Opinion | Oasis prices are too high

Oasis have confirmed they will tour again in 2027

Following their huge 2025 reunion shows, including a return to Knebworth 31 years after their historic performances there in 1996.

Author | Josh T

After a year away from the road, the rock’n’roll stars will embark on a 38-date tour across the UK and Ireland, Europe and the US. The run includes a mammoth 11 shows at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium, five nights at Celtic Park in Glasgow, two at Slane Castle in Dublin and four concerts at Knebworth.

The prices are too high and a slap in the face for loyal fans

There is something deeply uncomfortable about fans being expected to find increasingly eye-watering sums for big concerts and gigs.

Oasis have always traded heavily on their working-class roots.

Their story is one of council estates, unemployment, ambition and the idea that music could offer an escape from the limitations of everyday life. Their songs became anthems precisely because they spoke to people who did not necessarily see themselves reflected in the polished world of pop. Noel and Liam Gallagher represented a particularly British kind of aspiration: rough around the edges, unapologetic and determined to make it on their own terms.

That history makes the price of seeing Oasis today harder to swallow.

For many fans, particularly younger ones, going to a major concert is no longer a casual night out. Rent and mortgage payments have risen, food bills remain a concern and household budgets are being squeezed from all directions. The cost of living crisis has changed the way people spend their disposable income, yet some of the biggest gigs now demand hundreds of pounds before travel, accommodation and food are even considered.

There is, of course, an argument that Oasis are one of the world's biggest bands and that demand for tickets is enormous. Stadium shows are expensive to stage, and the modern live music industry involves far more than simply putting four musicians on a stage. But that does not mean fans have to accept every price as reasonable.

The danger is that Oasis become a band their original audience can admire from a distance but can no longer afford to see live. That feels particularly strange for a group whose appeal was rooted in ordinary people finding something extraordinary in their music.

Many fans were critical of prices in 2025 and listened to the gigs from outside Heaton Park

Oasis have every right to capitalise on their remarkable popularity. 

Fans, however, have every right to question where the line lies between paying for a special experience and being priced out of it.

For a band whose music once made working-class life feel visible, there is an irony in the prospect of working-class fans being among those least able to afford a ticket.