Liam Gallagher has shrugged off criticism over the Oasis ticket sale fiasco in a sequence of tweets – together with telling one fan to “shut up” and one other to purchase “kneeling tickets”.
The singer broke his social media silence shortly after the competitors watchdog introduced it had launched an investigation into Ticketmaster’s dealing with of gross sales for the band’s forthcoming tour, together with how “dynamic pricing” might have been used to regulate the worth.
Preliminary pleasure concerning the Gallagher brothers’ reconciliation quickly gave approach to dismay and outrage final weekend after followers complained that the costs for the 17 reveals have been elevated with out warning.
Followers mentioned they queued on-line for hours solely to search out that the worth of the £135 standing tickets had risen to £355.
On Friday morning, Liam posted on X: “OASIS are again your welcome and I hear there ATTITUDE STINKS good to know one thing’s by no means change.”
When followers responded by criticising the ticketing method, together with one X person who mentioned he “didn’t count on [Oasis] to tear off the followers as a lot as they’ve carried out”, Gallagher replied: “SHUTUP”.
And when requested how he was feeling, the 51-year-old responded: “SMUG solely kidding SMUG AS F*** I informed you all we have been gonna get again collectively 1 tremendous day.”
Liam was additionally requested how his mom, Peggy, felt about him and Noel reuniting 15 years after the band break up. “She’s gutted she couldn’t get a ticket,” he mentioned. When one individual questioned why he didn’t give her a free ticket, he mentioned: “Free don’t be foolish.”
One other fan requested the Mancunian if he had any “spare tickets”, to which he replied: “Shit masses however there actually costly 100 thousand kilos Kneeling solely.”
In a press release, the band have beforehand mentioned they’d not recognized dynamic pricing could be used within the sale.
“Inevitably curiosity on this tour is so overwhelming that it’s unattainable to schedule sufficient reveals to fulfil public demand,” they mentioned. “As for the well-reported complaints many consumers had over the operation of Ticketmaster’s dynamic ticketing: it must be made clear that Oasis go away choices on ticketing and pricing solely to their promoters and administration, and at no time had any consciousness that dynamic pricing was going for use.”
Earlier this week, Liam was introduced as the brand new face of the style model Stone Island, fronting its autumn and winter marketing campaign.
Across the identical time, amid fan frustration over the ticket pricing, one of many frontman’s previous tweets from 2017 resurfaced, during which he criticised his brother for costly tickets for his US tour.
On the time he wrote: “350 {dollars} to go and see rkid in USA what a c*** when will all of it cease as you have been LG x.”
