Oasis Reunion. Its finally happening😱

anyone can rent the 3 arena. Board members could chip together if they wanted to rent it.
Mcd have not used vicar st or aiken has not olympia/ academy venues which are run/ operated by mcd.
Oasis may have asked for some or all of their guarantee fee to be paid over. That’s for promoter to pay without touching ticket revenue . Promoter does not have any access to that 33m and won’t be paid any monies till a week after the shows occur.
All monies required to be paid to put on the shows are liability of mcd.

I for one amn't saying these practices are correct and proper but greed has been around since the dawn of time.

In this case of this type of thing: if you don't like these practices then don't engage with them. It's pretty straight forward not to engage with them.

Some people seem to have lost all sense of individual responsibility and even more seem to be easily whipped up into a frenzy over something as non life and death as this!

Touting was a major enough issue for people to lobby politicians to have it banned here.

And yes the corporates are creaming it. The online sales and dynamic pricing model allows them to extract near the full market value for tickets.

The only really unfair part of this system is the random allocation of your place to enter into the market. It is a lottery to whether you will be offered a low price by being early into the market or a high price by being a late comer. Participants do not choose when they can enter the market.

That aspect really is on ticketmaster and how they operate and indeed charge their booking fee for.

It's basically the well off just cornering off another piece of life for themselves.

"Just don't buy it if you can't afford a luxury item" is a lovely code to live by for the people who can afford it. Sure why not just make all luxury items the preserve of the rich and happy keep our poor mouths shut about the situation too.

its not a discount, such practices are clearly gouging, to pit humans against other humans, the whole process is designed to manipulate basic, fundamental and critical emotional needs and wants, art is in fact one of the most critical of human needs, this is why we form deep bonds with our favorite acts, now we have entities simply trying to play on these critical needs, and extract as much from the process, so that they accumulate more and more. there was once a feeling of mutual benefit, these entities made some money from the process, and fans got to see their favorite acts, but now the tides are turning, most fans are now simply getting fcuked, and they know it!

its actually not a luxury good, humans have always had a very close connection with art, including and in particular with music, this goes all the way back to the cave…

…the difference now is, we ve commodified the whole process, leading to hyper monopolisation of the whole industry, most artists are making a grand total of fcuk all from this process, only major acts cleaning up, winners taking all…..

…if people want to keep seeing more and more new acts being formed, this approach needs to change as young acts generally cant make any money from it…

….a member from one of my own favorite bands recently admitted, hes now a glorified t-shirt sales guy, as this is truly how he makes money now, after 40 years of playing professionally, somethings not right there! he is regularly asked by younger musicians, how to make a living from music, he has no advice for them, only, maybe do something else!

…the whole process is fcuked!

Sorry, but seeing Oasis Live isn't on the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Time for some perspective.

yes greed has always existed in our societies, but we ve clearly entered an age of extreme greed, and ultimately extreme wealth inequality, and looking back in history, when this has previously occurred, it generally ended in serious conflict and war, so…..

ah yes, the ould individual responsibility malarkey! seriously!

what next with this approach, do we start bidding on other, far more critical needs such as food, health care, or maybe even housing!

…taken to its extremes, you end up with nothing, no humans, no living planet!

Are you really drawing a link between the price of drugs to treat Aids and the price of tickets to see Oasis in Croke Park?

An Aids patient likely needs those drugs to survive. Nobody needs an Oasis ticket.

again, yes, to some degree, but again, we ve clearly entered a far more extreme stage of this approach, and now we re starting to see its outcomes, i.e. a rapid rise in social unrest, aggression, fear, anxiety, stress etc etc, and again, this has happened in history before, leading to significant conflicts and ultimately war!

a connection to art is in fact a critical human need, including attending concerts, we require this to form and maintain human connections, human bonding, and simply, to have fun, this is needed to maintain human well being, and our connections with others, so no, you re actually wrong!

He's best ignored…He WUM's on the League of Ireland thread too

Yeah but its a totally disingenuous statement to make.

If Oasis 'took it to its limit' and sold tickets for over 1k each, they wouldn't have sold out.

Neither is eating in restaurants, cafes or takeaways. Neither is having a pint or wearing non basic clothing. Museums, cinemas, galleries and theatres the same.

Should less well off people just go about the place existing and sitting there quietly in their misery ?

Oasis are greedy and people are right to call them out on it.

Disingenuous to the Gallaghers? LOL. They made a living out of it.

Just crossed my mind, will the time honoured tradition of pints being flung at an Oasis gig still hold given the crass amounts of dosh handed over to be there in the first place??

We’re jumping the shark here. Posters referring to people who didn’t get tickets as ‘victims’, reference to being ‘forced’ into paying high prices due to FOMO, calls for EU intervention because you didn’t get a ticket. It’s laughable.

Just heard a good way of putting things being mentioned on Radio Nova:

Imagine if the MCD announcement had been - Oasis Reunion: Tickets on sale 9am - Standing tickets from €400!

A lot of eyebrows would have been raised then in advance. Saying 'oh it's demand driven' but giving people little idea as to what they'll be expected to pay until they are at final step of purchase, after hours of queueing is chaotic. Having a lovely announcement saying prices from €87 sounds reasonable - not making it clear that that price is for an non-disclosed number of randomly lucky 1st in queue people, but not declaring what levels the tickets may go to in advance. I can see why consumer protection would kick in

Yes, nail on head. They'd probably like the same approach to food and water, and sure throw in medicines while we're at it.

Yeah… The four pillars necessary for survival.

Food, water, medicine, Oasis ticket to Croke Park in 2025.

😂

I'm seeing Fontaines in December but if they were to support Oasis in Dublin, i think that would almmmoooost make up for the whole ticket debacle.

Not at all. I got my ticket at face value. I'm happy out. 😊

Gallaghers won't give a toss about the backlash either way.

Again, no issues with calling Oasis or indeed anyone else greedy.

But he hand wringing around investigations and blaming others for not getting tickets isn't a great look.

Look, this is all very relative but it really is a first world problem.

slight difference, those getting festival tickets after tier 1/early bird/loyalty pay about €50 more for the same experience,not 400% more.

Again nothing illegal, just sour tasteful

I don’t think the standing was ever 86, I got 177 with fees in the presale was 1500 in the queue.