Oasis announces Toronto dates as part of 2025 reunion tour
Britpop band bringing tour all around the world with shows in Canada, U.S., Mexico
Today is gonna be the day Oasis confirmed it will play in Toronto as part of its much-hyped reunion tour.
The Britpopband known for timeless hits like Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger is addingconcert datesin Canada, the U.S. and Mexicoto the tour scheduled for summer 2025.
The band is playing onAug. 24 and Aug. 25at Rogers Stadium, a new open-air music venue with a capacity for some 50,000 peopleLive Nation is building next toDownsview Park in the city's north.
Toronto is the only Canadian city with dates announced.
"America. Oasis is coming. You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along," Oasis saidin a statement posted to social media Monday.
The band shocked fans by announcing a reunion tour last month, ending a 15-year hiatus and, presumably, the long-held feud between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher. But at the time that announcement, it onlyrevealed dates in the U.K. and Ireland.
The other North American stadium dates scheduled for next summer arein Chicago on Aug. 28, New Jersey on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, Los Angeles on Sept. 6 and 7and Mexico City on Sept. 12 and 13.American rock band Cage the Elephant will open.
Tickets go on sale on Ticketmaster Friday, October 4, at 12 p.m.Registration for the presale ballot is open until Tuesday at 8 a.m. ET. Users whoregisterfor the North American presale ballot will be asked to answera trivia question: "What year did Oasis last play in North America?" (It was 2008.)
Oasis split in 2009 after many years of infighting, with Noel Gallagher officially leaving the band just before a performance at a festival near Paris. Even before the dissolution, the brothers had long had an antagonistic relationship and reportedly did not speak to each other for years after the breakup.
While the Gallagher brothers haven't performed together since, both regularly perform Oasis songs at their solo gigs.
But now the brothers are preparing to reunite, with the band saying fans would experience "the spark and intensity" that occurs only when they appear on stage together.
No dynamic pricing for North American tickets:management
The initial 17-date run sold out within 10 hoursasfans eager to see the band play live for the first time in 16 years complained of technical issues and long online waits that often ended in disappointment.
Oasis's management said in a statement the ticket seller's "dynamic pricing" feature, which adjusts ticket prices up and down based on demand and often leaves fans paying prices far above face value, won't be used for the North American concerts.
"It is widely accepted that dynamic pricing remains a useful tool to combat ticket touting and keep prices for a significant proportion of fans lower than the market rate and thus more affordable," the statement reads.
"But, when unprecedented ticket demand (where the entire tour could be sold many times over at the moment tickets go on sale) is combined with technology that cannot cope with that demand, it becomes less effective and can lead to an unacceptable experience for fans."
Ticketmaster first introduced dynamic pricing in 2022, saying the practice was being used to try to stop touts, also known as ticket scalpers, according to the BBC. Touts are people who acquire multiple tickets to sell them off at a profit later.
Dynamic pricing was in place for ticket sales to the U.K. and Ireland dates.Many fans who waited for more than three hours thinking they would pay the initially advertised rate of 148.50 pounds (around $264 Cdn) ended up paying 355.20 pounds ($631 Cdn).
CBC News has reached out to Ticketmaster for comment.
With files from The Associated Press and Reuters
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