Speaker 1: Something that's been going on in the music industry news. Actually,
this is what we do when uh, when something goes
awry with with a guest. Is what happened today with
our our our number two guest. There's been a lot
of the biggest kind of news I think over the
past week in music in the world of music is Oasis. Uh.
They are reuniting the band. Uh the Gallagher brothers, Uh,
Liam and Noel Gallagher.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, bands fighting or I'm sorry I should say
brothers fighting within bands.
Speaker 2: Uh not an unusual thing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: History tells us, you know you've got the Kinks. You
know you've got Ray Davies and Dave Davies and their
epic arguments and so forth. But apparently, uh, the Gallagher
brothers putting their differences aside for a big reunion tour.
Speaker 2: We have a call.
Speaker 1: Let's grab this call. So he was, oh, no, nobody there, Okay,
someone was just calling us. Uh yeah, the Gallagher brothers. Uh,
they're putting putting their differences aside for this tour. But
it was interesting to see some of the reactions on
social media because people are cynical very often, and a
lot of people are suggesting that well, this isn't going
to last, this isn't going to be real. The tour
will end up getting canceled, you know, after five dates,
because the Gallaghers are particularly famous for not getting along
and like I said, brothers arguing within bands. You've got
Ray Davies and Ray and Dave Davies from the Kinks.
You've got bands where you have not necessarily brothers, but
people who are like brothers, like you know, Tyler and
Perry of Aerosmith so forth. But there are a lot
of examples of actual blood brothers and bands not getting along.
So there's already a lot of cynicism, a lot of
skepticism about, you know, whether this Oasis tour is really
gonna is really gonna happen. But there's also an issue
with getting tickets, and the AP is reporting error messages
and lengthy online cues greet fans scrambling to secure Oasis
reunion tickets. It says here Oasis fans seeking tickets to
the band's reunion tour endured hours long waits and in
some cases disappointment, as online platforms strained under demand Saturday
from hundreds of thousands of fans. The britpop era behemoth,
led by brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, is scheduled to
play seventeen gigs.
Speaker 2: And that's it. That's a short actually a short tour.
Speaker 3: It's first limited chances to see them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, These are their first shows in fifteen years, kicking
off in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin starting July four. No,
that is not Manchester, New Hampshire, of course, Manchester, England.
More than one million tickets went on sale on Saturday morning,
with prices starting at about seventy four pounds, which would
be just under one hundred dollars American. Some people attempting
to get into the handful of authorized sales sites including
Ticketmaster and Gigs and Tours received error messages, while many
others were informed they were in a lengthy queue. Josh Jeffrey,
a videographer who lives near Edinburgh, spent hours moving up
the online ticket queue before the whole site collapsed At
the last step. He said, I've given up. My friends
have given up. We just decided it's too much hassle.
As I was in the queue, I heard wonderwall blasting
out from my neighbor's house. He'd obviously gotten tickets.
Speaker 3: Yes, wow, yeah, And they were saying that within hours
of the tickets going on sale, they were turning up
on resale websites for as much as seventy eight hundred dollars. Yeah,
seventy eight hundred dollars per ticket. No, thank you.
Speaker 2: Well, that's it.
Speaker 3: I don't like nobody that much.
Speaker 2: The way, So that.
Speaker 1: Apparently is trying to look it up quickly. That specifically
is being addressed apparently by Oasis. They don't want they
don't want these resale sites selling the tickets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're warning people not to buy.
Speaker 1: Them right right, Which is interesting because so the way
the secondhand ticket market works is so some of these
resale sites, obviously they're basically scalpers online. You know, they
buy up all these tickets and then they resell them
on their own sites. But some of them, this is
what's a little little dirty about it to some people.
Depends on we could actually do a whole segment on
this one of these days. Sometimes the resale site isn't
necessarily a scalper site. Sometimes it's a resale site that
is in some way affiliated with the main site. So
for example, Ticketmaster, I forget what they're like, there's a
there's another site that's like a reseller, but but they
actually just get like they're actually owned by ticket Master.
Speaker 2: It's it's all very weird and it's a little dirty.
This uh, this business.
Speaker 3: Whole thing is. And the thing I don't understand that
they do, though, is that the the AP talks about
how the the bands are warning people not to buy them,
that they're saying that these tickets are either counterfeit or
they're getting canceled by the promoter. So if these tickets
show up on secondary sites, they're actually getting canceled, right,
and you've got a nothing ticket? Which how did they
get away with doing that?
Speaker 2: Which I don't.
Speaker 1: Understand, which I've never seen that before, where where these
tickets are actually getting canceled.
Speaker 3: I don't understand how that works.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's it's a tangled, tangled web this business.
Remember years and years ago when Pearl Jam tried to
take on Ticketmaster and how that they ended up.
Speaker 2: They ended up giving up.
Speaker 3: Book of Masters like the Giant.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so Variety has this story up.
