[JonB]

I'll probably have a try for tickets and see what happens but i'm not 100% sure about it. Suspect getting tickets will be a farce as it'll be ticketmaster and the majority will end up on their own resale sites within seconds of going on sale. Can see the crowds being a lot of middle aged blokes trying to relive their youth and not being able to do it any more etc. I can live with the fact that if the last time i see them is Knebworth in 96 then i'm fine!

Not even sure which one to try for....Heaton Park is obviously easiest but can see it being really messy then the others mean an overnight stay more than likely and accommodation costs will be ridiculous.

[PontePete]

JonB, on 27 August 2024 - 07:32 AM, said:

I'll probably have a try for tickets and see what happens but i'm not 100% sure about it. Suspect getting tickets will be a farce as it'll be ticketmaster and the majority will end up on their own resale sites within seconds of going on sale. Can see the crowds being a lot of middle aged blokes trying to relive their youth and not being able to do it any more etc. I can live with the fact that if the last time i see them is Knebworth in 96 then i'm fine!

Not even sure which one to try for....Heaton Park is obviously easiest but can see it being really messy then the others mean an overnight stay more than likely and accommodation costs will be ridiculous.

Saw them at Heaton Park in 09, not a great venue for a concert. Saw them at (old) Wembley in 2000 and even then it was a far better venue than Heaton Park.

Having said that I?d definitely settle for Heaton Park if it was that or nothing.

[JonB]

PontePete, on 27 August 2024 - 07:44 AM, said:

Saw them at Heaton Park in 09, not a great venue for a concert. Saw them at (old) Wembley in 2000 and even then it was a far better venue than Heaton Park.

Having said that I?d definitely settle for Heaton Park if it was that or nothing.

Yeh suspect thats what i'll go for just because it saves having to go to London etc.

[Search & Destroy]

Edinburgh for the weekend for me

[JonB]

Search & Destroy, on 27 August 2024 - 08:31 AM, said:

Edinburgh for the weekend for me

Yeh that will be good, Edinburgh is brilliant and love it up there having been a number of times but it drops when we'll be in France so a non starter for me as is Dublin which would be a cracking weekend. Can see me just going for Heaton Park i suspect.

That said always that chance that unless you have tickets for the first one in Cardiff they could pack up again before they get to the later dates!

[Holmesc1]

Last saw oasis in coventry 2009, weeks before they split, ticket was ?40 but with all the hype now i expect it will be ?200 with ticket sites going mental Saturday morning. Its strange its not been annoucned who else is in the band apart from noel and liam

This post has been edited by Holmesc1: 27 August 2024 - 09:04 AM

[isleaiw1]

JonB, on 27 August 2024 - 08:41 AM, said:

Yeh that will be good, Edinburgh is brilliant and love it up there having been a number of times but it drops when we'll be in France so a non starter for me as is Dublin which would be a cracking weekend. Can see me just going for Heaton Park i suspect.

That said always that chance that unless you have tickets for the first one in Cardiff they could pack up again before they get to the later dates!

They have to do rehearsals before the first one so that isnt guaranteed....

Wembley or Croke Park for me, and @jonB wash you mouth out, nowt wrong with middle aged blokes pretending they still have it... its the ones ove 60 you need to worry about

(if the average life expectancy is 81 for blokes then 40 is middle aged, just saying..)

[JonB]

Holmesc1, on 27 August 2024 - 09:04 AM, said:

Last saw oasis in coventry 2009, weeks before they split, ticket was ?40 but with all the hype now i expect it will be ?200 with ticket sites going mental Saturday morning. Its strange its not been annoucned who else is in the band apart from noel and liam

I've not seen them since 96 at Knebworth and think it was about ?25 for an all day job with various support acts. Sadly i had to settle for Sunday that meant we got Dreadzone instead of the Prodigy and Kula Shaker with their lead singer completely off his trolley! By all accounts on the Saturday Prodigy were outstanding!

isleaiw1, on 27 August 2024 - 09:07 AM, said:

They have to do rehearsals before the first one so that isnt guaranteed....

Wembley or Croke Park for me, and @jonB wash you mouth out, nowt wrong with middle aged blokes pretending they still have it... its the ones ove 60 you need to worry about

(if the average life expectancy is 81 for blokes then 40 is middle aged, just saying..)

I'm in my 40s so i'm allowed to say it!! Just been to a few gigs recently where the worst ones were those sort of folk. Was at Courteeners at Lytham and even in the "VIP" bit there were folk that age in complete states including more than one passed out on the floor.

