Oasis tickets cancelled: the 50,000 figure belongs to Live 25, not Live 27

The figure of more than 50,000 cancelled Oasis tickets belongs to Live 25, not Live 27. Promoters Live Nation and SJM told BBC File on 4 in October 2024 about those UK tickets. The tickets were listed on unauthorised resale sites.

They would be cancelled and returned through Ticketmaster at face value. No verified cancellation count exists for Live 27, and this post corrects an earlier version that placed the figure on the wrong tour.

The figure, in its right place

Live 25 tickets went on sale in August 2024, after Oasis announced their reunion tour. More than ten million fans from 158 countries joined the queue for 1.4 million UK tickets. Within hours, thousands of tickets appeared on resale sites at inflated prices.

The promoters then told BBC File on 4 that more than 50,000 UK tickets listed on secondary platforms would be cancelled.

That number was about four percent of the UK tickets on sale. The promoters framed it as a small share next to the scale of the sale. They also noted that some major tours see up to twenty percent of tickets on unauthorised sites.

The comparison matters, because it shows the cancellation was a targeted enforcement action, not a collapse of the sale.

• Tour: Live 25, the reunion tour that ran in 2025, not the Live 27 tour of 2027.
• Source: promoters Live Nation and SJM, speaking to BBC File on 4 in October 2024.
• Tickets: more than 50,000 UK tickets listed on secondary platforms outside the permitted routes.
• Share: about four percent of the 1.4 million UK tickets that went on sale in August 2024.

What cancelled and returned actually meant

Cancellation meant the barcode behind the ticket stopped working. The ticket could no longer admit anyone, even if a buyer had paid a high price for it on an unauthorised site. That is the practical meaning of the word, and it is stronger than a warning or a fine.

Returned meant the ticket went back into the official system for resale at face value. The promoters said the invalidated tickets would be made available again through Ticketmaster. They would cost the price originally paid, not the inflated price on the unauthorised listing.

A fan who bought at face value through Ticketmaster therefore bought a working ticket, while a fan who paid a markup elsewhere bought a risk.

Money stayed a private matter between buyer and seller. The band and the venues were not parties to an unauthorised sale. A cancelled buyer had to pursue the seller or the platform that took the payment.

Reports at the time said fans who believed their tickets were cancelled in error could contact their ticket agent. No source published a full outcome for those appeals.

What this does and does not say about Live 27

Live 27 carries the same warning, but not the same verified count. The sold-out announcement of September 2026 warned fans to avoid social media sellers. It said those tickets will be fake and invalid.

It said tickets already listed on secondary websites are at risk of cancellation. That is a warning about a risk, and it is not a report that 50,000 Live 27 tickets have already been cancelled.

No source found for this rewrite gives a Live 27 cancellation count, a city breakdown, or a show breakdown. This post therefore gives none, and it treats any site that prints such a breakdown as unverified until a promoter or Ticketmaster publishes one. The face-value resale guide explains the permitted routes that avoid this risk entirely.

The design of Live 27 makes enforcement possible in the same way as Live 25. Tickets use mobile wallet entry with restricted transfer, and the barcode lives inside the ticketing system rather than in an email attachment. That control lets a promoter cancel a listed ticket.

It also makes a screenshot or order confirmation worthless as proof of entry.

Buyer checks before you pay

• Buy only through Ticketmaster or, for UK tickets, Twickets, which are the two routes the tour recognises.
• Check that the price matches the original price for that ticket, because a markup is itself a warning sign.
• Refuse screenshots, order confirmations, and codes from strangers, because none of those items admits anyone.
• Keep every receipt and message if you already bought elsewhere, and raise the matter with the seller first.
• Wait for official face-value resale if you can, rather than paying a markup for a ticket that may not work.

FAQ

Were 50,000 Live 27 tickets cancelled?

No verified report says so. The figure of more than 50,000 cancelled tickets belongs to Live 25, from October 2024, and no equivalent Live 27 count has been published.

Who cancelled the Live 25 tickets?

Promoters Live Nation and SJM told BBC File on 4 that the tickets would be cancelled. Ticketmaster then handled the return of those tickets at face value.

What happened to the cancelled tickets?

They were invalidated and made available again through Ticketmaster at face value. The original unauthorised listing stopped working, whatever price it had shown.

Can Live 27 tickets be cancelled in the same way?

Yes, as a risk. The tour has warned that tickets listed on secondary websites are liable to cancellation, and that social media tickets will be fake and invalid.

What if my ticket was cancelled by mistake?

Contact the ticket agent that sold it and ask for an investigation, keeping every receipt and message. Reports of the Live 25 action described that route, but no source published a full outcome for appeals.