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Record breaking Oasis add Coventry show to 2009 tour

Band shift half a million tickets in a single day

Oasis have revealed that their UK and Irish stadium tour has broken box office records - and they've added yet another date for summer 2009.

The band will now play Coventry's Ricoh Arena Stadium with support from hometown boys The Enemy on July 7.

Tickets for that show go on sale at 9am on October 30.

Sunderland, Edinburgh and Dublin are now also sold out, along with the original two nights at Manchester's Heaton Park and London's Wembley Stadium, which reached capacity earlier this afternoon.

Oasis have since added third nights in Manchester (June 4) and London (July 9) at the same venues.

With tickets going on sale at 10am (BST) this morning (October 24), the band had sold half a million tickets by 3pm.

Oasis co-promoter Chris York of SJM Concerts speculated that "this has to be the most tickets ever sold by an artist in the UK in one day".

A spokesperson for the band added: "This proves Oasis continue to go from strength to strength and increase in popularity. Following their fantastically received arena tour this autumn and critically acclaimed new album, these will be the must-see shows of 2009."

The full Oasis tour is now:

Manchester Heaton Park (June 4, 6, 7)
Sunderland Stadium Of Light (10)
Cardiff Millennium Stadium (12)
Edinburgh Murrayfield Stadium (17)
Dublin Slane Castle (20)
Coventry Ricoh Arena Stadium (July 7)
London Wembley Stadium (9, 11, 12)


To check the availability of Oasis tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

Watch Noel Gallagher announcing the summer tour below.


 

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Meddick 

Oct 24, 2008

lol fuck you oasis haters

paaul028 

Oct 24, 2008

Oasis are playing Dublin??

revos 

Oct 27, 2008

now tell me they aren't important anymore

gazhat 

Oct 27, 2008

..........truth be told, i bet they could sell out all those gigs again by adding more dates....but i suppose a lot of the tickest will be ebay'd to the highest bidder.....bastards...

smallpigeon 

Oct 27, 2008

add another wembley date!i tried for ages this morning to get tickets, failed, went out and drowned my sorrows, came back and found there'd been a new date added which has also sold out... bad times!

Barabas 

Oct 27, 2008

Great stuff for Oasis...but I couldn't get a ticket!

verymetal13 

Oct 27, 2008

Well, Half a mil ticks in one day, certainly gives credit to the relevance of Oasis in todays music industry, or as put by Meddic Fucks you Oasis haters lol!!!

BeigePants 

Oct 27, 2008

They've sold 500,000 tickets to 25,000 people though. I only wanted 4, and ended up with 22.

whisky-bob 

Oct 27, 2008

'Irrelevant' Oasis do it again. NFT.

jumbo999 

Oct 27, 2008

its not funny. means fuck all. theyre still shite

LINK2K9 

Oct 27, 2008

Have to wonder: Are Oasis still irrelevant? Well, I'd fucking love to see a "relevant" band sell those kind of numbers in less then a day.

Jase1982 

Oct 27, 2008

I wouldn't get too carried away. The touts snapped up at least half the amount sold.

numberonestrokesfan 

Oct 27, 2008

critically acclaimed? lol. the general consensus seems to be like 6/10

indieayi 

Oct 27, 2008

I see no Oasis haters are commenting on this article. Also Oasis sold out Slane Castle quicker than U2!!!!

shakermaker1994 

Oct 27, 2008

Oasis rules!!!

amelville84 

Oct 27, 2008

heaton park,here we come,cant wait!!

Bryan Robson 

Oct 27, 2008

Oasis are the biggest band in the world! Roll on next summer

Golfman 

Oct 27, 2008

Yep. top band BUT. 1 A massive amount of these tickets were purchased by touts...check ebay out!! 2. The reason they are so big is because theyve been around for so bloody long, they cater for young indie kids but ALSO the young indie kids parents!! 2 markets.

malco_mc 

Oct 27, 2008

These 'sold out in five minutes' stories are getting silly - BeigePants has hit the nail on the head - certainly the tickets sell out quickly, but the ticket companies websites/telephone lines simply aren't up to the job, they start reporting that tickets are sold out yet those of us with a bit of patience keep clicking refresh and eventually get there. I've had this several times this year (Reading Festival, Kings of Leon at Brixton) where events were reported as sold out, yet after an hour of hitting refresh I eventually got in. The internet is great but its really killed the fun of browsing the paper NME adverts for gigs, deciding whether to go, arranging which mates can go then buying tickets, maybe days after the tickets went on sale. Nowadays you panic buy the tickets then decide afterwards whether to actually go or just sell them on ebay.

hness 

Oct 27, 2008

i need a whole load of new t shirts

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