Liam Gallagher savages Oasis road crew in expletive riddled tweet following claims they will not be given free tickets for friends and family - as Britpop band prepare for first live shows in 16 years
Oasis crew members could be forgiven for looking back in anger on Sunday after Liam Gallagher took a swipe at them on social media.
The iconic Britpop band have reunited for a forthcoming reunion tour, starting with a sell-out show at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on July 4.
But Liam, 52, risked upsetting the tireless roadies responsible for organising Live '25 - the band's first tour since their 2009 implosion - by claiming even their families will be relieved to rid of them this summer.
Taking to X, he quipped: 'Our crew members don't have friends and there wife's and husbands are glad to see the f**king backs of them and tell me n rkid everytime we see them they don't know how we put up with them on a daily basis let alone go around the f**king world with them fyi.' [sic]
The singer appeared to be responding to claims that Oasis crew members have not been issued free tickets for friends and family members - widely considered to be a perk of the job.
'The crew will be travelling around the country with the band, setting up the venues, and will be on hand throughout the concerts in case they are needed,' one source told the Daily Mail's Katie Hind.
'They'll be away from their family and are usually given tickets to invite them down to join them at one of the shows.
'But the Gallagher brothers have banned any free tickets being given out. The crew are all fuming. Many of them have toured with other big-name artists and have never known anything like it.
'All Oasis seem to care about is making as much money as they can. Is this about fans, or is the truth that it's all about the money?'
Oasis will perform stadium shows across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, South Korea and North, Central and South America, where it will conclude with a show at São Paulo's Estádio do Morumbi on November 23.
The band recently confirmed a limited number of extra tickets will be released ahead of July.
A statement posted to the band's official website on Wednesday read: 'As the shows are getting closer, Oasis promoters may be able to release a very limited number of additional tickets for sale once final sight lines are checked and the production is fine tuned.
'These final production releases will happen over the coming days.'
Following their initial release, thousands of fans waited for hours in virtual queues to get their hands on highly coveted tickets for the band's reunion shows, only to find that prices had jumped in a 'dynamic pricing' scheme.
A statement posted to the band's official website on Wednesday confirmed a limited number of extra tickets will be released 'in the coming days'
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has since called for Ticketmaster to change how it labels tickets and informs customers.
The CMA launched an investigation into Ticketmaster in September to examine if it had engaged in 'unfair commercial practices', whether fans were given 'clear and timely' information to explain tickets could be subject to 'dynamic pricing', and if people were put under pressure to buy tickets within a short period of time.
The watchdog said it was concerned that Ticketmaster, which sold more than 900,000 tickets for the Oasis gigs, may have breached consumer protection law.
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