Oasis mania kicks off ahead of iconic Britpop band's first show in Cardiff as fans fall foul of scammers and last minute tickets sell for an eye-watering £2,500 while Morning leaves viewers CRINGING with their Gallagher tribute
After 15 years, the once warring Gallagher brothers will finally reunite for 41 shows across Europe with Welsh fans queuing all night, while those at home were left 'cringing' by This Morning's tribute to Noel and Liam.
But some music lovers have been left scrambling for last minute seats, with some that boast a £489 face value being sold for as much as £2,500.
Viagogo has several seated spots on sale for more than £1,000 and reported on its page that 34,000 people had looked at tickets for Friday's performance. With seats for Saturday's second night in the Welsh capital have even higher price tags.
Meanwhile many fans have found themsleves falling foul of scammers in their desperate attempt to bag a spot in the crowd and have taken to X to share their frustrations.
'Half the accounts on Twitter are fake and trying to scam by selling Oasis tickets': 'pls stop trying to scam me, i just want an oasis ticket fml': 'Anyone else's tickets for Oasis in Cardiff been voided and then been reassigned worse tickets without even an email to note this change ?'.
After 15 years, the once warring Gallagher brothers will finally reunite for 41 shows across Europe with Welsh fans queuing all night
They have collectively lost more than £2m to scams since tickets for its reunion tour went on sale last year, a major bank estimated. Lloyds Banking Group based the calculation on the volume of fraud reports made by its own customers.
Oasis fans make up more than half of all reported concert ticket scams so far this year, according to Lloyds' data, losing £436 on average. The biggest amount lost in a single case so far was more than £1,700, suggesting many fans are willing to pay well over face value, the bank said.
Meanwhile This Morning fans switched off their TVs seconds into the show when Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary 's Oasis tribute backfired.
Friday's instalment of the ITV programme opened with the presenter duo dancing around to the iconic Oasis song, Wonderwall.
Both wore black bucket hats and green coats, while Alison donned small, round sunglasses, mimicking Liam and Noel.
Meanwhile Lidl have also embraced the band's reunion and launched a parka style jacket inspired by Liam's iconic look.
Unveiled via a 30ft wonderwall in the Gallagher boys' hometown just outside Manchester's Etihad Stadium the jacket has been created for both Britpop and Lidl fanatics alike.
Featuring drink-cooling pockets for roadies, a bottle opener zip, and even a detachable tambourine, the jacket is £30 with all proceeds going to the NSPCC.
Seats for Saturday's second night in the Welsh capital have even higher price tags.
'Half the accounts on Twitter are fake and trying to scam by selling Oasis tickets': 'pls stop trying to scam me, i just want an oasis ticket fml'
Meanwhile Lidl have also embraced the band's reunion and launched a parka style jacket inspired by Liam's iconic look (left, Liam right pictured)
It comes after Oasis hit out at Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing system in September last year after their ticket sale was mired in controversy.
Tickets were meant to start at £74.25 for seated tickets at their Wembley shows, with the most expensive ticket being a £506.25 pre-show party.
However, screenshots from the Ticketmaster website offering In Demand standing tickets being listed for hundreds of pounds each.
Oasis said of the chaotic ticket sale: 'As for the well reported complaints many buyers had over the operation of dynamic ticketing: it needs to be made clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management, and at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used.'
The band announced they would be doing two more shows, with tickets allocated using a ballot system.
It comes as the eldest of the duo Noel, 58, was seen arriving in Cardiff on Wednesday for rehearsals.
Sources close to the brothers told MailOnline: 'It's all gearing up now. Technical rehearsals for the band started on Monday and then Noel and Liam joined them a couple of days later.
'But Liam barely even stayed for the first eight songs before leaving the rehearsals early and Noel continued on his own.'
Opening with Acquiesce - a song from their first 1995 album, they will follow with Morning Glory the titular song of the second studio album with Supersonic playing sixth.
Elsewhere Liam, 52, and Noel will play Half the World Away, Slide Away, Live Forever before finishing with their three most popular songs Don't Look Back in Anger, Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova.
And ahead of the highly-anticipated evening, footage and pictures from a special drone show over Cardiff Principality enticed.
Ahead of the brothers' reunion, the duo lit up the sky with brightly coloured drones which spelt out the band's name.
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