Oasis urged to keep their reunion tour ticket sales promise

In the war against touts, an MP has urged to keep their promise to cancel tour tickets sold through unofficial resale sites. Some performers, such as , have made similar threats but then backtracked.

Pop star has been praised by anti-tout campaigners for cancelling tickets sold via the secondary market. Fans were offered the chance to buy their tickets again at face value and get a refund from the place of purchase.

Labour MP Sharon Hodgson said: “I can understand Taylor Swift, as kids have no credit cards or the ability to rebuy the tickets. Oasis fandom is different. Everybody will... probably have the means to buy their tickets again at the box office. So please, Oasis, follow through.”

The MP for Washington and Gateshead South added at an event hosted by Virgin Media O2 that Oasis can afford to have staff monitoring resale sites, which is a substantial but essential task to get tickets cancelled.

New figures show 62% of people using resale platforms do not realise they are buying second-hand tickets. The research also found that resale platforms cost music fans £145million per year.

After brothers and announced they were re-forming Oasis, there was huge demand for their reunion tour tickets. The tickets have been offered for thousands of pounds on unofficial secondary sites.

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There was also anger over dynamic pricing, with the cost of tickets soaring on official site Ticketmaster while fans waited in the queue.