Speaker 1: Oasis warns against reselling as fans report technical issues getting
tickets for the reunion tour. Yeah, because you know, you
try to get the tickets, you end up in it's
like when you're trying to buy them. It's like when
you're trying to call some customer service line and you're
put into a queue, and you know, and your waighttime
is three hours and fifty eight minutes, you know, estimated waytime,
and then you know an hour later, your estimated waytime
is now three hours and fifty one.
Speaker 2: Minutes, and you don't know if you're ever gonna get through,
and then eventually you just get hung up on It's
like that.
Speaker 1: But but so then so they try to buy these tickets,
so then they go to one of the secondary sites.
So here's what Variety is reporting. Oasis fans aren't finding
much glory this morning while trying to buy tickets for
the band's highly anticipated reunion tour, with many reporting technical issues.
I'm gonna skip down, okay, So it says here it's
part of this we covered already. So in a statement
to Variety, Ticketmaster set its site had not crashed and
the queue is moving along. Well, I suppose if you're
sitting there, by the way, if you're sitting there at
your computer, on the site. You know it maybe it
crashes or maybe your browser is having an issue. You
can't be sure, but most likely it crashed, and I
think Ticketmaster is probably just not being honest. But okay,
so I know it's shocking. So, a spokesperson said, quote,
as anticipated, millions of fans are accessing our site so
have been placed in a queue. Fans are advised to
hold their place in line. Make sure they're only using
one tab clear cookies, and I'm sure they aren't using
any VPN software on their device.
Speaker 2: Unquote.
Speaker 3: Geez, you can figure everything before you try to buy tickets.
Speaker 1: As fans scrambled for tickets, Oasis repeatedly warned against scams
and ticket reselling. In a message posted to x later
on Saturday morning, the band wrote quote and by the way,
the band, you know, it's not like one of the
gallaghers is actually writing this. Obviously it's management, but this
is what was written.
Speaker 2: Quote. Please note Oasis.
Speaker 1: Live twenty five tickets can only be resold at face
value via at Ticketmaster UK and at twickets. Tickets appearing
on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will
be canceled by the promoters. Unquote. Soon after the pre
sale for the tour started on Friday night, tickets began
appearing on reselling websites such as stub hub and via
go Go for as much as six thousand whatever that
is pounds. I guess face value for a standing ticket
to the tour is one hundred and fifty pounds, and
seated tickets range up to two hundred five pounds. By
the way, stub Hub, I think stub hub is the site,
the secondary quote unquote secondary site that is actually owned
by ticket masters. Oh no, K I believe it's stub Hub.
The other two websites, gigs and Tour and see Tickets,
were reported to be holding fans in a temporary queue
before directing them to the purchase page. But h yeah,
so so the band's management is warning, you know, don't
go to these secondary sites. I'm gonna look this up
really quickly. I want to know if I'm right about that, if.
Speaker 3: I was actually just trying to look that up too.
But I didn't quite get this.
Speaker 2: Stub Hub my computer.
Speaker 3: My computer slowed down.
Speaker 2: Well that I suggest. If that's the case.
Speaker 3: I must clear my cookies.
Speaker 1: Take ticketmaster's advice. Uh clear, yes, clear, your cookies and
your cash and uh no VPNs.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if I have that.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was wrong. StubHub is not owned by Ticketmaster.
StubHub is privately owned. Maybe it's seat geek there. There
is a secondary company, a secondary market company that is
owned by Ticketmaster. But uh yeah, so that's what's going
on there. I think that, Uh, I do think the
tour will happen again. Like I said, there's a lot
of cynicism online. You know, there was, I remember back
when Oasis first got really big. There's there's actually an EP,
you know, a bootleg that someone put out or a
CD of one of their I think it's called Sibling Rivalry,
and it's they were in the studio and someone left
the tape rolling on an argument that Nolan William Gallagher
were having in studio where they're yelling at each other,
and it's I'm sure it's on YouTube. It's kind of interest.
I pull it up and play it, but there's definitely
profanity in it. So but uh yeah, So that's that's
what's going on with Oasis there. So I don't know
if there are they planning to come to the United States.
Speaker 2: They must be.
Speaker 3: Ticket Master also owns Live Nation.
Speaker 1: Yes, they are one and the same and have been
for a long time, to the chagrin of some people
who believe that that is a monopoly. Uh, and that
that merger should not have been approved by the govern
But we won't get into all of that.
Speaker 3: They also acquired front Gate Tickets. Uh, that's another company. Yeah,
they apparently acquired.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they gobble up a lot of these smaller ticket companies.
Speaker 3: But there's another one called Universe that they got that's
a DIY ticketing platform.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm just getting to kick at all the
stuff they own here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they try to gobble everybody tickets.
Speaker 3: Front Gate Tickets, Yeah they got that one too.
Speaker 1: But there's a major one that everyone's heard of, and
I can't remember who it is.
Speaker 3: Upgraded girts physical tickets into digital ones.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe there isn't. Maybe there isn't. I
thought it was a big one that people have heard of,
like stub Hub, that everyone's just kind of aware of.
But they try to but they try to conceal that
they're actually owned by a Ticketmaster. Maybe I'm wrong.