[calvin plummers socks]

Holmesc1, on 27 August 2024 - 09:04 AM, said:

Last saw oasis in coventry 2009, weeks before they split, ticket was ?40 but with all the hype now i expect it will be ?200 with ticket sites going mental Saturday morning. Its strange its not been annoucned who else is in the band apart from noel and liam

Not strange really - no one really will care which line up it is

[JonB]

Just to add a bit more fun to the Edinburgh Dates apparently its smack in the middle of Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well so accommodation etc will be fun.

[Holmesc1]

calvin plummers socks, on 27 August 2024 - 09:32 AM, said:

Not strange really - no one really will care which line up it is

Im sure it will still sell well but fans will still be curious who else is in band particularly from the 90s hayday

[Search & Destroy]

JonB, on 27 August 2024 - 09:15 AM, said:

I've not seen them since 96 at Knebworth and think it was about ?25 for an all day job with various support acts. Sadly i had to settle for Sunday that meant we got Dreadzone instead of the Prodigy and Kula Shaker with their lead singer completely off his trolley! By all accounts on the Saturday Prodigy were outstanding!


I'm in my 40s so i'm allowed to say it!! Just been to a few gigs recently where the worst ones were those sort of folk. Was at Courteeners at Lytham and even in the "VIP" bit there were folk that age in complete states including more than one passed out on the floor.

Prodigy were the highlight at Reading

The new Chevron stage is spectacular at night

[Westbars Spireite]

Search & Destroy, on 27 August 2024 - 07:19 AM, said:

Oasis tour then

I suppose for me it depends if it?s an all day job and who the support are

They won't be all day jobs. Couldn't care less who support bands are really - very rare I'm in a gig early enough to see them.

[fishini]

Great news for the fans. Personally I'm not one. Which other bands would people like to reunite?

[Search & Destroy]

Westbars Spireite, on 27 August 2024 - 12:36 PM, said:

They won't be all day jobs. Couldn't care less who support bands are really - very rare I'm in a gig early enough to see them.

It?s usually someone decent
Courteeners
Gerry Cinnamon
Blossoms

Summat like that

[fishini]

Search & Destroy, on 27 August 2024 - 01:01 PM, said:

It?s usually someone decent
Courteeners
Gerry Cinnamon
Blossoms

Summat like that

Most of the bands I would like to reunite would now be impossible. Pink Floyd. Genesis with Gabriel, original Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin etc

[JonB]

Looks like its started already...reports of hotels in Dublin cancelling room bookings for the nights of the Oasis gigs then relisting the rooms at triple the price.

[Westbars Spireite]

fishini, on 27 August 2024 - 01:21 PM, said:

Most of the bands I would like to reunite would now be impossible. Pink Floyd. Genesis with Gabriel, original Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin etc

My favourite band of all time did reunite recently (for one song) which is something they said they'd never do.

Search & Destroy, on 27 August 2024 - 01:01 PM, said:

It?s usually someone decent
Courteeners
Gerry Cinnamon
Blossoms

Summat like that

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a band who I think are actually better than Oasis supporting them, who have done so before and who teased their own new album release online over the weekend. The Manics.

JonB, on 27 August 2024 - 01:37 PM, said:

Looks like its started already...reports of hotels in Dublin cancelling room bookings for the nights of the Oasis gigs then relisting the rooms at triple the price.

I tried to book a Premier Inn for Cardiff for opening night at 9.01 when I saw the dates and got one for ?89 (pay on arrival) but my credit card expires before the date so it wouldn't let me!

[JonB]

Westbars Spireite, on 27 August 2024 - 02:22 PM, said:

I tried to book a Premier Inn for Cardiff for opening night at 9.01 when I saw the dates and got one for ?89 (pay on arrival) but my credit card expires before the date so it wouldn't let me!

We did something similar a few years ago when a Springsteen gig was announced for Sunderland, we got a couple of rooms booked straight after the announcement before the hotels had chance to change the prices. Have seen stories of it happening before as well where hotels cancel previous bookings and hike the prices. We went to see, of all people, Roxette at Wembley Arena years ago and stopped in a hotel right by the stadium and arena. It was rammed as it happened to be the same night as England played either Holland or Spain in a friendly as well so 80,000+ at that as well. On the back of the doors in the hotel rooms they had a listing of pricing where they had what they classed as Event pricing which was about 4 times the price we were paying for the same room.

Stories like this room cancellation etc and if the ticket selling doesnt go smoothly with them ending up on ticketmaster resale sites within seconds of them going on sale it could be the one that finally sees something done about it.

This post has been edited by JonB: 27 August 2024 - 02:54 PM

[Westbars Spireite]

I really want to get 8 tickets for one of the nights. My lad will be 15 by then and he wants to go (never been to a gig) plus with the Missus, her lad(s) and mates I'm at 8 before I have to start asking anyone.