“After 15 years, the once warring Gallagher brothers will finally reunite for 41 shows across Europe with Welsh fans queuing all night.”, — write: www.dailymail.co.uk
After 15 years, the once warring Gallagher brothers will finally reunite for 41 shows with Welsh fans queuing all night, while those at home were left ‘cringing’ by This Morning’s TV tribute to Noel and Liam.
The band confirmed they would be hitting the stage at 8.15pm after warm up act Richard Ashcroft begins his set at 7:00pm.
But some music lovers have been left scrambling for last minute seats, with some that boast a £489 face value being sold for as much as £2,500.
Viagogo has several seated spots on sale for more than £1,000 and reported on its page that 34,000 people had looked at tickets for Friday’s performance. With seats for Saturday’s second night in the Welsh capital have even higher price tags.
Meanwhile many fans have found themsleves falling foul of scammers in their desperate attempt to bag a spot in the crowd and have taken to X to share their frustrations.
‘Half the accounts on Twitter are fake and trying to scam by selling Oasis tickets’: ‘pls stop trying to scam me, i just want an oasis ticket fml’: ‘Anyone else’s tickets for Oasis in Cardiff been voided and then been reassigned worse tickets without even an email to note this change ?’.
They have collectively lost more than £2m to scams since tickets for its reunion tour went on sale last year, a major bank estimated. Lloyds Banking Group based the calculation on the volume of fraud reports made by its own customers.
Oasis fans make up more than half of all reported concert ticket scams so far this year, according to Lloyds’ data, losing £436 on average. The biggest amount lost in a single case so far was more than £1,700, suggesting many fans are willing to pay well over face value, the bank said.
Meanwhile This Morning fans switched off their TVs seconds into the show when Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary’s Oasis tribute backfired.
Friday’s instalment of the ITV programme opened with the presenter duo dancing around to the iconic Oasis song, Wonderwall.
Both wore black bucket hats and green coats, while Alison donned small, round sunglasses, mimicking Liam and Noel.
As the music played, they both threw off their coats and hats as they lip synced to the song. Dermot commented to Alison: ‘You’re the only person I’ve seen ever that looks good in a bucket hat.’
She replied: ‘You look really good actually. Oasis fans, you can stop crying your hat out because Liam and Noel have officially decided to stop looking back in anger and are getting back together,’ Dermot exclaimed.
Alison added: ‘After 16 years apart, today the band will finally roll with it on stage once again kicking off their first stop on their comeback tour in Cardiff which is happening tonight!’
However, the pair’s performance didn’t impress some viewers who took to social media to share their thoughts on the Oasis tribute act.
One said: ‘#thismorning F**k sake’: ‘Oh my f*****g god #thismorning.’Yeah not watching this s**t #ThisMorning,: ‘#thismorning are all programmes on ITV opening today with the presenters dressed as Oasis?
‘@ITV why do you do this ? You pick a subject, today it’s #Oasis and you rinse it across every single show on your channel. Do you not think they are making enough cash with you giving them free publicity! #ThisMorning,’ another commented.
Meanwhile Ranvir Singh who was guest hosting Lorraine and also donned Oasis’ iconic outfits, said she was found it difficult to believe that the much anticipated shows would go ahead.
Telling viewers: ‘I’m still not convinced it’s going to happen, until you see them on stage. i’ll believe it when i see it!’.
Roving reporter Nick Dixon was in Cardiff and showed passionate fans who had been queuing in order to secure a good spot in the crowd when the gates eventually open.
‘Security told me that band spotted [waiting fans being moved by security] had a massive upgrade on their tickets, left here deliriously happy’.
Before adding: ‘I’ve spent a lot of time with fans at the Oasis store, fans meeting up from around the world, no one seems to care they’ve had to spend hundreds if not thousands
While show correspondent Claer Barrett warned fans: ‘Last minute ticket deals that are not deals message to get across, social media and ticket sales are not a good look. lots of scams going on. be wary of bot accounts on social media. Key message, stick to official ticket reseller sites’.
Meanwhile Lidl have also embraced the band’s reunion and launched a parka style jacket inspired by Liam’s iconic look.
Unveiled via a 30ft wonderwall in the Gallagher boys’ hometown just outside Manchester’s Etihad Stadium the jacket has been created for both Britpop and Lidl fanatics alike.
Featuring drink-cooling pockets for roadies, a bottle opener zip, and even a detachable tambourine, the jacket is £30 with all proceeds going to the NSPCC.
It comes after Oasis hit out at Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing system in September last year after their ticket sale was mired in controversy.
Tickets were meant to start at £74.25 for seated tickets at their Wembley shows, with the most expensive ticket being a £506.25 pre-show party.
However, screenshots from the Ticketmaster website offering In Demand standing tickets being listed for hundreds of pounds each.
Oasis said of the chaotic ticket sale: ‘As for the well reported complaints many buyers had over the operation of dynamic ticketing: it needs to be made clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management, and at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used.’
The band announced they would be doing two more shows, with tickets allocated using a ballot system.
Elsewhere the eldest of the duo Noel, 58, was seen arriving in Cardiff on Wednesday for rehearsals.
Sources close to the brothers told MailOnline: ‘It’s all gearing up now. Technical rehearsals for the band started on Monday and then Noel and Liam joined them a couple of days later.
‘But Liam barely even stayed for the first eight songs before leaving the rehearsals early and Noel continued on his own.’
Opening with Acquiesce – a song from their first 1995 album, they will follow with Morning Glory the titular song of the second studio album with Supersonic playing sixth.
Elsewhere Liam, 52, and Noel will play Half the World Away, Slide Away, Live Forever before finishing with their three most popular songs Don’t Look Back in Anger, Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova.
And ahead of the highly-anticipated evening, footage and pictures from a special drone show over Cardiff Principality enticed.
Ahead of the brothers’ reunion, the duo lit up the sky with brightly coloured drones which spelt out the band’s name.