Ben Beaumont-Thomas 

Oasis expand reunion tour to Australia

Band will play Melbourne and Sydney in October and November 2025
  
  

Oasis in Milan during the Dig Out Your Soul tour in 2009.
Oasis in Milan during the Dig Out Your Soul tour in 2009. Photograph: Fabio Diena/Alamy

Oasis have expanded their phenomenally successful reunion tour to Australia, with a pair of gigs in Melbourne and Sydney.

The band will play Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on 31 October 2025, followed by Sydney’s Accor Stadium on 7 November. Tickets for the Melbourne show go on sale at 10am on Tuesday 15 October, while tickets for the Sydney show will go on sale at 12pm that same day.

Hopeful fans are now able to register for presale access, which will close at 8am on Wednesday 9 October.

Australia is the third continent to be added to the tour, after the initial announcement of gigs in the UK and Ireland, and a leg in North America.

In a statement on Tuesday, Oasis said: “‘People of the land down under. You better run – you better take cover.’ We are coming. You are most welcome.”

With a week between the Melbourne and the Sydney show, it is expected more dates in both cities will be added.

The UK tour dates were hugely oversubscribed, with more than 10 million fans queueing online to buy tickets.

The band and Ticketmaster deployed dynamic pricing during the initial sales period, trebling the price of some tickets due to their popularity. After outrage from fans, the UK watchdog Competition and Markets Authority is investigating whether the sales were unfair, while Oasis distanced themselves from the issue, saying: “Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management.”

UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy said: “It’s depressing to see vastly inflated prices excluding ordinary fans from having a chance of enjoying their favourite band,” and said dynamic pricing would be looked at in a broader consultation on the controversial ticket resales market.

Dynamic pricing was not used for the US tour sales. After the first wave of stadium dates there quickly sold out, the band added four more, which sold out too. It underlines the enduring popularity of a band who did better than most in breaking North America: they reached the Top Five of the US album chart three times, and twice topped the equivalent chart in Canada.

Australia also embraced the band, with the album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory and Be Here Now both reaching No 1 there.

Oasis are also rumoured to be planning dates in South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

 

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