boys are back. Cant wait.

pbsuper

Aug 21, 2008

Managed to get two tickets for B'ham NIA, but not after re-trying the web site for over a hour. So glad I got them though, the new single is blinding. Can't wait!!