Oasis resale tickets ‘snapped up in a millisecond’

Twickets founder Richard Davies says the number of Oasis tickets being resold on the fan-to-fan platform is picking up markedly as the Gallagher brothers’ long-awaited reunion tour draws ever closer.

The Oasis Live ’25 Tour was the biggest-ever concert launch in UK and Ireland history, as more than 10 million fans from 158 countries competed to buy the 1.4m tickets available for the group’s first shows since 2009.

Twickets, which enables users to offload tickets at no more than face value when they can no longer make a show, is the official ticket resale platform for the concerts, with the arrangement extended to cover Oasis’ upcoming international dates in Australia and the Americas.

Davies tells IQ that while Twickets had seen ticket trading in the “low thousands” for the sold out run so far, there has been a noticeable upturn in volume as the days tick down until the SJM and Live Nation-promoted run kicks off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium in Wales on 4 July.

“It’s starting to double month-on-month now,” he says. “This month’s looking quite strong for trading on Oasis and I think, as we get to next month, we’ll start seeing a lot of tickets becoming available. That’s always the pattern for us.”

“The UK has really started to heat up now and I think we’ll start to see volume from now on”

On that subject, Davies points out that a “huge number” of tickets were bought and sold late in the day for Sam Fender’s recent UK stadium shows.

“It was all in the last ten days,” he says. “We hit the beginning of June and saw so much trading on Sam Fender, and that will happen with Oasis as well. The UK has really started to heat up now and I think we’ll start to see volume from now on. We’ve had a few standard tickets appear, but they get snapped up so quickly – literally, within a second. People are just sitting there refreshing their browsers.”

The enormous level of interest has prompted Twickets to remove ticket alerts for the tour.

“It was chaos,” reports Davies. “So many people would have alerts set up and not get to the inventory, so we’re having to leave it as first come, first served, as they’re getting bought within a millisecond of being listed. But I’m sure there will be a plentiful supply near the time. It always happens, no matter what the show.”

It was announced today (18 June) that official Oasis Live ’25 Fan Stores, featuring tour merchandise and limited edition products, are set to launch nationwide ahead of the tour. The first one will open in the band’s native Manchester this Friday 20 June, with others to follow in cities including Cardiff, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Birmingham.

The Oasis on-sale last August became infamously marred by a dynamic ticketing row that triggered multiple inquiries in the UK and Ireland. Strict anti-touting measures were put in place, with fans permitted to resell their tickets through Twickets or Ticketmaster only.

LN and SJM vowed to cancel up to 50,000 tickets deemed to have breached the rules in an effort to clamp down on unofficial resale sites, while Ticketmaster and See Tickets cancelled tickets identified as being purchased by bots.

“Every year since the pandemic, we’ve grown substantially”

Meanwhile, Davies has shared his glee at Twickets’ recent appointment of former See Tickets and Eventim UK veteran Martin Fitzgerald as its first non-executive director.

“It’s great having Martin on board,” says Davies. “He’s one of the good guys and it’s really nice to have someone with his pedigree behind us. He’s someone who can offer us a lot of advice and experience, and he has an amazing address book of contacts as well.”

Twickets has previously partnered with both Liam and Noel Gallagher on their respective solo shows, as well as acts including Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, Adele, Queen, Take That and Stormzy. Its revenue model sees buyers pay a standard booking fee of 10-15% of the ticket price.

Davies reports the firm, which is backed by several high-profile managers, agents and promoters, has had a “very good” H1 2025.

“We’ve increased by 25% in terms of volume year-on-year for the first half of the year – which is without doubt going to be the quieter half of the year for us – and roughly 30% in terms of revenue,” he says. “So revenue is outstripping volume, which demonstrates that ticket prices are going up. Every year since the pandemic, we’ve grown substantially, and we’re going to be profitable again. We’re profitable for the first half and we’ll be certainly profitable for the second half.”

“I still come across too many people who don’t know about Twickets, or have only just recently discovered us”

Twickets participated in the UK government’s consultation into the secondary ticketing market, which closed in April and pledged to “tackle greedy touts and give power back to fans”, with a new cap on the price of resale tickets among measures being considered.

“We called for a cap on the original price of the ticket, with no markup at all,” says Davies. “It’s just a question of what that cap is now, more than anything else, but I don’t expect it to be confirmed anytime soon. By the sound of it, it’s going to be well into 2026 before any legislation gets passed.”

As for Twickets’ future, Davies says the priority for next phase of the company is to continue to raise its profile.

“Whilst we’ve had five million unique users in the first half of this year, that’s just a fraction of the event-going marketplace so we need to keep spreading the word,” he says. “I still come across too many people who don’t know about Twickets, or have only just recently discovered us, so we’ve got a lot to do and that’s where Martin can help us as well.

“It’s important that we continue to grow and build out from what we’ve achieved so far in the UK – and beyond just music. We’ve now started working in the theatre world and hopefully in sport as well, so there’s a lot more that can be achieved. There’s a lot of work still to be done, but that’s exciting, because we’ve achieved a lot, with potential for so much more.”

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