In 400.606th position and after four hours of waiting, we failed to get a place

It’s 9am this Saturday and more than 400,000 people are trying to access the Ticketmaster website to get their tickets hoping to go to Dublin next August. The goal: to see on stage a legendary English rock band that has announced its exceptional reformation for a British tour. It’s of course Oasis. The Gallagher brothers seem to have buried the war guitar to the great delight of the fans. But not everyone will be entitled to its golden ticket to attend one of these concerts planned in England, Ireland and Scotland in 2025.

Seventeen tabs open, for the seventeen scheduled dates and hundreds of thousands of people who are snapping up all the seats. Tickets for the two Irish concerts went on sale an hour before the other dates. We waited more than four hours to finally get to the end of the queue on the online ticket sales site. Imagine the line of half a million people in front of Fnac if this sale had taken place before the invention of the Internet.

Stress for hours, then nothing

Many fans have complained about bugs on Ticketmaster, the only site open to buy tickets. “It puts me in a state of nerves and hallucinatory stress”, Marion tells us who finally, drunk, “decided to stop and preferred to go walk (her) dog”.

Once on the page, none of the approximately 1.4 million tickets on sale were available. Gone were the hopes of belting out Don’t Look Back In Anger in Manchester, Oasis’ hometown. Unless the band extends their tour beyond Britain. “Preparations are underway to take ‘Oasis Live 25’ to other continents later next year,” the reconciled arch-sworn brothers promised. We’ll try our luck again then!